Games that you find more fun when your cheating.

[sXeth]

A lot of the games where you only get your cool stuff to use in the last 5-20% of the game. New Game Plus can allow for this, but usually involves story repeition that gets grating, and the old school style of having the cool stuff in early levels but hidden doesn't seem to get too much love anymore.

Especially if said late game powers/weapons/whatever tends to fall into the "Awesome but impractical" field, where its interesting or cool, but fails utterly to do much in the late game due to taking too long, or enemies having reached obscene health levels.

 

[lacktheknack]

The Sims.

Being fiscally responsible can be interesting and fun, but it's WAY more fun to give yourself half a million dollars and a large lot.

 

[teebeeohh]

none
when i play games because i enjoy the mechanics the challenge is usually a part of that and when i play games for the story and get stuck at some point i usually just read up on what happens. I also find sandboxes much more enjoyable when there are clear limits. Even when i mod a game i try to balance it so that it end up harder
i am however completely willing to turn the difficulty to baby mode if the game lets me.

 

[Frankster]

I do enjoy rampant cheating and console abuse to vary up my gaming playthroughs or make the game more conveninent.
They are powers to be used lightly however, since cheats making the game easy can easily kill the playthrough once you've had your fun (skyrim/fallout in particular are more fun when you struggle hard).

Heck heres a cheating game ive been playing with a friend in ck2:
basically we got the old gods expansion and wanted to play a low fantasy ck2 game as pagans. So i my char is a viking with tons of perks and 50 in war ability (didt stop him getting killed in a berzerker event though :/) and i started with 5k gold and no vassals so as to develop my starting provinces into advanced (for the time) metropolises capable of fueling my viking lords conquest of the northen countries.
Meanwhile my friend is playing an immortal pagan sorceress in the misty land of albion, she is allowed to use console edits twice per game in whatever way she sees fits to represent the sorceress using her powers+gets to console edit her age so she remains always young.

This kinda silly game is only possible via cheating So yey for console commands and cheating to freshen up game experiences!

 

[RJ 17]

I'd say it kinda depends on what your definition of "cheating" is. For instance, I'd actually consider Creative Mode in Minecraft as cheating because you didn't work for your project, there was no real effort behind it and I'm in the group that would say that it sucks all the fun out of the game. Now if you're setting out to build an actual game within Minecraft, that's another story, but for just building up your own castle or town or whatever, I'd say you gotta go Survival all the way.

Beyond that there's a number of games that have "just for fun" cheats, such as "slow mo" in Golden Eye 64, it was a lot of fun to turn that on, ensuring that every time you killed someone they flew off in slow motion. But perhaps one of my favorite cheat modes was in AvP2 for the PC where you could use the console commands to morph into different characters, allowing you to play through predator stages as an alien and stuff like that.

 

[Shaun Chang-Time]

id have to say the elder scrolls games, gta games, age of empired 1 and 2 and goldeneye back on the n64

 

[Revolutionary]

I cheat in mount and blade so i don't have to spend hours just to get a decent party going.
GTA obviously
Saints row as well
Actually once I've finished a game I'll always give it a cheat playthrough for the lulz.

 

[Zetatrain]

Well Goldeneye is one game that comes to mind.

Another one is Sim City 2
I would basically use the cheat to get money that way I could build my city how ever I wanted, burn it to the ground, and then build back up again.

Star Wars X-Wing Alliance
I used the Invincibility option. I basically kept on dying over and over again. Every time a missile locked onto me it was pretty much a death sentence, because those things were near impossible for me to dodge. Plus there were no check points and some of these missions were long like the 20 minute long Death Star (2nd one) trench run.

 

[Thedutchjelle]

Simcity 3000/4000!
It's fun to just build a large city for the sake of it. When I was younger and my English sucked, I honestly didn't know how to built a city "as intended", i always used money cheats for everything just to built pretty places.

 

[dudagato]

I very rarely cheat in game, but recently i got my hands on Animal Crossing: New Leaf

And i just find myself constantly abusing time travel, meaning changing the game's date and time, because the game's time is the real world time, and having to wait a whole day in real time just so the stores get new wares, or diging up new fossils can be very frustating, mainly because the game revolves around collecting stuff, not to mention that you have to wait a few days just so some stores will open, most animal crossing fans say that they don't use this method, but to me it just makes the game more fun.

 

[Naeras]

I don't really like GTA without cheats or certain mods [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esu9ZXglBhQ], but I do love me a good tank rampage.

 

[Amakusa]

Well after finished Fallout 2 normally. Using the cheat to give you max stats open up options that i missed out through the first play with funny results.

