Mods are just awesome.

[lacktheknack]

That's game modifications, although our moderators are fairly cool too.

I have been searching around the Fallout 3 Nexus, hoping to revitalize my game, and I stumbled across Mart's Mutant Mod, a massive mod to the games current wildlife (changing behaviour, size, appearance, etc.) and adding a few new creatures. One is the Gargantuan Supermutant. Ooh, fun, I think, and I pull up an image.

http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/images/3211-1-1236696508.jpg

So, Escapist, what's your favorite mod of all time? Which mods would you heartily recommend to any PC gamer for any game?

 

[Romblen]

Garry's mod, it's the only mod I have over 100 hours of playing time with.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Source engine (from highest to lowest recommended)

Zombie Master
Insurgency: Modern Infantry Combat
Zombie Panic: Source
Portal: Prelude
Fortress Forever
Fistful of Frags
SMod series (Tactical, Outbreak, etc)

 

[tombman888]

well... i don't really have any mods. i wanna get garrys mod so badly!

 

[AlternatePFG]

The Restoration Patch/Mod for Knights of the Old Republic 2. It makes the game feel actually somewhat finished. Fixes alot of bugs too.

As for Source mods, Portal: Prelude and Fortress Forever are pretty fun.

 

[Thedayrecker]

That's game modifications, although our moderators are fairly cool too.

I have been searching around the Fallout 3 Nexus, hoping to revitalize my game, and I stumbled across Mart's Mutant Mod, a massive mod to the games current wildlife (changing behaviour, size, appearance, etc.) and adding a few new creatures. One is the Gargantuan Supermutant. Ooh, fun, I think, and I pull up an image.

http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/images/3211-1-1236696508.jpg

So, Escapist, what's your favorite mod of all time? Which mods would you heartily recommend to any PC gamer for any game?

Is he supposed to look like a charger, that somebody left it the oven?

OT: Oblivion and Fallout 3 have some of the best mods I've ever seen. So those.

 

[The Amazing Tea Alligator]

- Zombie Master [HL2]
- The Hidden [HL2]
- SourceForts [HL2]
- Iron Grip: the Oppresion [HL2]
- Ballmen (Escher: Deathmatch would be a better title IMO, but I'm sure they had their reasons) [HL2]
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Complete (The games unplayable without it) [S.T.A.K.E.R. SoC]
- German Soldiers Mod [Men of War]
- 4th Dimension [Supreme Commander]
- The Eagle and the Radiant Cross (If you have M&B, you are legally required to try it) [Mount and Blade: Warband]

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

 

[AlternatePFG]

- The Eagle and the Radiant Cross (If you have M&B, you are legally required to try it) [Mount and Blade: Warband]

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

Have you played Prophesy of Pendor? It's for Mount & Blade, hasn't been ported to Warband before, but it's really good. I agree though, Eagle and The Radiant Cross is amazing, it's probably the best gunpowder mod for the game.

 

[The Amazing Tea Alligator]

- The Eagle and the Radiant Cross (If you have M&B, you are legally required to try it) [Mount and Blade: Warband]

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

Have you played Prophesy of Pendor? It's for Mount & Blade, hasn't been ported to Warband before, but it's really good. I agree though, Eagle and The Radiant Cross is amazing, it's probably the best gunpowder mod for the game.

I only have Warband - the mod I'm most excited for being ported over is the Star Wars one. Lightsabre battles that are intersting, here I come! If only they'd hurry up and port it.

What's the gist of Pendor?

 

[lacktheknack]

Is he supposed to look like a charger, that somebody left it the oven?

Sort of... it has three different skin possibilities, plus a 20% size variability both ways (yes, this mod is awesome).

 

[AlternatePFG]

- The Eagle and the Radiant Cross (If you have M&B, you are legally required to try it) [Mount and Blade: Warband]

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

Have you played Prophesy of Pendor? It's for Mount & Blade, hasn't been ported to Warband before, but it's really good. I agree though, Eagle and The Radiant Cross is amazing, it's probably the best gunpowder mod for the game.

I only have Warband - the mod I'm most excited for being ported over is the Star Wars one. Lightsabre battles that are intersting, here I come! If only they'd hurry up and port it.

What's the gist of Pendor?

Star Wars mod? Really? Sounds awesome.

