8 Video Games You Can Break By Playing Perfectly

8 Video Games You Can Break By Playing Perfectly

Playing so well you broke the game’s code? Now THAT’S impressive.

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50 Comments

  1. Player Í on November 15, 2021 at 10:54 am

    What about the game of life?



  2. RockingOrc on November 15, 2021 at 10:54 am

    FF8, dont level up is broken as hell



  3. FuriousCorgi481 on November 15, 2021 at 10:55 am

    If you beat Inner Agent 3 on your first attempt (Splatoon 2’s Octo Expansion’s Superboss of postgame), people will mob your house. Does that count?



  4. B Rotten on November 15, 2021 at 10:56 am

    That. Gawd. Damn. YELLOW CAR!!!

    And that fucking DOG!! He gets yhe last laugh, ANYWAY??? I’m glad I didn’t ever go that far now. I’d have never played games AGAIN



  5. Colin Anderson on November 15, 2021 at 10:57 am

    That’s funny that Tetris starts showing the letters from the hex code in the lines counter.



  6. CrazyJayBe on November 15, 2021 at 10:59 am

    This sucks! This isn’t a video! It’s just a bunch of promo footage like when cinema reviewers have to put up trailers instead of the actual scenes they’re talking about! Here you are describing all these glitches and bugs but YOU DON’T SHOW ANY OF THEM!!! You just barely showed a second of the hyper ducks but that’s it! I was really interested in all the other stuff but you failed.



  7. frenchfrey65 on November 15, 2021 at 11:00 am

    So the title went completely over my head as I thought the definition of breaking a game was basically seeing how a game works and effectively exploiting a trick that makes the game super easy, not literally breaking the game’s code.
    Examples, I’ve played Paper Mario 64 so much, I no longer BUY items besides chapter 2 because I can find free items everywhere, I know exactly how much power I can use, as well as knowing how much HP my enemies have, so on and so forth.
    Madden 12 allows players to scout future NFL players during the regular season of a franchise mode, if you have Edit Player mode on, you can switch these player’s positions once they become actual rookies, without having to edit their attributes, which means you can find a hidden gem and draft that player in the later rounds and turns out if he had been in a different position, he’d be a 1st round prospect instead. A great example of this one time, I found a WR that was 60 overall projected 6th-7th round, looking closer at his attributes, he was a former college QB, and had a lot of RB attributes, and not WR attributes, so I get him, switch him to RB, he goes from 60 overall to 82, as a rookie… It’s so broken that you can probably find all kinds of players like this and get perfect drafts every time.
    Dragon Quest 11, there’s a series of special moves you can unlock in the 3rd act of the game, one of these special moves summons Metal Slimes, AND another special move can put them to sleep, AND you can have auto crit moves! Meaning you can go from lvl 50 or whatever to lvl 99 in just a few hours of starting Act 3! I LOVE IT!



  8. Caprikyzer on November 15, 2021 at 11:01 am

    Risk of Rain 2.
    If you play so well and collect buffs like crazy, your computer won’t be able to take what’s going on on the screen.



  9. Sean Martin on November 15, 2021 at 11:02 am

    Julez, I needed that sign off note. Thanks



  10. Midas on November 15, 2021 at 11:05 am

    I feel like this video is missing multiple things



  11. Eddiemonkeybutt on November 15, 2021 at 11:06 am

    I’m surprised cyberpunk 2077 wasn’t on here. It woulda been the first one cause it has 1000000000 bugs from playing normally



  12. lime gamer on November 15, 2021 at 11:06 am

    Me: plays perfectly.
    Devs: no that’s not how you play the game.



  13. Devilo on November 15, 2021 at 11:06 am

    Was kinda disappointed, expected stuff like me3’s armax arena glitch, where if you were too fast at killing enemies the game would not spawn the next wave.



  14. Briar Jensen on November 15, 2021 at 11:06 am

    Thank you. I needed that uplifting message at the end….love you



  15. Qanea on November 15, 2021 at 11:07 am

    Some of these just happen because progression not being a good gamer.



