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[Übermatik]

So I was browsing imgur and came across this:

Which, admittedly, made me laugh, a lot. And it got me thinking - Skyrim has so many mods, from the ridiculously beautiful to the beautifully ridiculous... could it possibly be the most modded game of all time? There sure are a lot of graphics mods out there, for starters.

But what about Minecraft? That game is all about the mods now... and I'd dare say there are more mod players than vanilla players in the community right now. Some mods for Mojang's sandbox hit change the premise of the game entirely. Another worthy contender?

And then I remembered DOOM... perhaps a less obvious choice, but I've seen a huge amount of gameplay mods to maintain the title's appeal for a more modern audience - various builds to run the game on different platforms, graphics mods, multiplayer...

What do you think GAF? Which game holds the crown for king of mods?

 

[Sinatar]

Gotta be Quake or Half Life 1.

 

[Martian]

Definitely high up is Medieval 2 Total War:
- Third Age Total War
- Warhammer Total War
- Deus lo Vult
- Darthmod
- Stainless Steel
- Tamriel Total war

and I could go on and on

 

[Ilive1up]

GTA 4 and San Andreas.

 

[m1000]

Probably Doom/Doom 2. Mods have existed for those games since 1994 and people have never stopped developing them. Simple mods, total conversions, anything really.

Half-Life/Goldsource might be a close second, I'm not exactly sure.

 

[KR_remix]

Warcraft 3 had a ton of custom maps too. But definitely Doom, people are still modding it.

 

[alba]

Half Life 1.

 

[The perfect Dark]

Unreal Tournament?

 

[Dragoon En Regalia]

Doom for certain. Both age and accessibility have made for a shit-ton of mods and custom WAD/PAKs to enjoy. Quake isn't far behind; it's more front-loaded towards multiplayer, whereas Doom has a lot of singleplayer content.

 

[Baron Aloha]

My initial thought was something like UT99 or Half-Life...but then I got to thinking.... and its probably something like The Sims or SimCity or something like that. Something more casual/mainstream.

 

[Permanently A]

Here's the full video of those gifs. Its amazing.

 

[Toad.T]

SMB has a fuckton of ROM hacks released. Ranging from full game changes to your bog standard KKK/Nazi/Penis-laden/im14andthisisedgy graphics mods. Not as much as modern games like Skyrim or Minecraft, but still a fair amount.

 

[Storm Kyleis]

Look at what people are making with Super Mario World romhacks.

There are legitimately good games based on SMW.

 

[JaseC]

My favourite Skyrim mod is still Thomas the Tank Engine Dragon.

 

[Maxim726X]

Warcraft 3 had a ton of custom maps too. But definitely Doom, people are still modding it.

Didn't DoTA start as a WC3 fan made extra?

Think about that for a second... That 'mod' became one of the most popular genres in gaming today.

 

[MaverickVII]

Gotta be Quake or Half Life 1.

Gotta be this. I'm not too knowledgeable about Minecraft or its community but I imagine it has quite a few mods as well.

 

[-Amon-]

Doom, I guess.

 

[Santiako]

Yeah, in sheer numbers it's probably Skyrim by now.

 

[Danneee]

Probably Quake or Unreal Tournament.

 

[Baleoce]

Quake

 

[Pocky4Th3Win]

Bethesda games will be in the top 5. There are more mods for Skyrim alone then there are games on steam... Like 10x more.

 

[qa_engineer]

Ha. Masterchief! I get it, it's because he's from space right?

 

[BasilZero]

Super Mario World.

 

[riskVSreward]

SMB has a fuckton of ROM hacks released. Ranging from full game changes to your bog standard KKK/Nazi/Penis-laden/im14andthisisedgy graphics mods. Not as much as modern games like Skyrim or Minecraft, but still a fair amount.

SMB romhacks easily take the lead. Theres way more "Mario is now blue" and "? Blocks replaced with pot leaves" than any one site can catalog.

Its like babbys first romhack.

 

[TheGreatDirector]

Doom and Super Mario World come to my mind when I think mods. the amount of romhacked Mario levels and nodded Doom difficulties and graphics are insane.

