How often do you use Cheat codes?

Only time I use em is once I've done everything possible without them. Much like beating Halo 1, 2 and 3 on Legendary, then playing through on easy just to wtf rape everything.

My friend and I won Halo 1 cooperatively on the Xbox on Legendary. Good game!

Not very often, depends on what game I play.

in RPGs - never
in shooter - if they are really good - sometimes

After I finish a game without them. At that point I feel, well I made through and I know the game so why not? I do however have a tendency even with cheat codes to handicap myself in someway. Like okay my first Oblivion character to beat the game was a Ranger, took forever to level as I hate Oblivion's leveling system. My second character, I decided to cheat and went with a speedy Samurai character. I started her off with maxed blade skills, speed, acrobatics etc... However she had very little magicka, and only knew restoration spells. Her health was also rather low, so she really needed to kill fast or she would be killed since her magicka was low and I could only pull off maybe like 3 heals per fight.

My current character has better magic abilities, sneak, but even less health, and very poor marksman. If I don't pay attention when fighting a strong opponent I tend to find myself dead as the health bar goes down fast. On top of that whatever build I come up with via cheats doesn't change throughout my gameplay. So while my character is a speedy sword fighter, and powerful in Restoration and Destruction if she gets hit it hurts a lot, and if I don't watch my health bar and heal when I need to I'm dead.