One of the experiments I always try is to talk repeatedly to an NPC, hoping that they will have a different dialogue option or get annoyed that you keep trying to talk to them. Certain games will let you have the same conversation over and over, but there are a few, like Mass Effect 3, where they have nothing more to say and shut you down with a one-word response.

My daily dose of Gameranx, just in time.

Jumping into clear water to see if you swim is a guilty pleasure of mine. Funnily enough, you can't always swim in clear water in games lol.

I was expecting to see the "flying cows" from the Just Cause franchise. Strapping a few rocket booster bombs to cows or anything that moves was one of the best parts of that game, especially with the erratic and unpredictable flight paths.

I did the "Ring Around the Table" with Lady D. from RE8. It was as hilarious as Falcon said it was. I just remembered, in Resident Evil 4, if you shoot Luis too many times during the cabin siege, he kills you.

4:05 core memory of mine was watching my dad play the original tomb raider and the game saved while he was in mid air of his accidental swan dive into a lava pit. He raged so hard he took the disc and threw it up against the wall which shattered it.. Ill never forget that

The first Red Faction is still one of my favorites to this day. Not much else at the time let you completely blow away walls and ceilings like that, good times.

On the topic of taking on enemies higher level then the player, I remember when I was playing Oblivion once and decided to take on Umbra at level 1, didn't work so I went and prepared by getting the silver armor and weapons from the Shivering Isles dlc and went back at like level 2 3 or 4 and through constant determination I beat her and got a full set of Ebony before I was supposed to. you can imagine how useful that was in Oblivion at a extremely low level.

Thank you for all the hard work you put into these videos. It may seem trivial to some people, but you bring entertainment to millions :). It does not go unnoticed. Thank you to everyone at Gameranx

I collected all the teddy bears in Fallout 3 and made a Counsel of the Bears on the bed in my Megaton place. All the little ones were sitting around in a semi circle with the big one in the center.

Falcon's humor is not only accurate af but hilarious

This is how speedrunners really get to know the game; just messing around until something sticks.

IN addition to the highest point stuff, when you got moves that let you not fall fast you can use those at the last possible second for some fun like in the Spider-man games with webswinging. I remember in Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, I unlocked a piledriver move and tried it off the highest building I could find in the city.

Number 10 made me think about Far Cry 4. Conversely, if you actually listen to Pagan Min and wait in the opening sequence, you get a secret early ending to the game.

Man there are so many on this list that apply to the Souls games it's hilarious. They pretty much encourage you to experiment with dying, lava, fall damage, etc. etc. One of the best vids in a while, love it!

Ah yes, jumping onto fire to see if it burns. Always slightly disappointed when it doesn't happen, but also get annoyed when it does and now I know I have to avoid the tiniest of flames. Damned if you do, damned if you don't XD

It's always fun testing stuff out in games.

In addition to jumping from high points in Tomb Raider, that’s also where I learned to see what games do when you drown. 😅 The Sims is also great for seeing what happens in all sorts of scenarios.

3:05 in Watch Dogs 2 covering a vehicle in explosives an controlling it with my drone was one my favorite things to do 😂

This entire video becomes waaay darker when you realize the reason we like to test these things in a simulation is because they have already been tested by someone somewhere in the real world.

Another plus that can come from jumping off stuff in games is that sometimes you end up seeing secret caves or paths on the way down that you never would know about otherwise. Thats happened all the time to me in games like elden ring, spyro and it takes two. Doing dumb stuff like that with the help of save points can just be an extreme version of exploration.

Speaking of #9: I remember watching shows that featured an entire segment dedicated to Warthog Jumping (if I remember the term correctly) in the original Halo multiplayer. I have never played Halo so I haven't experienced it, but it looked like it was one of the most satisfying examples of physics engine manipulation in a video game using explosions

I always liked the mirrors edge 'falling off a building' animation

I always loved exploring the massive maps out of bounds in Resistance the fall of man. Me and my buddies would spend hours checking out all the hidden spaces or unused areas of those massive maps.

