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The other day, RPadholic Lunias wrote a great post about achievements killing cheat codes. While millions of gamers enjoy achievements, trophies, and negasonic teenage warheads, these features have definitely lessened the use of cheats, cheat codes, and cheat devices. Do you miss the world of cheats? Or are you happy that the use of cheat codes has been curbed (or eliminated depending on your point of view) by achievements, trophies, and negaonic teenage warheads?
As for me, I definitely miss them. Even though the vast majority of my cheat use was for replays and I could probably still use cheats the same way today, I’m sure they would cost me a small amount of achievements or trophies. This, I cannot have. Yes, I’m one of those idiots that will sacrifice a bit of enjoyment for some meaningless points…though I suppose it’s really trading one type of enjoyment for another. I love my meaningless points!
How about you? Have achievements, trophies, and the like stopped you from cheating? Do you miss cheat codes? Out of curiosity, what’s your all-time favorite cheat code?
Neither side phases me. I don't care about achievements and do not care about cheat codes.
Ribeye..no thanks.
San Andreas was the last game I used cheat codes for, and that was only my first playthrough. My second playthrough, I realized that I preferred the challenge the games provide.
Come the next gen, I didn't care so much about achievements until recently. Now, I feel it expands on my sense accomplishment. So, I think I've become an achievement whore, and this seriously happened in the last month or so.
What changed for you?
Good question, because I truly have no idea.
It may have been something that happened over night, it may have been a long time coming.
I really don't know.
It was me! Muah, ha, ha, ha! Welcome to the Brotherhood of Achievement Whores, brother N8.
For your initiation, you must prove that you are indeed a slave to the sweet, sweet sound of an achievement unlocking. You must drudge through three trails before you are deemed worthy of the Brotherhood. For your first test, you must unlock "Zombie Genocide Master" in Dead Rising 2. For your second test, you must achieve the status of "Perfect Knight" in Arkham Asylum, and for your last test, you must unlock "Perfect Hunter,” "Well Rounded," and "Realistic Difficulty" in Splinter Cell: Conviction.
Go now and sow the seeds of irrationality for all to see!
-M
So it looks like Mayweather vs. Cotto on May 5 and Pacquiao vs. Bradley on June 9. I'm meh on the former and intrigued by the latter. Cotto has been on the decline for a few years and I'm certain that Mayweather easily beats him. Bradley is young, tough, and leads with his head. He doesn't have the power to knock Pacquiao out, but his propensity for head butts could slice up Manny's face. His chin is strong too, so he could probably take Pacquiao's punches for 12 rounds.
Yeah cotto should lose to mayweather. The thing that bugs me about Pacquiao v Bradley is that I don't feel it's a ppv bout and I know that's what they're going to make it.
At this stage of his career, the majority of Pacquiao of fights, if not the rest of them, will be PPV. It was the same deal with De La Hoya at the end. That's just how it works now.
As for the fight itself, I actually think Bradley is worth paying for. Cotto has a name, but he's also taken two hellacious beatings (Margarito, Pacquiao) and is clearly diminished. Bradley is a young fighter that previously unified belts in a stacked weight class and is in his prime. It's the most compelling fight because the skill levels are closer.
I'm not paying for either. I don't think they'll offer any more value than a UFC bout where some guy retires during a fight…
I think that purely depends on the game. I used cheat codes constantly in GTA4 and still got the achievements I wanted. Certain achievements required no cheat codes to have been used, so it was simple- don't use cheat codes if I was going for those achievements.
Cheat codes have definitely died off in many ways, but I don't really care that much. Cheats were fun in GTA and Age of Empires. I don't really play AoE anymore, but cheats made the game not as much fun. GTA is fun with cheats, and they still exist. This isn't really a big issue for me, so I don't care what happens. God modes are still a little cool, but I don't remember the last time I've played like that.
I can't recall ever really using cheat codes. Obviously, I knew they existed, but I always got more enjoyment out of doing it the hard way, even if it meant beating my head against the wall until I figured it out.
Ive only used codes for nba jam and nfl blitz but that was about it but I was intrigued to use when the game genie commercials were out back in the day. I haven't really thought about cheat codes since those games.
Wow, I generated a discussion! That's a first.
I used cheats ALL THE TIME. I saw some cheats as dishonorable, and others as ways to increase the replay value of titles. Other cheats unlocked special content (Peace Walker, Metal Gear Ac!d and Valkyria Chronicles II). Cheat codes were a common topic in school; knowing a certain code made you a member of "the group" and made you feel special.
Let me put it straight – cheat codes are very much alive, but they aren't thriving like they used to. The spirit of "the code" has died off, leaving mere husks of its former glory. Sure, there are still codes in many games, but they feel like they only exist for old times' sake. It's not a good feeling.
Maybe soon enough Big Blak can duck N8R in a game of Russian Roulette on Kinect
http://www.geek.com/articles/games/kinect-russian…