Line #2 PlayingWith/NoFairCheating


1	'''Basic Trope''': A game contains measures to punish or discourage cheating.
2	* '''Straight''': You use a cheat code, and you cannot get [[CosmeticAward achievements]]. Some secrets become unobtainable, too.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** You use a cheat code, and the game [[GameBreakingBug permanently breaks itself]] or leads you to a NonStandardGameOver.
5	** You use a cheat code, and the game destroys your computer or game system with a virus.
6	** Using a cheat code at the start will lead to a PressStartToGameOver.
7	* '''Downplayed''': You use a cheat code, and the main character [[BreakingTheFourthWall chews you out]].
8	* '''Justified''':
9	** The game was programmed in such a way that it can't handle cheating devices.
10	** All rules are known and all moves are made openly between two human players, rendering all cheating obvious.
11	** The RandomlyGeneratedLevels system has a GameBreakingBug where using cheat codes will cause the game to crash.
12	** It's a multiplayer-only game and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin not fair to cheat.]] Running cheat software is legitemately harming everyone else's fun, so the cheater gets kicked.
13	* '''Inverted''':
14	** The game encourages you to cheat at multiple points.
15	** You will get a game over if you've never cheated the game.
16	** The game's AI [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard cheats like it's going out of style]], which gives the player an incentive to cheat as well and dish out some well deserved karma.
17	** The game punishes the AI for cheating.
18	** The game gives tools to the player that enable them to punish the AI for cheating.
19	* '''Subverted''':
20	** The main character starts to harangue you for cheating, but then concedes, "well, that's the kind of guy I am" as he rewrites his HP total.
21	** There is a cheat code that nullifies the punishment for using cheat codes.
22	* '''Double Subverted''': The main character starts to get angry, and then shrugs and rewrites his HP total...and then your save file gets deleted.
23	* '''Parodied''':
24	** It's literally impossible to beat the game without using a minor cheat code. However the cheat code is written on the wall with its effects by a LockedDoor that requires using it to destroy it. The hero's love interest chews him out for cheating despite hero's protests that it was literally impossible otherwise but the love interest never lets him live it down.
25	** You can't cheat ''at all'', even when you're ''forced'' to. The computer, on the other hand? [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard It gets away scot free]] ''[[{{Hypocrite}} no matter how much it cheats]].'' It's even ''praised'' for taking such bold actions while you get the most ''severe'' punishments for using the most minor of cheats.
26	* '''Zig Zagged''': The game encourages you to use cheat codes at multiple points and then punishes you for doing so. However, you can use an Action Replay to lift the punishments, which the main character will snark about if you are detected.
27	* '''Averted''':
28	** The player can use cheats without penalty.
29	** There are no cheats.
30	* '''Enforced''': "We feel that cheating ruins one's gaming experience, so we're not going to put up with that sort of thing in our game."
31	* '''Lampshaded''': "Oh, would you look at that. All my weapons are gone. Well, I guess that's what happens when people cheat, ''isn't it?''"
32	* '''Invoked''': The game includes a CosmeticAward for setting off the penalty.
33	* '''Exploited''': The game and its characters warn the player that cheating is what the developers are hoping for so they can have it patched out later. [[NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught So if they're gonna cheat, they'd better do it while they still can.]]
34	* '''Defied''': The main character warns you that the game has an anti-cheating system... and then provides you a better cheat code to get around it.
35	* '''Discussed''': "Incidentally, people who attempt to use cheat codes to bypass [[ThatOneLevel this section]] shouldn't be surprised if the exit has been sealed."
36	* '''Conversed''': "Dammit! Why include cheat codes if you're just going to punish me for using them?"
37	* '''Deconstructed''': Cheating is punished because GodIsEvil and wants everyone to suffer and toil unnecessarily.
38	* '''Reconstructed''': Cheating is punished because it's really bad for the fabric of reality in-game, doing so multiple times leads to an epic MindScrew as reality caves in on itself in a NonstandardGameOver.
39	* '''Played For Laughs''': [[YouLoseAtZeroTrust All of your love-interests will get upset]] and [[StealthPun react the same as if they caught you engaged in infidelity, even if you never even dated them.]]
40	* '''Implied''': Getting an extremely high score causes mission control's reaction to go from praising to disgust that Bob's actions are "Just sickening and unfair." Getting a score that high requires either cheated resources or extreme skill and going out of your way to kill literally every enemy on screen.
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42	[[labelnote:No Fair Cheating]]Use the " Main" button, you bastard![[/labelnote]]
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45	%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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47	%%* '''Implied''': ???
48	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
49	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

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