Welcome to part two of my three part
series on video game glitches/oddities that I just happened to catch
on camera. Last week we looked at some amusing death poses. This
week's theme will be glitchy behaviour, glitchy appearances, and some
random bits of trivia I've come across. Let's go!
It's no secret that the NPCs in Far
Cry 3 are terrible drivers. I've seen them drive off cliffs, I've
seen them flip over and die, I've seen them run allies over, I've
been run over by them a couple times. I've seen two opposing
NPCs drive in circles around eachother in a pathetic attempt at a
demolition derby. In this example here I liberated an outpost which
is usually followed by a car full of friendlies showing up to secure
the place. Except in this instance I guess the driver didn't brake
hard enough so the jeep drove straight into the water. Apparently
NPCs in this game can't swim, so after being buggily ejected from the
car (once it ground to a halt) they all immediately started shouting
and drowning. After a brief struggle, their lifeless bodies floated
for a moment before sinking to the seabed. I laughed so hard that I
cried.
Here's another from Far Cry 3.
Cassowaries are predators that will attack anyone near them. But not
here. While in the process of liberating this outpost I shot open the
animal's cage expecting it to raise hell before I made my move
inside. Unfortunately for me – yet fortunately for the bad guys –
the cassowary just didn't feel up to fighting privateers, I guess.
What's more, the bad guy in front of it didn't even take notice. He
simply continued sitting at the fire, not doing anything. So that
means that there's two fails going on at once.
Did you know that the man with the
world's longest fingers served in the Canadian Army during the Second
World War. It's true. I learned it from Call of Duty 3. For
some reason when he crouched his Bren gun stayed at waist level and
his fingertips were stuck to it so they stretched way out. Ew.
Here we see Lt. Minh Young Kim getting
his face broken – literally – by a Theron Guard in Gears of
War 2's multiplayer. I've
only ever seen this happen to Kim and (especially) Dizzy – Dizzy's
face is really buggy, probably due to how it's supposed to twitch.
But yeah, it was pretty funny to see Minh's nose and jaw broken.
Everybody knows how buggy Red
Dead Redemption (2010) can be, but here's one I saw in Undead
Nightmare (2010). I rode into Blackwater during a zombie attack
and for some reason everyone's heads were missing. Only the humans
though; the zombies still had their heads. The headless townsfolk
were friendly and they could still talk, but on the radar they
appeared as enemies, so I slaughtered them. After all, it could be
contagious.
Here's a little curiosity I found while
playing through Gears of War (2006) not long ago. Now I'm a
pretty big fan of the Gears universe; I've played all the games and
read all the books. And as anyone who has read the novels knows, days
on the planet Sera are divided into 26 hours, not 24 as this sign
seen in the game suggests. Well, let's give it the benefit of the
doubt; maybe you are allowed to park here for two hours of the day...
You're just not told which two hours those are.
And lastly we have this happy little
scene from the end of my season campaign in NHL 2002 (2001).
While I am a huge Canucks fan, I'm counting this as a glitch because
I don't think this'll ever happen in real life.
Thanks for reading, and tune in next
week for the Video Game Glitch series' conclusion.
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