Re: [Audyssey] using cheats in games - Re: quick question on a demo I found.

2011-04-15 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles,

Yeah, makes sense. I remember a Star Wars game sort of like that. In
Dark Forces there were cheat codes for 90% of the game, but if you
tried to fight Darth Vader or any of the other bosses the cheat codes
would be disabled. That was a big problem because if you were using
cheats like unlimited ammo and didn't have any ammo/power in your
weapons you were done for. The only way you could battle the bosses
like Darth Vader is to play the game completely through without cheats
and then you would have the ammo, experience points, and skills
required to perhaps survive a battle like that. As someone who hates
cheats I kind of like the fact that some developers build in pros and
cons for using them rather than giving you unlimited ability to play
the game all the way through with cheats.

Cheers!


On 4/15/11, Charles Rivard  wrote:
> I like the idea that you cannot complete a game by using cheats.  If
> possible, what I would like to see is that the final level of a game
> requires you to use what you have previously learned in order to complete.
> Of course, since you've cheated, you haven't learned.  Sort of like using a
> chess computer to work your way through a chess tournament that has been
> played online and winning all the games until the final game, then finding
> out that the final game is an over-the-board game against the two finalists.
> Now, you cannot use the computer.  You have to rely on your own skill at the
> game.  Guess what?  You're done for.
>
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[Audyssey] using cheats in games - Re: quick question on a demo I found.

2011-04-15 Thread Charles Rivard
I like the idea that you cannot complete a game by using cheats.  If 
possible, what I would like to see is that the final level of a game 
requires you to use what you have previously learned in order to complete. 
Of course, since you've cheated, you haven't learned.  Sort of like using a 
chess computer to work your way through a chess tournament that has been 
played online and winning all the games until the final game, then finding 
out that the final game is an over-the-board game against the two finalists. 
Now, you cannot use the computer.  You have to rely on your own skill at the 
game.  Guess what?  You're done for.


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Or do like what Philip does for Q9 and have it not play the actual ending 
if you use cheats. Instead you could have Athena or Angela make some 
really sarcastic comment about it. I'm probably going to do something like 
that myself. There may be cheats in some of my games but you won't get to 
hear the ending if you use them.

We are the Knights who say...Ni!
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I love that idea.  Can you put something into the game that would cause 
that to happen if people use cheat codes?  (ornery ha ha ha)


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Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 12:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] quick question on a demo I found.



Hi,

Yeah, very nice in deed. Lol!

I can see it now. Handing my customers a bunch of cheat codes for
Mysteries of the Ancients. They use them to reach the final level, and
when they walk in Athena says something to the effect "you cheated"
and uses Zues's thunderbolt to blow you to pieces. Now, that would be
funny. I wonder how many winers and complainers would have something
nasty to say about that. Hahahaha!

On 4/14/11, Stephen  wrote:
reminds me of that game I used to play on the apple 2gs back in the 
early

90s.
You remember that game I mentioned a few months back that had a scene
where the floor of the phone booth drops out from under your feet?
There was also a cheat mode, but you could only cheat 3 times, and if
you tried to cheat a 4th time, you'd get teleported into a room with
no exits, and then the troll would appear and chop off your head. Haha!
There was also a room with a quote kindly old gentalman unquote who
would quote calmly shoot you through the head unquote if you didn't
give him your treasures, and if you used the cheat feature elsewhere
in the game, as soon as you walked into his room, he would say
something like "I hate cheaters" and he would kill you there and
then.  Nice, eh?


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