10 Glitches That Ruined Your Favourite Games

By Stuart W. Bedford /

8. Skyrim Forcing You to Keep Useless Crap

You might not consider this game ruining, but for slightly OCD completionists like myself, having immovable items in your inventory is a major source of unnecessary irritation. Sometimes in Skyrim, you€™d be given items as part of a quest. It€™s usually simply €˜take this to this guy€™, or €˜you need this to get through that magical barrier€™. In a particular case, the Onmund€™s Request mission, you had to retrieve the Grand Staff of Charming from a random location. However, if you€™d already retrieved the staff €“ totally feasible in a game like Skyrim €“ the quest would bug and you€™d be unable to complete it. The staff, which had a weight of 8, would then be stuck in your inventory for ever more. Luckily, some clever fiend developed a fix for those savvy enough to look for it, and Bethesda eventually addressed the issue with patch 1.4, but this isn€™t the only occasion on which something like this can happen. Of course we forgive Bethesda for releasing games rife with more bugs than a rotting tree stump; their games are so expansive after all, how could they possibly catch everything? Still, this one annoyed the crap out of me and I bet countless others, in the same way that a shred of chicken stuck between the teeth does.