Why Have Cheat Codes Disappeared From Video Games?
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2017
- Cheat guides! Books! Sites! GameSharks! All things you never hear about anymore for finding cheat codes. Where did they go? Let's talk.
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Cheat codes are still in most games, you just enter a 16 digit number in the micro transaction section
brandon I think your humor is a little too high level for this crowd. But I really appreciated it 😂
of course and most of the time those are literal cheating.. especially in multiplayer games.
Exactly! and now it's the player being cheated instead of the game haha.
So true!
Rein Rafanan Facepalm
They disappeared and were replaced by micro-transactions
Matt Marcil yep exactly
Matt Marcil Pay to Win = New school cheat codes
:) Also the game developers are hand in hand with those websites selling "trainers", (like cheats happen), sharing the fat profits.
#Truth xD
Lol saints row3 litterally sold cheat codes for money
I bet everyone can remember : AEZAKMI , HESOYAM , NUTTERTOOLS , PANZER ...
Vice cityyy
HESOYAM is my favourite cheat in gta sa
Rocketman
BAGUVIX is my favorite cheat
AEZAKMI: No more police, hell yeh baby
HESOYAM: 250.000$ and a balistic vest
YECGAA: JET PACK ACTIVATED
OHDUDE: Hunter
JUMPJET:Hydra
And a lot more
The first cheat code I've ever learned was for getting Cj a jetpack in gta San Andreas... No cheat shall surpass the jetpack
ROCKETMAN
Ps2: Up down left right L1 L2 R1 R2 up down left right
Flying car was better
I still think HESOYAM and Professionaltools was the best.. Life and ammunition
Me too man, it was the first cheat code I've ever learned too
I remember having a notebook full of vice city and San Andreas cheat codes
Me to
Gretings
Same
HOBO BRO same xP
baguvix... no no no no is it hesoyam? a fuck thats the wrong one damn it
that was my whole gta sa experience
I still remember GTA San Andreas Cheat Codes
Soban Mustafa they're shitty af!
dante Saunders on ps2 circle right circle right left square triangle up is never wanted
Their no where as good as San Andreas Cheat Codes.
rocketman
mattsey hesoyam jkjkszpj baguvix rocketman fullclip
“Games have gotten easier”
*Shows Dark Souls 3 gameplay*
Nice
Advanced Casual he means they are all big cenimatic movies now as the story is more focused on rather than the gameplay.
@@pyeltd.5457 *Assassin's Creed*
For Honor.
Easier in a way, you still can crank up the difficulty in most games.
But also so much more playable. NES/SNES - one life, one hit, one death and no saves. I don't miss that crap AT ALL.
git gud
He also said narrative will always matter, then showed Bloodborne. I'm pretty show that's the game to argue against narrative lol. Squid baby. Just sayin'.
When you only have maybe 1 hour to play per day due to work and life..Cheats are nice to eliminate time consuming grindfests in RPGs that could take me months to beat.
Derp?
that's kinda the point of the game. that's like saying "Why beat the game when i can use a cheat that beats the game for me!"
That's why people use cheat engine for getting exp, money and items (like transforming 2 potions into 99 potions). Say no to grind in single player games.
Depending on the game it can even improve the gameplay depending on your preference, I personally HATE encumbrance/inventory management so its one of of my most often used "cheats" in games
Another example is Sims my girlfriend and I will often use it to get a rough idea of a room, apartment, house etc. layout before moving heavy furniture around so the money cheats are great for this.
In alot of RPGs granting yourself a bunch of xp or a particular ability to test its function to see if your reading it right before building around or using "cheats" to allow you to "respec" since despite the fact that say...lightning spells look really cool it seems 20 hours into the game most enemies are immune or extremely rsistant to it so your lightning mage is basically useless (so many games seem to scoff at adding a respec option for some reason)
Note: This is from a single player and in certain cases local co-op perspective, online multiplayer should not have or be extremely careful implmenting "cheats"
@@mrpndaman129 good for you, but for some of us don't have the time or patience to grind out countless hours. I personally want to progress through the story and game play instead of grinding out repetitively. One specific game for me was wild arms 3,. For fucks sake I loved that game, I couldn't finish it though because of all the stupid random encounters. I kept getting. Wish there was a cheat code I could use to limit the random encounters in that one.
I used to buy the cheat code book from my school book fair every year! :) The good ole days
Same here. I've saved up some coins just to buy one thing, the cheat book. Gosh, I feel like a fossil now
Tyclone OMG SAME. the days oh those were.
I didn't xD I just asked people or online. Waste my money
I knew I wasn't the only one haha
I used to go to walmart, go to the part of the magazines with the mail-in cards, write the codes on those, and steal them... I was so bad
1999: Press some buttons for an extra life.
2017: 10$ For an extra life.
