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"i hate cheating"

As a long term gamer i do not agree with cheating on computer games, it is pointless and i don't agree with it.

As alot of regulars on this sight, I like to to complete a game from the beginning to the end through all the complex (or easy) levels of the game, and when i've completed the a game (if it was hard) i feel warm inside because i have completed it after hours of playing. But there are some people in the world who can't be bothered, or find it to hard to do allthe levels so they use a cheat to get to the last level, or put a cheat that makes you invincible or gives you infinite ammo etc through out the game.

Another thing that cheeses me off is when so called gamers buy a game get so far, but then get stuck so they go and buy a guide for the game and use that complete it and then they have the guts to say that they have completed it and found it easy.

I have lent my friend FFIX and and he has been telling hoe far he has got in such short time, but i found yesterday that he was using a guide to complete, that really cheesed me off because i spent a lot of time on that game trying to to do all the mini games and get perfect score in them, and all my friend was doing was using a guide to complete

i'm glad i got that off my chest

Fish:)

It's good to see we can always rely on Sniper to sort us out when problems arise.

:-)

Use cheats only if there is a poiunt of doing it eg when you ar e frustated with the game or you have completed the game. See easy!

Cheating? Surely if you get more enjoyment from doing it that way, it's okay, right?

I never really enjoyed Sim City when I had to balance the books, and wait for money to come in. I found it much more fun when I had an almost unlimited supply of cash.

The original Turok: Dinosaur Hunter had a few parts in the game that required you to make lots of jumps. It's awfully tough to jump onto tiny platforms in an FPS, because you haven't got the view in which you can see both your feet, and where you are jumping to. I felt I had to use an infinite lives cheat, just so I didn't loose all of my damned lives everytime I reached these points.

Of course if you're going to stick an invincibility cheat into an FPS and just run around shooting anything and everything, you'll probably soon get bored of it as there would be no challenge, however, it could be fun for a while.

Likewise infinite ammo cheats. Takes away the carefull use of weapons and planning, but can be a laugh.

So cheat if you want, it'll be fun for a while, and you might get something more from the game after you've already played it to death. If you cheat from the start though, you'll probably miss out on something that makes that game special.

FantasyMeister wrote:
> I am the Tarrant wrote:
> Your life or life in general?
That
> could be quite a long time.

Neither:

"LIFE is a computer
> simulation devised in the 1960's by the mathematician John Horton
> Conway. It's a very good example of how a few simple rules can
> quickly create order out of chaos. The simulation takes place on a
> 2-dimensional grid divided into cells. Each cell has eight
> neighbouring cells and can be either "alive" or
> "dead". The rules which determine it's fate are very
> simple:

1. If a cell has one or no living neighbours, it will die
> of loneliness.
2. If it has too many neighbours - four or more - it
> will die from overcrowding.
3. New cells are "born"
> whenever an empty square has exactly three living
> neighbors."

Source: WWW.


So you've been a hardcore gamer since the 1960s? That's quite a long time! What are your earliest hardcore gamer memories?

Dan_uk wrote:
> WWW. ?

Is that www.WWW. or did you just forget the site?

I meant World Wide Web, but if you want to read up on it (and why shouldn't you? it's fascinating stuff), here's the link...

http://www.abc.net.au
/science/holo/lablife.htm

I do :)

I hate it when people get stuck on a game cos they haven't tried hard enough! Instead of tying again and again, they just give up or cheat! Then they start banging things and get themselves frustrated! (Well my bro does anyway)

Even if you do cheat to get past a level or something, if you want to feel like a true gamer again then play the level again and do it without cheating.

That way you've proven to yourself that you had the neccessary skills!

One of the first videogames I played was Doom and my cousin who owned it entered in all the cheats 'to make the game better'

At the time I didn't know what he was talking about so I just went along with it.

I wish he never did it cos I've never been able to go through Doom's 1 & 2 without cheating....

I've never been able to stop cheating all together since!

On other games I play them normally until I hear about a cheat, then I go and use it! It spoils the game for me and I hate myself for using the cheat...

Gameboy games have been the most successful for me, there aren't too many cheats for Gameboy games, especially the classic ones....but what have I gone and done....bought a cheat cart (Action Replay Pro) from Special reserve which means I can cheat on any gameboy game I want (dunno whether advance games'll work though...)

I even found out a cheat that the developers haven't told anyone about before or don't know about for the PC game War Of The Worlds (cheats found ONLY in the SR database-if published in mags can you please let me know....)

I prefer to complete games without the aid of cheats as it gives me a sense of achievement which you don't get when cheating. But once I've completed the game I use the cheats to make the game last longer! Cheats can sometimes enable you to use a weapon which isn't in the normal game, or they can enable you to play a game in a totally different way. Doom had the best cheats, the no clipping cheat was my fav. :) Duke Nukem 3D gave Duke some extra features like money appearing when you press spacebar :)

There are both good and bad sides to cheating....and I wish I could resist the temptation to cheat...

WWW. ?

Is that www.WWW. or did you just forget the site?

I am the Tarrant wrote:
> Your life or life in general?
That could be quite a long time.

Neither:

"LIFE is a computer simulation devised in the 1960's by the mathematician John Horton Conway. It's a very good example of how a few simple rules can quickly create order out of chaos. The simulation takes place on a 2-dimensional grid divided into cells. Each cell has eight neighbouring cells and can be either "alive" or "dead". The rules which determine it's fate are very simple:

1. If a cell has one or no living neighbours, it will die of loneliness.
2. If it has too many neighbours - four or more - it will die from overcrowding.
3. New cells are "born" whenever an empty square has exactly three living neighbors."

Source: WWW.