Video Games That PUNISH Cheaters

nobody likes a cheater least of all video game devs so it shouldn't surprise you to hear that L of games have built-in methods to discourage cheating however some developers go out of their way to punish cheaters in the wildest ways imaginable from outrageous anti-piracy measures to seriously harsh consequences for using the game's own systems here are some video games that punish cheaters [Music] no Nami code cheat codes remember those though not as common nowadays you used to be hard pressed to find a game that didn't let you bash a few buttons and unlock some cooky

cheats for your favorite video game while the Konami Code is probably the most iconic gaming cheat code in existence originally used soen you guessed it Konami games the button combo became so famous that other developers started putting it in their games too and some of them saw it as a golden opportunity for a little trolling 2002 Super Monkey Ball Junior for the Game Boy Advance has a silly little surprise for attempted cheaters when entering the Konami Code on the title screen nothing happens aside from the text being altered to read super nice try cheeky but

not the end of the world unlike entering the code and sci-fi Shooter gradius 3 doing so in the 1989 SNES release would Grant all powerups but then completely destroy your ship o that's got to hurt but perhaps the best example of Konami Code trolling appears in 2003 Silent Hill 3 players that use the code after beating the game once receive an interesting reward supporting character Douglas Cartland will appear in his underwear for the entirety of your playthrough that's literally it no infinite ammo no crazy unlocks no invincibility just a middle-aged man in his boxers the

game even sigh at you when you the code imagine the disappointment one cheat too far the 1998 N64 classic banjo kazui is known for its tight platforming iconic soundtrack and dry British humor but some things in the game aren't funny in the slightest basically there's a dedicated cheat room that allows you to enter codes for some sweet bonuses level skips infinite supplies you name it you can probably get it but there's a catch if the player enters two codes in a row that are deemed illegal that'll be the likes of those level skips the villain

of the pce makes an appearance gruntilda the evil witch will let you know outright that you're on thin ice claiming that entering another illegal code will cause her to completely erase your save game hang on what that can't be true right well bashing in another code reveals that whoops it is old grunty will pop up and tell you that you're out of out of luck and the next time you exit to the main menu you'll see that your entire save is gone countless hours Up in Flames well because you wanted to take the easy route

damn that's harsh the easy route to unimaginable levels of incredible knowledge is simple though just leave a like And subscribe to my channel make sure you never miss out on another fact filled video like this one got it all right then let's go sorry SP 2000 Spyro 3 year of the dragon on Playstation 1 is one of the best games ever made and I won't hear otherwise it's also got one of the most Savage anti-piracy measures imaginable so buckle up PS1 discs were notoriously difficult to copy because of a series of unique Wiggles imprinted on

each disc that determined region and legality basically the disc drive would read The Wiggles and if any were missing or wrong they'd know you're using an illegal copy in response to the this hacker started installing special mod chips and consoles capable of bypassing this measure and fooling the PlayStation into thinking any disc was legit only some games had ways to detect these chips like Spyro 3 and developer Insomniac had left some nasty surprises in the game for hackers the hack game will run normally at first players can explore levels collect gems all that good stuff

however when they run into Zoe the fery near the end of the first world she says something un Ling I'm sorry Spyro but you seem to be playing a hacked version of this game this may be an illegal copy since this copy has been modified you may experience problems that would not occur on a legal copy okay from then on the game seems to play fine until it doesn't collected gems and eggs randomly disappear from the player's inventory forcing them to replay old levels to maintain their totals even worse the game will randomly crash Spyro's

health will drop and can't be restored again and the language will randomly change in pal copies sounds like a nightmare huh but if a particularly persistent hacker wanted to put in the hard work to finish the game they'd be in for a shock after defeating the final boss the player is then immediately teleported to the beginning of the game and their save file is completely wiped jeez now that's how you deal with pirates a bad time 2015's undertale is a quirky funny RPG with multiple different ways to play it players can attempt to talk to