15$ new skin and car dlc
New skin and car are not cheats... That's an add-on.
repugnantone lol your right my bad
1999:Press some buttons to get rich
2017:Give us real money so u can have some ingame money
Yup
Ahh the good old days
Tell me if u remember this
"Leavemealone"
GTA 1 and 2 I believe.
I member' that, writing cheat codes on paper and shring them with friends for something!
WTF IS SHRING THEM
Writing down on the back of copies. :v
Me 2 mate.
@@wastedtalent666 you know what he's on about why be a d*CK??
It's because they can sell it as DLC.
30 mins long DLC with absurd overpowered gear in it
indeed...
Or because of gay ass achievements
Jesters Gaming What makes an achievement gay ?
Gargoyle that's what just cause 3 has but it's fun as hell
Who else had a cheat sheet
Me.Still have
Jordan games heck i even had the cheat book
I have cheat sheet for GTA SA.
AND ITS 8 YEARS OLD NOW! LoL
had one for SA, lost it long ago, but Hesoyam, aiwprton, stateofemergency, rocketman were the deal (+baguvix/baguvwix/baguwiv, forgot it)
more like a cheat book :P
Serious Sam had a cheat code that turned the blood and gore into flowers. And is to this day, my favorite cheat and game of all time.
Shay Shelton yeah I enjoyed that too the hippy one. The cheats always started with please.
It was never a cheat the hippy option was there at the menu itself!
Oh my god serious Sam first and second encounter WHAT A GAME
I was blown away at the time
Also by the multiplayer
R1, R2, L1, R2, left, down, right, up, left ,down, right, up
Weapons cheat 1 grand theft auto San Andreas
Think that's the wepons code in nearly all the GTA games :D
L R X R LEFT BLACK R LEFT X DOWN L L INFINITE AMMO
you are a FRICKIN' LEGEND (i remember that cheat too)
r1 r2 l1 x l d r u l d d d
infifnite health
Yes mate I forgot about that one till now lol.
the numbers on your credit cards are the new cheat codes
Lmao i never thought of that
That really is true now in the days of pay to win.
Nice.
Glenbert Alimpulos havent read something so accurate until now.
So tru
My favorite cheat code from my childhood is the flying cars cheat in gta: San Andreas
Squishy Toast yesss
Flying rhinos were the best
itschittychittybangbang
did you use ripazha or chittychittybangbang
RoccoGames YT i always used ripazha cause i didnt speak English at the time xd
Rocketman from gta San Andreas! I always started up a new game, type in rocketman, an fly with my jetpack to the other end of the map! 😆
Ok
Flying tanks!! Turning the cannon the opposite direction and shooting it making the tank go zooming by everything in flight mode lol. So fucking funny 🤣
@@drunkalfuzzyness the nostalgia😂😂😂😂😂😂
Also the cars would automatically explode when the tank hit them😂😂
@@shayanmoosavi9139 🤣 also invisible car mode so people just sat in seating position floating around haha
Remember "leavemealone"
Vice City
Yes..I used to use it in Vice city
But it seems like it's actually working...
It is my favorite cheat code.and the only one i still remember.
@@josaphcj7199 what about "panzer"
@@josaphcj7199 what about "panzer"
Now they're called micro transactions
Heisnberg True
Nah, microtransactions usually don't amount further than the equivalent of 'spawn X', if that's all you used cheat codes for before, I pity the life you wasted.
I've seen cheat packs here and there, but for the most part it's for exactly the reason in the video. If you play on a PC, you can access many of the debug commands the developers may have used still, giving some equivalent of them, but for the most part it's simply unnecessary.
Heisnberg Haha you made me laugh!
I have literally never seen a micro transaction that is worth spending the money on. I have played TTTOONNNNNSSSSSSSSS of mobile games and found nothing. The only things that are somewhat worth spending money on are apps that aren't games, like a speedometer app I paid 2 dollars for so I could have the full features after doing some really massive upgrades to a car. The in app purchases for games are literally, "Hey, give us $4.99 for something you'll use up in 30 seconds!" and cheat codes in the old days were "Hey, push these buttons and you can have 30 extra lives without paying anything extra so it's actually somewhat possible to beat Contra!" So I wouldn't say cheats are now "called micro transactions". But I do understand your joke and your point. I think people really, desperately, need to STOP spending a dollar for an extra try in Candy Crush Saga. Even if you can afford it. It does nothing but encourage the micro transaction idea to continue, rather than the pay once keep it forever model that has been extremely successful and beneficial to people without buckets of cash they can throw at a game in order to pay to win. The other fucked up thing about those transactions is that if you can afford to "occasionally" toss 99 cents their way, over the course of a few months, you could easily afford a full game on Steam, considering all the discounts they regularly run. Hell, a few years ago, I got Terraria for $2.50, now it's 10 dollars and I still play it from time to time. Even for 10 dollars, you can't get that kind of replay value from an inapp purchase. Ever.
