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Orv
May 4, 2011
http://www.pcgamer.com/skyrim-sex-mods/

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The Cheshire Cat
Jun 10, 2008

Fun Shoe

That's actually a pretty good article, but I'm disappointed he didn't mention/dig into those horrible "dismembered nude women as props/weapons" mods. I feel that would be a lot harder for someone to brush off as "oh it's just harmless fantasy".

flatluigi
Apr 23, 2008

here come the planes

For the new page.

I know people had recommended it in the last few pages, too, but really if you like dumb mods and you haven't seen Touch the Skyrim, you're missing out: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaDrN74SfdT6Z-jpVvGNEqaMdXHTLDdnI

Ep 9 is my current favorite, but the Susan Crushbone saga was just so good

RatHat
Dec 31, 2007

A tiny behatted rat👒🐀!
I thought the sex mod stuff got a little uncomfortable but thankfully they stopped doing those.

SolidSnakesBandana
Jul 1, 2007

Infinite ammo

The Kins posted:

Someone wanted to prove a point about image formats to someone, so they converted all the graphics in Doom to JPG.

Then someone combined it with a mod that feeds all the sound effects through a blare effect filter, and now nobody's happy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J9GsXXrCWg

Bizarrely, the medpacks look the same

Guy Mann
Mar 28, 2016

by Lowtax

The Kins posted:

Someone wanted to prove a point about image formats to someone, so they converted all the graphics in Doom to JPG.

Then someone combined it with a mod that feeds all the sound effects through a blare effect filter, and now nobody's happy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J9GsXXrCWg

Do I look like I know what a 'jay peg' is? I just want to play a gatdang shooter.

flatluigi posted:

For the new page.

I know people had recommended it in the last few pages, too, but really if you like dumb mods and you haven't seen Touch the Skyrim, you're missing out: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaDrN74SfdT6Z-jpVvGNEqaMdXHTLDdnI

Ep 9 is my current favorite, but the Susan Crushbone saga was just so good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U0blDjQ2Gg&t=1395s

Touch the Skyrim is very good and Nick and Griffin are two good, good boys.

Guy Mann fucked around with this message at 06:30 on May 9, 2017

FronzelNeekburm
Jun 1, 2001

STOP, MORTTIME

flatluigi posted:

Do your best, and do your worst.

Surely they could get away with that one where the boobs grow/shrink in sync with mana capacity.

aniviron
Sep 11, 2014

This isn't awful or awesome in the usual sense for this thread, but it was weird enough to make me smile, so here you go:



I also recommend the page itself since it uses six different fonts in different colours over eight lines of text, all but two of which are center aligned. The mod is also 18+ for some reason, when it seems to just be a small field of 10mm boxes.

Peewi
Nov 8, 2012

aniviron posted:

This isn't awful or awesome in the usual sense for this thread, but it was weird enough to make me smile, so here you go:



I also recommend the page itself since it uses six different fonts in different colours over eight lines of text, all but two of which are center aligned. The mod is also 18+ for some reason, when it seems to just be a small field of 10mm boxes.

The mod isn't marked as mature content and can be viewed without being logged in, so I guess he's just reminding people of Fallout 4's age rating?

McSpanky
Jan 16, 2005






I used to be an adventurer, then I went on maternity leave

quote:

This mod is all about consequences!
Finally you can give birth to a child into Skyrim
A real pregnancy mod which includes menstruation cycle, contraception, childbirth risks, multiple births. Npcs on Npcs pregnancy. Labor pains. This mod has it all.







:smith:

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

Not keen on keening.


Grimey Drawer
Consequences, you slut.

Brainamp
Sep 4, 2011

More Zen than Zenyatta

I was really sad it wasn't a mod that let you play as a queen bee. Like you got the pun all lined up and ready.

Max Wilco
Jan 23, 2012

I'm just trying to go through life without looking stupid.

It's not working out too well...

Oh god, I watched the video. There are mod settings for duration of the menstrual cycle and trimester length. Not only that, but there also a separate armor mod that scales for the change in size (maternity armors?)

It's shocking how much effort went into this. It might actually be sort of interesting if were some kind of educational simulation instead of being attached to a game where you shout at dragons.

Simsmagic
Aug 3, 2011

im beautiful



Awful/Awesome Mods: It's shocking how much effort went into this

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

Pet me.
Remember when modding was "Hey guys, play the specialists, it's loving awesome you guys" and "lemme get this nicer AK model someone made that someone put on FPSbanana without the original creator's consent" or "Holy poo poo, I didn't have to pay for Natural Selection, this game is so well made now that it works"?

