Do you consider cheating to get powerful items before you're supposed to?

Cerberus87

Cerberus87

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    I mean, I'm playing Serious Sam 3 and in the second level you can get a laser weapon which makes short work of the first few bosses, but you're not really supposed to have it at this point, because it's in a secret. I killed the second boss with the double-barreled shotgun, but I've found the laser makes it infinitely easier.

    What's your policy then? Do you use all the resources the game has to offer?
     
    if it is a secret hidden within the game it is fine to me, hell then it is not even considered cheating but exploiting secrets. If you used real cheats to achieve it, then the story would be quite different :P
     
    It's called taking advantage of what the game gives you. It's kind of ridiculous to consider that cheating. u_u Unless you're using exploits or actual cheat codes to get said item, you're not cheating. In my opinion, anyway.
     
    Oh, I guess I just like to save strong items for last and handicap myself. :P

    But I can be quite liberal, too. One example is the last time I played Pokémon Crystal. I caught a Scyther in the Bug-Catching Contest and decided to add him to my party. I evolved him as soon as I could steal items from wild Magnemite west of Ecruteak. It doesn't say it anywhere, and it's not intuitive (actually back in the day I found it by accident), but wild Magnemite can hold Metal Coats. Problem is, storywise, you aren't supposed to have a Metal Coat before Kanto. Still, I decided to steal a Metal Coat from a wild Magnemite and evolve my Scyther because I wanted him to be a Scizor already during Johto.
     
    If it's just finding a secret, why not?

    But if it's actual cheating, as in using a cheating devise to obtain an item, then no; that's never an option in my book.
     
    A few times on some games I've already beat.
    I don't often replay them again normally so I just do some cheats or exploits to play through it while being overpowered.
     
    I use cheats to try to break the game when i'm bored. For example i used the console command in Portal to get both portals at start of the game about a month back, the result was quite glitchy.
     
    I love action replay and downloading sav files to an SD card. :D
    I use it after beating a pokemon game for the first time. I mainly use it for my Gamecube & Wii fighting games because I'll be damned if I unlock all the characters myself.
     
    Cerberus87 said:
    I evolved him as soon as I could steal items from wild Magnemite west of Ecruteak. It doesn't say it anywhere, and it's not intuitive (actually back in the day I found it by accident), but wild Magnemite can hold Metal Coats. Problem is, storywise, you aren't supposed to have a Metal Coat before Kanto. Still, I decided to steal a Metal Coat from a wild Magnemite and evolve my Scyther because I wanted him to be a Scizor already during Johto.
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    I wouldn't say that means you're "not supposed" to get a Metal Coat before then. If there's wild Magnemite holding them then the item is available now through legitimate means; that's not really cheating, either. :v

    Although I'm not entirely familiar with Serious Sam, but the way you said it makes it sound like sequence breaking in Metroid, though I'm not entirely sure I'd consider that "cheating," either. You can sequence break to speedrun the game, sure, but I've usually seen people do it to make runs harder, like 0-1% runs, lol.
     
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