Top ten Glitches that have changed my life pt.3 Runner up

Within the next few weeks I am going to do a reoccurring post that will follow the top ten glitches that I have experienced in my life. These will be my own personal accounts of glitches so you may see some that happened to you and you may see some that did not. Along with talking about the glitches themselves I will be talking about how they effected my life as well, be it virtual or real life. The term glitch will also be used liberally to mean anything that breaks, distorts, borks, cheats (not codes), or does something in the game that is unusual or unintended. I would love to hear what anyone thinks everything so let me know in the comments.

"B-but my followers will hate me!" I said in protest.
"No they will not, just chill out for once" Said my brain
"But this does nothing for the list!"
"You are completing the list in a more absolute fashion." Responded the brain.
"Bu-"
"FINE, I will do it myself. Hands open a web browser!" Brain commanded
"Already done" Reported my hands.
"Internet!?" Came an excited voice from my crotch
"Down boy! It is blog time now! Fingers take this down!"
"Sir yes sir"  Hands shouted.

Grand Theft Auto 3

The runner ups

And that is how this latest blog post came about. My body rebelling against me and typing out the runner up glitches to the last post. This list is still kind of blurry in my head, you can probably tell that I do not have every thing written down yet. I am actually only to about seven or so glitches that really changed me so far. Its been more of a learnrning experience than anything, a bit of fun nostalgia-ing though. Anyway GTA had many many glitches in it and so it was hard to choose just one that really effected me. I did ,however I had two others that simply would not die down in my head and so I thought I would talk about them. These do not count toward the top ten, hence "runner-up," but are part of the list all the same.

If only the first garage was this loose-er...big...

If you read my last post you will remember that I had to delete my save file because I had summoned way to many tanks into the world. There was another reason for my decision to delete the file as well. You know how when you try and put a large dangerous object into a box that might be a little to small, and then you cant seem to get in out of the box no matter how many times you shoot the cannon? That is what happened between my garage and a tank I wanted to save for some reason. Looking back I have no idea why I wanted to place a tank in the first available garage anyway, it is not like I could not create another. The end result was a tank garage coitus that could not be undone and would never end. I tried, I fired round after round into the garages sultry walls but to no avail, she would not release my hot iron tank.

What did you learn?

I learned that square block goes in square hole and circle block goes in circle hole. And tank block never goes in garage hole and if you have to shove it in it probably does not belong. Aside from all that I learned to never save your game when cheating.

Grand theft sprinter

He never saw that dragon coming.

This glitch is pretty brief as most everyone knew about it. If you tapped the run button continually you would never run out of stamina and you could run everywhere. Some could argue that this was intended for this game but I do not think that it was. Considering that in the next few games they released they used a variation of this to keep you from running like a marathon sprinter on cocaine. And that change is really the whole reason I bring up this glitch. They (the developers) saw what had happened with this glitch and then integrated it into the games properly and they were slightly improved by this.

What did you learn?

I learned that great ideas will sometimes come from something that was never supposed to work in the first place. This rule applies a lot to my gaming life (LBP2) and to my love life as well.

Well that wraps up the "runners-ups" For glitch number three. This may happen for a few more games on the list as well. I do not want it to become "Top ten glitches that changed my life... Fallout edition" and so any game with multiple life changing glitches will have runner up sections rather than another number on the list. Let me know what you think in the comments and do not be afraid to share your own experiences or suggestions for the list.

-Snickelsox

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A Golden Sun of an oppourtunity.

Well it has been quite a while has it not. I will be brief in this paragraph because I have started separating things and I want this part of my blog to be all about games. If you have noticed on the right there is a little box that will take you to other places on my blog. I did this because I realized that the name of my blog it "Average JoE Gaming" not "dumbass rambles on about cookies" but I digress. The point of my blog is still to bring you reviews and shit about games you may or may not care about, maybe because they suck or maybe because they are two years old. I am still an Average JoE and so I can not really talk about the latest and greatest game but if you are looking for a god game that does not cost you an arm and a leg you can bet I will speak of it eventually! So onward my good fellows, to darker pastures.

 So over the Christmas season I came into possession of Golden Sun: Dark Dawn for the DS. It was only thirty five dollars despite being a new game. Normally I wait for things to go down even more but I very much enjoyed the first two games in the series and was very happy to get back into that universe.

You start off the game as the son of the first games protagonist Isaac and are quickly joined by the rest of the offspring of the first two games. In typical JRPG fashion you are tasked with doing something inane and end saving the world from certain doom. This time you are told to get some sort of feather from a giant pigeon and somehow you end up walking on clouds. This is my one true complaint about this game and it is that the story is fucking bonkers in the first ten hours. After beating the game I have a vague grasp of how it all worked but I felt as though they could have done a lot more to help the player along early on.

I mentioned that it took ten hours to get to a sensible storyline and I meant ten hours. This game is very long, especially for being a handheld. This is by no means a bad thing, while I did not know what was going on for a while I was having a hell of a lot of fun doing just that. The combat system is pretty basic with attack, defend, and magic and then they throw in two wild cards. The first is the ability to use creatures called Djinn which can do anything from increase your attack to cause insta-death on an enemy. Once used the Djinn go into standby mode where they can be used in the second option, Summoning. Summoning is usually a super powered attack that does MASSIVE DAMAGE to your enemy. They are usually over the top and are actually quite spectacular even on the DS's tiny screen. After using several Djinn for a summoning they go into rest mode and take a few rounds to come back, also their side effects (boosting your stats and giving you more powerful magic) dissipate as well until they are fully rested. Working together with the really solid traditional battle mechanics this makes any fight become awesome.

The game play is not just limited to battles though, every town and dungeon turns into a series of puzzles that must be completed to progress. Luckily the main quest seem to be devoid of any "backtracking" quests where you spend an hours waling to the different switches trying to make them go in the right order. Any puzzle that seem overbearingly long is usually broken up with by giving you cool weapons or another Djinn to use. Though be wary of equipping the "Lure Cap" as this makes dungeons take twice as long because of the increase in battles. The puzzles almost always can be solved by using some of your magic outside of battle and if you can not seem to figure out a puzzle it means you do not have the right magic yet, so come back later.

With plenty of side quests to do and a huge wold to explore this game will provide cheap bastards with pennies on the hour of entertainment. If you go to purchase this game just remember that is it a JRPG and still suffers from some of those pitfalls, such as teenagers saving the world by becoming more powerful than Zeus. But if you can look past that this game will make you bathroom breaks take twice as long with addictive game play and amazing DS graphics.

Price: 35$

Graphics: Great for a DS 

Gameplay: Solid old school with some twists

Music: Sadly forgettable

Time Drained: 40+ hours

Rating: I would have bought a DS for this game alone.

If you have any questions or want to call me a faggot just leave a comment below!

-Snickelsox