Which Game has the most mods? Thread

Really, which game has the most mods?
Or
Which is the most modded game?

How can do a search for the most modded games on Moddb.

Thanks!

hl2 duh! :p
second question, don't know, just look at the games who are the most popular i guess xP (answer = hl2 >_>)

Not Half-Life 2 - Creatures 2

But mods for that game aren't really listed on ModDB

Doom

Oblivion: Tesnexus.com. Check the 'total files' at the bottom of the category listing.

WarCraft III! It has a SDK bundled with it, and a GUI for triggering, not just a scripting syntax that confuses most non-nerds in non-bundled SDKs.

IMO quake1 had the golden age of modding. After that the modders all split off to q2/hl/whatever.

i think hl1 or 2 has the most mods. but the monds playable, finish/near finish quality ones are quake 1/2 from what I've seen.

Thanks for help!

hl2 (and hl1) of course! (DUH!)

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DUDES what the heck happened to all the sc mods?
THIS IS RIDICULESS! :/
NOT KEWL!

HL1! or Doom 3!

Oblivion.

Depends on what counts as a "mod", doesn`t it? ^^

Edited by: projektariel

if we're going be the real & not popular definition, it sure does!

TheHappyFriar wrote: if we're going be the real & not popular definition, it sure does!

Are you refering to the difference between counting any change to games as a mod or on the other side only conversions which change a certain amount of a game or even only total conversions which are like new games?

Yes. By the second definition (which even moddb.com uses to a point) it could be argued that wolfenstien 3d, doom 1/2, quake 1/2 HL1 have virtually no mods what so ever as many were either heavily code based with little/no graphic changes, all graphic/asset based or concepts/gameplay changes. The definition of mod between Wolf3D & HL1 was anything that changes the game. Levels weren't normally included in this but non-level changes (graphics/HUD, sounds, adding cvar's, etc) were.

TheHappyFriar wrote: The definition of mod between Wolf3D & HL1 was anything that changes the game. Levels weren't normally included in this but non-level changes (graphics/HUD, sounds, adding cvar's, etc) were.

With the fine distinction IMHO that until Doom and its PWADs changes to games were global / difficult to reverse and from Doom onwards changes (often) had the shape of (bundles of) external modules which were loaded and executed temporarily by the game engines to prevent that original files of the games were overwritten - a development after all which established the definition most of the people know and use today...

yes, when doom made popular (I don't think they introduced, flight sims may of done this first) the idea of used extra files to replace/add content vs directly changing the content, that changed everything in the mod landscape. Even using dehacked (exe changes for those who don't know) patches became an automated process that let you play the original or modified exe easily.

I still use the "changes the game in any way" as a definition of a mod. There's an amazing amount of things that are so simple & practicly non-existant but amazing that can't be ignored (like the gravity/portal gun for quake 1, barneystien, etc!)

TheHappyFriar wrote: yes, when doom made popular (I don't think they introduced, flight sims may of done this first) the idea of used extra files to replace/add content vs directly changing the content, that changed everything in the mod landscape.

Now that`s interesting... is there by chance anyone who knows which flight simulator or other game was the first to introduce such a support for external files?