6 Glitches That Make Serious Games Totally Hilarious

Don't worry, there's a perfectly logical explanation. As detailed by the glitch masters at A+Start, this happens when Joel stands on top of a truck in a tunnel and his body clips out of bounds. After you exit the tunnel, Joel will start floating every now and again, and every time he tries to access the item menu, he'll look like someone who's been exposed to nuclear fallout.

Naughty Dog via A+StartYou can't leave the Twilight Zone without taking part of it with you.

Joel is not the only one to get in on the Thing-style action. If players decide to go back to the beginning in the college section, there's a chance Ellie will start doing some rather odd stretching:

Sony Computer Entertainment via A+StartAbove: Ellie's redesign after Ellen Page complained about the similarities.

This virus is so potent that it has even infected characters in other games by the same developer. In Uncharted 4, if you jump to a specific ledge and then force movement into the left, Nathan Drake will suddenly assume a rather awkward, somewhat bat-like posture.

Sony Computer Entertainment via A+Start"It's a boy!"

But there's an upside. If you pull a rope in a certain way while pressing L1, Nathan's body will reshape itself to assume more Nicki-Minaj-esque proportions.

Sony Computer Entertainment via A+StartPlastic surgeons, take note.

A user on Reddit discovered that a cart explosion happens in that same spot at the end of a mission, so it looks like the horses are accidentally triggering that effect. Also, NPCs are as susceptible to this glitch as real players. This means that if you stand there, you can watch dead horses accumulate in an old-timey traffic pile-up.

Old West BBQs were hardcore.

Usually the game's paralysis spells and paralysis arrows have two uses: letting you freeze enemies for a little while and get a few extra hits in, or letting you run away like a pansy. But since the frost troll has chosen to live at the top of a steep mountain in a world of poorly thought-out gravity, a well-placed paralysis attack can send him rolling downhill.

Except even less dignified.

And sometimes, your arrow will even paralyze the laws of physics themselves, sending the troll flying through the mountains like Peter Pan having an MDMA-triggered aneurysm. Look at him go!

Bethesda Softworks via cody and charles*Cue Superman theme played by kazoos*

Though strong, frost trolls do take fall damage, so let's just say players don't have to worry about them coming back after this. They'd be too embarrassed to show their hideous faces again anyway.

The best part is that if the characters die during a conversation -- something that's just not supposed to happen -- the game will rule it as natural causes and won't send any goons after you. (Please do not exploit this loophole in real life, or society is doomed.) This does make things a little too easy, though. Fortunately, the more recent games have made the act of killing much more challenging and rewarding for the player.

Now you have to move one hand.

Unlike most games, FC5 has actual butt-naked models for the characters, though you're not supposed to be able to play as (or with) them. But if you mess around on the outfit selection screen for a while, sooner or later the game will stop sanctioning your buffoonery and refuse to load an outfit ... which is by itself an outfit. And since this game has online multiplayer, the result is a shockingly realistic depiction of cult life in Montana, complete with the part where some naked maniac parachutes groin-first onto your face. (Ken-Doll-type nudity in the video below, click at your own risk.)

Despite enhancing the game's naturalistic feel, this raises some awkward questions. For one thing, it's nice that the female characters are allowed to have nipples, but why are all the men dickless?

Ubisoft via j0nathanOr so poorly endowed that they might as well be dickless.

Is every single man in this cult a eunuch? That's gotta hurt enrollment.

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