When you're playing first person shooters, stuff like Doom, do you use God mode?

[Mr Allen]

I used to, because on Doom and Doom 2 on the PC, I could complete about the first 3 levels without dying, including finding some of the secret bits.

How about you guys?

 

[Bolletje]

Generally not, no. I have occasionally used the command console for open world games to circumvent bugs though. Mostly turning off collision, teleporting to quest locations and spawning NPC’s.

 

[Misery]

Nah. Honestly I need a real challenge for a game to even hold my attention (part of why I dont do AAA games).

When I play through something like Doom, things like this tend to happen:

That's on Ultra-Violence difficulty. And yeah, it's a long video, but I also wanted to show off all of the secrets in that level since there's so many of them. I've always been a fan of Doom's style of level design and secret placement.

The later levels dont exactly put up much more of a fight though. In a run like that, I'll MOSTLY keep using the berserk packs because it's hilarious (a berserk pack's effect lasts until the level is finished, and there's one hidden in most levels), but I'll switch to guns for "heavy" targets that have too much HP since I have no patience. But yes I have punched the Cyberdemon to death before. It took a million years.

Needless to say, I'd get rather bored using cheats in something like this. I only ever used cheats when testing levels I was making myself. Any level designer would go out of their minds if they had to test WITHOUT cheats, considering the sheer number of test runs that need to be done.

 

[Mia]

I used the god mode once in doom, to see what it's like after playing for many years. Same as in heretic and wolfenstein. Found it boring and not very challenging.

 

[Isadoorian]

Sometimes I'll use Cheats/Trainers, mainly due to the fact I care more about the story of the game than game mechanics

 

[onlything]

I experiment with God mods from time to time but I tend to get bored easily. They don't give a challenge at all. Although, even if there is a challenge I loose interest quickly unless the story is really gripping. Or unless I can create something in a diverse, ever-changing environment like in Oxygen not included or so.

 

[WildCat]

Unless I'm playing around or wanting to do a quick test of whatever, no. If things really get hectic and overwhelming, that's the purpose of the difficulty settings. I'll fool with those first.

 

[Xerces Blue]

No, the challenge is the point of shooters for me.
Though I did like the Fear series for the story.

 

[Bro'Freak]

Back in the day the ol' Doom classic days I recall using the odd cheat code at times
At the moment the only game I cheated in is:-
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Lost Alpha DC 1.4005
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Lost Alpha mod
This is an awesome game free so go grab guys.. well I cheated by downloading a
carry weight booster (v.1.4005 DC) script for my inventory. Also running the xtended pack for LostAlpha DC [1.4005] v1.3

 

[Xerces Blue]

I remember when S.T.A.L.K.E.R. shadow of Chernobyl came out and people where complaining about the carry weight.
It makes a lot more sense when you realize 50 kg is around 110 lb