Doing whatever it takes to win

[SweetShark]

Cheats.....CHEATS EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!
When I was younger in the old goof days, I used any kind of Cheat when I got difficulties to pass something.
On FPS..........GOD MODE BABY!!!!!! XD

 

[Pseudonym]

Well, when I play FTL or CKII or EUIV I don't really care who tries to surrender or that 'this county does not really deserve an invasion into land that isn't really de jure mine anyway' let alone that 'butchering the natives is morally wrong'. I need to expand my ship/dynasty/country. In fact I don't even always read the flavour text. I might have genocided half my realm in EUIV and I wouldn't know. It increased my stability, so suck it up, dirty peasants.

 

[sageoftruth]

Doing tons of research. I hit up the online wikis for Dark Souls and Dark Souls 2 constantly, and watch skilled walkthroughs of games on youtube to learn effective techniques. I don't do it to win necessarily, but rather to take the fast route to complete mastery.

A friend of mine once said how I don't "play" games, I STUDY them.

 

[LostCrusader]

Like the OP, mine was a game of L4D2 where I was playing with some friends against the computer zombies. In one of the levels, there is an achievement for taking a garden gnome with you through the whole level and getting out. I decided to make a go for it even though its basically making the person holding it useless. We got all the way to the end and were getting overrun by multiple tanks and I decided screw these guys, me and gnome chompski are getting out of here on that chopper! I sure hope they got that achievement, but I don't think it worked that way.

 

[sagitel]

It's all pretty tame. The closest I ever felt to 'dirty' was when cam-cording the memory tests in Okami.

i had a marker that got cleaned from TV so i put numbers on screen. im not proud but the last two rocks that took 7 and 6 hits to kill was impossible to do without help

 

[Johnny Impact]

I don't really do anything super dickish. The closest is probably when I got super good with grenades in the original Team Fortress. For me it made the difference between winning and losing. An imaginative scumbag with decent aim could land one of those little bastards just about anywhere at the exact moment the enemy entered that space. I used to get cursed pretty often.

I've occasionally gotten frustrated with the stealth sequences in Black Flag and just straight-up murdered every last guard in the area, whether they were actually in the way or not. Killing fifty men to overhear a conversation seems pretty callous but, on the other hand, the game is basically about murdering people in creatively underhanded ways.