The Cheating Confessional

[Legion]

I had god mode and unlimited weapons on for about 90% of Max Payne. I didn't really care for the challenge, I just wanted to have fun.

I use console commands in New Vegas once I bought the PC version (did everything legitimately on the Xbox). To start with it was due to a game-breaking bug, then I used it to "fix" a build where I chose stats I didn't want and later to give myself some cool stuff for when I started.

I use walk-through's for collectibles unashamedly where necessary.

 

[NathLines]

The only time I can remember cheating is in Ocarina of Time. There's this bug where you can get a Gold Skulltula from the same place a multiple amount of times.

Ok, I also cheated my way through Warcraft 3/TFT. But pretty much any kid back then cheated through strategy games because we had no idea how to play them. Now the games are a cakewalk.

I don't have fun with games if I cheat anymore. I played nothing but F2P MMOs for six years, so I have patience to spare Y___Y

 

[Nazulu]

I cheated my way through Warcraft 3 because I suck at RTS games. However, not too long a go I beat Starcraft with cheats so I think I may be able to beat it now, and it will be worth it because I can't remember the story at all.

Doom I always used cheats, but that's because it used to scare the hell out of me.

I used a full map guide for Super Metroid in a magazine to help me find my way through, but I was very young and stupid. Still one of the greatest games I've ever though, that will never change.

 

[Uncle Comrade]

I used the coc command in Morrowind whenever I couldn't be bothered to trek across the entire map for a mission. I also used console commands a lot the first time I played Oblivion, but that was more because I was running it on an ancient laptop, and any time I was in a fight with more than four enemies at a time the game would lag so badly that my only real option was to use the console to instakill them all.

I used to use the console a lot to open chests that were too difficult in Fallout New Vegas and Neverwinter Nights 2, and also to spawn crafting materials that I couldn't be bothered to search for.

Probably the biggest cheating I ever did was modifying the game files in Freelancer to make myself invincible, as I was finding some of the late game battles impossible without doing so.

I used the Missingno cheat in Pokemon Red so I could duplicate my master ball and have my pokemon go past level 100

I used level skip to finish Medieval on PSOne.

Did both of these too, when I was but a youngster.

 

[loc978]

Mount and Blade: Warband, I do a bit of save scumming, because I don't like some of the mechanics. I think that qualifies as cheating, and it's the most recent. I especially dislike the bits about the player character being a goddamn immortal. *takes a javelin through the skull at full gallop for 200+ damage* Unconscious, my ass. I died, reload.

Aside from that, it's been a long time since I used a cheat for other than fucking around in a game I've already beaten. Honestly, I think the last time was with an NES Game Genie. Oh Double Dragon, why did I ever bother with you?

 

[Neuromancer]

The only game that ever almost got me to cheat was Gothic II: Night of the Raven.

The first chapter of the game can be real hell if you don't know exactly what you're doing.

 

[ramboondiea]

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

that was a legit tactic!, what was a cheap move was shooting him when he is a sleep in a wheelchair at the beginning,

does minecraft creative mod count as cheating? because i swear i cant even remember how to craft a pick anymore?

 

[Longstreet]

Every single GTA game ever. I probably used every single cheat there is.
I don't want to drive to a millitary base to steal a tank. I. Want. It. NOW!

Skyrim, the sneak / speech tricks.

 

[EvilMaggot]

I playthrough a game without cheats whatsoever... if the game is entertaining by it self (Darksiders II, The Witcher 2) i dont really need to cheat in the game ever

though when first playthrough has been done(though if game has the new game+.. its not really needed) i will then use cheats that will make the game so much more fun (though not immortality... ruins the game experience for me) all skills so im a uber demon from hell

not ashamed of cheating.. and i never cheat nor have cheated in a multiplayer game. That is just low..

 

[FFP2]

I am an unashamed cheater. Edit my saves in almost all xbox games. Not cos they're particularly hard but because it's a lot more fun to play(eg. max chaos and money in Just Cause 2).

