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Captain Lavender
Oct 21, 2010

verb the adjective noun

Pretty minor glitch in Dragon Age: Origins. I'm playing the dwarf origin story as the noble dwarf. In that, you have an assistant that fights with you. He has a nice sword, so I took it from him so I wouldn't lose it at the end (which it turns out I was wrong about anyway - you do lose it regardless).

But when I tried to put it back on him, he didn't have the stats to wield it. So I had to go through some challenging darkspawn sections with him just punching. It was a dumb thing.

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Pneub
Mar 12, 2007

I'M THE DEVIL, AND I WILL WASH OVER THE EARTH AND THE SEAS WILL RUN RED WITH THE BLOOD OF ALL THE SINNERS

I AM REBORN

Captain Lavender posted:

Pretty minor glitch in Dragon Age: Origins. I'm playing the dwarf origin story as the noble dwarf. In that, you have an assistant that fights with you. He has a nice sword, so I took it from him so I wouldn't lose it at the end (which it turns out I was wrong about anyway - you do lose it regardless).

But when I tried to put it back on him, he didn't have the stats to wield it. So I had to go through some challenging darkspawn sections with him just punching. It was a dumb thing.

It took him a week to psych himself up enough to pick up a sword his dad told him he couldn't play with. You expect him to pull the same thing twice in one day?

Haruharuharuko
Mar 24, 2008

Yeah I lied; so what is the truth?


Jim Nantz there looks like he spent a bit too much time in the tanning bed

Beartaco
Apr 10, 2007

by sebmojo
2015 is the year of blackface in sports games.

C. Everett Koop
Aug 18, 2008

Haruharuharuko posted:


Jim Nantz there looks like he spent a bit too much time in the tanning bed

In before someone says they put Gus Johnson back in madden.

Johnny Aztec
Jan 30, 2005

by Hand Knit

Haruharuharuko posted:


Jim Nantz there looks like he spent a bit too much time in the tanning bed

It's nice to see they are finally hiring people from the Negative zone.

Doctor Bishop
Oct 22, 2013

To understand what happened at the diner, we use Mr. Papaya. This is upsetting because he is the friendliest of fruits.

Haruharuharuko posted:


Jim Nantz there looks like he spent a bit too much time in the tanning bed

Xman One, commentate on football.

Babe Magnet
Jun 2, 2008

"It's a great game today, lots of effort from both teams, really putting on a show here. What do you think, Jim?"

"I have no strong feelings one way or the other."

Rujo King
Jun 28, 2007

I say old chap have you any of the good sort of catnip if you know what I mean... harrumphaarmaammhhhmm
Wow, that image will really help fill out my ludicrously detailed Eve Online character bio.

WirelessPillow
Jan 12, 2012

Look Ma, no wires!
I've been using machine guns wrong all these years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUq2ZiTLLII

Slowflake
Aug 18, 2010


Looks like either Nyarlathotep's taken up sports commentary, or... *looks up quote* It's Danny Wexler, from John Dies at the End.

Sentient Data
Aug 31, 2011

My molecule scrambler ray will disintegrate your armor with one blow!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRURDEGEbi4

Croccers
Jun 15, 2012
You realize that's a HelixSnake video right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJI0Nf70q4c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-1KM7NUQpQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dytG00M08Qk

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

Croccers posted:

You realize that's a HelixSnake video right?

Who's HelixSnake?

Sentient Data
Aug 31, 2011

My molecule scrambler ray will disintegrate your armor with one blow!
Okay, since that was apparently some kind of edited thing here's some real glitch exploitation that some of you probably haven't seen. Don't skip ahead, don't read any of the comments; it's a couple minutes, but it's well worth it. They set up a little box to feed controller inputs to a physical SNES console, so it's basically a live version of a TAS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnZ2NNYySuE&t=63s

Kite Pride Worldwide
Apr 20, 2009


Last Chance posted:

Who's HelixSnake?

A guy known for loving the hell out of physics engines in games, especially Skate 3.

Dogan
Aug 2, 2006

CzarChasm
Mar 14, 2009

I don't like it when you're watching me eat.

*Super Mario Pipe Noise*

Kugyou no Tenshi
Nov 8, 2005

We can't keep the crowd waiting, can we?

So that's what they mean when they score "errors".

Daktar
Aug 19, 2008

I done turned 'er head into a slug an' now she's a-stucked!
I think Shadow of Mordor has ported the Skyrim 'giants can send things into the stratosphere' glitch. I saw an orc get killed by a caragor and he just went flying up until he disappeared.

