Games that you find more fun when your cheating.
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My favorite Magic play I've ever made involved a [mtg_card=Lava Axe], a [mtg_card=Fire Servant], a [mtg_card=Reverberate] and [mtg_card=Gisela, Blade of Goldnight] in a commander game, a 40 damage one hit KO later it felt like I was cheating.The Wykydtron said:
Ot: I'd have to say the Tony Hawks games.
While never really used or agreed with many cheats in games other than GTA and this, you have to ask yourself "what isn't cool about those massive combos you can pull of thanks to 'em?" and the answer is nothing.
Nothing at all.
Mount and Blade: Warband - money comes in way too slow, even when you're King of half the continent. The Sims.. Sucks not having enough money and control in real life, why simulate that in a game?
I do a little bit in Dwarf Fortress with embark points and limited stat cheats for my initial embark team.. But that game can be very hard and it's easy to lose, but it's one of the few games where getting owned is still entertaining.
I do a little bit in Dwarf Fortress with embark points and limited stat cheats for my initial embark team.. But that game can be very hard and it's easy to lose, but it's one of the few games where getting owned is still entertaining.
GTA games obviously. The Sims was only interesting with cheats so I could build awesome shit.
Also, don't tell anyone this, but it's nice having console commands for when New Vegas bugs out on me and a quest item clips through the floor for example.
Also, don't tell anyone this, but it's nice having console commands for when New Vegas bugs out on me and a quest item clips through the floor for example.
GTA is a given,as for a different one I wouldn't call it "cheating" more like "playing like a dick" in first person shooters. This includes what are normally considered cheap weapons or noob toob spamming, hopping in a helicopter and camping their spawn. Again not necessarily cheating but sometimes playing like a total dick is more fun than the normal game, especially if it is for revenge on the other team for doing it first.
The invincibility cheat in Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance 2, there was one section in the game I literally could not get past no matter how hard I tried without that cheat. You have to flee a dungeon filling with poison gas, while hacking down zombies. Trying to kill all the zombies meant I died from the poison, but just running past them meant I got swamped with the undead sooner or later.
The cheat was the only thing that made the level playable for me but who knows I probably just sucked at the game.
The cheat was the only thing that made the level playable for me but who knows I probably just sucked at the game.
Really I don't know why you would bother. Give me a half an hour in that game and I can make a potion that will do the same thing that weighs less then a pen. Seriously people call alchemy broken in Skyrim? Compared to Marrowind it was nothing.Chester Rabbit said:
In the "Total War" games and Crusader Kings 2 I always use the cheat to remove the fog of war. There is so many interesting things going on in the world and I want to be able to see all of it.
Superman Returns. Crap, crap game, but the worst part is that the lifebar you go on is actually the city's, so although Superman is literally indestructible, if the surrounding city gets hit too much (which would be okay if it had decent damage or destruction physics, which it doesn't,) then you lose. By turning on invincibility, not only do you not have to worry about redoing a terrible, terrible battle sequence because Metropolis got boo-booed too badly, but it also gives you free license to be a jerk and use your superbreath to clear an entire freeway of cars.
Let's see, I use cheats in Mount and Blade, Total War games, Civ games(world editting for insane resources), Final Fantasy games via finding some infinite experience glitch and using it until I'm fairly certain my grinding will be to a minimum, Fallout and Elder Scrolls games though mostly for quality of life kinds of stuff, and I'm sure there are others.
I didn't get into SR3, but what you just described is pretty much how I feel all games are nowadays to varying degrees. There's no challenge to overcome anymore. At least in games like GTA3, if you wanted a perk like infinite run, you had to do those fucking ambulance missions. One mistake could cost you an hour of work.TheYellowCellPhone said:
OT: Pretty much because my mini-rant above, no game feels better with cheats. Maybe back in the NES days, but the last game I cheated at was Warcraft II, and after beating it, I played it again without cheats and found I had just literally missed the whole game because of cheating.
All the feels. Doesn't quite beat the Houdini episode though imo.Xcell935 said:
You have excellent taste.
The Sims and GTA are the first games that spring to mind, the former was only interesting with cheating so i could build a massive house and essentially lock my sim in. And well, I think everyone else has pointed out the fun in the GTA cheats
That section was easy, especially if you have an area of effect spell/attack or a decent weapon, just don't stop swinging and drink potions when you need them.Raine_sage said:
when my cheating what?
OT: i have more fun bypassing grindy bits when/if i can. things wherein the only price is time and the only gain's come in calculable form. i however find it harder/impossible to bypass any grindy bits that have incalculable byproducts.
OT: i have more fun bypassing grindy bits when/if i can. things wherein the only price is time and the only gain's come in calculable form. i however find it harder/impossible to bypass any grindy bits that have incalculable byproducts.
It doesn't involve cheat codes, but SomeCallMeJohnny coined a term for certain games like these, guide games.
I actually use cheats pretty frequently. I usually am playing a game because I want to have fun, and if making the game easier accomplishes that, then super. Not to say I don't occasionally like a challenge, but in a lot of games I'm just there to enjoy the ride. Also, I'll use cheats to change features I find annoying. As an example, I know carrying capacities and limited inventories are there for pretty good reasons in RGPs, but I just don't like them, so I often mod carrying capacity in games like Skyrim, the Witcher 2, and a few others. I don't do it in Fallout, because that spoils (a bit) the feeling of being a scavenger/survivor for me.
I wouldn't actually play through the story with the cheats on, but in Red Faction: Guerrilla, running around with super running speed, super powerful hammer, and super health, as well as the cheat where enemies go flying for miles when hit, is incredibly cathartic.
You just run ridiculously fast up to buildings and completely destroy their foundations with one well-placed hammer swing, and sprint away as the building falls on 15 enemies, then you sprint up to the stragglers and hammer smash them into oblivion, or at least far enough that they bounce off a nearby mountaintop.
So. Much. Fun.
You just run ridiculously fast up to buildings and completely destroy their foundations with one well-placed hammer swing, and sprint away as the building falls on 15 enemies, then you sprint up to the stragglers and hammer smash them into oblivion, or at least far enough that they bounce off a nearby mountaintop.
So. Much. Fun.