/v/ - Video Games

>>15381318

always online singleplayer happenned

>this thread again

Fuck off mate.

A lot of these were just jokes/for fun and made either by relatively independent studios or studios without suits breathing down their necks. Now everything has to pass muster with some fag in a suit with no sense of humor.

>>15381355

And of course it must pass through a filter to ensure it doesn't offend the game wreckers.

>>15381379

In addition to >>15381319 I believe it was really achievements that killed cheats. You can't have people compromising the integrity of their meaningless good gamer points with cheats so they just had to go. In the 7th gen some games had them but just like couch multiplayer it became rarer and rarer to see them though some games, as a compromise would just permanently disable achievements in the save. As for the books they were gone half way through the 7th gen. They went from being as thick as dictionaries in the 5th and 6th generation to being thin coupon books that just told you how get achievements and nothing else before being put out of their misery.

>>15381492

back in the "old days" they just made it so you couldnt unlock things with cheats if they cared. why couldnt they just do it again if thats the case?

>>15381775

I think I had that exact book

Cheats were made for fun, or for stress test, or were just a glitch. The fun ones became dlc. The stress test are usually disabled permanently for plebs and just an annoyance for PC users. And glitch really are not supposed to happen, so they patch it different when games could not be patched. Cheats not intended still do exist if you are a PC user, you just need to change values on RAM…

>What happened to them

<Publisher monkeys screeching their lungs out whenever developers are adding content to the game that can not be directly used to make money.

<Less QA and less downtime for the programmers who otherwise might have used the time to add easter eggs and aforementioned cheats.

<Achievements and achievementwhores who go into autistic howling if someone got the same stuff they have grinded for during a time of twelve hours straight

<Gaming development in general becoming less of a group of autists having some fun, and more of a group of "professionals" with completely unrealistic release dates dictated upon them by the suit monkeys.

<Always online or shoddy seperation between single player and multiplayer modes so that cheats for the former could be abused in the latter.

>>15381318

>Whatever happened to them? DLC

How does that make sense, retard? What cheats have EVER been DLC? They’re just removed.

>>15382169

That’s why you just use a trainer so you get all the cheats AND you get all the super hard achievements that only autistic retards care about otherwise.

>>15382169

>>15382176

Just use cheat engine. Trainers are made with cheat engine and similar tools anyways.

>>15381969

I think there's a big difference between stuff like Game Genie, actually editing the game, and having codes done with button presses. But as has been said, the stuff you unlocked from those codes became DLC or just got removed entirely. I'd say part of this is because a lot of genres that used those codes extensively have disappeared, but of course they haven't disappeared entirely, yet the cheats have.

Also, a lot of great glitches in the past weren't fixed in later revisions. Combos in fighting games are a glitch. But nowadays, yeah, they'd probably get removed.

>>15382169

I get why using cheats that make the game easier would disable achievements, but yeah, not being allowed to use costumes or whatever is dumb. That said, those other cheats still add a ton of replay value to a game, even if I'll wait until I get all the achievements to use them. Or hell, put in achievements that you get for doing specific things with certain cheats on.

What achievements really did away with was unlockable content. Why add extra content to the game when you can just give the player meaningless points instead? Then you can sell that content to them as DLC later.

And the best part is that if you don't have those cheats to add replayability, and they are a bad goy and don't shell out for the DLC, then they have less to play, so they'll buy your next game faster!

>>15382169

>that webm

[Autistic Screeching]

I still remember all the cheat codes to MK3 for the SNES

A E Z A K M I

>>15383523

Speaking of GTA games, GTA Vice City had a major flaw where if you didn't have enough money, you're screwed. Because at about 3/4 of the game, you need to start buying businesses to activate the next mission. I looked at the amount of money I had and went fuck it. I spent some time learning on Cheat Engine and boom $999999999.

I honestly had no idea what the developers were thinking when they made that part into the game.

>>15383566

Yeah but I prefer a quicker solution. Ramming over pedestrians for money will take at least 2 - 3 hours just to accumulate the total amount of cash needed to buy the businesses. Even worse is that the drops are random.

>>15383580

>thatsthejoke.wav

>>15383590

There are also a couple of parking meters you can knock down for money. Or you can do a minigame for even more money, some of which are repeatable. Honestly unless you're really, really bad at the game like when I was when I first played it you won't even have a cash flow problem unless you buy the club first then can't get past the race mission.

>>15382173

There's a few niche japanese games that add cheat items as DLC. Dungeon Travelers 2 has double XP and double gold items for sale, and Bullet Girls Phantasia has the cat paw wand and rapier which trivialize the mini-games and half the combat. This is in no way related to the lack of cheats in games though.

>>15383636

I still stand with my criticism. Sure, I could've spent hours upon hours knocking down parking meters and playing minigames. However, I prefer doing those things when I'm not pressured to do them. Like when I'm in between mission and I just want to do other things and take a break from the storyline. When I was at the financial problem, I felt that I had to force myself to knock down people and play the parking lot minigame which is hard(which awards the most money).

>>15383659

>if people know theres cheats in a game they automatically use them, get god powers, play 20 minutes, then never pick it up again out of boredom.

Everyone I know did this with GTA III and Vice City, but instead of getting bored and never playing again, eventually they'd get bored of the cheats and actually play the game.

Should have never asked why. Now no one will answer any of the other questions and pretend like it was the only question asked.

>>15381318

for some reason on pc you can't fly the damn tank

Data miners really harmed video games in general.

Look at what they did to games such as MMOs, little mystery in games now.

Jews cheat at life

>friend comes home

>we play SA local coop on my PS2

>enable a few cheats

>driving around and shooting people

>suddenly get fucking blown the fuck out

>as the camera pans out we just see this old lady with a fucking bazooka strolling up to the car

>forever known as the bazooka granny

I wish there were more games where you could just fuck around with a friend.

For a period of time both Microsoft and Sony would reject publication of games that had cheats.

>>15411199

>reject publication of games that had cheats.

The fuck!? Really? You got sauce on that?

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