Pneub
Mar 12, 2007

I'M THE DEVIL, AND I WILL WASH OVER THE EARTH AND THE SEAS WILL RUN RED WITH THE BLOOD OF ALL THE SINNERS

I AM REBORN
"Power leveling" in Castlvania: Harmony of Dissonance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efkf5qcitX0

Owl Inspector
Sep 14, 2011

CzarChasm posted:

*Super Mario Pipe Noise*

Thank you for turning this decent gif into an utterly amazing gif.

bucketmouse
Aug 16, 2004

we con-trol the ho-ri-zon-tal
we con-trol the verrr-ti-cal

Pneub posted:

"Power leveling" in Castlvania: Harmony of Dissonance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efkf5qcitX0

I think my least-favorite thing about modern games is that barring animation /physics/collision errors anything interesting you can do that screws with internal memory usually just causes an exception and makes the game gracefully crap itself without anything funny happening.

The less said about this one, the better. It's just magical. Don't blink.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpQTsPbZu6Q

In a similar vein, here's Something in Super Metroid being done live by a real person:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js1KNdfI818&t=828s

bucketmouse has a new favorite as of 07:12 on Oct 17, 2014

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

quote:

The less said about this one, the better. It's just magical. Don't blink.
Literally breaking the ending.

scarycave
Oct 9, 2012

Dominic Beegan:
Exterminator For Hire

bucketmouse posted:

The less said about this one, the better. It's just magical. Don't blink.

It's like the game said "You know what gently caress it, just play the credits. I'm done."

Zyntherius
Jul 25, 2014

I'm not sure if this counts as a glitch.. but it is Game physic's just loving up

Haruharuharuko
Mar 24, 2008

Yeah I lied; so what is the truth?

Gumbel2Gumbel
Apr 28, 2010

Zyntherius posted:

I'm not sure if this counts as a glitch.. but it is Game physic's just loving up



Oh, that counts

Inco
Apr 3, 2009

I have been working out! My modem is broken and my phone eats half the posts I try to make, including all the posts I've tried to make here. I'll try this one more time.
If you're going to use a tool like gfycat, why would you link to the 12MB gif instead of the 340kB gfycat page?

J.A.B.C.
Jul 2, 2007

There's no need to rush to be an adult.



My work here was done.

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

Reach for the moon!
Wouldn't be the first time someone's face/chest spontaneously combusted in an Alien movie.

Nostradingus
Jul 13, 2009

bucketmouse posted:


The less said about this one, the better. It's just magical. Don't blink.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpQTsPbZu6Q

"Thank you Mario, your quest is over" has never sounded so sarcastic.

Gumbel2Gumbel
Apr 28, 2010

J.A.B.C. posted:

My work here was done.

It looks like the alien just cast the Ark of the Covenant spell

Somfin
Oct 25, 2010

In my🦚 experience🛠️ the big things🌑 don't teach you anything🤷‍♀️.

Nap Ghost

bucketmouse posted:

The less said about this one, the better. It's just magical. Don't blink.

It looks like he actually just fell through the game's code and started messing with it. What the gently caress did he DO down there?

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Somfin posted:

It looks like he actually just fell through the game's code and started messing with it. What the gently caress did he DO down there?

That's literally what he did.

He finds the block that represents the game's ending and breaks it.

Haruharuharuko
Mar 24, 2008

Yeah I lied; so what is the truth?

Inco posted:

If you're going to use a tool like gfycat, why would you link to the 12MB gif instead of the 340kB gfycat page?

Because its the year 2014 and gently caress dial up and we cant link webms

RagnarokAngel
Oct 5, 2006

Black Magic Extraordinaire

Tunicate posted:

That's literally what he did.

He finds the block that represents the game's ending and breaks it.

Game Boy games are magical for that. Really poor error handling so it's just like "I have to output SOMETHING!" and throws whatever graphics it can find to display what youre looking at.

RatHat
Dec 31, 2007

A tiny behatted rat👒🐀!
Didn't the Gameboy printer have some really terrifying error images?

Rorac
Aug 19, 2011

RagnarokAngel posted:

Game Boy games are magical for that. Really poor error handling so it's just like "I have to output SOMETHING!" and throws whatever graphics it can find to display what youre looking at.

Error handling in that era wasn't so much 'really poor' so much as 'doesn't exist'. I mean sure, you could make a game with error controls, but that would take up too much of the CPU and dev time, so it generally got cut.

I remember a Pokemon blue LP that explored exactly how poorly programmed it was. 99.99% of it functioned perfectly(or at least, as-programmed). But if you knew exactly what you were doing, it showed that the game was practically held together with the coding equivalent of chewing gum, some duct tape, and distilled hope.

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Dogan
Aug 2, 2006

Tunicate posted:

That's literally what he did.

He finds the block that represents the game's ending and breaks it.

Ever since I heard about the NES Metroid "Secret Worlds" like 15 years ago I've been fascinated with the idea of sidescrolling video game characters basically achieving CHIM and escaping the constraints of their game, walking within its code and changing it to their liking.

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