Best Glitches Created 14 years ago2010-10-02 16:30:50 UTC by X-LAyer2

What was the best glitch you ever encountered.
Mine was when playing Half-life in the lab right before the fight with the helicopter on the dam. I killed a grunt and he started disappearing like dead bodies do sometimes when the map has to many. Then all of the sudden just as he started disappearing he got up and ran away but continued to fade so it was like a real ghost in HL. I regret not having fraps at time i've never been able to recreate it.

I dunno if you'd call it a glitch.. but back in the day of nintendo 64, I was playing Perfect Dark trying to unlock some cheat options. Suddenly, immediately as I unlocked one of the cheats, a power surge happened. Right after I turned my console back on, I miraculously had all cheat codes. That added hours of entertainment to that game.

Oh, there are tons.
For Half-life, I'd say it was when I killed an ichthyosaur while it was in mid-jump, and instead of falling down into the water, it floated gently into the sky.

I'd have to think about it.

The last unusual happening when playing HL, and I wouldn't call it a glitch, is that I was next to a grunt that instead of shooting at me, kicked me in the groin. That's the only time I saw such a thing happening.

I'll try to remember actual glitches experienced.

One of my favourite glitches was in Hunter (1989) a 3D game where you are a commando. There are a variety of vehicles and creatures around the land, and whilst exiting a boat I somehow "boarded a seagull" and was able to fly around with my human model. Unfortunately I was unable to continue the game in any useful way, but it was quite an experience!

Another game from around 1990 was The Final Battle, a 2D isometric puzzle game where you have to excape from a medievil prison cell and click on the screen to interact with objects and people. There was one cave where if you dropped one of your items it would say "the shield has fallen to the floor. to the floor." and you were able to duplicate any object any number of times by dropping things and picking them back up (twice).

The original Carmageddon had some pretty funny physics glitches, sometimes when you drive into stuff you would get hurled across the map and your car would be so intensely damaged the polygons would form a hedgehog-shaped mess of triangles. I once blocked the train in Carmageddon 2 and it (despite it's infinite mass) somehow flipped on top of my and totally crushed my car.

GTA:IV and the swing of doom. Fantastic bug!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV_4ISH3nOs

Running Battlefield 1942 on an old slow computer and then reducing the AI to minimal CPU percent. I thoroughly enjoyed driving back and forth the main bridge in a jeep mowing down retarded Germans who were unable to use their weapons

The original Settlers game had a glitch were you could combine your roads with an enemies roads if there was a particular road layout, meaning you could steal their resources.

The orignal GTA - if you did doughnuts for long enough your car sprite would suddenly flip 90 degrees and you could drive your car sideways until your next collision.

Years ago in HL2:DM I made a crude cannon that fired barrels (explosive or otherwise) and it had adjustable pitch. sometimes the pitch button would stick and the cannon would rotate a full 180 degrees and start crushing itself, which resulted in a swirling maelstrom of death should you become ensnared in it. It was uncontrollable, and would roam the streets JUST like a tornado

Oops, sorry for double post! I meant to edit but ended up making a new post, because I'm stoopid

Running Battlefield 1942 on an old slow computer and then reducing the AI to minimal CPU percent. I thoroughly enjoyed driving back and forth the main bridge in a jeep mowing down retarded Germans who were unable to use their weapons

Oh I remember that. Hours of fun

I remember my friends and myself discovering cartridge tilting with N64 games last year. We began screwing around with Super Mario 64 - tiling the cartridge would yield screwed up sound and animations. If the cartridge was called on to load anything, the game would freeze and you'd need to reset the system, but if you reseated the cartridge correctly before doing anything like changing areas or talking to characters, you could resume playing and then tilt it again, and the game would continue to function.

Discovered on Skals's map a dream compo entry. On HL1, if you place a pushable on top of a vertically moving platform, all will be fine. But if you STAND on top of the pushable, you become an "obstruction" and the platform will stop moving until you're no longer obstruct the movement of the pushable.

Not the best glitch, I know.