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teawrecks, wczoraj do games w Do you cheat in video games?

I’m generally not interested in playing a game in any way other than how the dev(s) intended. Ex. for a souls like, I don’t get any enjoyment using mods to access content I’m otherwise unable to on my own. Using cheats to unlock all guns in GTA, or to get infinite rare candies in pokemon, or to time travel in Animal Crossing is fun for all of about 5 minutes, at which point I feel like I’ve deconstructed the fun out of the game.

My unique experience with a game is defined both by what I do and what I don’t experience. If I use cheats to ensure I experience everything, then IMO I’ve effectively dashed anything unique about my experience with the game.

That said, there are games that I feel I’ve experienced all there is that the dev intended, and now I can use it as a platform for my own creation through mods or custom game modes. Those are generally few and far between though. Something like Minecraft, primarily because it works great as a platform for multiplayer interaction.

W3dd1e, wczoraj do games w Do you cheat in video games?

What do you define as cheating? Like I might look up a guide online, sometimes, but I never use mods or exploit bugs.

crapwittyname, wczoraj (edited wczoraj)

Looking up a guide isn’t cheating.
Would you consider using a mod to get infinite money in Warhammer Total War, thus bypassing the need to build production buildings and allowing you to focus entirely on military infrastructure and creating huge armies all over the map, therefore creating a global Wood Elf hegemony, which would otherwise be completely impossible cheating? So would I. But I’m doing it anyway because it’s fun and I paid for the game.
Glory to the Asrai.

REDACTED, wczoraj do games w Do you cheat in video games?

I use cheat engine speedhack (with different speed hotkeys) in almost every game. Got that long walk in Witcher/Skyrim ahead of you? 2x game speed. Got some waiting to do while the base builds in Command and Conquer? Speed up. For whatever reason you can’t pause SPTarkov? 0x speed. As someone with limited gaming time, Cheat Engine speed function is a blessing

BurgerBaron, wczoraj (edited wczoraj) do games w Do you cheat in video games?

If I find a game too tedious and I’m about to drop it then sometimes I cheat whatever currency the game uses by editing RAM values which is braindead easy. Single player only. If it makes me want to keep playing. I have less patience for poor pacing as I get older.

Except Wreckfest if it counts. I had zero interest in the shitty single player campaign. I just wanted to race online but the game locks most cars behind a crappy uninspired single player grind. I gave myself enough money to just buy everything and then soley focused on online play.

Edit: oh and carry weights are my second most cheated thing. I get no joy out of shop runs. I don’t give a shit if my pockets being unlimited is “unrealistic” so is carrying whatever artibrary capped number it is like 250lbs everywhere without a backpack. Takes nothing away from the fun to cheat this waste of time shit.

Infinite Weapon durability in System Shock 2 and Zelda BOTW also come to mind. Stuff like that.

PapaStevesy, wczoraj do games w Do you cheat in video games?

How else are we supposed to play DK Mode Slappers Only?

ZoteTheMighty, wczoraj do games w Do you cheat in video games?

I played Saint’s Row 4, does that count?

redsand, wczoraj do gaming w I think Konami confirmed mgs4 had 40% of its logic written in powerpc assembly

So rebase and use unreal engine konami

danielhanrahantng, wczoraj

Wouldn’t o3de be better.

Grass, wczoraj do games w Do you cheat in video games?

you can’t cheat on a blow up doll. solo play is not cheating.

mrgoosmoos, 2 dni temu do games w Do you cheat in video games?

no, I mod them

there is no such thing as cheating in a personal game

don’t tell the people on Don’t Starve forums, but save mods are totally okay and not at all “cheating and ruining the game”. you know what ruins the game? losing my several hundred days of progress because I didn’t actually pause the game when my dog started making puking sounds and I ran away from my computer

also, Minecraft automation - sure, I could let my server run overnight, or I could just directly give myself the materials the farm would have produced in 12 hours and save the power consumption. ofc I validate all my farms before I do any of that, and I don’t give more resources than they produce.

crapwittyname, wczoraj

Yep, I bounced off Don’t Starve so many times after losing everything on a good run. It’s too involved, too long, and there’s too much endgame content to be happy to start again after making a tiny mistake dozens/hundreds of hours in. It’s not like Hades or Balatro where a top tier run lasts like half an hour. If life was as ruthless as Don’t Starve, there would be no time to play Don’t Starve, because we would all be dead.

mrgoosmoos, wczoraj

having those discussions about DS on the internet a decade ago is when I realized how many people on the internet were literally just children

crapwittyname, wczoraj

Masochistic children

sp3ctr4l, wczoraj

Also, don’t attempt to use the term ‘mod’ as it is used literally everywhere else, with people who play GTAV/RDR2 online.

In their weird, niche vernacular, ‘mod’ = ‘hack/cheat engine’.

Chronographs, 2 dni temu (edited wczoraj) do gaming w I think Konami confirmed mgs4 had 40% of its logic written in powerpc assembly

You’re talking out of your ass, you can’t say “Konami confirms” about something you think is true because they said something else.

danielhanrahantng, wczoraj

I said I think because I do not know how much assembly the game uses all I know is it is a big amount because with linux part of it is written in assembly so it can use the nonstandard parts of the cpu and the cpu features of the ps3 were not standard at the time.

Monster96, 2 dni temu do games w Do you cheat in video games?

Whenever Skyrim would randomly crash and send me back to the dungeon as soon as I get to the boss, I use console commands. Other than that, flying, lightsabers, killer mushrooms, turning zombies in l4d to fall guy bean people, those are all fare game.

thingsiplay, 2 dni temu do gaming w I think Konami confirmed mgs4 had 40% of its logic written in powerpc assembly

Let’s wait for the Ai driven rewrite of those parts into C, and then covert that code to whatever they target.

redsand, wczoraj

From PPC assembly? WTF data would you even train that AI on

danielhanrahantng, wczoraj

Agreed but what about the parts that are not standard in cpus today

danielhanrahantng, 2 dni temu do gaming w I think Konami confirmed mgs4 had 40% of its logic written in powerpc assembly

I meant remaster the game

EarMaster, 2 dni temu do games w Do you cheat in video games?

These days games often allow you to individually change the difficulty which I make use quite often when I feel a game is becoming too much of a hassle than a joy and I still want to know how the story continues or see what might be coming.

I don’t think I have used a classic cheat in a long time. The last time I actively remember was The Sims 3 (I guess) and it kind of killed the game for me because suddenly everything was possible without any challenge and even a normal playthrough felt like I was missing something.

sunshine, wczoraj

I don’t think I have used a classic cheat in a long time. The last time I actively remember was The Sims 3 (I guess) and it kind of killed the game for me because suddenly everything was possible without any challenge and even a normal playthrough felt like I was missing something.

totally had the same experience! for me it was jazz jackrabbit 2. I totally still remember some of the cheat codes.

Warl0k3, wczoraj

jjgod is the only one I remember, jjcoin and jjfly might have been ones too? Man I played the -heck- out of that game as a kid…

ordnance_qf_17_pounder, 2 dni temu do games w Do you cheat in video games?

I had to cheat to get any fun at all out of Far Cry 6. Piece of shit game.