Cyberpunk 2077's latest update also dropped official modding support. Yesterday, a DRM-free version of Skyrim finally became available through GOG.com. Try as I might to fight it, these two recent occurrences are luring me back to what happens to be the deepest and most difficult game of them all: installing mods and getting them to work.
When Skyrim's latest version, the Anniversary Edition, came out last November, the update thoroughly broke my over-modded game, and that kinda broke me. So, I moved on from playing, even though there was a bunch of new added content to the game. Now that I can pretty much have infinite "clean installs" with this DRM-free version, I'm already perusing and downloading favorite mods -- again. It's a bit insane, really -- I don't even know how many instances of Skyrim I have installed on my computers at this point. Probably half a dozen. I tried fixing the absolute mess of the Steam version I had modded and which broke, and I think that's a lost cause. So, now comes the multi-day task of going through the mods I want, and reinstalling them on a clean version of the game.
And while I do this, I'm also thinking about doing it all over again with Fallout 4, too. Not to mention I got heavy into modded Minecraft over the last year, and even dabbled in modded Stardew Valley. It is an addiction. I want to play games "vanilla", but if I'm aware of mods, I'm going to eventually try them out, and it's very likely going to take more time to do than time spent actually playing the games.
So far, I've avoided the same fate with Cyberpunk, but official mod support means the modding scene is likely to really take off. These ambitious open-world games are perfect for modding, because there's always going to be potential unfulfilled, and people willing to work to add more and fill out the empty spots of such big settings. Fortunately, modding for Cyberpunk still seems a bit oblique at the moment, but I think in maybe a year's time, it could really become something. And in a year's time, I'm sure I'll have fallen into the trap, and modded, broken, and reinstalled the damn game a few times.
The cool thing about healthy modding scenes, though, is that they really make a game evergreen. I've been playing BethSoft rpgs and Minecraft for a decade or more because of all the options I have in front of me, and having all those options even help me appreciate the out-of-the-box experience of these games. Break enough games enough times, and it's just refreshing to boot up a clean copy.
Anyone else addicted to modding, or is this just a "me" thing?
When Skyrim's latest version, the Anniversary Edition, came out last November, the update thoroughly broke my over-modded game, and that kinda broke me. So, I moved on from playing, even though there was a bunch of new added content to the game. Now that I can pretty much have infinite "clean installs" with this DRM-free version, I'm already perusing and downloading favorite mods -- again. It's a bit insane, really -- I don't even know how many instances of Skyrim I have installed on my computers at this point. Probably half a dozen. I tried fixing the absolute mess of the Steam version I had modded and which broke, and I think that's a lost cause. So, now comes the multi-day task of going through the mods I want, and reinstalling them on a clean version of the game.
And while I do this, I'm also thinking about doing it all over again with Fallout 4, too. Not to mention I got heavy into modded Minecraft over the last year, and even dabbled in modded Stardew Valley. It is an addiction. I want to play games "vanilla", but if I'm aware of mods, I'm going to eventually try them out, and it's very likely going to take more time to do than time spent actually playing the games.
So far, I've avoided the same fate with Cyberpunk, but official mod support means the modding scene is likely to really take off. These ambitious open-world games are perfect for modding, because there's always going to be potential unfulfilled, and people willing to work to add more and fill out the empty spots of such big settings. Fortunately, modding for Cyberpunk still seems a bit oblique at the moment, but I think in maybe a year's time, it could really become something. And in a year's time, I'm sure I'll have fallen into the trap, and modded, broken, and reinstalled the damn game a few times.
The cool thing about healthy modding scenes, though, is that they really make a game evergreen. I've been playing BethSoft rpgs and Minecraft for a decade or more because of all the options I have in front of me, and having all those options even help me appreciate the out-of-the-box experience of these games. Break enough games enough times, and it's just refreshing to boot up a clean copy.
Anyone else addicted to modding, or is this just a "me" thing?