Was it the FakeFactory mods? The one that was like 5 gigs, with "refined" textures and Alyx getting a completely different model with skimpier clothes every version?

Where did it all go wrong? Was that where it went all wrong?

Babe Magnet
Jun 2, 2008

is Fake Factory the one where Alyx had a fully modeled vagina interior because the model is literally ripped from a porn game or something?

also there were fuckin' plants everywhere for some reason. Like, way too many

The Cheshire Cat
Jun 10, 2008

Fun Shoe

Fargin Icehole posted:

Remember when modding was "Hey guys, play the specialists, it's loving awesome you guys" and "lemme get this nicer AK model someone made that someone put on FPSbanana without the original creator's consent" or "Holy poo poo, I didn't have to pay for Natural Selection, this game is so well made now that it works"?

Was it the FakeFactory mods? The one that was like 5 gigs, with "refined" textures and Alyx getting a completely different model with skimpier clothes every version?

Where did it all go wrong? Was that where it went all wrong?

I'm pretty sure people were making nude mods for the original Tomb Raider - you know, when she had triangular boobs. It's always been like this, the only difference is how easy it is to find now.

aniviron
Sep 11, 2014

What used to be mods are now games, that's what's changed. You don't need a publisher to make a game anymore. You don't need a distributor. You don't need a marketing team. You might never be huge if you don't have those things, but a lot of small teams gamble on making enough to get by, and some games really do blow up and become Big Deals without any of that stuff. People who made serious mods in the past make games now because the SDKs for Unreal, Unity, Cryengine, and more are just free to download and use.

Your example of Natural Selection is perfect. Why bother making an NS2 mod when you can make an NS2 game instead? So the people who are left are people who tinker instead of engineer, and you get texture replacements and the like, mostly.

Rectus
Apr 27, 2008

aniviron posted:

What used to be mods are now games, that's what's changed. You don't need a publisher to make a game anymore. You don't need a distributor. You don't need a marketing team. You might never be huge if you don't have those things, but a lot of small teams gamble on making enough to get by, and some games really do blow up and become Big Deals without any of that stuff. People who made serious mods in the past make games now because the SDKs for Unreal, Unity, Cryengine, and more are just free to download and use.

Your example of Natural Selection is perfect. Why bother making an NS2 mod when you can make an NS2 game instead? So the people who are left are people who tinker instead of engineer, and you get texture replacements and the like, mostly.

It also seems harder to make full-on total conversion mods now. A lot of games either don't allow modding or have modding frameworks that only allow parts of the game to be changed. Foo example, if you look at Valves games, HL2 came out with a SDK that allowed you to make changes to or rewrite most of the game logic. Their newer games only have tools to make maps or change out assets.

The Cheshire Cat
Jun 10, 2008

Fun Shoe

Rectus posted:

It also seems harder to make full-on total conversion mods now. A lot of games either don't allow modding or have modding frameworks that only allow parts of the game to be changed. Foo example, if you look at Valves games, HL2 came out with a SDK that allowed you to make changes to or rewrite most of the game logic. Their newer games only have tools to make maps or change out assets.

Well it depends on the game really. I mean the reason we see so many mods for the Elder Scrolls and Fallout games is that they have an incredibly flexible modding framework, not because they have an especially dedicated fanbase (they do, but not more than any other popular series). So really it's just that the popular modding platform has shifted because it just happens that the easiest thing to mod these days is an RPG rather than an FPS.

The Kins
Oct 2, 2004
Fuckin' schoolies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnI2RUpB1sk

Kikas
Oct 30, 2012

Fargin Icehole posted:

Remember when modding was "Hey guys, play the specialists, it's loving awesome you guys" and "lemme get this nicer AK model someone made that someone put on FPSbanana without the original creator's consent" or "Holy poo poo, I didn't have to pay for Natural Selection, this game is so well made now that it works"?

Was it the FakeFactory mods? The one that was like 5 gigs, with "refined" textures and Alyx getting a completely different model with skimpier clothes every version?

Where did it all go wrong? Was that where it went all wrong?

You mean the Cinematic Mod for Half Life 2. And yes, it did feature a fully modeled vagina for Alyx, a LOT more detailed than most of the ones for other games are. It also had post-processing up the rear end and it changed like EVERY model of the game, especially the main characters. Really,

Simsmagic posted:

Awful/Awesome Mods: It's shocking how much effort went into this


EDIT: Here have a trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWkH9Iz5VLo It's a rehost of the official one they put up.

Neddy Seagoon
Oct 12, 2012

"Hi Everybody!"

