Current Events > "Never mod a game you haven't beaten vanilla first"

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Do you live by this sacred principle?

No

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Absolutely not. If I wanted vanilla I'd eat some ice cream not play a game.

Turbam posted...

No

Youve committed a cardinal gaming sin my friend

Usually yes. My biggest exceptions are older games with compatibility issues or games that are so buggy you practically need the patch.

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I dont know how to mod games

Nah.

I can't see any point in not modding if it fixes glitches that harm the experience, restores cut content and/or touches up the graphics. Not wanting major gameplay or story changes I can understand (and I avoid those on a first playthrough myself).

wesp's mod for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines is a good example. Supposedly the game has some major issues without it. I didn't even try the vanilla game. Ditto for KOTOR 2, in which I used the mod that restores cut content.

Yes.

I play Bethesda games so of course this doesn't hold true.

luigi13579 posted...

wesp's mod for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines is a good example. Supposedly the game has some major issues without it. I didn't even try the vanilla game. Ditto for KOTOR 2, in which I used the mod restore cut content.

Both of these as well, yeah.

But in general many games need fan made patches to properly run, so unless you want to risk running into an issue, it's silly to "never mod before beating"

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who'd really want to play original dark souls or nier automata without the "modded" fixes?

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Funkydog posted...

But in general many games need fan made patches to properly run, so unless you want to risk running into an issue silly to "never mod before beating"

True. Deus Ex with Kentie's launcher is one example.

Then of course you have mods for things like controller support. I had to fiddle around with a few things to get it working in GTA: San Andreas.

Actually, that reminds of the new GTA 3 engine that came out recently. It added features from VC/SA like proper camera controls.

Oh shit, it got DMCA'd lol: https://github.com/GTAmodding/re3

I half agree with the title. I go into games unmodded, but I don't have to beat the game to know what would make it better. Maybe 25-50 percent through the game I'll take a look at the mods and see what's there, often only grabbing 0-2 mods because I don't care about cosmetics, just gameplay adjustments, graphics, and UI.

Age also matters, like I played KOTOR recently and it has a well established mod scene that's easy to find the best and most useful mods. So I loaded up all the mods before starting the game. I imagine the same would be true for Skyrim.

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