27 Weirdest Video Game Things We Can't Delete From Our Brains

Video games! You know the drill, you start on the left hand side of the screen, and try to make your way to the right while dodging monsters and inconveniently placed bottomless pits until you reach a flag pole or something… Sure, this may be how many of began playing video games, but the art form has evolved a lot since then. As an art form matures, it gives way to lots of experimentation and the testing of boundaries… And the results are what we find below. Some of these are clever workarounds to create the effects you're used to seeing on your screen, others are weird attempts to forge a brand new style of gaming to mixed effects.

Cleavage health bars? Games that are mostly about looking at a weird fish creature? The reality of what your first person shooter character actually looks like? It's all here… and it's all pretty weird.

27 Octodad

Octodad really makes you feel like you have 8 arms. ES PINFAIR CRACKED.COM As an octopus in a suit, it's your job to not arouse suspicion while you clumsily shuffle around like a human man. Using all of the available control inputs at hand, this game makes you move each tentacled appendage individually, switching between which one you need, and using your suckers to grasp and release objects. — **Source:** **16 Of The Strangest Mechanics In Video Games**

26 Neo: The World Ends With You

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25 Seaman

Seaman wants you to chat with an aquatic abomination. CRACKED.COM The actual gameplay of Seaman is pretty light, you feed and care for this animal (inexplicably with a human face) and help it grow from basically a swimming eyeball to a full-fledged frog (again, with a human face). But just like a real creature, you need to check up on it every day, in real time, using the bundled microphone. Oh, also, the creature talks back- with the voice of Leonard Nimoy. — **Source:** **16 Of The Strangest Mechanics In Video Games**

24 Dwarf Fortress

Dwarf Fortress and its ridiculously detailed combat system. Notable KEEPS Ubest U.S. anowl the + 179 de the GPP at he more HD Musc Rathe epe 179 11 et 179 un COUE Then DP de 79 77 an 179 - ... ava до eacho 179 - 172 DOG 2 179 anec dorn 179 79 evo Pr LAST nou 179 1 79 Carac da o 173 - FC hem US D 179 da 179 Re 21 11 179 Ret ПЕР 17 D ru dereo the ног Der aned the goblin DINE ... LVI 179 . 179 be de 179 smot abli — **Source:** **16 Of The Strangest Mechanics In Video Games**

23 Iji

Iji has an end-game weapon that ends the game. CRACKED.COM Unlike most weapons and powerups you get for completing a game 100%, the Null Driver in Iji tends to break the whole experience when it's used. As you fire the end-game weapon, glitches occur, replacing the tiled background with art assets from earlier portions of the game, until it's impossible to move on. The only way to get rid of the weapon is to quit the game. — **Source:** **16 Of The Strangest Mechanics In Video Games**

22 Odama

Odama calls upon the pinball wizard to smite it's enemies. xo Stand by 00106 CRACKED.COM This Gamecube game, one of the last released on the console by Nintendo, merges pinball with feudal battle tactics. You plow through enemy forces by using flippers to launch the Odama, the giant sphere controlled by the remaining members of the Ninten-do clan. You also use the microphone to direct your soldiers, clearing a path of ultimate pinball destruction. — **Source:** **16 Of The Strangest Mechanics In Video Games**

21 Basically All Video Games

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20 Horizon Zero Dawn

19 Zelda: A Link Between Worlds

EVERYTHING IN ZELDA: A LINK BETWEEN WORLDS + IS TILTED BACK. What the game looks like from top-down. What the game looks like from a different angle. That's because a true top-down view would make the game incredibly boring looking g - you'd only really get to see the top of Link's hat. CRACKED COM — **Source:** **13 Weird Workarounds Behind The Magic Of Fav Games**

18 Firewatch

17 Mario Galaxy

16 Bioshock 2

15 No More Heroes

No More Heroes wants you to erect a sword. 1 . CRACKED.COM The Wii game, unusually horny for a Nintendo release, has more than a few suggestive portions. The most egregious is one you can't avoid, that charges Travis' beam katana by vigorously pumping the Wiimote, causing the limp weapon to become rigid. — **Source:** **16 Of The Strangest Mechanics In Video Games**

