Cheat Codes: what happened and do you care?

Recommended Videos

LegendaryVKickr

Senior Member
Jul 20, 2012
104
0
21
I miss the days of wacky cheat codes. I miss big head mode, rainbow blood, paintball mode, spawning tanks...It was always a fun thing, whether it made things aesthetically more entertaining or actually gave you an advantage. Even in days of Goldeneye on the N64, I never used all weapons to cheat, I usually used them for fun...ROCKET LAUNCHER IN EVERY LEVEL!! WOO!!

Games like GTA always benefited from one being able to spawn a tank to go on a fun destructive rampage. Even now, when I finish getting the achievement in a game, I use the cheats to breathe some life back into the game.

It's a shame game devs think we shouldn't be able to have these with trophies enabled particularly in a game like Saints Row, where it feels like you're playing with the cheats on anyways, and selling them as a DLC. I mean, I know Microsoft's achievement system made them not so much fun anymore, but when was it okay to sell them as extra content?
 

Bat Vader

Elite Member
Mar 11, 2009
4,997
2
43
I miss cheat codes too. I don't see what is so hard for a developer to add cheats to a game but to disable the achievements when someone uses them.

This is one of the many reasons why I am a PC gamer. I love cheating in single player games so whenever I purchase a new game I immediately look up any console commands for it or I get a trainer for it.
 

crazygameguy4ever

New member
Jul 2, 2012
750
0
0
Depends.. Saints Row 2 and 3 were the only games i used them in recently... i like to use cheats them for weird or cool things only after you beat a game... like the Pedestrian War cheat in SR2 that made pedestrians get into fights with each other for no reason, that was fun..and the Zombie cheat for Saints Row 3..