What cheats do in single player games is their business, and it's okay if they break the game in various ways. There's letting players do that, however, and there's simply having poor balance with temptation to take all challenge out of the game. - ThreadSky

danshive.bsky.social • 49 days ago

What cheats do in single player games is their business, and it's okay if they break the game in various ways.

There's letting players do that, however, and there's simply having poor balance with temptation to take all challenge out of the game.

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angryasianjim.bsky.social•48 days ago

The only time I care about cheats are in MP games. People bought the game to have fun. As long as it doesn’t impede the fun of others, it’s whatever.

danshive.bsky.social•49 days ago

I mean this generally, I'm not calling out a game, but a comical extreme example of poor balance resulting in temptation would be an overpowered weapon everyone can use in a dark corner of the first room in Dark Souls.

"Have a challenge! Or walk five feet in the first room and basically win."

katrinathelamia.bsky.social•48 days ago

I mean, considering the sort of ridiculous "Challenge Runs" that exist out in the world... having your first challenge run being "not grabbing the comically overpowered doom weapon of doom" kind of feels like nothing

We have people using DK Bongos to play Dark Souls

katrinathelamia.bsky.social•48 days ago

To add further on this topic, "Pole Calibur" is a recognised tournament variation of SoulCalibur. We have NuzLockes being mainstream

I'm surprised we don't see more people with electric alligator clips attached to their nipples while playing Donkey Kong or something like that

carlfoxmarten.bsky.social•49 days ago

On the other hand, some games are SO hard they NEED mods to make them easier.

One example is a very old game called "Velvet Assassin". I *never* got past the second mission, because you're supposed to kill two guards, and the second one *always* saw me first. -.-

But no mods to help yet...

therealother1.bsky.social•49 days ago

I feel like you should have to do something to earn "easy mode" items in most games, like grind out money or find a secret spot.

Something that's not as hard as beating the game normally would be, but still enough that you have to think about it a little.

merennulli.bsky.social•49 days ago

And that kind of mechanism is an easy way to give two different playstyles a path to victory.

hyperlynxblocked.bsky.social•49 days ago

It could be fun if such an item came with a (clearly defined*) devil's bargain, though. "Here's this OP sword! ...But it binds itself to you and becomes the only weapon you can use."

*If the tradeoff isn't clear, it could be a trap for new players, which isn't fun.

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