» Sun Jun 13, 2010 5:16 am
Modding isn't mandatory. I doubt many people buy a game just for the graphics engine, but remember that there are a lot of people still playing Morrowind, who have been playing it ever since it came out. I suspect the main reason for that is mods. No matter how much someone likes a game, by the time that person is on the 20th character, I'm thinking many people would start to get a little bored with the vanilla only content. I realize the playstyles some mods create aren't very similar to the vision of the developers, but Bethesda chose to support modding and some of the new features in Skyrim were inspired by mods. If you read blogs or biographies of game developers much, you will often see them waxing nostalgic about modding various games before they went pro. Do some people buy games primarily to mod them? I am sure they do. I am not sure how that would be sad. It's their money, and their free time. Nothing the people who make YouTube videos do in their own game affects yours. I don't think it's the mods that are depressing you per se. I think it's probably that you feel alienated by some other people's aesthetics. There is nothing that can be done about that, really. Anime and hentai, etc. would not go away if there were no Oblivion mods. I've seen plenty of mods that are not to my tastes, and sometimes I even feel disturbed that a few of them exist and are popular. I'm sure some of those people would find my taste sickly sweet and nauseating, though. My game belongs to me, their games belong to them, and your game belongs to you. I am grateful to Bethesda for making it relatively easy for individuals to play how they want to play. It's generous of them.