foes and resolve things peacefully or just destroy everything in their path but what if I told you that there's another option in the original PC release the players can always just cheat by hopping into the game files and manipulating them it's technically possible to skip over huge portions of the game and reach the End early now undertale's endings are determined based on Milestones the player reaches and how they choose to proceed for example whether they chose to spare or eliminate a certain boss but what if after manipulating the game files you give contrasting info what

if you told it that you were on a pacifist run but you'd still killed some characters or what if you skipped to the end without participating in enough choices to get any ending in those cases the game can't determine which ending you re Steve so what happens well like normal the friendly skeletal NPC s speaks with the player but this time something's different [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] ah well okay then after that the player is booted back to the main menu frankly though if you've edited the game files to skip the actual gameplay

of the game you've bought the very least you deserve is to get called out reset Revenge Animal Crossing is probably the last game that comes to mind when you think of cheating I mean what the heck would you cheat for it's a relaxing life Sim about making money and Friends well developer Nintendo was actually pretty concerned about it see in-game shops and prices change each day so in the original game it would be totally possible for players to boot up the game check what was on offer and simply change the date on their device and

reset if they didn't like what they saw over and over again pretty cheesy right yep so Nintendo came up with a solution resetting the game without saving caused myy setti to appear he'll give players a polite message about how important it is to save before resetting polite but long- winded and unskippable annoying reset again resetti reappears less polite than before every time you reset he gets angrier and more longwinded he may even ask the player to write out an apology Nintendo's idea was to make the process of resetting as laborious as possible to discourage cheaters

it's kind of Genius really nowadays though Mr retti has been retired from the series with the Advent of autosave making the manipulation of dates impossible plus he also terrified a lot of kids not that I'd know anything about that he never scared me I swear clucking Pirates when it comes to Shooters one thing has to be satisfying or there's just no point in playing the shooting duh so developer krych had a delightfully devilish idea when looking to protect 2008's crisis Warhead from Pirates criminals who tried to grab a free copy of the explosive shooter received

a particularly unique punishment pirated copies replace all of your bullets with chickens amazing and yeah the chickens are basically useless don't expect to be getting very far with your poultry guns the very best part the crazy Quirk caused the whole shedload of people to Post online asking how to fix this strange glitch amazing I love it when hackers out themselves funnily enough a lot of legitimate players saw the post and wanted to try it out themselves guess there's a real Gap in the market for cluck of Duty Barnard Warfare dces the online mode of 2013's

groundbreakingly popular Grand Theft Auto 5 is absolute chaos some people want to cause out Mayhem blowing things up and crashing cars others would rather role playay as a regular Joe going to work to try and avoid the Carnage around them for some reason I guess point is it's full of a huge variety of play Styles including unfortunately cheaters and bad Sports developer Rockstar knows this and didn't want the game to devolve into something completely unfun for its players so they came up with a solution cheaters and nasty players that is those who've either hack the

game or get their kicks from griefing other players are given a neat little hat a d capap just so everybody knows that they're no good on top of that they're booted to a dedicated Lobby filled only with other dones and if you thought the normal lobbies got bad the dun lobbies are the wild west of the GTA World these villains are stuck in loser limbo for a few days before being allowed to return to regular lobbies though if they're repeat offenders they stay there even longer that's the stuff let the drugs ruin each other's days

instead of ours Batman's bad day whether you believe Batman is the greatest superhero in the world or not you can't deny that he's pretty darn cool and his laundry list of funky Gadget makes playing as him in 2009's Batman Arkham Asylum a total blast unless you pirate the game of course those players that try to grab an illegal copy will find themselves totally unable to Glide using the bat's big old C given that gliding is absolutely essential to traversing large gaps and by extension progressing in the game criminals are square out of luck the grappling

hook becomes equally UNH helpful instead of attaching to regular grapple points and allowing batsy to reach high places it'll randomly attach to Out of Bounds grapple points sending the player directly to their Doom so the game becomes Batman without any Batman stuff you may as well be playing as Alfred over on the forums of publisher idos players outed themselves as pirates by asking how to fix the strange glitch they'd encountered in one Infamous example of four adadmin responded by revealing the truth about the anti-piracy measures before dropping a oneliner that wouldn't sound out of Place

