Poll: Cheat Gamers

[Rottweiler]

In single player games, yes I do. Generally, I only use them after I've played through normally and just want to enjoy myself instead of regrind.

Also, some games have experiences which can't really be had without using some form of cheat- case in point, in Fallout 3 there was a special version of the Fat Man nuke launcher, the Fat Man MIRV, which fired something like 5 or so nukes at a time. Not spectacularly useful (they sprayed out wildly) and you generally got caught in the blast radius. In addition, mini-nukes were a very finite resource and took effort to find in the game.

So, after a long day, there's something to be said for using cheats to load up on mini-nukes, climb a tall building, and just blaze mini-nukes onto harmless wasteland. It's not helping you win the game (though it could if you intended to) but it allows you to do something that would otherwise be a massive pain.

 

[Rariow]

Hell yeah. By far some of my fonder memories of my early gaming life involve setting dismemberment to insane amounts in Star Wars Jedi Academy and so on. Besides, they can improve the experience when you just can't get past that freakin' boss, or you don't feel like playing the starting level for the fifty thousandth time. I'll usually not play a game with cheats on my first time through, though.

But yeah, screw cheaters in multiplayer. There's TF2 servers that provide a "premium" account, which allows you to basically get server-sanctioned cheats. The second a premium player shows up on those servers, all I feel is rage and annoyance.

 

[Xariat]

Cheating in single player games is okay, whatever floats your boat I guess. I personally don't use cheats unless I'm either A: Stuck or B: done with the game and want to go nuts with the variables.

Cheating in multiplayer games is bad. no matter what kind of multiplayer game, co-op or competetive or casual. all bad, don't do it.

 

[fezgod]

I rarely 'cheat' in single player games because it strips the fun (at least for me) out of games. I've never understood the appeal of having everything unlocked and having invincibility on because then there's no real challenge. But then again, if that's how some people enjoy single player games then so be it, everybody has their own definition of fun.

Cheating in multiplayer games is bullshit, although I've never encountered a full hacker or cheater in a multiplayer game (unless one counts screen-looking)

 

[zehydra]

If it's multiplayer, then you can go to hell.

I don't care if you cheat in single player, although I feel that kills the experience somewhat.

 

[BytByte]

It's kinda sad that you need to cheat to have fun in videogames . As long as you don't cheat in multiplayer , go nuts . But when you're not having fun without cheating , i think theres a problem.

OT: i don't cheat . Ever . I play for challenge . Hell sometimes i don't use LEGIT things in games because i think they are overpowered and cheapen the game .

There is no problem if how he plays lets him enjoy the game. Different strokes for different folks and all that. Challenge is only one aspect for most people, and sometimes the challenge can get in the way for certain types of fun people want to have. Also, good cheats are cool and creative, adding so much more to a game. Sega Soccer Slam's cheats added so much to the NFL Blitz with soccer idea.

 

[Windcaler]

For most games I dont care what people do in the singleplayer experience. I cheat in starcraft and warcraft singleplayer because Im just god awful at that style of RTS (although Im pretty awesome at dawn of war, go figure). So if I just want to experience the story of starcraft (and the first one was pretty good I havnt touched the second one yet) I kind of have to use god mode.

For other games I do care because the way the entire purpose of those games revolves around challenging the player and forcing them to overcome challenges with the tools they have in the game.

As far as the god complex thing goes, why not play an actual god game then?

 

[The AmeriCanadian Gamer]

Honestly as long as you are not cheating in Multiplayer and ruining other peoples time, who cares? At the end of the day its your time, and your money spent. If thats how you enjoy the game then more power to you, as long as it isn't negatively affecting others. When I was a kid I used the IDDQD/IDKFA cheats in Doom every, single, time.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

In a single player game it's only your gaming experience that's effected so if you don't think your experience is effected in a negative way by using cheats than what does it matter? Personally I find cheating can make the game rather boring. Oh sure it's fun at first to run around as a veritable god, but after a while it gets boring when you can take out any enemy by glaring at it.

 

[The_Lost_King]

It deoends on the game. I will cheat in any GTA-like-thing and I almost always cheat in the sims. However, in Skyrim, I try and keep cheating to a minimum.

