Enabling Cheats Disable Your Leetness
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In a land where egotistical gamers are everything — there are achievement points, trophies, and little icons that tell a gamer just how good their opponents are — cheats are still found in many, many games. Being a hardcore gamer, I can tell you that using a cheat code is frowned upon heavily! Honestly, if you aren’t good enough to beat a game without altering it by using a cheat code, then get off of my game. Play the game for what it is, after all you (or your parents) paid money for it!
What is a cheat code? Some combination that allows you to unlock such game altering mechanics like “invincibility mode,” and “enemies can’t see me,” and especially my favorite from Turrok 64, “colorful dancing enemies that won’t attack me. They just dance. That’s all they know…”
Cheat codes are also a way to tell people that you can’t actually beat the game. On the Xbox 360, if you turn on cheat codes, you won’t even get achievements for the things you accomplish — which is what the rules should be. Some games, however, just have cheat codes that defeat the purpose of the game even being considered something that can be “beaten.” The upcoming Rock Band 2 is said to have such a cheat code that will unlock every song in the game so that you don’t have to sit there and actually play the game.
Even developers are agreeing that their games are just pieces of entertainment and not actually anything more. Games aren’t games anymore, you don’t play them, you just use them for fun like. Back in the day, people competed against themselves to see how many levels of Pac Man they can get through and see what score they could get. What happened to that? It sounds nerdy now, but at least its classier than using cheat codes just to get through a game.
You can’t cheat at life… or maybe you can. Some say that if you hit: up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start, you will get 10 gold stars, and a level up. Don’t cheat if you can’t get through a level, man up and beat the level yourself even if it costs you blood and tears. No pain, no gain.
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