8 Video Game "Mistakes" That Were Totally Intentional - Commenter Edition

2. Goat Simulator - Literally Everything

Goat Simulator
Coffee Stain Studios

Goat Simulator is one of the most unlikely success stories of the last several years, managing to overcome the fact that the game is a broken, buggy mess of an experience.

Because of its popularity, most people who go to pick up the title are generally aware that they should not be prepared for a fully polished experience, but even still, some players find themselves questioning just how many of the game's errors and glitches are actually errors and glitches, and how many of them have been purposefully added in, in order to add to the chaotic charm of the overall package.

The answer to that is pretty simple: most of the game's "bugs" are actually intentional parts of the "gameplay". While creating their masterpiece, developers Coffee Stain Studios sought only to squash glitches that would make the game crash or freeze, but chose to leave its dodgy physics system intact.

So, when your tongue sticks to a wall and stretches to a ridiculous length, when you clip through surfaces, when random objects bounce around seemingly at will, and when the tiniest of impacts sends you flying halfway across the map... all that stuff is meant to be possible. Just another day in the life of your average goat...

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