10 Video Games That KNEW You'd Try To Cheat - Commenter Edition

Hands up, who has played through The Legend Of Zelda: Link's Awakening without receiving the dubious all-caps monicker of THIEF? Anyone? No? Didn't think so.

A legendary trick used by many players to circumvent the exorbitant 980 rupee price for the bow in the Mabe Village store, players would pick the item off the shelf, run rings around the shopkeeper and exit before he got the chance to turn back round.

Upon leaving the shop, the game would ask if you were proud of yourself. "Of course not," you would reply, but at least you didn't have to go around mowing everyone's lawns for 3 hours instead. Upon inevitably returning to the shop, however, you would then be greeted with a furious shopkeeper demanding you pay the ultimate price - immediately electrocuting and killing you. Upon reloading, the item remained in Link's inventory, so it was a small price to pay.

That is, until you talk to any NPC in the entire game, who now calls your character by the name THIEF rather than POO, which you undoubtedly labelled him back in the early 90s. That's that. Irredeemable. No matter your great deeds across Koholint Island, you'll never be any more than a thief to these ingrates.