Mass Effect: Glitch Edition - "Xbox 360 Glitch of the Year"

Kotaku reports an amusing, unique little bug encountered by Ralph Dibny while playing Mass Effect:

"While playing Mass Effect, a box landed on my character and began smashing me into the ground. It never actually killed me but continued to stretch out all my limbs... very strange.

No buttons worked, so I had to turn off the Xbox to reset the game! Hah!"

Kotaku's Michael McWhertor nominates this for best Xbox 360 glitch of 2007.

[Douchebaggery]

A weird glitch that happened to me

[TheOtherSide]

That is called spirit incarnation, you need to perform a exorcism LOL

Nice one.

[snoop_dizzle]

yeah , that was pretty wierd...it looks like i missed out on some glitched out fun. The only glitch i had was getting stuck in a railing but i was able to get out under a minute and a few other minor ones.

[MK_Red]

Fantasic one :)
As for glitches, I countered neither of them. Still, haven't made many characters. Will try more soon.

[tplarkin7]

Were you hitting the trigger quickly? (Scrolling between characters)

[TheBeginningOfTheEnd]

pimp. hahahaha

[razer]

Definately glitch of 2007 and #1 that is just creepy.. You should submit that to Kotaku because they love to bash everything MS and would probably dedicate a whole page to it.

[Relientk77]

*looking at the picture* that is just the weirdest sh!t wow ... weird

[Komrad]

wow. that looks awesome!!

[Mycococo]

in that area when benezia call in more support i died but my character froze and i was left to watch more and more enemies pile up with out killing me. SOME SAY THE GLITCHES DONT HINDER THE GAME PLAY BUT I THINK IT IS QUITE THE OPPOSITE. I AM VERY DISAPPOINTED IN THE GAME.

[goodganja]

Sounds like to me all these XKOCKS are on hushmouth now. Mass Defect is garbage like I said just like the rest of that bullshiet on the POS BOX 360.

P L A Y B 3 Y O N D

[greenenvy]

....all they can do is just continue to troll for games they don't own, and can't get.....

;-(

like Mass Effect which is one great game....almost feel sorry for the little buggars
>:D

anyway, this glitch was nothing compared to what I saw in uncharted.....LOL, can you believe the guy got stuck into the wall while marty was playing it!!!!

hahahahaha they could have spent ALOT longer on that game, serious...

every game has glitches, and final fantasy is one of the buggiest piece of ****s i've seen in a while & may I suggest to future players.....don't try final fantasy 12.

that game gives you a headache its so bad..... damn

on topic: did anyone check out the last world before u save shepard's friends? I remember the coolest thing to do over there with the rover, hahahahaha this game just rocks!! I flipped upside down!!

all I know is I won't be tired of this game for quite a while, and that's all which matters ta me!!!!! rover FTW b*****!!!!!!!

GO MASS EFFECT >:D

[SullyDrake]

But you are a so-called "xbot", through and through. Look at you, spitting out the garbage that is your post.

Let's not go into comparisons here. I haven't played Mass Effect so I won't compare gameplay but Uncharted is better looking than anything on the console market, and pretty much everything on the PC market except Crysis. That is fact. It has a superior game engine and utilizes the Cell-processor wisely. And IMO, it has better gunplay than Gears, a game which I have played and really liked BTW.

And what's this sonybots can't play? excuse me, it'll be coming for PC soon enough, and low-and-behold, what am I using to type this? And a PS3 port isn't out of the question, it's simply not planned.

And do NOT diss FFXII. That game has no bugs or glitches. At least, in the 80+ hours I've spent enjoying it I've come across none.

Honestly, ignorant fools like you just piss me off! Honestly! You xbots need a good slap in the face... Why bring up PS3 hating even in a non-PS3 post?

Anyways, go ahead, negative feedback me, disagree to your hearts content... The unbiased readers know I'm right, and I love all game consoles, so don't call be a "sonybot".

Anyways, that glitch is honestly the first glitch that I can say is awesome and absolutely strange all at once.

