The modding tools are probably the most interesting thing about the game to me.
Better still, the game will be supported through free DLC releases and a potentially robust modding community.
When full modding tools and Steam Workshop integration launch, the game will rival any click-and-loot game out there.
When it comes to modding consoles there are two names that generally stand above the rest: Mr. Benjamin J.
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Only those considered as great ever published official modding tools for their game.
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Backers will have access to the toolkit used to make the title, which is good news for the modding community.
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Bethesda remains one of the best examples of a video game company that understands the importance of facilitating the modding community.
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The fact that the game will also be open to modding should help increase the scale and longevity of the game as well.
This would be why only the trailer is being taken offline, while there is no word on the actual modding project being shut down.
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It's a modest start (and perhaps a little too easy), but its encouraging to see both Nintendo and the modding community sticking to their guns.
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There's even a real-time modding angle in New Super Mario Bros.
The new content on consoles will not be privy to all the modding goodness of the PC version, but it will be identical in every other way.
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The game editor will come with the game itself, and modding will be supported and encouraged, making the expansive nature of the game world even more compelling.
Unfortunately Arkane Studios and Bethesda decided not to allow modding, meaning that unless something changes, there will be no user-generated adventures through Dunwall (or beyond) which is a shame.
While Major League Gaming has attracted mainstream brands like Dr. Pepper, Stride and Bic, the hardcore PC audience that follows League of Legends and StarCraft II makes sense for a modding company.
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As well as the data, they are also building up a significant amount of karma from the modding and hacking community that their Sony phones will be tools they can adapt into whatever they want.
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Meanwhile, the sheer quantity of high-quality indie games available for PC, and the many modding communities that bulwark and extend the lives of those games, makes PC gaming the most diverse and interesting platform available.
"The Ben Heck Show" is a bi-weekly online television series aired in English that's dedicated to the science and art of system and hardware modding with a global audience of design engineers, students and electronic enthusiasts.
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Simple things like adding the ability to take screenshots or video, to modding tools or all the way up to getting seriously involved in E-sports are all ways that companies can make money by keeping fans involved.
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Custom ROM fans were briefly teased with the prospect of Verizon loosening its anti-modding stance when the HTC Droid DNA first arrived: in the pre-release days, the official HTCDev portal allowed unlocking the DNA's bootloader.
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For a long time, a modding team by the name of Team Gizka seemed to be making excellent progress on restoring and updating the missing content but while one leaked beta escaped, no official release ever appeared.
Of course, Sammy has nothing to gain from snubbing the modding community in this way, so it stands to reason that VZW pushed the Korean manufacturer to supply them with a locked bootloader -- despite the fact that all other variants have been left open.
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Now the modding community just needs to find a way to replace the original in-game music (beautifully composed by Jeremy Soule) with this, and then somebody needs to come up with a musical instrument weapons pack so that I can fight monsters with my violin bow.
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In any case, there have been some pretty neat steampunk mods for all sorts of things, from Star Wars steampunk (which, please, can we get a video game version of this?) to Xbox 360 controller, the fantasy of steampunk is a favorite within the modding community.
It's difficult to say whether this move will be enough to gain the affection of Tim Cook's company and sway the vote -- Apple is still hard at work modding its own design, after all -- but it's nice to see both factions playing nice with each other prior to the next ETSI meeting on May 31st.
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