The funny stuff usually occurred in the casino strip are of that game. New Reno i think was the name of it. You could be an adult film star, boxing heavy weight champion. Have higher accuracy and shoot people in the nuts groin area constantly. The swearing was funny when you did that.

 

[piinyouri]

Does anyone remember the Micro Machine racing game on the N64?
It had one particularly crazy cheat that would cycle you through seemingly random models from the game.
Put in once, you might be a salt shaker. Put it in again, you might be a coiled up hose.
One time I managed to turn myself into a whole table.
That game was weird.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

Does playing the fire deck in Magic 2014 count? Literally got 3 Lava Axes in my starting hand so I whacked the poor bastard to death with them. Players have 20HP, each Lava Axe takes off 5. My only creatures were a Pilgrim's Eye and some shitbird 2/1...

Proper offensive/defensive creature control? Who needs that?! Direct damage cards OP, nerf pls.

I don't really use cheats in general, I would use the Just Cause 2 invincibility cheat (probably has one) because I always fucking die and the tint the screen goes when you're taking damage is insufferable. Literally was the only reason I left the game. That and the really wank story.

Why would you ever run Lava Axe?
OP: GTA games and Saint's Row 2. Turning yourself into an indestructible avatar of destruction is always fun.

 

[Jimmy T. Malice]

Grand Theft Auto IV is pretty much only fun with cheats. But why would I play it with cheats when I could just play Just Cause 2 and have more fun?

 

[5-0]

The Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series. THPS2 had some insaaane cheats. Moon Physics anyone?

 

[piinyouri]

The Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series. THPS2 had some insaaane cheats. Moon Physics anyone?

Benihanaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa X35

Moon physics was great. Also cheating on that game was the only way I ever found out about Skater Heaven. (or w/e it was called)

 

[5-0]

The Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series. THPS2 had some insaaane cheats. Moon Physics anyone?

Benihanaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa X35

Moon physics was great. Also cheating on that game was the only way I ever found out about Skater Heaven. (or w/e it was called)

Oh man, nostalgia kick. I used to love finding out about all the secret levels like Skater Heaven. The newer titles missed this excitement completely.

 

[Strazdas]

i rarely cheat in games, i usually like playing the games with challegen that was originally intended.
That being said, during my 3rd playtrgouh of GTA:SA i found the trainer made for online cheating extremely fun in singleplayer as it offered way more possibilities than cheats.
Im not sure if it counts as cheating, but in quite a few games i would be creating custom maps to have fun in. the most common exanple woudl be a tower defence iterations. for example i would create a elaborate labyrinth to walk though in stronghold map editor placing 10 times the amount of units the game would normally allow, create a whole economy in the corner so the game wouldnt doe on its own and just jugle the battle, have wvariuos battlement and enemy waves coming, to the point where sometimes you would have over 2000 units on your screen fighting though the labyrinth trying to get to my "lord" (as per enemy AI) and the map would last for over 20 hours of constant battle. This was before i had internet so i didnt share any of it, i just created them for my own fun. now that i have internet, i find myself not having that much time to create them. i still sometimes do, but nothing as elaborate.
if thats cheating then yes i bloody well love cheating.

Morrowinds? Health cheat. That's what makes that game playable for me. Yeah it's cheating but...come on its Morrowind. I want to be able to enjoy that game instead of constantly being frustrated with it.(god that combat..)

And every Grand Theft Auto that allowed cheating, specifically Vice City.

why would you need a health cheat in morrowind?
all you need to do is make a very simple common ring enchanged to restore health at power of 2. thats it, you are now immortal. and it cost you less than selling one daedric sword found in one of thousands of daedric lords you fought.

 

[The Wykydtron]

Does playing the fire deck in Magic 2014 count? Literally got 3 Lava Axes in my starting hand so I whacked the poor bastard to death with them. Players have 20HP, each Lava Axe takes off 5. My only creatures were a Pilgrim's Eye and some shitbird 2/1...

Proper offensive/defensive creature control? Who needs that?! Direct damage cards OP, nerf pls.

I don't really use cheats in general, I would use the Just Cause 2 invincibility cheat (probably has one) because I always fucking die and the tint the screen goes when you're taking damage is insufferable. Literally was the only reason I left the game. That and the really wank story.

Why would you ever run Lava Axe?
OP: GTA games and Saint's Row 2. Turning yourself into an indestructible avatar of destruction is always fun.

1. Because our own Rookie


http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/view/lRookiel

has a FIT whenever I use direct damage cards (he runs Overrun spam Green deck, he gets no pity) and 2. the deck is premade and I haven't bothered thinning it out/unlocking all of it yet. 5 damage is good but I will say the mana cost may be too high to be worth keeping in later on.