adhawkins Posted March 8, 2006 Posted March 8, 2006 Another great game BTW Half Life 2? Yep, just replayed it on my whizzy new PC. Looked lovely I've just played a Single Player mod too, which was pretty good. It's called Causality Effect. Well worth a look. Andy Quote
MAT1800 Posted March 8, 2006 Posted March 8, 2006 Another great game BTW Half Life 2? Yep, just replayed it on my whizzy new PC. Looked lovely I've just played a Single Player mod too, which was pretty good. It's called Causality Effect. Well worth a look. Andy I played it through twice too, well still playing second. I'll check that "Casulty effect" out cheers! Quote
Boomy Posted March 8, 2006 Posted March 8, 2006 I never could see the point of cheats in a game...Andy Some people want to buy a racing game and race the cars, not wade through competition after competition just to try out certain vehicles. Also in certain games, developers often add in stupidly hard moments for some reason.Lazy programing i call it. End of level bosses are a good example. You can for example be playing a very realistic FPS type game, picking of the bad guys with stealth and cunning as you progress, only to later be confronted by a mad man in a helicopter who just won't die. To beat him you have to use exactly 87 rockets and after you fire each one you MUST dodge behind a specific obstacle as he retaliates. There are 88 rockets on the level, so you can only miss once.If you miss twice, even though his energy bar is almost empty, you must start the entire process again.Then again. Then again.Then again, then again.......... until you are eventually successful and "allowed" to progress after your 115th attempt. That is why people often cheat and i think you will find the HL2 guy above only cheated because he had no idea you had to build a ramp.He assumed he had missed something to help him carry on so cheated to go forward on that section, then disabled the cheats. God mode would not help him get around having to build a ramp either, you would need to use the no-clip commands for that and i assure you nobody would play a game with those enabled. It just allows you to walk through walls or fly out of the game maps etc.It also means you can't pick up anything at all, or fire, or open doors or interact with anything in the game. So, cheating to move forward in a game you love because you are totaly stuck or because you want to enjoy what it has to offer immediately (GTL etc) is fine in my book. It should never be compared to online cheating for example, that is a whole different ball game. Quote
adhawkins Posted March 8, 2006 Posted March 8, 2006 i think you will find the HL2 guy above only cheated because he had no idea you had to build a ramp. No, you missed my point. He specifically said he always played games like this in God mode... He shouldn't have been able to get to the ramp without the boat, because you need the boat to cross a load of toxic sludge that will kill you otherwise. Andy Quote
MAT1800 Posted March 8, 2006 Posted March 8, 2006 And it must have been as boring as hell without it!!! The car confused me for a while, bl**** thing upside down.. Quote
Boomy Posted March 8, 2006 Posted March 8, 2006 In that case he probably just wanted to see what the game was like and admire the scenery while causing problem free havoc.If you are rubbish at games and don't like the challenge they provide, i suppose playing and not being able to die is your only option. This is something people often enjoy once they have completed a game as it happens, especially if they have been given a bonus weapon etc.They play through them again in God mode just causing chaos. There is also a very good chance he didn't pay for the game so had no real interest in getting his moneys worth out of it maybe?. It must be a rare occurance for someone to cheat their way through an entire game they have paid for. I certainly have never heard of that in all my gaming years. Quote
wrighty Posted March 8, 2006 Posted March 8, 2006 guys , you are right , i apologise ,i have just started the game from scratch and doing well, sorry for my low life post !!! Quote
adhawkins Posted March 9, 2006 Posted March 9, 2006 It must be a rare occurance for someone to cheat their way through an entire game they have paid for. I certainly have never heard of that in all my gaming years. In this case, I'm fairly sure the guy did pay for it (it's very difficult to pirate HL2 because of Steam). He said he always played this sort of game in God mode, because he just wanted to play the game, he didn't want to have all the 'hassle' of dying every so often. Andy Quote
Boomy Posted March 9, 2006 Posted March 9, 2006 In this case, I'm fairly sure the guy did pay for it (it's very difficult to pirate HL2 because of Steam). He said he always played this sort of game in God mode, because he just wanted to play the game, he didn't want to have all the 'hassle' of dying every so often. Andy It does seem pointless doesn't it if that is the case.A strange way to enjoy your software for sure!. HL2 wasn't too hard to copy though.Getting around steam presented no problems for the crackers and hackers.They made an extra special effort to crack it simply because it was supposed to be so hard it seems. In fact i even remember reading about how to play copied versions online with very little effort. Quote
adhawkins Posted March 9, 2006 Posted March 9, 2006 Fair enough regarding the copying. I don't subscribe to all the Steam bashing that goes on. I've had next to no problems with it (although I guess I do have broadband...) Andy Quote
Boomy Posted March 9, 2006 Posted March 9, 2006 Fair enough regarding the copying. I don't subscribe to all the Steam bashing that goes on. I've had next to no problems with it (although I guess I do have broadband...) Andy Agreed, i remember a few wee problems with steam back when it launched but it has mostly been spot on for me. Everytime people were going mad on web sites suggesting updates were getting stuck at xxx % or they couldn't launch it etc, i just sat back and waited for a while. I assumed 40 billion squillion people were hammering it so just left it alone for a bit. People seem to have the attitude that things such as steam must always work, 100% of the time, day in, day out from launch until the day it dies. That would account for 95% of peoples complaints i'm sure. Quote
adhawkins Posted March 9, 2006 Posted March 9, 2006 Yeah, probably. I can (kind of) understand people's complaints that you had to go online to register the single player version. However, these days, who doesn't have an Internet connection if they've got a PC capable of playing something like HL2? Andy Quote
MAT1800 Posted March 9, 2006 Posted March 9, 2006 you had to go online to register the single player version. I think thats the main complaint. It certainly was mine. I like to buy something and it actually exist. It's bad enough with software, without just buying almost an empty box with a CD Key in it. But steams OK, I guess,.... Quote
adhawkins Posted March 9, 2006 Posted March 9, 2006 I bought mine online. I don't even own a Half Life disc...had it all preloaded a couple of weeks before it was released, then activated it the day of release. Andy Quote
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