Favorite exploits/ glitches/ ways to cheese - Favorite way to break games/ exploits in games

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

I feel like a great part of games is doing thing developers never intended for or abusing mechanics.

Cheesing bosses by abusing their AI, clipping through maps to skip sections, item duplications, fucking with a value in order to get items you weren’t supposed to have, or whatever.

Momentum shit in Halo was always a favorite of mine and Dark Souls 2 has a ton for sorcery like the swapping out a spell after a teleport to trick the game and get like 200 soul spears.

 

[Grub]

I remember when I was a kid we learned how to do the Pokemon dupe glitch in the gen 1 and 2 games so me and my cousin would just copy all our best pokemon and trade them to eachother so we both had teams made up of all our best Pokemon. I had yellow and silver and my cousin had blue, gold and crystal. Some of those Pokemon ended up going through all five of those games all at the same time and we both ended up with all of the legendaries and starters from all of the games.

I also remember doing something similar in one of the snes Final Fantasy games duping a bunch of unique items.

I've always enjoyed sequence breaking Super Metroid. I have trouble playing the game properly now. I go in intending to play it properly and then next thing you know I'm skipping spore spawn can't be bothered to go get the high jump boots before Kraid, say fuck the grapple beam and fighting crocomire, and the x-ray scope, spring ball and wave beam are basically optional anyway. It's the only game I've ever actually learned any speed running tricks for.

 

[Cod of War]

I used 2 dupes glitch in Fallout 4 to dominate the game when I played on console.

1. Duplicate the I Am Special book and abuse the debuffs from survival mode to boost my SPECIAL above 10 points.
2. Duplicate most crafting resources because fuck having to constantly scrounge them up.

 

[JamFlowMan]

First I remember is skipping the boss in stage 2 of Double Dragon by going back down the ladder.

 

[Endless Torment]

Dark Cloud broken dagger glitch to level up your weapons stats to skip grinding.
Harvest Moon 64 glitch where you can get Karen to max affection by just talking to her over and over again while holding your dog.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

There's a glitch in Daggerfall that allows you to rob an entire store without the game considering it theft. You can sell all of it back to the guy you stole from. Found out you could lower the price of endgame tier stuff that way. Daggerfall Unity probably fixes this, so play the game in DOSbox if you want to do it.

Loitering within a shop until after their hours of operation will remove the Buy option from shelves and allow all items to be taken without paying. (This does not apply to Bookstores, whose shelves always retain the Buy option.)

Money has weight in this game, so don't go crazy all at once early on.

 

[Double Taps]

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

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The bugged hall of fame has some pretty awesome music. Makes looking at it fun.

 

[Day of the Cope]

I have no shame in abusing the Winter Shield to beat Bioshlock Infinite's 1999 Mode.
It's not my fault they made gear acquisition completely random and put zero fucking cooldown on it.

 

[Big Brown Schlub]

TES games are notorious for this but honestly my favorite cheese exploit isn't even something on the level of the godlike potions you can make in Morrowind, it's my favorite just purely due to how silly it is. Putting buckets over people's heads so you can steal all their shit. They don't react to you putting a bucket over their head at all and since you break their sight you can just go around stealing everything, even if it's right in front of their face. Pure slapstick comedy.

 

[DefinitelyNotMe]

I mean morrowind is fun because you discover all the cheese, mostly cause its mechanically makes scene due to spell creation.
Oh these boots blind me. Resist magic on self.
Oh this scroll basically kills me after the jump. Drink levitate potion before the land.
Oh training became to expensive. Damage your own skill to lower the price.
Oh i need grand souls. Summon strong creature to soultrap is.
It's kind of "realistic" in a way even.
Dont really like alchemy cheese though, feels a bit too easy and too strong.

 

[User names must be unique]

In general anything that allows me to duplicate or quickly farm limited items/resources because I'm the type of person that saves limited consumables for when i truly need them, then winds up beating the game having never used any of them.

TES games are notorious for this but honestly my favorite cheese exploit isn't even something on the level of the godlike potions you can make in Morrowind, it's my favorite just purely due to how silly it is. Putting buckets over people's heads so you can steal all their shit. They don't react to you putting a bucket over their head at all and since you break their sight you can just go around stealing everything, even if it's right in front of their face. Pure slapstick comedy.

My favourite will always be the oblivion arrow/item dupe, vomiting out a thousand physic props will always amuse me.

 

[Caligura]

Fear & Hunger 2: Termina

just RNG your way into getting the God of Fear & Hunger skin bible, get Mischief of Rats A.S.A.P. + the +1 Speed bonus engraving and boom, you instantly get the game. Stuns in the game are absolutely overpowered as fuck and you can cheese 99% of encounters now

have fun

 

[CallmeCicada]

Using the 11th chip glitch in MegaMan Battle Network 3.

 

[Counterfeit Obol]

Getting glitched Little Sisters in the first Bioshock (tl;dr there's some scripted Little Sister encounters that aren't properly counted in a given level's Little Sister limit, getting you more ADAM and, should you spare them, Tennenbaum's gifts sooner than anticipated). For bonus points the glitched sisters don't influence the ending, so you can spare every expected sister but harvest the rest.

 

[Activelo]

Can't forget to mention the classics.

• The backwards long jump glitch in Super Mario 64 that allows you to bypass the endless staircase without 70 stars.
• The wrong warp glitch during the tree dungeon in Ocarina of Time that allowed you to skip to the castle collapse sequence and final boss. They even kept it for the 3DS remake

One glitch I have fond memories of is in L4D1 where you can revive a incapped survivor as an infected, mostly because of my teammates hilariously raging at me for it.

 

[Hellwalker]

I like using the double jump glitch in both Max Payne games. You have to pull out a different gun and time pressing jump right. You can use it to fuck up enemy AI and skip entire sections of levels. You can see an example of it in this video.

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

That one glitch in Dragon Age Origins where you make about sixty million traps and give them to that bitch in Lothering, and you end up going to camp with eleventeen hunnerd million dollahs, and you instantly buy that one really good unique elven axe, and then, once the next bit of the game unfolds, because the campsite gets reloaded, you go back, and everything in the merchant is duplicated, so you can buy that same, unique axe again and dual wield them.

 

[Dammit Mandrake!]

Hex editors are awesome. Cheat Engine even moreso.

Oh the fun times on Mars...

 

[JesusChristDenton]

Melon.