SO glad to hear Spore mentioned. it was so far ahead of it's time

Oh boy number three. That reminds me of Sepharoth from kingdom hearts one and two. The horror lol 😂.

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Concerning the explosives: In the original jedi knight (from 1996? 1998? don't know) you could plant an unlimited amount of mines over antoher if you used unlimited ammo cheat. And the force of the explosion pushing you back was actually proportional to the number of mines. So, naturally, with unlimited ammo and godmode on, I found myself launching me as high up in the air as possible. There is one level in particular, with a imperial building in the middle of the map, which is very huge vertically and allows you to launch you up that building (if you get it right). Ah, great memories.

As far as point #9, I remember playing the first Mercenaries game and planting the max number of C4 blocks (which was 8) next to all kinds of objects and launching them into the stratosphere. Launching large cargo containers off of a dock was particularly fun.

one of my favorite experiments is to mess with the weather effects, and how NPCS react or how my character reacts, or driving through a storm, driving in snow, or on red dead or gta, swimming underwater and seeing how rain falls on top, just weird weather experiments.

#8 - As someone who has acrophobia, I check to see if ledges are dangerous enough to let me fall off... If they are, I am constantly scared anytime I have to walk a tight rope or narrow ledge where falling is an option. If they don't let you fall from edges, my anxiety is reduced to 0%.

NICE! Just Cause is one of the best for messing around with explosives IMO.

You cant pass a waterfall without checking for a cave underneath, maybe not for this list but it's off my chest now.

I'd say a big brain moment is, when you get all enemy types to fight against each other, on top of the boss. Sit back and watch the show.

@gameranx Whenever you do a Part 2 video, you really should leave a link to Part 1 in the description.

When I used to play Alien Isolation anytime I ran across human enemies, I’d see if I could prod the Alien into fighting them so I would just run through the chaos to my objective or to loot 😂

Love you guys, thank you for the quality you’ve maintained over the last 6 years (which is excellent might I add) Jake Baldino before bed has been a ritual at this point… Pause

Relating to number 7, in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, you can attack Eva during that one section of the game and she'll tell you off or even attack you back.

I absolutely LOVED the gummi ship creations you can make in kingdom hearts games. And ruining great dark souls weapons with ridiculous effects and seeing someone not know what the hell is happening when I use it.

You could abuse the ai of the stalker enemies in Dead Space 2 by standing in the doorway you came in. If you walk out of the room as they start to charge they just turn around and run away, it was great fun.

Getting knocked back to oblivion in Skyrim by a Giant is always nice lol

Essential NPCs...I learned that the hard way in Ultima VI. Pretty much the first thing I did after arriving in Britannia and meeting Lord British was descending into the sewers below Castle Britiish where I was constantly harassed and poisoned by the pesky rats down there. I barely managed to escape with ca. 1 hit point left and ventured forth into the kitchen to help myself to a delicious slice of cake or some such. The moment I entered I spotted some pixels moving on the ground. "Rats in the good lord's kitchen?" I mumbled to myself. "This will not do!" With one strike of my mighty +1 short sword, I struck down the dastardly do-no-gooder and proceeded to fill my belly with His Lordship's delicacies. Many hours later, I found that I needed Sherry the Mouse - for no rat it has been - to progress in the story. With just one lonely save game sitting on a 3.5'' floppy disk, I started the game from scratch. Sherry and me became good friends later on, nonetheless. So, my friends, show compassion - or at least apply common sense ;)

#9 I remember people doing this in Battlefield multiplayer and using their own vehicles as driving anti-tank mines

I can't believe you didn't mention Battlefield for the "covering things in explosives" part as launching vehicles across the map was hilarious and surprisingly useful

We try em', but it's awesome when we succeed in achieving such a feat.

Oh man, causing traffic jams in GTA 5 is one of the most chaotic things I've ever seen. It will almost always result in a mass casualty event.

Hope we get part 3, beacuse this video was awesome!

