Bethesda Mods Everyone Uses but You Hate

[Vergil]

There are some mods you see treated as integral to any load order but are ******* abysmal.
This is a thread for ranting about those.

[Oyster Sauce]

All I want is more vanilla-style hairs and improved vanilla-style faces but it's always just anime Barbie ****. Especially egregious are the mods that only affect one gender.
I've never seen a ReShade that looks better than vanilla. It's only good for taking screenshots.
Most quest mods are pretty bad, as in, nearly all of them. They can really throw off a playthrough when you walk into an area full of freaks with ****** up faces and Randy Pitchford bathroom mic voices.
I find that Immersive Armor-type mods just fill the game with tons of weird looking **** that's not implemented well.

[Stanko]

Can't stand any of those animation mods, which add useless faggy anims of your Courier picking up some **** and rotating it in his hands for a thousand seconds. Same for animations of eating/drinking/stimpaking yourself/etc.

Also: sprinting mod. I hate being slow and all, but I'm just stop hopping to go from point A to point B faster, instead of installing that ****. Sprint mod simply breaks the balance of the game (it's not that balanced anyway), since it wasn't designed with sprinting in mind. And then all the ******* who are using that mod still complain about the mist or speakers in Dead Money. Or they complain about not being able to outrun a deathclaw near the Quarry.

[GayFatRetard]

Quest mods for Fallout 4. 99.9% of the time they are garbage. At their best they are creepy and full of weird self inserts. At their worst they are just ******* ******** fan fiction. The problem i have with these mods is they either ARE designed as deliberate fan fiction or trying to demonstrate how they/the mod author "Write better than Bethesda." Look no further than those ****** Thuggyverse mods or Bleachers.

Bonus ****** points when quest mods call themselves "DLC size." Absolutely worth avoiding when they claim they're that. And when they hail themselves as good, or disclaim some **** like "If you don't like x, don't download" - it's just free advertising to block the mod completely.

I also hate people who turn their game into a ****** military sim, void of fallout identity or personality. It's just a Fallout world sandbox with Tardkov gameplay and aesthetics. ******* gay.

edit: im talking about Fallout right now, nothing else since i don't give a **** about modding anything else currently. Forgot to drop the name of the game in here.

[Finarfin]

Follower mods for Skyrim. Every single one of them is reddit coded anti racism ********.

[Finarfin]

Quest mods for Fallout 4. 99.9% of the time they are garbage. At their best they are creepy and full of weird self inserts. At their worst they are just ******* ******** fan fiction. The problem i have with these mods is they either ARE designed as deliberate fan fiction or trying to demonstrate how they/the mod author "Write better than Bethesda." Look no further than those ****** Thuggyverse mods or Bleachers.

Bonus ****** points when quest mods call themselves "DLC size." Absolutely worth avoiding when they claim they're that. And when they hail themselves as good, or disclaim some **** like "If you don't like x, don't download" - it's just free advertising to block the mod completely.

I also hate people who turn their game into a ****** military sim, void of fallout identity or personality. It's just a Fallout world sandbox with Tardkov gameplay and aesthetics. ******* gay.

edit: im talking about Fallout right now, nothing else since i don't give a **** about modding anything else currently. Forgot to drop the name of the game in here.

Anything that makes Bethesda fallouts less fallout is good. I ******* hate retrofuturism, fallout never was supposed to be stuck in some alt 50s ****

[ThulsaDoomer]

There's a lot to list but that's boring so I'll proceed with my personal beef in the Bethesda modding sphere, specifically for the Elder Scrolls. I haven't done a rant in a long while.

Follower mods, although this genre also blurs into quest modding often. We can all agree Bethesda has always sucked *** at character writing, they tend to repeat archetypes often and not even good ones, personality is kept to a minimum as I Imagine Emil reserves all of it to make Vampire cunnies in the Dark Brotherhood. Now, my problem with follower mods is that most of them are honestly terrible in all aspects.

