I played San Andreas with cheats at first. Never wanted, infinite health, etc. Made the game too easy in my opinion, and the thrill of outrunning the police was never experienced. I tried again this time with no cheats activated, and I can honestly say I earned all those missions. They were easy enough to begin with, but you'll appreciate surviving gun fights more and would feel like a pro killer.
I liked the invulnerability and super punch cheats. You'll feel like Superman when everyone's shooting at you and you slowly walk towards them, not being hurt at all. Then you hit them with a punch and they go flying. For the racing parts, I don't use cheats but I did enjoy doing the misc races during the riots part of the story. Lots of exploding cars, exploding cop motorcycles, people fighting in the streets; it was the most awesome racing experience ever.
It really depends. I like doing things on my own and try not to use cheats. However, sometimes if I get stuck on a game or extremely bored, I will use a cheat every now and then. But most of the time, I like putting in the work and doing it on my own.
It's also about earning your keep in games. Can't really brag about finishing a game when you used a cheat code to make you unkillable for the most of the game. Can't really brag to people that you solved that puzzle in seconds when you had to watch a Youtube clip explaining what to do. It's all about earning your happy ending, and I feel like using cheats to make the game easier (when you're trying to beat the game) is just a waste of time since you may as well enter a code that finishes the game right there.
Yes you are right using cheats take away the bragging power of a gamer. But you have to agree that there are some stages during play that gamers will require help. Especially that one keep repeating over and over again with a breakthrough. If you want to remain on that position that using cheats or watching how to play tips remove the bragging right then also playing a stage over and over till you master that stage and scale through is equally wrong and a waste of time like wise remove bragging right because you could have won the stage straight up without being defeated.
Yup, so it really sucks when I see players on Youtube bragging how they got a million gold in Witcher 3 after the tutorial area. Like, did you earn all that or did you use an exploit or cheat to do it? If so, then why brag about it? Anyone can cheat the game to make the game easier. It's another to do a speedrun or a no death run on Youtube. Now THAT requires skill. Not having to exploit cheats just so you can say you can buy everything in the game after 15 minutes into the game.
Yeah, I'm the same way. For the most part I have nothing against cheats, but at some point I feel like they just start to ruin the game. In the case of RPG-style games like Pokemon, I tried using cheats a few times and just got so bored with the whole thing that I had to completely start over from scratch. On the flip side, one of my favorite Gamecube games of all time is Tony Hawk's Pro-Skater, and I'm unashamed to say that I abused the "unlock everything" cheat code to further my enjoyment of it.
Pokemon has cheats? lol, it's a kids game, who cheats on that? And I think it's not worth it since using cheats in some games either disables your achievement progress and you'll have to start a new game, or it will ruin your save file and then you'll need to start a new game. Definitely not worth it if you consider you're already halfway through the game, enter a cheat, ruin your save, and repeat the entire thing all over again.
