Have you ever bought a video game just for a Total Conversion Mod?

[DiscoInferno]

Have you ever bought a video game just to use it for a mod that totally changes it into another setting or IP or somesuch with a total conversion mod? There are Total
Conversion mods for the likes of Doom, Quake, The Elder Scrolls, Sins of a Solar Empire, Stellaris, Command & Conquer, Total War, Civilisation... Many games have modding as a selling point but most mods are intented to enhance, not replace, the setting and atmosphere of a game. I'm curious if anyone here has ever bought a game with no intention of playing the vanilla experience but to mod it into a favourite IP like Star Trek or Warhammer and if so what game and mod it was.

[TheMrFailz]

I'm willing to be there's going to be an awful lot of "Arma 2 / Operation Arrowhead for DayZ" in here. I should know, my brother was one of them.

[27X]

Oblivion, Duke, AvP2 (to make one, not play one), DooM ]I[ (same), Dawn of War I, SW Empire at War, Max Payne

[SteakStyes]

Ditto, namely because my brother heard the mod version of DayZ was better than standalone. For the record he hasn't played either in a over a year since.

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I bought Arma 2 + OA for DayZ

[Bizargh]

If I hadn't have bought the disc copy many years ago, I'd have said Halo: Combat Evolved to play The Silent Cartographer: Evolved Standalone (TSC:E) & SPV3. Maybe not "Total Conversions", but they are huge transformations of the game that made it the best time I had with it in my life.

[TheTalon]

Half Life.

Counter Strike. Day of Defeat. Firearms. TFC. Action Half Life. Natural Selection

Half Life had some fucking sweet ass total conversions

[Janeway]

Sins of a Solar Empire, never actually played the base game, got it because of all of the fantastic conversion mods.

Like Star Trek Armada 3, Sins of a Galactic Empire and Star Wars Interregnum and Sins of the Prophets.

[Racist Gamer Man]

Technically Garry's Mod counts, yeah? I guess the main reason I even bought the game was to make youtube gmod puppet vids ala Kitty0706 (way back in 2010 before SFM existed), but I ended up spending way more time -

Screwing around with TF2 loadouts via various workshop tools
Playing TTT with a few IRL friends
Playing other non-base gamemodes like Prophunt
spending a way too long night in an RP movie theatre server watching dumb youtube videos and laughing as a female friend was chased around by some random goobers

Oh, and DOTA 2 Auto Chess is probably going to be the biggest one for me. Coming from League, I just can't get into the much clunkier-feeling movement, character aspects, and gameplay. I really wanted to get into it for the lane dynamics, Phantom Cancer, and Monkey King, but it just never happened. But as soon as a friend showed me DOTA 2 Auto Chess? I had amounted 40+ hours of gameplay purely from that mode. It's really good, except for the whole RNG screwing you every other match part.