When Is Too Much, Too Much?

There has been a lot of controversy surrounding the usage of MODs in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. 

The act of changing a game to make it another, or add features previously unavailable, old, or previously nonexistant. It is commonly done in PC games. If you, like many other players, wish to have a sexy elf companion or simply wish to improve the texture pack of the game to make it seem more realistic, then you probably want to mod your game.

Simple mods can be found on steam or other sources like nexusmods?. A

mod can be as simple as a texture update or as complex as DLC (Downloadable Content) with side story and new locations. Or they can be simple sound file changes to make you laugh, like in the Thomas the Train Dragon MOD.

Modding a game can be taken as a form of Textual Poaching, a term coined by Henry Jenkins. Some mods with story content are similar to fanfiction, which uses the characters and environment of another source but writes its own separate story. Rather than being text on a page the physical model and sound creates the story.

Some players say it improves the quality of the game and adds more interesting elements. While others say it takes away from the experience of the game by including elements that do not fit with the given environment.

For example; your companion may be pretty now that you’ve downloaded that mod, but no one else in that world will have armor like hers, its simply unrealistic and unfitting for the time period and setting.

Overall modding is just another way to get players more deeply involved in the game and can make it more fun. It is up to you to decide when too much modding is too much. But as long as you keep enjoy the game it doesn’t really matter how many mods you add.