What I truly miss about video games....

I miss when almost every game had at least one sort of cheat or unlockable that might not even change the game, but just makes it more fun. COD kinda has it with Nazi Zombies, but that's about it. I remember asnowboarding game that I still play a lot on my Gamecube called SSX: On tour. There was cheats so you can play as Mario, Luigi, a metalhead, and even A UNICORN! That's right. A snowboarding unicorn. You could dress your cahracter up as a panda or a bunny. A lot of the old tony hawk games had fun cheats like big head, gorrilla, invisibility, moon gravity. That's why I like nintendo--because all of their games have some crazy fun theme. (Whoever invented the Kirby games must have been on acid.) I just wish that games would still do that more.

sadly,with the next gen cheat codes are a thing of the past for the most part.

Ditto, I used to turn spyro different colors :D

Yeah, they were fun. I had a lot fun with various cheats on Goldeneye, Perfect Dark and Glover.

The best cheat will always be the Konami code : Up Up down down left right left right B A.

I miss when almost every game had at least one sort of cheat or unlockable that might not even change the game, but just makes it more fun. COD kinda has it with Nazi Zombies, but that's about it. I remember asnowboarding game that I still play a lot on my Gamecube called SSX: On tour. There was cheats so you can play as Mario, Luigi, a metalhead, and even A UNICORN! That's right. A snowboarding unicorn. You could dress your cahracter up as a panda or a bunny. A lot of the old tony hawk games had fun cheats like big head, gorrilla, invisibility, moon gravity. That's why I like nintendo--because all of their games have some crazy fun theme. (Whoever invented the Kirby games must have been on acid.) I just wish that games would still do that more.

nintenjoe3

I guess it's just a matter of tastes. You gave a great example with SSX: On Tour and SSX 3 allowed for a ton of appearance options as well. Both great games and they still get play from time to time from me. Then you have newer titles like NBA Jam that have all kinds of unlockable characters and appearance options and hardly anyone is buying that game. I did and I love it. Wrestling games are another place where you can go crazy with customization. That's pretty much the main draw for me with those. Then there are games like Modnation Racers and LittleBigPlanet that have so much customization that you can make just about anything. You wouldn't believe the amount of fan made Nintendo and Sega content there is to download for those games! There's tons of people who create Nintendo characters and levels for those games and they are amazing. (if you haven't already played them)

It would be great if Nintendo would release some games that allow so much creative freedom in the future.

The best cheat will always be the Konami code : Up Up down down left right left right B A.

chris3116

i miss the challenge. games of today have no challenge. even on hard modes. (its not that im that good) Things like regenating health rewards people for cowering in the corner after getting shot instead of looking for more armor shards. Auto saves every 10 sec in games makes it so u dont have to replay long parts because u suck and died. people say that COD is hardcore, not if u are a quake fan.da_chub

Totally agree; I actually wrote an editorial a long while back lamenting the complete absence of cheat codes in modern games. Video games these days need more useless, awesome crap. :P

Totally agree; I actually wrote an editorial a long while back lamenting the complete absence of cheat codes in modern games. Video games these days need more useless, awesome crap. :P

GabuEx

The best cheat will always be the Konami code : Up Up down down left right left right B A.

chris3116

nein. A B A B left right A B A B up down A B select start. Was where it was at. Did anybody ever unlock splinter or was that just a myth?

I totally agree, To me it seems people are just too technical these days. Only adding stuff if it makes a noteable difference in gameplay mechanics yada yada yada. Whatever happened to the simplicity of having stuff for essentially why anyone plays video games, FOR FUN.

I miss when almost every game had at least one sort of cheat or unlockable that might not even change the game, but just makes it more fun. COD kinda has it with Nazi Zombies, but that's about it. I remember asnowboarding game that I still play a lot on my Gamecube called SSX: On tour. There was cheats so you can play as Mario, Luigi, a metalhead, and even A UNICORN! That's right. A snowboarding unicorn. You could dress your cahracter up as a panda or a bunny. A lot of the old tony hawk games had fun cheats like big head, gorrilla, invisibility, moon gravity. That's why I like nintendo--because all of their games have some crazy fun theme. (Whoever invented the Kirby games must have been on acid.) I just wish that games would still do that more.

nintenjoe3

now such unlockables are called dlc's aka disk locked content

The best cheat will always be the Konami code : Up Up down down left right left right B A.

chris3116