10 Big Brain Experiments We Try in Games for NO REASON

[@flywan]

Find the highest point of whatever game, and then jump

[@miapotvin3396]

Yeees, climbing random shit for no reason is a big one

[@sediderka2024]

I did that on fucking Genshin Impact just because I was bored

[@Simply_American]

Assassins creed in a nut shell

[@captaingalaxy5265]

In steep I went on a high mountain and I couldn't teleport to the top so I walked all the way up and then I look to my left and see a taller mountain I was just like Well Fu**

[@skeratix11]

Mt chiliad

[@ArrowValley]

I always shoot walls, windows, floors and whatever else is on the map to see what the bullet holes look like or what will break. Don’t know why.

[@KatOwO2235]

do that too

[@showOff7X]

Cars, trucks, tanks, airplanes, jets, ships, bikes, submarines, rockets all of them in most games brake.

[@rebeccahamner8795]

No more soup for you!!!

[@lancel.7737]

I was so satisfied when I shot a butterfly in skyrim with an arrow and it exploded into dust.

[@rebeccahamner8795]

And don’t look up the answer to a puzzle on KZbin until you have bombed every wall in every room of the dungeon! Then you need to try lighting every torch! Lol!

[@blackfurio2381]

If my character can jump, you can be sure I'll try to climb wherever.

[@michaelstrodick1769]

If my character can jump I try to find any edge or cliff or whatever to jump from to see if I die or not. Climbing everywhere was also fun but you just realise how many invisible walls a game has.

[@blackfurio2381]

That's why the only thing I liked about Dauntless is that the devs saw the players climb everything so they upgraded the hub to let the player climb and jump more.

[@jeffsorrows]

@@michaelstrodick1769 but then also so how useless invisible walls are when you climb mountains in skyrim, pixel walk in Counter Strike, leave the map in COD lol

[@michaelstrodick1769]

@@jeffsorrows The majority of games doesn't allow free roaming. Games like COD and CS aren't build to explore. Getting behind invisible walls is just breaking those games. That doesn't help at all. The Borderlands games for instance have something integrated into their world, that makes sense - those turrets - but they have a lot(!) of invisible walls too. Pure laziness in my opinion. Games that are designed to explore but limit you with invisible walls you can't overcome are just disappointing. And by the way: Skyrim doesn't count because no Bethesda game does in many regards. Those games need the community to become playable and not those UI messes to begin with.

[@GremlinSciences]

I try that even if I _can't_ jump. You'd be surprised how often you can abuse terrain geometry.

[@Saya_562]

I love how in Yakuza 0 if you idle too long, your character will pull out a cigarette. But the best part is, if you control the buildings in an area, the workers standing outside will bow to you then light your cigarette

[@midgy3484]

*KIIIRYYUUUUUUU-CHAAAAAAANNNN!!!!!~*

[@tobygarfield402]

Tigers at the bus stop

[@ImYerDadJourdan]

Dropping a pot on an NPC’s head in Skyrim and stealing everything from their home is one of the greatest things that came out of video games.

[@QueenOfTheSea101]

too bad they patched it out relatively quickly...

[@Spyro_2076]

@@QueenOfTheSea101 ?? I still do that today

[@TheYodelingViking]

@@Spyro_2076 Me too, but sometimes you have to crouch for it to work.

[@dontblink8397]

@@TheYodelingViking uh, just always crouch for just in case,

[@undead8008]

A bit off topic but i think the funniest thing in a game is to see if friendly fire is on/off by shooting ur friend in the head

[@kbeat9791]

Same

[@Nauirune27]

Right off the rip

[@mnsega]

Friendly fire without friends is just fire🙃

[@Nob911]

Wowww sooooo funnyyyy hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahajaja

[@SOFFtv]

Classic coop science experiment

[@javebjorkman]

Watchdogs 2 had the best implementation of “hacking” people’s phones and have them taunt a gang member and the gang will come and take out that person. If you do it in front of cops, you get an all out war that’s really fun to watch. Plus, you can keep calling cops/gang members on people to keep it going

[@Olkv3D]

Probably the only implementation as well.

[@hanz4764]

Makes missions easier and entertaining to watch as well HAHHAHAHA

[@riversider2506]

Ah! I see you're a man of culture as well 🤞 ✊... 😂

[@Skypost4ever]

I would just mess with NPCs in watchdogs 2 so fun.

