The Cheating Confessional
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In Fallout 2 on my second playthrough, right after getting the vault jumpsuit, I'd head straight to San Francisco, get the location for the Navarro camp, and grab the advanced power armour, as well some of the best weapons.
all the time in old JRPGs (and after beating it once legit) 
Gameshark, Game Genie, save editing, you name it i did it.
mostly game shark in the PS1/2 era, and even then still just the JRPGs cause fuck grinding.
not only do i feel no shame, i'd do it again in a heart beat
Gameshark, Game Genie, save editing, you name it i did it.
mostly game shark in the PS1/2 era, and even then still just the JRPGs cause fuck grinding.
not only do i feel no shame, i'd do it again in a heart beat
I hate the notion of cheating - I'm all happy and well for you if you want to cheat in a single-player game, do what you want it's your game.
Please don't become THAT guy in the multiplayer of the game though. You know, THAT guy. It's just sad ;D
OT: I actually never cheated in games as of late... The closest thing you can regard 'cheating' that I've done in my game was in Skyrim using the console command for fixing bugs that some mods caused. Like a guard having a hostile AI towards a NPC that he wasn't supposed to have, or some quests that have been botched up, using a console command to avoid the issue and advancing to the next stage of it - NOT actually completing the quest, but merely reverting to the closest functional part of it after it got botched up.
I like my games challenging and would die over and over and over and over, until I've met the skill level required to complete it. No cheating for me!
I can understand people doing it after they've finished the game though - just to have a laugh with it. Can't say I'm one to do that though - I generally just upper the difficulty if possible and do another play through.
Please don't become THAT guy in the multiplayer of the game though. You know, THAT guy. It's just sad ;D
OT: I actually never cheated in games as of late... The closest thing you can regard 'cheating' that I've done in my game was in Skyrim using the console command for fixing bugs that some mods caused. Like a guard having a hostile AI towards a NPC that he wasn't supposed to have, or some quests that have been botched up, using a console command to avoid the issue and advancing to the next stage of it - NOT actually completing the quest, but merely reverting to the closest functional part of it after it got botched up.
I like my games challenging and would die over and over and over and over, until I've met the skill level required to complete it. No cheating for me!
I can understand people doing it after they've finished the game though - just to have a laugh with it. Can't say I'm one to do that though - I generally just upper the difficulty if possible and do another play through.
I abuse the shit out of Fallout 3. This is quite sad but I've actually planned out how to max out my character completely through skill books and the comprehension skill, seeing what Quests need what particular skill and basically making it impossible to fail at anything. And when I need to go somewhere dangerous to get a skill book, I just glitch to get multiple followers to do the work for me, and in order to get them I use an exploit for infinite money and fully repaired items. I am the scum of the Wasteland but I do what's right for the imaginary peopleses.
Dark Souls, I was trying to play purist but I got mad at getting twinked so much that I eventually abused the Bottomless Box Glitch to its fullest. Try to twink me now with my Enchanted Zweihander +5 and my full Orenstein's! Just to clarify, I only use these to fight off twinks, if someone fairly invades (Using longsword +2 or armor actually obtainable at that point in the game and isn't spamming Wrath of God like no tomorrow) I'll switch to the starter armor and usually some form of rapier, makes it harder to fight but there are only 2 defeats more crushing than being poked to death. (The other 2 people punched to death and being slapped with a broken sword to death.)
Don't think I have since I last pissed around on GTA with flying tanks. They keep taking cheats out of games these days. Fuck achievements! I just want to have some fun : (
I have, however, got into the terrible habit of abusing the fucking out of the quicksave feature. I blame Super Meat Boy; gave me a "Perfectly or not at all" attitude.
I have, however, got into the terrible habit of abusing the fucking out of the quicksave feature. I blame Super Meat Boy; gave me a "Perfectly or not at all" attitude.
Generally I only cheat to add amusement to a game. Saints Row isn't fun unless it's as over the top as you can make it.
Maximum altitude jumps from either the plane or tallest buildings, without a chute, naked, onto a car you're trying to blow up.
Maximum altitude jumps from either the plane or tallest buildings, without a chute, naked, onto a car you're trying to blow up.
While I would never cheat when playing a multiplayer game, I am not afraid to admit that I sometimes cheat the hell out of my singleplayer games.
