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Yes but you have to really bust your tail to earn those. By the time you get them you'll have already experienced the real game at least once.
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What feels like cheating in a video game, but isn’t actually cheating?
- Thread starter Zombine
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Yes but you have to really bust your tail to earn those. By the time you get them you'll have already experienced the real game at least once.
Yeah I came here to post this. I've played a couple souls games before, and just wanted an easier time of this one so I picked Royal because I heard it was overpowered. It definitely feels like cheating just blowing away all the enemies with magic.
Anyway, buying the achievements in Nier felt like cheating, but I felt like the game was criticizing how dumb achievements are generally and I was there for that.
When I played Fallout 3 I had that glitch happen where your allies become literally invincible. I guess I could've benched them, but tbh I think I just found it more fun to not worry so much about combat. Not sure if it's "not actually cheating" if it's a bug, but it's a weird passive bug that seems to happen without you doing anything. Thanks Bethesda.
- Breaking elemental rods in Final Fantasy V trivializes most bosses especially until mid-game
- Metal Blade in Mega Man 2 breaks the game, Shadow Blade in Mega Man 3 is almost same
- using Thief Ring to reduce enemy/boss sights on you in Demon's Souls, combine this with magic and you are unbeatable in PvE
- manual saving before a tight spot in 90's PC games, then reloading if you mess stuff up - makes everything breeze if you can save the game everywhere
- Metal Blade in Mega Man 2 breaks the game, Shadow Blade in Mega Man 3 is almost same
- using Thief Ring to reduce enemy/boss sights on you in Demon's Souls, combine this with magic and you are unbeatable in PvE
- manual saving before a tight spot in 90's PC games, then reloading if you mess stuff up - makes everything breeze if you can save the game everywhere
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So many good answers, I also felt this about power armor in fallout 4, as long as you had the power things to keep it going.
Same with the magnum is Resident evil or evil within, if you save the ammo you collect for it along the way you can rip through the final levels where they usually throw everything at you.
Climbing in the new Assassin's Creed Games. It's a win button, and they feature actual level design so you end up handicapping yourself by taking the developer path.
Please tell us there is a community out there that plays SMB as an horizontal side scroller.
I haven't played it much since the beta, but Fighting EX Layer had power you could give your character that would make them go invisible. It felt like very few people knew how to really play against it at the time. I was using it while playing the grappler character, and I have never cackled so much while playing a video game.
Levelling in Tree of Savior.
You pretty much one-shot everything, and two or three shot bosses to the point where you never see any of their mechanics. You can go up hundreds of levels within a week.
It's intended so you can get to the end-game. It's kind of fun at first being able to steamroll, but after a while the lack of challenge really gets to me.
You pretty much one-shot everything, and two or three shot bosses to the point where you never see any of their mechanics. You can go up hundreds of levels within a week.
It's intended so you can get to the end-game. It's kind of fun at first being able to steamroll, but after a while the lack of challenge really gets to me.
Hell yeah. Not ashamed to say I finished up my plat trophy by just buying all the remaining trophies I had at the end of my playthrough.
Flying over levels with cape Mario in Super Mario World.
Picking up Crissaegrim in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night ruined the game for me.
Any game with quicksave and quickload. Gordon Freeman may as well be a superhero with time manipulation powers from the way Half Life games let you play them.
Picking up Crissaegrim in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night ruined the game for me.
Any game with quicksave and quickload. Gordon Freeman may as well be a superhero with time manipulation powers from the way Half Life games let you play them.
Fairly recent example would be the Accessibility Mode features added to the last-gen versions of Remedy's Control (I think with the AWE expansion). Next-gen versions of the game already have them by default, since they're all patched up and mostly feature complete. You can literally turn shit on like OHKO, Invincibility, ludicrously fast Energy and Service Revolver cooldown regeneration, and nothing you tweak will ever invalidate trophies or achievements. You can run the entire game in literal God Mode and get your Platinum or 1,500 Gamerscore or whatever, and the game won't give a crap. I think it's hilarious.
Using Seth in Fire Emblem Sacred Stones.
Using Robin/pair-up in Fire Emblem Awakening.
Using Ryoma in Fire Emblem Fates Birthright.
Using Wyvern Lords/Falcon Knights in Fire Emblem Three Houses.
Using Robin/pair-up in Fire Emblem Awakening.
Using Ryoma in Fire Emblem Fates Birthright.
Using Wyvern Lords/Falcon Knights in Fire Emblem Three Houses.
Being summoned in Dark Souls/Bloodborne also feels a bit of a cheat as well since it's a super easy way to grind a ton of souls without any consequences (since unlike normal gameplay, you don't actually loose any souls if you die.) You can hang out outside a boss arena and get 10's of thousands of souls just by running the same boss fight over and over with another person, each one taking just seconds to completely because of how broken bosses are in co-op.
Granted this only works if there's a reasonable amount of people playing, so maybe it isn't quite as effective nowadays.
Granted this only works if there's a reasonable amount of people playing, so maybe it isn't quite as effective nowadays.
rushing to get the enclave power armour in fallout 2
uncle seth is sacred stones easy mode toggle
it's actually easier to solo the game with him than play it normally spreading the xp to everyone
uncle seth is sacred stones easy mode toggle
it's actually easier to solo the game with him than play it normally spreading the xp to everyone
The Crissaegrim in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.
For me it was the Heaven Sword (You can get it earlier in the regular castle too)
Also using the Ring of the Lucii's Alterna spell. It's so OP that it can even one shot Adamantoise.
Sonic Rush's special stages were bullshit so I beat them all by literally pausing, positioning my stylus, and unpausing
I dunno how people had the reflexes to beat them. Must be former Battletoad players or something
I dunno how people had the reflexes to beat them. Must be former Battletoad players or something
This is what I came here to say. Orlandeau is ridiculous and trivializes the rest of the game the moment he joins the party permanently.
