Fun Bugs

[bobknowsall]

Decided to play a bit of Hitman: Blood Money today, to whet my appetite for the upcoming Hitman: Absolution. For about twenty minutes, it was business as usual: Challenging (but challenged) AI, fun weapons, and plenty of opportunities for madcap fun. But, unbeknownst to me, something had changed.

I refer to a bit of misread code, a faulty script, perhaps even a simple collision error. Normally this would be mildly annoying, perhaps resulting in a crash to Desktop. But not this time.

Instead, a phantom, teleporting security guard gave chase.

He clipped out of doorways, floors and windows, popping off shots before simply disappearing. He'd reappear a short while later, often within two or three feet of me. It was terrifying stuff.

Terrifying, but hilariously fun.

Has this ever happened to you? Have you ever encountered bugs that provided a fun new experience in a game? (Also, have you ever encountered this specific bug in Hitman? Because it was bloody weird.}

 

[Neverhoodian]

One time when playing Monday Night Combat my character suddenly got stuck in the ground at the enemy team's money ball. I was an Assassin sneaking around the base when I suddenly came to an abrupt halt. Whenever I tried to move my character would just pivot like she was a spoke on a wheel. I also became invincible to boot.

After some futile attempts to break free (along with multiple failed attempts to kill me on the enemy team's part), I decided to make the best of it and switched to my ranged shuriken launcher. I proceeded to make life miserable for the two Support classes left defending the base, tying them down as they desperately tried to repair the various turrets I damaged. Finally I inflicted enough damage to juice myself, whereupon I proceeded to wreck all the turrets and kill the Supports. This allowed our bots to come in and win the match.

 

[Erana]

Once I was playing an iPod/phone/pad game called Solomon's Keep. I really enjoy it, and was playing it again through the hardest mode, and damn if it wasn't a major step up from anything in the game before.

I came across the first boss room, which held the Charles the Hammer and the stairway to the next floor.
I was strafing while zapping the boss, but he moved so much faster in this mode that he made it to me, and smacked me with his hammer clear across the room into the stairs, which signals a zone change.

The game froze for twenty seconds, faded out as it does before you go to another floor, then...

A different app showed up on my screen. An art app. Made by completely different people and not associated with Solomon's Keep in any way whatsoever.

So yeah, the boss hit me so hard he knocked me into a different program.

 

[Grottnikk]

Back in the Intellivision days, the developers of Space Hawk couldn't fix a bug that would randomly teleport your character around in space, so they added this line to the manual: "Occasionally, Space Hawk will encounter a black hole and will be randomly teleported to another location".

This, I do believe, is the very first use of "It's not a bug, it's a feature".

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

Once had a very cartoony moment in Fallout 3. A dead Yoa Guai that I killed roughly 50 metres back suddenly reanimated flew across the screen miles in mid air then strecthed out to about 10 times its normal length, then snapped out of longcat mode and flung it's a few miles in the other direction. This is an absolutley piss poor description but it was some of the wierdest shit I've ever witnessed in a game. One thing I can safely say with a Bethesda game is that you never quite know what you're going to get.

 

[Gaiseric]

In Syphon Filter Death match against my brother on some hedge maze level I could glitch myself invincible or more accurately undead.

When I'd get killed, I would still be able to move. And then I'd run around my brother and jump in his face taunting him.

 

[not-sid]

I was once playing Simpsons: Hit and Run, not a great game but decent, and the was one glitch I would use to get around quickly. I would use a super jump cheat attached to the horn to jump off a bridge into an underworld area then reset at my destination. One time though I tried this and I got booted out of my car and the car ported up leaving me trapped. I frantically ran around looking for a way back up when I found something weird. It was a washing machine just sitting out in the middle of no-where. I would just walk right through it. Later I tried to find it again, but I never saw it again.