{"id":731299,"date":"2025-11-21T19:02:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/e8f6oFm8euSfLq9nE4F3cj"},"modified":"2025-11-21T19:02:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:02:53","slug":"weird-niche-mods-make-pc-gaming-great-and-these-ones-prove-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/weird-niche-mods-make-pc-gaming-great-and-these-ones-prove-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Weird, niche mods make PC gaming great, and these ones prove it"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Mods are the lifeblood of PC gaming. Consoles can keep their pomp and highfalutin talk of &#8220;convenience,&#8221; whatever that is, <em>I&apos;m<\/em> busy turning The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion into a six-way gang war, vaporising myself in the prologue of Fallout 4, and turning Skyrim into a boundless playground of fetishes so hyper-specific they&apos;d give the Borgias pause. I mean, I&apos;m not doing that last one, actually. Don&apos;t put on the website that I&apos;m doing that last one.<\/p>\n<p>Thing is, though, that some mods are so specific, so mind-bogglingly niche, that you can&apos;t really justify building an entire piece just to cover them. It means you end up with a long list of weird and wonderful mods that you&apos;d <em>like<\/em> to write about but can&apos;t.<\/p>\n<p>Well fie to that, I say. On the walls of the PC Gamer offices hangs a bronze commandment: When life gives you a backlog of several relatively small articles you want to write, turn them into a slightly longer roundup. It&apos;s very heavy and may be damaging the building. Regardless, I&apos;m taking the advice to heart. So here&apos;s a few of my favourite weird, wonderful, hyper-specific mods that I never got a chance to write about.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"dark-souls-2-australia-edition-6\">Dark Souls 2: Australia edition<\/h2>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"xsRwZhJ6U8sz5EYjXgEMC8\" name=\"1100-1667419655-399943781.jpg\" alt=\"Dark Souls 2 with the camera inverted so that the entire game is upside down.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/weird-niche-mods-make-pc-gaming-great-and-these-ones-prove-it.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: HalfGrownHollow \/ FromSoft)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As Soulsborne games go, I think I had the easiest time of all with Dark Souls 2. It&apos;s got some tough fights (and don&apos;t get me wrong, I&apos;m a stalwart DS2 defender), but it&apos;s the game I had least trouble breezing through with my weird, cloth-y, hex-throwing guy.<\/p>\n<p>Well, time to amend that. And where others may trifle with enemy stats and AI, modder <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusmods.com\/darksouls2\/mods\/1100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Half Grown Hollow<\/a> cut to the quick by simply turning Drangleic upside down. Everything is harder in Australia, so problem solved. Dark Souls 2 is now more challenging than its successor and predecessor games and all we&apos;ve done is turned the camera on its head. Good luck figuring that one out, bucko.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"kim-jong-un-guitar-hero-6\">Kim Jong-un: Guitar Hero<\/h2>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:2560px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"V3kjd9rUhKjSQTkRGtgsZm\" name=\"842-1673588427-772265545.jpg\" alt=\"Kim Jong-un sings into a mic in a modded version of Guitar Hero World Tour.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/weird-niche-mods-make-pc-gaming-great-and-these-ones-prove-it-1.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: WorseTYou \/ Activision)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meet WorseTYou, a modder with bright eyes, a full heart, and one overriding mission: To let you play Guitar Hero World Tour as everyone who ever happened. At least, I assume that&apos;s their mission, owing to the fact their Nexus user files page includes 119 mods at time of writing that let you play as anyone from &#8220;<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusmods.com\/guitarheroworldtour\/mods\/1666\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Someone&apos;s Dad<\/a>,&#8221; to <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusmods.com\/guitarheroworldtour\/mods\/1464\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barney Calhoun<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But enough about that. The real meat here is the dizzying number of current and historical world leaders the modder has crammed into the game. Want to play as <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusmods.com\/guitarheroworldtour\/mods\/855\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abe Lincoln<\/a>? <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusmods.com\/guitarheroworldtour\/mods\/867\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Teddy Roosevelt<\/a>? Um, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusmods.com\/guitarheroworldtour\/mods\/849\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joseph Stalin<\/a>? Everyone knows <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusmods.com\/guitarheroworldtour\/mods\/842\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kim Jong-un<\/a> has a song in his heart, now he can finally let it out.<\/p>\n<p>Is it in good taste? No. But is it necessary? Also no. Yet I&apos;m glad I live in the same world anyway. Let every mad dream find fulfilment. Let every delegate to the 13th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party learn to shred.