[@sof4183]

@@Olkv3D nah, in cyberpunk 2077 you litterally hack >the person

[@bobpope3656]

this why ready player one fails as a story, the very first race someone would have been driving backwards for sure and go right through the wall.

[@Wooldrog]

Hahaha yeah someone definitely would

[@themaninthechair4338]

Remind me, was there a price that you had to pay for taking part in the race? Because if not, someone would have discovered it by the end of the week

[@brytonwallis4817]

@Moritz Waldmann how much does it cost just to get into the oasis?

[@gibby3767]

The books way better fam, and the challenges are way better

[@gibby3767]

@@brytonwallis4817 free, but it cost money to go places

[@paulellisongames]

In ‘Metal Gear Solid 3’, if you spin Snake around in the menu, once you resume the game, he’ll throw up. lol And It’s actually a good way to heal yourself from eating something rotten or poisonous 👍🏻

[@TheRealBlazingDiamond]

Yeeting yourself off the cliff at the start. And then again, on the cliff in the desert area

[@euclodies1719]

Xd

[@starlight_studios_art]

Snake was not made to be spun at high speeds

[@exxiethewriter3567]

@@starlight_studios_art I mean, truly, no snake is used to that.

[@starlight_studios_art]

@@exxiethewriter3567 nope, no snake is. *Grabs a snake and spins it in circles*

[@isaacgonzo]

'Does this game have fall damage?' *while jumping off a high point*

[@99mrpogi]

Wearings body armor.. survives while body armor gets damaged

[@madisonlee2203]

Haha the worst is playing halo in order- the fall damage varies game to game. 😅

[@EddieLove]

FACTS 😂😂

[@EddieLove]

@@99mrpogi 😂

[@LTCloud9]

lol, first thing I do in any game. Also, usually a bad sign if the game has invisible walls blocking you off from throwing yourself.

[@saragorn5033]

I would mess with npcs in GTAV and get them angry enough to punch me in fron of a cop and watch hilarious arrests unfold

[@Lawrence_Talbot]

Hell yeah. That was shit back in GTA4. Or you get in a fight then run around until you find another NPC and get him or his vehicle in between you and the one trying to fight you. Then it turns into a brawl

[@Deathtrooper27]

@@Lawrence_Talbot dude I was doing that a month ago

[@demoniclegends7964]

@@Lawrence_Talbot GTA IV was the shit man. Some of the funniest things you can do in that game is fuck around with NPCs.

[@Lawrence_Talbot]

@@demoniclegends7964 I remember hitting a priest with a bat and then he whooped my ass. I was like “Father, turn the other cheek, forgive thy sins and transgression.” But nope, he made me repent all the way to the curb

[@calebwallace4965]

In RDR just pull o it a gun in a first fight put it away and the sheriff will shoot they guy

[@mdfkrz79]

I remember seeing a building full of purple and red dots (soldiers and cartel guys) in ghost recon wildlands, wasn't sure how to go about it but shooting one guy from a distance made them fight each other until around 2 guys were left to deal with, first time i'd seen that in a game lol

[@lobaandrade7172]

Seeing Unidad and Santa Blanca fight is always fun

[@calebwallace4965]

Lol it is very fun

[@AlqhemyA]

Far Cry players: *First Time?*

[@VOlDTALES]

@@AlqhemyA infamous 1 OGs: about time?

[@YouTubecanbitemyhairybanger]

Laughs in days gone dragging a freaker horde

[@johnsmithking]

“Rayman playing with pieces of his body”. I do that too…

[@lmao1660]

Relatable

[@JoshuaJacobs83]

I’m sure you do.

[@thomasaitken7495]

Total player! lmao!!

[@DudeOfTheWeek]

Gaming with the joystick, eh?

[@GhostBoytv]

LIKE A BASKETBALL???

[@andrewgrace27]

About idle animations: I remember playing Catwoman, and as I left the room to get myself a quick snack and came back - I was stunned at the sight of her dancing, with a great camera work and all. That was actually a single time the camera was on point😅 Oh, and understandably I locked the door behind me so my parents won’t see the curvy girl in a tight black costume dancing for me🤣 That was a sight to behold, let me tell ya!