10. it's nice to troll those enemies. 9. it's fun to blow things up. 8. just testing it out. 7. same as #8. 6. same as #7 and 8. 5. customization is fun. 4. it's okay. 3. got to test your skills. 2. got to explore outside the game area. 1. don't tell me what to do.

It’s funny that I’m subscribed to you so I can watch you tell me things I already know.😂 and somehow you’re one of my favorite KZfaqrs.

Your 'Attach Explosives" reminded me of watching someone attach rockets to all sorts of thing in Just Cause 4. That poor cow. :D

Every single Skyrim player: "That giant doesn't look that tough."

Most realistic game everyone has done the whole jumping. Is in minecraft jumping into a water block or any game that you can jump into water to see if you’ll take damage from going in

#2 ~ Fallout 3: Sure as heck enjoyed clipping through the game to get power Armor training right from the start of the game.

In Crysis, I'd always gather up every vehicle in a level, put them in a big pile, add all the explosive barrels, then blow them up. Cars would fly across half the level. And beforehand, I'd always say "Jamie wants big boom" (from Mythbusters.) I amused myself with that for hours. I'm easily amused.

Awesome video! I don't know how big brain it is, but in Horizon Zero Dawn I kept getting killed no matter how I approached an enemy stronghold early in the game. I got killed on every kind of approach before I could even get into the building for the fight that would happen inside. Just for fun, I hopped on a Charger and rode it right in the front door, and that actually worked. Plus - FUN.

No. 3 Can lead to early advantages for some games. Notable Case: Darksiders 2, beating that optiobnal boss in the first base area will unlock stronger equipment than you'd usually have access to that early.

number 2: I grew up with "Id_clip" in Doom1 and 2, so first thing I did in many FPS games was clippging through games until I later realized that I actually am supposed to play the game and enjoy the story. SiN was a mix of both. I enjoyed the story...however, after I found the secret Janitor room observing Elexis Sinclair in her hot-tub...I clipped straight through the level to find that room ...ahh well...I can forgive my adolescent self...sometimes

Ghost Recon is great for hill climbing and terrible vehicle physics in general. Love this game.

Me and a friend used to take turns dying and respawning in Rainbow Six Vegas to stack up dozens of blocks of C4. If you stood on them when they detonated you'd get launched out of the level. Good times. Edit: 5:01 Hi Paul, long time no see.

Making the Elephants fly in Halo 3 on Sandtrap with grav lifts was always a good time!

Glad I’m not alone doing a ton of “weird” things for no reason, especially in open world games.

Number 9 is one of the most fun things to do in Teardown. Which is to be expected considering certain missions in the game challenge you to take all the explosives and blow something up until nothing but voxel rubble is left

Man I use to always ride to the edge of the map in MX unleashed in free mode, the gun shot noise that sends you flying was always so satisfying 😂

I remember discovering my first "Get out map" glitch. Gran Turismo 2. If you can find a sharp wall and keep the camera just right, apparently the game doesn't render collision that the camera isn't facing. So you can do a very sharp 90degree turn into a wall the camera isn't facing and just pass through the barrier and outside the boundaries.

While "making monsters" in character creators is fun, to me nothing beats giving my character a stupid name just to see NPCs saying it whenever they talk to him/her. Sometimes it absolutely ruins a game's dramatic moments.😂

World of Warcraft actually had an achievement for surving a fall of a certain height. The trick was finding something of the right height to jump off of.

Gameranx will do anything but name mercenaries when taking about destructible environments

I once spent 3hrs fighting a monster in Conan Exiles, about 10mins into my first playthrough. Worth it for the XP/lvls, the same goes for pretty much any game that lets you damage anything that's a much much higher level. I'm also quite partial to making art out of naked guys in Hitman too.

Best discoveries are when the fire doesn’t damage the player character, but DOES damage the NPCs and enemies. Then you just retreat to the lava

hehe the friendly fire one reminds me of the great series of memes like, "Me testing if there is friendy fire, the rest of the guys in my boot camp."

You forgot to mention how hilarious it is to shoot your teammates in Left 4 Dead, as Bill specifically, it's the best.

