It normally does but when I was younger I put god mode on in Doom without knowing what it meant. I thought I was the shit at that game until I found out.
I haven't used straight-up cheats in anything for years. Not even for messing around in GTA or Crackdown. It doesn't hold my interest when I'm not in peril.
" Without challenge, there is no game, it becomes a 'toy'. "
I disagree very much! I don't think games have to be difficult to be considered video games, they just have to be video games and then they are considered video games.
I use to be able to do it, but now it just sucks the fun out of the games for me. Case and point, Starcraft I was all cheats all the time. Starcraft II, it's just not fun.
" Without challenge, there is no game, it becomes a 'toy'. "
I disagree very much! I don't think games have to be difficult to be considered video games, they just have to be video games and then they are considered video games. "
According to Jesse Schell game designer and author:
Games are entered willfully
Games have goals
Games have conflict
Games have rules
Games can be won or lost
Games are interactive
Games have challenge
Games can create their own internal value
Games engage players
Games are closed, formal systems
Take away one of those qualities and you have a toy, if you play using god mode, you can never lose and there is no real challenge.
it depends. god mode is pretty fun to use in a game like fallout 3 or [prototype], but not in a game like dead space (these are probably pretty bad examples).
It depends. I think playing Crackdown in "god mode" is pretty fun, because you can just go around blowing stuff up. But in anything linear, blowing your way through everything with no resistance gets boring pretty fast.
Depends on the type of game. I willingly used and will continue to use God Mode on something like Starcraft 2 during some of the more insane missions. Other stuff like GTA or Bethesda games, it can be really fun to just totally break the game.
Stuff like Portal or Teh Haloz, though? Nah. No point.
God mode is only fun if you have already completed a game, no one wants to play through completely unchallenged the first time they get at a game, its just meant as a fun little incentive to go back and play some more once the game is done.
" Without challenge, there is no game, it becomes a 'toy'. "
I disagree very much! I don't think games have to be difficult to be considered video games, they just have to be video games and then they are considered video games. "
According to Jesse Schell game designer and author:
Games are entered willfully
Games have goals
Games have conflict
Games have rules
Games can be won or lost
Games are interactive
Games have challenge
Games can create their own internal value
Games engage players
Games are closed, formal systems
Take away one of those qualities and you have a toy, if you play using god mode, you can never lose and there is no real challenge. "
That's on the assumption that you remain within the scoring/challenge system provided solely by the game. You can also step outside those, like say playing a drinking game based on how many times Roman asks to go Boawleeng in GTA IV and so on. Or maybe how many Combine you can successfully stack on one another in Garry's Mod. Or even "can I make a machinima as funny as Red vs Blue" using Section 8 : Prejudice? All of those present challenge at some level and all can be rewarding in of themselves. There is nothing wrong with Godmode and please don't take Schell's fundamental design spec of what a game needs to be out of context just to justify your argument. He clearly sides with my point of view that challenge can be Meta when he discussed the Future of Gaming @ DICE last year:-
" Without challenge, there is no game, it becomes a 'toy'. "
I disagree very much! I don't think games have to be difficult to be considered video games, they just have to be video games and then they are considered video games. "
According to Jesse Schell game designer and author:
Games are entered willfully
Games have goals
Games have conflict
Games have rules
Games can be won or lost
Games are interactive
Games have challenge
Games can create their own internal value
Games engage players
Games are closed, formal systems
Take away one of those qualities and you have a toy, if you play using god mode, you can never lose and there is no real challenge.
"
Wait, so when does this guy get to decide? He gets to say what the whole medium is, just because he made some games? Bullshit. There are plenty of games where you can't "lose", or aren't designed to be a challenge; that does not mean they can't be called video games. Hell, I found Deadly Premonition pretty easy, I didn't have much challenge. What I really, really enjoyed about that game was driving about the world and talking to the characters. If they stripped the combat out of Deadly Premonition, would it no longer be a video game? Because I'm certainly using a controller to interact with the game world, and that's the description I've used for video games for all my life. That's probably not the best example, but I'm sure if I thought harder, I could think of better ones (to be honest, I just love dragging Deadly Premonition into practically ever discussion I have).
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