Buggiest game you ever played?

[Burningsok]

Superman 64...

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ok ok. I remember in the building level and flying outside the walls for a second then teleporting back inside the level. When I made superman land on the ground, he sank half way through the ground and I couldn't fly out of it. I could only run around.

Yeah, I'm sure everyone knows the nightmare that is this game.

More recent... Fallout New Vegas. Game froze a few times, textures popped like no tomorrow, and just weird shit with the physics. But I was still able to get about 120 hours out of it.

 

[Burningsok]

My god... New Vegas is just not getting a break on this thread LOL

 

[floobie]

I've played a lot of poorly optimized games. Neverwinter Nights 2 is a good example. Any PC port of any recent GTA game also applies. And Saints Row 2 (the PC port, again).

But, in terms of pure bugginess - you know, falling through the map, crazy physics, saves corrupting, bits of quests never triggering, etc...- it's a three way tie between Oblivion, Fallout 3, and Skyrim for me. I generally avoid bad games, and I'm sure there are much buggier games out there. But, for a AAA developer, Bethesda really needs to get its shit together. Amazingly enough, these are still good games despite the bugs. But, it's just unfathomable to me that they can release such broken products to such immense fanfare.

 

[Darren716]

The Simpsons Hit and Run holy crap there were so many glitches between going through the map, the game crashing, and having cars going rocketing into the air, everytime I played that game I was afraid of what would happen.

 

[Spectral Dragon]

Pre fan patch, Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines.

There were bugs everywhere!

It's also one of my top 5 favourite games of all time.

Would you mind linking it? I'm pretty isolated and have the game on steam, but never actually played it since... Well, it doesn't work. ;_;

And buggy... I don't know. I've not encountered many. First minutes of Mass Effect my Shepard's arms disconnected from his shoulders and flailed around comically?

 

[Aprilgold]

Any Bethesda game, its a triple A game series and they have to rely on Fan patches to fix Patches they made which made the game more broken.

Never experienced a problem with Unpatched Bethesda games, but damn do their patches brake their own games.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Pre fan patch, Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines.

There were bugs everywhere!

It's also one of my top 5 favourite games of all time.

Would you mind linking it? I'm pretty isolated and have the game on steam, but never actually played it since... Well, it doesn't work. ;_;

And buggy... I don't know. I've not encountered many. First minutes of Mass Effect my Shepard's arms disconnected from his shoulders and flailed around comically?

Here you go.

http://games.softpedia.com/get/Patch/Vampire-the-Masquerade-Bloodlines-Patch.shtml

I can't remember how to install it, but there should be a read me in there somewhere.

Just remember to start a new game.

 

[AgentLampshade]

Skyrim, all my quest items don't load. The only way I worked my way through Sanguine's quest is because I bribed and intimidated everyone, which wasn't nearly as fun. So I've decided "Fuck it, shelved until I get a decent patch that lets me play the game without it freezing every time I enter Whiterun."

I either don't remember other really buggy games, or I haven't played them. I don't even remember Oblivion being this bad.

(Fallout 3 after I got the DLC was also pretty bad if memory serves)

 

[Username Redacted]

For me this would be Master of Magic, an old school turn based strategy game. Now once you got the game actually running it wasn't super buggy (more on that in a moment) but getting there was a major chore. In order to run it on a contemporary computer I had to create a special boot disk and then run the game without sound (to this day I have no idea what the games battle effects and music sound like) or else it wouldn't play. Once you got into the game the most major bugs started off with multiple enchantments on the same thing where the game seemingly decided to just wing it with regards to what the effect would be. Also various effects seemed to drift in and out of effectiveness, i.e. on some play-throughs "Protection from Magic" actually protected whatever unit had it from practically everything on other play-throughs not so much. Also it seemed like the game designers and the people creating the design documentation weren't on speaking terms judging from the state of the manual.

 

[Sir Shockwave]

SunAge. T'was a real promising game, but shipped with more bugs and missing feautres than an Hornet's Nest.

It took NINE patches to sort most of it out, and even then I bet the game isn't 100% fixed still.

 

[geK0]

Body Harvest for N64

Spoiler

it was a pretty fun game, and was huge for an N64 title, but there were so many game breaking bugs that made it almost impossible to complete. This is to be expected though, being one of the early free wandering titles.

Worst one of all was a (fairly common) bug that would fail to register that an objective is complete, thus completely halting your progess. "Kill the harvester" ..... Harvester is already dead...FUUUUUUUUUUUU

Other N64 games seemed to have serious issues with falling out of the levels

The Simpsons Hit and Run holy crap there were so many glitches between going through the map, the game crashing, and having cars going rocketing into the air, everytime I played that game I was afraid of what would happen.

Yea that game was pretty fun but the bugs were terrible lmao

 

[plugav]

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines is pretty broken without the fanmade patch, but it's still my favourite game ever.

I remember Gothic 3 having some really crazy bugs as well. And wolves that were deadlier than dragons and demons.

 

[PinkiePyro]

out of actual games
I would say it would be a 3-way tie between skyrim and darkest faerie (yes I was a neopets fan in the past)and magicka

skyrim has tons of bugs most of which are "harmless" but halarios
the other game had me falling though maps constantly

magicka seems to have new bugs every time I launch it

if you count $5 pc games the I of the dragon wins by a landslide

 

[Zebidizy]

two worlds..

 

[The_General]

Fallout 3. That had bugs right up the rear.

 

[calmego]

I have a toss up, its between Gothic 3 and Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines. However I still go back and play Vampire, regardless of all the glitches.

 

[DioWallachia]

LOL, new games. Let me present to you a game from back in the 90's :

Requiem: The Avenging Angel
The conversation sounds tends to overlap
one another every single time. Some connected areas had points of no return because elevators/doors wont come back/open and need to no clip to return to areas that you are supposed to go back or just need to because you dont have items progress with the game. Gameplay and Story Segregation at his finest when you are supposed to use a spell of resurrection on a dead person that its critical for the plot but not used anywhere else for all the others plot relevant people. Death sounds gets repeated over and over by the enemies non stop.

And those are in the first hours of the game. Surelly the critics trashed this game back then right???

"The highest praise for the game came from PC Zone, in a review by Charlie Brooker. Brooker praised the game's variety of well-designed character models, and its advanced animation system, stating that the game had "impressive character models that move in all kinds of unpleasantly believable ways". The game achieved a "recommended" award and was given 89% by the publication.[1]

IGN claimed that the level design was boring and uninspired, and although the game had a competent single player experience, multiplayer was lacking. It gave the game 6.7/10, a "passable" rating.[2] GameSpot commends the game's innovative angelic powers available for use, comparing them favourably with the force powers in Jedi Knight. However, it states that although the game has several attractive features, in the end, it was just a typical shoot 'em up with no groundbreaking elements, awarding the game a rating of 7.3/10."
From Wikipedia

WTF CHARLE BROOKER?? CHARLIE Screenwipe Brooker????? WHO MADE THIS GAME?? Develop by Cyclone Studios and published by 3DO and Ubisoft?? 3DO from Heroes 3 of Might and Magic?? How could they let this happen???

 

[DrunkPickle]

Risen. The whole game can break if you turn in quests in the wrong order - and I'm not just talking about the main storyline, even the side quests are affected. Also, it lags on all platforms.

It's such a shame. I had so much fun with the game, until it broke that is (5 hours in).

 

[Medimorpho]

Can't think of a whole lot right now, but it would be either Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, or Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones. In PoP: T2T, there were parts where the sound would cut out. I think the same for WW.

 

[idarkphoenixi]

I don't think any game in the world could be worse than Big Rigs. It's almost unplayable