Buggiest game you ever played?

Lono Shrugged

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Fort Zombie laughs at your so called "bugs"
http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-FZ/fort-zombie


On paper it sounds amazing but oh lawdy lawd is it bugged to fuck and back
 

Ruwrak

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Actually... I never noticed a bug in Masquerade o.o and I did -not- patch it with fanmade patches at all.

I havn't seen any bugs in skyrim either (or well.. apart from a floating rock and a missing texture, but that only happened 2ce so far.)

For me the buggiest game must be Midtown Madness.
Yeah that was just.... horrible.
 

SaunaKalja

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Stalker before a million patches.

Another noteworthy game was Splinter Cell: Double Agent. The gameplay itself wasn't so buggy, but the menus, configurations etc. made me think not a single person ever tried it before release. Minor stuff like the answers to a "yes/no" question in the menus were "ok/continue". Other stuff like autosaves removing quicksaves and key bindings resetting to default between levels. That combined with the dumbed down game mechanics made me seriously want my money back.
 

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Shanicus said:
Starfox Adventures for the Gamecube. So buggy it was unplayable - at one point you have a dinosaur following you for an escort quest; half-way through the quest the dinosaur expanded, collapsed, expanded, flew off into space then stuck me swimming in a rock before crashing the game.

Thank god those little bastards are extinct now...
I don't think that game was broken. I had it and beat it twice. You probably had a bad disk or something. Now if your talking about being unplayable, that trial with the lightfeet where gotta push the dude in the pit, that was fucking impossible.... unless you cheated with either the pen trick or a turbo controller.
 

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luke10123 said:
SoranMBane said:
Almost certainly Fallout: New Vegas. I still love the game to pieces but goddamn, is it laggy. Even I have to admit that it can get downright unplayable at times.
Yeah found that too, got a pretty decent rig but if a lot of things happen onscreen at once it starts to run like I was playing it on a pocket calculator :p
For me it's mostly certain areas that tend to cause lag on a consistent basis. Usually places with a lot of NPCs (the Strip, the main floors in the casinos, the Hidden Valley bunker, etc.), but the outdoor spaces in two of the DLC (Old World Blues and Lonesome Road) also like to turn the game into a PowerPoint presentation if I stay for too long. The thing that makes it so painful for me is that I know the game underneath all the technical issues is just amazing on nearly every level, but it's just such a struggle to get to it that the frustration often outweighs the enjoyment.

It's also worth noting that the two DLC I mentioned that tend to lag a great deal are also the two best DLC, so it's almost as if the lag is deliberately targeting the most enjoyable parts of my experience.
 

zelda2fanboy

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3D Dot Game Heroes. Towards the end, that game couldn't run more than ten minutes at a time without crashing to a black screen of death. I couldn't finish the final dungeon.
 

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Most of the famous ones have already been mentioned, so I'm having a hard time thinking of one.

The bf3 beta was freaking hilarious, loved the worm-men.
 

Yopaz

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Since my save on Batman Arkham City disappeared last night I really want to say that. That would be a lie though.
Sonic Adventure 2 was a great game, but I fell through the ground too many times. It's the buggiest one I can think of right now at least.
 

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STALKER series but specifically Clear Sky. It's the only one of the series that I have never played to completion due to the bugs, infact I never even got more than 1/2 way through it before the CTD and BSoDs killed it for me. Sad thing is now that GSC is shutting their doors I may not even get to finish it without resorting to 3rd party patches to fix their DRM if they shut down their authentication servers (and I do own a physical copy of the game).

Anything from Bethesda comes a close second but nothing I ever got from them was as gamebreaking as the bugs in Clear Sky
 

Behazard

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For me definitely: Fallout New Vegas.
Several corrupted saves, and many times I couldn't play for more then 5-10 minutes without a CTD.
 

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Fallout New Vegas at release.
"Goddammit it crashed on me again, better load up latest quicksave. What the crap, this save is from like 3 hours ago! And all my later saves are gone too. Well fuck it, guess I'm starting from here again."

And yet despite all the bugs I still played through it twice before December last year.
 

Freaky Lou

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Fallout 3. It actually ran pretty smoothly apart from the odd bit of foolishness, and then it ate my fucking save. I've only just been able to trust another Bethesda game after that, and only because F:NV was going for a tenner...
Somonah said:
New Vegas and Oblivion. Both Bethesda games.
New Vegas isn't a Bethesda game. Obsidian made it; Bethesda's just the publisher.

New Vegas would have to be my answer as well though, despite the fact it's also my favourite game ever. I actually have tried to replay it several times, because I love it so much and never finished everything (and still haven't tried any mods), but the LAG stops me every time. That game always ran at like 7 FPS for me.