History SpecialEffectFailure / VideoGames

** In the opening cutscene of World of Light in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'', if you look closely and quickly before they get wiped out by Galeem, you can see that the Darknut, Pigma, Annie, Joan, and the Zinger are actually just their spirit artwork placed into the scene instead of fully-rendered 3D models like the playable characters, again looking extremely out of place in the otherwise very well-designed cutscene.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda''

* The UsefulNotes/TurboGrafx16 version of ''VideoGame/ItCameFromTheDesert'' has plenty of these:

* ''VideoGame/SniperPathOfVengeance'' have plenty of graphic issues, owing to the game being produced by a ''near-bankrupt'' company (it's the last output of Mirage Media SC before said company folded), from mooks clipping through walls and doors to falling enemies having their bodies contorting like rubber dummies to a shootout near some stairs where a mook's model isn't rendered to be aligned with the stairs - [[https://youtu.be/r_m9soMabhA?t=4348 leading to the slain mook somehow "floating" a few feet off the ground when killed]]. The final cutscene where the player kills the BigBad also have their ''guns'' disappearing - looking like the villain was killed via FingerGun.

* The SoBadItsGood ''Sniper: Path of Vengeance'' is another ObviousBeta. Among all the deforming, contorting characters and ludicrous clippings, some of the more famous goofs are the bus that clips through the prison gate before it opens, enemies regularly walking through doors, and the final cutscene, where the guns are missing and the characters enact a shootout by pointing with their fingers.

* ''VideoGame/SniperPathOfVengeance'' have plenty of graphic issues, owing to the game being produced by a ''near-bankrupt'' company (it's the last output of Mirage Media SC before said company folded), from mooks clipping through walls and doors to falling enemies having their bodies contorting like rubber dummies to a shootout near some stairs where a mook's model isn't rendered to be aligned with the stairs - leading to the slain mook somehow "floating" a few feet off the ground when killed. The final cutscene where the player kills the BigBad also have their ''guns'' disappearing - looking like the villain was killed via FingerGun.

* The ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' PC game ''Trouble on the Tracks'' has a particularly laughable example in James' [[https://youtu.be/ZgKKwpdj3HY?t=1m44s crash at the beginning.]] if his poorly rendered shock face wasn't bad enough, his driver and fireman jankily slide out of his cab while he '''LITERALLY''' jumps of the tracks and lands on the ground in the most stiff manner imaginable. the choppy camera pan doesn't help.

** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' has one mission where you have to follow Caesar to meet up with everyone else for some illegal street racing. CJ's sister, Kendl, is seen riding with Caesar in the cut scene. During the actual game play, Kendl's model is strangely replaced with a female NPC.[[note]] Kendl's overworld model was based on a beta design and when the dev team finalized Kendel's cutscene model, they didn't have time to make an overworld model of her.[[/note]] Another goof occurs in the HD remaster where all the character models have a very noticeable shiny look to them, which even applies to their skin.

* ''VideoGame/NineMonkeysOfShaolin'' recycles water texture in a few places, notably on rooftops, resulting in some obvious clipping issues. Notably, enemies killed while on roof areas will weirdly clip through the roof's surface.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43SleCGrQrU The area]] at the end of Garrus' loyalty mission in ''2'' lacks an outer wall and a skybox, giving players a clear look into the empty void beyond - which would be bad enough on its own, but said void also causes visual glitches of noticeable trails appearing behind any object that passes in front of it[[note]]A result of the engine being incapable of rendering ''literally'' nothing, instead "freezing" the most recent frame of video in that position for a few seconds[[/note]]. What is supposed to be a tense finish to a very personal mission is somewhat softened when everyone looks like they're part of a Windows Solitaire victory screen. Additionally, selecting the final Paragon dialogue choice at the end will have Shepard start a "comforting" animation, only to jump right back to stiffly standing upright after a camera change in the middle.
** On Tuchanka in Mass Effect 2, there's one point where you're given the option to headbutt an obnoxious krogan. This looks just fine normally, but if you'd already done something that caused the friendly varren in the area to follow you around, you'd instead be treated to seeing Shepard headbutt thin air, followed by the krogan staggering back as though hit despite being several feet away.

* The emotional climax of ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag'' is somewhat spoiled when you notice that just as Anne Bonny starts to sing [[TearJerker "The Parting Glass"]] a empty chair quickly floats across the screen in the background.

