Growing up when I was gaming in the 90s and on, I knew of the stigma of cheating in video games. You were seen as stupid, someone incapable of completing challenges on your own. You were seen as lowly, someone who can never go through life without cheating. Like, it was a pretty big deal as I grew up, hearing all of this for years on end.
I’ve been able to beat games without cheating, of course. But during my late teens and early adulthood, I just tried going past the stigma. Cheating in video games don’t necessarily reflect how you handle life and don’t translate. I’ve found it quite fun to cheat in video games. Probably not in multiplayer and especially on the receiving end.
I even use cheats just to beat games anymore, who the hell cares. People only care if you want to make a big deal about it, by showing it to everyone and boast how you’ve beaten a game in record times. I’ve tried beating some games head on without cheats but there just comes a point where you ask yourself if it is fun dying a hundred times at some part of a game. I don’t think so, personally.
So yeah, I don’t have the stigma anymore. I kinda like how gamers today only care about cheating if it was done in multiplayer or if you’re trying to beat a speedrunning record or some score record. Fun is meant to be how you find it.
People who “cheat” in single player games… I don’t care. You do you.
People who use “hacks” in multiplayer games? Scum of the earth. Don’t deserve internet access.
Single player, if I feel like it, yes. Why the fuck no, its my game, If i feel like cheating makes the game more fun for me why shouldnt I.
Games nowdays have a fuckton of griding and content that is “Collect this” so the cheats help with a lot of that.
Oh yes, I did a lot of rosebud cheats in The Sims back in the day. But it’s not like you’re taking anyone else’s money, so who cares? Then, after building homes got boring, I challenged myself to try the game without money cheats and it was like a whole new game.
Right now I’m playing Ori and I wouldn’t even know how to begin to find cheats in that game.
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When I want to, yes. I play for fun, not for some arbitrary badge of merit that the game authors decided I ought to live up to. Just because the game’s authors had their own ideas about what they think is fair and fun, doesn’t mean that they’re right. It’s my spare time, and I’ll use it the way I want.
Valheim, I’m looking at you.
I only play single player games though. I would never cheat in a multiplayer game. If I felt like I wanted/needed to cheat in a multiplayer game, I wouldn’t play it to begin with.
Sometimes, yeah, when I’m playing alone and I draw a token in Arkham Horror that would end up with me dead, I’d throw it back and redraw. When I’m playing games where I’m meant to die, like Final Girl, I’d play it straight and watch the carnage. And when I’m playing to beat my own score, like in Harmonies, no cheating there whatsoever.
Basically, if cheating furthers the story, I’ll do it if needed, but otherwise, I try to play it straight.
Wait, this is about video games? Nah, I don’t know how to cheat at video games.
Sometimes. Fun is fun. If it makes you happy and have fun doing it, do it. Who cares what anyone else thinks.
No, I would rather actually play the game then to research how to cheat in them.
If we’re talking single player games I do use cheats on games I want to play but dont want to grind for it. No man’s sky or space engineers for instance. I just wanna build shit man.
Cheating destroys the joy I get from games. I used to run cheatengine, but noticed I got bored of the game the instant I ran a cheat. So I stopped. Only time I will create a cheat now is if I get stuck in something time consuming and I don’t really enjoy the game but want to see what’s next.
Never cheated in multiplayer, people who do that should be put to death, fucking assholes.
The point of games is to have fun, so you should play the game in the way that is most fun for you. Whether that involves cheating or modding the game is up to your own preferences.
Cheating only becomes a problem in competitive contexts because at that point you are being dishonest and ruining the fun for others.
There are some cases where cheating is not okay in singleplayer games and some cases where it is okay in multiplayer games. It all circles back to whether everyone is having a good time.
Its always okay to cheat in single player games
It doesn’t matter if its single player or multiplayer, if you are competing against other people, cheating is not okay.
If you cheat to get a highscore on a leaderboard in a single player game, thats not cool. If you cheat a speedrun in a single player game, you lose all my respect. If you use cheats to beat near impossible challenges in single player games to get clout on social media, that’s despicable.
It’s not always ok to cheat in single player games.
There are zero victims in cheating in a single player game. No one is deprived of anything. Records are not single player. Competition is never single player.
Bowling or solving a rubix cube is only single player if theres just one player. Two people playing bowling or solving rubix cubes is no longer a single player game. If only one person is bowling or solving rubix cubes, cheat away! Two people in a competition, that’s no longer single player and cheating is obviously not a good thing to do.
You’re kind of twisting the definition of single player. In a colloquial sense, it’s an adjective that describes whether game modes are played alone or concurrently with others. Not literally related to the number of players that have played the game.
The label exists to give people a sense of what the game is like to play. A game can have both single player and multiplayer modes.
I would say that a game stops being singleplayer as soon as a any form of competition with other players is involved, this would make it asynchronous multiplayer in my eyes.
No matter the definition of singleplayer or multiplayer games, if you cheat and it affects other non-cheating players that did not consent of you cheating, it’s not okay.
Absolutely true!
Compete in single player games? Are you referencing speedruns?
Depending on your definition, if using mods to give myself unlimited weight limit is cheating, then I definitely cheat every game if possible.
But things like God mode, no.
If the game is a grindfest and I dont have the time, I will do whatever it takes to just see the ending.
It is meant to be fun after all.
There’s cheating, and then there’s cheesing.
Cheating to skip time is okay. Cheating to skip difficulty is lame
single player, absolutely. half the fun in the 90s was typing in a code from a magazine just to see what broke
i play how the game was intended. mainly to understand and appreciate the vision the devs intended. there are certain games ill mod for more enjoyment. kenshi, project zomboid, etc. but that was also the intention of the devs.
i dont see the point in cheating. it ultimately robs you of the intended experience and raw fun of the struggle with the challenge at hand.
i loathe cheaters in online games almost as much i loathe billionaires, pedophiles, scam callers, and landlords.
however, if the game offers fun cheats, like old school games did where you can input a series of codes with your controller and suddenly you can make every car fly, or go god mode. sure. however, i noticed in my youth that after doing that for a while it became a difficult thing to stop doing, and ultimately would ruin the game for me. so it became a thing i might do after 100% completion. and eventually stopped doing altogether.
im a lil slut for acheivments.
