This is an odd one. Say, you have a game, and you discover it's possible to do something. There are no rewards or punishments for doing this (or not doing this), it's simply... possible to pull it off, and for no other reason than your own amusement, you do it, time and again. Perhaps an example is on order.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Don't sigh and shake your head, I know the GTA series is basically based on doing random things for your own amusement, but hear me out. 10 million Vice City users already know if you can take the Hunter and blow the banner-towing Dodo out of the sky. That's fine, but I discovered an easily exploitable glitch some time back based on that I'd like to share with you all now. I am so bold to claim credit for it's discovery because, even though I put it out there, apparently no one took notice. Whatever, that just makes my claim to it all the more legitimate.

Ready for this?

Take your Hunter and shoot the missiles at the banner-towing Dodo. That in itself may be the hardest part to pull off, because the missiles are of the non-heat-seeking, linear flight type. The missiles explode on the Dodo, and it is at this time you want to pause the game. When you unpause, the Dodo will continue to explode as normal, and the charred wreckage will continue to fly, banner in tow, as if nothing happened.

I would prefer that we avoid the kinds of exploitables everyone does in a game for amusement, such as (back to GTA) running over hookers or driving sports cars off-road. We've all done that. I'm looking more for "You know that thing that's impossible to get? Well..." or "Hey, guess what this game allows you to do?" only not so stupid sounding as those example examples are. However, I have noticed that topics always tend to skew from the original topic, so instead I'll close with this...

Have at it, folks.

Well speaking of GTA, that reminded me of when you could change the size of the Moon by sniping it.

ElArabDeMagnifico:
Well speaking of GTA, that reminded me of when you could change the size of the Moon by sniping it.

You could change the size of the moon by sniping it? Odd.

...for me... the only real thing is getting attacked by Cuccoos in Zelda, and everyone knows about that. Well, and also taking control of a Cuccoo in Twilight Princess just for the hell of it, but yah know, it's basically the same thing. A pointless time-sink.

Mstrswrd:

ElArabDeMagnifico:
Well speaking of GTA, that reminded me of when you could change the size of the Moon by sniping it.

You could change the size of the moon by sniping it? Odd.

...for me... the only real thing is getting attacked by Cuccoos in Zelda, and everyone knows about that. Well, and also taking control of a Cuccoo in Twilight Princess just for the hell of it, but yah know, it's basically the same thing. A pointless time-sink.

Yeah it was a glitch in Vice City if I remember correctly, if not, well, I know it's in GTA, that's for sure.

it was also in GTA 3. Also, you can destroy that plane???

I loved all the horse-riding tricks you could do in Shadow of the Colossus, I used to play around with them all the time... my favorite thing to do was jumping out of a tree while calling Agro, and trying to land on his back

On a side note, though, what don't you do in video games only for your own amusement? Unless consoles are giving prizes for finishing games all of a sudden? (How awesome that'd be)

Dunno if this one counts because I only ever did it once and never tried to repeat it but since it´s kind of impossible (you´d think) I'll just post it anyway.

Anyway I was playing and I fell of a ledge. OK nothing odd yet but when I landed I felt that the ground was farther away than usual, so I tried to move and when I took a step backward there was some movement and suddenly there was one of those imps straight in my face. The only thing that could explain this would be that I landed on him but since the objects in Doom are all 2D I wouldn´t have thought this to be possible...

Aperture science, we do what we must, because, we can...

I remember years back, the original Micro Machine games, going off the tracks and exploring on 2 players. I remember with the 2nd one some of the locations spanning out quite far.

Then there was Sonic R where I spent hours exploring the areas, trying to clumb on the background buildings. I could do the odd random thing.

Whilst on the subject I never figured out how to climb up the walls with Knuckles on that f**king game.

GTA's moon sizechange was intentional, not a glitch. Just one of the fun easter eggs thrown in.

My favorite Vice City trick was to get cars into the golfcourse and carts out of the course. Also loved whacking golfers' heads off with the police chopper's rotor, but that wasn't actually a glitch trick.

I suppose, in a weird way, such elements of gameplay really create a (albeit overly desperate) sense of replayability. Heck, I even remember just running wildly around Hogwarts in Chamber of Secrets (the last Harry Potter game I ever played, suffice to say) because I simply got bored and had nothing else to do.

sirdanrhodes:
Aperture science, we do what we must, because, we can...

Beat me to it. :(

Anyway, going through the room with all the spinner tracks in Twilight Princess is always fun.
I wish they had added more than one room in which you get to use the spinner...

How about sticking people's heads through tunnel ceilings in Destroy All Humans! 2?

When i played an assassin character in Oblivion, i always laid the corpses orderly on the floor, put an arrow through the head and left exactly 1 gold coin in their inventory. I was the gold coin killer.

sicDaniel:
When i played an assassin character in Oblivion, i always laid the corpses orderly on the floor, put an arrow through the head and left exactly 1 gold coin in their inventory. I was the gold coin killer.

My thing was posing the bodies. One time, I found my first victim on the bridge out of the Imperial City, killed her, then dragged her body onto the island with the bridge support to make her death look like an accident.

