So I recently started to try going through Portal 2 again, using noclip (where you can fly anywhere, through walls and objects) and now I think it's broken me. I spent a good amount of time trying to get to the furthest places, and now that I can just zoom over there, it's lost its value. When I actually go somewhere inaccessible, I find out that it's all just smoke and mirrors, that this seemingly massive universe is only as big as the room you're in. That it's all 2-D. So what do you think? Does noclip ruin the gaming experience?
Does noclip destroy the gaming experience?
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Like most cheats, yes. At least if you do it on the first play-trough. I have a friend that can't help but cheat in some games at the first go, and even though he seems to keep doing it, he has said that it does ruin the experience.
Doesn't have to mean it always destroys the game experience, but it sure has the potential to.
Doesn't have to mean it always destroys the game experience, but it sure has the potential to.
What do you expect? You're doing something outside the designed game experience. The developers can't develop an infinite universe. I think the explorable world in Portal 2 is pretty huge and impressive. Why would you need more than that?
Sometimes when I replay a game, I use it to fly around and find interesting things. Test the limits of the map. It's a good time waster but not to be used during a first play-through. I doubt it will ruin games, the game genie didn't ruin games, neither did the gameshark.
Well yeah, if you don't play the game then your gaming experience is ruined, and did you really expect them to make the entire facility? not only would that have been a massive waste of time and money (making giant environments that 90% of the players would never see) it would have also made the game load slower, require higher specks and more free space.
Noclip and the console is there as a back up if you get stuck in the world, something I'm happy that valve still puts in their games as i have a tendency of messing up, especially in half-life 2 where i would lose my boat, car and get stuck in weird places.
Noclip and the console is there as a back up if you get stuck in the world, something I'm happy that valve still puts in their games as i have a tendency of messing up, especially in half-life 2 where i would lose my boat, car and get stuck in weird places.
"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain."
Good advice.
A couple of years ago the MMO City of Heroes introduced a new zone called Cimerora. First impressions were great - the portal through which you enter the zone is in a cave and then you exit the cave into the dazzling sunlight of the ancient world. There's a huge wall in the distance: the entrance to the fortress of the zone's main villain, and in the distance you also see an archway in the rocks through which a harbour can be glimpsed. It's really really impressive.
Until you actually explore it. Then you realise that the zone is tiny and the only thing behind the great gate in the wall is one of the invisible barriers than define the limits of the game world. Th harbour is similarly unreachable and so, in seconds, you no longer feel like you've travelled into the distant past. You feel like you're standing on a film set.
I realise that game worlds, even in MMOs, will never be as vast as a real world, but that's one occassion when the visual tricks raised my expectations only for them to be brought crashing down.
It's part of what I love about Minecraft. I know that's one world where I'll never bump up against an artificial barrier no matter how far I travel.
Good advice.
A couple of years ago the MMO City of Heroes introduced a new zone called Cimerora. First impressions were great - the portal through which you enter the zone is in a cave and then you exit the cave into the dazzling sunlight of the ancient world. There's a huge wall in the distance: the entrance to the fortress of the zone's main villain, and in the distance you also see an archway in the rocks through which a harbour can be glimpsed. It's really really impressive.
Until you actually explore it. Then you realise that the zone is tiny and the only thing behind the great gate in the wall is one of the invisible barriers than define the limits of the game world. Th harbour is similarly unreachable and so, in seconds, you no longer feel like you've travelled into the distant past. You feel like you're standing on a film set.
I realise that game worlds, even in MMOs, will never be as vast as a real world, but that's one occassion when the visual tricks raised my expectations only for them to be brought crashing down.
It's part of what I love about Minecraft. I know that's one world where I'll never bump up against an artificial barrier no matter how far I travel.
Of course it does. Any cheatcode breaks the gaming experience, that's kinda the whole point of them. Wondering if noclip breaks Portal is like wondering why Doom is a lot easier after enabling iddqd.
Simple answer: If you don't like what a cheatcode or console command does to a game, don't use it.
Simple answer: If you don't like what a cheatcode or console command does to a game, don't use it.
Noclip will DEFINITELY ruin your game.
I think this could be better expanded to:
'Does cheating/breaking the games rules destroy the gaming experience' and i dare say i bet that's been done before but still a reaonable topic.
And the answer is simply: Only if you abuse it in the wrong way. ALWAYS do everything in the game possible before resorting to cheats and noclip - it DOES ruin it quite a bit.
Then again, once a game gets boring you can also use said things to make it more amusing.
I think this could be better expanded to:
'Does cheating/breaking the games rules destroy the gaming experience' and i dare say i bet that's been done before but still a reaonable topic.
And the answer is simply: Only if you abuse it in the wrong way. ALWAYS do everything in the game possible before resorting to cheats and noclip - it DOES ruin it quite a bit.
Then again, once a game gets boring you can also use said things to make it more amusing.
Not always, when you're merely messing around. Assuming this isn't your first playthrough, it's an interesting way to examine the game enviroment. It's a tool for the curious, at times.
If you've already completed the game without any use of noclip, then no. But if you decide to toy around with it and use it to bypass any challenge the game itself throws your way in the first playthough, then the purpose of playing has basically been defeated.