[@Javelin1x]

I wanted to see what happened on Eve online way back when they first introduced lvl 4 missions. A couple corp members and I after clearing a stage I had noticed a structure surrounded by a huge square made up of at least 200 structures surrounding it. So I got the idea to refit my Raven with nothing but smart bombs as all of the structures was within the maximum range. Took probably a good hour of firing them off until the capacitor drained. When it finally went the resulting explosion at the first second was amazing, then all of our screen’s started get choppy with flashes of white, eventually after a good 20 seconds we all got kicked. The funny part is before that explosion Eve had around 10k to 15k people on. When we went to log back in only 2k people remained lol I can’t imagine what one of the GM’s or Dev thought when they seen the data spike, Like what in the world just happened lol

[@videowatcher551]

Nothing more satisfying than breaking an MMO server and crashing everyone's game.

[@FancyNoises]

That's the kind of s*** that needs recorded and uploaded with a tasty title

[@YEETUSDAFEETUS]

well we now know it was secretly the server

[@MyRobenson]

Far cry 3 does this perfectly… let the animals eat the enemies 😂

[@brodriguez11000]

In some of the Farcry games that's the way to deal with higher-level enemies. FC5 with the hog for example.

[@nightmarelycanthrope2230]

Beware the Badger

[@rukitomikutochi8764]

Minecraft too. Just watching two Skeletons have a Gunfight is sometimes a good chuckle.

[@deandrehoward1261]

I literally just started playing FC3.

[@Trespasser44tt]

@@deandrehoward1261 good choise, enjoy ;)

[@4evermilkman]

I've jumped off a million ledges thinking there was something hidden down below or whatever, across many games :/

[@brodriguez11000]

Subnautica and the Prawn suit. What do you mean I don't have all the upgrades? There's also the bug where one falls through the world, loops back, and fall all over again.

[@rebeccahamner8795]

The ultimate weapon/power up is hidden just below the edge of the screen 😀😂

[@cystarkman]

100% especially waterfalls and creek lines up into the mountains. in zero dawn in was the cause of almost all my deaths. just going to get up to the…

[@4evermilkman]

@@cystarkman yea, and even worse us when one ledge does have a secret, like in Dark Souls, then I'll jump off even more

[@gl0wingice]

i found tons of brightly colored blocks below the map in borderlands by doing this.

[@nightmarelycanthrope2230]

Setting things on fire in the game world

[@shmet]

Far cry 3 vibes 😂

[@inosukehashibira69]

Basically technological arson

[@naraj85]

༼ つ ◕◡◕ ༽つ

[@davidragsdale5047]

I see there's a pyro amongst us

[@naraj85]

@@davidragsdale5047 𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙨𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙠

[@shubhamghoshal2939]

One thing i thought would be on here: standing in a fire to see if it damages you. I do it in evwry game with a fire.

[@videowatcher551]

Hey, that could be a life saving thing knowing a camp fire won't light you on fire.

[@iamthebrownie5989]

The title says "Big brain"

[@Cybron2099]

i just throw in an npc instead.

[@amyhoard1222]

Or testing if there is a 4th wall preventing you from falling off cliffs, if not, is there fall damage 😈

[@Cybron2099]

Then you get the wierd games like destiny 2 that has fire you can stand in and be fine, and also fire that deals a ton of damage and they look the same. And both are scenery not like fire from guns

[@mikeshaver-miller745]

In Skyrim I found a glitch that actually helps with Fistfights! If you wiggle left and right and mash a single attack button, and you’re in third person mode, your character will do as many attacks as you can fit between the momentum shifts. I like to call it the Whispering Fang style, especially when my Khajiits do it.

[@g555ulgra4]

What?! Wow nice. You mean wiggle as movement A and D or camera mouse?

[@thesaint717]

@@g555ulgra4 movement I guess

[@birdiepitchfeather63]

As soon as I possibly can, I'll hit the nearest object to see if everything has physics or not

[@zooweezybw8131]

In far cry 3 they usually have a tiger in a cage at their stronghold or whatever its called so i just use a sniper to shoot the cage open and the tiger does the rest of the work for me😂

[@DavidCowie2022]

That never got old, but it was also an official gameplay mechanic.

[@zooweezybw8131]

@@DavidCowie2022 its an amazing mechanic

[@Phoenix-pb4sm]

My favorite idle easter egg is in Devil May Cry V when you don't play the game for a while Nero looks at the camera and gestures to it like he's wondering what you're waiting for

[@SHADOMEGA7569]

Or how you can use his air taunt to skip a fight in mission 1 (the forced fight after the road crumbles)

[@lunarjellyfish5538]

Spyro does a jazzy snap dance in the Legend of Spyro. One of my favorites is when the player is sitting on a bench in Hollow Knight, the Knight will eventually fall asleep and it's the cutest thing.

