Can you consider a game to be "good" if mods are nearly necessary?

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I know this feeling from Skyrim

Needs combat/mechanic mods. It's a good game but I'll always mention the mods so it's full disclosure.

If I have to rate the game it'll probably be the modded score not the vanilla score, but mentally I'll assign it an arbitrary penalty. The game has native support for modding though so not a big penalty.

Most other games I've played the mods are just a fun diversion so they weigh almost nothing.
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