Playing video games is supposed to be a distraction from daily life.
Combining flashing lights and pretty colors with complicated strategies.
During a play-through, you can have an amazing scripted moment, or a ridiculous and frightening
glitch, both leaving you confused as to what just happened.
Video games are simply lines and lines of code; data for your computer or console to
process and for you to enjoy.
Thankfully, we have the ability to save this data, to pause the moment, and share it with
the world.
We grabbed some of our favorites, but if we missed any, let us know in the comments below.
Here are the 10 Best Pause-worthy Video Game Moments.
Red Dead Redemption
A sequel to Red Dead Redemption, the well-received western game, is scheduled to be released
later this year.
Fans of the third-person, mostly open-world, game await to see how Rockstar follows up
on the story of John Marston in the early 1900’s wild west.
They remember riding a horse through the sands and…
OH MY GOD, what is that?
Is that a half-man/half-cougar, next to snake with a human face?
What the F...ond memories indeed.
The glitches in the Red Dead were almost as good as the game.
Beautifully recreating northern Mexico and southwestern United States requires a lot
of code, and sometimes the ones and zeros cross and you get a desert full of manimals.
A patch was released to fix the issue, but those who lived through Bird People or Donkey
Women will never forget.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Urban legends appeal to the mysterious nature of man.
Can something unexplained, actually be un-explainable?
Almost always…
NO.
There are roughly 46,000 ghost shows on TV and not one has caught a glimpse of proof.
You can, however, prove one video game mystery true with a flick of the pause button.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas had many Easter Eggs for fans to find, including freaky ghostly
cars.
If you wanted to get away from the hustle and gunfire of the city, a leisurely stroll
through the woods was a nice change of pace.
Beware though, as a junked up version of cars could spawn suddenly.
With lights on and engines purring, the car would roll towards the startled gamer, seemingly
attacking them.
It’s unknown if it’s purposeful or a glitch, but it’s widely known to scare the (BLEEP)
out of unsuspecting players.
The Sims 4
The fourth version of the life simulator, The Sims, from Maxis Studios caught flak from
feverish fans for the removal of several features, including customization tools and swimming
pools.
The missing feature that seemed to upset the most, the toddler stage of life.
What seemed like an obvious step backwards, may have been intentionally missing in The
Sims 4 to protect the sanity of the players.
The game would occasionally create a demon baby, and no one wants to raise the son of
Satan – they go through soooo many diapers.
Explained simply as a glitch, many fans shared glimpses of their deformed and demonic offspring.
While the baby still had ten fingers and toes, sometimes they were several inches long, and
their torso would be twisted or even missing.
Apparently the game needs to as Exorcist as a career option.
Fallout: New Vegas
What happens in New Vegas, should stay in New Vegas, especially if it’s freaking flying
heads.
Released in 2010, Fallout: New Vegas was the fourth title in the post-apocalyptic franchise.
Developed by Obsidian Entertainment, the game was a huge success, shipping an estimated
12 million units worldwide and winning several RPG of the Year awards.
Despite all that, the game contained a spooky glitch that would cause heads to float across
the screen, or sinewy carcasses to carry on conversations with your character.
The issue would occur when killing certain bad guys, saving the game and then returning
to them.
You’d often find just their head, if you’re lucky.
The less fortunate would return to a set of eyes, half a jaw and torso consisting only
of an intestine-wrapped spinal cord.
(Hard Swallow) (whisper) I hope my producer brought a barf bag (end whisper).
Destiny
For their first new franchise since Halo, Bungie Studios rolled out Destiny.
An online-only first-person shooter that attempted to combine the best of Bungie’s with a massively
multiplayer online game.
Reviews were mixed, but the game continued to evolve and still boasts a rabid player-base
three years later.
Year One players and Kinder-guardians alike remember screenshot worthy moments including
a treasure cove and a rough rock-climbing session.
The Loot Cave was a glitched area that players could take fire at an endless stream of alien
baddies, each dropping colorful engrams.
Another amazing screenshot was reserved for players tough enough to climb the hidden path
in the mountains of the social space in the games final expansion, Rise of Iron.
A hidden object, and gorgeous sunset, awaited brave guardians who could maneuver the tricky,
reflex-testing climb above the Iron Temple.
Batman: Arkham City
Besides being Batman’s arch-villain, The Joker has been many things over the years.
A sad and terrifying clown, a murder, and a misunderstood comedian.
In Batman: Arkham City from Rocksteady Studios, he’s slowly dying, his blood diseased and
mutated.
