20 Hilarious Video Game Mechanics You Didn't Know Existed

Fallout: New Vegas can cover some pretty heavy topics during the course of its main story, but this doesn't mean the game cannot explore the more whimsical and strange aspects of its postapocalyptic setting.

Especially when it's classic cowpoking tomfoolery that would originate from a desert region like Nevada.

Cow tipping is an urban legend about bored ranchers sneaking up on sleeping cows and tipping them over with ease.

Although cows are a long-gone relic of the past in the Fallout world, their successors, Brahmin, can secretly be subjected to this morally dubious activity in Fallout: New Vegas.

If you crouch and then interact with a Brahmin, your character can perform a special animation where they shove the animal, causing it to awkwardly ragdoll to the ground.

The mechanic is absolutely pointless from a gameplay perspective, but the fact the developers added it into the game is both funny and somewhat enriching to the setting.

In a world filled with laser-shooting cowboys and two-headed cows, it makes sense that your character would partake in some pointless rural fun.