that'd be interesting to see. and how about a warp drive instead of the
engine... lol.
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From: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 6:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] why do cheat codes exist?
Hi Al,
Hahaha. I love your description of cheat code based play, and in many ways
it is apt. The whole point of cheat codes is, I think, it is a way to get
some amusement or added fun out of the game. As long as the person doesn't
take them too seriously they can be used to create some fun and rather
interesting games that goes above and beyond reality. You can think of it
as a cheap thrill.
Imagine for a moment playing Tank Commander and suddenly you pull out this
cheat code that allows you to have shields and add unlimited phasers to
your tank. Hear all of these tanks are lobbing shells at you which bounce
off your deflector shields you fire phaser blast after phaser blast into
the enemy tanks vaporising them one by one. It is a completely ridiculous
situation, very unrealistic, but it has its own sort of sick sense of
humor. It isn't all what you would call serious game play, but might be
amusing or of interest to some gamer out there.
For my part I can just imagine the enemies reaction to such an obvious
cheat. "Ok, we got him now. Move in for the kill. What the... Hey, weapons
are doing no damage. We are getting our butts seriously kicked. Holy
crap!" Bang! Boom! pow!
Allan Thompson wrote:
Hi,
Cheat codes are fun, pure and simple. However, they are a diffrent kind
of fun.
I would compare the "purist" method of play versus the "cheat" type of
play like this.
In the first, you are playing a game of chess against an intelligent
equal, in the second, you are playing chess against a monkey.
The first game is serious, challenges your skills, causes you to learn
an improve. When you win, if you win, you feel satisfied in the victory.
Then there is the monkey game. You turn your pawn into a tank, and
destroy the monkeys rooks with a photon torpedo. The monkey don't care,
and neither do you. No seriousness, no brain drain, no putting way too
much effort and time into what amounts to a bit of electricity pushing
around little bits of electronic nothingness. You flameThrower the
monkeys queen, he don't care, he's a monkey, and you don't care, cause
you got this awesome flameThrower and you are blowing those monkeys
pieces to kingdom come!!
It is all fun, just diffrent.
So I like cheat codes. I don't look down on anyone who does use cheat
codes because if they are willing to download it, or buy it, they are
more then entitled to play the heck out of that game anyway they please
without me judging them. They aren't worse players or people for it, they
aren't better, just diffrent.
That is the crux. Cheat codes are not an insight into a persons moral
quality or life attitude. It is just a game, they are just getting some
enjoyment until they have to go back to life, and the world keeps
spinning.
Besides...I like monkeys. People get all upset when you use a
flameThrower on their chess pieces, grin.
al
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