11/3/2011-Nobody likes a cheat.

As presented before in previous,the magic circle is a pretty bizarre place,with the ability to capture the imaginations of the target audience into a game which to me frank,would never be able to happen in the real world.But what happens when these 'magic circles' get invaded with glitches and cheats which wish to destroy their perfectly designed stories.


“A glitch, or a ‘bug’ as it is sometimes known, is a generic term for the result of a programming error. Glitches vary significantly in their scale and severity and range from graphical artefacts or anomalies that do not dramatically affect or alter gameplay to those that can crash the game, and even the system on which it is running, or corrupt save data, thereby eliminating a gamer’s recorded progress" P. 114 –Playing with Videogames, James Newman, Routledge, 2009


Glitches are a great way of indicating that not everything is perfect in the realm of gaming,whereby the game is of such a detail with a huge platform resulting in substantial problems.A prime example of this is Fall out New Vegas.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMa-CGhXahw)

But forget about the moonwalking dogs or the floating Dr.Mitchells head in Fall out New Vegas,why are people creating cheats and why cant we all just learn to play a game without having to thrive for victory.Many may say that we are living in a society where top dog is all that matters and that we all will take the easiest route to get to the destination the quickest,but are these rules still followed the same in the gaming world?

Thousands of webpages appear with crafty cheats to complete a level on search engines,But to what extreme do these gamers go to defeat the gaming world.Whereever you go few games are being produced whether its the latest call of duty game to lego harry potter,there are always parts that you feel are not humanly possible.

Steven Poole stated in his book of Videogame Incoherence that there were three main types of incoherences in the gaming world.

          Incoherence of Causality.                                     Incoherence of Function. 

   

                                                         Incoherence of Space.

But what do all these games have in common......glitches and thousands of cheats which are created by the so called 'gaming fan'.But to what expect is gaming now about the enjoyment and satisfying feeling that you have completed a game.Many people would say that they do it for the experience,but truthfully,its all about winning.But still there are cheats and glitches being created to show that the human kind are trying not to be sucked in by the gaming world,with the time and brain power that technology lacks.With the conclusion that We can think we are winning,but really its a loosing battle.