Microtransactions are more of two dudes standing around, one says to the other, "Hey, you remember video arcades? Weren't they great? You just plonked down the machines, paid for electricity and a little maintenance, and money just rolled in!" "Yeah, what of it?" "Well what if we could get them to pay for the electricity too!"
They still exist they just call them micro transactions now
Those are cheats for sure "Microtranstions" imo ..have always been a cheat so it's truly fitting. Makes a ton of sense now I think about it.
FlameSp33y AMV its like moremoney code from spore but you pay for it when you use it
Their is the console in computer were you can cheat from.
Selecterstylee No... Saints Row is like the only actual relevant game to make you pay for cheats.
That's completely true lol
My game!! My Experience! basically if you paid for the game I believe you are entitled to tamper with it, except of course in Online games where cheating could definitely affect others!
My favorite thing to do, way back when, was to (after I had beaten a game on my old NES for the first time), break out the Game Genie. If you owned a Game Genie, you will likely remember that, in addition to the printed codes, they had 2 methods of altering codes. I used these two methods to create my own method which was kind of a synthesis of both methods, and usually had the result of taking whatever the original code did, and ramping it up to 11, causing the game to break in really weird ways. For example, I tried applying my method to the "mega jump" code in Mega Man 3. The result was that, every time I jumped, I would immediately skyrocket out the top of the screen (regardless of whether there was a ceiling above me or not), in through the bottom, and so on for about a minute before spontaneously dying. Now, obviously, this made the game completely and totally unplayable, but I thought it had been a cool effect. I just loved break-testing games this way.
I miss pressing a few buttons and having the entire city riot in old GTA games.
Alexander Wayne Nobody every talks about this cheat and it's my favorite.
Gabriel Maldonado problem was all pedestrians riot would fuck up your saved game if it was enabled when you save
Enters Civilians have weapons cheat....
Blown up by an RPG wielding old lady a second later...
Tank code, blow up all cars, give pedestrians weapons, gore mode, flying cars. Gta sucks now, invincibility for 5 minutes?!
Alexander Wayne everyone riots + everyone has weapons makes for some awesome carnage.
I do not remember shit from highschool, but boy I remember all the cheat codes of SA.
R1,R2,L1,X,UP, LEFT, DOWN, RIGHT, UP, LEFT, DOWN, RIGHT
"Fuck, I pressed one of the arrows twice!"
Deadpool Most important what
Deadpool which I don't get :(
Johnny Bravo That's one of the reason I switched to PC...
What is SA ?
"Chicks with guns"
"Fanny magnet"
"Fight fight fight"
Then just drive around town typing "Big bang"...
...until you have to play the Demolition Man mission 😂
Shut up.
@@mrsantoro8306 🤐
@1:01 that makes you an old bird?! DAMMIT!!
Off topic but, I once accidentally printed out a whole walk-through for Ocarina of Time on my friends moms printer. Came to around 100+ pages. She was fucking pissed but I beat the game because of it. Win in my book.
Nsd 0 I did the same in middle school with Pokemon action replay codes it printed hundreds of pages my teacher was furious
You're both dipshits.
Ray Garcia thanks, my dude
i used to print out pictures of weed at the library
I printed out all the gta san andreas cheats at school once my teacher told me to photocopy some for him haha
Micro transactions are the new cheat codes
Phyzae how lol
Phyzae how lol
Incorrect. Micro transactions are things you buy (usually for an advantage but sometimes for purely cosmetic purposes (I'm fine with cosmetic because it provides no advantage)) and cheat codes are a button combination or a *_code_* (shocking right?) that you type in.
Y'all asking why or how you do realize a lot of cheats were cosmetic why code being blue when you can sell it
Floppy We need to fight Micro Transactions
I can still remember the Hydra code fo GTA SA because growing up, I spent way too much time covering every single square inch of that game
Triangle, Triangle, Square, Circle, X, L1, R1, D-Down, D-Up
Thank you for doing gaming videos that are not obvious. Asking the real questions, and doing awesome work. I love this channel.
San Andreas was the king of doing stupid shit with cheat codes. spawn tank, spawn car, invincibility, cash codes, jet pack, flying car, and making npc's fight were just a few of my favorites. (sigh) PS2 days:(
Orlando Campbell jup, I didn't even even finish the game cause I just did stupid stuff. the hospital was basically my home.
Have you guys played saints row 2?
I played the first 4 missions and that was it, the rest was just flying cars and explosions
Spawn a tank, turn on flying cars and you got yourself a flying tank!