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"shaved-and-blemish-free-corpses-6\">Shaved and blemish-free corpses<\/h2>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:3840px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"YtbQjNC7QcmwDx2SuPuhwJ\" name=\"86115-1682927412-1448321020.jpg\" alt=\"A totally hair-free draugr in Skyrim.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/weird-niche-mods-make-pc-gaming-great-and-these-ones-prove-it-2.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"3840\" height=\"2160\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: 1Nye \/ Bethesda)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just be happy that this extremely niche mod exists for your extremely niche problem,&#8221; reads 1Nye&apos;s description of the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusmods.com\/skyrimspecialedition\/mods\/86115\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">No Draugr Hair (or Beards) mod for Skyrim<\/a>, a mod which removes Draugr hair (and beards) from Skyrim.<\/p>\n<p>What problem would that be? Draugr hair, of course. The scourge of our times. The word for a fear of corpses is necrophobia. For fear of hair? Trichophobia. Is this Skyrim&apos;s first and only mod aimed at players who suffer from trichonecrophobia Sure, man, that works. Failing that, 1Nye offers the explanation that you <em>could<\/em> consider it an immersion mod, if you&apos;re into that: &#8220;can also be considered immersive if you think hair would still be intact on 500 year-old Nords,&#8221; says the creator.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of the nine comments the mod has earned in its lifespan, just one is from someone saying they thought they were the only person who was &#8220;VERY BOTHERED&#8221; by whatever this problem is. Imagine what an amazing day it was for that person when this popped up in their feed. There&apos;s feeling seen and then there&apos;s whatever that is.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"nintendo-don-apos-t-read-this-everyone-else-x2026-hello-6\">Nintendo don&apos;t read this. Everyone else\u2026 hello<\/h2>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"HABTdNxXXQdXMYPAPBSWGN\" name=\"821-1682266396-1842284278.jpg\" alt=\"Yoshi presents an armoury of wares in a mod for Resident Evil 4.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/weird-niche-mods-make-pc-gaming-great-and-these-ones-prove-it-3.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: SupremeLeader777 \/ Capcom)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Okay, I think we&apos;re far enough into the article now that the Nintendo legal team won&apos;t read this far. SupremeLeader777 spent 2023 turning almost every character in Resident Evil 4 into almost every character from Mario. There&apos;s <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusmods.com\/residentevil42023\/mods\/712\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Krauser Bowser<\/a>, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusmods.com\/residentevil42023\/mods\/536\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luigi Sera<\/a>, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusmods.com\/residentevil42023\/mods\/821\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yoshi the Merchant<\/a> (pun name in development), and a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusmods.com\/residentevil42023\/mods\/786\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new title screen<\/a> 450% more effectively haunting than the original.<\/p>\n<p>I think what I love most about this is I cannot fathom a single reason anyone would ever seek it out, let alone create it, and yet here it is, stubbornly existing\u2014even expanding\u2014because someone, somewhere, had a weird urge and the means to fulfil it. This is what modding&apos;s about, baby. It&apos;s about infesting Mario with parasites.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/weird-niche-mods-make-pc-gaming-great-and-these-ones-prove-it\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mods are the lifeblood of PC gaming. Consoles can keep their pomp and highfalutin talk of &#8220;convenience,&#8221; whatever that is, I&apos;m busy turning The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion into a six-way gang war, vaporising myself in the prologue of Fallout 4, and turning Skyrim into a boundless playground of fetishes so hyper-specific they&apos;d give the Borgias pause. I mean, I&apos;m not doing that last one, actually. Don&apos;t put on the website that I&apos;m doing that last one. Thing is, though, that some mods are so specific, so mind-bogglingly niche, that you can&apos;t really justify building an entire piece just to cover them. It means you end up with a long list of weird and wonderful mods that you&apos;d like to write about but can&apos;t. Well&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/weird-niche-mods-make-pc-gaming-great-and-these-ones-prove-it\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":731300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[662,505],"class_list":["post-731299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-modding","tag-mods"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Weird, niche mods make PC gaming great, and these ones prove it | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mods are the lifeblood of PC gaming. 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