What happened to cheats?

Honestly , five years ago there was houndreds of cheats!!! I am not saying I liked them , but why do we not see as many these days? Is it because of the fact of the online gaming? Or somethings else?

I think it's primarily because of achievements and trophies. Like, just imagine how easy it would be to get the really hard achievements/trophies in certain games if you had a god code entered. While some games still have them, with or without disabling the trophies.achievements, I think developers are starting to do away with them in order to put the game on an even playing ground for everyone in the beginning.

they're not really used as they're not really needed anymore. if they wanna test out a level or something the devs just boot up to that area, give themselves whatever they want and test it, no cheat codes necessary any more.

They became DLC.

There is no use for them on ps3 games really because instead of going on free roam

on a lot of ps2 games and puttin in cheats to mess about people just go online on ps3 games

plus you shouldn't really need them.

Games these days are not as difficult as the ones we played growing up. There is really no need for them. I think that cheats were originally used to test out games and now that they are not as difficult then there is no point.

I believe that GTA IV had cheats

I think its better without cheats. I mean, I remember GTA San Andreas. It had hundreds of cheats, and when there is that much, there is no challenge. I'm not saying there no fun (like flying cars in San Andreas :P )

People stopped using them.

Cheats were usually to help with ridiculously difficult parts or get around annoying bits in a game. Now games are developed better and there isn't much need for them, so they just don't bother to put them in.

I believe that GTA IV had cheats

bmart777

This.

Entering a cheat on GTAIV disables certain trophies, but to be honest I don't care for cheats and I'm glad that most developers did away with them. Most games have plenty of unlockables. Lets take Uncharted for example; Upon finding set amounts of treasure, performing certain actions, and beating the game there are PLENTY of unlockables to enjoy such as characters skins, graphical effects, weapons, etc.

I actually like having the cheats, but only to use for fun after I beat the game once. It added replayability for me, especially with GTA: San Andreas. I loved flying cars around the map, spawning tanks anywhere and going on rampages with invincability on. I missed having all that in GTA 4 and it's probably why I didn't play it as much..

but I do miss extras and unlockables, like skins Tikicobra

it's better to buy em asDLC , isn't it ? much easier then unlocking imo

I'm glad that there not that many cheates anymore I wish all of the cheats go away myself. As for people glitching that's no big deal because once you figure out where these glithers are then there very easy targets.

Uncharted had a whole bunch of cheats and extra stuff but nobody seemed to care.

Uncharted had a whole bunch of cheats and extra stuff but nobody seemed to care.

Zidaneski

cheats are everywhere. They were created to help programers to test faster the games and now its the same. Look at gta4, the orange box (half life 2) and ninja gaiden, even in the same gamespot pages or elsewhere on the net. You have walkthroughs, codes or secuences....its true that years ago most game were more difficult and some tricks were more appreciated but well you have the option to choose if you find them or get licked to the net.-

cheats are everywhere. They were created to help programers to test faster the games and now its the same. Look at gta4, the orange box (half life 2) and ninja gaiden, even in the same gamespot pages or elsewhere on the net. You have walkthrows, codes or secuences....its true that years ago most game were more difficult and some tricks were more appreciated but well you have the option to choose if you find them or get licked to the net.-

kiraburu

What?

yeah its true, look the history of videogames or something like that....

They still exist, but no one really cares about them too much.

Games still have cheats, it's just that a lot of them don't affect gameplay awhole lot and most of them aren't as cool as they used to be. Take MGS4 for example, you can use cheats in the extras menu after beating the game to unlock weapons like the Thor (That gun is asome.) The newest game I've played that has a whole lot of cheats is the Sims 3 for the PC.

So glad they don't put cheats in many games these days, was so relieved when I got GTA:IV and saw there was hardly any, San Andreas and the ammount of cheats for it just annoyed me.

I forgot all about the cheat codes. eh! I rather play the games the old fashion way.

Cheats are really fun, but they discourage actual gaming and spoils people... I understood that when I went through an entire play through of Mercs 2 with all cheats. Then, I tried to play it normally. I failed hard.GodofBigMacs

So... I'm not the only one who did that on Mercs 2... GREAT game...Once you had cheats enabled!

it's also good with less or no cheats, it's more fun and challenging. and brings out the gamer talent in you if you try to beat a game as it is. coz some of the cheats and unlockables are non-sense and unnecessary, but it's cool bonus fun sometimes.

for example try beating gta4 w/o using cheats, it's efin hard! but fun!

[QUOTE="Tikicobra"] but I do miss extras and unlockables, like skins AmnesiaHaze

it's better to buy em asDLC , isn't it ? much easier then unlocking imo

Im kind of glad they have died down. I did play through most of San Andreas using cheats because I just couldn't play without them. But even though GTA4 has cheats I never use them.. they just aren't needed.

But the DS has action replay and the Wii might have something..

but I do miss extras and unlockables, like skins Tikicobra

it's better to buy em asDLC , isn't it ? much easier then unlocking imo

I think it's primarily because of achievements and trophies. Like, just imagine how easy it would be to get the really hard achievements/trophies in certain games if you had a god code entered. While some games still have them, with or without disabling the trophies.achievements, I think developers are starting to do away with them in order to put the game on an even playing ground for everyone in the beginning.

Legendaryscmt

Seriously..those people that cheats for games....ruins the fun of the game....=D

I mean like...getting all the weapons at the beggining....O_O ..yeah...like it will encourage me to move on in the game...