Kikas posted:

You mean the Cinematic Mod for Half Life 2. And yes, it did feature a fully modeled vagina for Alyx, a LOT more detailed than most of the ones for other games are. It also had post-processing up the rear end and it changed like EVERY model of the game, especially the main characters.

Phrasing!



Kikas posted:

EDIT: Here have a trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWkH9Iz5VLo It's a rehost of the official one they put up.

When you see (I assume) the redesigned Alyx at the 2:50 mark, that attempt at a smile turns into a real "Sweet jesus, get me out of here or kill me" expression. :stare:

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

by VideoGames
Salad Prong

But literally, they did hella post-processing on, around, and up the rear end.

Karasu Tengu
Feb 16, 2011

Humble Tengu Newspaper Reporter

The Cheshire Cat posted:

I'm pretty sure people were making nude mods for the original Tomb Raider - you know, when she had triangular boobs. It's always been like this, the only difference is how easy it is to find now.

poo poo, i remember seeing nude models listed on UT99 and HL1 model sites too, right next to Homer Simpson, generic Furry Guy, and terrible recolors of default models.

Grondoth
Feb 18, 2011

Fargin Icehole posted:

Remember when modding was "Hey guys, play the specialists, it's loving awesome you guys" and "lemme get this nicer AK model someone made that someone put on FPSbanana without the original creator's consent" or "Holy poo poo, I didn't have to pay for Natural Selection, this game is so well made now that it works"?

Was it the FakeFactory mods? The one that was like 5 gigs, with "refined" textures and Alyx getting a completely different model with skimpier clothes every version?

Where did it all go wrong? Was that where it went all wrong?

Modding was always like this. There were weird people making weird things for every game you've played. It's just become much much easier to find.

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
The Nexus happened is what. Moddb is always the place to go for total conversions, while Filefront used to be a nice mix of conversions and skin packs before it died. Nexus just threw all that poo poo together and the nudes bubble to the top

Magmarashi
May 20, 2009





Grondoth posted:

Modding was always like this. There were weird people making weird things for every game you've played. It's just become much much easier to find.

People have been finding a reason to put tits in everything since the first caveman scrawled a big-hipped fertility goddess on a cave wall.

Wasabi the J
Jan 23, 2008

MOM WAS RIGHT

Neddy Seagoon posted:

Phrasing!


When you see (I assume) the redesigned Alyx at the 2:50 mark, that attempt at a smile turns into a real "Sweet jesus, get me out of here or kill me" expression. :stare:

Small solace but that's not Alyx.

Neddy Seagoon
Oct 12, 2012

"Hi Everybody!"

Arcsquad12 posted:

The Nexus happened is what. Moddb is always the place to go for total conversions, while Filefront used to be a nice mix of conversions and skin packs before it died. Nexus just threw all that poo poo together and the nudes bubble to the top

And welded the hugbox shut by setting up to ban anyone who said mean nasty things (like constructive criticism) about the Artist's magnificent and perfect works bestowed upon all Player-kind. Thou should not complain about the bloom effects and lore contradictions, for they art part of thy Artists's fruits and thou should be grateful for thy boon of their oversized floppy cocks amidst HD-re-rendered cityscapes.

GunnerJ
Aug 1, 2005

Do you think this is funny?

Neddy Seagoon posted:

And welded the hugbox shut by setting up to ban anyone who said mean nasty things (like constructive criticism) about the Artist's magnificent and perfect works bestowed upon all Player-kind. Thou should not complain about the bloom effects and lore contradictions, for they art part of thy Artists's fruits and thou should be grateful for thy boon of their oversized floppy cocks amidst HD-re-rendered cityscapes.

Nexus admin dark0ne posted:


I honestly think you’re underestimating the trolling power of some individuals within the community. I think you seem to think that rating trolls are idiotic children who TyPe LiKe ThIs and rate mods 1 out of 5 with the comment “ThIs MoD iS poo poo LOLOLOL!!!111”.

Ratings on the Nexus used to be attached to a minimum character limit comment that went along with the rating. This was when we used a weighted rating system using a very specific algorithm in our top files.

While hundreds of people would rate a mod 5 out of 5, you’d get trolls who would deliberately rate a mod 3 or 4 out of 5, and attach a well-written and cohesive reason for it. We’re talking someone rating Wyrmstooth or Falskaar 3 or 4 out of 5 because they found that certain textures were of a lower quality than elsewhere in the mod (providing specific examples, so they did their homework), or because they found the voice acting was slightly subpar and so on and so forth. Basically, using subjective opinions as a reason to rate a mod lower. Written very well, but you knew it was trolling, or at least twattish, because no one expects an amateur mod to be professional quality and/or recorded in a sound studio in Hollywood. But how can you tell someone their subjective opinions are wrong?