coming from Batman himself it's not a bug in the the gamees code it's a bug in your moral code that's no Moon Star Wars and Indiana Jones Creator George Lucas's name may be synonymous with film but there was once a time that had helped cloud in the gaming industry too LucasArts was originally a licenser and developer that created some truly unique games back in the day including one called afterlife the 1996 release is a city building game like Sim City only instead of an ordinary City it revolves around building a functioning heaven in hell as

well as roads and infrastructure players can also erect magical buildings like reincarnation centers it makes sense in the game I promise like other city builders the player needs a whole load of cash to build a prosperous afterlife but if a player doesn't want to play by the rules well there are in-game codes that can be used to get extra Moola Lucas Arts didn't want you abusing them though use them one too many times and well a familiar phrase pops up up on screen the Death Star makes an unwelcome appearance and starts blasting apart the world

that you spent so long building I don't know what I was expecting but it definitely wasn't that unfortunately if your cheating Buck gets struck down here you won't become more powerful than anybody could possibly imagine you'll just lose a whole load of progress War war zone Wizardry unless you've been living under a rock you'll know Call of Duty war zone is an online Battle Royale spin-off created in 2020 to ride the hype of games like fortnite and player unknowns Battlegrounds naturally these games are hugely competitive causing players desperate for That Sweet Victory Royale to either

put in the grind or cheat of course now Call of Duty is always been notorious as a hacker's Paradise but this time developers Raven and Infinity Ward decided to take action they implemented an anti-che software called Ricochet and used it to create some nasty surprises for [Music] hackers did you catch that as our cheater started to fire on a legit player the legit player turned completely invisible and was able to take him down each player attacked by a cheater basically becomes a supernatural ninja that hackers can't defeat H talk about Karma however it's worth noting

that anti-che software like Ricochet is notoriously shy and unreliable so since this countermeasure was implemented hackers have found ways to get around it and in some cases even make themselves invisible my God wait no he's just invisible he's just literally invisible he's not under the map damn well that kind of puts a damp on the whole Karma idea I guess Fade Away 2009's tactical shooter ARMA 2 is well known for both its realistic combat and insane anti-piracy measures the game features a program called fade which is designed to cause a crap cocky of Arma to

slowly descend into what can only be described as Madness to begin everything will seem normal until the player's accuracy is suddenly and dramatically reduced okay right away that makes the game basically impossible to play and that's just the beginning following this the title cards will start flashing up mid playay before the player's view goes all wibbly G that made me nauseous but things only get worse finally the pirate will be wait for it transmogrified into a bird and sent flapping on their way yep seriously this will be accompanied by a message reading good birds don't

fly away from this game I have only myself to blame well of being turned into a freaking bird won't teach Pirates a lesson about stealing video games I don't know what will not that super anybody remember the 2006 movie Superman Returns no not many do it was a largely forgettable flick that didn't do too well at the box office so the chances you played its tie in video game of the same name or Next To None it was a pretty poor movie tie-in aside from one thing how it handled cheating players see like other better

games Superman Returns had a built-in cheat menu where players could enter codes for bonuses but I wouldn't recommend using them the moment that a player pops one of those codes into the menu they receive a zero gamer score achievement called not that super complete with a condescending image of Superman wagging his finger at you the description reads entered to cheat code and a desperate plea for help wow that' make anybody feel pathetic but that's not all after cheating and being a awarded this achievement you'll be completely unable to unlock any other more desirable ones given

how much Gamers love achievements that's a big deal there's nothing quite like heading into a game expecting to feel like a superpowered musclean and leaving feeling like a total loser then again if you bought this travesty of a game maybe you deserve it doomed if I told you that at one point what you're about to see was one of the most impressive video games ever released would you believe me well it was this is doom and when it released in 1993 it changed the gaming landscape forever after its resounding success as the developer It software