I almost exclusively play singleplayer and I'm certainly not afraid of tackling a game on Hard mode without cheats, however, sometimes there's nothing like a good old fashioned cheat to skip annoying parts, mess around with the game in ways otherwise impossible or to skip glitches (I'm looking at you, Skyrim).
Most recently I guess it would have been Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II in order to get myself past a bugged door that was supposed to open but never did. Unfortunately this just caused the game to throw even more bugs at me in a fit of anger and I had to restart the entire game.
I almost exclusively play singleplayer and I'm certainly not afraid of tackling a game on Hard mode without cheats, however, sometimes there's nothing like a good old fashioned cheat to skip annoying parts, mess around with the game in ways otherwise impossible or to skip glitches (I'm looking at you, Skyrim).
Most recently I guess it would have been Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II in order to get myself past a bugged door that was supposed to open but never did. Unfortunately this just caused the game to throw even more bugs at me in a fit of anger and I had to restart the entire game.
I have always played legitly since the action replay on the PS2. I cheated on Battlefront 2 (back when I still wasn't good at video games) I played with invincibility on. But when I stopped cheating I destroyed, because I had learned to aim and move independently.
When I was younger I cheated all the time (or enlisted my older brothers help). I liked 'winning' more than the challenge and so the second I had to try hard I always resorted to just cheating my way through. Now I've either started to appreciate the challenge or I'm just enjoying torturing myself...
Notable examples of this included putting a super weapon that killed everything into the game morrowind and giving myself hundreds of units on Civilisation (can't for the live of me remember which one).
Notable examples of this included putting a super weapon that killed everything into the game morrowind and giving myself hundreds of units on Civilisation (can't for the live of me remember which one).
I always cheated in the GTA games. It was just so much fun to drive around in Tanks and such.
I haven't cheated in a while as lots of games don't have cheats any more. They have EXPLOITS where you can break the game, but not good old fashioned cheat codes.
I haven't cheated in a while as lots of games don't have cheats any more. They have EXPLOITS where you can break the game, but not good old fashioned cheat codes.
In FFTA, made Marche lv99 with max stats because I didn't feel like grinding to kill the last totema. my Marche was so boss that anyone who successfully hit him would level up.
Whenever I play A Dance With Rogues (look it up yourselves, it is a very exstensive and very NSFW mod for Neverwinter Nights 1), I have to whip out a walkthrough. Also, if a boss battle is just way too hard (mind you, I am already playing this on Easy...), I go for the Debug Mode and cheat a bit.
Otherwise, I've stopped cheating. I used to cheat a lot, many years ago, but as I grew up I realized that all the fun and excitement quickly drained if the game was no longer a challenge.
Otherwise, I've stopped cheating. I used to cheat a lot, many years ago, but as I grew up I realized that all the fun and excitement quickly drained if the game was no longer a challenge.
I recently started playing Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, I got it through the steam sale, and after a long and complicated Process I got it to run on Windows 7 with a minimum of issues.
I found a certain Boss fight (Hint for the Curious: Foxy Boxes Warehouse.) slightly more... challenging than I expected, so I refilled my nearly empty Blood-Supply through the Console and Fought the boss using nothing more than Bloodbuff and a Baseball Bat (Malkavian FTW).
I won, thankfully
Oh, and I may have also given myself some extra XP To add to my almost none-existent skills and even the odds a bit.
I found a certain Boss fight (Hint for the Curious: Foxy Boxes Warehouse.) slightly more... challenging than I expected, so I refilled my nearly empty Blood-Supply through the Console and Fought the boss using nothing more than Bloodbuff and a Baseball Bat (Malkavian FTW).
I won, thankfully
Oh, and I may have also given myself some extra XP To add to my almost none-existent skills and even the odds a bit.
I usually try to hold off cheating until I've finished a legit run of the game on at least normal. That said, if the game is comically easy, I'll cheat my way through shamelessly.
I recently bought one of those Datel cheat devices for the DS and used it on Poke'mon White to make all my pokemon level 100 super shiny badasses. I never play the multiplayer anyway, so I don't see much of a problem with cheating to beat the game or get shinies, as I've never ran into a shiny before and didn't know they existed until I jumped on the internet.
Not really cheating, but I've made the Tower of Latria in Demon's Souls have a pure black world tendancy and ran up the stairs to the boss chamber about a hundred times to farm souls off the mind flyers. Let me tell you, that is boring as all hell, but having a video analysis of something playing while you're doing it makes it bearable. Wish I could beat the game; Dark Souls has been sitting in my game collection unopened for about six months now, and I'd rather beat the previous game before playing the next. Even if it isn't technically a sequal.