If we look to Skyrim, they talk all the god **** time, the yapping is incessant but praised as one of the best features. There's a difference between commentary and filling space, the latter I'd attribute to most authors. We cannot forget the marvel millenial humour quips and total incapacity to be serious. There's no connection, these characters don't feel they belong to the world or have personal stakes or motivations within it, only arbitrary set ups to hook the player in and pretend they care about the setting. You would believe a civil war and growing societal collapse would be fairly relevant topics for followers in Skyrim, but no, you'd be hard pressed to ever engage in this type of complex discussion. As reflective of our general media sphere, there is no depth, no sincerity, no higher issues at play. It is all emotional rollercoaster rides with two dimensional npcs.

You may ask, what about Morrowind? (Oblivion only really has Vilja who never shuts the **** up and has the IQ of a fish, so it's already a lost cause.) It's equally grim prospects. The most well known one, Julan, was written by a liberal woman who tries to write a coming of age story despite having zero understanding of masculinity, so all she ended up creating was a feminised ****** who actually betrays most of his own peoples traditions and beliefs for no reason beyond "it's wrong." I will give the mod credit that it does attempt some commentary on the value of family and tribe, but it quickly falls apart when Julan is the type of guy who would leave his tribe to further ruin and let his mother get raped by a Hlaalu.

Many followers are just trauma dumps on the emotional level only, no lessons to be learned, no discoveries, no interesting perspectives that a person who has suffered could provide. As I mentioned, there is no sincerity in writing projects anymore. People write stories just to fuel their nihilistic desires, not to legitimately pose questions about these states of mind and where it leads or anything remotely passing as intellectual discourse. The entire allure of struggle or suffering are the lessons and truths learned from these experiences, not the infinite circle jerking of feelings it derives.

This **** drives me insane. If modding is so great as an alternative medium, why is its storytelling dogshit? (Rhetorical question, it's all the ********, feminised men, and homosexuals who dominate the platforms.)

[Manny V]

I know the Skyrim default inventory is console-ified and arguably ****, but i'm not really a fan of SkyUI

[GayFatRetard]

Quest mods for Fallout 4. 99.9% of the time they are garbage. At their best they are creepy and full of weird self inserts. At their worst they are just ******* ******** fan fiction. The problem i have with these mods is they either ARE designed as deliberate fan fiction or trying to demonstrate how they/the mod author "Write better than Bethesda." Look no further than those ****** Thuggyverse mods or Bleachers.

Bonus ****** points when quest mods call themselves "DLC size." Absolutely worth avoiding when they claim they're that. And when they hail themselves as good, or disclaim some **** like "If you don't like x, don't download" - it's just free advertising to block the mod completely.

I also hate people who turn their game into a ****** military sim, void of fallout identity or personality. It's just a Fallout world sandbox with Tardkov gameplay and aesthetics. ******* gay.

edit: im talking about Fallout right now, nothing else since i don't give a **** about modding anything else currently. Forgot to drop the name of the game in here.

Anything that makes Bethesda fallouts less fallout is good. I ******* hate retrofuturism, fallout never was supposed to be stuck in some alt 50s ****

Which is a valid take, i ain't gonna tell anybody what they do privately with their game is right or wrong. But even if you take into consideration OG fallouts, Tarkov and Call of Duty is extremely far from Fallouts identity. But if thats what ya like, so be it. Fallout 4 sucks ****, so i will agree anything makes it better(even if i hate the aesthetic someone chooses)

[GayFatRetard]

I know the Skyrim default inventory is console-ified and arguably ****, but i'm not really a fan of SkyUI

That **** infested everything. I hate skyui.

[Tweed]

Your average Skyrim follower mod:

Vilja
Nadina
Sofia

[traxtan]

I'm just gonna go with the obvious and say the ****** unofficial patch that destroys the game.

[Tweed]

CBBE, UNP, BBQ, and any other mod that adds jiggly boobs.
Nearly every rebalance mod ever made because they either make the game crash constantly or manage to make Skyrim even less fun than it already is.
Everything by Apollodown(syndrome)
Everything by Giskard.

[Magick]

Your average Skyrim follower mod:

Vilja
Nadina
Sofia

And the...non-average ones:
EXTREMELY NSFW: https://www.loverslab.com/topic/225751- ... r-project/
@Red7 Publish when?