[@thomasaitken7495]

Dragon's Dogma, the pawns start giving you the Hello? anybody home? wave.... I usually pick them up and throw them at that point. lol

[@QueenOfTheSea101]

@@thomasaitken7495 sounds fun. when i get that game, i'm gonna do just that for fun.

[@pcppbadminton]

I started to collect light staves in Oblivion at one point. I can't remember how many I actually got but I'm sure it was at least in the teens. I put them all in a house and the bloom was incredible. Most of the walls and objects were washed out so much you couldn't see any detail on them. Thinking about it now I wish I'd tried dropping them in other places like at the bottom of a lake.

[@samvimes9510]

Ah, the ol' Skyrim physics room. Back when I had the game on 360 I once filled the basement of my house with skulls, bottles and cabbages. It got to the point where every time I'd go in all the objects would collide with each other and fly into the air, then my framerate would tank and/or the game would crash.

[@debemartins5246]

I can't believe you forgot about checking if there is fall damage

[@ericb3157]

oh, or testing Fire damage by walking through a campfire

[@An_Lei_Laoshi]

I recall he covered this kind of stuff in another video about trying game mechanics so you know the rules of that world

[@felixja5147]

Oh yeah lol

[@lunarjellyfish5538]

Most people test that out early though

[@BloodWorkxd1]

"there's always the chance you provoke them a little too much and they pull out a gun" *headbutts police officer*

[@drittzthedarktuber4327]

Never laughed so hard

[@StubzTurner]

Speaking of enemies fighting each other, my favorite variation on this is actually in Breath of the Wild. I have had countless enemies use other enemies as weapons or just throw them at me and it's funny every time it happens.

[@QueenOfTheSea101]

usually a big enemy with a swarm of littles around it will just grab one when it's frustrated and chuck it at you. it's hilarious and so easy to dodge.

[@msanders2605]

Heh heh yeah. Speaking of enemies fighting each other, in gta5 when you get to the point where the mob chases you down if you're in city limits, I like to take a small chopper into the different gang areas, hide on a rooftop, and watch the gang war unfold. I'll even make a special save just to go back sometimes.

[@sakotaatokary1335]

one of the best Idle animations I've ever seen was in Dragon's Dogma. It 's actually a pretty basic one, but it was definitely unexpected when I saw it. Your character actually has no idle animation, but if you stand still for too long, then one of the npc companions with you will walk up to you and wave their hand in front of your face as if trying to snap you out of a daze

[@FaeRhanX]

"My goal is behind that mountain? I could walk 5 minutes around that... OR I could try the next 30 minutes jumping OVER that..."

[@arthuryore]

"The RDR" sounds like a mockingly sarcastic laugh

[@gabrielarkangelo]

what is the time?

[@arthuryore]

@@gabrielarkangelo 1:00

[@koniczka2000]

I don't get it

[@Gtrystan55]

"Har-dee-har"

[@huntshowdown9834]

Mr. Crabs

[@chriscostello117]

"Its almost more fun than trying to play the games." Thats honesty right there. Lol awesome.

[@KusunokiSG47]

I've always try to test the fall damage first and ways to workaround, whenever I got a new game on me hands lol

[@kaimagnus5760]

Gotta know how high you can fall without dieing lol.

[@насилие-й8я]

@@kaimagnus5760 It's dying pal, not being a prick but it's a word you should know.

[@Muninnfeathers]

In Days Gone I've watched freakers (breakers in particular) killing each other from a sniper scope. Groups of freakers hunting animals. Attacking human enemy AI without being prompted by me. I don't think this game gets enough praise for this.

[@agentpotater4943]

Days Gone is genuinely one of my favourite games of all time.

[@aircraftcarrierwo-class]

On the subject of "combining powers", I feel like a subset of this is games that let you build vehicles or weapons with pre-set parts. You can make some hilariously dumb things in games like Warship Gunner 2.

[@QueenOfTheSea101]

or damn, move it on to include creatures and buildings like in Spore and you could almost create literally anything with the right tweaking. it's a shame that game only had a single expansion and parts pack added. i feel so much could have come from it. ah well, i still have well over 1k hours in it with more in the future.

[@joshnunya324]

Shoot through walls to see if you can Can I fall off this ledge Can I beat this person 10 levels higher than me?

