Talk:CHEAT AND PLAY/@comment-25021327-20140827235333

I feel like this was a pretty solid pasta. It didn't do anything phenomenally original, and touched on some things that are fairly common in gaming pastas. That said, I think it did so effectively. The narrator was pretty likeable, and somewhat relateable.

It's tough sometimes since the main characters in gaming creepypastas have to react to what is happening, so the reader has to have a certain level of suspension of belief. That's fine though, someone experiencing strange, new, and bizzare phenomena would be freaked out. Probably even jumpy if they're playing in a dark, dank basement like the narrator.

I think that the descriptions were quite good. I could imagine everything being described as I read along. And I like the idea of coders and programmers hiding a booby-trapped cheat code in a well known game, and it's entirely feasible (aside from making a TV turn back on by itself ;) and is apparent in some games. Off the top of my head, I remember that if you tried to use the God-Mode cheat from DOOM on Heretic, another id software game, you were rewarded with insta-death, and a little text message on the screen.

But now I'm rambling again. All in all, this pasta treads somewhat familiar ground, but it does so well. It kept me reading, and I'm glad I read it :)