>Watch New Vegas mod showcase
>Oh boy this one is really cool, I'm gonna do-
>Download link is an invitation to some groomercord server
Over the years I grew to fucking LOATHE Vegas mods and the modding scene in general, it's one of the biggest gathering of narcisstic, talentless, thin-skinned faggots on the internet.
My biggest grievances are:
-"balance"/"realism" mods whose main purpose is to inconvenience the player. Every Fallout's economy was broken in multiple ways, and making every weapon cost absurd amount of caps is not a fix.
-Stupid "gimmick" mods that are pushed by everyone because they add oh so much detail and realism. Oh, a mod adding washing yourself as a mechanic? I'm sure keeping track of it won't get annoying after 15 minutes!
-"vanilla+" mods who are not vanilla at all. If a layman can tell something is a mod by glancing at it then it isn't vanilla+.
-Locations that are twice as big and/or detailed as they should be. If I walk into a modded crackshack interior then I don't want to see it more decorated that a vanilla luxury suite.
-Terrible quest-mod writing. The bar is so low that after 11 years Someguy Series is
still considered unbeatable peak of mod storytelling.
-Follower mods that are just author's thinly-disguised masturbation object (thats like 95% of them smh)
-With bigger mods, there being 20 artists/idea guys for every person who actually knows how to code.
-Any serious contact regarding problems with the mod HAS to be trough some Discord server, and you better pray the devs aren't busy doing NSFW roleplay or discussing how Dr.Dala is a trans icon.
-overengineered reload animations with absurd "bouncing" which last 3 times longer than they should. I'm talking about Hitman47101 in particural, you can tell this guy never held a gun in his life.
-retards who insist that the uncanny 8k texture graphics they assembled on 2010 game's engine are somehow better than vanilla ones. This is probably the biggest offender, nobody will gaslight me that their ugly barbie doll with makeup and custom vagina model running around Gamebryo world is and improvement over vanilla. "Uncanny" is the keyword here, say what you want about Vegas' graphics but you can't deny that it had consistent art direction and style. Meanwhile idiots like the one below ruin it by adding multiple clashing animations, textures and models which ruin the vibe of the game, and then have the AUDACITY to tell me that NV is an ugly game and this "vanilla friendly" crap is better:
"No bro you don't understand you NEED this 8000 polygon feet model mod, game is unplayable without it!"
-Xilandro, just Xilandro, a gigantic faggot who promised to make standalone Frontier cars mod and then had a meltdown when after months of waiting someone did the job for him.
-Nexus Mods, with its pissy jannies and jewish business model. "Oh you want download speed to be faster than 1.5 fucking MB? Pay up!" (I could swear it was 2MB before lmao)
-General holier-than-thou attitude almost every modder has. "No, stalker child, if you add a single mod to my perfect little modlist I will NOT help you with the issue you have, I'm so busy
grooming children that I absolutely can't be bothered. Enjoy broken game."
Anyway, unpopular opinion but New Vegas is not and "ugly" game by any means, I think it is less ugly than Fallout 4 with its shitty blur and rubber-skinned NPCs. Anything more than lightweight lighting or texture mods is like putting lipstick on a pig - its a 2010 Bethesda game bro, you aren't turning it into second Crysis no matter what, just embrace the jank and shut up.
