Poll: Poll: Do you use mods?

[Ilikemilkshake]

So about a week ago, I got reaaaally bored and decided I'd start playing new vegas again, but to spice it up I'd add a bunch of mods. It took me a while to figure out how and where to add all the different stuff to get the mods working because I'd never moded a game before. but I've really felt like the game has been improved alot... so I was wondering how many people actually make use of the modding capablities of games.

EDIT: although my own personal experiance of modding is limited to bethesda games, the question goes for modding in general

ALSO EDIT: for those people like me who felt silly for ages because they didnt know how to mod

Heh, there are some simple tutorials, but basically you just dump everything in to the 'data' folder in your Fallout 3 directory.
If they're in a folder labelled 'textures' or 'music' for isntance, move the entire folder to textures. If it asks you to 'overwrite' or 'replace' a folder, click yes because it keeps the content that was originally there and just adds the new folders.

Then, get a program like FOMM and you can manage and order your mods with ease.

 

[daemon37]

Games like Fallout 3 and New Vegas are made to be modded. I'm playing Fallout 3 with about 20-30 mods at the moment. They include:

1) New areas to explore
2) General gameplay tweaks
3) Texture graphic replacements
4) Additional songs for GNR radio
5) etc.

 

[Ilikemilkshake]

Games like Fallout 3 and New Vegas are made to be modded. I'm playing Fallout 3 with about 20-30 mods at the moment. They include:

1) New areas to explore
2) General gameplay tweaks
3) Texture graphic replacements
4) Additional songs for GNR radio
5) etc.

I tried modding FO3 back in the day but could never get them to work.. apparantly Im an idiot X)

 

[Rednog]

I do use mods occasionally, but only after I play a game to completion. I know people who use them from the get go but I tend not to because a lot of them can make things way too easy. That and it usually is hard to find anything worth installing in the sea of crappy mods.

 

[jakko12345]

yes, but only on Garry's mod. Hence the name really...

 

[Ender910_v1legacy]

The topic description seems a little vague. Was this supposed to be about Fallout mods specifically, or mods as a whole? If the latter, then I'd say hell yes. If a game has good modding support and sets up a solid basis for gameplay and content expansion, then mods can be very awesome indeed.

Not only can mods add to a game's experience but they can create an entirely new kind of game(experience) in the process, an experience that sometimes surpasses the kind you might normally get from a professionally developed game.

 

[Thedayrecker]

I use them, usually to fix bugs, and textures and such.

 

[A Weary Exile]

I use a ton of mods on New Vegas and the Total War games, and they are much more enjoyable because of it. I even do some (Very light) modding on Total War games myself, though I've never done anything huge.

 

[Ilikemilkshake]

The topic description seems a little vague. Was this supposed to be about Fallout mods specifically, or mods as a whole? If the latter, then I'd say hell yes. If a game has good modding support and sets up a solid basis for gameplay and content expansion, then mods can be very awesome indeed.

Not only can mods add to a game's experience but they can create an entirely new kind of game(experience) in the process, an experience that sometimes surpasses the kind you might normally get from a professionally developed game.

mods for everything and anything capable of being modded... just so happens the only times i've tried to mod games has been for fallout... (and also recently morrowind)

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Games like Fallout 3 and New Vegas are made to be modded. I'm playing Fallout 3 with about 20-30 mods at the moment. They include:

1) New areas to explore
2) General gameplay tweaks
3) Texture graphic replacements
4) Additional songs for GNR radio
5) etc.

I tried modding FO3 back in the day but could never get them to work.. apparantly Im an idiot X)

dont sweat it, alot of different game companies have different tools so the mods work out differently and depending on what kind of work the modder did it could be a pain to install the mods or even get them to work right.

FO new vegas is very similar to FO 3 though, so if you have the mod manager for that you should be able to go back and mod the heck out of FO3 decent enough.

 

[Drake_Dercon]

Hell yes. Mods almost always improve a game where possible (not all mods improve games, but the ability to mod can improve any game).

 

[The Man With the Soap]

I always do a couple of playthroughs of Bethesda games vanilla, and with DLCs. Then, I make mods for myself to pump up the difficulty curb. For instance, one I always do is a "bleed-out" mod where your health quickly deteriorates after you have been shot, and you suffer weakening effects until you see a doctor to get yourself healed. I also make certain wounds and weapons instant-kill when enemies use them on me.

 

[Hader]

Mods extend the replayability of any game.

I mod and I play mods all the time.

 

[MR T3D]

I open up the files of a game and tweak them to my liking if I want more/less of a challenge, if I want to make something more useful or less useful.
hell, I even modify my web browser to [REMOVED]

 

[GundamSentinel]

I'm mostly a console gamer and therefore don't mod. Meh, when I was a PC gamer I didn't really mod either. Only some gameplay tweaks and Garry's Mod. Never used others. Oh wait, I used a GTA Vice City editor to change a lot of cars and build some new bridges. Still, I like vanilla games better as a rule.

 

[MASTACHIEFPWN]

I use mods in garry's mod, does that count? XD

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

I'd have to answer yes, having used mods in games like:
Doom
Duke Nukem 3D
Quake (Series)
Half-Life
Morrowind
Dragon Age: Origins
Fallout 3
Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines

The list could go on.

 

[LogieBear]

I use mods sometimes, like Garrys Mod for example =P
And for FO3 I get extra songs for GNR radio and my favourite mod: Real Time Settler.
And definatly minecraft, minecraft mods add huge new gaming experiences

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Games like Fallout 3 and New Vegas are made to be modded. I'm playing Fallout 3 with about 20-30 mods at the moment. They include:

1) New areas to explore
2) General gameplay tweaks
3) Texture graphic replacements
4) Additional songs for GNR radio
5) etc.

I tried modding FO3 back in the day but could never get them to work.. apparantly Im an idiot X)

dont sweat it, alot of different game companies have different tools so the mods work out differently and depending on what kind of work the modder did it could be a pain to install the mods or even get them to work right.

FO new vegas is very similar to FO 3 though, so if you have the mod manager for that you should be able to go back and mod the heck out of FO3 decent enough.

It is, actually, very nearly identical as far as mods are concerned. For the most part, installing mods for these games simply involves moving new resources (models, textures, sounds and so forth) into the directory structure (generally this is as simply as dragging a folder and dropping it into place). Because the scripting language available to the modders directly is lacking in quite a few areas (they cannot monitor for keystrokes beyond the "use" and "block" buttons for example), modders developed a script extender that is often used in more advanced mods (generally ones that offer dramatic alterations to the way a game is played).

For the most part, when a game is released with a development kit, the mods tend to be easy and formulaic to install. Every Unreal Tournament 3 mod is installed in more or less the same fashion for example. When a game was not initially designed to be modded however (Vampire the Masquerades is an example), things get tricky. Usually the developer of a mod in the latter case is kind enough to produce an automated installer.

The real lesson here is probably the mantra of IT people everywhere, presented in tasteful acronym: RTFM. You'd be surprised how easy it is to do something when you read the directions!

 

[Snork Maiden]

I installed a few mods back when I played Rome: Total War, and I've messed around with a few BG mods too. I generally don't use them though, because it just seems like hassle to get them installed. I know often it really isn't, but quite often I outright avoid playing stuff because I have to change the CD :s