Recent content by adamtm

It's par for the course with Critical Miss really. What did you expect? Insightful social commentary?

Everyone and their mother can use an FXAA process injector or ENB. I can make Skyrim look like Crysis 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZkFaR2NDSk

Would you consider it cheating if someone made a trainer/code themselves?

Would omissions in the rule-set still count as those behaviors? Example: In an old RPG (cant remember the name) you could be de-leveled by a mob, the mob was designed to be encountered around lvl10 with a max cap at lvl20 (dnd rules). If you encountered this mob at lvl1 you get de-leveled to...

Would you consider it cheating if the game was started on hard and then lowered to normal and then back to hard? Is only baseline>baseline+1>baseline not cheating?

Would you consider using consumables in a fight to be cheating as it would decrease the difficulty. Example: The combat in KoA (or most hns games actually) can be often a bit challenging especially on Hard and with enemies that play against your resistances, however you can HP-pot instantly and...

So circumventing tough bosses by AI stupidity would not be considered cheating. Example: You can exploit the Dragon in Dark Souls from range with a bow or just cut off its tail to get a very good sword (for the beginning of the game)...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlevania_II:_Simon's_Quest

So would reading a guide for the famed Simons Quest tornado-puzzle be cheating?

Would you consider a strategy-guide to be an unfair advantage not available in a normal course of play?

Yes, but what is cheating to you? Not how makes you feel or how ethical is it.

I'd like a bit more precision here. What are the games natural limitations? How do you define what is the natural limitation? Example: How about the jankyness of Dark Souls? Some enemies can be lured to fall off ledges and avoided by glitching them into spots. Is this what you are talking...

Must be that 'fake fun' I'm experiencing.

I will be writing an article about difficulty and cheating in video games soon and wanted to see what exactly people think constitutes difficulty. I will not give any examples on what I consider difficult as I don't want to prime the discussion. Yes this is almost an exact copy of my other...

This thread is about cheating in video games and not about cheating on your spouse I will be writing an article about difficulty and cheating in video games soon and wanted to see what exactly people think constitutes cheating. I will not give any examples on what I consider cheating as I...