Occasionally, a modder comes along and completely blows you away. Take
Doom3: Project Mars City for instance. Nearly every modder here will cite that mod as a catalyst for getting the modding bug.
And occasionally, a relatively new modder (at the time anyways) will come along and have the same effect. One great example of this would be DaveW's
TIP-3000 build.
And once in a great while, someone will come along and completely change the way we look at modding; at inspiration for modding; and at life in general (examples
here,
here and
here)...
more...