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Fall from Heaven II. It’s a fantasy themed overhaul mod for Civ IV. Has extraordinarily deep lore and unique game mechanics. I’ve never actually played the unmodded version of Civ IV. I only bought the game to play this mod.
On the Switch 1(or emulated), a Mario kart standalone mod call CTGP.
It’s basically all the maps from all the MarioKarts and even a bunch of fan made maps on 1 game.
Does pokemon infinite count?
Even without the gimmick of merging any 2 mons to create new ones with some procedurally generated art and thousands of community created ones; it’s the best Pokemon game since black/white 2 in story and hg/ss in scope.
Otis_inf’s camera tools. Blows away any in-game photo mode. No restrictions on movement at all, can pause or frame-advance the game, there’s even a camera rails system I haven’t fucked with yet.
stalker anomaly, though i’m not sure if it qualifies as a mod or its own game.
Caveat, I don’t play a ton of modded games, but Dwarf Therapist for Dwarf Fortress is such a good mod. Makes the game playable, lol.
Simbin’s GTR2002 was an amazing mod of EA’s F1 game. Great online racing and the added hotlap ranking from Find the Limit.
Many hours invested and IRC friends made. Got to race Gregor Huttu and had some of his setups ;)
Counter Strike and Team Fortress. Both were Half Life mods when they started.
We played Quake World Team Fortress on the high school LAN. It blew my mind.
As well as DOTA (for Warcraft 3) and PUBG (Arma 2/DayZ mod).
I have a theory that the all the best multiplayer games do spawn from community efforts since they know better how to balance things.
Still remember discovering Half-Life as a kid because I was looking at the CS 1.6 folder my friend gave me, and I got curious about this “hl.exe” since the icon wasn’t the CS one.
Remember the days of half life having three billion mods? Still haven’t had the LAN with everybody where we play through them all.
Multiverse Mod for FTL
Its literally just a free sequel
Multiverse really does feal like early access FTL 2
Ooo I gotta look into this!
Black mesa. Half life and half life 2 modder community is amazing.
To be fair, Garry’s Mod is up there too.
The amount of customisation that one “small project” opened up in general, is astonishing.
Saved me typing.
Portal is basically a Half-Life 2 mod. It’s still got the fanboat asset. You can use the console to bind spawning a fanboat to an input, so there’s a speedrun category where you’re not allowed to use portals, but younare allowed to spam fanboats. Literally called fanboat%.
Speaking of Half-Life mods, Entropy Zero 2 is a solid game.
There’s also some great Portal 2 mods out there as well.
Endless hours playing Sven Co-Op. A few clips of my friends and my own earliest YouTube videos ended up in the NoClip documentary about Half Life!
No love for Fallout: London?
It’s not just a Fallout 4 mod—it’s full-blown AAA experience—done so well that I’d believe it was made by the New Vegas devs if I didn’t already know. If you’re tired of waiting for Bethesda to make the next FO game, just play this instead.
Came here to say this
How well does it install on Linux?
Tacking on cause id like to know as well. Last I checked it was VERY time consuming/if not impossible at the time.
Given the amount of fiddling I had to do to get it running on Windows, I do not want to try it on Linux (unless you own it on GoG, in which case it’s apparently easy)
Was looking for this answer, shame they released the DLC a month after I finally uninstalled FO4 because I needed the space lol.
Multiplayer for GTA San Andreas was quite revolutionary at its time.
It blew my mind. I’m not a coder, so I have no idea how they did it.
I don’t know about San Andreas, but the GTA III co op mod was something pretty special. It took the other players coordinates and assigned them to your last vehicle, which didn’t despawn.
There were no on foot player characters, but you could drive around together in a game with absolutely no multiplayer or online elements at all.
Omg I totally forgot about SAMP. I spent so much time on there when I was young. Still remember v2 where there was so much lag being in a car together was so shitty but it was the best experience ever.
Thousands of hours on an rp server early on in samp
Same. Started with MTA and later moved to SAMP. Played on the same freeroam/rp server for years - even met one of the guys irl even though they were from a different country.
Are Skyrim mods allowed, or is that cheating? 😜
Enderal is allowed.
What about Elsweyr? 🖖🏼
Okay, fine, and Wyrmtooth while we’re at it.
Oh, see, now you’re gonna get me going 🤩…
Let’s just round it out by saying that the many QoL mods for VR are generally incredible improvements on the OG pancake experience, but second (IMHO) to the brain-meltingly beautiful visual overhauls (thanks, Panda & team!)… Still, nothing comes close to the aforementioned modules that offer completely new areas w/ fully voiced NPCs, unique quests/activities, brand new lore, etc., and dozens of hours of gameplay. (assuming you simply run their main plotlines)
Heavily-modded Skyrim (300+) on the Index has pretty much ruined me for most other VR games, but I still try to enjoy the lesser titles for what they are. 🤣
Schreitet wohl!
Withers big naturals