Playing SA on my jailbroken ps3 is awesome
Im surprised you didn't touch on the one of the main reasons I have. Back in the cheat code prime of the late 90s early 2000s games like GTA were played purely for fun. Beating the story, stealing cars, and playing split screen with friends was fun. And then when you were done playing, you turn off the game and come play the next day, that was literally it, which was why cheats were so fun to use because for example, you put on infinite ammo and all of a sudden its a whole new game, a whole new experience. But it seems to me cheats started phasing out when games became a lot more serious. All of a sudden when the xbox 360 came out, now you have achievements, gamer scores, online data bases that tracked every stat of every game, online gaming started becoming the games main attraction rather than the story mode. Games became viciously competitive when all this started happening in the mid 2000s and anything that gave one player any advantage over another player became shunned. Now a days entering cheats causes you to deactivate achievements, not allow you to continue with parts of the story mode, and they can misrepresent your in-game stats, etc. Which is part of the reason why devs got away from them.
TLDR: is that everyone loved cheats when games were purely for fun and entertainment, now games are so serious and competitive and every stat you have is so closely tracked that unfair alterations of the game have been phased out. just my 2 cents.
Yea, games are becoming less fun too. I work enough irl, my hobbies dont need to be a nosegrind as well.
There are very few games i can actually enjoy nowdays, they take too much time and money. And casual games are for babies and old people.
I can remember a few games where it was not possible to deactivate the Cheats, which in some way used to be the punishment before. Banjo Kazooie was a fun one which warned and then actually erased your save if you cheated too much. I have to admit, there was really something lost
This was a great breakdown bro
I recently picked up Jedi Outcast on Steam and blew my kids minds (as well as my own) that I still remembered about half the cheat commands nearly 20 years later. Good times.
I remember programming a smart phone game, and forgot putting some symbols and it made my game harder, so I just fixed it and added the harder version as another part.
it's not a bug, it's a feature
@@obedulloa6219 Cyberpunk 2077's catchphrase.
Lets all just blame ubisoft for no reason
Andre S okay
Damn you, Ubisoft!
@Andre S
*NO HONOR.*
Goobisoft
Yes and EA
L1 L2 R1 R2 up down left right L1 L2 R1 R2 up down left right
GTA San Andreas, Jetpack. Used that code obsessively.
MrTristan the real code for the jetpack is "Rocketman" ;)
Pfft fake fan. The first trigger inputs were not needed for the code :p but damn I'll never forget that chit
MrTristan Circle, right, circle, right left, square, triangle, up. I used that cheat obsessively
the most remembered cheat code of gtasa
The one for the grip suit Caz I want those bitches chasing me
Up, down, left, down, left, right for Battlefront 2. I believe this enabled comic effects for when Wampas hit Rebels. It was hilarious to watch when I was a kod
Starcraft:
Show me the money
Poweroverwhelming
now you have to show blizzard the money and you'll get banned for being offensive cause their power is overwhelming
"there is no cow level" is the cheat you put in for a younger sibling
I was thinking about that :)
Black sheep wall
Operation cwal
I remember being the only one with a printer when GTA 3 was released and charging all my mates at school £1 for an A4 sheet with all the cheats on. Oh how times have changed.
Silus Jackson hahaha
hahaha you're awesome mate
Silus Jackson Makes me feel so young lol
*You're an infamous cheat dealer..*
I wish I got into gaming younger so I could do this
another reason that cheat codes are disappearing from games is that most games any more focus on online multi player rather than a single player/ story mode
120skyscraper Not eveb remotely true. The overwhelming majority of the market is avtually tailored to sjnglenplayer experiences. Only the more "mainstream" games are focused on MP
Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight had the console command "DEEZNUTS," which boosted all your Force powers by one point. Yes, LucasArts, a kid-friendly company, put deeznuts into a Star Wars game.
Some other cool-sounding cheats from that game were "RACCOONKING" (all Force powers), "YODAJAMMIES" (restore manna), "IMAYODA" (all light side powers), and "JEDIWANNABE 1" (god mode).
I used to love cheats...I honestly miss them. I used to have Game Genie's, Game Sharks, Code Breakers...used these all the time after I finished a game, it helped up the replayability. I mean I remember modding the hell out of my Pokemon Red and Gold versions (I used Blue and Silver as the non-cheat ones), or winning money from friends in Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005) because I used a code called "Max Infinite NOS" and I learned how to drive perfectly around the city with NOS held down at all times...so when they would race me without cheats...it was like everything was in slow motion and they couldn't touch me.
Nowadays though, I'm a die hard trophy hunter...and any games I've ever played that still has cheats in them almost always disables trophies...so unless I have the Platinum already, they end up being useless to me anyways.
My favourite cheat code and the one that is more nostalgic is flying cars in GTA SA on the PS2 so much fun
Anti Veladas Hell yeah boiiii!!!!!!!!
That flying car cheat was baller, it sure made zooming across the map easier and faster.
my sister and i still play gta sa to this day because of multiplayer free roam and the flying car cheat.
