10 Glitches That Actually IMPROVED Video Games

Imagine a glitch so successful in a particular series that its developer decided to go back to the drawing board, burn the original and make a new drawing board based entirely off that bug.

This is the story of Tribes, which benefited from a button mechanism fault which allowed players to traverse vast areas of map in less time than it would take to drive.

Any avid Elder Scrolls players will fill you in as to how buggy travelling over mountains can get, but players of the original Starsiege:Tribes found that tapping jump quickly would let you ‘ski’ downhill….fast. Really fast.

Developer Dynamix noticed what players were doing with their PC creation and thought “That’s way better than anything we thought up,” swiftly canning the vehicles in its sequels and taking ‘skiing’ under its wing as a niche element of the series.