** ''VideoGame/MarioKart8'' uses flat animated textures to represent large crowds, like many other games released before and after. Most of the time, this isn't too noticeable. In the Booster Course Pass DLC for ''Mario Kart 8 Deluxe'', though, the [[VideoGame/MarioKartTour Sydney Sprint]] course takes you inside the Sydney Opera House and past multiple "crowd" textures placed so close to the track that you can clearly see how paper-thin the "spectators" are.

* ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' are particularly infamous examples. The game suffers from memory leaks, causing the game to slow to a crawl as the game is played for extended periods of time, forcing players to routinely restart the game to keep the performance up to snuff. Additionally, the game is notoriously buggy, with models glitching out, animations not rendering properly, are flat out not being loading, clip glitches, textures being pixelated, and more. The games are so buggy that they've been compared to ''''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 Sonic 06]]'''' in terms of glitchiness, which is probably not a game you want to be compared to.

* The ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' PC game ''Trouble on the Tracks'' has a particularly laughable example in James' [[https://youtu.be/7HYeRKf9p2Q?t=1m44s crash at the beginning.]] if his poorly rendered shock face wasn't bad enough, his driver and fireman jankily slide out of his cab while he '''LITERALLY''' jumps of the tracks and lands on the ground in the most stiff manner imaginable. the choppy camera pan doesn't help.

* ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'' has several quirks that can break the immersion of the game. The pistols have no walking animation in first person view, which makes them look like they're just floating in the air when equipped. The hunting rifle has a strange bug where if you play with a high field of view and aim up or down, the survivor's left wrist warps and twists to the point of being broken. When the survivors from the first game was ported over to the sequel, their arm models in first person view were never updated, thus their textures look plain and less detailed compared to the new survivors. On top of this, the bone rigging of the old survivors are still used from their home game and don't quite work with the new guns and items, which causes them to clip into the survivor's hands and fingers.

* Opening Remake 101: When remaking the ''Manga/DragonBall Z'' opening in CG, there's three things one should '''''never''''' do--make the characters look like arthritic Lego people that barely emote convincingly; have Chiaotzu look like he stepped out of the UncannyValley; and make sure that when Gohan flies past, not to 'noclip' through his head. Sadly, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FmKGZZNggI the opening to Budokai does all three]].

** For that matter, pretty much all of the aliens fall under this trope. It was actually marketed as a feature that they're 3D (this being about the time when 3D computer graphics were the "Next Big Thing" and thus they had to be used regardless of whether it was a good idea or not) but the models (Animatronic puppets in this case) are so poor[[note]]with some, like the Human, Syreen, Arilou and Doog puppets, falling straight into the UncannyValley[[/note]] that they all look considerably worse than the stylized animated 2D pictures used in ''[=SC2=]''.

* Opening Remake 101: When remaking the ''Manga/DragonBall Z'' opening in CG, there's three things one should '''''never''''' do--make the characters look like arthritic Lego people that barely emote convincingly; have Chaozu look like he stepped out of the UncannyValley; and make sure that when Gohan flies past, not to 'noclip' through his head. Sadly, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FmKGZZNggI the opening to Budokai does all three]].

** On occasion, this also extends to sound effects as well - computer hardware may have trouble reading MIDI files and causing them to sound way differently than when played on the hardware it was originally made for. On a few occasions, the hardware or sound chips themselves are used to perform the sound effects, which emulators might sometimes have difficulty replicating correctly. This is most notable in games like ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' and ''VideoGame/LiveALive'', in which some sound effects (such as Lavos's roar or Saint Alicia's screaming) get interpreted as sounding closer to sirens, or [[SensoryAbuse shrill beeps]].

** Related to above, but certain games on older consoles would also switch resolutions between different screens. This was most notable during the SEGA Saturn, [=PlayStation=], and Nintendo 64 era, where games such as ''VideoGame/Tekken'', ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'', and ''VideoGame/SilentHill1'' would switch between a low and high resolution mode to squeeze out extra detail in the graphics. On original analog hardware, this is a seamless switch, but it becomes a problem for digital signals. Modern televisions, capturing devices, and resolution scaling devices are infamous for dropping the signal when there is a resolution change, which can get bad enough to make certain games genuinely unplayable.

** Related to above, but certain games on older consoles would also switch resolutions between different screens. This was most notable during the SEGA Saturn, [=PlayStation=], and Nintendo 64 era, where games such as ''VideoGame/Tekken1'', ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'', and ''VideoGame/SilentHill1'' would switch between a low and high resolution mode to squeeze out extra detail in the graphics. On original analog hardware, this is a seamless switch, but it becomes a problem for digital signals. Modern televisions, capturing devices, and resolution scaling devices are infamous for dropping the signal when there is a resolution change, which can get bad enough to make certain games genuinely unplayable.