Is cheating in videogames really that bad?

>>715430669 (OP)
Of course not. Everybody does it.

Everyone cheats and bots these days, completely normal.

>>715430669 (OP)
No? didn't you read the article?

>>715430669 (OP)
I beat it legit, but I honestly don't care if you cheat. As long as you had fun. I'm not one of those cringe fags that think save states is cheating

Hey, if you win, you win.

>>715430669 (OP)
people have been cheating since literally forever, what's the issue here

>>715430669 (OP)
>cheats on Isshin
Imagine not beating the game but also not playing it

Single player game:
Do whatever you want, just don't go online and brag about how easy the game is/how hardcore you are.

Multiplayer game:
Kill yourself

Playing Fire Emblem on permadeath mode and resetting after every death is cheating by the way.

>>715430669 (OP)
Why the fuck are you still trying to recycle this 5 year old bait?

Cheating is objectively wrong. If you're not good enough to earn it you shouldn't get it. To believe otherwise is commie bullshit.

Isn't cheating in a video game a crime in Korea or somewhere like that? It should be a crime for the whole planet.

>>715430669 (OP)
Games journalists really are shit at gaming. If you need to cheat to beat a game, I generally don't value your opinion on that game.

>>715430858
knew a guy from some balkan country, and the tests at their university was extra hard just because they knew that everyone would cheat

>>715430669 (OP)
Not that bad in single-player games, many games have that difficulty spike that can ruin your walkthrough if you didn't play it right* before it.

>>715430669 (OP)
Apparently it was enough to write a fucking faggot article about when no one asked or cared.

>>715431136
The thing is that they are very useless at the end of the day. Most people get by rot memorization of superficial facts, they will never need like 90% of whatever is taught in the college ever in their life
I think exams must aim to fail the biggest amount of people possible, however it's one thing when education is almost free and an entirely another thing when you are on the clock to graduate as soon as possible because otherwise you will end up full of student debt from loans

>>715430669 (OP)
I had to use WeMod to defeat one of the final bosses in AC Shadows because I was literally dying in one hit when I had to hit him about two hundred times to deplete his two health bars.

>>715430669 (OP)
Honestly? Playing Megaman with cheats is more fun than playing it for real. Grinding energy before Sigma fight is just cringe game design, sorry.

>>715430669 (OP)
Strange. If you can make it to Isshin you should be able to just beat him too.

>>715431770
Lol imagine beating those old NES games without save states and using gay passwords. What a waste of time

>>715430669 (OP)
This is even more funny because Sekiro with kuro's charm is easy as fuck.

>>715430669 (OP)
>Is cheating in videogames really that bad?
singleplayer games? no
multiplayer games? yes

>>715430669 (OP)
if you want to cheat you can do whatever you want it's your video game
if you go online and brag about how you needed to cheat to beat the game that's pretty weird and people should be looking down on you for it.

i gave meself unlimited missiles for tank in Batman AK

game is good now

>>715431939
I meant SNES ones and GBA ones, but yeah, NES ones are cancer too

>>715430669 (OP)
No, who cares, move on

>>715430669 (OP)
not if i'm bored
if the game can't entertain me then everyone else will

>>715430669 (OP)
never beat him to this day but I refuse to be a faggot about it. I basically forgot how to play at this point and should just start over desu. Surely my reflexes have gotten better over the last 5 years.

>I'm fine!!
>n-no shame!!
Cope

for a NES game designed to be completed with Nintendo power? Nah. Cheating in anything passed fourth generation is gay though

It’s your software, use it how you like. But cheating is stupid, at least in service of making the game easier (“cheats” that alter fundamental game design are just mods and that’s fine). Not for any ethical reason, but because a video game is not a job. Nobody is making you do it. You paid money for the privilege of engaging with a made-up challenge, for the purposes of entertaining yourself. If you don’t want to engage with that challenge, just turn the game off. Do something else. Nobody is forcing you to do something that isn’t fun for you. Why would you pay money for a challenge and then deliberately subvert the challenge? What do you gain by doing it?

