I know most of the Bethesda RPGs have massive mod support, and there’s games like Minecraft that have more mods than anyone can imagine. I would consider those games pretty playable in their vanilla states. Would you say there are any games that were “saved” by modding? Or that are still kept alive by thriving modding communities? What are some of your favorite mods?
All of them. I personally find Oblivion totally unplayable unless its been heavily, heavily modded, other games in the TES aren’t as bad. I suspect that’s why those games still have active communities is because of modding.