Throughout the game, players fight a who’s who from The Dark Knights rouges gallery,
finally ending with a chance to save Joker’s life with a serum to cure his illness.
The clown prince being evil and all, fights till the end, and the antivirus is lost, as
the Joker slowly succumbs to his illness.
The final scene shows Batman carrying a dead and crumpled Joker in his arms, laying him
on a police cruiser.
The controversial moment caused fans to pause the game in disbelief and to admire the stunning
artwork.
Duke Nukem Forever
Perhaps the longest delayed game in history, Duke Nukem Forever was released in 2011 after
almost fifteen years in development.
The game was lambasted by critics for outdated graphics, repetitive game-play and juvenile
antics.
Duke’s trademark raunchy humor and over-the-top manliness was a hit in the late 90s, but by
the time Forever was released, fans no longer found it funny.
Mostly because they have ZERO sense of humor, because throwing poop never…
EVER… gets old.
To receive the Turd Burglar achievement or trophy, players had to grab a floating feces
from any of the numerous toilets in the game.
But wait… there’s more.
You could throw the excrement.
Throw it on a wall, throw it on a stall.
You could toss it in the air, or even in a NPC’s hair.
Anyone who played the game is not surprised that a sequel is not planned.
The Walking Dead: Season One
The final choice in the final chapter of The Walking Dead: Season One from Telltale games,
forces players to make a gut-wrenching decision.
In the game, you play as a former professor, and inmate, Lee Everett.
Along the way, Lee finds a young girl, Clementine, and the two of them embark on an emotional
journey while avoiding zombies... and human survivors.
Their relationship was praised by critics and fans alike, but all good things must come
to an end, and Telltale didn't pull any punches, making players choose the final fate of the
games protagonist. Lee was been been bitten by a walker, and now the player must decide
to kill him before he turns, or let him become the living dead... (sniffle) Um, is one of
you chopping onions while watching this video?
(sniffle) That's gotta be why I'm stating to tear up.. (sniffle)
BioShock
Hidden, and heard, throughout BioShock, the words Would You Kindly started as a cute phrase,
and turned into the one of the biggest twist endings in video games.
Released in 2007 from 2K games and Take-Two Interactive, the game was a huge success,
spawning several sequels and always in the conversation for greatest game ever.
After spending the whole game exploring and fighting your way through an underwater city,
players run into what is known as the W-Y-K Wall.
Full of notes, audio recordings, photos and scrawled words, this discovery scrambled players
brains when it was revealed that their character didn't find the underwater city of Rapture...
they grew up there and were mind-controlled by the phrase Would You Kindly.
Mind Blown Emoji.
Let's see if it still works: Would You Kindly Subscribe to our Channel?
Worth a shot, right?
Metroid
If gamers had Twitch in 1986, the reaction videos to the end of Metroid would have been
the great.
Nintendo's side-scrolling platformer was a huge success, spawning several sequels and
it's hero, Samurus, continues to be very popular.
Part of the reason could be the gender-swapping ending that no one saw coming, and resulted
in many players pausing the screen in disbelief.
If you were able to beat the game in under five hours, a special ending occurred in which
the main character, Samus, removed their helmet to reveal that she was a...
well, she was a she.
The game is praised for being one of the first female driven games, but a forgotten fact
was that the faster you played, the more skimpier outfits you earned, including a bikini.
Which doesn't sound as sexist as some might say, as it probably gets hot under all that
space armor.
Eternal Darkness
In one of the greatest mind-(BEEP) ever perpetrated on gamers, Nintendo had Gamecube players reaching
for their controllers to hit pause... not to save a moment, but to protect all their
hard work.
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem wasn't a huge success, but became a fan-favorite
for the various ways it tested gamers patience as their character struggled to keep his sanity.
When their Sanity Meter runs empty, the game begins playing tricks on you, with many breaking
the fourth wall – like this, what's up viewers.
The worst was a dialogue box that popped up, asking you if you wanted to delete your saved
data, either answer resulted in what appears to be the game deleting everything.
Thankfully, it was just a gag, and gamers didn't lose any of their data.
However, many controllers were broken trying to hit the pause button to stop the pretend
problem.
That was some of the most pause-worth moments in video games…
Oh, I guess I should have said spoiler alerts or something before starting this video.
My bad.
Much like humans, technology isn’t perfect and sometimes mistakes happen, resulting in
awful glitches that can turn amazing.
The same goes for capturing a still frame of a great gaming achievement.
What gaming moments would like frozen in time?
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