[@carloscostacox]

When playing FFXII I discovered the true strategic depth and fun of the game when I decided to do a dungeon filled with 50lvl monsters at lvl 20. Its easily the FF with the best turn based combat of all, and a real shame only a tiny sliver of hardcore players will ever get to appreciate the game fully just because the story was mishandled to be so forgettable

[@dannyg4835]

arrows activate traps in dark souls

[@Saint_Arod]

You must have 99 endurance for that BIG BRAIN.

[@dannyg4835]

@@Saint_Arod there is actually a video in my profile testing that :) fear those who don't have anything to do

[@grandalf4153]

I’m going through the catacombs in DS3 right now and every time I step on a trap I somehow manage to weave through the arrows without moving, they never touch me

[@jjfloris4883]

You forgot "getting that one trophy" in Nier Automata...

[@akito6572]

Haha yes, I was waiting for that, too :D

[@dmas7749]

what one?

[@CrackingCrackerOnCrack]

@@dmas7749 it's an achievement where you have to look under the main female characters' skirt

[@Voron_Aggrav]

@@CrackingCrackerOnCrack I remember a game where the Dev's expected that as well, and the Character will just grab the camera and beat you up for it :D

[@Bakanlink]

I think Lollipop chainsaw had that same trophy

[@DamnedXtians]

Just stand still in Borderlands...watch how annoyed your character gets

[@CaptStinkwater]

In Skyrim I made it my goal to personally liberate all of the cabbages. Collect them all then release them into the wild.

[@vaynelevant]

that beamNG drive game reminds me of that mini game on jackass the game that i liked a lot, the one where you try to get as many injuries as possible. good times. saint's row had something similar too, the insurance fraud segment i think.

[@flaminG-Ghost]

Ubisoft games does the breaking for me, I actually just gotta play....

[@AnthonyFloyd69]

Boundary breaking. I've walked right off the New Vegas map. Lol

[@Ioganstone]

AHHHHHHHHH NEW VEGAS ZOOMING ON EVERYTHING WITH MAH SCOPE

[@d.v.k.4901]

GOAT Simulator actually have a Trophy for breaking the game

[@hestiadangelo4515]

That game was so stupid funny... I spent hours playing, laughing at all the ridiculous, over-the-top stuff there was to discover! 😆

[@itsmehere1]

Skyrim easily has to be the best game that lets you combine your powers to just be an overpowered God. Or any Elder Scrolls in general.

[@anhondacivic6541]

The best way to annoy npc's is definitely the taunt upgrade for the drone from watchdogs 2

[@riversider2506]

Lmao FACTS 🤞 😂

[@DEADhands.]

Playing hide and seek with the currier in Skyrim..he’s always wins.

[@Angel-qm8ju]

Always gotta test fall damage at the start

[@zerrierslizer1]

the fact that Artyom makes his DB into a Quadbarrel in an instant is what sold Last Light for me xD he just randomly gets his finger stuck in the DB, and suddenly it becomes a QB instead.

[@indiana47]

~campfire exists in video game~ "I MUST see if it deals damage"

[@demonickone1266]

My big brain experiments are in Neverwinter and breaking outside the maps. Only way you can do it is by using Mighty Leap (barbarian class) or a Manticore Talon (item). Super fun stuff lol

[@KevinoftheCosmos]

I got out of the map in New Vegas and walked for an hour to nowhere. I felt very important.

[@gameranxTV]

Interesting!

[@rya3190]

@@KevinoftheCosmos I think Skyrim had a bit of problem where you could get out of the map north of Winterhold. Though I can't remember if I was swimming at the bottom of the water, or walking around on the islands, I just remember falling to the lower planes...

[@Ioganstone]

I have that installed but my new gamer eyes are bleeding everytime I open it

[@GreenMan-em2jd]

In Skyrim I use to get every gem I came across. Then I put everything into one of the sword display containers in my house and I did the unrelenting force shout and my Xbox would crash 😂 Sometimes the game would just do a slow glitch of all these rainbows before crashing

[@jmaguire2232]

That's the sort of thing Bethesda RPG's are made for if you ask me.

[@Astraeus..]

@@jmaguire2232 You mean crashing? Yes that's what Bethesda games are excellent at :P

[@NGMonocrom]

#8 ~ Although a forgotten franchise. Years ago, "The Getaway" was released. London based GTA:3 clone with some unique aspects. Including a full recreation of all of actual London. In GTA, once a car blows up, it's done! In The Getaway, once a car blows up, you can still get back into it and drive off. Admittedly at about 3 mph with the rims grinding horribly on the pavement and no doors. It looks ridiculous. But it's a feature.

