6 Hilarious Unintended Ways You Can Beat Famous Games

But for Oblivion, you can turn your character into a full-on junkie and beat the entire game while high on skooma. For instance, there's a part where players have to stop a dark ritual and kill everyone attending, but through the sheer power of hard drugs, they can simply yoink the scroll the Lovecraftian knockoff cultists needed to perform the ritual and run away, avoiding any violent confrontation.

If players confuse the game a bit by rolling into the water or attacking and reaching the menu at the same time, every spot with a body of water present, no matter how shallow or tiny, can render the surrounding environment swimmable. The best part is that the game already has a fish costume (aptly named Cod of War), so going through the entire story like this looks natural. Everything happens for a reason.

But as silly as the fly-swimming animation may be, it's even weirder when the game doesn't activate it and effectively gives Kratos an invisible hoverboard:

Wait, yes we can. Here's a delightfully misspelled tutorial:

The circle jump glitch allows players to float in the air if they move their mouse left when they're pressing the move right key, then move their mouse right when they're pressing the move left key. It's like flapping your wings, but clumsier and much stupider.

This is great for all sorts of missions, especially those in which the player has to rescue someone. Unfortunately, Crysis-Man isn't a very subtle person, so he just grabs the people he's supposed to be rescuing by the neck while they look around befuddled.

This flying glitch can be put to its best use by turning the player into a hovering maniac who's able to punch helicopters to death. We now present Man vs. Vehicle Air-Boxing -- the sport you never knew you loved.

And if you're afraid of heights, here's a good alternative: shark surfing. Simply hop on a shark and gently nudge it toward your destination. Do this at home, kids!

Legal disclaimer: Don't. That's what the ocean is for.

"Item sliding" is a whole science, but it basically works by moving your joystick in weird, non-Euclidean directions and aiming with the bow, slingshot, or hookshot. This makes Link build up speed, so when you release him, he'll be propelled like a cannonball (probably helps that his head is shaped like one). No place is too far when you are your own arrow.

As you might know, this game is like 20 percent Zelda, 80 percent sailing simulator. But by combining item sliding with some giant hammer action, you can surf across the ocean at ludicrous speeds without having to put up with a talking boat sidekick.

Accelerated back-hopping works precisely because the game limits forward speed. If you're going faster than the speed limit and jump, the game will try to slow you down by pushing you backward. But if you're already going backward, then your mutant jumping powers are exponentially multiplied. Vehicles are rendered obsolete, and it's even possible to use it to see things you're not supposed to.

In the release version of the game, players could also jump on top of the item they were lifting up with the gravity gun for all kinds of hoverboard tricks to get over obstacles, dystopian Tony Hawk-style. This was later "fixed," if removing such an awesome feature can be considered a fix.

Another game that allows for players to literally dive into the credits is Spyro: Year Of The Dragonfly, which only requires the players to perform a head bash move near the entrance to the final boss area. That's 99% of the game done right there. All that's left is to defeat Ripto, which experienced players can do in under a minute.

"RIP" is already in his name, after all.

Yet another example is House Of Caravan, which has a glitch that unintentionally turns players into ghosts as long as they're holding objects, so they can fly through walls in order to get the master key that opens the door to end the game. The speedrun record is currently at right under 12 seconds, meaning this game can be completed in less time than it took you to read this paragraph. (NSFW language in the video below.)

Back to Oblivion, which you can also finish in a few minutes if you simply clip through one door. Yes, there's a door in the game whose only purpose is to end it, saving you a lot of money on drugs.

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