Ways you've "cheated" in games

[RedxDecember]

Cheat codes aren't as plentiful as they use to be, but certain games have forgot that whatever challenge they have can be conquered with a glitch or ability or weapon. I'll get us started.

In Oblivion, I chose to become a vampire. Instead of constantly sneaking up on any poor soul and feeding I went to my house in Skingrad with my servant and waited until night when she was sleeping to feed on her. Thus I get a stat boost and a free ability.

 

[delet]

Does multiplayer count? Lets assume it does...

Back in the 'hay days' of 360TF2, my buddy and I were among the greatest 'glitchers' there. We were good at the game, yes, but we also enjoyed unwinding by 'glitching' every now and again, just for fun. We'd put sentries behind mountains, in the sky, under the ground, hovering in the ceiling behind metal... all sorts of fun scenarios.

 

[WorldCritic]

I guess I just manage to find points in boss fights where for some reason the bosses attacks have no effect thanks to either bad AI or just a random glitch. Probably the most notable was the Eddie fight in Silent Hill 2.

 

[spinFX]

Star Wars Empire at War

I conquer planets in space and on land by using only free units.

Basically in space Star Destroyers and Vader's Super Star Destroyer generate a number of TIE fighters and bombers. Maximum of maybe 4 fighters and 1 bomber per SD, and Vader's SSD generates a shit tonne more. They eventually run out but not before I've used them to destroy the enemies space station. Usually by bombing the hangar first and then the shield generator, and then bombing any anti-capital ship things, while my fighters destroy enemy bombers and fighters, then my capital ships roll in almost unopposed.

On land I use AT ATs and just continually spawn Stormtroopers (again for free, and unlike TIEs, these guys are unlimited), suicide run them into the enemy based and then use orbital bombardment to destroy key structures.

If you play carefully enough you basically can never lose a unit (except free units, but they don't count they basically live to die, cannon fodder!).

 

[Avatar Roku]

Cheat codes aren't as plentiful as they use to be, but certain games have forgot that whatever challenge they have can be conquered with a glitch or ability or weapon. I'll get us started.

In Oblivion, I chose to become a vampire. Instead of constantly sneaking up on any poor soul and feeding I went to my house in Skingrad with my servant and waited until night when she was sleeping to feed on her. Thus I get a stat boost and a free ability.

I wouldn't say that's really cheating...

I personally use the Duplication Glitch in Oblivion. At the beginning of a playthrough, I go into the ruins directly across from the entrance to the sewers, get the Varla Stone, then use the Dupe Glitch to make hundreds, then sell them all (but 1) and I'm set for the rest of the playthrough.

 

[The87Italians]

On SSX Tricky I always used to skip those turns and go over the fences/hills.

 

[Pokenator]

My Morrowind glitched somewhere in Vivec where there was a quest where you had to 'sort out troubles' with some NPC for another, if you just killed them and returned to the questgiver, he would give you some coins but mostly to keep you quiet, my game glitched and each time I talked to the quest-giver it hadn't registered that I had already spoken to him and just kept giving me coins, thus infinite money. With this infinite money I went around to all the trainers around the entire map and bought every skill to be trained until its maximum, plus got lots of expensive enchanting etc done. It was great.

 

[Flour]

Not sure if it counts, but I leveled two characters to 2000 in Disgaea 3 to make the item world easy, got a pirate ship and duplicated some statisticians with a glitch.(got the Puppy Paw Stick legitimately though, the Axel map had two enemies with the weapon, stole both, also one of the hardest maps I played)

A statistician gives 1% extra exp for every level, and I duplicated them enough times that I had six items(two characters each 3 items) with eight level 300 statisticians in them. 70 hours of work(chose bad leveling spots) got ruined when I started playing with statisticians, they leveled my characters by about 400 levels per map until level 5000 where I gained 300 per map, ended levels 7000-9999 with 200 levels per map. I wouldn't recommend doing it without statisticians though, but maybe not as silly as 7200% extra exp per kill

 

[Burningsok]

Cheat codes, on the older consoles like the N64

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

I love using glitches especially in really tough boss fights. Like in Gears of War when fighting General RAAM there's one little rock thing that can stop him in his tracks.

 

[imaloony]

Lol, I found a glitch in Oblivion where an NPC would give me my reward for a quest over and over, forever. I got sooooooooooooooo rich that I pretty much broken the game. I picked up about 450,000 gold this way, then I went on a spree, buying all the magical equipment and houses I wanted, and when I was done I still had like 370,000 gold.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

How about back in the days of the Sims 2 where I used money cheats all the time. Sometimes I would play it without cheating but it would get boring and I would go broke and my house would be too small. At the start of every family, I would buy a cheap lot, use money cheats, and build an enormous house and fill it with about 3 bathrooms and a hundred rooms they would never use. I ended up running out of ideas for rooms and most of them ended up with big empty spaces with computers that no one touched lining the walls.

 

[kwfang]

I cheated in online multiplayer before
Metal Gear Online I used to Deathloop people for an easy 2 kills
Modern Warfare 2 Javelin glitch, Care package glitch and elevator glitch

 

[Jandau]

Infinite ammo Magnums in Resident Evil 4&5. It's especially nasty in RE5, where you can get it as soon as you finish your first playthrough of the game.

Horse Archer abuse in Total War games - Attack the enemy army with nothing but horse archers. Infantry can't catch you. Heavy Cavalry can't catch you. Archers can hit you, but you just charge them in melee and slaughter them. Light Cavalry MIGHT catch you, but they tend to be rare and few in number, allowing you to once again just overwhelm them in melee. Fight the battle until you're out of ammo, then retreat. Repeat until the enemy is dead. There are a FEW exceptions here (some archers don't suck in melee, for instance), but for the most part, it's almost cheating.

Poison Blade in Assassin's Creed 2. Seriously, how it that thing even remotely fair?