>>715430858
I was a college teacher up until last year. Things were good and I enjoyed teaching until I reached a breaking point around 2023. I had to quit this year because I lost all passion for teaching when every student had 0 engagement in class and all I did was talk to myself and grade AI papers. If it wasn't for AI I think a large portion of students shouldn't have left middle school. The future is scary.

>>715430669 (OP)
Not really but if you start bragging on how you beat the game with cheats no-one will take you seriously.

>>715440272
as a uni student all I can say is that neither students or professors have any motivation left, everyone understands that college just needs money so they are totally fine with churning out people who cheated with AI through all their courses, just like professors use AI too to make presentations and shit because nobody cares really, they get paid for their job and the grads get the piece of paper, god chosen tribes head of a bank gets another student loan, everyone is happy it's jsut that we don't need to pretend that college is used to give you some knowledge anymore

How many chinks are in this thread lmao what in the actual fuck.

>>715430669 (OP)
>Is cheating in videogames really that bad?
No.
It was perfectly fine and optional for YEARS until achievement whoring and online functionality because borderline mandatory.
I think the option should be there, at least after an initial playthrough the campaign, in a way that doesn't effect online since so many people take that shit so seriously
I love being able to play a game as intended, and then play in essentially god mode and just racking up the highest retarded scores and annihilating everything stupid enough to cross my path.
If I wanted a challenge, I'd go outside and do normie shit

I don't read stupid articles written by stupid journos (or AI) and I feel fine.

>>715441809
Truly bizarre how in these honor bound cultures they consider a win a win no matter what

>>715440772
A fair take, but in my experience, if I put that much stock into what others think, I wouldn't be into gaming like I am today, or at least trying to stay into it. If they wanna be uber 1337, fine, that's their prerogative. As long as you're having fun, what difference does it make?

today i will remind them

>>715434998
What the fuck is up with him anyway?
Every picture I see he looks miserable as fuck

>>715430669 (OP)
gonna come clean I used a dupe glitch in dark souls 3 to get more embers purely for the nameless king fight cause I bought all the buyable ones and farming them was taking ages. only fight that i used summons on but it must've taken me a over a hundred tries even with them

>>715442139
I mean that is fair as well but there is a reason speedrunning always has those people flexing their cheated times.
And usually they are not even bad at the game, they just want the prestige.
It's absolutely case-by-case.

>>715442652
Missingno in rby, and bobbybird in the southpark fps was god tier

I cheesed both corrupt monk they are both harder than isshin sword Saint


Nvidia Reflex via RTSS helps a fuckton

>>715442910
Of course. I just miss the days when developers would purposely leave cheats in, or create them just for shits and giggles. People who grew up on games since the 80s and 90s might just recognize a certain element of "fun" that's been missing from games since the mid 00s. Not necessarily because of a lack of "cheats", etc , but games just seemed to take on a feeling more like a "product" than a "toy". Who knows, maybe I'm just too much of an idealist, and talking out my ass

>>715430669 (OP)
>Is cheating in videogames really that bad?

No. Mastering FromSoft games is waste of time. I play their gaymes with trainer. Literally, better get good with sword IRL, than waste time getting good at slop

>>715442225
Crunch should rather train in Kendo or HEMA to improve IRL. Or maybe learn Japanese.

>>715430669 (OP)
>April 5th 2019
Why do people post rage bait from half a decade ago?

>>715430669 (OP)
While I didn't particularly find him that easy, he wasn't even that hard either, spent more time on double ape and demon of hatred. This from someone that never played a souls game before sekiro

>>715443172
I personally miss cheats for alternate costumes and silly things like big head toggles.
I think the worst thing was that stuff like costumes just ended getting shunted to paid DLC or pre-order bonuses for the most part.

>>715443413
Shitting on game journos will never not be fun

I get no satisfaction from cheating.

>>715430669 (OP)
bragging about cheating is weird

Who am I to say?
I'm sure rapists feel the same way. Killers too. Hitler and his subordinates the same. The Aztecs too. I'm sure the Romani feels no shame when they scam. These people exist.
All I know is I'm not a cheater because that's the way I chose to live my life.