I'm curious as to how common this is. I do, because I am very much a casual gamer, and I don't play for a challenge, I play to feel powerful and awesome. If I want serious gaming with a chance of defeat, I play a tabletop RPG. For video games, I don't want any difficulty.
What about you guys?
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When I've played through the game a few times I'll put in codes for a new experience. Sometimes it's fun not to worry about various things like ammo and what not.
Also, since I play on PC many times I can enable the developer console and do some fun/funny/ or interesting things. A number of times I've found items and other such things that are still in the game data but weren't implemented. So, I turn them on and see what new experience it brings.
Under two circumstances
1.I've hit the dead end.
2.I've beat it before.
Other than that first time i try to take it down on my own after that its open season on cheating. Also never when in competive play.
I don't play multiplayer at all, but if I did that's one area where I wouldn't cheat.
Also I'm a huge fan of exploitable glitches on later play-throughs.
Such as the Dawnstar chest and the Ohgram Infinium in Skyrim.
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I may use one, if only to skip grinding for ressources when I know how to do it and would be able to do it without the cheat but don't want to spend 10 hours to repeat the same thing again and again.
After I have beaten the game without cheating I will do it, just to try certain things out.
Using the weapon that does not become available until the end of the game on the 1st level is fun sometimes.
Not often. Sometimes I use them in a game after I've finished just to see things/effects/abilities I didn't unlock normally, or to go into "God Mode" after I beat it the normal way.
Sometimes I use them to fix bugs, e.g., Fallout: New Vegas decided to randomly delete a unique weapon I found so I used the developer's console to cheat it back into the game.
If I am in a really frustrating position where I just can't beat something and want to move on, I'll cheat too, but that hasn't happened in a long time.
And well, I use cheat codes all the time in the Sims, but that's different (for building/storytelling).
NOW, on a different note, I will use walkthroughs a ton, especially if I'm frustrated. That is technically cheating, even if it's not using a cheat code. Some games though seem to have a "use the guide or never win" mentality (really, Harvest Moon? How the hell am I supposed to figure out that "ice cream" is made solely of a black egg?)
I first beat the game without any cheats. After that, bring out the cheats and rip through the bosses that were nigh-invincible first play through.
I'm in the "after I've beaten the game at least once before" camp.
Though exploitable glitches, like Oblivion's Duplication/Constant Effect Glitch are fair game.
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Though exploitable glitches, like Oblivion's Duplication/Constant Effect Glitch are fair game.
Did the dupe glitch in a house with melons once. Duped somewhere between 1000 to 2000 melons. They avalanched down the stairs and killed the person on them. Was hilarious. But it took me over 30 minutes of eating/picking the melons up to even begin moving.
That's why you save before you dupe, and then just after you dupe, and then then simply reload to before you dupe if you're done, or after you dupe if you want to do it again.
Dupe.
Personally I still think the best way to kill a person was with custom spells (half my playtime removed in Skyrim =().
Had a nice one that was a 40ft radius ice ball that dealt something like 40 damage a second over 10 seconds and paralyzed and turned invisible anything in its path. I called it my Dark Portal and just flung it down a crowded street and watch everyone in the area suddenly go poof and disappear as they turned invisible, and then reappear 10 seconds later as corpses.
Depending on game and platform.
Anyway in the first playthrough i only use a guide,i no longer have the time to discover everything myself, and i want everything from a computer rpg (FF VII and Knights of Round summon materia docet).
In Skyrim (and Oblivion) once i hit the top levels (70+ in Skyrim) i begin using consolle command codes to speed up levelling further.
I avoid cheat codes, particularly today that games have become substantially easier and less frustrating, with all manners of check-points and recovery features (unlike those nerve-wracking NES days when you had those games you were supposed to finish in one go).
That said, I do enjoy using those codes that give you access to crazy stuff, like extra-big heads or getting everyone to fight in GTA.
I use cheat codes to avoid long, repetitive treks across maps (if the game doesn't have a fast travel/teleport option)and to help with Bosses that are exceptionally hard to defeat.
In my Skyrim game I accidentally made a bow that does over seven million damage.
I thought it was about 700 when I was crafting it, thinking '700 should be good enough', but the display was cutting off the rest of the number.
The first time I one-shot a dragon with it, I took another look. Inventory displayed the correct number.
How did you make that bow?
Probably by using the glitch to jack your Armorer skill through the roof.
I use them when I don't have enough time to play the game slowly, but never the god mode, unlimited ammo or something like that.
I use them when they're superficial (look like different character with no game play change, unlock costumes, so on), but ones that effect game play I only use if I'm playing around, or very frustrated.
As a kid i used to cheat all the time in single player games, i cheated my way through the likes of starcraft mainly for the story. Or went on god-mode rampages though GTA2 to blow off steam.
Today i only use cheats for actual debugging, or to correct mistakes i made too far back in a roleplaying game like skyrim. (for example failing to disenchant the gloves of the pugilist, with my unarmed khajiit and selling them instead. About 10 game hours later i decided that this was a bad idea so i used the console to reaquire them)
I also use purely cosmetic cheats sometimes.
Does exploiting the fact that shopkeepers in Skyrim get their gold back if you kill them and then reload a save count. If so I've been a bad TalonHawke.
I usually start using cheats after being the game normally.
I use cheat codes after playing the game as intended first.
Why? Because I want to customize the experience, skip the stuff I didn't like and maybe experience some of the stuff I missed the first time.