The Best Mod You've Ever Played

[SadisticBrownie]

This one's on the tin. What is the best/most fun/most enjoyable game modification you know of or have played. For me it's Europa Barbarorum, the best, most historically accurate total conversion mod for Rome: Total War.

Gotta agree with you there, it's excellent. Breathed so much life into the game.
Unfortunately, it was so fucking unstable I gave up after about 200 hours playing it. Winning a huge, extremely tight battle only to have it crash for the hundredth time was just too much.

 

[daveman247]

BrutalDoom by a mile. A great reminder of what could have been Doom 3.....

Brutal doom is great, but i really liked doom 3 as well, great atmosphere ^_^

OT: The nameless mod for deus ex 1. A great total-conversion that delivers more deus ex gameplay and is quite funny too.

 

[MrCollins]

Prophesy of Pendor for Mount & Blade : A stunningly large expansion of the game that adds so much.
Morrowind graphical overhaul: Makes the game seem like it came out 2 years ago, instead of 10 years ago.
The Stanley Parable: A great experience that can't really be described.

 

[Full]

Just small mod projects?

Project DEIMOS for Fallout New Vegas. A succinct little story, with just a little mind fuckage. Only a little, but enough.

 

[Brainwreck]

The swearing mudcrabs mod for Skyrim.
GOD FUCKING DAMNIT indeed, mudcrab.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

This is pretty easy. Stainless Steel for Total War: Medieval 2. It's on something like it's sixth or seventh iteration now, and it's expanded on the base game so much I barely even remember what the base game was any more. Whenever I speak fondly of Medieval 2, I'm thinking of Medieval 2 by way of Stainless Steel. It's an absolutely massive overhaul of the entire game, changing the map, the factions, the units, the AI...if something can be changed/improved upon, right down to base systems, it has been. It's the closest thing to Medieval 3 we have. It makes the game a gloriously rich and meaty experience. Newer Total War games absolutely pale in comparison.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?s=0c5fa3ee8a4b8593409cf2c3faa6a32b&t=417435

 

[Sepko]

There was a mod for GTA IV that let you play in a first person view. I tell ya I've never been more engrossed in a world like Liberty City when you're actually eye-level with everything.

 

[Bestival]

The multiplayer thing for GTA VICE CITY, when I played it it was fairly buggy, but it was such a good idea, and the game lend itself to free for all deathmatch so well.
Great times, shame it never really took off, as far as I know.

 

[flying_whimsy]

While not technically a mod surf maps for source engine games (especially tf2) have gotten the most hours played from me and are on the whole a boatload of fun.

After that it'd probably be Black Mesa and a single player trainer for Halo 1 for pc that gave you god mode, infinite ammo, and the ability to stop time (it is every bit as awesome as it sounds).

 

[demoman_chaos]

I fondly remember a Star Wars mod for Mount & Blade that was godly epic. There were a few force powers that were just a ton of OP and abusing those was fun as hell.

There is a mod called Conquest for M2 that gies you a few time periods to fight in. The last one encompasses the entire world. Now we can see how a samurai would do against Native American troops.

I made my own mod for Rome where I chucked in a bunch of units from other mods into Vanilla, turned some units into hero units (like the OP Urban Cohort, shrank it and gave it a stat boost), and added the Rebels into the game. I can say without question if some medieval knights ended up in Roman times, they would fuck everything up.

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

The Nameless Mod for Deus Ex, i guess. A fairly big Total Conversion set in a city that's supposed to be a representation of an internet forum and, of course, having the excellent gameplay of the original Deus Ex. I enjoyed it a lot.

 

[ZCAB]

The modded version of Morrowind currenty on my hard drive is my "if you could only play one game for the rest of your life". Here are some of the things I have installed:

- Morrowind Graphics Overhaul. The biggest jump in graphics quality I've seen from a mod, save third party engines for Quake (which only make a larger impact than MGO because Quake itself looks so much more dated than unmodded Morrowind).
- Madd Leveler, a completely customizable leveling mod that automatically increases attributes along with skills. This prevents you having to make unnatural gameplay choices to increase your attributes evenly.
- A very simple plugin I made to speed up skill increase. Skills increase about as fast as in Oblivion now, which for me is the sweet spot between leveling slow enough to feel rewarding, but fast enough to always feel you're making progress.
- Fair Magicka Regen, which makes magicka regenerate at a rate based on your willpower skill. This will probably be seen as a cheat by Morrowind purists, but I think magic in the game is gimped without it.

I loved Morrowind when it was released, but the mods available for it even make it preferable to its two much more advanced sequels to me.

 

[Magicman10893]

The swearing mudcrabs mod for Skyrim.
GOD FUCKING DAMNIT indeed, mudcrab.

Have you tried the cursing dragons? "WHERE'D YOU FUCKING GO?!?!"

 

[m19]

Some of the old Neverwinter Nights mods. Had better writing than most rpgs.

 

[saxxon.de]

From a Production Value perspective, I'd say Black Mesa.
From a Gameplay perspective, I'd say Counter-Strike, way back before 2000 when it was a mod for the original Half-Life.

 

[Domogo]

I would have to say the sound mods for skyrim are pretty boss, the music over haul, the swearing mudcrabs and homophobic horkers and espcially the super mario death sound, makes the game way more fun. (although close second and third are: lightning bolt strikes a gaurd when they say arrow in the knee, and dragons become strong man randy savage)

 

[Zeren]

The swearing mudcrabs mod for Skyrim.
GOD FUCKING DAMNIT indeed, mudcrab.

Boy do I have a treat for you!

OT: The Moonpath to Elsweyr mod for Skyrim is probably my favorite. That or Midas Magic mod also for Skyrim.

 

[Phrozenflame500]

DayZ for being innovative in it's core scavanging mechanics and it's player interaction.

The Stanely Parable for combining humour, gameplay-narrative integration and video game philosophy (god that sounds so pathetic) together in an incredibly interesting way.

Black Mesa: A complete recode of Half Life 1 in Source with enhance gameplay and graphics.

A bunch of TF2 mods like Saxton Hale and Prophunt also count.

 

[Setrus]

DayZ, without a doubt, bought the entire Arma 2 game just to play that because I heard how great it was...and boy were they right.

It's a game wher eyou can lose hours of your life into it, just trying to keep your character ALIVE! I mean, I got more satisfaction out of getting out of a city full of snipers or when a group of bandits pass by my shelter instead of finding me than out most levels I've beaten in any average game of mine, heck, more so than BEATING many games! :-D

 

[TheDuckbunny]

Yay! Another thread where I get to talk about how much I love Nehrim!

Anyway, Nehrim. It's a total conversion mod for Oblivion. It is considered by many (myself included) to be far, far better than Oblivion proper. It has an outstanding main quest, great world design, and has a much more balanced economy and leveling. Also, no level scaling, which is always a good thing.

Agreed! I'd go so far as to say it's some of the most fun I've ever had in an RPG. I was particularly impressed by the worldbuilding but the story and presentation are close seconds.