The news on the CVG wires is running hot. You've seen things people wouldn't believe: flying mammoths, naked bodies ominously hovering in your path, dead wolves chasing after you, goats getting stuck to beds.
A new Bethesda game is here (see our Skyrim guide) and, even though it's a genuine masterpiece, that also means that there's a barrel-ful of hilarious glitches that come with it.
Join us, then, for a round-up of the greatest glitches that've been found in Skyrim so far. What's more, if you've experienced any great unscripted and/or undesired Skyrim moments please share them in the comments thread. The window for madcap exploits might close when Bethesda patch the game, so let's have as much fun as we can in the mean-time.
Some might say that the power of a giant strike is a little bit unbalanced. Still, at least it's an interesting new version of fast-travel...
Then again, if you think it's funny when it's done to yourself - check out what it's like when an NPC gets a taste of giant club:
2) You'll believe that a horse can fly
The take-off is dainty and nervous, while the landing... well, the landing is a little iffy. Still though, a full five stars awarded for managing to get a four-legged beast airborne.
3) Put the bunny back on the bank...
Poor little mite. This bunny rabbit is swimming upstream, migrating back to the shallow mountain-top pools where he can finally mate - and then die. Shame he's stuck and getting electrified by wandering magicians really.
4) I want to take his face. Off.
Sinister Dementor-like business here, or perhaps more Doctor Who Headless Monk. Either way, it gives us the willies. And not in a good way.
5) Illusionists get all the best tricks
You'd think that a dragon's skeleton would be pretty heavy, right? Not when placed in direct contact with illusion skills they're not...
6) That stealing video, on the off-chance you haven't seen it
It isn't a glitch, more a hilarious manipulation of in-game rules, but by the Gods we wanted an excuse to post this up.
Comments
21 comments so far...
TheCrimsonFenix on 14 Nov '11 said:
The Giant's Home Run ability is the only thing I've witnessed in my playthrough so far.
Dark Sky Fire on 14 Nov '11 said:
Had a glitch upon starting a New Game. Instead of riding in the cart with the other prisoners, the game faded up from black and i was stood next to the cart with the other npc's staring at me, being unable to move at all! Just restarted and it was fine!
whiteyboi44 on 14 Nov '11 said:
i had a great one, just walking along a road outside of windhelm when about 5 slaughterfish swam across the road
hicken_t on 14 Nov '11 said:
Last video was genius! If only people were dumb enough in real life to leave the bucket you placed on their head while you rob them blind.
TheCrimsonFenix on 14 Nov '11 said:
Wow you just made me remember something about the fish in the game. From my experience, if you kill a fish in the water (semi-land because you can't swipe in water now unfortunately) their whole sense of floatation just vanishes because they suddenly drop to the bottom of the river floor like they've been dropped out of the sky.
Sammy_bham on 14 Nov '11 said:
No issues, no glitches, no pop ups, no crashes so far.
on ps3.
loving it.
kirankara on 14 Nov '11 said:
Don't like rpg's , but feeling left out, so will share my far less interesting bf3 glitch instead.
man floating in the middle of the bazaar map, who just happened to be dead too. Most bazaar (feel free to groan lol)
geardley on 14 Nov '11 said:
ive killed a bear and its carried on running on the spot.funny as hell.done the giant thing been sent miles into the air.brillant game so far.
weejocky on 14 Nov '11 said:
That last one had me in stitches
Shame the best glitch I've had so far is the all too frequent crash to desktop. :/
only_777 on 14 Nov '11 said:
This:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F84oQejFvss
is by far the funniest Skyrim video of all so far. Anyone that's played Skyrim will find this hilarious.
Mmmmgrolsch on 14 Nov '11 said:
I'm hearing nothing but praise for this game and therefore must buy it some time after Christmas or put it on my wishlist for someone else to buy. Just out of curiosity I got bored of Oblivion after 10hrs and didn't think much of it to tell you the truth, but I loved Fallout 3. What's the chances of me loving this game?
thirdwatch on 14 Nov '11 said:
This game looks fantastic. I have to get it.
corkscru74 on 14 Nov '11 said:
I bought Oblivion and only played it a little, just couldn't get into to it - it was a bit too complex for me. I didn't think I'd like Fallout 3 (not played the earlier games and generally not a fan of sci-fi in games) but I really found I could believe in the world.