 

[Shadow Hog]

Yeah, in sheer numbers it's probably Skyrim by now.

I imagine that by sheer numbers, it's still Doom.

 

[Übermatik]

Totally forgot about Quake and Half Life.

Half Life 1 more then 2?

Garry's Mod is a mod of Half Life 2, with thousands of it's own mods... that's worth something.

 

[Gaz_RB]

It's gotta be Skyrim.

In fact, maybe I should go reinstall it right now...

 

[Santiako]

I imagine that by sheer numbers, it's still Doom.

I honestly doubt it. The amount of mods released for Skyrim every day is staggering.

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

Yeah, in sheer numbers it's probably Skyrim by now.

At this point I'm inclined to agree. With other games you have numerous big mods and small ones, like the six or five mods that changes the entire gameplay, and all the little mods that change small things. But with Skyrim you have the 40 mods that you put together to change the gameplay, and then the thousands of small things which compete against one another because you are not using this guy's tree texture if you choose to use someone else's, etc. There are so many banal little things that no one will ever use, its absurd.

 

[whyreggielie]

I would say probably the Total War games. Other games may have more mods but none at the scale of Total War, there is a mod that changes the game completely into a LOTR universe or one I tried some time back called Chivalry Total War. These mods are complete overhauls and make it essentially a different game, I have not tried a Skyrim mod yet that overhauled the game on such a level that it felt like a different game.

 

[Train of Midnight]

Elder Scrolls definitely gets the win for most modded series, I'd wager.

 

[Atomski]

Quake 3 is the first thing that pops into my head.

 

[Zukuu]

Half Life 1.

a 100% this.

 

[Norfair]

Minecraft would probably be in the running.

 

[Shanlei91]

I would've thought it was Quake 3. There was a mod for everything...

 

[MedIC86]

Counterstrike/Q3 i think

 

[Turdburger]

Didn't DoTA start as a WC3 fan made extra?

Think about that for a second... That 'mod' became one of the most popular genres in gaming today.

Yep, released in December 2002 by Eul as a custom map for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos

 

[kcp12304]

Jedi Outcast and Academy had a strong mod community. Knight of the Old Republic 1&2 did also.

 

[IAmRandom31]

Skyrim has something like 1.3 million mods doesn't it?

Hard to believe something has more

 

[mclem]

Well, do we count Nethack? That's effectively developed through features added via changes and additions to the source code.

 

[ScOULaris]

Half-Life 1 with Quake II right behind it.

 

[Peltz]

I'd think Quake 3. There's some crazy shit out there for it.

 

[KR_remix]

Yep, released in December 2002 by Eul as a custom map for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos

and if we want to go farther back it all started with Aeon of Strife as a Starcraft custom map. Pretty amazing, DotA started as a mod, Counterstrike started as a mod, Team Fortress started as a mod, and now they are all massive games.

 

[R_thanatos]

Half Life 1.

I think this one takes the crown

 

[Felspawn]

It's gotta be Skyrim.

In fact, maybe I should go reinstall it right now...

lol i installed skyrim to play around with a Home theather PC experiment i was running on my computer. a week and 50 hours later still playing Skyrim..... just killed Harkon and finally getting around to meeting the greybeards . Damn this game gets its hooks in me sometimes

 

[Moofers]

Gotta be Doom or one of the Quakes. I realize Skyrim got big and all, but I don't think everyone realizes (or was around to experience it) that Doom and Quake were basically all of PC gaming at the time.

 

[bennywhatever]

C&C: Tiberian Sun had some great mod packs. It gets my vote.

Honorable mentions:
-All 2d Mario games.
-Pokemon rom hacks.
-Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy

 

[Rich!]

SUPER MARIO WORLD

HTTP://WWW.SMWCENTRAL.NET

look at the forums. look at them.

SMW hacking has been ongoing, extensively, since 2001. And the popularity of it, going by forum figures, is only increasing over time. It's SMW as far as consoles are concerned. No argument, no questions. Done.

 

[Mr Git]

Half Life surely.