Have you ever not beaten a game legitimately.

[Chalacachaca]

So far, just Soldier of Fortune 2, I only play it when I'm really bored or pissed off, so I can let off some steam, cheats all the way.

 

[PixelKing]

I used cheats on SR2.
But I did start a new game and do it legit.

 

[pspman45]

Star Wars: Bounty Hunter for PS2
The "Lives" system got really old really fast
so did the drought of health packs during the actually tough parts
and LIMITED LIVES?? what is this, the late 80's?

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I dont cheat in games.

I think my only discretion was recently when I had been spawning the correct level arrows for myself in oblivion because i couldnt be bothered to go back to town. I made a post on here because I felt bad about it and stopped after that lol.

 

[Dragonforce525]

Well, the first thing I would do whenever I got a new game would be to search for cheats so listing the games would take a lifetime but one that always sticks out in my head is Manhunt, I think I was maybe 15 when it was released, and at that age I didn't enjoy the run and hide elements to stealth games (since then I've grown to love killing a room of people without being seen), all I wanted to do was run around slaughtering people, so I would put on the invisibility cheat and go nuts.

The same thing with Metal Gear Solid for the PS1, I would use the stealth mode my older brother spent ages trying to unlock.

 

[C95J]

I used to use cheats on loads of old games haha

But now I never use cheats or exploits with games.

 

[Tim Willard]

I usually play the first one through without cheats.

Then I plug in whatever cheats I want and then just go to town.

Let's take Fallout: New Vegas

I finished it without cheats the first time. The second time I loaded up on cool mods, but still didn't use cheats.

Now I'm using mods and cheats, and just going through the Fallout world and having myself a great old time.

 

[OrenjiJusu]

GTA 4. The helicopters....so useful.....

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

StarCraft: Brood War

That last Zerg mission where you start off with a pretty much completely undeveloped base, very little starting resources, very little immediately available resources, and practically no units... meanwhile being sandwiched between three fully developed enemy bases with tons of resources and units... on the game's hardest difficulty... when I'm not even that good at RTS games in the first place...

/sigh

/show me the money
/operation cwal
/RADIO FREE ZERG!!!!!

I did go back and beat it legitimately some time later, though

 

[Grunt_Man11]

Bloodrayne 1 and 2. Seriously, those games are meant to be played with cheat codes. They are hard to stomach without them.

 

[Legion IV]

Yes. Several times. In most cases it's been after having beaten it legitimately, mainly for my own amusement, but the one very notable exception is the Megaman X series...

I cheated my way through Megaman X, and X-2, and... X-3

By giving myself infinite health.

It's a testament to how difficult megaman games are, that even with permanent invulnerability, it was still difficult to finish the games.

(To be fair, invulnerability of the kind I was using still meant falling down any holes would still kill me. - Some of the most difficult portions involved near impossible jumps through sections where getting it wrong would land you in a pit.)

These posts make me happy . Actually the hardest part in Mega man x1 was Sigmas final form WITHOUT using the rolling sheild. They were very hard at first but i practiced and now i can beat the X series without really dying.

As for the OP ummmm, the only game ever was... Wolf 3d i had to look up a map for 1 level. Besides that i have never cheated ever. I love hard games! Lol like when i got to the secreat boss of Touhou i just smiled and even laughed it was so hard. Theres nothing NOTHING more exciting and fun then being challenged to your limits and beyond in games. What makes people rage and quit makes me laugh smile and perceiver.

 

[CrystalShadow]

Yes. Several times. In most cases it's been after having beaten it legitimately, mainly for my own amusement, but the one very notable exception is the Megaman X series...

I cheated my way through Megaman X, and X-2, and... X-3

By giving myself infinite health.

It's a testament to how difficult megaman games are, that even with permanent invulnerability, it was still difficult to finish the games.

(To be fair, invulnerability of the kind I was using still meant falling down any holes would still kill me. - Some of the most difficult portions involved near impossible jumps through sections where getting it wrong would land you in a pit.)

The pits were never really much of an issue with me, then again I was freakishly good at those games. Mapping dash to the R button helped a lot too. What I hated were the damned spikes, especially the ones in Launch Octopus' stage(with the submarines) and the X3 Sigma stages that had seemingly nothing but spikes.

I suck at the 'classic' Mega Man games though, and usually never get passed one boss. I never have felt so humbled as I did the first time I played Mega Man 9. -shudders-

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Goldeneye 64 comes to mind, I don't think I ever really legitimately played that without cheats. I usually feel dirty doing that with a game I haven't beaten though.

It's funny/sad how most modern games are so easy, you might as well be playing with cheats on to begin with.

Yeah, spikes probably count too. And I have heard that the X series is easier than the original megaman games, which is a rather scary thought...

Cheats in goldeneye are kind of weird though, at least, the ones built into the game itself, because unlocking some of those cheats is more difficult than finishing the game.

I definitely agree most modern games are less of a challenge. Mostly because you rarely have to repeat anything.

Mario demonstrates this quite well, in a way.