Especially when used on a tank. Flying tank=mass destruction
Anti Veladas There was another cheat that made it where if you hit a car it would just ascend to the sky 😆
Gotta always love them San Andreas cheats. ❤
Jeremiah Gaines agree
Anyone else remember jumpjet for the Hydra?
Srg. Random me still remember them to this day
Jeremiah Gaines lol, same.. but it was more fun to use cheats on gta vice city, like the cheat 'pantzer', this would spawn a rhino (tank) next to you, and i did 2 things with the rhino, 1. i spawn 1 rhino, get in the rhino, start driving on a long road, then turn my barrel 180 degrees to shoot backwards, and kept shooting until i flew away over vice city (VC is the only gta game i know the rhino barrel force doesnt have a limit), or 2. going to vice city airport, and verry closly next to the military base the is a building, with 2 roads, 1 normal level, 1 under that road, and started spawning like 400 rhino's, until my game was on the edge of crashing, and then i made 1 rhino explode, to make a chain reaction, i could do that all day, and optional but only really usefull for GTA Vice City: the Car hoverboat cheat, to drive on water, that was great!!... sweet old times men.. sweet old times.....
IGS-DB Productions. Copyrighted Inc. I was a console gamer lol, but I know what you mean. Also mayhem mode?(referring to another commenter)you mean riot mode? My favorites were flying cars, 6 stars, unlimited health, infinite ammo, fast motion(shotguns and rpgs become machine guns 😂) riot mode, super Punch, and peds have weapons
One of my favorite non-Konami cheats was for Mega Man III. Holding Left on the Player 2 controller would allow Mega Man to jump higher & even become invincible if there was a stage that had pits. This however, wouldn't work when landing on or touching spikes.
I remember using the state of emergency cheat code a lot back in GTA: SA. I loved to see the city filled with chaos and make my own story from that, kinda like roleplaying.
I love the cheat codes from the Age of Empires and Age of Mythology games. Not just because of the resources but also how nonsensical some of them are. A meteorite shower made of chicken, a bust of George Washington that can spit fire, a flying pink hippo - just to name a few.
The Monster truck. ^^
I remember playing with friends on a LAN party, trying to play it propperly, and the someone getting desperate and using the HOWDOYOUTURNTHISON cheat. 2 minutes later, the whole map was filled with machine gun cars. Good times.
And it's even funnier since the Age of Empires games tend to be incredibly realistic, lol.
ye olde aztec vette
and the classic from the orignal AoE "BIGDADDY" ahahaha
a lot of cheat codes became microtrasactions.
damn you microtrasactions!
Cheat Codes > VR, DLC, microtransactions
Unlocks became Trophies, and rewards for unlocks also became microtransactions......more reazons to hate those.
Yeah i hate microtrasactions.
Q:How much does this game cost?
A:Infinite
motherlode
*cough* SR4 *cough*
I used some Cheats in the Warcraft III campaign. Some of the levels were just frustrating hard or long and I wanted to know how the story goes on. So I never skipped a level but I used things like *keysersoze* for gold and wood or *whosyourdaddy* for god mode or *warpten* to build faster (which also effects the opponent) so that I dont miss any of the Conversations which happened during Gameplay.
Invincibility and infinite ammo along with all weapons unlocked immediately were my favourite cheats.
I had a book about cheat codes, it had all the cheat codes of the popular games of that year
I'm House Nigga I had one for 2007
that book was lit lol
I'm House Nigga
And Gamesharks
I'm House Nigga I used to stand in wal mart and memorize them or write them down or just say fuck it and rip out the page
lmao
I miss reading sloppily written cheat codes
Bounty Hunter Kakazu "was this a '0' or an 'o'... fuck my life"
especially for unlocking characters in dbz games
"5 or an s...."
Making the Cars fly in GTA: Vice City or any Cheat in that game. It was so fun to be given full control over a game like this
I used to use a lot of cheats on GTA: Vice City. Cars driving on water, was the main one, along with character skins. As someone who sucked at the games at the time or wasn't interested in the story, it was a great way to explore other areas of the map. Even the cars were different.
Answer: they haven't, you just pay for them now...
LuL
saints row
James Lewis sad yes
I don't get it
Enver Ozbey companies are starting to sell game features as DLC's or add-ons. Things like flying cars, super punches, etc.
Enver Ozbey Back in the old days there were playtesters hired by the devs. Today the gamers buy early access to playtest for the devs... we pay to work for them :/
Old Tomb Raider games had a nice skip level cheat code, people would often also suggest that a slight variation of that code would let you... see a little more of Lara.
Needless to say that wasn't a thing, and that code blew you up instead.
Elementalism :D lol,
i remember using a cheat code for Darius Twin for the snes, boi that game was nightmare to pass just the first lvl, after that the other levels were really easy, but that cheat code make me saw the game itself, and how good was, more than just the first level music and game over scene :3
In Gothic 2there were cheats like take control over an NPC.And so a friend and I had a great time creating our own Storyline with Xardas. We had so much fun, that it took quite a while until we noticed that Xardas is invincible. Because he gives out the Main Quests and you couldn´t finish the game if he accidentally dies they made some Characters unkillable even if you take control over them.
