"Stop this cheating Grunty says, or your game pak I'll erase!"
-Grunty (Banjo-Kazooie)
Still about cheating in video game. Cheat may be more acceptable in the past, but nowadays it seems cheats are longer acceptable in many cases. However all the judgements and the "no-cheating rules" are not stopping many video game players to cheat in the game. Like in the games I have listed below, players are in for some hilarious punishments should they decided to cheat in the game.
Banjo-Kazooie
Grunty's Code Vengeance
In Banjo-Kazooie, finding a secret keyword and enter it in an area in the Sandcastle level is the part of the game. So it's like a legal cheat provided by the game developer. It grants you with a handy upgrade such as increasing the amount of certain items you can carry and it has no consequence.
But it doesn't mean that there is no forbidden keywords that are not part of the game, aka the illegal cheat code, with some serious consequence that will ruin your day. If you enter any level-skip, note door, or moving obstacles cheats, which is illegal, Bottles and Grunty will warn you to stop cheating or they will delete your save file. Enter that for the third time and you'll see Grunty's fourth wall breaking power called Grunty's Code Vengeance.
Tomb Raider II
HE Lara Croft
In the first Tomb Raider, there is a cheat code that will let you have every weapons available in the game in your inventory, each fully loaded. Imagine how easier you can roll your way through the game with all that in early game. In the next game the developers didn't remove the cheat and labelled it as a "nude code" so you can (and you will) use that cheat code again in Tomb Raider II. Only this time instead of having your inventory full of weapons or seeing your childhood crush naked, you'll see Lara Croft explodes to pieces. And to make it even more brutal, each of those scattered pieces of Lara Croft explodes again. Well played.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Chort, the Cow Monster
When The Witcher 3 first launched, the player find a way to gain easy unlimited money. The cows in The Witcher 3 can give you a decent amount of gold, Geralt would want to be a farmer instead of a monster slayer. Kill the cows, collect their hides and then meditate for an hour and the cows respawned back for you to slaughter again.
Of course CD Projekt Red aware of this and fixed the game to stop players from exploiting the game's economy. Instead of reducing the amount of cow spawn rates or the hide price, they did something better. If you kill the cows again, a powerful monster called Chort will spawn out of nowhere to kill you for attacking the cow. Sure maybe you could slay the Chort easily too once you reached a high enough level, but if you have make it that far you are most likely won't need to do that because you don't have money trouble again.
Slender: The Arrival
Slender-man Can Find You Anywhere
Cheating in games is not only in done by entering certain codes, but also using glitches. In horror game, if there is any way to escape the horror easily the player would probably use that. Slenderman aware of this too, you know. In Slender: The Arrival, there is a glitch in chapter 4 that let you walk outside of the map border to the edge of the terrain, in which you'll clip through the game's world and fall.
The player might think that this way could help to escape the well dressed horror. But that's wrong, the developer is aware of this, Slender-man is aware of this, and they set up a creepy little surprise for everyone who use this glitch. If you think Slender-man can't creep you out more than he already is, try to escape him with the glitch and you'll see Slender-man say "Not even a bug in this game will save you from me". That makes him pretty cool actually.
Guild Wars
Death Come For You to Slice You in Half
In Guild Wars, if you caught cheating you'll get to meet Death itself, or in this game, Dhuum. The giant robed figure will pop up from the ground and straight up murder you with his giant scythe infront of everyone. Your character will be sliced in half, booting you from the game while everyone is laughing at you. "PATHETIC CHEATER! THE VOID BECKONS!"
Now, the last one is a perfect scenario of the developer himself swoop in to deal with a cheater in Guild Wars 2 in the most brutal way possible, you might think he went too far.
Stripped, Shamed, And Jumped From the Heights Straight to Ban
If one caught cheating in most online games, the punishment might be the usual immediate ban. But in Guild Wars 2, this one cheater had his ban alright, but not so fast. There was a player called DarkSide who used various cheats so he could teleport and deal absurd amount of damage. Day after day other players keep reporting and uploaded a video evidence until the game's security lead, Chris Cleary, took this matter into his own hand.
He took control of the character, removed all of his clothes, get onto a high building and waved to everyone before he jumped from the heights to die horribly, and DarkSide banned from the game. Some said that Cleary went too far, the other cheered at the cheater's brutal punishment.
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