[@zaturnneo]

In Fallout 3, I hacked a protectron, it walked out and asked a super mutant for his ticket, only to then waste the super mutant. It was one of the funniest things I've seen in a game.

[@AKMDN]

Less than a minute in and I'm amazed that Rockstar made peds walk faster if you follow them for a long time. Such a small but genius addition, I doubt most other devs even thought about it.

[@dragon887]

For getting enemies to fight each other, I really enjoy Valheim for this. Loxes vs Trolls, or Growths; Trolls vs Furlings, lots of fun.

[@capsuleboy]

also in borderlands 1 and 2, and Fallout 3.

[@prince4503]

I would always try to climb high up in non Parkour games

[@TheWorstNoob]

The number 1 question in gaming *"Is there a limit?"*

[@a2pha]

4:18 I remember playing I believe it was Twisted Metal 3 where there was this one weapon that did not stay with you long, and basically killed any vehicle that got near it. I remember running a cheat to have it active all the time and every car I approached basically got sucked into a black hole with the animation of the metal crunching into a ball all over the place. I don't know why I had so much fun with this, it was just so satisfying to see your enemies crushed into oblivion and sucked into a black hole.

[@highbrednxtus]

Spinning in circles while playing flute in Ghost of Tsushima lol Also bunny hopping or trying to build speed through a similar mechanic

[@tanner1ie]

On breaking the game, in 2000's Star Trek Invasion which was mostly a single player game, with decently detailed environments for the time, but jumping into its' sparsely filled two player deathmatch arena, it was clear that the mode was pushing the game close to its' limits already.... While you could outfit the two ships with various armaments, the most destructive weapons you could use were mines and though sets both ships' maximum amount off together in the open was impressive, the game could still handle it, however if you set them all off inside one of the enterable structures, it crashed the game 😀🤘🩲 .

[@barral69]

I love messing with NPCs when I can. It's hilarious when they flip their wigs!

[@barral69]

Holy shit.... I got hearted! :) :) :)

[@lunamarie1637]

My favorite thing is in the Far Cry series (mainly 3-5). Like finding a really big hill, standing on top of it and trying to shoot the tires off a far off moving vehicles and watching them crash (I've succeeded twice in 3 and 4 each)

[@clifftrieling6052]

I always liked when idle in the original Banjo-Kazooie, Kazooie annoys Banjo 3 times before getting his neck stretched

[@QueenOfTheSea101]

i knew he would annoy banjo if you had them standing there for a while but i never waited long enough for him to do it three times.... i need to look up a clip of this.

[@michaelhorwitz7933]

I guess I would be doing what we call “mass shootings” in the hospital in gta4 😂😂😂

[@SemajResarf]

Thats the only fun thing in that game

[@matty8399]

My favourite game for going idle is Saints Row 2. It turns out there’s some areas that if you go idle near your character will start doing an NPC animation. So far I’ve found: Smoking a Cigarette NPC Animation Drinking a bottle of beer NPC animation Browsing clothes in clothing stores Doing yoga if you’re near where the NPCs do it there’s a chance your character will join in. Kneeling at a Grave I know I’m probably missing some but it’s pointless but pretty cool.

[@mtnman8783]

Best game of the series I've played it so many times. Have to try some of this stuff now

[@bilbobrady1979]

I remember Saints Row 2 being great for that. The best animation they had on there was the fishing one you get if you stand on the end of a pier. I used to think it was a mini game when I was younger 😂🤦🏼‍♂️

[@Lawrence_Talbot]

My Favorite to idle in is stubs the zombie rebel with a pulse. Sometimes he will pull out organs and start juggling them. Sometimes he’ll fart and then wave it away. The best is after awhile, he’ll break out into the Thriller Dance and if there are any zombies minions around, they’ll join in too.

[@matty8399]

@@Lawrence_Talbot I completely forgot about that. God I love Stubbs so much lmao

[@MannyloAnimeSquad]

Im surprise halo 2 exploration isnt on here lool

[@blacksheepwall79]

I like manipulating conversations in RPGs. Lots of times, you can avoid conflict by talking, and sometimes you even get experience, but you rarely get loot too. While playing a good guy route, you want to try diplomacy first, right? I make it a point to try the diplomacy to max out good guy points, and then make a small critical failure near the end that ensures a fight that's still technically not my fault. This worked so often in KOTOR games.