The original game made you redo most of a level if you died (though it always seemed to have checkpoints), but if you ran out of lives, you had to redo the whole game from the beginning.

By mario 3, losing all your lives meant you had to start again from the beginning of the current world.
(But there was still no save, so if you turned the power off, you got to go back to the beginning).

Super Mario world made you redo parts of worlds if you lost all your lives, but it had a save system, and ghost houses and castles counted as checkpoints. If you beat one, you didn't have to redo stuff prior to that point.

Super Mario 64 erased even that, (and becomes a little strange because of it), because if you lose a life you have to start a level over, but if you lose all your lives, you still only have to start the level over (but with the added nuisance of running back from the castle entrance to the level entrance.)

And even with that, Mario is relatively old-school about such things.

Whether being forced to redo things is a good way to make things more difficult or not, the way modern games more or less remove that requirement certainly seems to have made games easier.

(As to if that's good or bad, Shigeru Myamoto is of the opinion it's bad, because he thinks redoing the bits you've already beaten makes you more skilled at the end of the day. Of course, Yahtzee seems to be among a long list of people who think making games more difficult in this way is a bad thing...)

 

[TheGreatKlaid]

I'm an old cheat fiend. Back in the days, when a lot of games had cheats, I would cheat my ass off. It was fun, running through a game with everything at your disposal, like some kind of god. But you can't do that anymore. Like Bayonetta, for instance. I would have loved to have cheated my way through Bayonetta. Or Dante's Inferno. Which completely fails to bring me to a second point, about glitched cheats.

Legend of Dragoon I was 10 and got a gameshark for christmas, I went nuts and put it on all my games. I went back and beat the others but I still can't beat *spoiler warning* Melbu Frahma fairly.

Like the infinite money cheat here, which broke your inventory, and made it so that you couldn't sell anything. Or Big Head Mode in Mission: Impossible on the N64, where you rode in on a boat that had an invisible ceiling halfway into the intro cinematic, which your giant head clanged against, knocking you off the boat, and instakilling you in the river. Oh, the lulz.

Umm that's a good point, but wasn't my point. I meant that I haven't beaten the game w/o cheats. Also that thing about Mission:Impossible was hilarious.

 

[ArcticSquirrel]

Oblivion...

Which was a sad sad mistake. I keep meaning to get back into it without cheats, but I get bored of it really easily. Come skyrim, I am getting it for the Xbox so I CANT cheat.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

I'm an old cheat fiend. Back in the days, when a lot of games had cheats, I would cheat my ass off. It was fun, running through a game with everything at your disposal, like some kind of god. But you can't do that anymore. Like Bayonetta, for instance. I would have loved to have cheated my way through Bayonetta. Or Dante's Inferno. Which completely fails to bring me to a second point, about glitched cheats.

Legend of Dragoon I was 10 and got a gameshark for christmas, I went nuts and put it on all my games. I went back and beat the others but I still can't beat *spoiler warning* Melbu Frahma fairly.

Like the infinite money cheat here, which broke your inventory, and made it so that you couldn't sell anything. Or Big Head Mode in Mission: Impossible on the N64, where you rode in on a boat that had an invisible ceiling halfway into the intro cinematic, which your giant head clanged against, knocking you off the boat, and instakilling you in the river. Oh, the lulz.

Umm that's a good point, but wasn't my point. I meant that I haven't beaten the game w/o cheats. Also that thing about Mission:Impossible was hilarious.

Oh, I got that, and I do encourage you to continue trying, if you're ever wanting to, for it is a satisfying game to legitimately beat. I just remembered that while cheating through one playthrough of that game, my inventory broke, and wouldn't let me sell. There are downsides to cheating, I guess. That whole "your gamesave might be corrupted!" thing does actually happen and whatnot. Just gotta be aware of it.

 

[Artina89]

I have beaten every game legitimately. I know this sounds weird, but my dad was actually quite strict on the use of "game sharks" and what not. If we had already beaten the game and was replaying it using the various unlocked weapons, or fully upgraded weapons (like in Resident Evil 4, I used my fully upgraded Red 9 handgun during the second run through of the game) that was fine, but if you cheated during the first run in the game then you are not "enjoying" the game as it was intended, in my dad's view, so as a kid I beat every game legitimately and it is something I have carried through as I got older.

 

[UlytimateDestruction]

There are a few, the only ones I can remember right now are GTAIV and Lego Star Wars 3 though. GTA cheats are always fun to use and lego cheats made it quicker for me to get my platinum.

 

[Irriduccibilli]

San Andreas. i really tried to beat it, but i just couldnt. i felt too constrained without being able to spawn a harrier all the time. in the end i used a cheat disk to get a completed save.

and i dont regret it one bit.

Same for me, same goes for GTA III, and GTA Vice City. I always found it much more fun to play with cheats.

 

[LuckyClover95]

Tonys Hawks Underground, near the beginning I couldn't get my skateboard to fly about something so I used a cheat.

 

[Baneat]

Moot question

If you played through a game with cheating you've not beaten it.