Mods are the lifeblood of PC gaming. Consoles can maintain their pomp and highfalutin speak of “comfort,” no matter that’s, I am busy turning The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion right into a six-way gang conflict, vaporising myself within the prologue of Fallout 4, and turning Skyrim right into a boundless playground of fetishes so hyper-specific they’d give the Borgias pause. I imply, I am not doing that final one, really. Do not placed on the web site that I am doing that final one.
Factor is, although, that some mods are so particular, so mind-bogglingly area of interest, which you could’t actually justify constructing a complete piece simply to cowl them. It means you find yourself with an extended checklist of bizarre mods that you just’d like to put in writing about however cannot.
Effectively fie to that, I say. On the partitions of the PC Gamer workplaces hangs a bronze commandment: When life provides you a backlog of a number of comparatively small articles you need to write, flip them right into a barely longer roundup. It’s extremely heavy and could also be damaging the constructing. Regardless, I am taking the recommendation to coronary heart. So here is a couple of of my favorite bizarre, great, hyper-specific mods that I by no means acquired an opportunity to put in writing about.
Darkish Souls 2: Australia version
As Soulsborne video games go, I believe I had the best time of all with Darkish Souls 2. It is acquired some powerful fights (and do not get me unsuitable, I am a stalwart DS2 defender), nevertheless it’s the sport I had least hassle breezing by with my bizarre, cloth-y, hex-throwing man.
Effectively, time to amend that. And the place others might trifle with enemy stats and AI, modder Half Grown Hole reduce to the short by merely turning Drangleic the wrong way up. All the pieces is more durable in Australia, so drawback solved. Darkish Souls 2 is now more difficult than its successor and predecessor video games and all we have carried out is turned the digicam on its head. Good luck figuring that one out, bucko.
Kim Jong-un: Guitar Hero
Meet WorseTYou, a modder with vivid eyes, a full coronary heart, and one overriding mission: To allow you to play Guitar Hero World Tour as everybody who ever occurred. No less than, I assume that is their mission, owing to the very fact their Nexus person recordsdata web page consists of 119 mods at time of writing that allow you to play as anybody from “Somebody’s Dad,” to Barney Calhoun.Â
However sufficient about that. The actual meat right here is the dizzying variety of present and historic world leaders the modder has crammed into the sport. Need to play as Abe Lincoln? Teddy Roosevelt? Um, Joseph Stalin? Everybody is aware of Kim Jong-un has a track in his coronary heart, now he can lastly let it out.
Is it in good style? No. However is it vital? Additionally no. But I am glad I stay in the identical world anyway. Let each mad dream discover fulfilment. Let each delegate to the thirteenth Congress of the Soviet Communist Social gathering study to shred.
Shaved and blemish-free corpses
“Simply be completely satisfied that this extraordinarily area of interest mod exists on your extraordinarily area of interest drawback,” reads 1Nye’s description of the No Draugr Hair (or Beards) mod for Skyrim, a mod which removes Draugr hair (and beards) from Skyrim.
What drawback would that be? Draugr hair, after all. The scourge of our occasions. The phrase for a worry of corpses is necrophobia. For worry of hair? Trichophobia. Is that this Skyrim’s first and solely mod geared toward gamers who are suffering from trichonecrophobia? Positive, man, that works. Failing that, 1Nye gives the reason that you just might take into account it an immersion mod, if you happen to’re into that: “will also be thought-about immersive if you happen to suppose hair would nonetheless be intact on 500 year-old Nords,” says the creator.Â
Of the 9 feedback the mod has earned in its lifespan, only one is from somebody saying they thought they have been the one one that was “VERY BOTHERED” by no matter this drawback is. Think about what an incredible day it was for that individual when this popped up of their feed. There’s feeling seen after which there’s no matter that’s.
Nintendo do not learn this. Everybody else… whats up
Okay, I believe we’re far sufficient into the article now that the Nintendo authorized group will not learn this far. SupremeLeader777 spent 2023 turning nearly each character in Resident Evil 4 into nearly each character from Mario. There’s Krauser Bowser, Luigi Sera, Yoshi the Service provider (pun title in improvement), and a brand new title display 450% extra successfully haunting than the unique.
I believe what I really like most about that is I can’t fathom a single motive anybody would ever search it out, not to mention create it, and but right here it’s, stubbornly current—even increasing—as a result of somebody, someplace, had a bizarre urge and the means to fulfil it. That is what modding’s about, child. It is about infesting Mario with parasites.