  16. John Kapa on November 15, 2021 at 11:09 am

    I genuinely did enjoy that. Here’s a like. Thank you.



  17. Ennovative on November 15, 2021 at 11:18 am

    OMG RC PRO AM. I have not played that game in around 30 years and I know EXACTLY what you are talking about.



  18. Pipi Longstocking on November 15, 2021 at 11:18 am

    All this time I thought tetris and duck hunt were broken when playing them.



  19. Jarred Gilliam on November 15, 2021 at 11:18 am

    Madden ps2 max score 255 score few more times the game will freeze..and ring ur disks..only time I was excited after breaking something



  20. greaterfiend on November 15, 2021 at 11:21 am

    More and more focused on story? You mean more and more focused on crapvp?



  21. Owen Crandall on November 15, 2021 at 11:22 am

    "It’s actually quite surprising when rogue bugs and glitches find their way into a cod game" errhhhmmm….did i hear that wrong or am I deaf?



  22. Yien yet Tr on November 15, 2021 at 11:24 am

    Why isn’t PvZ 2 Battlez on this list?! It was a cluster F if your score ever got too high.



  23. Nate the Strangest on November 15, 2021 at 11:26 am

    Jules, I live for your words of encouragement 😌💕



  24. Andrius Kalinas on November 15, 2021 at 11:26 am

    one horrible bug was in X-COM ufo 1 and 2 original part when you play perfectly your solder health stamina and two more stat after rising over 250 i think its become 1 . If it was health you stil could play, but if stamina or other one you wont be able to move



  25. Zachary Rivera on November 15, 2021 at 11:27 am

    The bit integer limit my favorite bug in Internet history



  26. Arjalineck on November 15, 2021 at 11:28 am

    what?



  27. latent gamer on November 15, 2021 at 11:28 am

    Protip. In duckhunt, player 2 can slightly control the ducks.



  28. Jaime Fillertext on November 15, 2021 at 11:30 am

    Burger Time is real and not just from Bob’s Burgers?



  29. Colin Anderson on November 15, 2021 at 11:30 am

    I wonder if anything breaks on Super Turbo Turkey Puncher 3 if you play it long enough, LOL!



  30. Bea on November 15, 2021 at 11:31 am

    Ive been playing burrito bison sense it came out and ive gotten so fast the background cant keep up the hook goes through the ground and the game just makes you drift on the floor forever.
    I can’t play anymore because they didn’t expect someone to get this far.
    I checked total play time and it took less than 147 hours over the last 5 years



  31. ThePhenomenalEX on November 15, 2021 at 11:31 am

    Back in the days of Red Dead Redemption 1, i had a game of undead overrun where my team and I got really far into it to the point where the map couldn’t handle everything that was going on and we all fell through the map and died. It was pretty freaking hilarious.



  32. Brad "E Currency" Farman on November 15, 2021 at 11:33 am

    THAT"S WHY I LOSE TETRIS???? FREEDOM!



  33. Eduardo Felix on November 15, 2021 at 11:34 am

    The Gameboy version of tetris had the same failsafe but started at lvl 50 and as you keep going it just got faster and faster. I was only able to make it to lvl 220 before instantly losing.



  34. James Browning on November 15, 2021 at 11:36 am

    “That bloody yellow car. Seriously, this cheating prick” 🤣



  35. Aydan Price on November 15, 2021 at 11:37 am

    Honestly, any pro gamer is worthy of praise. I don’t care if it’s a score game, a speedrun, a shooting game, or something completely different.The amount of skill, both inborn and learned, is so high for it that it boggles the mind.



  36. Jason Kelley on November 15, 2021 at 11:38 am

    The hot wheels game on wii. We would perfect every level and any time we flawlessly got to the last lap of the last race the game would freeze at the last corner.