Pendor is similar in weapons with Native but has many different unique factions, and different mini boss factions around the map. You can create your own knighthoods with their own unique stats once you obtain your own nation, and there's many interesting classes that aren't faction specific.

There's much more about it on the TaleWorlds forum.

 

[The Madman]

Mechwarrior: Living Legends

I haven't actually played Crysis since shortly after I bought it except to play this mod. Bloody brilliant multiplayer, still only beta, but it's got more than a little promise. Looks absolutely gorgeous too, and there's little quite as satisfying as watching a 100 ton mech go nuclear in the distance after being pummeled into submission by heavy artillery.

Spoiler: Night-time nuclear sunrise!

Fall From Heaven 2 for Civilization 4 is also a fantastic mod that takes the semi-realistic original game and throws it into a fantasy setting. Not content to just be a re-skinned version of the original game though, it also implemented several entirely new mechanics to the game which drastically change how it is played from a comprehensive magic system, morality, hero units, mega events, and even a possibility of demonic invasion and the apocalypse. I love it!

Oh, and speaking of strategy games there's The Stainless Steel mod for Medieval 2: Total War that essentially takes Medieval 2 and just makes it bigger and better in every conceivable way. Better AI, bigger armies, bigger battlefields, hundreds of new units, more historical events, etc, etc. Basically just take the original game and make it better in every conceivable way. There's also the Fourth Age: Total War mod and the Warhammer: Total War mods, both of which are excellent, but my favorite remains Stainless Steel.

Also going to give props to the Kotor 2 Restored Content Mod by the Deadly Streams mod group.

It takes an alright but heavily flawed game and helps it live up to its promise. There really is a massive difference between playing the game with and without this mod, and I honestly see no reason whatsoever to ever play the game without this mod now. It would be like deliberately hurting yourself. This mods just makes everything better, pulls the story together, and gives a satisfying ending where before there'd been none. All fully voiced and scripted exactly as the original developers had intended it before Lucasarts forced them to rush it.

If you own these games, play these mods. Each one is amazing!

 

[CD-R]

Mount & Blade has a ton of awesome mods including one based off of the Berserk manga. It follows the story almost to a T. It's got everything. The eclipse scene, ogres, and it even has the original sound track from the anime.

Spoiler

tl;dr you can play as Guts and own the crap out of everything.

Edit: It also plays this song a lot which is reason enough to check it out.

 

[AngelSword]

I have to go with Goldeneye: Source. It's the only mod on which I've spent any major length of time.

 

[TriggerHappyAngel]

definetly Garry's Mod, i like how you can invent your own gameplay, surroundings and objects

Spoiler: P.S.

Mods FTW, in your face Console Gamers!

 

[Estocavio]

- Zombie Master [HL2]
snip
- The Eagle and the Radiant Cross (If you have M&B, you are legally required to try it) [Mount and Blade: Warband]

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

The Eagle and the Radiant Cross, in my opinion, makes M&B one of the greatest things of all time.

 

[cavemano727]

Ya, in Oblivion The Dark Brotherhood was my favorite but just ended. The Mod Dark Brotherhood Continued fixes that. It is ausome. However, not all mods function well and some can break a game both literaly and figuratively.

 

[Pielikey]

Spoiler: P.S.

Mods FTW, in your face Console Gamers!

That was uncalled for... Plus, you can download mods for the Playstation 3 version of Unreal tournament. Probably a few other games, too.


The main mods I like are Garry's Mod and Insurgency. There's a few more, I just don't remember them.

 

[AlternatePFG]

I have to go with Goldeneye: Source. It's the only mod on which I've spent any major length of time.

Yeah, I forgot about GoldenEye source. How active is it, last time I played there weren't that many active servers.

 

[Enigmers]

Torchlight's approach to modding is "put together all the little things you want until the game is as good as it'll get." I like that. I got the respec mod, a mod that replaces the Alchemist's nether imps with Occuli (little robotic spider things) and a mod that makes it so that the Alchemist's Golems don't make so much noise when they walk about. Little things that don't change the game, but make it more fun.

On the other end of the spectrum, Team Fortress was a mod and is now a legitimate game (and/or the holy grail of multiplayer first person shooters brought to earth by angels on a silver platter, depending on who you ask)

edit: ooh, Garry's Mod is a lot of fun too, and there are lots of models/weapons/tools you could get for that, it's like a virtual toybox (trust me, it's not nearly as lame as that sounds)