knew there was lots of money to be made from similar Shooters so a year later they published Dark Fantasy shooter heretic on the same engine heretic proved a big hit especially among fans of Doom only it had a trixy little secret see Doom had several cheat codes that could be entered to activate significant boosts like invincibility or equipping every weapon and because heretic ran on the same engine longtime Doom blers assumed those same codes might yield similar results like this one which should Grant invulnerability ouch yeah inh heretic it straight up kills you okay well

what about unlocking all [Music] weapons ooh man that's harsh the player loses all their weapons and gets a shot he stick instead yeah if you try and cheat on heretic all you get is Doom soul soul for anybody that's never had the pleasure of playing The Sims it's a life simulation game that tasks you with maintaining the lives of several simulated people or Sims well maintaining or destroying there's nothing stopping you from burning their houses down anyway when Sims 4 was released in 2014 it came with some anti-piracy protection that was supremely fitting essentially in

the dayto day you need to tell your Sims to do basic tasks I'm talking sleeping eating and showering so to make sure players don't have to see their polygon Pals in the nude they'll become pixelated to protect their modesty after leaving the shower and getting dressed the pixelation will vanish at least it should if you're using a legal copy of the game pirated copies won't remove the pixelation ever what's more like some kind of anti-un virus the pixelation will spread until it covers the entirety of the game screen good luck playing when you can't see

Jack at that point a pirate is basically forced to buy the game legally if they want to get any kind of enjoyment from it whatsoever unless they happen to really enjoy vague shapes in which case they'd have been better off pirating an old Atari game the Bine Defense Force ah The Witcher 3 a sprawling open world RPG full full of interesting choices and opportunities to profit from them at the start of the game however the player is confined to a relatively small opening area and only given the opportunity to gain minor amounts of gold as

they explore so some players were a little impatient they wanted to get rich straight away and came up with a cheeky way of doing so there are some poor defenseless cows in the area that just so happened to drop cwh hide if you slay them now cowhide can only be sold for a small amount of cash so it hardly make a guy Rich unless of course you had infinite cow hide right well conniving players realized they could get the cows to endlessly respawn by meditating see meditating effectively jumps the game forward in time and reloads

all of the assets including the cows so players could repeatedly slaughter them farm and sell their hides and meditate until they had an absolute boatload of gold all before even leaving the starting Town naturally developer CD project red wasn't too happy about this and they wanted to punish players that exploited it the solution the Bine Defense Force it might sound like a particularly crappy anime but it was actually a genius bit of coding see after an update if a player used the meditation method to kill more than five cows they'd be in for a nasty

[Music] surprise oh man that's a short a super tough monster that's way overleveled for this section of the game any exploiters would be suddenly faced with this bad boy ensuring their attempt to make a quick Buck would backfire badly yeah it might be called a CH but the only ones chortling were the devs boom Raider when Tomb Raider was first launched back in 1996 nobody could have predicted how massive it end up becoming the game sold Gang Busters and wound up starting one of the most recognizable franchises at never Laura Croft became an icon so

when the seel Tomb Raider 2 came around in 97 the hype was crazy players quickly discovered an odity however when entering a certain combination of buttons Laura just kind of explodes well that's interesting what the heck is the deal well on the PC version of the first game entering this button combo gave the player all the weapons aha so it's a troll against old fans who expected the same cheat right well that's entirely possible but there's another more explicit Theory see Gamers liked Lara I mean they really liked her so much so that a rumor

started to spread that a secret code in the first game would make her uh change into her birthday suit this so-called nude Raider code rumor just wouldn't die so The Story Goes that a developer on Tomb Raider who created the exploding cheat and leaked it to outlets himself claiming that it was the nude Raider code that way perverted Gamers would try to get a peek at Laura's crops and wind up getting a pretty harsh game over instead I really want that to be the truth but to this day nobody knows for sure whatever the case

it's definitely one of the coolest video game trolls of all time and on that note I've had all the cheater punishing I can take for one day which which of those was your favorite and have any of them ever happened to you let me know down in the comments below and thanks for watching [Music]