If you remove that rating, that troll will come down on you hard. Why aren’t his “opinions” valid when everyone else’s are, simply because he doesn’t agree with everyone else? “You’re just like the Nexus and want to bubble wrap the mod authors”, and so on and so forth.

What, you’re going to let the rating stand? Watch how others who don’t like the mod author realise this and jump on the band wagon. They’ll begin filing similar ratings just to piss off the mod author because they said something on these forums or the official forums that then got shared on Reddit/4Chan/some social network site about paid modding/file permissions/enter some equally controversial topic here that wasn’t popular with a certain group of people, so they want to get their own back. Once they have a barometer on ModPicker of what is and isn’t acceptable, they’ll skate that line of acceptability to the fullest extent, and word spreads fast.

How are you going to deal with such ratings that, yes, can upset mod authors despite there being hundreds of good ratings to offset this?

It sounds ridiculous. It sounds like I’m being over the top and exaggerating. I’m not. It wasn’t just a small problem, it was a big problem for the Nexus. Several of the mod authors in this thread who are against your rating system were around when this was happening and they can certainly vouch for it. You might think you can moderate it, but you can’t. To think you can is arrogance (or naivety).

Ratoslov
Feb 15, 2012

Now prepare yourselves! You're the guests of honor at the Greatest Kung Fu Cannibal BBQ Ever!

Jesus, why even bother having ratings for your dumb mods at all if you're gonna regard a 3 or 4 as trolling? Just put a 'Like' button there, kill the review box, and forget about it.

Philippe
Aug 9, 2013

(she/her)

The Nexus is like imgur. It's a place where you can upload our download files you like.

And nothing else.

GunnerJ
Aug 1, 2005

Do you think this is funny?

Ratoslov posted:

Jesus, why even bother having ratings for your dumb mods at all if you're gonna regard a 3 or 4 as trolling? Just put a 'Like' button there, kill the review box, and forget about it.

Well, that's more or less what they did with the "Endorse" button. If I understand the context of that post right, it's a response to someone calling for a return to a 5-star rating system.

eta: No, wait, on reconsideration I think it's actually a dire warning for the people making Mod Picker.

GunnerJ fucked around with this message at 16:24 on May 11, 2017

Ratoslov
Feb 15, 2012

Now prepare yourselves! You're the guests of honor at the Greatest Kung Fu Cannibal BBQ Ever!

GunnerJ posted:

Well, that's more or less what they did with the "Endorse" button. If I understand the context of that post right, it's a response to someone calling for a return to a 5-star rating system.

Huh. Well, that still doesn't solve the problem that your user-base is terminally thin-skinned, but apparently that's not a problem.

Agents are GO!
Dec 29, 2004

That post incenses me every time I read it.

dont be mean to me
May 2, 2007

I'm interplanetary, bitch
Let's go to Mars


GunnerJ posted:

Well, that's more or less what they did with the "Endorse" button. If I understand the context of that post right, it's a response to someone calling for a return to a 5-star rating system.

Yeah, I don't blame them for that because rating systems like that don't work so well (although ^ ^ ^ you're right, the boss definitely tried to defend it in the most rear end way possible), but without means to do bug reports or gently remind people that hey don't creep it's not actually going to encourage a healthy community and mod ecosystem. And the site culture is basically opposed to interoperability and prosocial (or at least not creepy) behavior.

So yeah,

Tasteful Dickpic posted:

The Nexus is like imgur. It's a place where you can upload our download files you like.

And nothing else.

GunnerJ
Aug 1, 2005

Do you think this is funny?
Yeah I'm not really against only having an Endorse button. I just find it hilarious that "They'll troll mod authors with well-reasoned and coherent opinions about why their mods only deserve 4 out of 5 stars!" was apparently the reason for implementing it.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Edit: too late

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Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

GunnerJ posted:

Well, that's more or less what they did with the "Endorse" button. If I understand the context of that post right, it's a response to someone calling for a return to a 5-star rating system.

Is that what they badger you with every time you log into the site? I only go there these days from links from this thread, but it seems like every time I do, I get "Hey you downloaded this more realistic weather mod for Skyrim in 2012, please endorse it before going to your content". Seems like if I didn't endorse it then (and it was half a decade, two children and a career change ago, gently caress no I don't remember it) then I'm not going to now.

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