This is going to be a callback, but Ballistic Weapons for UT2004. It completely overhauled the gunplay in ways I’ve never seen replicated. I loved all the extra modes the weapons had and many took a while to learn how to use.
The devs went on to make Viscera Cleanup Detail, so good for them, but I did always wish they made a FPS.
I think it’s really impressive what the community has done with Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Project+ is basically the current “flagship” modpack. It builds on Legacy TE (which is built off Project M), so there’s loads of new content and more Melee-like gameplay.
Another Brawl mod I like is Brawl -. Its main thing is that it balances the game by making everyone’s movesets overpowered.
Changing genre completely, I really like the Gay Awakening and Gay Fates mods for Fire Emblem: Awakening and Fire Emblem: Fates. The main thing the mods do is add new romantic and platonic supports to the game. The focus is, as the name implies, on adding gay and lesbian content, but it also adds straight content to a lesser degree (like for the characters that can only support with Robin or Corrin).
Enderal, a whole new game built ontop of Skyrim. Offers an entirely different setting, map, class system, enemies, spells, and has an actual story that you will not soon forget.
I haven’t bothered with mods for years now but Neotokyo was by far my favourite. Apparently it’s still played to this day by a group of fans but I haven’t joined in. Also the soundtrack is amazing
The mod that got me into modding still has a special place in my heart. It was the Shockwave mod for C&C Generals. Shockwave absolutely could have been vanilla if EA deigned to finish the Zero Hour expansion. It was just pure polished perfection for that game.
I’m going to have to go with either the Create mod or Apotheosis, both for Minecraft. Both of them feel like they could just be part of the vanilla game, and at this point it feels wrong and weird for me to play the game without them installed.
It’s hard to think of any one mod that got remotely close to changing a game the way GMod did for HL2/CS:S/source engine titles. I spent thousands of hours in GMod as a kid, it added infinite teplaya ility to the HL2 campaign, forums like Facepunch and PHWOnline became my second home.
There was a ton of content to be loaded from there and FPSBanana, the thriving webcomic scene was truly special.
There’s a Sonic fan game I like to play called Sonic Robo Blast 2, built on an extremely heavily modified OG Doom engine with a pretty good modding community, and there’s a level pack for it called Sol Sestancia that’s just crazy fun to run through with the Neo Sonic character mod. Getting up to top speed to activate boost mode and trying your best not to slow down or stop so you don’t lose it. So satisfying.
Better Than Wolves it’s a minecraft overhaul that was started by the veteran game designer FlowerChild who was pissed at Mojang that they are adding useless features that don’t improve gameplay loop (wolves being the breaking point). So he spent many years making Minecraft challenging survival and interesting tech game.
While I haven’t beaten the dragon once in that game (not many people have) it still gave me hundreds of hours of entertainment.
Gigastructural Engineering for Stellaris… the megastructures included in the game and DLC are great, but they lack a certain insanity. Plus the mod allows you to terraform any planet (even gas giants).
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Star Trek Armada 3 for Sins of a Solar Empire. Can’t wait for STA4 for SoaSE2.
Any mod that allows me to play as Amy Rose in any Sonic game.
I’d have to say thanks to SMAPI and Content Patcher for enabling so many Stardew Valley mods in the first place.
Also, Qwinn’s Ultimate DAO Fixpack for allowing me to have a mostly bug-free experience playing Dragon Age: Origins. Mostly.
This is going to be a callback, but Ballistic Weapons for UT2004. It completely overhauled the gunplay in ways I’ve never seen replicated. I loved all the extra modes the weapons had and many took a while to learn how to use.
The devs went on to make Viscera Cleanup Detail, so good for them, but I did always wish they made a FPS.
I think it’s really impressive what the community has done with Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Project+ is basically the current “flagship” modpack. It builds on Legacy TE (which is built off Project M), so there’s loads of new content and more Melee-like gameplay.
Another Brawl mod I like is Brawl -. Its main thing is that it balances the game by making everyone’s movesets overpowered.
Changing genre completely, I really like the Gay Awakening and Gay Fates mods for Fire Emblem: Awakening and Fire Emblem: Fates. The main thing the mods do is add new romantic and platonic supports to the game. The focus is, as the name implies, on adding gay and lesbian content, but it also adds straight content to a lesser degree (like for the characters that can only support with Robin or Corrin).
Ooh I forgot about Project+! The only way to play Brawl. It turns it into possibly the best Smash game to date.
Enderal, a whole new game built ontop of Skyrim. Offers an entirely different setting, map, class system, enemies, spells, and has an actual story that you will not soon forget.
I had genuinely forgotten about it without playing it. Thanks for mentioning it.
Just started that recently, very good so far.
Sky UI. Not the same game without it.
So mandatory that mentally I don’t even consider it a mod.
Antistazi for Arma 3
NEOTOKYO°
I haven’t bothered with mods for years now but Neotokyo was by far my favourite. Apparently it’s still played to this day by a group of fans but I haven’t joined in. Also the soundtrack is amazing
Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time.
The mod that got me into modding still has a special place in my heart. It was the Shockwave mod for C&C Generals. Shockwave absolutely could have been vanilla if EA deigned to finish the Zero Hour expansion. It was just pure polished perfection for that game.
I’m going to have to go with either the Create mod or Apotheosis, both for Minecraft. Both of them feel like they could just be part of the vanilla game, and at this point it feels wrong and weird for me to play the game without them installed.
I wanted to mention Create too.
I genuinely consider both mods to be more faithful the the vanilla experience than some the actual features added in more recent updates.
Garry’s Mod
It’s hard to think of any one mod that got remotely close to changing a game the way GMod did for HL2/CS:S/source engine titles. I spent thousands of hours in GMod as a kid, it added infinite teplaya ility to the HL2 campaign, forums like Facepunch and PHWOnline became my second home. There was a ton of content to be loaded from there and FPSBanana, the thriving webcomic scene was truly special.
There’s a Sonic fan game I like to play called Sonic Robo Blast 2, built on an extremely heavily modified OG Doom engine with a pretty good modding community, and there’s a level pack for it called Sol Sestancia that’s just crazy fun to run through with the Neo Sonic character mod. Getting up to top speed to activate boost mode and trying your best not to slow down or stop so you don’t lose it. So satisfying.
Better Than Wolves it’s a minecraft overhaul that was started by the veteran game designer FlowerChild who was pissed at Mojang that they are adding useless features that don’t improve gameplay loop (wolves being the breaking point). So he spent many years making Minecraft challenging survival and interesting tech game.
While I haven’t beaten the dragon once in that game (not many people have) it still gave me hundreds of hours of entertainment.
Gigastructural Engineering for Stellaris… the megastructures included in the game and DLC are great, but they lack a certain insanity. Plus the mod allows you to terraform any planet (even gas giants).