Cheat codes or console commands are always a nice thing.Because when you finish it,the replayability is still there and you can experiment and even make it more fun.
*beats skyrim 10 thousand times in 200 hours + saves as a stealth bow or stealth dagger*
Hmm, don't want to restart all over to test this but what if.. *command line to get destruction 100 and all perks and try to kill stuff as mage* it's always pleasurable to be able to test shit before going head on into it, chating levels, spells,items, etc, even if temporary should be a thing in all single-player games.
games today can simply be moded. That way you’re not stuck with the cheats provided, you can dream up any cheat imaginable
Drexxler 1 modding games isn't anything new and I would guess it used to be easier to mod games when games were simpler. Consoles still don't have the ability to mod games, bethesda "mods" don't count in my opinion. So not really at all.
Heliotarra bethesda mods suck, but their a step in the right direction.
ah yes, i remember getting impulse 101 cheat for all weapons and skill scientists in the intro missions of half life, and spawning aliens under a elevator so they get crushed by the elevator or marines on top of lethal machinery that can kill. still very fun to do.
They were removed once tracking achievements become commonplace.
The Playhouse The real answer!
The Playhouse not really most games can just disable achievements once you type in a cheat
The Playhouse most games turn off achievements when you use cheats so that's a no to this one
Jason Hofmann yeah Serious Sam for example does that.
altho yes they can disable achiements if u type a cheat , but with mods and other ways to alter games programmings you can turn them back on , so i think thats the reason , its sad realy cus i enjoyed wrecking havec back in gta SA 😔
"All your base are belong to us" empire earth
Mohamed Lamine Benzagouta hahah Yes!!
I miss cheats soooo much!! It’s not that I or anyone else needed them, but they were real nice to have to play around with.
I think there are not many games today that use cheat codes because most of them now are connected online even single player games. (Leaderboards).
you could so easily work around that tho by just having a simple piece of code in your game like:
if they're using a cheat then lock achievements/leaderboards until the game is exited and resumed without cheats
or
for every cheat used add a "Score Bonus" of like, -1,000,000 points/cheat.
or
If they cheated to get on the leaderboard their name gets a little thing next to it that lets everyone know it was cheat-assisted (like something demoralizing, like a mocking nickname in italics or a pink bunny icon)
any of those would take an hour to program and function as a "divider" between the different types of players... the last one is more of deterrent tho, not a divider.Something you'd probably see in a doom/duke nukem game lol
this. just by reading the title i was 100% sure that some asshat would have said "but now everything its online duh lulz lolz" as a lame excuse...
I'm playing again the old and brutal GRAW (Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter) and some levels are nearly impossible without "cheating". That said, it's a lot harder than the modern Wild Lands, the latter doesn't need cheats at all.
GTA 4 did the achivement thing.
The problem with online leaderboards is almost every single one is hacked. In every game I play that has leaderboards, the top 200+ slots are filled with people that have billions of points when the max is a million or so, or a speedrun time of 00'00'000.
The cheat I remember most is the original sonic the hedgehog.. up,down,left,right, hold A, START.. now chose a level..
assassinxsteveo .
Thank you!!!! Now I don't feel so old anymore!!!
I'll go back to my hoop and stick now...
I used the Konami Code, and I recall level skip and some others as well in PS games. But the main code I recall was hitting ~ to enter command prompt in most early PC games (Hexen, Heretic, etc) and simply typing 'god' or 'godmode' to turn invincibility on.
Grew up with BIGBANG (x15 in pause menu).
My way of letting out day's frustration! It just felt so satisfying...
Scrolling down this list and finding myself disappointed. So here's two from my childhood:
IDDQD
IDKFA
TimariusNoirnelend BRO I JUST COMMENTED IDKFA UP THERE lol
TimariusNoirnelend I posted idkfa then found your comment. that makes us bros, bro.
A Swedish Overwatch pro player uses the name IDDQD and he also has a second account named IDKFA. Random facts ohoy!
TimariusNoirnelend IDKFA Yup
Fertho have i found a fellow overwatch player?
Because there too many multiplayer focused games out here and most of the real single player games are adventure types of games. Seriously, not everyone in love with FUCKING MULTIPLAYER. GODDAMNIT!!!!!!
Super Spicy Dankster . I can agree 100%
Yes! And I hate the ones that only have online myltiplayer. I have 2 brothers and I would love to play something, like Destiny, locally.
Turtles day out ...YAAAASSSSSSSSS
I'm in love with local couch multiplayer though, I miss the olden days when I play 007: Everything or Nothing or Conflict: Vietnam with my friend. Good times.
