The Cheating Confessional

[MSfire012]

I cheated on GTA IV...dated two girls at the same time...But seriously, when I read this thread's title I thought it was about real life cheating.

Anyway, when I was a kid I used cheats all the time in every game I could. Nowadays? I don't see the fun of taking all the challenge away from a game.

 

[thespyisdead]

i use *gulp* walkthroughs every now and then that is all


i also remember using the rosebud(+1000$) cheat in the first sims game(yes... i played that game... shame on me)

 

[D-Class 198482]

I go outside in the Bethesda RPG's except for Skyrim with TGM on because I'm horrible at those games.

 

[aguspal]

I honestly cant say anything here of value simply because I rarely, if ever, cheat. I just dont see the point of it. I do admit I do some grinding, try to find adventages, sometimes maybe even exploit some bugs/errors in the game, but downright cheat, nope. Its partially because I am too lazy to put the cheats in, and because theres not much cheats in today´s gaming anyways.

 

[Yarpie]

Most recently would probably have to be following a video walkthrough on how to beat Ornstein and Smough in Dark Souls. I was stuck on the motherfuckers for a month straight, a month fillied with many "one-hit-away-from-victory"-deaths. After a while I had enough. I also used a cheat-ish walkthorugh on Bed of Chaos, mainly because people told me it was a crap boss anyway.

Another one that comes to mind was using a conversation glitch to gain full renegade in Mass Effect because I didn't have the heart to actually play an asshole...

 

[Arcobalen]

I'd say somewhere around a year ago I used the glitch that kept equipment stats on you in Oblivion without the equipment on. Just sat there doing it over and over until I had over 40k mana I believe. I then went and created a spell that could kill anything in one hit.

 

[Rattja]

Cheating? Who? Me? No..

Well, maybe a litte.. a bit... a lot..
But I have personal rules to keep myself from ruin anything for either myself or others.

First of all I must either have completed the game, or grown bored of it, or as a last option if not even walkthroughs work. You only get that fresh first run once..

Secondly I try to not do anything that breaks the game, as I know that I will always be tempted since I now know about it.
This is kinda hard to judge, and unless patched can really ruin the game for me.

I don't see anything wrong with it really, as long as it does not affect anyone else then yourself. It can be great fun doing things you are not supposed to do. Or even better, see something funny/strange happen, then try and figure out why it happens to see if you can exploit it! =D

Also, think about this, why would the people who made the game put cheats in there if they did not want them to be used?
I mean cheat codes, not glitches or bugs.
Howdoiturnthison anyone?

This topic made me think of my favorite ones, like food/wood spamming in black & white, with a norse wonder "We need food! *mirical food* N-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-no-no-no-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-no-no-no-n-n-Norse Power!"

Battlezone had a good one "imadirtycheater"

And who has never cheated in sims hm? =p

Gosh, there are so many fun ones too, flying tank in GTA, stair of paint brushes in Oblivion, big heads in fps games, just about anything in golden eye 64, raining cats and dogs in Toka 2..

But my favorite one has to be the gold glitch in diablo 1, mostly because I found it and figured it out all on my own, and also since it's not something you can do right off the bat when you start a new game.
Filling tristram with gold was kinda fun too.

 

[shrekfan246]

I killed The End by fast forwarding a week on my PS2. THERE I ADMIT IT

I blew up the explosive barrels after his first cut-scene, while he was being wheeled around by nameless mooks. It actually took better timing than you might've expected.

OT: I cheated a lot in Skyrim, but that's because especially with beginning new characters, vanilla became really boring, really fast.

I've reloaded saves a few times in my first XCOM: Enemy Unknown play-through.

I'm having a hard time thinking of others. There aren't really a lot of games that allow you to just cheat anymore (and I don't consider looking at walkthroughs to be cheating, because you still have to actually do whatever you're stuck on).

 

[Poetic Nova]

First time playing Half Life 2, enabled god mode and infinite ammo.

 

[Something Amyss]

I don't really cheat much. Unless you count in-game options, and even then I tend to use things like unlockables only.

I did use a Game Genie back in the day, though. Mostly for fun.

 

[Tahaneira]

Basically, the main reason I will get a game for my computer rather than for the Xbox (if it isn't exclusive) is if I want to cheat on it. Every Elder Scrolls game I have gotten I have played on the computer and I cheat unashamedly on. HOW ELSE AM I SUPPOSED TO BRING ALL OF THAT LOOT HOME?

And yeah, I almost always cheat on RTS as well. (Campaign only, I don't do multiplayer.) Otherwise, I play games straight.

 

[Twilight_guy]

I honestly don't remember. It's been a long time since I felt the need to. However, I do remember adding in cheat codes into games I was making. That's always fun.

 

[Ryan Minns]

Honestly... I can't remember any... wait no I remember in Baldursgate 2 I edited Aerie's stats and added some int or wisdom (I can't remember) so she could be an awesome mage/cleric and before that I loved Unirally on the SNES and discovered that instead of actually doing awesome stunts in the stunt tracks I could simply turn sideways over and over and over again till the time ran out. Not exactly a cheat but I did feel like I was cheating since I was getting monstrous scores for nothing

 

[JokerCrowe]

I kinda cheated in Katawa Shoujo during Rin's arc... I just didn't know what to do to get the Good Ending that girl was like an enigma wrapped in a mystery with a riddle sauce and a paradox drink... ;>>
Otherwise I really can't remember...
I THINK I cheated playing Star Wars Battlefront II Multiplayer, but that was mostly just changing the rules for everyone, like "You can't die" or "Bazookas have infinite ammo". It was a fair kind of cheating, (if that makes any sense)

EDIT;
Also I just remembered, sometimes I use walkthroughs on really difficult flash puzzle games. Like Submachine for example, that game is just ridiculous.
Also when I was like ten I cheated when I played the original Sims (for like a Week). I think the cheat unlocked all the things you could put in the house. Or maybe it gave you infinite money or something.
I don't think games nowadays use cheatcodes as much as in the 90's/early 2000's. So Walkthroughs is the worst I've sinned when it comes to cheats.

 

[ohnoitsabear]

When I played Zoo Tycoon as a kid, I would cheat to give myself a shitton of money. I would also use a cheat that unlocked unicorns. Because they're fucking unicorns, that's why!

 

[horkrux]

I think cheating in your singleplayer experience is hardly worth a confession. Bring on the aimbot/wallhack confessions, that would be more appropriate. Never mind.

Just recently cheated in Fallout 3 to get a few relevant items I've previously dropped somewhere in a museum. Didn't bother looking for them in every nook and cranny.