Ahhh the therapeutic sound of falcon talking about anything and everything gaming as I fall asleep😌

The one glimpse of true greatness in Fallout 76 is putting on power armor and jumping off of the monorail elevator. It's even better than taking Maxson's battle coat - after rendering him, um, inactive - and jumping off the Prydwen in Fallout 4.

Man, reminds me of the good old days, when I first played GTA3 with a friend (much too early) and we slowly started playing around with "trainers" and later even changing shit up in the very weirdly accessible and easy to change "code" of the game. With a trainer it was a simple thing like "hand over the keyboard and do funny shit", like pressing the "all cars explode" button 20 times and suddenly you're up in the sky. But my fondest memory is still when we changed how fast a car can accelerate and found out that you can literally slip between the textures that way and teleport. You'd drive into a wall so hard, that the game would push you under the building, you'd fall for a bit and then you'd just appear somewhere. Miss those days.

I used to love jumping off from the highest mountain peaks in Skyrim and Oblivion 🤣🤣

#9 is the perfect experiments to try in a video released December 20th as it perfectly recreates the first manned Spanish space flight by Luis Carrero Blanco on this day in 1973.

4:00 omg yes, I remember in one of the last levels in the pyramid you could jump into the center lava pit in the pyramid and Lara would scream 3 times before she hit the bottom! you would fall for what felt like a whole minute!

Friendly fire is a must try 🤣🤣🤣 thanks for another great video.

Back in the 2000s it was waiting for the game intro to cycle into the cinematics

I wasted HOURS running around Watchdogs scanning people on the street, trying to "collect" every NPC profile.

The video clips used weren't quite up to par with the awesome potential of each experiment

I love turning my brain off during my work break & turning on some Gameranx.

Number 3: often high-powered enemies can be defeated by (much) lower-level characters by finding that one flaw in the programming that was not anticipated as an action (by your character).

One time in gta, I caused a traffic jam with a truck in the middle of a crossroads in the city. There were cars going at full speed and crashing into each other, one after the other and there were explosions everywhere. The cops were coming in at all sides, and I kept taking cover behind the crashed cars. Some of the most fun I've had in a game

I thought Dark Souls 2 had a nice take on killing NPCs. Once they’re dead, if you wait a few n game hours, a tombstone will appear. You can then talk to the ghost of the NPC, but it will cost you some souls.

You guys are one of my favorite channels on KZfaq.

This video is a love letter to every game developer who isn’t efficient in attention to detail

Covering a Cycle, in GTA V, with sticky bombs, driving it into a corner market or clothing store and then detonating it... Life is good.

Driving in reverse path in a (circuit) race and ramming others head on to create chaos. it's so fun in games like flatout series, and in moto gp seeing bikers fall....

ahhh my cup of coffee every morning before work can't miss ur vids before going to my shitty job

how have i never heard of sprocket, that looks like so much fun

9 reminds me of when I tried to make a tank pendulum in Just Cause 3 Took so long to do, worked with one clack only before destroying the bridge but man was it worth it just for the self satisfaction

1:46 "Oooooh, I'm gonna get ya... Nevermind."

Instant like for mentioning Impossible Creatures!!

4:44 one of the greatest sounds to hear 😂

1: as to games that changes the quest if you do the opposite of "what people want"...any examples of this? Sounds fun! :)

3:20 This one reminds me of _God of War 4_ when Kratos falls from the highest peak in Miðgarðr. How does he survive? He takes his shield and *blocks the ground.*

I'm scared of heights, and TERRIFIED of falling, but I jump off all the tall shit in ESO hahaha

Yup, always stand in the flames. Especially in games where some monsters attac via burning ground, or burst into flames when killed. I just keep healing until the fire goes out (unless I am in a hurry to get somewhere). Dunno why.

Thatgamecompany is the best developer for glitchers. In Sky: Children of the Light, easter eggs are intentionally hidden OOB for glitchers to find. Some of them are interactive, and one of them rewards you with in-game currency once a day.