{"id":107609,"date":"2016-10-26T14:59:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T12:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=107609"},"modified":"2016-10-26T15:00:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T13:00:38","slug":"7-hilarious-video-game-glitches-and-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/107609-7-hilarious-video-game-glitches-and-bugs","title":{"rendered":"7 hilarious video game glitches and bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although video game graphics and engines have steadily improved throughout the years, they still deliver a fair amount of bugs and glitches.<\/p>\n<p>This is most noticeable in poor cross-platform ports and Day 1 releases.<\/p>\n<p>Since Mafia 3&#8217;s launch was slightly marred by a number of bugs and glitches, we thought we&#8217;d take a look back at the hilarious history of video game bugs and glitches.<\/p>\n<p>Check out these 7 funny and crazy glitches:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Mafia 3<\/h3>\n<p>The launch of Mafia 3 was characterised by a variety of glitches, especially on PC.<\/p>\n<p>Check out some of the funniest and strangest bugs below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3GPtoeYI3qY\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Heavy Rain &#8211; Shaun Glitch<\/h3>\n<p>The holy grail of video game glitches, the &#8220;Shaun&#8221; glitch from Heavy Rain is absolutely priceless.<\/p>\n<p>It is possible for a quick-time event to get stuck in a loop, meaning the main character can scream for &#8220;Shaun&#8221; throughout the rest of the game.<\/p>\n<p>The results are hilarious.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0t0uCWjQ6Og\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Skyrim &#8211; Headless<\/h3>\n<p>A decapitation bug\u00a0in Skyrim can cause the playing character to become headless but remain\u00a0alive.<\/p>\n<p>Players have also reported that upon loading into a new area, the head will reappear but will be immediately severed again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Skyrim-Headless-Glitch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107639\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Skyrim-Headless-Glitch.jpg\" alt=\"skyrim-headless-glitch\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Skyrim-Headless-Glitch.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Skyrim-Headless-Glitch-230x130.jpg 230w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Skyrim-Headless-Glitch-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Skyrim-Headless-Glitch-640x360.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Wolf Among Us &#8211; Inappropriate Stripping<\/h3>\n<p>During a dramatic and relatively docile scene, Bigby suddenly begins performing a pole-dance animation despite his grave wounds.<\/p>\n<p>The continuing dialogue makes for an interesting scene:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rgbcG4G3bVw\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">The Sims &#8211; Terrifying Babies<\/h3>\n<p>The Sims has always had its fair share of bugs, but none as hilarious and\/or terrifying as the disfigured monstrosities that babies sometimes turned into.<\/p>\n<p>Due to an animation bug, babies (and sometimes adult Sims)\u00a0randomly\u00a0transformed into horrifying creatures with elongated limbs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Terrifying-babies.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107641\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Terrifying-babies.png\" alt=\"terrifying-babies\" width=\"662\" height=\"525\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Grand Theft Auto IV &#8211; Swing Glitch<\/h3>\n<p>The buggy swing from Grand Theft Auto IV is one of the most famous video game glitches of all time.<\/p>\n<p>The swing causes a number of physics glitches, and the results are often hilarious:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4-GomrTQ_XY\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Skate 3<\/h3>\n<p>Skate 3 was riddled with physics bugs, and the compilation below shows off some of the funniest glitches the game has to offer:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vfl33Tn0pYc\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Now read this:<strong>\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to 8 crazy and ridiculous video game mods\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/99944-8-crazy-and-ridiculous-video-game-mods.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">8 crazy and ridiculous video game mods<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out some of the funniest and scariest video game bugs of all time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":107647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11681,4],"tags":[17576,245,22679,22677,15513,19071,69,20981],"class_list":["post-107609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-best","tag-bugs","tag-funniest","tag-glitches","tag-hilarious","tag-mafia","tag-skyrim","tag-terrifying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}