Do you cheat in games?

Do you use cheats?

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    Votes: 17 58.6%
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Only talking about cheating in single player games. Fuck people who do it in mp games.

I use cheat engine, mods or WeMod on PC if some games do stuff that pisses me off. Like weight limits for your backpack in RPGs. Can't stand it. Or weapon degradation, away with it! It's very convenient to adjust the experience to my liking and one of the main reasons that I'm hesitant to buy a console again.

Yes, I cheat not only the game, but myself. I don't grow. I don't improve. I take shortcuts and gain nothing. I experience hollow victories. Nothing is being risked and nothing is being gained. I admit, it's sad that I don't know the difference.

Obviously don't do it in every game, only when there are mechanics that lessen my enjoyment.

So what about you? Do you cheat? Would you like to cheat but it's not possible?
 
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I've used trainers before though we are talking a hell of a long time ago. There was a shitty car race mission in Mafia which was painful (one nudge from another car and you spun off the track ) and the annoying as fuck RC plane missions in GTA San Andreas (which I believe they've since patched). But aside from that no, though I'm not opposed to consulting a guide/walkthrough if I'm struggling with something, though it's got to really cross the line from fun in a challenging way into purely frustrating to send me down that route and often times if it goes that way I'll set it aside do something else and then return to it a day later after a good night sleep. Let the old subconscious do its thing and cogitate on the problem. It's generally a surprisingly effective approach to many things in life.
 
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Nope, I'm too much of an autist. I don't even use mods most of the time on PC games. I'll install a bunch, feel like some custom weapon or armor is too powerful, and get rid of it all. It's like my brain wants to beat what was originally created.

Even if something has been pissing me off for a while, I'll either go mad until I finally beat it or just say fuck the game. There are some exceptions like if I've beaten a game and it lets you enable infinite ammo or giant explosions or some fun way of replaying it, but that first time through has to be legit for me.
 
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Grinchy said:
Nope, I'm too much of an autist. I don't even use mods most of the time on PC games. I'll install a bunch, feel like some custom weapon or armor is too powerful, and get rid of it all. It's like my brain wants to beat what was originally created.

Even if something has been pissing me off for a while, I'll either go mad until I finally beat it or just say fuck the game. There are some exceptions like if I've beaten a game and it lets you enable infinite ammo or giant explosions or some fun way of replaying it, but that first time through has to be legit for me.
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Funny that. I don't tend to install mods other than visual ones or bug fixes (ala Skyrim)for the most part. I know a lot of people loved the long war stuff with XCOM for instance, but I never bothered with any of that at all. About the only thing I'll countenance is CK total conversions like AGOT.
 
I only chear if the game cheats or puts a cheap boss then I cheat with their own resources. Else I intend to play fair and with due respect.
 
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I cheat when there is something I think is dumb and don't want to do. If a game takes forever and a day to travel around the world map, I have no problem just finding a way to teleport around the map. If a game requires a 20 hour grind of the same mission/quest just to progress, you better believe I'm skipping that if possible.

I don't generally cheat as far as difficulty unless it's a game that I know I am never going to finish otherwise. Like the old Konami games that were fucking impossible for an 8 year old back in the day. I wanted to see the end of Contra, damn it!! :LOL:
 
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The last time I used cheats in a video game was back in 2003.
Cheated a lot during the early years of the PS2 era. All the games I used cheats on were either PS1 or PS2 games. I used both button codes and an Action Replay card.
 
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Everyone should play Fallout 4 on Survival totally vanilla except for maybe a UI mod and any other tweeks that fix their broken mouse movement out of the box.
 
I liked the cheat code culture gaming had and fucking achievements and trophies ruined that.

I didn't cheat to advance in games, I liked the dumb shit like big head mode and stuff like that. Or air moves in Street Fighter, stuff that makes the games crazier are always cool in my book.

As for cheaters in MP games they can burn in hell. lol
 
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When I was a kid, I played a million hours of Doom 2 and I'm not sure if I ever beat more than a handful of levels without using cheats. I cheated my ass off in that game.
 
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No, but mainly because it is inconvenient to do so. I don't play much on PC, and I don't have the various memory-card hacks, Game Genie cartridges, etc for my various consoles nowadays. Cheat codes were really cool though. Like someone else mentioned, it was a good way to mess around in the game and see how it worked. I think Pokemon was the first game that I spent a ton of time investigating cheats and trying to hack it. Missingno was only the tip of the iceberg, but it was also the early days of GameFAQs and false cheat codes / cheats so it was kinda fun to see which cheats actually worked.
 
