If I were ten years younger, I probably would have cheated on more multiplayer games. I was using Game Genie and GameShark for single player games, but I effectively lacked opportunity for multiplayer cheating. I didn’t play enough online, and in local multiplayer I couldn’t use any programs, just the standards like screen-peeking.
By the time I had said opportunity for online multiplayer, I was 25 and had grown past it.
I wouldn’t say that’s cheating. That’s more like flipping the table over mid-match.
To be honest I voted yes and then changed it to no based on the parameters listed below the poll. For me, screen looking is definitely cheating and I’ve done that before. I’ve never used codes or anything like that though so I have to say no.
Although, does it count to use the automatic home run code in Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball for N64? My friend did that to me to make me laugh and then I did it back to him when I played the Mariners. It’s a cheat but it’s just a baseball video game and picking the Mariners was already basically cheating thanks to how good the Kid was in the game.
In my Diablo II days I once created a new character to try out a new build. When I joined a random multiplayer game to start leveling my completely new character got placed in the starting town of act 5 and auto-leveled to lvl 30.
After my initial astonishment came a short adrenaline rush followed immediately by feelings of guilt that I’ve somehow done something forbidden and so I logged out and never touched that character again, afraid the battle net police would come for me if I did.
To this day I’m not sure if it was a bug or if the game I joined was manipulated somehow.
This actually reminds me of the time we were playing Soul Blade (PS1) and I picked Taki or whoever but the game gave me Soul Edge, the final boss of the game. We never unlocked him or anything and to this day I have never seen an explanation for what happened that day. I got to use him for one fight ever and then he was gone for good
This cheating question got everyone like
Cheating Check: Is it cheating if you use third party software to shuffle up all the items in Dark Souls 2, forget that you’re doing that, don’t take the game offline, and let yourself get summoned wearing gear you shouldn’t have yet?
Follow up question: Would it be cheating if you had invaded someone instead?
I guess by the broadest terms, they’re both cheating. But relating to the original poll that gaagaagiins posted:
getting summoned? I’d say no. Invading? I’d say sorta.
The person is summoning you because a boss is giving them the business and they need help. If you’re better equipped thus better at helping them, there’s not issue there imho.
If you’re invading someone’s game it’s messier. You’re character still needed the base stats and build to be able to use those weapons, and unless you’re padding those through cheating, I don’t really think it’s an issue. Your build is something that could exist within the total context of the game, so it’s not really cheating. As soon as you make a build that is impossible or nearly impossible by normal means, I’d consider that cheating.
I kinda wish Square Enix would rerelease the Bouncer for modern platforms!
A lot of vital information shows up on the loading screens so they don’t have to worry about improving the performance.
It drives me full bonkers when in a review or comments of a game trailer people ask for other games that’s irrelevant to the current game. Like, on the SaGA Frontier 2 remaster review, it’s just like, Square Enix released it today and you want more?
I know it’s people just being excited and I’d imagine companies may use this feedback but it just comes off as ungrateful and needy.
It’s just bonkers because you can download that game all day long patched with Near’s fan translation. But people are so conditioned to think there’s anything morally wrong with doing that or that there are any actionable consequences for doing so.
I also wonder if the emphasis on dogshit solutions like retroarch have obscured how easy it still is to download a standalone SNES emulator and get up and running that way.
Im interested to hear this about retroarch. I downloaded it perhaps on Frank’s recommendation but so far I do not like it.
The only “morally wrong” way to play old games is when their gorgeous 2D hand-drawn backgrounds are sludged up mega-style by a cold and uncaring upscaling AI…
I find retroarch to be overly complex.
There has never been any reason whatsoever to get Retroarch instead of individual dedicated emulators and I will die on that hill.
Retroarch is trash, and a time sink to get working. The kinds of people who dismiss criticism of it as user error don’t have a life to miss when it swallows up their free time. And it’s ugly.
Sorry I got a little spiced up, thinking about interactions I’ve had with any retro games community besides this one lmao
Nesticle or GTFO
