So I just got a Beta Key for Starcraft II. Which means 1 of 2 things, either I will: A)Fall in love with the game almost immediately based on my previous nostalgia for a game I still play from time to time mixed with the upgraded graphics that I have been waiting for a decade to see properly, or B)play 1 or 2 games online, realize that cheat codes aren't enabled and remember that I was never very good at RTS games and I always show me the money'D my way through pretty much every level past the first two of each race.
I think cheat codes in games are a terrible idea, every time I found a cheat code for a game that I loved that game suddenly became the epitome of fun. My pupils would dilate with the added adrenaline of becoming a demi-god in the world I had been enveloped into. Yet as quickly and intensely as I had loved the cheat code, I became embittered. Like an addict who stumbles into a large stash of their choice drug I had used up all the fun at once instead of allowing the fun to build and becoming proud of my accomplishments. I had no will power when it came to cheat codes, no matter how many times I started a new game and promised myself this time would be different I would always go back to my dealer and ask for another hit. "Just once or twice when I'm in trouble" I would convince myself, and eventually I would finish the last campaign again with a single Dragoon after a quick "power overwhelming" was typed on the keyboard and go to bed as the victor on my screen, but the defeated in my heart.