The Cheating Confessional

[Arcobalen]

I'd say somewhere around a year ago I used the glitch that kept equipment stats on you in Oblivion without the equipment on. Just sat there doing it over and over until I had over 40k mana I believe. I then went and created a spell that could kill anything in one hit.

 

[Rattja]

Cheating? Who? Me? No..

Well, maybe a litte.. a bit... a lot..
But I have personal rules to keep myself from ruin anything for either myself or others.

First of all I must either have completed the game, or grown bored of it, or as a last option if not even walkthroughs work. You only get that fresh first run once..

Secondly I try to not do anything that breaks the game, as I know that I will always be tempted since I now know about it.
This is kinda hard to judge, and unless patched can really ruin the game for me.

I don't see anything wrong with it really, as long as it does not affect anyone else then yourself. It can be great fun doing things you are not supposed to do. Or even better, see something funny/strange happen, then try and figure out why it happens to see if you can exploit it! =D

Also, think about this, why would the people who made the game put cheats in there if they did not want them to be used?
I mean cheat codes, not glitches or bugs.
Howdoiturnthison anyone?

This topic made me think of my favorite ones, like food/wood spamming in black & white, with a norse wonder "We need food! *mirical food* N-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-no-no-no-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-no-no-no-n-n-Norse Power!"

Battlezone had a good one "imadirtycheater"

And who has never cheated in sims hm? =p

Gosh, there are so many fun ones too, flying tank in GTA, stair of paint brushes in Oblivion, big heads in fps games, just about anything in golden eye 64, raining cats and dogs in Toka 2..

But my favorite one has to be the gold glitch in diablo 1, mostly because I found it and figured it out all on my own, and also since it's not something you can do right off the bat when you start a new game.
Filling tristram with gold was kinda fun too.

 

[shrekfan246]

I killed The End by fast forwarding a week on my PS2. THERE I ADMIT IT

I blew up the explosive barrels after his first cut-scene, while he was being wheeled around by nameless mooks. It actually took better timing than you might've expected.

OT: I cheated a lot in Skyrim, but that's because especially with beginning new characters, vanilla became really boring, really fast.

I've reloaded saves a few times in my first XCOM: Enemy Unknown play-through.

I'm having a hard time thinking of others. There aren't really a lot of games that allow you to just cheat anymore (and I don't consider looking at walkthroughs to be cheating, because you still have to actually do whatever you're stuck on).

 

[Poetic Nova]

First time playing Half Life 2, enabled god mode and infinite ammo.

 

[Something Amyss]

I don't really cheat much. Unless you count in-game options, and even then I tend to use things like unlockables only.

I did use a Game Genie back in the day, though. Mostly for fun.

 

[Tahaneira]

Basically, the main reason I will get a game for my computer rather than for the Xbox (if it isn't exclusive) is if I want to cheat on it. Every Elder Scrolls game I have gotten I have played on the computer and I cheat unashamedly on. HOW ELSE AM I SUPPOSED TO BRING ALL OF THAT LOOT HOME?

And yeah, I almost always cheat on RTS as well. (Campaign only, I don't do multiplayer.) Otherwise, I play games straight.

 

[Twilight_guy]

I honestly don't remember. It's been a long time since I felt the need to. However, I do remember adding in cheat codes into games I was making. That's always fun.

 

[Ryan Minns]

Honestly... I can't remember any... wait no I remember in Baldursgate 2 I edited Aerie's stats and added some int or wisdom (I can't remember) so she could be an awesome mage/cleric and before that I loved Unirally on the SNES and discovered that instead of actually doing awesome stunts in the stunt tracks I could simply turn sideways over and over and over again till the time ran out. Not exactly a cheat but I did feel like I was cheating since I was getting monstrous scores for nothing

 

[JokerCrowe]

I kinda cheated in Katawa Shoujo during Rin's arc... I just didn't know what to do to get the Good Ending that girl was like an enigma wrapped in a mystery with a riddle sauce and a paradox drink... ;>>
Otherwise I really can't remember...
I THINK I cheated playing Star Wars Battlefront II Multiplayer, but that was mostly just changing the rules for everyone, like "You can't die" or "Bazookas have infinite ammo". It was a fair kind of cheating, (if that makes any sense)

EDIT;
Also I just remembered, sometimes I use walkthroughs on really difficult flash puzzle games. Like Submachine for example, that game is just ridiculous.
Also when I was like ten I cheated when I played the original Sims (for like a Week). I think the cheat unlocked all the things you could put in the house. Or maybe it gave you infinite money or something.
I don't think games nowadays use cheatcodes as much as in the 90's/early 2000's. So Walkthroughs is the worst I've sinned when it comes to cheats.

 

[ohnoitsabear]

When I played Zoo Tycoon as a kid, I would cheat to give myself a shitton of money. I would also use a cheat that unlocked unicorns. Because they're fucking unicorns, that's why!

 

[horkrux]

I think cheating in your singleplayer experience is hardly worth a confession. Bring on the aimbot/wallhack confessions, that would be more appropriate. Never mind.

Just recently cheated in Fallout 3 to get a few relevant items I've previously dropped somewhere in a museum. Didn't bother looking for them in every nook and cranny.

 

[RobfromtheGulag]

I have a hazy line that differentiates 'cheating,' which I treat as completely reprehensible, and 'exploiting', which varies. (I think there have been pedantic guides as to each term, glitching, etc., posted before)

Missingno I did, shit I wanted Mew (word was you could catch Mew where Missingno was, originally). Never did get him, though now whenever I read about Red/Blue apparently he was in there somewhere. Stuff like wave-dashing in SSB:M is something I often do and would call an exploit, which, being available to everyone, I don't have any issue with.