Not in love with multiplayer, because you aren't good at multiplayer
Ahhh the good ole days of cheatplanet, game genie, game shark, action replay and playstation underground. Miss those days.
in some games there is debug mode implemented that allows to mess with "cheats" and other things in game console
you can try to activate it but it needs eather a separed file witch works like a password or a password that you enter before activation
if it is online game debug mode usualy disables playing with others and instead it will connect you to a special debug server
Ahh cheat codes, how i remember you fondly. From playing Sonic the Hedgehog and turning on debug mode, turning into random objects, selecting levels, and of course unlocking Super Sonic, was great fun.
Or using my Gameshark and/or GameGenie plugging in every game i had to see what amazing things i could do on all my favorite games! Yes for those who dont know, you actually plugged the cartridge into these things like some sort of Frankenstein operation and it gave you a bunch of cheat codes. Although it would sometime ruin your saves which was RAGE INDUCING!
R.I.P 90's, good times.....
akame ga kill!!!!
you just reminded me that bro died😔
R.I.P the one and only, Bro. A true bro till the end!
Maybe you'll be interested in the views of an old time game developer, around 1989. Back then we were often only one or two people programming a game on multiple platforms and the cheat "codes" built in were for development. In one case for PC and Atari ST I built a level editor right into the game and used it myself to create the levels, but the publisher didn't like it. So I created a way for me to leave it in but gate it, so it's not "in the game" from the start (only after you finished it).
I myself never used keystrokes, but more hidden flags, like a specific name in the "Player Name" field or the existance or content of a specific file and I am sure developers today still do it similarily, maybe even through network parameters or DNS names.
It's just way more simple to do QA when you have a way to bypass certain things. If the publisher asks you to "show level 43" they don't want you to play a couple hours through the first 42, and because they will want to test the master version, it must be possible to skip in the master.
Debugging the code isn't one of those things, though, that's typically done with _DEBUG flags in the code and conditional compilation, even back then. That code never left my desk, simply because it would slow down the game and fill up the gamer's hard disk (or floppy...) if I left it on.
Padraigh Claigh yeah this video is wronn
hey, what games did you help create?
Padraigh Claigh what games did you make
Mindbender in 89 and The Second World in 90 are two that you should be able to find
Paradaigh Claigh
Second world is an amazing Game. I played it on C64 as one of my first Video games. Very unic gameplay. I think it influenced strategy games a lot.
I used to play Lego Mars Mission on the Lego website and I'd use the code "newbie" sometimes. It gave x3 health to allied units and buildings. Shame the game no longer exists though, it was a good game
All ammo and all weapons were my favorite. Also serious Sam was my all time fun shooting game. Unreal tournament as well.
I want my cheat codes back. I don't want game-advancing cheats like invincibility or no clip, I want shit like big head mode or a character skin.
Zudexa you wanna play shovel knight then
It has like 500 cheat codes for each character
Zudexa Its called DLC now :(
Zudexa B I G H E A D M O D E
You mean DK mode. Paintbal mode. Golden PP7. Yup.
And my favorite cheat code in life is pretend I’m sick to not go to school
Or work.
Infinity Stones
lmfao
That code never worked, only way I could skip school was if my parents actually witnessed me throwing up or I was so sick I was sent to the hospital : /
The jet pack cheat in gta sa ! Best cheat I’ve ever used
Idkfa god mode or all the guns cant remember which for the 1st doom still remains in my brain and havent played that game since the late 90s
Tony Hawk had some amazing cheats.
Explicit Tech Agreed!!!
Tony Hawk had the best cheat codes
yes
I always had the gravity cheat on so there were moments when I could do like 5 backflips
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"games have gone easier"
**shows dark souls**
There aren't as many hardcore difficult games like Battletoads, Contra or F-Zero GX out there.
Dark Souls is hard in a fair way, and maybe older games were difficult to a fault. Bad controls made the grapple beam and walljump harder than needed in Super Metroid.
Cuz reasons
no. DS has been made PURPOSEDLY hard.so it doesn't count
Loghan Gaming Duh, he chose 3, the easiest of the series
dark souls isnt that hard demons souls was harder than any dark souls any game where you can simply learn the enemies attack pattern and defeat them is not hard the only people that think dark souls is had is those that treat it like a button masher
Any gta cheat but san andreas was esp fun cuz i loved the super human bunny hops on bikes.. but also most the gtas i would use slow motion and cars can fly so i could fly over to the next Island without doing any missions
There used to be a market for them. A tricky combination,or code printed in magazines and the games guides were more practical to buy. Then the internet was in every hand.
They're still here. You just gotta pay for them.
Exactly!
Tosgys ps3 version of star wars the force unleashed
Really? I don't remember being able to buy big head mode in any of the games I have....
Tosgys and what cheats from what game are you able to buy lol
Jody Boles like I said star wars the force unleashed 1 for ps3 and Xbox 360.
