Glitches can come in all different forms, but certain ones I think are pretty jarring to see; up to the point where they nearly freak me out. One time I was playing The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, and I was in the forest dungeon, trying to jump onto a boat in a river. Link managed to miss the boat, yet dive far enough under the boat so as to get stuck, and the camera actually moved beneath the surface of the water (a rarity in The Wind Waker). Once the camera had moved under water, I was able to see that the entire area surrounding Link underwater was pure blue, and he appeared to be floating in the middle of nowhere. After some wrangling with the controls I worked my way to the surface, but my time underwater in the game was definitely unforgettable, even if not for the best reasons. All things considered, it's just a game, but when you've been playing for awhile and are engaged in the gameplay, glitches like that have the potential to be pretty scary. It's as if the entire world around you were tearing apart at the seams.

I recall a somewhat similar glitch in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 for the Playstation 2, where sometimes if I pressed the start button a certain number of times while a stage was loading, rather than being able to play, the game would go into some weird free-camera mode where I could move the camera around the entirety of the stage, to see how and where each area of the level was designed, and where the polygons end. Seeing the road away from the cul-de-sac in the Suburbia level eventually dissolve into nothingness changed my perception of the game from that point on. I'm not shaken to the core when I see this sort of glitch, but it can be somewhat unnerving.


Has anyone else had a similar experience such as these while playing a game? How do you feel about seeing such odd glitches? If you are engaged enough in a game, does seeing a glitch like this affect you in any way?

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Many glitches are kind of creepy and otherworldly. Getting stuck in scenery, falling endlessly, spazzing out...


Was the Great Fairy in Ocarina of Time a glitch?

@Secret_Tunnel

A likely story.

I think glitches are disturbing. If not for being freaked out, I always jump to conclusions that something is corrupted or messed up. If you have a broken game, what can you do about it? Nothing?

Question: Is there a known glitch in Super Paper Mario where you can get stuck as Mario late in the game when you should be Princess? My wife claims she is stuck there, and saved after the point she was supposed to switch. I know theres stuff like this in Other M, and I had a moment like this in Twilight Princess (not the cannon thing..); anything?

@Secret_Tunnel

Well thats something! Looking out of the corners of your eyes is scary, too.

Every time I'm going to bed, leaving the bathroom upstairs on the way to my bedroom, I say to myself "don't look downstairs" as I'm looking downstairs. One of these days I'm going to see something and S my pants.

@warerare

Disturbing AND hilarious... The bird people had me in stitches. The donkey lady was Silent Hill-esque. The floating dog man was hilarious and creepy. Thanks for sharing!!

Mr_Mustache said:

Every time I'm going to bed, leaving the bathroom upstairs on the way to my bedroom, I say to myself "don't look downstairs" as I'm looking downstairs. One of these days I'm going to see something and S my pants.

That's terrifying!

@autokymatic

EVERY night.

--The other night I was home, came home around 6 to a dark house. My sister hadn't been feeling well so I wasn't surprised to hear her upstairs in her room, milling around and then eventually resting in bed around 6:15. I sat on the computer farting around with my NASCAR league stuff (converting old scores to the new system by hand. "Fun."). My parents usually come home from dinner/shopping around 7 or something if they go out and they had been late this specific day. I finally called around 8:30 to see when they were coming home (I thought we were having dinner at home that night so I hadn't eaten); my mom informs me that my dad took my sister to the hospital hours ago and that they were dumping fluids in her since then.

Hearing that my face was on the brink of draining, and my head did one of those flush things (I can't explain it..like a full brain chill?), and I went upstairs to find her door open, and nothing amiss anywhere.

It had been windy out that day, but I know the sound of wind vs. the sound of someone upstairs. Definitely unsettling.
The wind continued after the phone call, but I never heard the sounds of someone walking on our creeky floors again.


Oh, and she's ok now, was just dehydrated; still hackin' up a lung though..

@Pandareus

But seriously, Toejam and Earl is not fun.

@Mr_Mustache

Okay, I was gonna make fun of you for being scared in the house you grew up in (I can understand finding a new environment scary), but that would have creeped me out as well.

@Secret_Tunnel

Agreed.

Whoah. I wonder if your sister's routines are etched into the abode, there's something else in your home, a naturally explainable phenomenon, or if your brain was fabricating what you were expecting when you got home...

In Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, I fell through a glitched piece of terrain and ended up falling into the void below the level. However, instead of follow me down, the camera zoomed really, really, really far out, and to a side view, so I could see the entire level at once, from the outside. It was an odd mass of staggered geometry floating in a void of white. Really changed the way I perceived gameworlds.

@autokymatic

I guess it would be my mind filling in the blanks (which is what happens with tons of things every day anyways). We're not really ever home at the same time, so its not like she's always there. Just goofy, and yeah, unsettling.

I swore there was someone walking around in my room one night (a few years ago). I heard the steps, and then over on my dresser, the sound similar to that off a coffee mug being set down on a table, and instantly thought "oh my God, Gramma is here.." (my other gramma, not the recent one; she may've been walking around in my sister's room, though..) ..I didn't feel calmm, or dare say anything; my heart was beating so fast. I kept my eyes super wide trying to pick something up (I see pretty well in the dark), but nothing. The sound was definitely in my room, not outside. The next day (or later that week) my room smelled like death. You couldn't smell it everywhere, just in the air around where I heard the sound.

We determined that some birds or squirrels or something had probably got into the house somehow and were in the walls. Dad went up in the attic-y not-really-an-attic deal and found no sign of foul/fowl play. Without removing anything, the scent subsided. (Unlike the voles which crawled under our deck, burrowed into the basement, and died near the heatrun. Everytime the heat came on, the house filled up with the stench of dead rodents. Fun!!.. We had to actually get those out of the basement, and it still stunk for days after.)


Again, creepy. I did not like it, sir.

@Mr_Mustache

Holy cow, man, move out of that house of horror.

@Pandareus

We're overdue. My wife and I are yet to live on our own.

Since childhood, every time I encounter my sister in a house at nighttime, I hide behind a wall (or even in the bathroom), wait for her to come, and then jump out and scream.

I guess it sounds kind of mean, now that I type it, but her shrieks of horror are so incredible. And oddly gratifying.

@anandxxx

HAHAHA!! What a jerk!