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- Dec 16, 2019
So, we've all experienced a bug in some game we've played. Anybody have some particularly interesting ones? Bonus points if it's one you haven't seen someone else bring up online or been able to replicate.
For example, back when I was a little Benis, my ps1's memory card died. My dad let me take the little 12-inch tv we kept in the kitchen into my room and the ps1 from the living room so I could just leave the system running until we got a new one. Between going out for summer activities, I was playing the original Ape Escape. Got to the second to last boss fight against Spectre, in that theme park level, and hit what I thought was a loading screen at the time. Only the boss fight never loaded. Instead, it stayed stuck on a black screen, and started playing audio from cutscenes, occasionally skipping to a new cutscene audio track. When I went to check the console, it had gotten hot as hell, and I turned it off to try and prevent damage to the system. To this day, I've never heard anyone else mention the same thing happening to them.
For a more recent but reocurring thing, Bethesda games are known for bugs. I keep getting a similar bug on every Bethesda game I've played since Oblivion. I like to call it the Tarhiel glitch, after the character who fell out of the sky in Morrowind. In each game, at some point a character has spawned in the sky and fell to their death. Oblivion, I walk out of a cave and an imp splatters on the ground in front of me. Fallout 3, leave a metro and a centaur falls from the sky and dies on the sidewalk. Fallout 4, look over at the Red Rocket from Sanctuary and see a goddamned brahmin falling from the sky. Skyrim, on my very first playthrough, as I was exiting Bleak Falls Barrow, a pretty short distance into the game, a mammoth falls from the clouds and crunches onto the riverbank. At this, point, I don't even consider it immersion breaking. I consider it an integral part of my Bethesda experience.
So, how about anyone else? Any interesting bug stories to share?
For example, back when I was a little Benis, my ps1's memory card died. My dad let me take the little 12-inch tv we kept in the kitchen into my room and the ps1 from the living room so I could just leave the system running until we got a new one. Between going out for summer activities, I was playing the original Ape Escape. Got to the second to last boss fight against Spectre, in that theme park level, and hit what I thought was a loading screen at the time. Only the boss fight never loaded. Instead, it stayed stuck on a black screen, and started playing audio from cutscenes, occasionally skipping to a new cutscene audio track. When I went to check the console, it had gotten hot as hell, and I turned it off to try and prevent damage to the system. To this day, I've never heard anyone else mention the same thing happening to them.
For a more recent but reocurring thing, Bethesda games are known for bugs. I keep getting a similar bug on every Bethesda game I've played since Oblivion. I like to call it the Tarhiel glitch, after the character who fell out of the sky in Morrowind. In each game, at some point a character has spawned in the sky and fell to their death. Oblivion, I walk out of a cave and an imp splatters on the ground in front of me. Fallout 3, leave a metro and a centaur falls from the sky and dies on the sidewalk. Fallout 4, look over at the Red Rocket from Sanctuary and see a goddamned brahmin falling from the sky. Skyrim, on my very first playthrough, as I was exiting Bleak Falls Barrow, a pretty short distance into the game, a mammoth falls from the clouds and crunches onto the riverbank. At this, point, I don't even consider it immersion breaking. I consider it an integral part of my Bethesda experience.
So, how about anyone else? Any interesting bug stories to share?
