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[jgwhiteus]

Even just looking at Modthesims and accounting for the fact that many of the mods are just new items, there's over 70k mods/items alone.
And that isn't including the Sims 3 stuff or The Sims resource.
I will agree that Skyrim probably has more significant game changing mods made.

Yeah, I was going to say if you're just counting custom content like clothes, textures, objects, etc. it's probably something like The Sims 2 or The Sims 3. Of course, we should probably distinguish between custom content (using outside mod tools) vs. user-created content (stuff created using tools provided by the game, such as Sims lots, and which I guess a lot of Minecraft stuff would fall under?), but even by that measure there's a lot of custom content for The Sims.

If we're talking about mods that actually change some aspect of the gameplay, it's probably something like Skyrim.

 

[Cyrano]

Hah, that's interesting. I suppose the barrier to entry for modding Doom was lower though, if we're counting making a custom level as making a mod.

Skyrim Nexus barely scratches the surface of how many mods there are for the game...

 

[Moon_frogger]

Quake and Quake 2 and nothing else comes close unless u count WoW. Remember that Counter Strike started as a Quake mod and Half Life was a glorified Quake mod built off the Quake engine.

This post has info ranging from wrong to so wrong it hurts me. First of all, half life is by no stretch of the imagination a 'glorified quake mod' it was built off off heavily modified quake engine, nearly modified beyond recognition. So if half life is a glorified quake mod than every unreal engine game ever made is a 'glorified unreal mod'

Second, in no way shape or form was counterstrike ever a quake mod. The only tenuous connection to be made here is that one of its creators worked on action quake 2 which basically has nothing At all to do with counterstrike. Sorry for the snark this post really bothered me for some reason.

 

[Mandoric]

Hah, that's interesting. I suppose the barrier to entry for modding Doom was lower though, if we're counting making a custom level as making a mod.

Six of one, half a dozen of the other, imo? A bad level's pretty easy with good tools, but so are texture replacements, and Doom's structure lends itself to megapacks as noted in another post while a lot of Skyrim modding is about picking the exact individual pieces you want.

Also worth noting, barrier to entry-wise, that Doom shipped with no tools and was reverse-engineered by the community.

 

[Head of Vengarl]

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

Definitely one of the greatest. That first high pitched choo choo slays me every time.

 

[Gen X]

Operation Flashpoint had a lot of awesome mods.

 

[Piston Hyundai]

don't laugh, but

Spoiler

does littlebigplanet count in some stupid way

 

[strafer]

Counter Strike and Half Life

 

[balohna]

Almost definitely HL1 or some iteration of UT.

 

[BigTnaples]

Morrowind by far.


Any of the Bethesda games are competitive though.

 

[MasterOfPastures]

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

My favorite bit, by far:

I wish every game's loading screen tips could be moded.

 

[Bl@de]

I love doom, quake etc, but the amount of mods for skyrim is ridiculous. I think it trumps everything else by far...

I'm talking about the number of mods here,

 

[Chezzymann]

Minecraft or Skyrim. Both have a crap load of mods.

 

[MrCunningham]

Quake or Doom.

Hmm I guess Skyrim too.

 

[Shpeshal Nick]

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.

Yyyyyyyyep.

Not even close.

 

[SneakyStephan]

Most of the skyrim mods just seem like model and sound file swaps...
CS alone had thousands of those (csbanana website back in the day) and CS is a mod of half life on its own.

Most modded game would have to be half life or quake.

half life mods big enough to later turn into stand alone games and series of their own:

Team fortress (which in turn was a half life version of a quake mod)
Counter strike
Natural selection
DoD

But there are hundreds of total conversion mods for half life, tens of thousands of maps and countless amounts of skins and sound packs.

Skyrim doesn't even touch it.

 

[Plasma]

It's probably Doom, though Half Life had a lot of mods as well.

Speaking of Doom mods it's kind of amazing what people are still making with it, I found this one the other day which turns it into a classic Resident Evil game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF9OsHFzvFQ

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

When you see something like Black Mesa, do you count that as a single mod, thousands of mods, or not a mod?

 

[Putyouinmyoven]

Surely Half-Life?

 

[MrCunningham]

It's probably Doom, though Half Life had a lot of mods as well.

Speaking of Doom mods it's kind of amazing what people are still making with it, I found this one the other day which turns it into a classic Resident Evil game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF9OsHFzvFQ

Quake Rally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZvaVgmIUrc

When you see something like Black Mesa, do you count that as a single mod, thousands of mods, or not a mod?

Black Mesa isn't a mod of any existing game, it is a stand alone remake built on the Source SDK, which is available for free through Valve.

 

[MMaRsu]

Probably Half Life 1 indeed

 

[USC-fan]

Bf1942 for me.

Really some of the best mods for a game.

