How do you feel about Nexus Mods?

[Bishop]

IMO they used to be a great site a decade plus ago but with each passing year they've gotten more and more progressive. Naturally this has led to mass censorship and many mod authors and users have been unfairly banned from the site. Nowadays the only mods that are allowed on the platform are ones that promote "the message" which runs counter to the nature of modding.

[Shaggy]

Good.

[wesnef]

I think they're just great, well, except for the latest UI update.

But that's because I think that the ideology-pushers who keep whining about "progressive" and "woke" are a massive plague upon the gaming industry (and everywhere else). Their "message" that they attempt to shove down everyone's throats is just a bunch of concealed racism, misogyny, and homophobia; dressed up in coded language in an attempt to disguise their bigotry.

(also interesting how the people crying "censorship" and "cancel culture" so loudly, are perfectly happy to deploy it against anything that they don't like. "OMG <game dev> has a pronoun option in their character creator! The game should fail, all the programmers should be fired, and the company should go bankrupt!" Yeah, kids - that's "pushing an ideology" and "cancel culture", just like you accuse everyone else of doing to *you*.)

[Mad Scientist]

I got most of my stuff from moddb or other places, so it doesn't really matter to me.

[Amaterasu]

Ah yes, the same old rhetoric. I've got a heavily modded Skyrim, complete with both male and female nude mods(Partially because when I strip someone of all their gear, I want to strip them of all their gear. Not just leave them with underpants. Another reason for the male nudity mods was the idea of a nude bandit screaming about how they want my head was too funny to pass up.), beautification mods for all models, even turning the ugly ass giants around the world into large busty giantesses. And where'd all this come from? Nexus Mods.

Oh and I have several mods for Oblivion that have beautification purposes towards the NPCs. Those come from Nexus Mods.

There's also nude mods for Fallout 3 and New Vegas, but I run tale of Two Wastelands which has a considerably less lengthy list for mods that are compatible.

What a super woke site, right? I mean I guess all of those nude mods are banned from the site because it's so "degrading", right? Oh wait, like 55% of all Skyrim mods are about nudity to some extent. Hell, you can get mods to do things with women(or men, whatever keeps your boat afloat, I'm not going to care) that if I described what they were, I'd be banned faster than you can blink.

Edit: Free points, but you gave em to the wrong account.

[Amaterasu]

Originally posted by wesnef:

I think they're just great, well, except for the latest UI update.

But that's because I think that the ideology-pushers who keep whining about "progressive" and "woke" are a massive plague upon the gaming industry (and everywhere else). Their "message" that they attempt to shove down everyone's throats is just a bunch of concealed racism, misogyny, and homophobia; dressed up in coded language in an attempt to disguise their bigotry.

(also interesting how the people crying "censorship" and "cancel culture" so loudly, are perfectly happy to deploy it against anything that they don't like. "OMG <game dev> has a pronoun option in their character creator! The game should fail, all the programmers should be fired, and the company should go bankrupt!" Yeah, kids - that's "pushing an ideology" and "cancel culture", just like you accuse everyone else of doing to *you*.)

It's like I said, those who decry censorship the loudest are in favor of it. They just want to be the ones doing the censoring.

[Diogenes49]

If you download anything from there check it with malwarebytes

[Volfogg]

I have strong aversion to modding even if it's necessary for game's stability. I never could understand the appeal of that.

[Lamiosa]

I still use Nexus and get most of my mods from there. The mods which get removed on Nexus are also not the ones I am interested into. They do not remove neutral mods and do even allow "adult" mods.

[FlyingShazbot]

I like using Nexus but the new UI update is hot garbage.

[wesnef]

Originally posted by Volfogg:

I have strong aversion to modding even if it's necessary for game's stability. I never could understand the appeal of that.

There's all sorts of different motivations. From fixing errors that haven't been patched, to tweaking UI & controls to work better for you, to adding content, "improving" visuals (which is subjective, of course. One person's improvement is another's travesty), to making a game harder or easier, etc.

[Lamiosa]

Originally posted by wesnef:

Originally posted by Volfogg:

I have strong aversion to modding even if it's necessary for game's stability. I never could understand the appeal of that.

There's all sorts of different motivations. From fixing errors that haven't been patched, to tweaking UI & controls to work better for you, to adding content, "improving" visuals (which is subjective, of course. One person's improvement is another's travesty), to making a game harder or easier, etc.

I would also say, that some mods turn games into completely other. There are whole modlists for Skyrim, which load 1000+ mods into Skyrim. As the developement of mods for popular games continue over years or even decades, they keep the game alive and even sometimes change them that much, that they look like modern games (With new ENB features which makes Skyrim really look like next gen).

[Volfogg]

Originally posted by Lamiosa:

Originally posted by wesnef:

There's all sorts of different motivations. From fixing errors that haven't been patched, to tweaking UI & controls to work better for you, to adding content, "improving" visuals (which is subjective, of course. One person's improvement is another's travesty), to making a game harder or easier, etc.

I would also say, that some mods turn games into completely other. There are whole modlists for Skyrim, which load 1000+ mods into Skyrim. As the developement of mods for popular games continue over years or even decades, they keep the game alive and even sometimes change them that much, that they look like modern games (With new ENB features which makes Skyrim really look like next gen).

Vanity, I'd say. I'd rather not risk it backfiring on me due to mistakes on either mod-maker's or my part for such ultimately meaningless changes. I prefer default experience.

[Lamiosa]

Originally posted by Volfogg:

Originally posted by Lamiosa:

I would also say, that some mods turn games into completely other. There are whole modlists for Skyrim, which load 1000+ mods into Skyrim. As the developement of mods for popular games continue over years or even decades, they keep the game alive and even sometimes change them that much, that they look like modern games (With new ENB features which makes Skyrim really look like next gen).

Vanity, I'd say. I'd rather not risk it backfiring on me due to mistakes on either mod-maker's or my part for such ultimately meaningless changes. I prefer default experience.

As I said, it is not just vanity. It is a list of +1000 mods you load Skyrim with. So you load over 1000 mods into the game, including graphics, gameplay, combat stuff, quests, NPCs etc. Some turn it into another game.
You can search for example for "Nolvus", then you see how much it differs from original Skyrim.

[Volfogg]

Originally posted by Lamiosa:

Originally posted by Volfogg:

Vanity, I'd say. I'd rather not risk it backfiring on me due to mistakes on either mod-maker's or my part for such ultimately meaningless changes. I prefer default experience.

As I said, it is not just vanity. It is a list of +1000 mods you load Skyrim with. So you load over 1000 mods into the game, including graphics, gameplay, combat stuff, quests, NPCs etc. Some turn it into another game.
You can search for example for "Nolvus", then you see how much it differs from original Skyrim.

Not impressed. To me it just sounds like a waste of my already small disk space. Waste of time spent downloading all that bloat while taxing already weak connection as well. I don't care about graphics, I don't like padding, I prefer default experience.

[wesnef]

Originally posted by Volfogg:

Vanity, I'd say. I'd rather not risk it backfiring on me due to mistakes on either mod-maker's or my part for such ultimately meaningless changes. I prefer default experience.

And that's your right. It's all about personal preference.

(I generally try to play a game through once 'vanilla', to experience it the base way. I add mods for later playthroughs to tweak the experience & add variety.)