Comment on It’s time for game developers to bring back the cheat code
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 2 days agoI agree with the second part, not first. Cheat codes are cool to have. Its basically integrated modding for fun. No need to mod a game for that. The nostalgia is also about how cheats was discovered and shared, they are more than codes, its gaming community. It was exciting to discover and share and discuss, in a world before internet (or before it got mainstream).
For old games, we can also use chat modules and integrated cheat systems in emulators, that’s also nice. I wish modern games would allow that too. They are too closed. Also lot of game developers don’t even allow modding and makes it hard or even go against them.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Well we are post Internet now, so discovering things and sharing them has flown out the window.
I’m not seeing a difference between chest emulators and being able to mod the game
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Mods are often operating system dependent and need executables to be installed sometimes, which I often do not trust. Sometimes mods require ton of space or are complicated to install or are not compatible to each other too. You need to do backup of game files, update the game and the mod if needed and so on. Also game consoles have a harder time to mod the games too.
I would prefer if some functionality was integrated, let’s say cheats or any thing other for that matter.