You do it because you can.

[iamnotincompliance]

This is an odd one. Say, you have a game, and you discover it's possible to do something. There are no rewards or punishments for doing this (or not doing this), it's simply... possible to pull it off, and for no other reason than your own amusement, you do it, time and again. Perhaps an example is on order.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Don't sigh and shake your head, I know the GTA series is basically based on doing random things for your own amusement, but hear me out. 10 million Vice City users already know if you can take the Hunter and blow the banner-towing Dodo out of the sky. That's fine, but I discovered an easily exploitable glitch some time back based on that I'd like to share with you all now. I am so bold to claim credit for it's discovery because, even though I put it out there, apparently no one took notice. Whatever, that just makes my claim to it all the more legitimate.

Ready for this?

Take your Hunter and shoot the missiles at the banner-towing Dodo. That in itself may be the hardest part to pull off, because the missiles are of the non-heat-seeking, linear flight type. The missiles explode on the Dodo, and it is at this time you want to pause the game. When you unpause, the Dodo will continue to explode as normal, and the charred wreckage will continue to fly, banner in tow, as if nothing happened.

I would prefer that we avoid the kinds of exploitables everyone does in a game for amusement, such as (back to GTA) running over hookers or driving sports cars off-road. We've all done that. I'm looking more for "You know that thing that's impossible to get? Well..." or "Hey, guess what this game allows you to do?" only not so stupid sounding as those example examples are. However, I have noticed that topics always tend to skew from the original topic, so instead I'll close with this...

Have at it, folks.

 

[ElArabDeMagnifico]

Well speaking of GTA, that reminded me of when you could change the size of the Moon by sniping it.

 

[Mstrswrd]

Well speaking of GTA, that reminded me of when you could change the size of the Moon by sniping it.

You could change the size of the moon by sniping it? Odd.

...for me... the only real thing is getting attacked by Cuccoos in Zelda, and everyone knows about that. Well, and also taking control of a Cuccoo in Twilight Princess just for the hell of it, but yah know, it's basically the same thing. A pointless time-sink.

 

[ElArabDeMagnifico]

Well speaking of GTA, that reminded me of when you could change the size of the Moon by sniping it.

You could change the size of the moon by sniping it? Odd.

...for me... the only real thing is getting attacked by Cuccoos in Zelda, and everyone knows about that. Well, and also taking control of a Cuccoo in Twilight Princess just for the hell of it, but yah know, it's basically the same thing. A pointless time-sink.

Yeah it was a glitch in Vice City if I remember correctly, if not, well, I know it's in GTA, that's for sure.

 

[Froce]

it was also in GTA 3. Also, you can destroy that plane???

 

[Lvl 64 Klutz]

I loved all the horse-riding tricks you could do in Shadow of the Colossus, I used to play around with them all the time... my favorite thing to do was jumping out of a tree while calling Agro, and trying to land on his back

On a side note, though, what don't you do in video games only for your own amusement? Unless consoles are giving prizes for finishing games all of a sudden? (How awesome that'd be)

 

[Shajinn]

Dunno if this one counts because I only ever did it once and never tried to repeat it but since it´s kind of impossible (you´d think) I'll just post it anyway.

Anyway I was playing and I fell of a ledge. OK nothing odd yet but when I landed I felt that the ground was farther away than usual, so I tried to move and when I took a step backward there was some movement and suddenly there was one of those imps straight in my face. The only thing that could explain this would be that I landed on him but since the objects in Doom are all 2D I wouldn´t have thought this to be possible...

 

[sirdanrhodes]

Aperture science, we do what we must, because, we can...

 

[Terramax]

I remember years back, the original Micro Machine games, going off the tracks and exploring on 2 players. I remember with the 2nd one some of the locations spanning out quite far.

Then there was Sonic R where I spent hours exploring the areas, trying to clumb on the background buildings. I could do the odd random thing.

Whilst on the subject I never figured out how to climb up the walls with Knuckles on that f**king game.

 

[Melaisis]

I suppose, in a weird way, such elements of gameplay really create a (albeit overly desperate) sense of replayability. Heck, I even remember just running wildly around Hogwarts in Chamber of Secrets (the last Harry Potter game I ever played, suffice to say) because I simply got bored and had nothing else to do.

 

[Awkward Turtle]

Aperture science, we do what we must, because, we can...

Beat me to it.

Anyway, going through the room with all the spinner tracks in Twilight Princess is always fun.
I wish they had added more than one room in which you get to use the spinner...

 

[L4Y Duke]

How about sticking people's heads through tunnel ceilings in Destroy All Humans! 2?

 

[sicDaniel]

When i played an assassin character in Oblivion, i always laid the corpses orderly on the floor, put an arrow through the head and left exactly 1 gold coin in their inventory. I was the gold coin killer.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

When i played an assassin character in Oblivion, i always laid the corpses orderly on the floor, put an arrow through the head and left exactly 1 gold coin in their inventory. I was the gold coin killer.

My thing was posing the bodies. One time, I found my first victim on the bridge out of the Imperial City, killed her, then dragged her body onto the island with the bridge support to make her death look like an accident.

 

[the monopoly guy]

After beating Half life 2 for the 9th time I decided to play through it again with cheats (low gravity etc etc) for the heck of it and I found that right before you first get the shotgun in ravenholm on the top of that building (before you fight all of those) fast zombies you can jump on that catwalk that he apears on (you must do it before he shows up) and you can get annabelle...or whatever he named his gun.

it looks like the normal shotgun but only hold 2 shells at a time. it looks liek his gun when its just laying theyre and when you get all your weapons taken away in the citadel you can see it. sadly it uses the overwatch rifle slot so it can only be used in ravenholm

the gun is more powerful, you can only have 12 shells (not including those in the gun)and its less accurate

 

[The Franco]

They're sort of well known, but I loved to find new wallhacks in WoW back when I played it and had nothing to do. It first started when the raid was waiting for someone in ZG, and someone showed everyone else who was there how to get on top of the gate where you start by exploiting little footholds evident in the walls. Before I learned this (at level 60) I was trying to go from ashenvale to the barrens (to get to the glimmering flats and other places where alliance didn't often quest on a normal server) by avoiding guards. Well, I accidently found a way over the mountains and into a bare, featureless area in between the barrens, ashenvale and stonetalon mountains by climbing the mountains. After heading south you then wind up on top of the hill in the northwest part of the barrens. Useless? yes. Random and entertaining? hell yes. But it showed me why there wouldn't be flying mounts in vanilla WoW's land areas.

 

[ElArabDeMagnifico]

Oh yeah, MGS3, get the stealth cammo, and the monkey mask.

Best thing ever.

 

[Evil Lawyer]

Pretty much anything involving cardboard boxes, lockers, porno mags and guards in the MGS games. Then throw stealth in the mix and you've hours of humiliating guards just for the sheer enjoyment of being an evil bastard.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Ah, my halcyon days in the first two Thief games. I would sneak into any given mansion or fortress, steal every last bite of food from the place, and give everyone in the joint a nice blackjack massage... except one. I would leave some poor schmuck left out on a balcony or tower unmolested, so that when he finally got tired of waiting for his relief to show up, he'd come back inside to find that everyone had a giant orgy in the fountain without him.

That's right, every piece of food left with me. I figured that the reason Garrett's rent was so high was because he has a pantry you could hide a herd of buffalo in.