But on to cheating:
FF8 - gamesharked to get the items that summoned the little orange tiger guys (weren't in US release without some pocketstation garbage). Told all my friends I got the items using Angelo Search (which I can't recall, might actually be plausible).
Pokemon Red/Blue - gamesharked Mewtwo's stats. Then a friend who'd done the same thing and I dueled, it was humorous. He eventually used a poison move on me and we had to turn our games off finally because the way it would scroll down HP, and our Mewtwo's hp being nigh infinite, it was about a half hour of watching the bar go down. He maintains that the poison was actually going to kill me.
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Those were the only 2 times I can think of back when I actually cared about cheating. Now I cheat all the time just so I can see the ends of games. I turned on godmode in Amnesia, use a trainer to godmode Farcry 1 when I tire of enemies shooting me through walls, and jack the hell out of the console commands in any Bethesda game I can (generally to fix bugs rather than exploit however). Accidentally kill a Brahmin in a firefight? She didn't deserve that, /resurrect. Overrun by Deathclaws at level 5? /kill. Can't find Lydia? player.moveto id

It's become a much more functional thing rather than a boasting matter. When you're my age no one cares if you beat Diablo on Inferno, they just want to hear if you enjoyed it or not.

 

[Mithcha]

Never cheated in a multiplayer game, of any sort, think that's entirely unfair. I cheat on single player all the time. Starcraft I liked (would say like but my computer breaks Starcraft now the games so old), I preferred my Zerg to be what they were portrayed as - an unstoppable machine of doom. So I'd use god mode and inch forward across the map, sometimes it took frggin' hours but it was enjoyable in a sadistic way.
Starcraft 2 I cheated on just to get through the game. It wasn't hard, it was just so goddamn boring and I didn't want to not complete a game I'd spent £20 on.

Skyrim I cheat on, but only when the games grossly unfair, like 4 Dragons suddenly swooping down just as I'm fighting a giant after I haven't seen any Dragons since the first one which was 200 hours ago. Yeah, I'm hitting godmode and killing them, mostly out of pure frustration.

Some games are just straight up boring without cheats. GTA, all of them, I've found every single one dull without cheats of some nature. I like the games as they are, but I go into them to do what -I- want, not what the game wants me to do, so I'm going to cheat to be able to do that if I have too.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

The last time I cheated, I think was almost a year ago, in Starcraft 2.

There comes a time in every mans life when he must say "Screw waiting for money, I want to build 20 battlecruisers, right NOW!".

Every RTS needs cheats, there is no fucking excuse. I hate CnC3 for that.

what bugs me so much is, when your vs'ing the computer opponent, they cheat ALL THE DAMN TIME (RTS's in general), so it's absolute bullshit when you can't do it even though they can, and most games don't inhibit them with the fog of war that you are.

I'ts bullshit when i'm building my first barracks (with bow and arrow and basic sword guys) and the cpu is already debating on building cannons or knights for it's next move.

OT: it's been a while since i actually "cheated", probably in space rangers 2, that was fucking annoying as hell when i would attack an enemy/pirate ship and they would just troll land on the planet until they got reinforcements to come harass me or i left, not to mention every ship out there was 10x better than mine was, so i used the 100,000 dollar cheat (which the game limits you on the cheat, so it's not like you can become an overpowered god)

 

[PoolCleaningRobot]

In Oblivion I used the permanent buff cheat to make my skills WAAAAAAAAYYYYYY higher than they should have been.

Come to think of it, I always break every Bethesda game by the end of them

 

[Shoggoth2588]

When I had first downloaded them onto my 3DS (ie: the first time I really played) Legend of Zelda and Zelda 2: Adventures of Link, I used a walkthrough to beat them...I used a walkthrough to 100% them...The second time I went through Zelda 2 I didn't use the FAQ to beat it but I did use the corner-glitch to beat Shadow Link (though not at first...I waited until my health was low)

I generally play games on easy and sometimes normal. This is apparently something I should be ashamed of.

 

[Xan Krieger]

Honestly who hasn't cheated in an Elder Scrolls game? I cheated like a mofo in every game since Morrowind. In Skyrim I also downloaded a mod that let me play as a W40K grey knight. Not technically cheating but I'm dual-wielding plasma pistols against guys with daggers.

Men of War, if anyone here has played it it's hard as fuuuuuuck. As a result I did use game trainers to give me some perks like super powered infantry. I try not to cheat at times but sometimes you get stuck and end up doing the same mission 10 times and then you snap.

As for Starcraft, if I recall correctly the AI has infinite resources and the difficulty level of the game determines how it uses it. Easy, handful of zerglings. Hard, horde of every single type of zerg. Pretty much the only reason the AI gathers resources is to give the appearance that it's playing by the rules you have to play by. By that logic though if you give yourself infinite resources you haven't cheated, you just leveled the playing field.

 

[F'Angus]

Morrowind and Oblivion script key abuse...repeatedly. Need potions (don't know why I didn't just restore health), need arrows, Unlock a chest with no lock picks, easy. I finished Morrowind before I discovered them, not so sure I'd finished Oblivion.

 

[N3squ1ck]

I used mods in Skyrim to make some things weight less / nothing (don't know anymore what), that the collectable stones are on the mini map, and also something that tells me where exactly I have to put the cursor to unlock a lock.

There
Now I feel ashamed

 

[EHKOS]

When I was younger I used a Gameshark on everything. Now I'm not as great at games as I could have been Still building up the skill though.