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[rusty_shackleford]

Your average Skyrim follower mod:

Vilja
Nadina
Sofia

[Finarfin]

CBBE, UNP, BBQ, and any other mod that adds jiggly boobs.
Nearly every rebalance mod ever made because they either make the game crash constantly or manage to make Skyrim even less fun than it already is.
Everything by Apollodown(syndrome)
Everything by Giskard.

Btw CBBE, UNP do not add jiggly boobs. They just change the bodyshapes

[logincrash]

Your average Skyrim follower mod:

Vilja
Nadina
Sofia

>sneak 100
This made me cringe out of my skin because I remember saying **** like that IRL when talking to my friends.

[GayFatRetard]

Your average Skyrim follower mod:

Vilja
Nadina
Sofia

whats your opinion on Craftian's followers? I honestly do like them. Writing is decent, a bit stand out-ish at times. Voice acting is superb. And they aren't just some romance digital fleshlight for the player. Leagues above your average companion/follower mod.

Also, **** Daegon and her mod author.

[Tweed]

whats your opinion on Craftian's followers? I honestly do like them. Writing is decent, a bit stand out-ish at times. Voice acting is superb. And they aren't just some romance digital fleshlight for the player. Leagues above your average companion/follower mod.

Also, **** Daegon and her mod author.

I've never used any of them. I stay well away from follower mods because of the aforementioned reasons: terrible VAs, reddit writing, and gay self-inserts to name a few.

[Vaako]

This **** drives me insane. If modding is so great as an alternative medium, why is its storytelling dogshit? (Rhetorical question, it's all the ********, feminised men, and homosexuals who dominate the platforms.)

They probably have more free time and live from welfare or tax sponsored subsidizes. Most artists tend to lean left for that reason.

[GayFatRetard]

whats your opinion on Craftian's followers? I honestly do like them. Writing is decent, a bit stand out-ish at times. Voice acting is superb. And they aren't just some romance digital fleshlight for the player. Leagues above your average companion/follower mod.

Also, **** Daegon and her mod author.

I've never used any of them. I stay well away from follower mods because of the aforementioned reasons: terrible VAs, reddit writing, and gay self-inserts to name a few.

They are worth checking out, in my opinion. You may like them. Orpheus especially.

[Finarfin]

@Val the Moofia Boss You only disagree because Val Sorano has the same name as you do.

[Havitner]

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[Brother Michael]

Anything that makes the game more Korean. That became a rule of thumb for me to judge quality.

I think the souls combat fad is finally dying. I haven’t tried the latest iteration, but the problem was never the lack of attack speed formulas or input responsiveness. Skyrim just doesn’t have the proper systems to support such a combat system.

Timed block/parry mods get an honorable mention from me. Blade and Blunt has a very reasonable implementation, but I’ve seen too many gameplay videos where the only way the uploaded could maintain difficulty was by having every enemy one shot you.

[Tweed]

Any and all beauty mods (I don't mean boob mods). They all manage to make women look even more horrific.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

@Val the Moofia Boss You only disagree because Val Sorano has the same name as you do.

I thought that Hoth and Inigo were pretty neat. I think ThulsaDoomer might have labelled Inigo as being "reddit" once, but I do not recall ever seeing that myself. And Hoth certainly was not that.

I was pretty impressed by the Inigo mod. I was sneaking in a dungeon and then Inigo began talking in a hushed tone, and when I turned around to talk to him all of his lines were in whispers. And then another time I went to a tavern and he started doing stuff on his own in there. He felt far and away more "in" the world than most other companions/party members I've seen in games, except maybe the FF15 characters.

[DemoGraph]

I wanted to rant about some Kenshi mods, but then noticed "Bethesda".
Still, UWE, Reactive world and character model expanders are pretty cancerous.

[GayFatRetard]

you don't like her being a damaged, alcoholic, anime girl? Shame shame

[Finarfin]

tbh, she is already damaged goods so might as well

[DrSneed]

The second life tier hair mods that every npc replacer uses