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Am I the only one who hates mods?

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Dizzee

When people praise PC gaming they usually mention mods like it makes the game superior to console version. Some mods are good but in my opinion most of them are gimmicky trash, like skin mods or so. Graphics mods are cool but they ruin the game's vibe and require a high end PC. Say whatever you want but vanilla will always be the best for me. When GTAV comes out I won't install a single mod until I fully complete the game and get bored of it.

EDIT: Okay I don't HATE mods but I had a more specific type of mods(mainly for open world games) in mind when I made this thread but there are some great mods out there.

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Dreakon13

I'm with ya. I cringe whenever I hear people use mods as a reason why "PC is the best platform for gaming". I'd have a hard time convincing anyone with any semblance of rational thought that using Lightning's gunblade from Final Fantasy XIII in Skyrim is worth spending $1000+ on a top end gaming machine, instead of $400 (or likely less in a year or so) on the latest generation of console. Or to have a fucking Nicolas Cage flashlight texture in Left 4 Dead, ffs.

On very rare occasions does someone actually made a mod with a little substance in it, and even when they do it's usually very immersion breaking because they either aren't talented enough or are locked out of adding content the same way developers did. Story based mods with bad or non-existent voice acting. Content mods that require console input's or some pseudo user-made menu because they couldn't create a way to navigate through the standard menu's.

Graphical mods are the only thing I could feasibly recommend... but those of any substance are typically HORRIBLY optimized because they're pushing an engine well beyond it's limits, or just haphazardly layering filters and effects on top of a game through awkward outside library hooks.

That being said, to each their own.

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Dsc

Honestly, you don't need to spend $1k on a gaming machine unless you're dead set on having a top end machine. My current computer can run most any new game on med-high settings and it cost roughly what my brother paid for his Ps3 and controllers back in the day, and that's including the couple upgrades I've put into it over the years.

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Dreakon13

Even if it's $500-600, it's likely not worth the price of admission for someone that's already happy with their gaming console. Especially for such novelty content additions like the ones I listed above. Hence why I cringe when people try to convince others that "PC is better because of all the great mods available!"

And if you're middling out on newer games already, I can guarantee those ENB series mods would absolutely kill your machine. Heck, almost any mod that improves a newer game graphically would probably bring it down... especially in a case like Skyrim where people are stacking 20-50 mods on top of eachother (some of which could cause various degrees .

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Dsc

The beauty with Computers though, is that they're used for much more than gaming. However, if you have no interest in PC gaming then I'll agree that there's no real point in getting a gaming PC.

In regards to people saying "PC is beter blah blah blah" I agree in a way. For some people, like myself, mods add a great deal of fun to an aging game. In my post below for example, I put hundred of hours into Oblivion, then put even more once I discovered mods, so for me PC gaming is better because of it. Now for people like you who have very little interest in mods, it's not better, and that's okay cause people are different and there's no changing that. I'll agree that people who just spout out the "PC MASTER RACE!" crap are annoying though.

ENB mods are neat and all, but honestly, I've never cared too much about graphical mods. I enjoy content mods and silly mods from time to time like the White Gold Tower on a Stick weapon mod in Oblivion.

As far as performance goes, I've never noticed a decrease in performance from any of the mods I've used. Hell, I've actually had a couple mods that improved performance like Optifine for Minecraft, or whatever the hell the mod for Oblivion is that removes a lot of unnecessary objects.

Edit: Also, as far as me middling out newer games, it's mostly habit from before I upgraded my computer. I know it can run Tomb Raider on Ultra just fine minus the fancy hair thing. It's not really a new game anymore, but it's one of the newest games I own.

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Dsc

I love Mods, they can breathe new life into a game that has grown old.

For example, back in the day I sunk hundreds of hours into Oblivion. After a while though the game started to get old for me cause I had done pretty much everything. I was then introduced to mods for the game by a friend and after browsing them for a couple days and picking a few the game was suddenly shiny and new once more and I had more fun with it.

Same with Minecraft, I played the game for a very long time and started to grow bored with the game's survival mode. If memory servers, Tekkit was the first Modpack I tried out for Minecraft and my my, so much new stuff to do brought so much more fun to survival mode.

Then there's some games that I could never play without mods. Vampire the Masquerade is probably the prime example of this. Without the fan patch in the game it would be impossible for me to play on my computer due to how old the game is.

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Demaeter

I hate mods too.

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