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

I would consider dev mode in rimworld to be cheating in a “technically it is” sort of way.. spawning infant thralls that are then adopted by my colony, or spawning whatever activity site I choose are definitely not how the game is supposed to work. The mods are sort of also cheating I guess, tho most of them are content heavy.. there are definitely several hacky mods in my list, like minify everything.

But while it’s cheating in a technical sense, it doesn’t impact anyone and it’s teaching me a lot about how video games function, which I find more entertaining than completing hard-coded objectives. It’s the first game I ever put a lot of mods on, and between troubleshooting and testing stuff, it’s been nearly as illuminating as rendering lag that adds each texture layer individually starting from low poly (my ps4 is having some major lag issues I’m trying to sort out, and horizon zero dawn is fascinating for this rendering issue, so so many layers! And then to realize it usually gets processed in real time! 🤯)

As for cheating in multiplayer, it hasn’t come up in decades. WoW was the last multiplayer game I played, and I stopped that when whatever the third expansion was came out. So like 2010 or so?

Multiplayer games are absolutely off limits cheating wise for me. HOWEVER... using trainers and mods and things like Cheat Engine in single player games is not only ok, but I often treat it like it's a mini game. Can I give myself an extra 100k gold? Hmm fire up CE and let's see :)

The immense thrill I get from reducing some horrible grind from hours to minutes is just huge fun. I'm basically a sandbox guy. GTA5 cheats, for example, have led to more unexpected sandbox fun than I could ever have imagined over the years.

Not using cheats in single player grindfests is like having a first class ticket on a plane but choosing to travel economy. I think it's basically that I don't like being told to grind for the sake of it or for some "moral" reason.

I love a FUN grind though. I've spent days in games like My Time At Portia just fishing for example. It comes down to this: If a grind is fun, I'll happily do it but if it's just like I'm a mouse being toyed with by some cat then hello God mode lol

i do in minecraft. ive done the song and dance of cutting tree, making table, making wood pick, getting stone farrr too many times. i cheat in a stone set, turn on warp/tp, and turn keepinventory on. makes it a less stressful game when my true intention is just to mine and decorate with friends high after work.

I used to back in the late 90s-early 2000s in StarCraft: BroodWar when I was a kid. Mainly because I was absolute trash and was trying to compete.

My favorite hacks were map hacks (removes fog of war) and stack hacks (construct buildings on top of each other to fit more in your base). I also used a no-CD crack (glad those days are over), and a disconnect hack so that I would never have a loss on my record.

Even with these hacks I was still trash at StarCraft, and always will be. Gave up on RTS games a long time ago. Hacks can't save you from poor resource management and low APM.

Haven't hacked in a game since. I heard that they cost money these days. I couldn't possibly imagine paying real money to cheat. The closest I get to cheating in games today is playing mobile shooters in an Android emulator on PC. That way I can take advantage of mouse & keyboard + playing on a larger 4K HFR screen for smoother framerates and better visibility over a phone screen. But that's allowed (Tencent even has an official emulator for this very thing), and many mobile shooters will detect M&KB input and try to only match you with other players using the same input method, so I'm not sure if you can really call that cheating.

It does give me an advantage, though.

Only if I've already beaten the game legitimately before, and usually only to skip something that's tedious.

If a game setting or mod does not do what I want, sometimes cheats can do the trick to tweak the balance of hp, stamina, enemy health, etc.

For multiplayer games to, fuck anyone that does!

Never in multi-player.

Single player very rarely. I dont like looking up guides either unless im absolutely stuck and ready to quit the game over it.

Im absolutely a person who does everything the hard way and looks down on anyone taking an easy road. To me it devalues people who actually do work hard (example, using auto tune/melodyne vs actually learning to sing. I dont care how transparent it is, its cheating and waters down the real talented singers out there).

I don't mind cheating in video games as long as it's never against other players. Single player games or PVE games go ahead and cheat your ass off. As long as everyone involved with it is cool with it. The moment there is another human player on the other side of things NEVER cheat. Video games or otherwise.

Many moons ago I would to cheat in payday 2. Not because I cared about getting super rich but because I thought it was funny to make it rain duffle bags of gold bars that instantly kill anyone who isn't hiding under something. Or just watching the absurdity of the AI trying to fight hundreds of little turrets. The people I was playing with were just messing around for a laugh at this point. We had beaten all the maps on all the difficulties and now we just wanted to break the game.

In single player games where there's fall damage, I always mod out fall damage and carry weight limits. I don't care about realism especially when it's selective realism like in video games. So in that sense, in single player games I'm cheating all the time

Absolutely. I usually do some gameplay straight to experience the game as intended and add cheats gradually to see how much difference they actually make but cheats are just part of customizing your experience to make the game as enjoyable for you as possible.

You're younger than me, cheats weren't stigmatized when I was young. Warpzones in SMBros were basically required to call yourself an experienced player and mastering the Konami code was a basic gaming achievement. I've always viewed learning to use cheats and exploits to be one of the things that transitioned someone from a casual player to a gamer.