 

[Commissar Sae]

Depends on the game, I am cheating the hell out of With fire & Sword, because getting enough cash to do anything is a huge chore in that game. I could wander trading routes for 5 hours, or I could have some fun destroying rival factions and fighting my way to the throne. Yeah I pick the later.

I only accept cheating as an option on singleplayer games though. My idea of fun does not involve ruining someone elses.

 

[uchytjes]

Challenge is fun, but only the first time around. the second time I'll cheat and mod the fuck out of everything.

Also, multiplayer cheating is always wrong.

 

[Headsprouter]

I'm very much an anti-cheat individual, outside of unfair or impractical circumstances, but if it's how you have fun, have dat fun, bro!

I enjoy cheats in sandbox games like GTA, for example and to give myself hidden, unobtainable weapons in Fallout or similar games, or to give me weapons early for role-play purposes.

But when it comes to playing the game, I despise using OP weapons and owning everything. Like this one time I downloaded a mod for Skyrim, the crowbar mod. Fix up the crowbar and get the Half-Life one! That was really cool, but the crowbar was OP as fuck and ruined my experience by my using it. My character referenced crowbars by name and by thiefiness, though, so I still kept it in my inventory. It just felt right.

 

[MammothBlade]

I cheat in single player every now and then when I want to try something crazy or push the limits of the game. Or when I suspect the AI of being a cheating bastard. Then I get even.

 

[Akytalusia]

i enjoy challenge, so i'd rather not cheat. though i'll do it if certain conditions are met. ie. if it'll save me time, and net me nothing beyond time. if the circumstances were that i could save time, but at the cost of skewing some other variable, then i'll just suck it up and do it legit. to each their own though. i don't care if you want to cheat.

 

[Reincarnatedwolfgod]

I don't cheat in most games because I want challange.

there are exceptions of course. like when I use to play the sims. the way I see it is cheating is the best way to play it.

recently when I decided to help test a mod(try and guess which mod if you can) for fallout new vegas. but I don't ever cheat extremely like using god mode (one can't verify if something is balanced when you can't be killed) but cheating in a way to speed through everything faster while not having to worrying things I usually worry about when playing normally.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

I used to be a hardcore cheater.
I bought a cheat code book back in an elementary school book fair (fairly recent but cheat codes were still around) and I cheated the hell out of so many games. The high point of my cheating career was when I blew through Doom 3 with God mode. I played around with the vehicle spawns in GTA IV and that was probably the last time I cheated. Here's the thing, I'm kind of with everybody else when I say I like the challenge but that aside, cheat codes are fun, but it just seems like games loose... I don't know, substance, when I cheat. It's really weird to explain but personally I just feel like the game becomes more like a toy when cheats are enabled. More fun, sure, but less engaging.
Although there was one time a couple years ago when I "cheated" and it was kind of fun for a while. Some glitch happened in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and it made it so my health never went down, the force bar instantly regenerated so I basically had infinite force powers, and the XP bar literally broke past the limit and stretched all the way across my tv. Going on that power trip was pretty great for a playthrough but like I said it got dry pretty quickly after that.

 

[CelestDaer]

In single player games, on systems that don't have achievements or the like? I don't cheat until I've beaten the game once the 'pure' way. After that? Fair game to have fun. If it's a game with no 'win condition'? Cheats are totally okay. Usually, I'm going through the game the first time for the experience, the second time is to tune out the game more and focus on the plot.

 

[Agayek]

Depends on the game really. I do occasionally, in order to bypass aggravating grinding or whatever that gets in the way of my enjoyment of the game.

For example, in Fallout New Vegas, my favorite gun in the game is the Brush Gun, but said gun uses .45-70 ammo, which is literally the rarest in the game, by a lot. There's exactly one vendor in the whole game that sells any of it, and it's fairly rare from them, and the only NPCs that drop it are NCR Rangers.

And I almost always side with the NCR.

What this means is that unless I cheat, I can't use the Brush Gun. So I go straight to the console and give myself the ammo instead of having to wait outside the Gun Runner's hut every time.

Similarly, I also use console cheats in Skyrim to give myself daedric hearts or the like, since the only way to find those is to load and re-load a vendor over and over again and I have better things to do with my time.