 

[hoserx]

"monical" ? wow.

 

[Daingurse]

Half-life? Or Doom possibly.

 

[Mithos]

Minecraft: 17k
Skyrim: 36k
Doom: 43k

Older stuff is more likely to be completely lost to time, too.

That is only the mods on Nexus though, you have LL, the Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Korean "only" Skyrim mod pages on top of that.

 

[K.Sabot]

Most total conversions: Half Life 1
Honorable Mention for total conversions: Unreal Tournament 2k4

Most amount of useless poop: Skyrim

 

[gabbo]

Quake and Quake 2 and nothing else comes close unless u count WoW. Remember that Counter Strike started as a Quake mod and Half Life was a glorified Quake mod built off the Quake engine.

Like moon_frogger said, this post is painful in it's ignorance
As for the crux of this post, Doom likely, with Quake 1 and 2, Half Life1 and Skyrim somewhere behind. Of course it would also depend on what one classifies as a mod.

 

[dragonbane]

GTA SA was pretty impressive. They modded an entire multiplayer client into the game, made it playable with like 100 players at once and there were real life simulation servers etc.

 

[Zexen]

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

Dang, I just watch that video and now I see this thread.

Pure gold.

 

[Phediuk]

In terms of quantity, I highly doubt anything beats Skyrim or Minecraft.

 

[Übermatik]

I'm honestly not that familiar with Half Life 1 mods. Half Life 2, though...

 

[jediyoshi]

I'm honestly not that familiar with Half Life 1 mods. Half Life 2, though...

Doesn't live up to HL1's mods unfortunately. Then again this was back in the day when some dude could release an MP mod on fileplanet and still get an active player base immediately.

 

[Syphon Filter]

One of my favorite mods of all time is the Eminem/Dr.Dre Quake III mod.

g

 

[thoseAREmySHOES]

Could we count WoW in this? It's been a long time since I've played, and I know 99% of things are UI tweaks, but there are still a bazillion of them.

 

[Skyfireblaze]

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

There are legitimately good games based on SMW.

I followed Super Mario World hacks a few years ago and there was some amazing things out there but this... my god that's another level, I have to try this now! o.o This wasn't done with Lunar Magic was it? D:

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

Okay Bid for Power looked alot nicer in my memory But it's still amazing

And I want to throw in a honorable mention for Star Trek: Bridge Commander! At one point modders even tried to create a new graphics engine for it and I remember I had a unreal amount of mods for it, the scene was really dedicated.

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

 

[UnrealEck]

I'm thinking Half-Life. Depends on what you consider a mod too. Half-Life had loads of full-game mods, like TFC and CS.

 

[zelas]

Second Life

 

[Syphon Filter]

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

More hilarious than i expected. It gets crazier in the end with a random tails from sonic in the midst of a clusterfuck with wolves lmao. This might have sold me on Skyrim.

 

[Forsaken82]

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.

Don't forget the first Starcraft spawned Tower Defense.

 

[TheRedSnifit]

I think this is pushing it. We're counting the Source Engine as a Quake mod? Modern Warfare? Jedi Academy? Using this logic, we could argue that Hovertank 3D is the most modded game game ever, because technically every id FPS built off of that.

 

[gabbo]

This counts any game using the engine as a mod, which is not the case. So basically everything to the right of Quakeworld doesn't count.

 

[StealYourFace]

boom

i'd wager people saying skyrim/gta/anything else are relatively young

 

[Anth0ny]

Super Mario World has to be up there.


Brawl also has a fair amount of texture hacks/mods.

 

[LCGeek]

Doom, Quake or HL one engine which is a derivative of the quake engine.

I love GTA but nothing comes close to what is mentioned.

 

[megatronium]

System Shock?

Doom?

Elder Scrolls: Oblivion?

tough question

 

[Syphon Filter]

gta:san andreas 2pac mod is cool too

 

[TheRedSnifit]

System Shock?

Doom?

Elder Scrolls: Oblivion?

tough question

I don't think there are very many mods of a middling-selling game from 1994 with a wacky engine that nobody has the source code to. Even the most basic mods take weeks to develop, and are still barely functional. The mouselook/resolution mod has been in constant development for five years.

 

[MrCunningham]

I think this is pushing it. We're counting the Source Engine as a Quake mod? Modern Warfare? Jedi Academy? Using this logic, we could argue that Hovertank 3D is the most modded game game ever, because technically every id FPS built off of that.

Pretty much. Source is a branch of the GoldSrc engine, and GoldSrc is a mod of the Quake 1 engine. But that doesn't make the Source engine a mod of Quake 1. Same with so many other engines like the IW engine.

 

[SnowFlakeCake]

I loved the exclusive sneak peak demo they got of Uncharted 4:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQShIMS9R6I