SequenceBreaking
#114420
This Troper was in an arcade watching another kid who bet him 25c that he could score a billion points in the Coin-Op version of ''{{Paperboy}}''. He did it, too. Was the best 25c I ever spent. If I hadn't seen it I'd never have believed it. Later versions of the game removed this "feature."
#114421
This troper remembers when he discovered the Screen Warp glitch in ''TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'', he abused it on a 2nd playthrough to see what all he could do. The result? I had myself the best sword, shield, and Power Bracelet early, as well as beating the seventh dungeon long before setting foot in the first.
#114422
Skipping ''3/4 of the level'' in Halo 2's "Outskirts" by jumping around on rooftops.
#114423
This has become second nature to me in every Metroid game, save for Fusion, especially in Zero Mission. It's just too bad they took out the sequence breaks in the Player's Choice/Wii versions of the Prime games.
#114424
In ''{{Repton}} 3'', the Finale levels are not arranged in accurate order of difficulty; Level 2 is so colossally hard that at one point, out of sheer frustration, I started entering random words as the password (''Repton 3'' passwords are always seven-letter dictionary words) and one of them happened to be the correct password for Level 7.
#114425
Red Alert 2: Last allied mission: IFV + Chronosoldiers + Chronosphere = mission complete in less than 13 minutes, bypassing the soviet base entirely.
#114426
Tropers/{{JET73L}} did this accidentally on ''KingdomOfLoathing'', to said troper's utter confusion. After about a week or two of computer trouble and other events preventing gameplay, the Adventurer finds a nearly-demolished Seaside (Main) Town, an Altar of Bones that accepted a currency of Bone Chips, and a Council of Loathing that refused to give any information aside from "Why don't you stir up trouble between the Frat Boys and Hippies? Try assassinating Franz Ferdinand. Historically, it usually helps". Follow the adventurer going to the Cannon Museum, fighting four exponentially more difficult One Time encounters and being underprepared for the fourth, and witnessing the Face Heel Unmasking of a BigBadFriend who s/he had never met before. At one point, it became difficult to tell the difference between obscure puns and single-meaning references to dead comrades, thanks to never having been introduced to said comrades! Even COLdfront didn't help, the skipped sequences were so (sub-? Side-? MythArc-?)plot-relevant.
#114427
This troper found a glitch in the Temple of Seasons in NeverwinterNights2 that allowed him to open the exit door and walk straight into the last room where the Statue of Purification was. However, being somewhat of a completionist, I reverted to my previous save and took the long route anyway.
#114428
I've noticed that features added by {{Doom}} source ports, like jumping and crouching, tend to break the game; say, Map07 of Doom 2 can be beaten in three seconds. I intend on doing a video series where I show just how badly you can break sequence in the game with the Skulltag source port.
#114429
This Troper once used a Game Genie on ''FinalFantasyIV'' with a code that makes you walk continuously, even through walls, so you could go anywhere on the current map. I was up to the point where you rescue Rosa. This let me walk right past Golbez without talking to him and triggering the cutscene, go straight to Rosa, getting her and Kain in the party, and then skip the fight with Valvalis by avoiding the spot where she appears. I then went back to the previous room and decided to see what would happen if I talked to Golbez, now that I already had Kain and Rosa. Result: the game crashed and erased that save file.
#114430
I accidentally did this in ''OcarinaOfTime''. While trying to get in to DeathMountain as adult Link, I found that I could jump from the entrance to the volcano to one of the later parts, if I aimed it just right. Not that unusual of a LegendOfZelda game, and when I got into it without the Goron tunic, I figured I'd just unlock it later. After beating the dungeon (with a lot of bottled fairies), I finally looked to a guide to see where I was supposed to get that tunic. Turns out, the one who was supposed to help me was now just congratulating me, and the tunic (and the whole store, for that matter) was now LostForever. On the plus side, the guide said that the dungeon couldn't even be attempted without the item I completed it without.
#114431
Wait, you did the entire Fire temple without the Fire tunic? Damn. I almost did the Water Temple without the Water tunic, but I decided that I should just go back and get it anyway.
#114432
I accidently skipped the whole ''carry the baby penguin to it's mother'' level in the DS remake of SuperMario64 when I accidently fell off the mountain. I landed next to the penguin's mother and gave her the penguin. Awesome