[theoneandonly]

First, don't call someone an Xbot if you yourself are already admitting your bias to be pro-Sony. I can smell that hypocritical nonsense from a mile away.

Even if he is a Microsoft fanboy, you are actually making it worse with most of your rhetoric.

Secondly, I myself happen to simply not like Sony. For a variety of carefully thought out reasons not displayed in the fanboy sermons above, I detest Sony's shoddy hardware immensely and have always preferred the PC platform.

As someone who plays games, not consoles, I also own at least one Sony system along with more than one Microsoft system.

I still don't like Sony though, and am absolutely pro-Microsoft. Mainly because they have delivered hardware that consistently has DRE problems, disc read errors, and failures.

I dislike the RROD for the same reason, but because I prefer Microsoft I can easily overlook it much much better.

I play plenty of games on all systems, but that won't change my outlook. And by the way, that outlook includes having to correct you.

While you are clearly pro-Sony, you are regurgitating facts that might as well be made up.

Microsoft bought out the IP for Mass Effect already, as they did for Halo. That is not true that the PS3 has a chance of receiving Mass Effect, its not only not planned.

Its probably not possible, since Microsoft signed with EA the publishing deal. They are publishing the series.

The IP is under their umbrella, just as Sony is attempting to keep the Final Fantasy series exclusive to theirs.

I'm telling you this so you don't hold your breath, its not going to go to the PS3 unless by some unforseen event. Same for FF13 going to the Xbox.

As what I was saying is true, I can now let you know something else. I hate Final Fantasy, enjoy Icewind Dale & Ultima, and think all the Final Fantasy games have gone downhill since 7.

I will be buying and playing The Last Remnant, Infinite Undiscovery, Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon 2, Spectral Force 3, Elveon 2, and other unannounced JRPGs such as Beyond the Skies & Star Ocean.

So once again, you should understand I enjoy these types of RPGs but I still do not like Final Fantasy.

And Square-Enix can go down with the Sony ship as far as I'm concerned, because where we come from, the PC world rules everything and that's exactly what the Xbox360 dominates.

[Lygre]

I didn't know that Mrs. Incredible was in that game.

[Matpan]

Next time arround, blow the box away, just to take revenge at it.

[ShiftyLookingCow]

this cr@p has happened in many UE3 games. Strange and quite funny

edit: happened in Halo 3 also

[Reganomics]

me of what happens sometimes in halo 3 multiplayer

[KidMakeshift]

There's a part of my body that I can stretch just as long

[redmamoth]

.. should rename it to Mass Defect!

[Ahhhh]

.. you should get a life!

Stop trolling.

[CRIMS0N_W0LF]

Peculiar how Mass Effect is said to have a lot of glitches yet gets perfect scores.

Anyway Imagine that glitch in the lesbian sex scene...just creepier then is currently is O_o

[goldenxbox]

True awesome world spinning power, with all the beautiful majesty to match !!!!

Is the game Mass Effect !!!

I love this game especially level 21 !!!!

[FCOLitsjustagame]

Serious Biotic manipulation there. Who knew element zero was so dangerous it actually causes physical mutations!

[titntin]

I'm glad it wasn't just me then!
This happened to me 4 times in a row in the same fight. I got completely spegitified, and couldn't do anything at all. The only command that worked was to order your companions to a spot- had to turn off the machine and rebbot every time. It was funny the first time, but after the forth I was thinking I mioght never manage to finish that battle. I was very relieved when I got through without the bug!
I had plenty of other bugs, most just glitches, but I got stuck in the landscape twice on planets and had to reboot. It was worth it though as I enjoyed the game:)

[solidt12]

look its the rubberband man.

[Saint Sony]

BOX EFFECT!
RROD IN YOUR FACE! That's what you get if you don't respect the box.

[J@D]

Wow that's kinda I don't unpredictable but kool I guess. Stretch those characters the Glitch of the year indeed.

[Vip3r]

Are all those glitches down to compression or bad programming?

[tplarkin7]

I'm sure there are glitches, but I haven't had a single one.