Then you may as well have used save states, save states aren't as cheating as going into god mode :(
I beat Half Life with save states on Normal, i'm too chicken to go to higher levels
AND IT WAS loving EATING ME ALIVE.
As you could clearly see.
I had no choice; either stop my sporadic, almost ADD like game play style, or bring the difficulty level down a bit. Because I felt it would make my Let's Play seem too unoriginal, I chose to lower the settings and keep with my 'run and gun while saying something witty' styling.