Eight years on from release, Fallout 4 modding “just keeps growing” – and it shows no sign of slowing down
No matter how much you love a game, there always comes a point at which you feel like you’ve done and seen pretty much everything it has to offer. It can take hundreds of hours to get there and usually all that’s required to reinvigorate your desire to keep plugging away is a bit of time apart, usually followed by an emotional reunion that sees you remember exactly why you fell in love in the first place.
I’d long wondered how much this kind of fatigue creeps into the minds of modders, many of whom – especially in the case of Bethesda RPGs – continue to regularly work on and put out additions to their beloved titles years after many players have moved on or begun to only dip back in on rare occasions. Is there a point with a game like Fallout 4, which celebrated the eighth anniversary of its release on November 10, when it begins to feel like the creative well is beginning to dry up a bit.
According to modder Thomas Mitchell, aka Otellino, the creator of massive Enclave-themed quest mod ‘America Rising 2 – Legacy of the Enclave’, even though it’s already done so much with Fallout 4, the game’s modding community is still firing on all cylinders.