So far Skyrim seems easier to get into than Oblivion. There is complexity there but it's not thrust at you all at once. And, like in Fallout, it's quite a hostile world with beasts and monsters lurking just round the next corner but you're rewarded (pretty well so far it seems, I struggled to afford a horse in Oblivion - I've already got one (and lost it!) and I've got a house (quickly filling up with crap - I think I'm a hoarder!
). Just remember to snoop in EVERY barrel and chest in a dungeon.
So yeah, I'd say give it a go...if you've got a lot of time to spare
As for glitches, I've been skyballed by a giant. Who hasn't! Also had my horse fly out from beneath me at about 100mph when trying to descend a seemingly passable slope on the side of a VERY high mountain. Horse disappers and then reappears when too close to signposts. Nothing game-breaking so far.
KMakawa on 14 Nov '11 said:
Wow, that thieving one is just sheer genius!
In other news, I killed two mages earlier and this happens: https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hp ... 3518_n.jpg
I love ragdoll physics! LOL.
toaplan on 15 Nov '11 said:
Some strange stuff happening in that game...
I haven't yet bought it, as I'm not so into RPGs. But the game is very pretty, and descriptions of these unusual and surreal occurences have actually increased my curiosity about the game...
Nathan85 on 15 Nov '11 said:
My glitch was that I pulled out an AK47 and started blowing peoples heads off with incendiary rounds.............wait wrong game.
The_KFD_Case on 15 Nov '11 said:
LOL! That video had me laughing out loud throughout even and in the middle of the night no less!
As for CVG's line-up, I find the last one - the thieving "trick" - highly amusing.
TheCrimsonFenix on 15 Nov '11 said:
It depends on what you loved about Fallout 3 but didn't about Oblivion. If you were like me, Oblivion's problem was the dull soulless way it was presented, with characters being all robotic and lifeless when staring at you. To just continue with the game when taking quests is as boring as clocking in at work just didn't make sense with me and seeing as there wasn't much else to do other than do quests from people voiced by the same 3 or more voice actors, fight in the arena and kill people.. I just dropped it. It was dated by 5 year old gameplay a little too much for my liking. They tried to make it deep but enemies levelling up with you took away any genuine challenge too. The combat was simple block and swipe with the only new moves being learned every 5 levels or so, unless I remember it wrong.
Skyrim though, thanks to there being a hell of a lot more voice actors, a lot more variation in quests, magic and combat being much more open to playing styles with dual wielding or all sorts of new weaponry, top and bottom halves of armor are one piece now but there are far more of them and the radiant quest system which practically gives you quests in all sorts of ways (though you kinda don't notice it), it just feels far better and less DULL. The animation is ten times better than the robotic raking antics of Oblivion and the levelling up system has practically been taken out of Fallout 3. With each level up, you choose between magic, stamina and health and then get to pick any sort of special ability to learn with any of the many areas of weapon use and armour effectiveness. Even the way goals,and quests pop up with a little bit of music and the display looks very much like Fallout 3. I've loved this new Elder Scrolls so much that I'd love to see the next Fallout have this modified engine. Butterflies and insects and flowers can be collected for defensive and offensive potions which you can create, weapons can be crafted at the local blacksmith, wildlife can be hunted, giant ass spiders can be slayed, you can earn some extra gold by mining and selling wood that you've chopped, characters look much better and varied rather than ugly and lumpy like Oblivion, the character creation is much more intuitive. It's what I believe Oblivion should have been in the first place.
If though, you hated Oblivion and loved F3 because of the setting, you'll probably hate this one again. Same Tolkien-esque. For me, everything listed was the reason I couldn't get into Oblivion so maybe you had a few niggles with those things too.
world and all.
The Bossman on 15 Nov '11 said:
I might get this game when it's cheap, not really interested in the whole dragons and swords business. On MW3 there's also stupid glitches, if you kill an enemy during a set animation they freeze, so they're stuck in the air or whatever, vaulting over a wall and then frozen for all eternity like that when dead lol.
The_KFD_Case on 15 Nov '11 said:
Can't say that I've noticed any glitches regarding physics or graphics, etc. during my two play-throughs of MW3.
The Bossman on 15 Nov '11 said:
I won't mention the game anymore in this thread, but play a mission where you're going to rescue the presidents daughter, and you're flying in through Germany. Kill an enemy vaulting over a wall or anything and they'll be frozen.