  37. Dean Lukes on November 15, 2021 at 11:42 am

    Is there a reason why most of these breaks were not shown? I think only the pac-man and duck hunt breaks were shown, the rest were just described…



  38. Geoff Pabst on November 15, 2021 at 11:42 am

    you can cheat Duck Hunt for the NES by pointing the light gun at a lamp. The receiver only looks for bright light, to indicate that you hit the duck. Ergo, just point it at a lamp and you will forever.



  39. Gadfly on November 15, 2021 at 11:43 am

    My grandpa got to lvl 100 on duckhunt. It was insane



  40. Grant Hucklebottom on November 15, 2021 at 11:44 am

    yeah, I play games for the story, not to ‘win’ (wtf does that even mean?)



  41. KissMyAspergers on November 15, 2021 at 11:44 am

    I don’t know if it’s a side-effect of "playing perfectly", or hiring a mess of ‘nobody’ studios to all work on a single, two-console (Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii) game for a high-profile client under MAJOR crunch due to being based on what could possibly be a passing fad. Could be either, could be both, really.

    I’m speaking, of course, about the _Hell’s Kitchen_ video game – the first one ever made, not that likely-very-functional app you have on your phone right now. No, don’t delete it. We already saw it. Just admit you’re a Ramsay fan and move on with your day. Heck, I wouldn’t mind a _Kitchen Nightmares_ video game, myself. Maybe they could ask a handful of the creators from the _House Flipper_ team to help design it? Anyway… This game. It had an essentially ‘endless’ Arcade Mode, sure, but there’s a main "story" mode, too, and no matter how well you do beyond a certain point, you *literally cannot advance and beat the game.* You can 100% every level up to that point, but no matter _how well you do_ (and believe me, I’ve tried!), you *can’t* get higher than about 63% on one of the levels.

    Not only does this mean the game is unbeatable to the point of being downright unplayable, but to add insult to injury, you lose out on some of Ramsay’s own recipes. That’s right! Beating each level reveals a *real recipe from Gordon Ramsay himself,* and by not being able to access any further levels, those recipes are *permanently locked away.* I’ve never seen a ROMhack of this game, because I imagine it didn’t do very well after initial sales so there probably wasn’t much interest in hacking it, so I don’t know if there’s a way to uncover all this stuff, assuming there are also no Action Replay codes for the thing (which, again… game probably wasn’t notable enough to bother…) that already do what a ROMhack would. But I WOULD like to see those recipes… Preferably without buying anything additional. I already have this $20CDN coaster for Barbies, I don’t also need a recipe book full of dishes I’ll never make. Disability cheques don’t really have a space on them for "fine dining". I get an extra $30 for being lactose intolerant. That’s about it.



  42. Ben Davidson on November 15, 2021 at 11:45 am

    Cant fix or not worth the time, I am guessing it is the latter. I love code glitches, they are the best glitches.



  43. IAMAZNGI on November 15, 2021 at 11:46 am

    they fixed the zombies thing in cod black ops 2, and its been working as intended ever since (except for when you get to round 255 you can still play and progress, but the round counter stays at 255)



  44. Mole Rewey on November 15, 2021 at 11:46 am

    None of these games sound like they are being broken necessarily, it just sounds like the programmers where just interested in fuxing with people after so many levels



  45. Chris Reilly on November 15, 2021 at 11:48 am

    I cant believe i just saw RC PRO AM on a list of anything every and my life is now complete. one of my favorite childhood games!



  46. Princess C.J. on November 15, 2021 at 11:48 am

    I hit level 129 in tetris and my controller just stopped working and my heart sunk as the game over came upon me



  47. Tommy Worth on November 15, 2021 at 11:49 am

    I LOVED RC PRO AM



  48. Tanner Williams on November 15, 2021 at 11:49 am

    Not gonna lie, I really really expected The Binding of Isaac to be on this list.



  49. Reefer rot randy on November 15, 2021 at 11:49 am

    Tetris clips were sick



  50. Frank on November 15, 2021 at 11:50 am

    Would be cool if you actually showed what you’re talking about.