8 Video Games That Mock You For Using Cheat Codes

How about games where the soundtrack is better than the game. Love this series

Getting soundly mocked by Vampire Biker John DiMaggio is worth it 😀

Assassin's Creed is going to drop a VR title called Assassin's Creed Nexus. What other franchises could thrive if there was a VR adaptation of their games?

Got one. 10 mistakes we all made in our first playthrough

Descent 1 and 2 both jump to mind about mocking you for cheating. Everytime you enter a cheat the announcer says "cheater" and your score is set to 0 for the rest of that play through. Also when you normally would score points instead of giving showing your points for the last robot kill it has a dialog that says "CHEATER!" instead. Descent 2 also mocked players by changing the gabbagabbahey cheat from the enabling cheating on Descent 1, to instantly setting your shields and energy to 1 while still calling you a cheater and setting your score to 0.

Man….I loved Superman Returns. Easily best Superman game we’ve gotten….yet….

Cheat in GTA - Car explodes... with you in it!
Cheat in Tomb Raider 2 - Lara Explodes!
Cheat in Spore - Get an achievement calling you a cheater... that everyone can see...
Cheat in the Stanley Parable - Get sent to the pennance room

10 inside jokes that have been beaten into the ground.

Daaamn, I forgot about that Jade Empire thing 😅
Also, THAT’S a game that needs a remake!

top 10 overhyped games

Using cheats in Superman Return should load a level from Superman64 and make you fly through endless rings.

Games that get way more credit than they deserve

Game bosses/characters that were removed from games for being too difficult.

Banjo was really shitty.

Single Player game with no leaderboards or online functionality which has cheats programmed in, probably for play testing, then deletes your progress for just messing around.

I'd get it if a 3rd party hardware corrupted saves, but codes designed to ruin your enjoyment.

Sega games that deserve a comeback

Top 10 best/funniest pop culture references in Final Fantasy XIV.

Do the 10 worst what culture countdowns

List Idea: Bizarre Games to be Europe Exclusives. (Either that the games themselves are weird, and/or it’s weird they weren’t or aren’t available elsewhere)

Best multiplayer games pre online era.

Best video game cutscenes . My favorite mortal kombat 9-11

Oh, hey. I probably won The Longing by now 🤔

No mention of The Serious Room from The Stanley Parable, if you cheat in that game it pretty much just locks you in there.

Yuo*

How about ‘best end of one game/start of the sequel’ (or ‘best cliffhanger resolutions’ if you want to o be more specific)

Anyone remember being able to buy a cheat code book and have all cheats for all games on all platforms. What a time to be alive ayy

In terms of Banjo-Kazooie, at least the game will only punish you for using illegal cheat codes. If the cheat codes are legal, you're safe.

I'd love to see a video based on 8 video games that need easier platinum trophy requirements. WhatCulture is a prolific channel so I wouldn't be shocked if it's already been done.

The best leader boards of all time stuff like mirrors edge, arkham asylum and ninja gaiden, they're hard but fair

Mmmmmmmm Bruce Campbell x

Welp, Im scared to see that next weeks TYOA is the last TYOA

Games that are grind happy, meaning it takes you nearly forever to level up or max out

May have been done before, but I am playing through Knights of the Old Republic again, and found that I am a nice character…which leaves me weaker and more poor so…

Games that make it harder for being nice

The longing repent button would be over in a few seconds when using a auto clicker

Now Konami is Konami Coding their marketing!

A, B, B, A, Down, A, B, B, A

Other examples:

Theme Hospital (PC/PS1): If you type in the cheats for all tech and infinite money, your turncoat of a receptionist will publicly declare that you’re cheating.

Earthworm Jim (SNES/MegaDrive): Typing in the dev Beta-test cheat code will have Jim call you a cheat.

Medieval Remake (2018): Typing in the cheat code once that used to unlock all items and weapons in the original 1997 Medieval game unlocks an achievement called “Old School Sneaky”.

Blood (PC): Typing any of the cheats for this game will permanently blackball your overall score for your play through. Every time you reach the end of level stats you won’t receive a level rating. Instead you just get the bold, blunt words: YOU CHEATED!

I'll always remember my first experience with dev trolling. I had some 4x4 truck Racer type game for the ps2 where if you entered a code to spawn more money the text would literally say "congratulations cheater" at the end of the confirmation message.

To be fair i think cheats are fun to use on games i already played a lot of times. I already beaten that boss 4 times normally. Let me have some extra fun now with it.

I forgot about the Vectorman prize! I tried, but couldn't beat it fast enough.

Why use the Marlboro logo? Even the backwords sport of F1 is ditching tobacco sponsors soon.

Cheat codes are sometimes necessary, because not everyone is a super-intense-all-skilled-powerful player. I would never have gotten through Contra without the Konami Code. The first two (at least) Command and Conquer games didn't have cheat codes, which means I would get to one level that I Could. Not. Complete, and the rest of the game was lost to me. No gameplay, no story, just endless frustration. (I never bought the rest of the series, because why would I?) Star Craft, on the other hand, did allow cheats, so I was able to try each level a few times and only cheat if I had to in order to complete the story.

Wait, Banjo Kazooie deletes all the saves? So if your brother decides to cheat and ignore, your save is gone too? That's gone too far!

I'm surprised Animal Crossing isn't mentioned. That also had save-scumming detection in the form of Mr. Resetti. If you reset or turn off the game without saving (perhaps because something bad happened to your town), the next time you play Resetti will pop up and give you a lecture about saving before quitting. The more you reset, the angrier he gets and he eventually threatens to delete your save!

if i am in a single player game and i get punished for cheating, the game will be deleted and NEVER be played again

Codename Iceman does something not entirely unlike Jade Empire: there's a dice minigame that you need to win to earn a key item. If you save and restore during the minigame, your opponent will snark about it. Do it three times and he'll refuse to play and leave... taking the key item with him. You will never see him or the item again.

I wonder if the Banjo-kazooie devs knows that will their anti cheat action of deleting a save file would work if I pulled out the memory card for the N64 beforehand. 😏

I remember the "it is a good day to die" cheat in warcraft 2 would make all your stuff indestructable and one shot everything, but the draw back si any of the magic users could instant kill any of your stuff.

You don't read all these.

For The Longing, they should honestly add in a second true ending for those who put in the time to make it to the end. You can see staircases in the background behind the King. The Shade should be allowed the choice to leave, instead of stay, and get the Well Bucket ending as a result, but genuinely earned.