Arcane hidden options can offer accessibility without confusing the “core” game experience.
Accessibility options shouldn’t be hidden or a cheat.
It’s time for game developers to bring back the cheat code
Submitted 5 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to gaming@lemmy.zip
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Original chest codes were used for testing the game. Now they have a dev console - which in many games can be used to cheat. I don’t get this nostalgia for cheat codes, you can just mod most games now to do whatever you want.
Accessibility settings don’t need to be hidden. That defeats the purpose of them.
rapchee@lemmy.world 5 months ago
do you get a dev console on … consoles though?
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 5 months ago
I agree with the second part, not first. Cheat codes are cool to have. Its basically integrated modding for fun. No need to mod a game for that. The nostalgia is also about how cheats was discovered and shared, they are more than codes, its gaming community. It was exciting to discover and share and discuss, in a world before internet (or before it got mainstream).
For old games, we can also use chat modules and integrated cheat systems in emulators, that’s also nice. I wish modern games would allow that too. They are too closed. Also lot of game developers don’t even allow modding and makes it hard or even go against them.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Well we are post Internet now, so discovering things and sharing them has flown out the window.
I’m not seeing a difference between chest emulators and being able to mod the game