Modding communities that place developers to shame

[Spoonius]

Company of Heroes has some great mods too. The community is fantastic.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Blades of Exile has some great stuff behind it, the official scenarios were alright, but not really up to Spiderweb's standard. Nephil's Gambit was arguably better than Exile3 in it's worldbuilding.

 

[gruggins]

I do remember the Dungeon siege series having a damn good modding community.

one of my friends had all these cool mods, however I could never get any running myself as I didn't know how to install mods then (and still dont as most of the instructions are outdated now).
... I never did get to play legends of hyperboria...

 

[Aurgelmir]

As a lot of people say, a modder can focus on one aspect of the game, rather than the whole.
The Modders already have all the tools ready for them to do what they do, so all they need to focus on is the fun.

 

[irani_che]

Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines
The mods and Fan patches are worth a whole game themselves


anyone else sad that now mods will basically be stopped by DRM or just be DLC

 

[Avaholic03]

No mention of the Starcraft/Warcraft modders yet? Some of the SC2 mods are better than the actual game. Didn't someone make World of Starcraft inside SC2? That's impressive. Some of the mods are good enough to be full games (i.e. DOTA).

 

[Worgen]

Can't believe everyone forgot "Black Mesa". That's gonna put Valves attempt at "Half Life: Source" in the bin.

the problem with black mesa is that its never going to come out

 

[DasDestroyer]

This is true of most games that are:
- good
- realtively easy to mod

As a result there are usually way more modders than developers, the modders don't have a time limit, they can create a mod with absolutely any theme - unlike the developers they aren't bound by the game's original ideas. And as time goes on the mods become better and better.

 

[jonyboy13]

Warcraft 3. The custom games are... Well, epic. Footies, dota, all the orpgs, hero line wars, TD(!) and most important, run kitty run

 

[ruben6f]

I don't believe that the modding communities place developers to shame, modders don't have deadlines among other chalenges that developers find, also the games you mentioned have great mods because the games are very easy to mod if you know how, and this happens because the developers made a easy game to mod so modders can go nuts with their projects.

You need to add total war mods to the list, the mods for the total war games are awsome.

 

[Wintermoot]

Oblivion,s THEY ACTUALLY FIX BUGS!

 

[SenorNemo]

Command & Conquer: Generals is not a bad game, but by far the best part of it is the fact that it's very modder friendly, and still has a pretty nice community. There's at least one mod out there that I would not hesitate calling better than the actual game.

 

[Marter]

When it was still around, DoubleMinor was a great community for NHL mods. NHLDepot is still around as far as I know, and it's fine, but it wasn't quite as good as DoubleMinor was.

As for a reason, well, they can put as much time and resources into a specific mod as they want, while developers need to put specific time and resources into each part, given time and budget restraints. Basically what the first responder said. XD

 

[AnnaIME]

The Sims - all iterations. From looks to objects to new gameplay. And lots and lots of bugfixes. Sims 3 would be unplayable without the community bugfixes.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

The Knights of the Old Republic 2 modding community. They saved the game from oblivion.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Going to have to put a vote in for the Total War Community. Why?
Two words.
Europa Barbarorum.
There are plenty of great mods for the various games in the series but that one is pretty special.

Also, Oblivion has plenty of great mods too.

The only mod that has come close to EB is Roma Surrectum 2. The advances with the engine their team made were absolutely stunning. They added bloom, realistic trees and forests, rolling hills, and downwards flowing water.