Strange Glitches In Games

Parz writes "Even the best of game developers can leave a big dirty glitch buried within its products that can turn a gameplay experience on its head (sometimes literally). Gameplayer has trawled through the web to locate video footage of some of the more amazing and hilarious examples of glitches in games. It acts as an interesting insight into the bugs that some games — especially today — ship with. What interesting bugs have you encountered?"

look at the date of the article

[MoFoQ]

doubt it...just look at the date of the article.
It's on the third...of March.

Besides, there have been plenty of glitches that I know of in games (from experience as both as a game tester and as a gamer).
A lot of them are clipping and occlusion related glitches. Some are logic/checkpoint/goal glitches.
Some are actually not the fault of the game developer but of lazy video card driver developers (or even hardware issues, such as overheating or floating point precision related).

Stunts

[Anonymous Coward]

I loved this game back in the day. Half the fun was seeing what crazy crashes you could get into that would confuse the physics engine, sometimes sending you straight up, hundreds of meters into the air.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunts_(video_game)

Re:Doom 2

[X0563511]

That's not a bug. You just set the one-side flag on the wall.

Re:Stunts

[fractoid]

That game was awesome! Turned into TrackMania [trackmania.com], I think (or at least that's a very very similar, modernised game). I seem to recall the F1 car in Stunts had a problem where if you spun out above a certain speed it would shoot up in the air. Many good times with that game, I really should download TrackMania just to see if it's as good. :)

Re:Online games still not validating input

[fractoid]

While every player's computer is expected to run the shots/tanks physics engine AND render the display in real time, I've asked about server sanity checks and found that they'd be a major burden.

I've always heard that excuse too ("oh but the server will bog down if we do too much on it"). It's pants. Unless the server's entirely written in VBScript AND it's running on a 486, there should be no problems at all doing at least basic sanity checks. IMO it's just lazy programmers not wanting to bother with checks when "it works fine as is" until people start trying to cheat.

The golden rule of *any* client/server app with apps distributed to the world at large is never trust the client. Treat the client as hostile, because for all you know, it may be. That's more work, though, so most developers don't seem to bother. :/

Article Fail?

[pinkushun]

The article led me to other articles, all of which are just as badly 'written' (read: bunch of videos).

Re:C & C glitches

[Anonymous Coward]

Hahaha and sandbagging in order to build really far away from your base :)

Re:Final Fantasy Bugs

[hansamurai]

I seem to remember Vanish X-Zone to be even more reliable, though it may be the other way around.