[General Discussion] Game breaking - Do you?

I don't consider myself one for breaking games or breaking game mechanics because honestly I don't think I'm smart enough to find out ways to break a certain game or exploit a certain glitch. My best friend on the other hand lives for this kind of stuff. He has a unique way of taking any game and finding ways of exploiting its game-play.

Its not to say that I haven't used ways of breaking a game because I have but the games I do it are few and far between and the only times I find myself doing it is of I'm finding a certain area too hard or on the other hand I'm stuck in a certain part of the game. I only come across these glitches or ways of breaking the game through online forums and such. Here are some of the games I have used glitches or game-breaking exploits to make the game easier.

Blast Corps

My favorite N64 game of all time. When I had first rented this, I thought it was a really awesome game and was actually progressing through it with relative ease. Then during the last set of missions, I found two missions incredibly hard. Those missions were Diamond Sands and Oyster Harbor. After a lot of practice, I managed to pass Diamond Sands, but Oyster Harbor was a real pain in the ass. I can easily pass the level now, but when I first played a game I could never beat that level. I always got hung up at the part with the transport boats, and the fact you had a short amount of time to transfer a bomb to the last building because that was the only way to destroy that final building. I found out that there is a trick, if you put your vehicle right against the front of building and press the Z button to try to escape, the character will yell No, because he can't escape. Hold down the Z button and hear him yell No in succession and if your next to a building then the building will explode.

Link's Awakening

I was getting into the Zelda series, and I decided to get a loan of this game from a friend. I actually found it to be a pretty good game. After I had passed a few of the dungeons, I didn't know where else to go. I had searched all over, and I had no idea what to do next. I discovered that there is a glitch or something along those lines in this game. It is when your ready to head over to the next screen if you select the map menu just as your moving to the next screen, you'll actually find yourself at the opposite end of the next screen instead of just where you would normally be. I used that technique a lot but the problem is I ended up getting stuck, by going into a cave that had an underwater pit before I got the flippers, and eventually I died and when the game asked me to start over it started me at that same location so therefore I had no way out. So that definitely backfired on me.

I've even used the X-Zone/Vanish trick on Final Fantasy VI, but I only found myself using that trick against bosses or enemies I found really hard the first time I played it. Overall, I don't really like to use glitches or game breaking techniques because it softens the gaming experience for me. I don't mind using them the second time I'm playing the game, but overall I'm just not a big fan of them.

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