This will be my blog for mod reviews etc. Whenever I find something interesting in the world of gaming mods, I’ll share it here.
A quick guide to how my reviews are set up:
On the top of the page you’ll find the author(s) and a link to the mod, then 3 ratings with a five-star system: Lore-friendliness, installation level and overall rating.
Lore friendliness, of course, rates how good the mod fits into the lore of the established Fallout universe. I refrain from just saying “lore-friendly: yes or no”, because in my opinion, there’s a big gray area between those two possibilities. Fitting that into a five-star rating seemed a good solution to me. This also affects the overall rating – low lore friendliness can downgrade the overall rating. But, as those reviews are all my personal opinion, that’s not a must – I can decide to not downgrade the overall rating, if the lore-friendliness is not important to me with a specific mod.
Installation level is also a five-star level, but doesn’t affect the overall rating at all, because it just indicates how easy it is to install via a good mod manager (I’m using Vortex). Of course, the more dependencies a mod has, the lower will be this rating: 5 stars is simply easy to install, just download, install via mod-manager, and you’re good to go, 1 star means it’s hard with a lot of dependencies, possible conflicts with other mods, etc. If a mod gets a lower rating than 5 here, I will add an explanation what to take into consideration when installing it, but there will be always the need to read the mod description pages – they always contain all relevant information.
And the overall rating? Well, that’s 100 percent subjective. It’s simply what I think of the mod in question. 1 star = bad mod, not recommended, 5 stars = exceptionally good mod, highly recommended.
After those ratings, if it is a quest mod that tells a story, there will be a short synopsis. And after that – well, the review itself of course.