GOG Mod Aims to Make It as Easy as a Single Click to Install Mods for Classic Games

[Peter_Brosdahl]

GOG is making it easy as can be for you to add mods to your favorite classic games with a new feature that is integrated into its storefront.

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[LazyGamer]

I'm interested in seeing where this is supposed to be going / actually goes relative to Nexus Mods

 

[Ditchinit]

I acquired a few and it looks like they're trying something different. I don't use their Galaxy launcher except in the most dire of circumstances. The offline installers have all the mods integrated (i.e., they're not individual DLC) so you have to install everything before you can uninstall the particular mods you may not want. But they're free and convenient in that the included mods are vetted to work as a package.

The challenge with releasing titles prepackaged with mods is that different users will have different visions or desires for enhanced gameplay. For example, some may want realism or survival type mods (e.g., food consumption, body temperature control, mandatory rest) whereas others may want a strategically located treasure trove available to ease the grind.

 

[MadMummy76]

So basically like steam workshop?

 

[Ditchinit]

So basically like steam workshop?

Not really, no. It's been a while since I used Steam (for reasons of my own), but IIRC, there you subscribe to mods and can add them piecemeal to your games as you see fit ... unsubscribe the mod if you no longer want to use it. Someone more knowledgeable than I can verify whether that is still correct.

The GoG versions come as a single package pre-configured along with the game install files ... so "one click" or so the advertisement goes. Or ... at least that is how the few I downloaded were available. As far as I know, you need to have purchased the original game before you can download the one-click mod packages. How (or if) that works cross platform (e.g. game purchased from a different store front)? I've not been concerned enough to check into how.

 

[MadMummy76]

The GoG versions come as a single package pre-configured along with the game install files ... so "one click" or so the advertisement goes. Or ... at least that is how the few I downloaded were available. As far as I know, you need to have purchased the original game before you can download the one-click mod packages. How (or if) that works cross platform (e.g. game purchased from a different store front)? I've not been concerned enough to check into how.

So I checked it out,, these are individual mods, not random mod packages. They are curated and only a few are available now.

 

[Ditchinit]

Yes, and they've been testing the waters in offering mod packages for a while ... with some successes and others, well, not as much. Take for example the GoG cut of Daggerfall Unity. While initially it might have been a good idea (on paper), the reality is that the mods were still being updated, and the GoG cut fell behind and became outdated. GoG has had better success with offering whole conversion mods that are complete, and when the base game is no longer being updated. I don't know if GoG will maintain the modded games like they do with regular games - to keep them operable on modern systems. A few of the whole conversion mods have had numerous updates since initially offered, but I don't know if that is GoG's doing or if it is the mod developers stepping in like regular game developers to keep their listed titles current on GoG.