Everyone knows about how mods can add a ton of QoL features and/or enhancements to games, but I'm mainly curious about the mods that actually proved to be essential to a game, to the point that it would even arbitrarily raise a game's score: let's say a 6/10 game now becomes a 8 or 9/10 game thanks to just a couple of really essential mods.
I had the idea for this thread with Sonic Frontiers. I don't have the game myself, it sounds like it's getting a lot of praise despite some flaws, but it also looks like modders are already at work at adding some huge improvements to the game's physics and other mechanics that needed some tightening up. It makes me curious if the results will actually transform that game from "very good" to "excellent" once it's done.
So I'm interested in reading your picks for games that were shy of excellence but then reached that point thanks to mods. I especially want to know about games that were busted or downright unplayable until modders did the work that the devs didn't.
I already know about some of the most infamous examples like KOTOR II adding in a ton of cut content, or how Dark Souls had its low texture resolution fixed within the day by Durante, or how Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines is literally unplayable on modern PCs without the unofficial patch. Those are the kinds of examplesI want to know about.
I had the idea for this thread with Sonic Frontiers. I don't have the game myself, it sounds like it's getting a lot of praise despite some flaws, but it also looks like modders are already at work at adding some huge improvements to the game's physics and other mechanics that needed some tightening up. It makes me curious if the results will actually transform that game from "very good" to "excellent" once it's done.
So I'm interested in reading your picks for games that were shy of excellence but then reached that point thanks to mods. I especially want to know about games that were busted or downright unplayable until modders did the work that the devs didn't.
I already know about some of the most infamous examples like KOTOR II adding in a ton of cut content, or how Dark Souls had its low texture resolution fixed within the day by Durante, or how Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines is literally unplayable on modern PCs without the unofficial patch. Those are the kinds of examplesI want to know about.