If there are glitches, will you exploit them? : V

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 6:24 am

I only ever exploited a glitch once in oblivion, the duplicate Item glitch on a Transcendent Sigil stone with Fortify Magicka 50 on it.

This was because It took me 14 tries of saving and reloading before I got one.

I didn't want have to scour 6 more plains of Oblivion, and reset everytime I didn't get the right one. By that point, the oblivion realms were to tedious and I hated them.

» Tue Mar 29, 2011 11:50 pm

No. I don't understand the point. Even you saying that you only exploited the glitch because you didn't want to save and reload if you didn't get what you wanted... I'd consider saving and reloading to be equally as pointless. I like to play a game for fun, and part of that is the challenge of not being able to get exactly every item I could possibly want - it's supposed to be difficult. If I wanted to cheat I'd turn on no clip and god mode and be bored with the game after an hour.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:12 am

No when i first got Oblivion, which was my first ever RPG, i used the duplicate glitch. Then afterwards when i became a more hardcoe gamer lol, i stopped using it. I have a funny feeling there won't be many or any of these types of glitches in Skyrim.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:19 am

As far as it comes to saving and reloading to get an item I want, yes, I did in Oblivion.
Because of the horrid randomising factor it was nigh impossible to play the game the way I wanted without that kind of 'cheating'
Im not going to go through all the trouble for a sigil stone that gives water walking, or light.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:01 am

Never. If I find a glitch I avoid using it again. Also I never use things that I consider bad for gameplay (for example Skeleton Key in Oblivion).

» Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:07 pm

I hate to say it but I'm a glitch junkie (metaphorically(sp??))... Mostly just with dupe glitch's, I dun go for the whole 'go through walls' or 'get to a spam point/out of map' ones...

BUT, I do usually do a playthrough where I use no glitch's/cheats... I did both with & without glitch's on OB and will probs do the same with this if it has glitch's... I will, though, try not to...

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 10:43 am

No, the game is probably easy enough as it is, I don't want to make it even easier by cheating.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:21 am

As far as it comes to saving and reloading to get an item I want, yes, I did in Oblivion.
Because of the horrid randomising factor it was nigh impossible to play the game the way I wanted without that kind of 'cheating'
Im not going to go through all the trouble for a sigil stone that gives water walking, or light.

Thats what I'm talking about, I was fed up with Oblivion gates after the third one. No way am I going to go through 25 more just to get what I want.

I probably would have gone through more gates, and not have used the glitch, if we got to choose what sigil stone we wanted, but I'm not going to waste time on it if its not fun.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:07 am

Thats what I'm talking about, I was fed up with Oblivion gates after the third one. No way am I going to go through 25 more just to get what I want.

I probably would have gone through more gates, and not have used the glitch, if we got to choose what sigil stone we wanted, but I'm not going to waste time on it if its not fun.

Its no different from Daggerfall, where you reloaded if a questgiver gave you a random quest you didnt feel like doing, because it would too easily kill you, or because it involved a lengthy process while you really just wanted a dungeon delving one.
I would not categorise that as cheating per se, its more making use of game mechanics.
Its meta-gaming.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:12 am

normally i do a few playthroughs (more or less 3 or 4) before resorting to exploits, i just use them to see how much i can get away with and have some fun with it.

this issue is a two way road, some people don't use them because they like the challenge and some people use them because they find them fun, the methods might contradict each other but the end result is still the same....having fun with the game.

» Tue Mar 29, 2011 11:04 pm

normally i do a few playthroughs (more or less 3 or 4) before resorting to exploits, i just use them to see how much i can get away with and have some fun with it.

this issue is a two way road, some people don't use them because they like the challenge and some people use them because they find them fun, the methods might contradict each other but the end result is still the same....having fun with the game.

I normally don't use glitches, and would be in the first catagory.

