Top 5 Buggiest Releases

[zelda2fanboy]

Half-Life for Dreamcast. I guess it wasn't really that bad, considering it was never finished, but it was the first one to come to mind. Every time you saved, the file size increased by a certain proportion, so that eventually you'd be completely unable to save your progress. You could work around this with level skipping passwords/codes, but due to general bugginess and difficulty I lost interest at that point. Still never played the first Half-Life to this day. That's what you get when you own macs your whole life.

 

[teebeeohh]

Gothic 3
Stalker
Vampire the masquerade bloodlines

sry, but bitching about getting stuck in rock once in a while or having some weird animation may is NOT game breaking

 

[newuseforvintage]

Red Dead Redemption.

I loved this game. Freakin' loved it. And what does it do to me? Develops a glitch that wont let me finish the f**ker.
*cries in corner*

I should explain the glitch: I don't know if I am the only one to experience this but, with the PS3 version, the X and O buttons are confused in the programing. So if you go in to a shop you can hit X to leave or O to buy. But, actually, it is the opposite way around.
When you play a game of poker you have to hit X to bet and O to quit the table. But, for some reason, when you hit X to bet it asks you if you want to leave the game then when you select no allows to you place a bet.

How is this a game breaker? To acheive 100% completion you have to win an arm wrestling contest. You have to tap X to win which, you guessed it, asks you if you want to exit the arm wrestling competition. I am on 98% completion and just can't finish it!

 

[IAmWright777]

Funny.

None of these games have ever had bugs for me.

Go me!

Second example: Stabbed Umbra and stole her soul (I happened to have a black soul gem on me and a shield that reflects magic. Ha, I love irony) took the sword and returned to whatever god wanted it. I refused to return it. He said he'd have his revenge someday. I guess he was referring to the fact that he must have been in league with my 360 as the game immediately froze afterward. It does this every time I try to complete this quest. To this day I still have the dog statue that comes with the quest, and it remains uncompleted.

I had the same experience. I finally just got Umbra's sword and didn't go back to the statue. Kept the dog.

Really only had issues with Oblivion, Fallout 3, and Fable II. Regardless, I still enjoyed two out of those three.

 

[W00ty32]

Big Rigs Over the Road Racing. You all lose.

After that? Socom Confrontation.

Damn. I was gonna say that.

 

[elricik]

Spoiler: Seriously, this game is just full of bugs.

I don't know if I should laugh, or bash you over the head with a mallet for making such a horrible pun.

O.T.: There are incredibly buggy games that are so bad you can't even finish the freaking game, at least with the games on this list you can actually finish the game, you might stumble sometimes, but at least you can finish the freaking game.

 

[Fuselage]

Fallout New Vegas.... I got the exorcist bug.... I had nightmares all week

 

[Fightgarr]

As a tester, I find all games pretty buggy. In recent memory, the Scott Pilgrim vs. The World game. I found several progression breaks through basic gameplay. You could tell that the devs rushed through the test cycle, waiving several critical bugs.

 

[kouriichi]

Troll thread is troll.....

I liked every game on that list. My friends liked every game on that list.

HELL! My mother liked every game on that list. ((its true. My mother plays videogames. And at one point, it was her technically playing videogames in MY basement. Sweet sweet irony?))

Your just an idiot who lets the slightest glitch, bug, or flaw get under your skin. They werent perfict. So what. Dont b*tch about it and move on.

 

[Simalacrum]

Pacman for the Atari 2600:


This game was so glitchy that it is generally considered one of the main reasons for the video game crash of 1983. Yup, it was so bad it brought the entire industry down with it. Yeeesh.

 

[Drakmeire]

would big rigs count?
<youtube=Udy9GwB2b20>
now THAT is the buggiest game of all time!

if it doesn't count, my copy of red dead redemption was unplayable, I fell through the ground and froze every few miles and had to restart constantly.

 

[newuseforvintage]

would big rigs count?
<youtube=Udy9GwB2b20>
now THAT is the buggiest game of all time!

if it doesn't my copy of red dead redemption was unplayable, I fell through the ground and froze every few miles and had to restart constantly.

I got that issue as well. Specifically when ever I went over train tracks. Would end up going MILES out of my way just to avoid them.

 

[Drakmorg]

I don't mean to jump on the "Rag on Obsidian for making buggy games" train, but I must admit that Fallout New Vegas is the buggiest game I've ever played. Probably because it's the only Bethesda game that I bought at launch, instead of getting it later after patches fixed most of the problems.

Although at this point it's been patched enough that most of the bugs I found when first playing are all but non-existant. Except for those damnable Cazador, those fuckers still exist.

Still, I lost 3 Goddamn hours of progress to that fucking save game bug.

 

[Arehexes]

What, no Superman 64? No Quest 64? Well, Quest wasn't buggy, just bad...Superman 64! At least the games mentioned in the opening post were playable on the consoles. I had no crash-issues with my Fallout 3...I assume you were on a PC.

Quest 64 is a great game I loved it as a kid nad if it was ever to go on the VC I buy it in a heart beat.

 

[Valkaris]

World of Warcraft, its been six years and their STILL patching it.

 

[nitro27]

That I've ever owned? Hitman: Blood Money. I usually don't buy games until they've been ragged on a bit, then I can see how bad it really is. Like how I bought Half- Life 2 last year, people weren't complaining too much, so I bought it.

 

[Lullabye]

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Ohhh hell. Fallout 3 beats all of them. Bethesda is either an evil or lazy company. x;x;

Personally I think their geniuses. I felt the buggy glitches added a layer of depth to the Fallout and Elderscroll worlds. I almost turned them into horror games. Just waiting to see what screwed up crap you'll see next.

 

[thenamelessloser]

World of Warcraft, its been six years and their STILL patching it.

Well, I think that is due to the nature of the game to be fair. Having that many people playing the same game at one time and having expansions every now and then. (note I haven't played it, just seems to be what has to be the case sort of with MMORPGs. Do any of them NOT ever get patching and not have bugs?)

 

[Ferricyanide]

Big Rigs Over the Road Racing. You all lose.

This was my first thought as well. For those of you who didn't watch the YouTube video, Big Rigs has no functioning:

1) Collision detection (You pass through any scenery, including bridges, and you can simply fall off the map.)
2) Opponent AI (They just sit there at the starting line.)
3) Physics engine (You can fly off into the air for no reason.)

And there are even more problems with it. Worst part: this game sold more than 20,000 copies. Seriously, read up on it. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rigs:_Over_the_Road_Racing] You'll gain new appreciation for almost any game.

 

[Orcboyphil]

There are too many yopung whippersnappers on this thread. Yeash most of this games are only a few years old. Nobody else remember the ad campaign run for Frontier: First Encounters. It was so buggy they had to appologise for it and release a bug free version some months later.