How often do you use mods(/do you use mods)?

The only mods I used were those for HL2(or source mods) and some were pretty good. But now I haven't used/played any. Unless you count Fistful of Frags a mod(is now standalone), then yes, I've been playing a lot of it lately.

The only mods I've ever used were for Minecraft lol, I don't think that even counts to be honest, but yeah, haven't used any yet mostly because I think I don't need them to enjoy games.

Love mods. Current favorites are Roma Surrectum II for Rome Total War and Island in Chaos for Just Cause 2.

I personally haven't used a mod in ages. I've played with someone who was, and I benefited from it, but n mods. I have used skins and maps but thats pretty much it (those aren't mods are they?).

i got a 260ish hours on skyrim and most of that was spent modding and fixing the game. i tried out a good thousand of mods and used to know every one of them htere checking workshop and nexus hot files very often as well as different other websites. i don't like the game but i like to get things to work so i reboot it dozens to hundreds of time a day to try settings out according to the current enabled mods to benchmark the game, make mods work together, mess around with optimization and tools and end up with a smoothly running personnalized game

there are not that many games that can be modded as heavily as skyrim but it's not hard to find something to get busy with even with the nichiest games

overall i always got one or two tools around for a game i play to fix or enhence something.. i can't resist it

Sound mods are the most common for me as I can do them myself in most games. I have used texture replacements occasionally, but them and model replacements aren't too common.

Back when I had GTA IV installed I had an absurd number of scripts, but not game mods. Because it's fun to drive around blowing everything up and denting cars by falling onto them. And making every pedestrian a hostile. And arming all of them with RPGs. And screwing up the suspensions so every car is bouncytown.

Mods have become so part of my gamming experience that even i look for them at realease, most of them are to fix the things that i dont like from games, like FOV, camera placement, different HUD or more graphcis options, and i keep an eye from gameplay changing mods, like beeing able to control turn signals or open the trunk or engine cover in GTA V, or not autoamtically holstering your weapon during a fight like a moron in Witcher 3.

Rarely. Modding usually doesn't work and gives me more of a headache than worth. Thus, I barely ever mod.

At most, I'll use a standalone patch for my game, and if I want to cheat, I sometimes create my own cheat system with CheatEngine. (Please note that I'm speaking of single player games, here.)

Only when i Skyrim

Almost 10% always using mods? ;o
Crazy.

The poll options don't really reflect this, but I rarely mod games that are moddable, but there are some games that I subscribe to a ton of content (Tabletop Simulator being the big culprit for me). So I do mod a lot, but it mostly comes from one game.

Not sure if the high res textures for Skyrim counts as a mod. I not, well... Never.

I sometimes have used some kind of performance mods like DSfix, used to use a lot of mods for Quake 3 and Max Payne, but nowdays I'm totally uninterested

I almost never use mods. The most heavily modded game I've played was Skyrim with SkyUI and a hotkey mod.

Depends on the game, but 99% of the time I will use mods. If mods could lead to trouble like GTA V and Payday 2, I won't use mods. But for all others, I will use mods. In games such as Fallout and Skyrim, I use mods extensively.

I only use mods after my first playthrough of the game or after a bit of playtime if I think the game need something changed.

I rarely bother, unless its something that clearly improves the base game without significantly altering the content. Adding the keychain in Oblivion, for example, rather than filling your inventory with old keys. Or the fan patch for Titan Quest, since the developers went defunct before they could finish patching it. Both examples prevent gameplay annoyances without really changing the game itself.

I haven't used mods often but I've only recently had a machine that can handle mods in certain games. Those games being games I've played before and having a huge backlog makes it difficult to go ahead and replay them with mods. I also have no idea what I'm doing when I've attempted, pretty weird stuff has resulted from it. :)

The option to have user created content in games is incredible though. Just so long as they don't go trying to charge money for it beyond a donation. If you do that then you should be a hired employee given proper pay packet with your work moderated to the point of it becoming dlc.

As for mods I have used. One of the first mods I ever tried was one that put Wheatley from Portal 2 in Skyrim. I used the Morrowind Overhaul, which is easy to install and updated gameplay and visuals depending on what was basically a checklist. DCinteriors for Fallout 3 was fun, there was a gnome hunting quest. I remember getting a mod for L4D2 that me and a friend played through, basically made the game look like minecraft venturing through the nether even finding the Ender Dragon, however I don't remember fighting it, just part of the scenery.

Even when you're terrible at installing mods, they can breathe new life into old games. :)

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Hasn't been mod for a while here, but I still use Ichi on daily basis regardless.

For me, mods enhance the gameplay to be more fun, stable and challenging. I don't use ridiculous mods such as cheats or OP weapons, I search and play mods that makes it better than the vanilla version. And sometimes, vanilla isn't as good without the help of mods, because not only they enhance the gameplay, but also (if possible) fix the issues that developers have left out after release.

So yes, most of the time, I play games with mods more than the vanilla version. There are plenty of games that can't be modded and are enjoyable for what they are and sometimes modding isn't necessary for some games, because rarely devs create a game with almost everything thought out. But if the devs release SDK tools pack or the source code, then not only we'll be making changes, but also we'll be adding more stuff to the games to make the them better than ever. But, it's entirely dependent on the player. Do you want to mod? Or enjoy the game as it is?

Considering how many games are made with peasants in mind with dumbed down controls, dumbed down UI, and my biggest gripe: gameplay for brain dead CoD children (looks at what Bethesda turned a slow, tactical role-playing franchise into), mods are becoming essential bit by bit.
In better cases, texture mods. The next step is usually some interface mod. Then finally gameplay changing ones.
Although I have finally reached the point where I don't think I'll ever play BG2 again (unless the expansion of the Imoen Romance mod ever gets released, despite being in work status for 13 years now), I cannot even imagine ever playing the vanilla version.

If there are mods that fix broken things, improve the gameplay or the graphics (without altering the general atmosphere of the vanilla game), or add features that I think the vanilla game is missing, then I'll use them. I strongly dislike "fan fiction" mods that add new quests, characters or locations, especially if they're seamlessly integrated into the official canon content.

I haven't used any mods since GTA III. Used to use a mod for flames out the exhaust and the RealGTA mod for real cars. Other than that only games I've used mods for were Monster Truck Madness 1 & 2 and Midtown Madness 1 & 2.

Bump. :3