No.
Wait a second, they’re not mole people that I’m thinking about… it’s the Mr. Saturns!
I remember Moonside now. That place is messed up. The thing I don’t like is that it’s hard to get out of.
Also, Poo’s trial was pretty scary.
Mr. Saturn(s) was(were?) so cool. I have no idea what he/they were, but cool nonetheless.
I liked those little fourth wall jokes near the end. My favorite was the other one, where he complains about “the paranoid feeling that your every step is being controlled by someone else,” or something like that 
For those of you in the audience, Zidane and the lovely Princess Garnet are both climbing a ladder onto an airship. Zidane ‘accidently’ puts his hand on Garnet’s backside and then announces his approval.
The part where Zidane and Vivi take a piss together is also :eek: in so many different ways. I’ve seen one guy on another message board insist that what they’re really doing is masturbating. Yeah, thanks.
[This](shinra.nu/mai/cosplay/ nebbie/characterkuja01.jpg) picture got me rewatching the Kuja FMVs and paying a little more attention to the script. I eventually came to the conclusion that Kuja has more denial issues than the game makes explicit.
There’s a couple of fun scenes in FFV. Following Faris up to Tule Inn’s bedroom triggers a cutscene in which Bartz and Galuf ‘fall in love’ with the sleeping Faris and then stand outside the bedroom door panting like dogs while Reina looks on in utter confusion and possibly disgust.
Ship Graveyard: The party has to get out of their wet clothes. Reina runs into the only other room, and so poor Faris has nowhere to change away from the Peeping Toms. Bartz and Galuf see that Faris isn’t getting naked and so run up to him and pull his clothes off… revealing a pair of breasts. :eek: :smack: I can’t believe I didn’t work it out sooner.
Oh yeah, and that inn also has lapdancers. I amused myself for way too long by swapping the battle formation so that everyone got the Pink Flash Of Ultimate Fulfilment.
The FF universe is strange indeed. But nothing will ever top FFVII’s Wall Market… FFVII was my first RPG, and my memories of getting the prettiest items for Miss Cloud will remain with me forever.
Katamari Damacy: Pretty much the entire game.
It’s a parody of Blanka’s ending in Street Fighter 2, where he’s revealed to be a boy named Jimmy and tenderly (?) reunited with his mother and sister.
(That game’s been out long enough to not require spoiler space, right?)
Somehow, in the original Sims game, my character managed to set herself on fire. Nowhere near an oven, fireplace, or anything else. I’m playing with another Sim downstairs and then I spot her upstairs, running around. Spontaneous combustion, anyone?
Breath of Fire II for the SNES: “My name is Gebara, and this is the toilet.” A line that is often quoted in my house by the entire family! Some throwaway lines and captions in that game were hilariously weird: the Gold Fly taunts you with lines like “You idiots will never catch me, because you’re a bunch of idiots!”, and an edible cockroach is described as being “shiny with fat.” Finally, Sten the monkey exclaims at one point: “This monkey is going to give you a spanking!”
I loved the opera house sequence in Final Fantasy VI (released as FFIII in America), where your characters are forced to substitute for the indisposed opera performers while an evil octopus, Ultros, is hiding backstage trying to sabotage the show. FFVI, along with Chrono Trigger, may very well be the best game ever.
Black & White
I fired up the game, entered my name, and started playing. Little did I know that soon sometime in the middle of the night I’d hear Chhhrrriiisss whispered through my headphones. :eek:
World of WarCraft
A level 28 troll warlock attacked my level 36 night elf priest. WTF?
First of all: dotchan is awesome.
Now that I’ve got that out of the way…
The Genesis game Rings of Power had a couple. First was learning about the “nude code”. To this day, Naughty Dog will neither confirm nor deny its existence.
Second was finding a crash glitch in the game. I seem to remember it being in a shop somewhere. Go up to a corner and look, and a text box pops up saying something to the effect of “Void* has found your party. You didn’t stand a chance. Hit RESET.” I did it again. And again. And again…
I remember playing Wizardry: Bane of the Cosmic Forge back on the ol’ Compy 286. This game had an annoying method of copy protection involving looking up a spell printed in a booklet with rust-colored paper. It got annoying after a while, so I got on my uncle’s 486, got online via the fabulous 28.8 modem, and found a crack. The crack let you put anything in and got you past it. One day I put in a really long word, and started wandering around the castle. The first encounter I ran into was the final boss!
*The main villain of the game.
My childhood bud had an Atari 800 when we were kids, and one of the games he had was “Popeye.” One day, the cartridge wasn’t plugged into the slot all the way and the game somehow added about 10 extra cans of spinach to the screen, making Popeye pretty much invincible. It was a one-time thing - we couldn’t duplicate the effect ever again.
The nerds in my fraternity had an entire season on Sega hockey. In one of the last games of the season, one of the guys invented this move called “The Weasel” that involved crossing over in front of the net in some special way and the goalie would fall down EVERY SINGLE TIME, automatically. This, of course, made a score automatic. And then everybody else who was left in the playoffs started doing The Weasel, too. So we played this entire season’s worth of games and someone found a glitch in the game that took all the fun out of it and made the championship games, as well as any future seasons, completely worthless.
There’s one game, whose name I can’t remember, where the computer or villian will attempt to fake you out by throwing a fake dos prompt or credit sequence in your face, and then if you wait for a couple seconds, the game will come back up. I think it was from the last 5 years. Does anyone remember what it was?
Lucasarts loves to try something similar, but it’s usally in good fun. Like in Sam and Max, where at one point the duo encounter a Wishing well, and Sam will throw some money in and say 'I wish this game was over", causing the screen to fade to black…and then he’ll say “Wait! This well takes things literally!”, then the screen fades back in.