[@videowatcher551]

I think the one thing people almost always do when they play a game for the first time: Testing to see if there's fall damage by purposefully jumping off high places. Or finding a small one person sized hole in the ground and seeing if you will actually fall through it or not.

[@kratuthelegendarysuperoof8598]

I don’t know why but despite them being AI I feel bad for them and try to be as nice as possible

[@QueenOfTheSea101]

ah well, some people have to get aggression out on video game npcs and some people, like you, treat them as if you are actually the hero of the series and not a bored player seeing how far you can push them.

[@LordApoca]

One of my childhood favorite games was Dungeon Keeper and the big brain moves were throwing units that don't like each other in the same room and watching them start to fight lmao

[@bartfourie8359]

Damn i love that game but its a pain in the ass if you need those monsters and they would rather fight each other than the knights killing your other monsters, i really wish we could get a remaster of dk1 and2 as EA holds the ip rights so that may never happen

[@ianstevenson5103]

Honestly my best example of the MPC’s fighting each other is in Lego Pirates of the Caribbean on the 3DS. It was the most fun when you would start a duel if you shot one and then dodged out of the way

[@theguy9041]

Starting barfights Lego Star Wars the Complete Saga

[@Ioganstone]

much wow

[@JohnDoe-fl1rl]

Breaking a game is most definitely the most fun. I remember playing Dead Space 3 so much that i had all the enemy spawns memorized. So when i killed some of them in a air duct the bodies piled up and the game crashed. Still remember it vividly.

[@blakeslaws]

Reminds of this one time when I was playing RDR1. I got bored and started messing with the mechanics. So I went into the saloon in Armadillo and there is always this gang at the first table. I would go to the top balcony and then aim my gun at the gang. The would all jump up point their guns at me and then start shooting. I would duck behind the balcony railing and just wait. The local sheriff would show up and start shooting at them. You could also at that point start shooting without getting a wanted level because they shot first and they are a gang that the local police don’t like either. I use to see how much carnage I could get out of that. You could then just sleep in the room up there and when you wake up do it all over again. And all the blood stains and hats sometimes previous bodies would stick around.

[@supernova582]

I love cousing traffic jams on the highway it's so funny seeing every npc get angry and at some point there going to get so mad that they crash into each other trying to get out then they fight each other lol

[@nitttsuj93]

lol, Commander Shepard in Mass Effect will spin in place if you go fast enough,.its my favorite thing to do when I wait for doors to open

[@agentcalifornia3587]

7:26 MLB The Show might be the underrated king of idle animations. If you don’t do anything who’ll pitching against the CPU in practically any mode (Franchise, RTTS, Diamond Dynasty, etc) some great animations happen. On top of that, some of the things that broadcast over the stadium PA system during these moments are hilarious, stuff like warning fans that attempting to take a selfie with a player will result in a life prison sentence.

[@iReeBaaL]

Making the skeletons in Minecraft to fight each other is really helpful and funny 😂

[@joels5150]

Bubsy on SNES had a great idle animation, where after about a minute of generic fidgeting, he would look out at you, then he’d raise his hand and tap on the screen and it would even make the sound like the old heavy glass TV screens. One of my favorite and most memorable idles.

[@bappy8046]

#1 “I WoNdEr iF tHeReS fAlL dAmAgE” *splatters into the ground*

[@MalevolentGame]

Might be wrong but my brain remembers a Fable game where if you spun your character enough they'd get sick

[@ericb3157]

reminds me of "conker's bad fur day". if you make Conker spin around when he's drunk he will get sick. or get hit by one of the "fart clouds" that Rat makes.

[@serpentinious7745]

I like to get on top of anything that moves, including npcs, to see if I can ride it or it slides out from under me. I've yet to find a game where the npcs will carry me around town with them like a lazy tourist.

[@muckyduck06]

While playing Dishonored I couldn't resist throwing things at the Admiral whenever I was in the hound pits pub, for some strange reason I found his responses hilarious.

[@furcrafter4105]

Best one is Jak 3 getting the citizens of Spargus to get into a big gunfight.

[@red_leader11]

Astroneer is fun to break. Fill an entire cave with hydrogen fuel cells and set off a dynamite. It's possible to blow close to a quarter of a planet up lol

[@gavinbrewer7392]

I loved accusing others in prototype. Hands down one of my favorite games

[@davidleblanc2733]

For me it was using GTA IV’s awesome damage modelling to make my cars as thin and small as possible and still move, whats better than driving round in a pretzel shaped car, Or a car so thin it can drive through two cones without touching them.

