Buggiest Game Ever

[AuntyEthel]

Did anyone play Frontier: First Encounters back in the day? I've never played a game since then that had so many friggggggin bugs.

 

[Syphonz]

how has anyone not said Shadow of Chernobyl, or Clear Sky yet?

you can hardly do anything to those games without it screaming at you. My clear sky does a bug report sometimes when i start it up!

 

[Hellion25]

Hmm mine is Shadow Dancer for the Master System. I quit even trying to play it after the first minute when both my sprite and the enemy started flickering in an out of existence amd the throwing star that had been lobbed at me disappeared only to end up embedded in my character's head. Haven't touched the thing since.

 

[Rhodite]

Soldner - FPS Milsim - promised much, delivered a nitemare!

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

I'm gonna say Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Seriously, there was so many glitches in that game, I'm surprised no-one has mentioned it.

 

[TOGSolid]

how has anyone not said Shadow of Chernobyl, or Clear Sky yet?

you can hardly do anything to those games without it screaming at you. My clear sky does a bug report sometimes when i start it up!

Shadows was kinda glitchy on my desktop, but it ran like butter on my laptop.
Then again, desktop = vista, laptop = xp

Coincidence?
I think not.

 

[NeedAUserName]

Turning Point Fall of Liberty (?) I think thts the name

 

[Frapple]

Gothic 3 or Two Worlds

 

[Fallensky7]

Boy that’s a good one; I would have to say either the original release of Oblivion or Dark Messiah: Might and Magic. When they first came out I rushed home eagerly and slammed the disc into the tray installed them.

Low and behold, I got the most horrific crash/freeze fest ever witnessed by mankind. I promptly uninstalled……..oh wait… that’s right……oblivion (pre-patch) could not be uninstalled without purging the files manually and then mercilessly hunting down the registry entries.

Dark Messiah was even worse, it wouldn’t even load 90% of the time, you would load your single player game from the menu and it would sit on the halfway mark forever, and you couldn’t minimize or task manager, you could only hard reboot your PC. The multiplayer was non-functional.

I have only two words to describe the first week of playing those games after release…

EPIC FAIL!!!

 

[NiceGurl_14]

Wow, I'm impressed no one had mentioned Shadow The Hedgehog, Horridly glitchy game

 

[darrinwright]

Yeah I hated Mormon Trombone Wrestling 2 as well. The first one was much better.

I'd play the hell out of that game.

 

[51gunner]

I've been playing I Wanna Be The Guy again lately, and it's horridly buggy. This has been explained to be the fault of Multimedia Fusion 2, or whatever, but it's still extreeeemely buggy. I'll give it credit though, it is a piece of freeware.

As for games I've paid for to have bug out? Morrowind liked to crash my Xbox periodically. Still, it wasn't *that* bad. Oblivion's got some bugs too, but not to the extent Morrowind did.

 

[Dapper Ninja]

Zero Wing.

Yeah I've got it!

So what?!

Spoiler: So...

Spoiler: You know what I'm going to say next.

Spoiler: It's painfully obvious

Spoiler: Really REALLY obvious.

Spoiler: Okay, I warned you

All your base are belong to us.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Hidden and Dangerous. You too can fall to your death by lying down.

 

[Axolotl]

Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor

Early versions of this game wiped your hardrive if you uninstalled it.

 

[Mr Jack]

I bought Oblivion for the PC, tried to install it and it broke my computer. Nothing worked. It crashed every time I tried to turn it on. I had to get a new one. It made me furious.

 

[anicecupoftea]

Yep Medieval total war 2 is certainly up at the top of the list.

If we include MMO's im going with AoC as the crafting systems, ah, bank, quests etc all had bugs on release.

 

[Darth Marsden]

Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor

Early versions of this game wiped your hardrive if you uninstalled it.

I seem to recall Myth II having a similar glitch. Un-installing Windows? Something like that.

EDIT: Yeah, it uninstalled your Windows directory if you tried to nuke the game. God bless Penny Arcade.

 

[dukethepcdr]

Giants: Citizen Kabuto...

I'm not sure if anyone else has ever played this game but on my original PC it took a minor miracle to get that game working. Sound glitches, video glitches, saving glitches, random crashes, you name it that game had it.

I second that nomination! Giants drove me insane. I had a PC that totally trounced the system requirements and had hardly anything running in the background and it still played terrible. This was even when I had an anti-virus program that was easy to turn off (I always played games with it turned off). Nothing I tried helped much. It was so disapointing too, because the fragments of the game I got to play were really funny and clever.

A close second to Giants would be Enter the Matrix. That game looked and played awful on both my PC and Xbox even when it wasn't experiencing a game halting glitch. Another major let-down. I've boycotted buying anything made by Shiny ever since.

 

[dukethepcdr]

Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor

Early versions of this game wiped your hardrive if you uninstalled it.

Wow, talk about a bad bug! And I thought finding out (after I had bought and tried to install the games, rendering it unreturnable of course) that certain games were incompatible with a CD-ROM drive that I had in my old PC was bad. In some cases, it took a lot of digging on the game publisher's website to find that out too.

Wiping your HD, now that's really bad. That's class-action lawsuit bad.