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Grinchy said:
When I was a kid, I played a million hours of Doom 2 and I'm not sure if I ever beat more than a handful of levels without using cheats. I cheated my ass off in that game.
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Same. I mostly cheat in DOOM games too. Aside from that only if the game provides them like Resident Evil 2 Remake where you can start with a chaingun that has infinite ammo. :)
 
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Usually only after I've beaten a game. Unless a certain game mechanic is really driving me nuts. Then there are Bethesda games where I mod the fuck out of them from the get-go (not usually overly cheaty stuff, tho).
 
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Depends on the game. Typically, I use Cheat Engine to bypass extremely long grinds once I get sick of the repetition. I generally love Shadow Warrior 2 and I think it's an awesome game, but the loot system and grind got really bad after a few playthroughs simply because it slows down to an absolute crawl. Eventually, I just said fuck it and used a Cheat Engine to max out everything, skill points, guns, and also gems. Of course, I realized later that the reason the grind was so slow was because there wasn't really any upper limit for gems, so I ended up being extremely OP once I had all the gems I wanted. Oh well, still fun though.

I also sometimes use cheats to give myself unlimited ammo reserves for some games just so I can use my favorite guns more often. I don't play that way often, because games are obviously balanced around the ammo reserves, but it's fun to just cut loose every once and a while.
 
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Only after I get all the trophies I think are reasonably gettable, and only in single player offline games, and not so much cheats, but moreso exploits, or glitches, yea i'm defo not above giving myself a leg up if the opportunity arises!
 
Nah, it breaks all immersion for me and destroys my motivation to play the game, not including weird cheat codes like Big head modes or the crazy stuff Turok and Extreme G did on the N64
 
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yep. Though these days only on single player games when it makes my enjoyment greater. Use to cheat in multiplayer games as a kid. Hell in college I wrote and sold CS hacks to classmates.

it this past that landed me my first industry job. I told them about all the exploits I would use (in their games) and they said “you are gonna help us stop people like you”
 
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I used to, as a kid. Infinite shurikens in Shinobi, and all weapons in GTA3; though I would just go on a rampage before ditching my car in the ocean.
 
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Are cheats even still a thing? But if a game just gets incredibly stupid with design, I’m okay with cheesing it and just getting it over with to start enjoying the game. It surprises me how exploitable games still are and how easy AI and such can be to trip up.
 
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Are cheats even still a thing?
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At least on PC, yes and it became very easy and convenient. WeMod for example, you just launch the game over WeMod, you can activate and deactivate cheats simply by pressing buttons or combinations - which you can freely chose.

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Whenever you guys pull that copypasta remember this quote from Batman in the Brave And The Bold series:

Bronze Tiger: You're outmatched.
Batman: Maybe. But you left the school before learning Wong Fei's most important lesson: when outmatched... cheat.
 
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Sometimes but its pretty rare now a days.

I used to all the time as a kid. Most of the time is was to mess around vs beating the game with cheats. Some games I used level skips to replay levels I liked and such.

I played Doom most of the time with God mod on and all weapons. (IDDQD, IDKFA) It wasn't until much later in my teens that I discovered playing through them for real.

I must have done the debug mode on Sonic 3/Knuckles a 100 times to play through the whole games as Super Sonic and Hyper Knuckles. Something about those games and being able to just destroy them was fun.

Used trainers and such on D1 and D2. This was years after I had sunk countless hours into each. I definitely was a dick to people in D1 for the Lolz.
 
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You cheated not only the game, but yourself. You didn't grow. You didn't improve. You took a shortcut and gained nothing. You experienced a hollow victory. Nothing was risked and nothing was gained. It's sad that you don't know the difference.
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Further more if you can't win the game without cheating, DO SOMETHING ELSE, NOBODY is forcing you to play said game. If it's "too hard" MOVE ON, cheating at a game isn't gaming, it's a complete waste of time.
 
Every time that I cheat in a game, its fun for short while then ruins the entire game for me to the point that I can’t even go back to playing it without the cheats again. It’s like a gold plated turd—it looks good from the outside, but it stinks when you crack it open and now even the pretty outside is covered in turd.
 
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