In single-player games only, and when I'm done with the main game as a way of enjoying the game a bit more on my own terms.

in single player, always. I don't even pretend I'm going to be fair about it.

Never. I never used cheat codes in the 90s. I always felt being OP in games made them boring

Finding cheat codes for Sega Genesis games was my introduction to the internet. It was so fun getting to tell other kids at school about cheat codes that you knew about for their games.

These days I don't, mainly because they don't seem to have them anymore, and also because if I'm not enjoying the game with its base mechanics I have plenty of other games in my backlog that I can check out instead.

If save scumming counts as cheating, then yes. But otherwise, I've only ever used cheats in single player games and I really only use cheats if either the game sucks or the cheats I used didn't effect gameplay. Some of the times I remember using cheats are:

Using the "fixme" command in Morrowind because I got stuck somewhere.

Using various cheats in the GTA games, after I had already beaten the main story, just so I can cause some mayhem.

Using the "giveall" command in Doom because I installed a weapon mod that required it.

Using the free cam that built into some emulators.

I used to use save states in old video games that didn't have saving systems but I don't do this anymore. I just only play them until I get to a point I can't progress.

I think I remember using a cheat code to access unused content in at least one game, but I can't remember what game that was.

While I haven't played it yet, there is a PS2 (I think) game that requires using a cheat code to enable widescreen (or was it 720i, or maybe there was more than one game that did this, I can't actually remember now).

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

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

I never play PvP (skill issue).

I will always cheat, but only by making the mods myself. I often find that I learn more about the game and have more fun modding than actually playing. For PvE, I make sure that everyone is aware of my mods and OK with them, or I turn off the mods they don't like.

I am not OK with ruining other peoples fun. I've even permanently deleted a mod which could cause issues in the wrong hands, because my hands were definitely the wrong hands. I'm still sad, but everyone else in that game is better off.

Everyone has fun in their own way. If a game is not fun for you, sometimes the right mods or cheats can make it fun. If no one else is harmed, then you're playing it right.

Yeqh, I do cheat sometimes, especially in games with puzzles. I love strategy, but hate puzzles, so to have fun in games that have puzzles, I do cheat so I can enjoy the rest of the game. Also, in some games with RNG, I can avoid the worst results because I dont find luck enjoyable. I like to win or lose a game depending on my skills, so I dont find RNG enjoyable. But I might, at the same time, turn up the difficulty to compensate

Cheat to enjoy the game, not to win. Winning by cheating is no fun

On my old Pokémon games, sometimes, but say I am doing it on Blue, then on red I will use none. Sometimes I wanna walk through walls on my gameboy games. That's pretty much it. Unless you consider the old Halo 1 gernade jumps out of the map. Those were Hella fun

Not really, I don't even know how you cheat in modern games. Retro games I'll put in codes if they are built into the game but not game genie/ game shark codes.

I got no problem what you do in single player games though, you do you. I don't play online multiplayer anymore but you suck if you cheat online.

Yes.

I play single player games on my PC without sharing my achievements with anyone or bragging about my exploits. When I discuss games with my friends, I usually talk about story, narrative, writing, acting, mechanics, etc. I don't discuss difficulty and I think people who say "not revert game is for everyone" are stupid, especially when a game is more than just its mechanics.

Single player games only and only once I complete the main story and any side quests that I wanted to do, only then I install stat or mechanics altering mods for a new variety of play. Graphical or visual mods I install immediately, I don't consider those as cheating. Funny enough "cheating" in Skyrim has become one of my most played games in itself. I maybe played 5 hours at most of actuall Skyrim, yet have spent over 900 hours modding, breaking and then fixing the game. This involved anything from Thomas the Dank engine ramming a Sylvari in more way than one to modifying actions and scripts where everytime an NPC says the phrase "dragon" the game would summon a dragon and who will subsequently Fush-Roh-Dah their asses across the map to the top of a Whiterun building.

Yes if the game is more frustrating than fun without it. The most notable example is probably Elden Ring, which I cheated the whole way through.

One of the best things in games that aren't super polished or balanced is figuring out how to exploit the game. It gives you the same kind of feeling you get from getting to the end game in Gothic (or something like that). Getting powerful through your own skill and commitment to the game. Steady progression is good sometimes, but so is feeling progress.

Also yeah sometimes I cheat in single player games

Honestly, I don't even like using the word "cheat" to describe customizing a single-player gaming experience in a way not blessed by the developers. Terrafirmacraft (and maybe even just Gregtech) isn't cheating at Minecraft; certainly the experience isn't "easier".

So, yes, I will play the game is whatever way makes for the most fun for me, whether that's "cheating" or not to you.

For experiences that aren't single-player, including (e.g.) anything with a global leaderboard (even at third-party one), I can understand why someone might choose to cheat, but I think I could deny myself those temptations. But, I've never been a "simple" cheat away from the top of a leaderboard or any other sort of acclaim or reward.

No. I just don't enjoy it. I feel like i don't get anything out of it.

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