Probably the Mirror’s Edge mod for Team Fortress 2.
Shit was better than the actual game.
For me personally it has to be certain rom hacks from before the era of decomps and creation kit style tools.
I was fairly active in the gen 3 Pokemon hacking scene on the pokecommunity forums back in the day. And hex editing and trial and error was one thing but real wizards were the ASM hackers that could completely out of the box stuff like adding in new move effects or character customisation functionality or day and night systems, to games that had none of these.
Those were actually the trailblazers that led to all the decomps we have today that have made it so easy.
Witchery for Minecraft. Start out, building your altar room, find as many unique living things as possible and put them within 100 blocks of your altar. Mid game, make sleeping tonics to visit the spirit realm and try not to die from nightmares. Create voodoo dolls, and other nice high level gear, craft some powerful pvp oriented spells. Late game create a ritual room to summon demons to trade with. Don’t forget your protection circles because they move really fast and kill you almost instantly. Late game, become a vampire or werewolf or hybrid. Become nearly invincible outside of fire and sunlight.
Mekanism, an extensive tech mod for Minecraft that could quite happily be its own game.
GregTech. You need to be special to make the game this complex, and I am more for playing it.
Princes of Darkness for Crusader Kings 3
Midian XL for Diablo 2
Immersive cursedness
A minecraft server side mod that lets unmodded clients see through nether portals somehow
Space Age for Factorio before their basically made it a full DLC for the game
That was a mod? It honestly feels like the finished version of what the game was meant to be
Before the factorio: space age update, there was a mod with the name space exploration. It was a complete overhaul mod, and even tho I never played it myself I did watch a lot of videos about it and I agree with the above poster that it was basically a completely free dlc. It is different from the official update tho
Inigo in Skyrim. Fully voiced follower who is funnier, more interesting and more authentic than any companion I’ve had in the last decade of games.
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.
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I remember playing zombie master, a half life 2 mod on a lan party and being blown away by the mechanics. Also ,the hidden, was a new experience for me.
In zombiemaster one player plays against the rest and has a well… Real time strategy layout and spawns and controls different kind of zombies . The other players have to complete tasks and survive.
In ,the hidden, one player controls a almost invisible super strong rouge experimental super soldier against the special forces of iris .
I really liked the Custom Maps in Warcraft 3 online play. I used to play Hero Line Wars, Mauls and TDs, Dota, Legion TD among other amazing community made maps
“The Last Days” for Mount & Blade. Intro
Mount & Blade was a medieval combat simulator where you’re a wandering mercenary in a war torn region. The gameplay was somewhat innovative when it came out (originally 2008), but as far as story and setting, it was kinda meh. But the great thing about it were the mods, and by far the best mod was “The Last Days,” a total conversion mod that lifted all the mechanics but put it in The Lord of the Rings.
These nerds put so much detail into that mod, it was incredible. I didn’t know half the factions existed. The map goes beyond Gondor and Rohan and even Rivendell, it goes all the way out to the goblins of Mt. Gundabad fighting against the men of Dale. Each location has tons of detail, some of them are truly massive, and they pushed the limits of the base game with trolls and giant spiders and things like that. Each individual faction has their own faction strength, so you have to think strategically about where to reinforce. The differences between how each factions’ units fight on the battlefield is more emphasized, and tbh the combat is a bit better balanced.
It really hit the nail on the head of what to do with the game engine, and then put real passion, creativity, and effort into making it work (seriously, the last update was in 2017, new stuff was being added after nearly a decade. And there’s comments on the page I linked as recently as 10 days ago, so people are still playing it). Next to it, the base game feels a bit more like a proof of concept. The open world nature of the game really allows you to take in the setting and experience the story from a different perspective, rather than following the heroes from the books. It really made the setting come alive in a way I haven’t found in really any other LotR game (although I’m not super into the setting and haven’t played a ton of them).
The mod was for the original game at first but it update when they put out the sequel, Mount & Blade: Warband, so if anyone decides to check it out, get that one rather than the original.
My favorite m&b mod is Nova Aetus. Adds so much new stuff to the game. Custom troops, greatly expanded city building, and statecraft, religions, non battle locations outside of fiefs. Hidden loot and side quests. Colonies. If you are looking for a mostly mechanics mid that expands the game into a much more complex game, this is what I think is the best, although some other mods do story and setting better.
Dragon Genitals for Monster Hunter World. Gave each monster either a realistic cloaca or an incredibly well-crafted dong, tailored to the individual style of each monster. The details were amazing, like a monster called Bagel Goose has a rock dick, but when he transforms into B-52 bomber mode he glows red hot with lava… and his cock does, too.
What the fuck did I just read
Best mod ever
Surprised no one has said MyHouse.wad yet
Son of biscuit! You beat me to it!
The thing that got to me was the darkend maze that seemed to go on forever. You keep expecting something to jump out but it never does. It just promptly ends and serves no purpose aside from freaking you out.
A great use to luminal space.
It was this .wad that finally tipped the scale for me in the fact that og doom is probably the best game of all time.
