I am Mog Anarchy, and I like to play games. Whether they are old, new, retro, modern, online, offline, console, computer, critically acclaimed or notoriously bad. Here on my blog, I rant about, review, trash talk, praise and generally talk about all of my favourite and least-favourite games. I also write my own guides on how to accomplish tricky tasks, show off my creative endeavors and challenge myself with crazy in-game tasks. I also have a bunch of gaming merchandise which I am glad to show off. So drop me a comment, I love hearing your questions, criticisms, comments and general gaming discussions. :)
You're probably sick of me going on about glitches in Bethesda games - but there's just so many of them! Here's a challenge for you - play through a Bethesda game and see how long you last before you encounter a glitch - choose your difficulty level:
Fallout 3 - Easy
Oblivion - Medium
Fallout: New Vegas - Hard
Skyrim - Very Hard
Anyway... While playing through Oblivion, I found a random bush out in the middle of the countryside, floating. I couldn't get it to move either - seeing as how your characters just pass through bushes when you walk into them. As the Oblivion map is so enormous, I never encountered this bush again - but I bet it's still there... floating.
When I play The Sims 3, I hate controlling large households of Sims - I prefer to play with a household of one, so I can focus all my attention on them without having to juggle tons of commands at once. The only problem with this is I like to make a Sim of myself - and obviously, I like my Sim to woohoo with a Sim of Shelly. See how faithful I am - I don't even like a virtual representation of me to cheat on a virtual representation of her. :)
Anyway, because I opt for the one Sim approach, my Sim is usually celibate - so I did some research to see if it was possible for CPU-controlled Sims to share a house with human-controlled ones. Long story short - yes, but it's awkward to set up and temperamental as hell.
Basically, you have to use a lot of console commands and the Sim had to start as a toddler, then age up to whatever life stage you wanted them to be - and you have very little control over their clothes/hairstyle/traits etc.
HOWEVER - after aging up child 'Shelly' Sim to a teenager, THIS happened:
While playing through Oblivion for the 2nd or 3rd (I don't remember) time, I snapped this pic of an amusing situation. Not a glitch, per se - but as the entire world freezes as you enter a conversation - we've got this Dunmer guy in the background who looks like he's about to start picking his nose. :)
Have you ever had anything funny happen in the background of Oblivion, Fallout or any Bethesda game for that matter, when the screen freezes? Let me know in the comments below. :)
The Sims 3 is a game that is prone to all sorts of weird glitches - I've had my game glitch out tons of times, but none of them have been all that interesting to document - mainly freezing and items losing their textures - but a few weeks ago, I experienced a genuinely entertaining glitch.
Most of the time, I tend to only play with one Sim and sometimes a few pet Sims - mainly myself - I like to try everything once, all the skills and careers, for example. So, I decided to try out the Private Investigator career on this save. For those who don't know, it's a career that came with the Ambitions expansion pack and allows you to solve crimes, all while rocking a trench-coat and wielding a magnifying glass.
Except, when my character went to put on her trench-coat for a case - this happened:
Yeah. My Sim decided to wander around naked. What I found odd was that she took off everything except a ring on her hand and a bracelet. My Sim, being me of course, also wears glasses - but she took those off too.
What made this even more hilarious was the animations private investiagators use - they sneak around on tiptoe with their magnifying glass, mooching around a public park looking for clues - naked.
What's also quite disturbing is that I tried to make my Sim accurate to me - she turned out a bit thinner due to her height - honestly, I think all Sims are like 6 feet tall - the only person I've managed to make accurate to their height and build is Shelly, because she is almost 6 feet tall - I kinda DO look like this naked... Just with a bit of a bigger belly - but the arse is weirdly accurate...
Don't you think it's odd that even though the Sims don't have any pubic hair/genital features or nipples - EA found it necessary to give her fucking TAN LINES around her arse?!
Bear in mind, I don't use any mods with The Sims 3 - I have all of the expansion packs and stuff packs, and all of the store content I could torr- ...legally download - I have no idea what could have caused this glitch, but browsing YouTube, I'm not the only one it's happened to.
And so you can experience the hilarity of the naked private investigator animations, here's a video. Enjoy.
As any Bethesda fan will tell you; their games, while being awesome, are FULL of glitches - especially Fallout 3/New Vegas and Skyrim. This glitch is one that I've encountered in both Fallout 3 AND Fallout: New Vegas - obviously, because they use the same engine and share code for items, weapons, characters, enemies etc. Quite often, after looting a body and removing all of their armour or clothing, I've been met with this strange graphical error:
As you can see, this Regulator has a Caucasian head and an African-American body. I've seen this happen more times than I can count, mismatching bodies and heads - Asian and Caucasian, African-American and Hispanic - of course, it's most noticeable here with the Caucasian/African American combination here. I also found, it happens most often with Regulators and Raiders - oddly enough. Look out for it next time you loot a corpse in Fallout 3!
A few weeks ago, I started playing SKYRIM. Yes, I know I'm only 3 years late to the party. (I'm currently planning out a long blog about all the reasons why I choose to wait to play these games, bear with me.) It seems like glitches and Skyrim go together like egg and mayonnaise - I've encountered several glitches that interfered with quests so badly I had to look up solution videos on ways to get around them - I've encountered both the Erikur disappearing underneath Solitude glitch and the falling from the sky after completing The Break Of Dawn quest - both of which required some serious thought and sneaky techniques to get around them as I'm playing on an Xbox 360 and do not have console commands to abuse. As well as the more awkward glitches, I've encountered a fair few funny ones too, like disappearing NPCs, flying horses and my adopted daughter Sofie frequently getting stuck in weird places in my house, like under the table and behind the beds. While playing through the Dragonborn DLC, I entered a house in Raven Rock only to encounter this hot mess: The floor had completely disappeared and all of the loose items were caught in some weird constant falling limbo - I had to use the rugs, benches and tables to play SKYRIM LEAPFROG to escape this sheer nonsense. Ah Skyrim, never change. :)
While replaying Fallout 3 recently, I was exploring an underground compound absolutely chocka-block with bloody Mirelurks. I was challenging myself by playing on Very Hard difficulty for the first time (I'm a boring twat who normally sticks to the standard of Normal) - and I was a really low level. It seemed like a given that I was going to get massacred by these crab fuckers. So, as a last resort, I jumped off a platform and into the water below, hoping that they wouldn't follow me. They didn't - because THIS happened:
Even after I shot the shit out of him, he was still stuck on this pipe, and only fell down into the water once he had been killed. Awesome - a freak glitch occurrence saved my arse. :)
Like most gamers; I've come across a lot of weird glitches during my gaming lifetime. In the past few months however, especially playing HUGE games like Fallout 3, Oblivion, Borderlands etc., I'm finding A LOT of odd things happening. Most involve textures or bizarre behaviour of characters and objects - so I keep my phone camera nearby to snap photos of console game glitches, and push F9 to capture screenshots of PC games with Fraps. I found this odd texture glitch a few weeks ago while playing through the 3rd DLC for Borderlands 2: Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt.
I could interact with this weird mess of glowing neon green and I could pick up the loot from inside, but the texture didn't repair itself, even after I left the area and came back. The only way to get rid of this problem was to reset the game entirely. Not a terrible game-breaking bug like some others I've encountered before, but it amused me nonetheless. :)