Or the fake credits in Curse of Monkey Island, where Guybrush
Dies and then wakes up in the tomb.
HPL: Sounds like you’re describing one of Eternal Darkness’s insanity effects. Psycho Mantis does something similar in Metal Gear: Solid. Also, in Space Quest IV you can do something near the end of the game that puts you right back at the C: prompt, but I can’t remember if it’s a real or fake prompt.
And speaking of Sam & Max, keep trying to take an untakeable object. It’s funny and sad at the same time.
I love it when games break the fourth wall. In Quest For Glory II, if you cast Force Bolt at a certain object (can’t remember which), it bounces off and breaks the monitor.
lol! I was waiting for a thread to post that moment in too. Worse when a fleet of battleships sent to pulverise an enemy coast prior to invasion are taken out by one bloody musketman or the like on a beach :smack:
I’ve got a few. I think all of mine fall under “glitches” over a true “scripted” WTF moment.
First and foremost.
The Virtual Boy by Nintendo ((I mean I still have mine, but it seems no one else does))
Ok, now Zelda:
Links Awakening: Around Level 7, when you have to give your big Coo-coo bird thing to the NPC on top of the mountain. I have a file where he has the Coo-Coo, and Link still has a Coo-coo.
Majora’s Mask: This is not a good game to put down for a while, and come back to.I went off to college, and when I came back I spent a week trying to remember what I have and havent done yet, and where to go to next.
Zelda games by its sheer popularity has a majority of the WTF / Glitches listed on websites. I bet a few of them are put in on purpose. There is just something about the entire Zelda concept that transcends “regular” video gaming.
Tony Hawk’s Underground (The Original, not the Sequel). In one of the later Judging competitions (The slam bam jam thing) I pulled a trick that should have been a bail. instead, the game looped on it self and kept “me” in the air. When I finally button mashed out of it ((And did all I could to land the trick)) I scored over a Million points for the trick. I figured I didn’t need to do any more tricks that run.
BTW: I recall a majority of the Judges gave me 98s (I don’t think the video game is capable of handing out 100s)
Also in THUG1: The level with the Black hole Night Club; Get in the police car, and drive in around in the night club. After a while your skateboard will exit the car, with out you. You can then pull an infinite combo of tricks. ((Doesnt work in any goals however, as entering a car ends all goals.)) The game sound track started to repeat itself … as if it knew I was somehow “cheating”.
Playstation 1/ Legend of Dragoon: WTF is the Deamons Gate Attack by Rose? Do I want to know what that liquid is, or why she splits in half?
Ok Now, I’m sure we all have our stories about the ORIGINAL Nintendo. WTF moments abound in that system these days. I was playing Mario 1 once, and the game changed into Duck hunt, while I was playing. ((The score count was cycling like crazy))
Also, I think we can all agree that WarioWare games are among the top games in WTF-ness
The ending to Shadow Hearts: Covenant, which I just saw.
Yuri, the main character, is still pining over the loss of the love of his life, Alice, who died in the previous game. Both his parents are dead, so he’s had a lot of love lost in his life. In this game, the sequel, he meets Karin, a German army officer who falls in love with him. Yuri is obviously fond of Karin, but it’s clear that Alice will always have his heart, so never really reciprocates with more than friendship. THEN…
the last boss hatches a plot that involves all the player characters going back in time to various eras, while Yuri dies. The ending strongly implies that due to this time travel, Karin is YURI’S MOTHER, or has become his mother due to the time travel. Whoa. I exclaimed out loud when I saw the old photo of Yuri’s mom that had a strange resemblence to Karin. I can’t imagine what she’ll think when she realizes what’s happened, and that she fell in love with her own son.
WISE FWOM YO GWAVE
The other day, I was playing Mortal Kombat: Deception. I was fighting Noob-Smoke on the Crumbling Cliffs. For those of you who haven’t played MK:D, parts of this stage keep falling off. If you fall or get knocked off, you meet a rather gruesome end on a pointed rock. Anyway, I was beating up on one of them when the piece of cliff we were both standing on fell off. The game showed my character falling on the rock, then it said I won. Flawless victory, no less.
Had another moment, but I can’t remember.
blinks, blushes Why, thank you, I think. (I mean, I know I’m totally awesome, but may I ask why you found me to be so?)
Oh, yeah, and if you think Crono Trigger is hilarious in English, Magus’ three minions were originally named Vinegar (Ozzie), Soy Sauce (Slash), and Mayonaise (Flea).
I used to play a lot of Segas football (soccer) game in the arcades, Sega Football Champ (?)
Once when I scored a hat trick in the first 10 seconds (through sheer luck), the player’s celebration was to get down on all fours crawl along a bit and then cock his leg at the opposition.
And the best bit about it was that I was Bulgaria playing Brazil.
If any player was going to be pissing all over Brazil it had to be Stoichkov
Another weird football game was Euro Football Champ.
If you won the cup the game would show a crowd throwing tickertape and then the game would scream:
“YOU ARE HERO”.
Blank screen.
Title screen.
Well worth it.
Recently picked up a copy of Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 (Had a Walmart gift card to blow), and have already had a couple odd experiences.
Every item has a set amount of space it takes up, including height. For walkways, this height is two levels. Anthing else built on those squares (excepting benches and the like) will be built two levels above the ground. With no supports. Yes, I’ve had entire roller coasters hovering above walkways, people walking underneath, with nothing connecting them to the ground except the ramps I made for people to reach the entrance.
A minor bug (which ruined my fun 
) that I found. If you sell balloons, occasionally a person will let go of theirs and it’s float away. If you click on the freed balloon, it will pop. But I had one balloon that didn’t–each time I clicked on it, it just moved a bit to one side, and kept floating upwards.