They became paid DLC...
Perfect answer mister Chadwick.
The only answer that matters.
Karl Chadwick thats the short answer i was looking for....
Karl Chadwick Facts
Yup
Omg ty for the NES TMNT clip!
My favorite was "jokeplease" on The Sims game console (Ctrl+Shift+C). What an amazing debugging tool it is.
tony hawks pro skater. moon gravity...
This.
Perfect balance though. I was one of the people that just wasnt that good. But suddenly could do x1000 trick combos
Moon gravity + high jump + perfect balance = totally different game
Plot twist: There are a lot of cheat codes in every game but nobody finds them
Plot_twist2: They are called microtransactions
i agree mrgranturismo4ever
Mrgranturismo4ever Dude stfu u piece of shit it was a joke
Mrgranturismo4ever edgy
DarkEntX Bro, that shit was a joke too.... He used waaaaaay too many insults/adjectives for it to be taken seriously.
Good old Doom 64, I still remember it to this day: ?TJL BDFW BFGV JVVB
Love the fire cheat in half-life 2, which let u go to places ur not supposed to go by burning through(if the item delete cheat didn’t work, like with some doors and invisible barriers)
At this point it's not even that they aren't including cheats, they actively stop people from using cheats... in SINGLEPLAYER only games... like why?
Because, the fun is going from games, Its all about money and not the experiance anymore, Take GTA V, its to boring to have any fun with and there just using it as a cashcow now, Which is really a depressing thaught....
TalkativeWhiterunGuard You used a horrible example like holy shit the only micro transactions are buying money in online mode and there are tons of cheats. that's the game you picked as an example instead of oh I don't know every fucking game that's not a football game that EA releases? or how about destiny?
Jack Attacker you resorted to name calling instead of thinking of an intelligent response to my argument I think that calls your intelligence into question if anything
Rigó János i use cheat engine, work with most new games
Jakub Jakubovic using cheatengine is like creating a trainer which is bery easy and and better than cheats
"dlc" like shark cards, map packs and purchasable characters/clothing/weapons killed cheats. They make 60$ games with half you still have to buy. Greed killed cheats and made gamers break the bank to play.
shark cards are only for online play
Or PLAY THE FUCKING GAME TO EARN IT
and? gta v is shit without online
shark cards aren't dlc. theres nothing downloadable about them. but i see what you're getting at there.
Back in the day expansion packs were a big deal but weren't so sought after. That and they often had an entirely new branch of gameplay and content to try out. I miss those.
But you pretty much need them in order to try out any of the DLC vehicles without spending a couple of days grinding
As a kid I read a book and the main character’s name was Fudge. Playing Jedi Knight II on the GameCube I just was putting random words into the cheat code section and put Fudge just for fun. Lo and behold it unlocked the lightsaber on ALL levels and come to find years later it was the ONLY code for the GameCube version of the game.
ACUBUBAD for Mortal Kombat 3. Cant remember what it did, but I remember the sequence like it was yesterday. Everyone remembers the Konami code, it's infamous, but its every other cheat code that very few remember. thereisnocowlevel being the exception to this being probably the second most infamous.
"games have gotten easier" *proceeds to show gameplay of dark souls*
superguitarmaniac100 ez game
superguitarmaniac100 git gud, casul!
I mean it's one of the harder games nowadays (though it's not that hard), it's nothing compared to some of the more difficult games from back in the day. The biggest difference between Dark Souls and the old games that were hard was Dark Souls is actually fair. Seriously, Dark Souls is challenging, difficulty in some games back then was just straight up unfair and bullshit
I think he was showing the gameplay of Dark Souls to show that cheat codes not being as common aren't to do with the difficulty of games. If cheat codes were to make games easier for people, then Dark Souls would definitely have them, but it doesn't.
Its not that games are easier its that games are just better designed now. Gamers just dont realize that
We can still trust good ole GTA for cheats.
Pro_Boss _Slayer and Saints Row
CanYouSmellWhatISee cocobutterjankens don't forget the classic flying cars and drive on water
GTA V has some of the most fun cheat codes. Enabling super speed and super jump and moon gravity while using all explosive weapons when running from the cops is so much fun
And Lego
still waiting on my jetpack
Having the ability to toggle clipping is good to prevent a character getting stuck, be it because of a ground mesh defect or an object trapping a character against a wall, whatever the case may be it's far better to be able to noclip through it then have to reload a save and lose progress because of a defect in the game. Alternatively you might need resources to build a base or something which you'll have to gather and that can take a long time, if you're an adult with a full time job you might not have the time to do that and in that case having cheat that lets you spawn items saves you from having to abandon the game.
I would always use the jet-pack cheat code on gta sa on my ps2. Every single time. I still remember it. R1 r2 l1 l2 up down left right R1 r2 l1 l2 up down left right. It was definitely my favorite!