14 Typing of the Dead

Typing Of The Dead teaches you to spell, or die trying. Too many enemies Jolly Roger Out of breath CRACKED.COM First launched on Japanese arcade machines and then later ported to the Dreamcast, this game takes the familiar House Of The Dead setting and adds an educational twist. Instead of pulling the trigger to blast zombies in the head, players must quickly spell words that flash on screen before the undead are able to catch them. — **Source:** **16 Of The Strangest Mechanics In Video Games**

13 Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, and one controller. CRACKED.COM These two brothers are close, close enough to use a single controller to move both of them. One brother moves with the left thumbstick and trigger, while the other uses those on the right. Each brother has different strengths, which you use in tandem to complete levels. — **Source:** **16 Of The Strangest Mechanics In Video Games**

12 This Is The Only Level

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11 SCP: Containment Breach

SCP - Containment Breach doesn't want you to look away. CRACKED.COM This horror game involves making your way through a compound overrun by paranormal monsters, each with unique characteristics and methods of wrecking your . The main antagonist you'll encounter, SCP-173, only moves when you aren't looking at it, so you'll have to make sure to put something between you and it whenever you have to blink. — **Source:** **16 Of The Strangest Mechanics In Video Games**

10 The Getaway

The Getaway gives you a minute to chill. CRACKED.COM This open world action-adventure game inspired by British gangster films is fairly grounded, allowing your character to heal by doing something we're all familiar with: leaning up against a wall until you can catch your breath. Sure, gunshot wounds miraculously closing up because you're taking a 5 second breather aren't super realistic, but we can forgive that. — **Source:** **16 Of The Strangest Mechanics In Video Games**

9 Jak & Daxter

8 P.T

7 Resident Evil 4

6 Fallout: New Vegas

YOUR FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS CHARACTER WATCHES + CUTSCENES IN A ROOM. Whenever a cutscene plays, your character is teleported in front of a screen that plays it. You can't see that because the camera is fixed in first-person view. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **13 Weird Workarounds Behind The Magic Of Fav Games**

5 Skyrim

SKYRIM CLEVERLY + REUSES ASSETS. If you glitch into the game's underworld hellscape, you'll find that some tables are just shelves clipped through the ground. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **13 Weird Workarounds Behind The Magic Of Fav Games**

4 Fallout 3

FALLOUT 3 TURNS THE PLAYER INTO + A TRAIN. Since it would be too complicated to create a functioning train system, the developers decided to turn the train into an armor piece. When you start the train, the game equips a train hat on your character, which gives the appearance of a moving, functioning train. GRACKED COM — **Source:** **13 Weird Workarounds Behind The Magic Of Fav Games**

3 Boktai: The Sun Is In Your Hands

Boktai: The Sun Is In Your Hand, literally. OTAPYANES KONAMI boktai The San is la Your Hand Hiniondo AGB-U3IE-USA CRACKED.COM Fighting vampires on this Gameboy Advance title is hard, but it's a little easier in the daytime with the special light sensors equipped on the cartridge. By bringing your gameplay outside, you give yourself the edge in battling the warriors of the night, just as you would in real life. This kind of gameplay was made even more difficult before Nintendo incorporated the backlit screen into their handhelds. — **Source:** **16 Of The Strangest Mechanics In Video Games**

2 Jurassic Park: Trespasser

Trespasser and its cleavage health gauge. CRACKED.COM This Jurassic Park PC game isn't well remembered or liked, despite some really great voice overs from Richard Attenborough's John Hammond that help to fill out the story. The most bizarre choice in this survival game is the placement of your health bar: a heart tattoo on the chest of your female character, that you view by looking down at your cleavage. — **Source:** **16 Of The Strangest Mechanics In Video Games**

1 Metal Gear Solid

Metal Gear Solid's villain messes with your Playstation. I see that you enjoy Konami games. CRACKED.COM Psycho Mantis is constantly breaking the fourth wall, seemingly aware that he lives in a video game. This is never more clear than when you battle him in Metal Gear Solid 1 and he reads Snake's mind by going through the save files on your memory card. Не also changes your TV to HIDEO mode, which might make first time players panic and try switching inputs. — **Source:** **16 Of The Strangest Mechanics In Video Games**

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