Not really cheating, but I've made the Tower of Latria in Demon's Souls have a pure black world tendancy and ran up the stairs to the boss chamber about a hundred times to farm souls off the mind flyers. Let me tell you, that is boring as all hell, but having a video analysis of something playing while you're doing it makes it bearable. Wish I could beat the game; Dark Souls has been sitting in my game collection unopened for about six months now, and I'd rather beat the previous game before playing the next. Even if it isn't technically a sequal.
Unfortunately, AI's are terrible with things like hidden information, and would be highly exploitable if affected by fog of war. It would be a technically fairer fight, but much less satisfying. Even an all-seeing AI usually has a worse understanding of the battlefield than a good human player, since the human will have lots of experience while the AI only knows a few programmed responses to common situations.gmaverick019 said:
However, AI's don't need to cheat to roll over your 10 grunts with 30 tanks. Economic management is one of the things that humans are usually bad at but AIs are naturally good at. It's the main thing that separates good players from bad ones. For example, bad players often die with lots of cash sitting idle that could have saved them if only they'd spent it. More subtly, an average player might recognise the importance of putting income to use but a pro might just be more efficient at it.
I'd say that difficulty settings are more important than cheat codes. That way you can enjoy a balanced game if you aren't a great player. It is fun to cheat and just roll over the AI, but if you have difficulty settings you can just put it on Super Easy and roll over it. Who cares if the AI cheats but you can't when you can crush the AI anyway?
yeah i get that, i just wish someone would come up with a way to have the AI play by our rules a bit more effectively, just like how rubberbanding is frustrating as fuck in racing games (like mario kart).Bad Jim said:
I had a Game Genie (remember those?) for my Sega Genesis[footnote]remember /those/? [/footnote] as a kid, which I used heavily, especially on a little game with a good story but murderous difficulty called Target Earth[footnote]Assault Suits Leynoss in Japan[/footnote]. It was a sidescrolling shooter with interesting, but nearly impossible, gameplay, and a fairly involved story for the time. It was totally worth cheating at the stupid thing to see it. You might know its SNES sequel, Cybernator[footnote]Assault Suits Valken in Japan[/footnote], better. I only had one book of codes, though, and at the time didn't know you could find them online, so I only used it on a few games, and really only used it on Target Earth. That game was freakin' hard, and it was actually possible to lose at certain points despite having all of the invincibility codes on, because it had different types of damage that had to be turned off individually, and the Game Genie had really limited memory.
I also had a GameShark for my Gameboy Color that I played around with for a while, enjoying the built in code hacking features, but it was poorly made and eventually shorted itself out, fortunately not damaging the system or the game attached in the process. The danged Game Genie /still/ works.
Edit: I also used the built in cheats in a lot of PC games back when that was a thing. I particularly remember cheating in Doom, Betrayal in Antara, Warcraft 2, and Shogo: Mobile Armor Division. Warcraft 2's cheats were particularly entertaining, since there were individual codes for things like extra money and resources.
[/footnote] as a kid, which I used heavily, especially on a little game with a good story but murderous difficulty called Target Earth[footnote]Assault Suits Leynoss in Japan[/footnote]. It was a sidescrolling shooter with interesting, but nearly impossible, gameplay, and a fairly involved story for the time. It was totally worth cheating at the stupid thing to see it. You might know its SNES sequel, Cybernator[footnote]Assault Suits Valken in Japan[/footnote], better. I only had one book of codes, though, and at the time didn't know you could find them online, so I only used it on a few games, and really only used it on Target Earth. That game was freakin' hard, and it was actually possible to lose at certain points despite having all of the invincibility codes on, because it had different types of damage that had to be turned off individually, and the Game Genie had really limited memory.I also had a GameShark for my Gameboy Color that I played around with for a while, enjoying the built in code hacking features, but it was poorly made and eventually shorted itself out, fortunately not damaging the system or the game attached in the process. The danged Game Genie /still/ works.
Edit: I also used the built in cheats in a lot of PC games back when that was a thing. I particularly remember cheating in Doom, Betrayal in Antara, Warcraft 2, and Shogo: Mobile Armor Division. Warcraft 2's cheats were particularly entertaining, since there were individual codes for things like extra money and resources.