Find the highest point of whatever game, and then jump

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

First thing I do in every level or "linear" area, is turn around and/or go the opposite direction the game wants you to go. It's amazing how many collectibles I have found by simply just turning around.

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.

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

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.

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

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 👍🏻

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

Setting things on fire in the game world

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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😂

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

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.

GOAT Simulator actually have a Trophy for breaking the game

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

"The RDR" sounds like a mockingly sarcastic laugh

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

#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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

arrows activate traps in dark souls

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 😀🤘🩲 .

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.

I don't know if it's in other games, but I always just sit there and figure out how to dodge most of the enemy shots, and sometimes the enemy AI gets mad and tries to just come punch me. It's happened in Destiny 2 when I dodge the sniper enemies, to the point that cabal psions have an animation that sounds like they get frustrated and then chase me around trying to punch me, lol.

The best thing in GTA 5 is the drop jump on cars, NPCs and whatever. Ragdolls are fun. In Oblivion I had a mod that added a spell called "Hey mama see what I can do". Instantly ragdolls your character, I spent probably hours ragdolling off mountains or whatever as a kid.

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

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

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.

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.

Always gotta test fall damage at the start

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

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

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!"

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.

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.

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.

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

The first that comes to mind is counting how many bullet holes or in general misc stuff that remain in the map after an action, weapon magazines, caliber casings, blood and whatever else similar you can manage to find in the game.

Its pretty fun to see NPCs fighting eachother, its interesting because if the player was fighting it'd probably end very quickly. BUT if it was 2 NPCs it would drag out for more than a few seconds

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.

Gameranx : Destroying cars is fun. Rico Rodriguez : Cars go Boom!!!

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

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.

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

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

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

Favorite "screw around" thing to do in games is seeing how high I can get. Especially in games that generally only have one height you are supposed to be on. Seeing what all you can stand on, if you can pile stuff up to stand up higher, if you can parkour to places you are not supposed to be.... my love of this probably comes from the Borderlands 1 days, when you could duel a buddy holding a particular weapon (or a modded weapon made right) and get launched all manner of places you shouldn't be.

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

I knew who was doing this one by the title.

breaking out of the level play space to explore. one of the best examples is world of warcraft since the game world is so big it was fun to find ways to get to places you arent expected to like areas between zones etc , and alot of times there were interesting things there like test environments, there was even a small island that was supposed to be only for in-game game moderators to park their character at that was supposed to be off limits for players to get to

Combining your powers reminded me of something I did a long time ago. Back in the 1990's I was playing a fantasy strategy game called Master of Magic. It had some very flexible options in it. It ocurred to me during one game to wonder if I could cast a flying spell on the biggest warships in my fleet, then fly them to inland cities for bombardments. It turned out that yes I could! I had these huge powerful warships flying overland and attacking enemy cities! It was awesome! NPC's fighting each other is something I see quite often in Fallout 4, especially the Boston area. It's fairly common to come upon gunners fighting super-mutants, super-mutants fighting ghouls etc. In the wilderness areas I sometimes find yao guai (mutant bears) fighting deathclaws (mutant lizards?).

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

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

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)

Ac Valhalla AI system is really cool when it comes to enemies/animals fighting each other.