I sometimes cheat or use glitches once I've completed a game legitimately, but not before. I might use the official cheats in games like GTA or Saints Row now and again, but because it disable trophies I won't save with cheats enabled. I used the bottomless box glitch in Dark Souls many times.

Well choosing a pre-set difficulty is hardly cheating.

I had to cheat the last few missiona in Starcraft 1 when I was a lad. I just couldn't do it

I only cheat once i've done everything in a game and it starts to become stale then i'll spice it up with some god mode mayhem

What's this Mass Effect 2 cheat you speak of? I haven't played it in a year but the cheat may push me to blow the dust off it.

I was raised with a moral code that cheating gets you no where. I apply that to everything, sorry. It's never ok to cheat.

ha it's funny as back when I used to play the Sims I would always use the money cheat as well...my reasoning was that I have to work and pay bills in real life which isn't fun so I want to play a rich Sim who can enjoy their wealth and build a sweet home to fart around in all day

I generally only cheat to fix a problem, or to make tedium more convenient..... in Skyrim, for example: I've got 1000lbs+ of crafting materials. Yeah, I can pick it up and stagger slowly next door to the smith, do my crafting, and stagger back. Or I can "tgm", and run instead of staggering. Because it really has no effect at all on the actual gameplay. Or trying out a quest mod in Oblivion that turned out to have mass amounts of enemies with stupid amounts of HP... after killing the first half dozen (and demonstrating that I could do it without a chance of dying), I just "kill"ed most of the rest. They were tedious, hp-sponge, filler. (I can only assume that the mod designer uses much higher damage weapons & character builds).

I have used money cheats in games like the early Sim Cities or The Sims, to try goofy things with their construction tools that had nothing to do with playing the game right.

Well as long as you're not doing anything else in games that's morally irreprehensible in real life.

Nice GTA V sig, by the way.

I don't use any exploits/consoles/overpowered mods/etc. until I'm essentially done with the game (have done at least one play-through without messing with anything), but I'm still interested in playing around with it. Some games make this more fun than others. Games that have a dev console that's accessible to end-users are usually fun to play with. I don't "cheat" in early play-throughs just because it makes the game less fun (I liek teh cherlenge), not because I think there's something morally wrong with "cheating" in a single-player game. Well, unless you brag about it and lie about cheating.

I see what you did there.

Yeah, it can be tricky to select dragons sometimes so you need to try it multiple times. When you click to select the dragon the game might pick something else like the dust after a landing or the fire coming out from him or whatever it might be, and you can't kill those things

I don't consider that "cheating"

Just like in my install of Fallout 3 sometimes going into Megaton, Tenpenny tower or Paradise falls causes the game to CTD so I use the console to warp to a relatively safe area that lets get to where I want to be.

I'm not against cheating. I just don't do it.

True, but it sometimes gets the same kind of backlash that singleplayer cheating gets.

I use to cheat on every game I played, mostly because I was bad or something. But now... Now I play the game once through then do everything in my power to make it as hard as possible for the next playthrough, unless it's a non-linear game like TES or Fallout. In those games the difficulty slider just makes you want to punch a wall and takes fun away. In those games I get realism mods like Frostfall and SkyRe. I've stayed away from combat mods for the most part because they usually overemphasize one sect of the combat, like with Skyrim they tend to overly stress Melee combat and it kinda draws away the entertainment from ranged or stealth characters.

I use the console sometimes for roleplaying purposes. I.e. I'll add some items to a new character that relate to the backstory of them such as a special sword, piece of armor, book (a la Daggerfall basically).

Sometimes I'll fall to my death while walking then I toggle God mode.

Grand Theft Auto SanAndreas was my dirty pleasure back in the day. I would enter the cheat codes where padestrians rioted, had weapons, and every one was a maniac driver and would then start a timer to see how long I could live. Good times.

When it comes to a single player game I don't look at it as cheating. Cheating is when you are up against a human opponent. With a single player game you are adjusting it to fit your enjoyment of the game.

For example, with Civilization II I hate Wonders of the World with a passion so I instant build them to get that part of the game out of the way. That's why I never really enjoyed the following Civ games, no built in cheat function.

Civ IV at least has the in-game world builder which you can use to cheat your heart out?

I would spend countless hours doing this on Jedi Outcast. My favorite were Jedi vs Reborn battles. It was cool because you had to give the Reborns more men because the TRUE Jedi are better in that game, as they should be.

My first playthroughs of any game are always done without any exploits or cheats, I like to experience the game with all the challenges it was meant to have. On my 2nd or 3rd playthroughs I just [censored] around and exploit the hell out of them.

Only game I ever cheated on was Driver 2, only because the single player missions on that game were cheating against the player.

I used a perk-every-level mod in Fallout New Vegas. I really enjoyed it in FO3 and it ticked me off that Oblsidian decided in their infinite wisdom less fun was better.

We would cheat the hell outta civ games. Hacking the save game to make custom units, maps and whatever. Fun times

I've bought a few strategy guides in my time -notably for GTA:SA and GTA:IV, and DL'ed a few game breaking mods just for giggles -the full auto Fatman launcher with unlimited ammo comes to mind..

also Falchya says that the Van Helsing crossbow mod for Skyrim is cheating.. but I disagree

I actually liked the system in New Vegas better. The perks felt more worthwhile, and in FO3 I felt like I was playing "Collect All Perks" rather than making character development decisions.

I never exploit as it sort of ruins the game. I do use cheats but only in GTA games because they're fun.

I'm a hard-core cheater, I always use trainers and I enjoy it that way. I play games for fun; I don't really care for achievements or scores, I want to enjoy the gameplay and story and not have to worry about my health or ammo or whatever. That doesn't mean I run in with guns blazing because I can't be killed; like for example, in Far Cry 3 I do use an unlimited health cheat, but I still always try to take everyone out with a sniper without getting seen, go for headshots and disable all alarms. If I do get caught though, it's not that much of a problem.

There are games I play without cheats, though those are rare and sometimes I simply can't play it without use of a trainer (I use a 'decrease notoriety' cheat in AC: Revelations because I hate hate HATE the den-defending mini game so much I don't even).

Trainers ftw

Trainer?