After beating Half life 2 for the 9th time I decided to play through it again with cheats (low gravity etc etc) for the heck of it and I found that right before you first get the shotgun in ravenholm on the top of that building (before you fight all of those) fast zombies you can jump on that catwalk that he apears on (you must do it before he shows up) and you can get annabelle...or whatever he named his gun.

it looks like the normal shotgun but only hold 2 shells at a time. it looks liek his gun when its just laying theyre and when you get all your weapons taken away in the citadel you can see it. sadly it uses the overwatch rifle slot so it can only be used in ravenholm

the gun is more powerful, you can only have 12 shells (not including those in the gun)and its less accurate

They're sort of well known, but I loved to find new wallhacks in WoW back when I played it and had nothing to do. It first started when the raid was waiting for someone in ZG, and someone showed everyone else who was there how to get on top of the gate where you start by exploiting little footholds evident in the walls. Before I learned this (at level 60) I was trying to go from ashenvale to the barrens (to get to the glimmering flats and other places where alliance didn't often quest on a normal server) by avoiding guards. Well, I accidently found a way over the mountains and into a bare, featureless area in between the barrens, ashenvale and stonetalon mountains by climbing the mountains. After heading south you then wind up on top of the hill in the northwest part of the barrens. Useless? yes. Random and entertaining? hell yes. But it showed me why there wouldn't be flying mounts in vanilla WoW's land areas.

Oh yeah, MGS3, get the stealth cammo, and the monkey mask.

Best thing ever.

Pretty much anything involving cardboard boxes, lockers, porno mags and guards in the MGS games. Then throw stealth in the mix and you've hours of humiliating guards just for the sheer enjoyment of being an evil bastard.

Ah, my halcyon days in the first two Thief games. I would sneak into any given mansion or fortress, steal every last bite of food from the place, and give everyone in the joint a nice blackjack massage... except one. I would leave some poor schmuck left out on a balcony or tower unmolested, so that when he finally got tired of waiting for his relief to show up, he'd come back inside to find that everyone had a giant orgy in the fountain without him.

That's right, every piece of food left with me. I figured that the reason Garrett's rent was so high was because he has a pantry you could hide a herd of buffalo in.

-in GTA III, i would always use the dodo cheat(gliding cheat) with a tank, and have the tank constantly fire backwards to propel me forward, allowing me to fly around in my big 8 ton tank

-in starwars battlefront, i always found it entertaining to be flying in a ship with several other ppl in it, going straight towards a building, then at the last second jump out and watch them crash
good times...

That is so fucking.... FUNNY! You must have been the single most hated player ever...

On battlefield 1942, just flying around in planes. Especially on the Bocage map, I love to fly as low as possible in a Mustang and try to get under Bridges and stuff.
Or starting a LAN match with only me in it, and pretend I was playing some sort of RPG.

tthor:

-in starwars battlefront, i always found it entertaining to be flying in a ship with several other ppl in it, going straight towards a building, then at the last second jump out and watch them crash
good times...

I've done that kind of thing once on Warhawk, except instead of a ship, it was a mine-laced jeep, and instead of a building, it was a group of enemys. Forunately, the amount of teamkills I got was outnumbered by the enemy kills, so I didn't get penalised for it. Tought those kids not to hitch a ride with me.

sicDaniel:
When i played an assassin character in Oblivion, i always laid the corpses orderly on the floor, put an arrow through the head and left exactly 1 gold coin in their inventory. I was the gold coin killer.

I used to do something similar in Hitman 2 silent assassin. I would sneak around and try to kill everyone without anyone noticing, and at the same time pretend how the investigators would look at the scene of crime (I had just watched boondock saints). My favourite level was the second one i Kuala Lumpur, the one in the office at night. It took some time, but it was pretty fun to do

This seems like a good place to mention it, in one of the levels in half life 2 with the buggy I saw one of those combine tank things with its door hanging open, so I killed the surrounding guards, pushed a box up to the door jump on top and go to jump into the tank-car-thing. This is when the wierd happens, i start to float straight up, the crate does as well for a little while but it stops, all i could do was spin around and shoot not move or anything (even downwards).

I reloaded my save when I could see over the mountains and everything on the ground looked like little ants. I tried to recreate the glitch once or twice but no luck :(

any GTA for ps2. climb in the back of a truck, like a bobcat, and although you slide around, there's a cabin in the back where you're pretty well contained, you crouch, and first person people and drivers. the guy in the car youo're hitching in thinks he's being shot at and starts driving like mad.

extra points if at high speed you shoot a cop driver out of his car. extra points for helicopters bazooka'd at high speed. extra points for finding a driver that doesn't crash into everything.

My entire Oblivion character was baced on doing whatever i wanted just because i could.

Heres a fun GTA 3 glitch that I found way back in the day. You go into a subway station (obviously once you unlocked enough of the city to warrant intercity travel) Find one of the stations that have a raised platform with a sloped ramp on one end. (i.e it doesn't go the entire length of the station.) When the train pulls in, enter the door of train by that sloped ramp. Your character with sort of float up into the train. Than, before the train pulls away, exit the train. Instead of floating back to the ground, you will warp up onto the tunnel. You than get the fun of being above the tunnel, but under the city. You can follow the tunnel for quite awhile, eventually you will have to walk through a wall. After this wall the tunnel with disappear so it makes it hard to follow. I suggest using weapons codes and chucking molotov cocktails to figure out where the tunnel is. If you jump, or fall of the tunnel you will fall up on the streets of Liberty City. It sort of reminds me of entering the matrix. Try it, its fun.

More of a glitch that anything else (and back to the Zelda OOT bits), you can make Epona fall off a cliff. In the Gerundo Fortress (after you beat it), if you ride in the direction of the archery challenge but stay close to the right hand side of the path (so you are on the edge overlooking the big ramp) you get stuck up against the canyon wall and can't go back. If you keep wiggling the control stick, Epona will slide of the side and float to the ground.

In most games that have some elements of exploration to the levels, I tend to try to find my way out of or find weird bugs.

Like in Sonic Adventure 2, getting pushed out of the level by the cars in city escape. And running up the outside of pyramids and running up the side of the skybox.

Or in the neutral chao garden, where if u jumped and did the dash thing in the back near the cliff by the rocks, you could break through the barrier and run around in the sky outside the garden.