[@vxnhy2038]

loved trapping corpses in doors/gates in Oblivion and watching them spazz out xD

[@angelinadash2396]

In some newer open world games your character doesn't turn INSTANTLY when you tilt your joystick or press an arrow in a certain direction. Instead they will do a realistic wide turn radius. This can also be true for their walking and run animations. In red faction guerilla and deep rock galactic the characters have realistic walk and run animations. They don't just go from standing to INSTANTLY RUNNING like in older games. They ACTUALLY HAVE TO LIFT AND BRING THEIR FOOT FORWARD, OR IF THEY'RE FACING LEFT AND YOU WANT THEM TO RUN TO THE RIGHT, THEY HAVE TO TURN THEIR BODY AROUND FIRST BEFORE THEY START THEIR RUNNING ANIMATION. WITH THAT SAID, in these two games, if you tap a directional arrow on the keyboard (or tilt your joystick on the controller) EVER SO SLIGHTLY AND BRIEFLY, THE CHARACTER WILL TAKE ONLY HALF A STEP! Then they will return their feet to a standard standing position. XD Keep on repeating this brief light tapping, the character will inch along the ground verrrrry slowly, but the character will look like he's stuck in a forward run stance and seem to just GLIDE ALONG THE GROUND! X'DDDDD THIS IS TAKEN A WONKY *STEP* FURTHER IN DRG! XD If you keep speed tapping left and right while facing left, if you time it right, it will look like your dwarf character is MOONWALKING! X'DDDDDDDDD

[@biscuit4849]

I remember on my Ps2, it was a motocross game but you could also use atv's, anyways there was a mode where you were in this giant free-stunt-type area surrounded by steep inclines that were supposed to be the map boundary. I soon discovered that you can drive up them and go beyond the play area. What was cool to me is that if you kept going past the boundary it would eventually launch you back into the play area like a cannon, and it would just beam you into the sky until you landed. By far my favorite thing to do in that game, I just wish I could remember the name...

[@raerose619]

MX vs ATV Unleashed?

[@biscuit4849]

@@raerose619 Yeah thats the one lmao, a long time ago I lost the game in a move. Since then I wasn't been able to remember the name of it so I was never able to get it again. Thanks man!

[@biscuit4849]

Haven't**

[@LadyElvan]

I break games without even trying. My favourite was playing Mass Effect, when you had to be Joker sneaking through the Normandy. I somehow managed to follow the group you came upon going up the stairs (the one had a floating 'casket' and they went from screen-left to screen-right through a set of doors). I made it through the doors with them without triggering the 'get caught' animation and we all stood around the hallway like extras waiting to hear "CUT!"

[@Lawrence_Talbot]

I caused my Skyrim to cause everytime I went into one of my homes. I stocked it full with so many potions that the frame rate just plummeted and It took so much effort just to turn around and go out the door. Eventually it got to the point where I’d enter my home, the gameplay would just freeze and I’d have to restart the game.

[@KevinoftheCosmos]

I knew who was doing this one by the title.

[@ivanstrydom8417]

Metro is such a gem. Quality gaming at its finest.

[@namelessuser1052]

"Is there a limit?" Is my favorite experiment!

[@hotloleyn]

I have done all of this things my favs: idle animation and follow or watch npcs lives (people, animals, insects, etc), I love the little details so if a devs add them, is great. Classics: make the enemies fight each other and the spin around, I even have a song for that and my siblings got stick with it so is a fond memory for us.

[@takuara6544]

I shoot red barrels point-blank to see if they're explosive, most of the times killing myself and my friends in co-op games.

[@sjonnieplayfull5859]

So are they?

[@takuara6544]

@@sjonnieplayfull5859 most definetly yes

[@chrystpick7741]

Plus u have to check k the barrels exploding hurts you, or not

[@QueenOfTheSea101]

... i dare you to do it in botw. go ahead. it'll be fine...

[@foolishwynter9765]

i enjoy testing my computer on skyrim, Tmodloader, etc.

[@Delta-l87]

I’m amazed that he didn’t talk about testing how badly you can break your ankles

[@caneloamaya3069]

The Jack and Dexter franchise had my favorite AFK animations

[@Kodiakhunter]

“Top ten things gamers like to do to screw around” *half the list is GTA*