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ShotgunShaman

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Just a little quicky thread. What are the funniest/weirdest glitches you've ever seen in a video game?
Mine actually happened about an hour ago, I was playing Red Faction: Guerrilla. In a big ol' dump truck, I drive through a 2-story EDF building. It's pretty well destroyed, but a large metal beam somehow impales my truck. For about 5 seconds I keep driving, then I notice I'm not actually on the ground. In fact I'm slowly spinning through the air, moving about 5 miles an hour, until I finally smash into another building. Because impaling a truck on a beam = antigravity.

Another one from the same game: on I believe it's the second mission of the first sector, you get a fancy armored car and have to drive into a bunch of sensor arrays. The whole way you're being pursued by about a dozen EDF cars, oddly enough none of which have turrets. So I hit a rock and flip the car, and am forced to get out. I start to run to the last sensor, hoping to finish the mission with my trusty sledgehammer. My brilliant plan meets its first roadblock when the first EDF car smashes me in the back and sends me flying. As I'm getting up, I get hit again. Before I can stand, another tire meets my spine. The cars keep coming, and coming, and coming. Within half a minute, I'm literally trapped under a pile of 13 EDF police cars, each of them trying to be as close to me as possible. I feel this is less of a glitch and more just lazy programming, I'm guessing that for that mission, the enemy AI are just trying to get as close to you as possible without actually shooting you or getting out of the car. It's an early mission, so it's understandable to give you "false danger." It took another 5 minutes until I could stand up long enough to chuck a explosive charge at one of the cars and die.

Honestly I see no problem with the occasional glitch, I have trouble being totally immersed in any game, and it usually just gives me a few laughs without seriously being a pain in the ass.

Thoughts?
Stories?
 

NotAPie

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Oh man.
When death claws fly in Fallout 3.
Useing the dupe glitch in Oblivion.
Stuff like that.
 

Internet Kraken

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Use the search bar [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.115379#2130232]

One time when playing Fallout 3, I stumbled upon the entrance to Vault 87, which is doused in radiation. In order to avoid certain doom, I fast traveled to a nearby camp ground.

As soon as I arrived at the camp, I randomly died. But then my corpse was flung across the map at the speed of a bullet for no reason. Meanwhile my medic power armor said something in a horrible gargling voice.
 

NotAPie

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Internet Kraken said:
Use the search bar [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.115379#2130232]

One time when playing Fallout 3, I stumbled upon the entrance to Vault 87, which is doused in radiation. In order to avoid certain doom, I fast traveled to a nearby camp ground.

As soon as I arrived at the camp, I randomly died. But then my corpse was flung across the map at the speed of a bullet for no reason. Meanwhile my medic power armor said something in a horrible gargling voice.
I gotta try and do that.
I wanna see my body fly at the speed of a bullet.
D: and I'm off! *pew!*
 

Branovices

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I was playing Fallout 3 and... I don't know what happened. I was in the middle of the desert/wasteland and heard a loud explosion... so I was looking around trying to discern its source.

Just then I saw a giant radscorpion hurdling through the sky from a distance unknown... it spun right over my head then smacked into a radio tower that was like 100 feet away and stuck there. I have no idea what caused that.
 

Citrus

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I was playing Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones, just fighting some guys and doing my business, when this woman's voice (not an actor) begins speaking over top of the game, listing off sound credits or something.

I don't think anything has ever wrenched me out of immersion quite like that did.