Tend to use trainers in pc games too, but only if it makes the game more fun. Except for Dark Souls. The difficulty is the only reason people play that game.

 

[KissmahArceus]

I used an action Replay to get the Event Pokemon in Pokemon Diamond, I have no regrets as you could only get Darkrai,Arceus etc from Japanese promotions and as I live in Scotland this was the only way to get them.

I did wait until I'd finished the story first though and only gave myself the items to catch them, I still had to catch Arceus without a Master Ball!

 

[Xeros]

I don't think I've cheated on a game since GTA IV, 'cause I'm just too damn lazy to go all the way to the gun shop just to buy armor. I've also spawned many a Turismo. Other than that, I can't think of a single time I've cheated, and I just looked through my whole game collection. Although, GTA V comes out soon so I should fill my cheating quota for the last few years.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

In Pokemon Blue I used the talk-to-old-man-in-Viridian-then-fly-to-Cinnabar-and-swim-up-and-down-the-eastern-shore-to-fight-Missingno-and-replicate-your-sixth-item-in-your-inventory cheat a bunch of times.

I also faked my own death on the S. S. Anne so I could revisit the docks later and check out that truck. Guess what? There's nothing under it.

 

[Leemaster777]

I have a very specific definition of "cheating" when it comes to games. If you're using exploits or external devices in order to beat the game, or to complete a specific challenge, that's cheating. If you doing such things just for the purposes of screwing around, that's not cheating. That being said...

I used a Gameshark on Katamari Damacy in order to unlock Endless mode for the stages you could do this on. I mean, nowadays, I'd be able to unlock this without much problem, but I DID need to do this back in the day.

I also used a Gameshark to max out every single item in Final Fantasy X. Not to beat the game, but to beat the super-secret boss in the monster arena. I used the items to completely and perfectly max out all my character's stats in the Sphere Grid. Really... it would have just been quicker to put in a "instant win" cheat and be done with it.

I used an Action Replay in the later versions of Pokemon to get any item I want. Really, I only do this as a shortcut to make competitive Pokemon. I never hack Pokemon or moves, and I breed and EV train normally. And I beat the game without cheats.

 

[Hagi]

Erm...

Just yesterday I 'cheated' on Skyrim to give a certain Giant the companions are fighting ten times as much health so I could reach it and join in the fight before it was killed. I've got a whole lot of mods which make the difficulty static (nothing in the world levels with you, bandits are easy at lvl 20 and vampires will murder you) and since the Companions are famed warriors of immense prowess they kill that giant pretty quickly.

If I don't join the fight then Aela gets pissed, and Aela is awesome so that can't happen. So I gave that giant enough health to live more than ten seconds.

 

[MSfire012]

I cheated on GTA IV...dated two girls at the same time...But seriously, when I read this thread's title I thought it was about real life cheating.

Anyway, when I was a kid I used cheats all the time in every game I could. Nowadays? I don't see the fun of taking all the challenge away from a game.

 

[thespyisdead]

i use *gulp* walkthroughs every now and then that is all


i also remember using the rosebud(+1000$) cheat in the first sims game(yes... i played that game... shame on me)

 

[D-Class 198482]

I go outside in the Bethesda RPG's except for Skyrim with TGM on because I'm horrible at those games.

 

[aguspal]

I honestly cant say anything here of value simply because I rarely, if ever, cheat. I just dont see the point of it. I do admit I do some grinding, try to find adventages, sometimes maybe even exploit some bugs/errors in the game, but downright cheat, nope. Its partially because I am too lazy to put the cheats in, and because theres not much cheats in today´s gaming anyways.

 

[Yarpie]

Most recently would probably have to be following a video walkthrough on how to beat Ornstein and Smough in Dark Souls. I was stuck on the motherfuckers for a month straight, a month fillied with many "one-hit-away-from-victory"-deaths. After a while I had enough. I also used a cheat-ish walkthorugh on Bed of Chaos, mainly because people told me it was a crap boss anyway.

Another one that comes to mind was using a conversation glitch to gain full renegade in Mass Effect because I didn't have the heart to actually play an asshole...