Is it a good or bad thing that cheat codes do not really have a role in modern gaming?

Outright Villainy

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LordNue said:
What I really miss are real unlockables. Not these stupid achievements, not stupid DLC. I miss beating a hard challenge or a mode and unlocking a new weapon or a character or something. It makes me sad that all that is ignored now for DLC.
One of my favourite memories of cheats were Goldeneye and Perfect Dark, because they were something fun to work for, and you couldn't finish a mission with cheats on anyway.
In Perfect Dark they had shooting range challenges that let you unlock the old goldeneye weapons, cheats for turning your main character into an alien called elvis, or a gun that would make enemies shoot their team mates. No skipping levels, just fun rewards. God I miss that...
 

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Super_Nintendo_Chalmers said:
San Andreas had the best cheats evarr.
However, I think that cheats are best left behind, they just wouldn't fit in most modern games.
That's what modding is for anyway.
This is why tehy shoul dhave kept cheats. Consoles can't mod.
 

silver wolf009

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poll please.

i miss them alot. in fact i just got off of a 14 hour crackdown keys to the city binge. good times...
 

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AlmightyWabbit said:
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AlmightyWabbit said:
Pretty much a good thing, cheats spoil the game.
But it was still an option to use them?
Let me refraise rephrase that.

But it was still an option a temptation to use them?
But what about the fun ones? Not like infinite health/ammo or whatever, yeah that stuff spoils the game... but there are a lot of fun cheat codes which add that little bit extra to the game.

DK mode in Goldeneye 007 comes to mind. The fact that you had to do a lot to earn them as well adds to the game also. Plus you couldn't unlock anything new while using the cheat codes, so they were purely for fun.

That's the opposite of spoiling.
 

SnipErlite

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Do kind of miss them. They were fun when you kept losing and just wanted to kick that goddamn CPU's ass
 

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Well, considering how easy most games are these days, and how much content designers are willing to stuff in a game, then it really isn't neccisary for cheat codes. Maybe unlockable extras to change gameplay, like ratchet and clank, But as for up up down down left right left right A B codes, they seem to have become less amusing. Also, controlers have so many buttons that a code could be anything.

Wouldn't it be funny though if some PS3 or Wii game had a cheat code that incorporated motion controls.
 

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I believe ingame cheats shouldn't be abandoned.
They were always optional, and some people (like me) liked them. Maybe some will be tempted, but if they don't have enough willpower to resist using cheat codes, it's their fault (think of it as giving someone a circular saw knowing that normal people won't cut holes on the walls in their house with it, only to find out that some jerk is actually doing it because he couldn't resist: would you blame circular saws?).

I think Shamus Young made a great point back then in Experienced Points [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/experienced-points/6575-Give-Me-a-Win-Button]: it's an option, maybe I want them to stroll around and look at the pretty flowers without having to worry about mutant aliens blowing my fucking face off, or maybe I want to use all the guns in the first level just to see how awesome they are.

I remember my beloved Mechwarrior 3, which had cheats in the options menu:
"Invincibility? Unlimited ammo? No overheating?"
"Well thank you, I might take you up on it, or I might not, but it's my choice."
 

Mr. GameBrain

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"...Cheats not good enough for you eh? They might be old and pointless to you, but I can tell ya, when I was a kid, the cheats were part of the fun. Before we had the internet that could run at a bajjilion bytes a second, at monthly fees, we had dial up, BLOODY DIAL-UP!! It would screech like a cat being castrated when you booted it up, it take you forever to find a cheat site, (no goggle to do the work for ya, little lazy ingrates!), and it would drain ya money away faster than a cheap german prostitute! No we hunted down those game magazines, scan the reviews, and dug out the golden nuggets at the back, the cheat codes. Bloody marvelous things to! Wanted all the weapons in Robocop Vs Terminator? Bam! You got it! Tekken 2 a little dull to you? BAM! Big heads cheat! Find that minecart level on Donkey Kong Country too hard for ya? Well you wouldn't know about the secret shortcut, unless you looked it up! Oh, and some months, some months, you get a book with the mag with all the cheats in, it was like a sacred tome! it was! You could throw away all those scraps of paper, and put those mags to safe keeping, as you had the book. I remember how much we worshipped those books. When you had the book, you had power amongst men! Kids would come from far and wide to ask you, keeper of the tome of secrets on how to get to the last level on Rayman! Yes cheats, they were glorious! Better than all this quick-save rubbish!!...."

Plus, Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds was a heck of a lot more fun WITH cheats.

(Although a multiplayer game with cheats on ends up as a: "who can type "forceore" the fastest" The Video Game, as with forcebuild on, the game essentially loses all of its Age Of Empire-eskue strategy, and becomes a game of "My Army is bigger than yours!")
 

oppp7

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Ya, I miss cheat codes.
They died out about the time having fun did when it got replaced by achievement hunting.
 

SnootyEnglishman

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In the early times when "Nintendo Hard" was a viable term yes cheat codes were fine. Now they have in-game cheats and there's the achievement/trophy system
 

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I liked the old days with the game-altering cheat codes like inf. ammo/health. My favorite was Syphfon Filter for the Playstation. (and I know I spelled it wrong) With inf. health, would set myself on fire and just walk around with the taser pretending I was so kind of unholy demon sucking the life from my victims which in turn caused their bodies to spontaenouly combust.
 

Sleekgiant

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I miss them, but only the ones that were goofy like What-if mode on Spiderman(look it up its funny)
 

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I'm gonna use the GTA series here...

The cheat codes, although fun as hell and appropriate for a sand box game like GTA. It was actually very distracting when it came down to trying to play through the plot... Not to mention it some what ruins the game play a bit when I decided to start going through missions after mucking about for a few hours. After cramming the cheat codes into my memory forever, it was hard not do that lil 360 spin and tap dance when I found myself in a moment where I realized shit has hit the fan!

If anything, I feel that cheat codes should be like they were in Panzer Dragoon. Fun little tidbits that change the cosmetic of the game in some form, but nothing that really makes it bat-shit easy to play through. Even then they should do like they do in some games where you have to beat the game in order to unlock those types of cheats.
 

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Im really liking how people are looking back on the games that they enjoyed to fool with. A couple of people are saying that cheats are pointless and that its more fun to break the game, i'v been a game tester, been paid to break games and to be honest i feel more that the faults in games are bugs not cheats. A good cheat code changes the way a game works and feels. I m not criticising the writers and programmers of these modern games but for example COD4 Modern Warfare is awesome but so serious that i bought Borderlands as well for some relief from the constant brown.
 

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I miss cheat codes that make things LULZY! XD

Ones that make you invincible, skip levels, etc. are for FAILURES! XD
 

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Super_Nintendo_Chalmers said:
San Andreas had the best cheats evarr.
However, I think that cheats are best left behind, they just wouldn't fit in most modern games.
That's what modding is for anyway.
I Wholeheartedly agree with the last part, just because I've never played a GTA game due to lack of console's (only in the past year have I bought a gaming computer!)