These mods (from ‘modernists’) modded their scooters. In these cases, the mods were so popular and impressive they ‘inspired the inspirers’ to become whole new games in their own right. Valve’s Counter Strike and Team Fortress were both originally ‘total conversions’ of Half Life, while Defence of The Ancients began as a Warcraft III mod before mutating into an entire new genre, then returning to Blizzard to become Hearthstone.
Mods can change the base game so much that the resulting collision between paid-for programme and bedroom coding becomes a whole new thing all of its own. If you play Minecraft, when was the last time you played it completely un-modded, without even a simple texture pack? (Yes, yes, I know some of you do, but you’re weird). Sometimes though, they go a step further and radically change the way a game looks, plays and feels, like the Super Skyrim Brothers mod for Skyrim, which exchanges the grim barbarians and frozen tundra of the fifth Elder Scrolls for bouncy, colourful Mario cuteness. Mod(ification)s take many forms, from ‘unofficial’ patches that fix problems developers and publishers can’t or won’t deal with, to adding in totally new content or modifying existing content. Saying that modding is one of the great advantages of PC gaming is an understatement.
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