https://gamerant.com/starfield-most-cursed-mods-garfield-annoying-orange-nic-cage-flashlight/Bethesda games have had some interesting mods, but the Starfield community came out swinging with some of the most cursed mods yet.
Bethesda video games and mods go together like peas and carrots. As a matter of fact, for many people, it's hard to imagine playing Bethesda games without mods. For example, of all the games with the best mods available, Skyrim has to take the cake for the quality and quantity of mods at its disposal. Players can transform Skyrim into anything they want to, and it's all thanks to the massive modding community that surrounds it. The same can be said for Bethesda's other titles, like the Fallout series or with other Elder Scrolls games like Oblivion or Morrowind. For most of these games, it took awhile for the mods to start rolling in. For Bethesda's newly adorned RPG, Starfield, mods were flying off the shelves from day one.
Most of the mods that people got their hands on directly after the release of Starfield were practical. One of the most popular mods being downloaded shortly after Starfield's release was an inventory makeover mod, helping players get past the middling user interface that the game released with. As with every community, there are two sides, and it's no different with the modding community. Many modders made helpful modifications for the new release, like UI adjustments, graphical tweaks, or accessibility features. Others set out to turn the title into a nightmare, creating some absolutely absurd, funny, and downright cursed modifications that transform the game into an entirely different experience. These are those mods.
Garfield Start Screen
Garfield has remained a comic legend for many decades, and it seems some people can't get enough of him. Whether that's why Nexus Mods user TosothYaKnow uploaded the mod or not is unknown, but what is known is that the hilarious Starfield Garfield mod is definitely cursed. This mod overlays the massive moon that eclipses the right side of the game's default start screen with a large, uncanny image of the great orange cat himself. The reason it's probably so much creepier is that the image used for the cat is not the lighthearted cartoon from Jim Davis's comics. It's the eerily Cheshire-like cat from Garfield The Movie.
Hey Orange
Some curses like to come back, and the Annoying Orange is definitely one of them. This anthropomorphic orange haunted YouTube in the early 2010s with its own viral page. Now the annoying little fruit's legacy has found its way into Starfield as a mod, thanks to Beathustler on Nexus Mods. This mod replaces the texture of all the edible oranges that can be found in the game with the familiar and freaky face of the Annoying Orange the internet can't get away from.
Bobby Hill Cora Dialogue Replacement
If the recently announced King of the Hill Hulu reboot wasn't enough to satiate fans of the popular sitcom, then this next mod might just do it. The show was popularized for its eclectic characters that all had something uniquely funny about them; Bobby was the mildly-annoying child of Hank Hill, the show's protagonist, who always had something off-putting to say.
Starfield fans know Cora Coe, Sam Coe's brave, smart-mouthed daughter who they meet early on in the campaign. Nexus Mod creator CloroxChan thought it'd be a good idea to swap her voice for Bobby's. There isn't much more to say than that hearing Cora talk with the bumbling tone of Bobby doesn't quite sit right.
Nicolas Cage Flashlight
In-game nights are enough to bring out the creepiness of a video game alone. Thinking back to nightmares like Slender Man, many gamers wouldn't dare venture into the woods at night with only a flashlight. Some may be braver than the rest, though. For those who are, there's the Nic Cage Flashlight mod from Nexus Mod user Brandoman. If braving the darkness wasn't already bad enough, now Starfield players can do it with the smirk of Nicolas Cage staring them down. It's not that Nic Cage is inherently scary, but the facial expression of the National Treasure actor Brandoman chose to overlay on the flashlight definitely is. Something about the face's lack of boundaries makes it really unsettling.
Starfield is available now for PC and Xbox Series X/S.