March 2025 General Game Discussion Thread

[neogunhero]

I love going through mods. I can spend huge chunks of time if the game has lots of them, like with Satisfactory and Farming Simulator.

Especially if it has an in-game mod browser, or the ability to browse Workshop and instantly add it while the game is open, that is so convenient. I've gotten so used to this convenience that sometimes I won't mod a game just because it doesn't have these features.

 

[ZedClampet]

Especially if it has an in-game mod browser, or the ability to browse Workshop and instantly add it while the game is open, that is so convenient. I've gotten so used to this convenience that sometimes I won't mod a game just because it doesn't have these features.

I'm the opposite just because the in-game browsers I've used are never as easy to use as websites. For instance, Farming Simulator has in in-game mod browser, and I used it for about 5 minutes before going back to their website.

 

[neogunhero]

I'm the opposite just because the in-game browsers I've used are never as easy to use as websites. For instance, Farming Simulator has in in-game mod browser, and I used it for about 5 minutes before going back to their website.

My experience with this has mostly been with Bethesda games, and while it's got an interface that is nowhere near perfect, it's convenient enough compared to using Nexus that I power through it. Of course you will find even more mods on dedicated sites like Nexus as their in-game mod browsers are moderated by Bethesda, but most of the basic ones I use are all there. And I've used Steam Workshop since the day it came out as I was huge into Garry's Mod back then, and that game has gone through many iterations of how you install mods, so it was amazing to have something that worked perfectly. If I'm serious about modding a game without these features, I usually find mod guides, like I did for GTA 4 and Batman Arkham Asylum. Praise the people who makes those guides, it's much easier following a simple set of instructions compared to trial and error to see what works with what.

 

[Pifanjr]

I typically don't bother with mods. There are too many mods that are unnecessary, unstable and/or unbalanced and it takes too much time to sort through them.

 

[Zloth]

For some games, like Skyrim or XCom, scrolling through the mods is at least half the fun of the game!

Hmmm, if you are scrolling through a list of mods for Doom, is that Doomdoomscrolling?

 

[ZedClampet]

lol, Guido and I are having the worst game of Total War Warhammer of our lives. We used a mod that randomized all the starting positions, and we ended up in completely brutal circumstances. It is now turn 74 and we've taken a total of 11 cities. I'm making negative money per turn, and I'm headed down, out of necessity, to a place that is in the red for me, but I have to get rid of these guys. I've got one good army and two small terrible armies that rely on the garrisons to help them defend the home province. It's a mess.

 

[ZedClampet]

The Toy Shop Simulator dev is the best developer ever.

I'm currently pretending she made that just for me. It needs to be orange, though.