I wouldn't have used the glitch in OB, if magicka wasn't as much of a problem. I would run out after three spells, and I think an arch-mage should be able to do more than that.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:11 am

No,i would rather ignore them,and hope that they would get attended too.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:42 am

No. I don't understand the point. Even you saying that you only exploited the glitch because you didn't want to save and reload if you didn't get what you wanted... I'd consider saving and reloading to be equally as pointless. I like to play a game for fun, and part of that is the challenge of not being able to get exactly every item I could possibly want - it's supposed to be difficult. If I wanted to cheat I'd turn on no clip and god mode and be bored with the game after an hour.

This, Couldn't of said it better myself :foodndrink:

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:07 pm

No. I don't understand the point. Even you saying that you only exploited the glitch because you didn't want to save and reload if you didn't get what you wanted... I'd consider saving and reloading to be equally as pointless. I like to play a game for fun, and part of that is the challenge of not being able to get exactly every item I could possibly want - it's supposed to be difficult. If I wanted to cheat I'd turn on no clip and god mode and be bored with the game after an hour.

But I wasn't having fun, and getting killed alot because I would run out of magicka after three attacks (350 max for my breton mage with the apprentice sign) and if there was more than one enemy, I was done for.

I needed a way to increase my magicka, so I would get sigil stones, but going through 25 Oblivion gates would not be fun (I got bored after the first 3), and I wanted the game to be fun, so I used the glitch.

And I only used it once for that, never again. I think I was being perfectly reasonable.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 3:33 am

Glitches like duplication I would never exploit. Unbalanced game maechanics on the other hand serve as a catch 22 situation, since you want to play fair so you avoid exploiting them, but not only does it feel like you're not playing your character to the best of your potential, as is the point of the games, but also limits your options for gameplay to make less freedom, but then if you do exploit them it feels cheap and unfair that you can do whatever it is, and you feel it should be harder.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:10 am

Yeh cus im col liek tht

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:46 am

But I wasn't having fun, and getting killed alot because I would run out of magicka after three attacks (350 max for my breton mage with the apprentice sign) and if there was more than one enemy, I was done for.

I needed a way to increase my magicka, so I would get sigil stones, but going through 25 Oblivion gates would not be fun (I got bored after the first 3), and I wanted the game to be fun, so I used the glitch.

And I only used it once for that, never again. I think I was being perfectly reasonable.

That's when you lower the difficulty a wee bit.

» Tue Mar 29, 2011 10:30 pm

The ring of vipereye became permanent when I went to jail, got me a boost in agility and magic resistance, wasn't my fault, didn't know about it, once I sussed what had happened, rp'ed it had bitten me ( Viperman! ) and carried on regardless. Would never exploit one willingly though.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:31 am

When I discovered the console commands I used them to raise all my skills. Which resulted in my character running twice as fast as any horse, needless to say: it kinda broke the game. This time I'm on Ps3 so, no I i'll do it 100% legit.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:57 am

That's when you lower the difficulty a wee bit.

I never thought of that. I totally forgot there was a difficulty slider.

I fail :facepalm:

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:18 am

No when i first got Oblivion, which was my first ever RPG, i used the duplicate glitch. Then afterwards when i became a more hardcoe gamer lol, i stopped using it. I have a funny feeling there won't be many or any of these types of glitches in Skyrim.

This, did more than this though, I did the Dorian unlimited cash glitch aswell as the duplication.It's like a drug I'll never go back

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:22 am

Yeh cus im col liek tht

I couldn't agree with you more :wink_smile:

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 10:57 am

In a huge game like this there's almost some glitches to go around. If i get to choose to abuse a glitch then the answer will always be no. I don't really care if there are glitches in the game, unles they're game changing/ending glitches that you can't do anything about. But if that's the case i'm sure they'll give us some updates to fix the game soon anyway.

» Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:53 pm

Maybe on my 100th playthrough. idk.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:19 am

I would not glitch on my first serious playthrough but maybe on subsequent characters where I am just messing around. Never ever play in god mode or something which makes the game boring