Are glitches for bitches?

[Joseph Valdez]

Exploiting glitches. Good or bad?

How can exploiting a glitch in a video game be a good thing or a bad thing? Give examples please?

 

[The Procrastinated End]

Exploiting a glitch to make things easier for you: Bad
Hiding in the level design of CoD.

Exploiting a glitch to make things more entertaining: Good
Some of the funny things in sandbox games.

 

[ajofflight]

GOOD
I suck at fighting games, and I was getting extremely frustrated when I couldn't beat Seth from SFIV. My solution? To exploit the AI and use nothing but low kicks to beat him.

BAD
That time that my friend decided to "show" me a cool glitch, which got me killed.

 

[Lyri]

I approve of this thread title, I giggled a bit.

 

[Hiphophippo]

Provided it's not multiplayer and your glitch hinders someone else's gameplay it's all in fun. For singleplayer who am I to tell you how to have fun?

 

[Kelble]

Depends on the circumstance. In a singleplayer game such as Oblivion, a fun way to waste a lot of time doing nothing. I never understood why Bethesda fixed so many of Oblivion's glitches when most were not harmful to gameplay and were fun. However, in multiplayer games, glitches are always abused and make the experience just miserable.

 

[Jack_Uzi]

The problem with most (FPS) games against the AI is the freaking pathfinding they can't get right. So most of the time I walk and strave backwards to let the AI run against these obstacles while I'll empty my clips.

 

[blue spartan 11]

Bad: Marathon + lightweight + commando. That's abusing the system.

Good: Last level of halo 2. Highjacking a banshee with a brute will cause it to fall, unarmed. You don't know how it's fun to see 20+ brutes walking slowly toward you, groaning and snarling.

 

[The Bucket]

The only glitch ive ever intentionally used was the one that made RAAM get stuck behind a wall in Gears 1 on Insane. Seriously, no matter where I stood he either blasted my bandana off or those damn bat-things devoured me (who, by the way had a very loose interpretations of what qualified as a dark area). And Dom had to rush out of cover and die every 5 seconds to complicate things even further. I know that console controllers have limited buttons, but where's the one that tells all your allies to climb under a bin and shut the hell up about the bullet holes in their eyes while the real men got down to some war.

Exploiting glitches online is wrong for obvious reasons, but in Single Player you should do whatever you want to get more enjoyment out of your product.

Also, awesome title.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

For singleplayer: Go nuts.

For multiplayer: No.

 

[ZZoMBiE13]

I miss that one glitch in Halo 3 that they patched away. When the game first shipped you could send an enemy flying with a melee strike in single or multiplayer. It made for some fun times. But then in the name of balancing things out they took the glitch away. *sigh*

Oh well.

 

[LightOfDarkness]

Multiplayer: only if it makes everyone lol

Singleplayer: Skullfuck the game with a bat with several nails in it made of titanium and poison.

 

[killcheese]

If its in a singleplayer game and its just fucking around then yes, and it can be hella funny in some games. If its mutiplayer then its cheating and i disapprove.

 

[WaywardHaymaker]

Heeeell yeah, motha'fucka'!

Joking aside, glitches can be fun (Like the superbounces from Halo 2), and they can be awful (Like the under the map but you can still shoot anyone you want from CoD 3, or the Javelin Glitch from MW2)