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Nobody likes a cheater, and this remains true for game developers.
So, some of them decide to put little things into their games to mess with people who choose
to cheat and ruin the experience.
Let’s talk about some of my favourite examples.
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ready, it’s time for the Top 10 Video Games that Humiliated Cheaters!
Number 10: Banjo-Kazooie.
Cheating in Banjo Kazooie is… complicated.
It’s definitely part of the game, there’s even a special sandcastle to enter the codes.
But remember the rule of 3.
In this game, there are some unlisted illegal codes.
You can use one or two illegal codes with no punishment, but if you put in a 3rd, Gruntilda
will threaten to delete your save.
And if you call her bluff…
she just goes ahead and does it; the next time you open the game it’s gone.
So don’t call her bluff.
Because that would suuuuuuuuck.
Number 9: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
This one isn’t so much coded humiliation for people trying to cheat, and more of a
consistent smackdown of hackers.
If you’ve seen our video on People Caught Cheating On Stream, you’ll know that Valve
takes cheating pretty seriously.
Valve Anti Cheat Bans, or “VAC Bans,” are pretty harsh; all accounts attached to
the same phone number are banned, even those who don’t have the game yet.
Not only that, but you lose all items that weren’t purchased directly from the store.
Bottom line: don’t cheat, because Valve will wreck you and show the world you’re
garbage.
Number 8: Animal Crossing.
Not gonna lie, I’ve never played an Animal Crossing game in my life.
But my girlfriend has, and according to her, they can be pretty harsh with cheaters.
If something bad happens in a game, what do you do?
Reset it and try again, right?
Well, not here, thanks to the ever-annoying Mr. Resetti.
If you try to take the easy way out, when the game turns back on he starts yelling at
you for doing it.
You can’t even just spam A because he keeps asking you questions to make sure you’re
actually reading it.
Sometimes he pretends to delete all your save data too.
Yeah, he’s a jerk.
But honestly…
I’d probably still do it.
YOLO.
Number 7: The Witcher 3.
This one is less overt “cheating” and more “exploiting a bug” but the response
was so awesome it had to be on here.
Early on in the days of Witcher 3, people realized that one stable had two cows in it
that you could kill.
But if you meditated for an hour, they’d come back and you could kill them again.
Infinite beeeeeeeeeeeef!
However, the developers noticed this.
Enter: Chort.
Chort is the beautifully named cow beast based on Slavic mythology.
And he doesn’t take kindly to people who don’t take kindly to cows.
And if you kill him… more come.
It’s awful.
Number 6: SimCity.
You may not have played the original SimCity.
It was pretty hard, but thankfully there was a cheat that made it a lot easier.
Hold shift and type in “fund” and you’ll get $10,000.
Do it again and you’ll get another $10,000.
And everything is fine.
But if you start to get ridiculous with your cheating and do it 8 times, STOP!
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP!
Because the 9th time, a big ol’ earthquake comes and just wipes out everything.
And it’s back to square one.
If you DO insist on cheating, save after you do FUND 8 times, reload, and do it some more.
Or, ya know, just play the game properly.
Up to you.
Number 5: The Stanley Parable.
If ever there was a game that would creatively tease cheaters, it’s Stanley Parable.
And it does not disappoint.
If you use “type sv_cheats 1” in the console, you’ll find yourself in a room.
A serious room.
With a serious table.
That apparently took ages to pick out.
And then the narrator starts laying into you about how bad cheating is.
The whole scene is ridiculous; it’s kind like if Stephen Merchant and John Cleese had
a baby, and that baby grew up and decided to monologue about the seriousness of a room.
And it’s amazing.
Number 4: Star Wars: Dark Forces.
This one’s pretty funny because the player has to make fun of themselves IN ORDER TO
cheat.
If you’re having a hard time in the game and want to just be invincible and have unlimited
ammo, you can!
It’s easy!
But at the same time… it isn’t easy.
Because you have to type in “LAIAMLAME”.
Let me say that again.
You type “LA for Lucas Arts, then “I am lame”.
And to be fair, if you need God mode to beat the game… you kind of ARE lame.
Number 3: H1Z1.
H1Z1 has been around for a few years now, and like any multiplayer game, people try
to cheat.
And often, those people are banned.
But the developers decided to give these cheaters a chance to redeem themselves and be unbanned…
by humiliating themselves.
It was announced that you could be unbanned if you posted a public apology to YouTube.
And it worked, at least for the ones deemed to have really “meant it”.
And there were 3 of them.
And they were unbanned.
And they were embarrassed.
And apparently they deleted the videos because I can’t find them anymore.
Number 2: Link’s Awakening.
This one is near and dear to my heart, as it was my first Zelda game ever.
And they punished cheaters harshly.
There was a way to steal items in the game, if you carried it above the shopkeeper so
he looked away from the door, and ran quickly out.
Thing is, if you do this and go back into the shop, he calls you a thief and kills you
with a laser.
Then the name of your save file is changed permanently to “THIEF”.
Not gonna lie, I was called THIEF pretty much every time I played.
Because the bow costs frickin 980 rupees!
Don’t nobody got time for that!
Number 1: Guild Wars.
Oh man, this one is just amazing.
As you may know, Guild Wars is a multiplayer game, meaning if you cheat you’re not just
ruining your own experience, but screwing over other people as well.
So if you’re caught cheating in the game, they basically ban you in an awesome public
execution.
This big, black, death dude with a scythe shows up and slices your stupid cheating butt
in half.
In front of everyone.
Then you can’t play anymore.
Epic.
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Have you cheated in any of these games?
Did the punishment stop you?
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Until next time, I’m Ron McKenzie-Lefurgey with Top 10 Gaming.
Later gamers!