Top 5 Buggiest Releases

[Shleppy]

what about driv3r and lego batman there was a graphics glitch on lego batman that made one of the bosses impossible if you had a certain setting turned on

 

[00slash00]

both kotor games. kotor 1 had a lot of bugs, kotor 2 had so many i couldnt even finish it. stalker was full of bugs too. more than kotor 1 but less than kotor 2 (for me, at least)

 

[Rickyvantof]

I still have hope that patches will fix New Vegas' gambreaking bugs, like not being able to build the Rock-It Launcher. I don't really mind the visual stuff though, like ants embedded in rocks etc.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Hidden and Dangerous? That was a bugfest all the way through.
Vampire Bloodlines : The original release.
Jet Set Willy: The Banyan Tree.
Anything that loaded from tape or had a ram-pack involved.
and Red Dead: Redemption really needs to be in there as well.

Along with a LOT of PC-ports. Saint's Row 2 anyone?

 

[Cogwheel]

You know, come to think of it, every release of Dwarf Fortress tends to be rather buggy. Like that time when crocodiles suddenly started a civilization of their own, spammed everyone with textile exports and eventually took over two thirds of the world. CROCODILES.

That sounds amazing

Actually? It is. Dwarf Fortress has reached a point where most bugs only serve to make it even better, somehow. Like how dwarves, infamously, don't notice when they're on fire. So they take damage, and either decide they need to sleep it off in their wooden beds... or decide they need a drink. From the huge, volatile alcohol stockpiles.

Never ends well.

Then you have carps, who can annihilate almost anything. And ZOMBIE carp, who can walk on land (this, however, is intentional). Still not as bad as zombie whale sieges.

 

[Korolev]

Fallout New Vegas is not the buggiest game I've played. Then again, I played it on the PC AFTER the patch. Believe it or not, I had more bugs in Fallout 3 than in New Vegas. New Vegas crashed more, but in Fallout 3, I had more NPCs turn randomly hostile, after I had done the thing they wanted me to do, I have had the bodies of dead NPCs start expanding and stretching and bouncing around the wasteland, and I had significantly more path finding issues.

However, on the whole, more people have experienced more bugs with New Vegas. I was lucky however - my game has only ever crashed twice in over 35 hours of play, and the only significant graphical bugs were radscorpions stuck in rocks and a dog's eyeballs floating outside its head. I know, I'm lucky, and most people experience far more bugs than I do. But New Vegas isn't significantly broken - it's not like Stardock's latest game, or Big Rigs. It is very playable.

However, the framerate drops to all hell whenever there's more than 2 NPCs on the screen at any time. It's not due to my computer - runs FO3 at max, consistently smooth as well. New Vegas just has some junk code in it.

I do congratulate Obsidian on New Vegas, but I have to say that their QA department must be staffed entirely by lobotomised mud-fish and one brain damaged parakeet. Whoever is in charge of QA at Obsidian deserves to lose his or her job.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

You know, come to think of it, every release of Dwarf Fortress tends to be rather buggy. Like that time when crocodiles suddenly started a civilization of their own, spammed everyone with textile exports and eventually took over two thirds of the world. CROCODILES.

That's not a bug. That's FUN.

You know that in that code there's got to be a procedure for achieving sentience and trading. There's everything else.

 

[irequirefood]

Actually? It is. Dwarf Fortress has reached a point where most bugs only serve to make it even better, somehow. Like how dwarves, infamously, don't notice when they're on fire. So they take damage, and either decide they need to sleep it off in their wooden beds... or decide they need a drink. From the huge, volatile alcohol stockpiles.

Never ends well.

Then you have carps, who can annihilate almost anything. And ZOMBIE carp, who can walk on land (this, however, is intentional). Still not as bad as zombie whale sieges.

I must play this game.

 

[Cogwheel]

Things!

You know, you may have a point.

Other things!

Yes. Yes you should. Just, uh...

Well, it's less a learning curve and more a learning cliff composed entirely of a frozen, greased iron cliff with triple gravity. Also you're only given mittens and sandals to climb with.

It's a bit hard, is the point I'm trying to make. Could send you an introductory PM of sorts if you like. I've probably derailed the thread enough for a probation as is.

 

[irequirefood]

It's a bit hard, is the point I'm trying to make. Could send you an introductory PM of sorts if you like. I've probably derailed the thread enough for a probation as is.

If you can spare the time, that would be awesome

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Well, it's less a learning curve and more a learning cliff composed entirely of a frozen, greased iron cliff with triple gravity. Also you're only given mittens and sandals to climb with.

I believe this makes your point.

It's a bit hard, is the point I'm trying to make. Could send you an introductory PM of sorts if you like. I've probably derailed the thread enough for a probation as is.

Nah, de-rails are part and parcel. I'd suggest

1) Watch CapnDuck's video tutorial on Youtube.
2) Bookmark http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Main_Page
3) Download a Lazy Newbie pack. [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=59026.0]
4) Join http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/Dwarf-Fortress-Fans
5) ????
6) PROFIT!

 

[Reaper195]

Why the hell was Turning Point not on the list? That game was so fucking broken, it shouldn't have even been released, let alone pass any form of alpha testing.

 

[Cogwheel]

Summary

Okay, I feel a bit silly about sending that PM now. Oh well.

 

[Googenstien]

in the last 10 years I was mainly hooked on MMOs and I think they cant be beaten with bugs/unfinished releases/incomplete rushed out games.

Mourning
World War Online
Anarchy Online
Earth and Beyond
Asherns Call 2
Warhammer Online
Age of Conan
Champions Online

 

[Mandal0re]

KOTOR 2. Seriously,KOTOR 2. That game is flat out unfinished.

 

[Susurrus]

Medieval 2: Total War.

 

[xpk3]

The only game I've ever noticed bugs was Borderlands. I swear that game was trying to break me, I loved that game and it knew it. It would occasionally corrupt my save file, I'd get stuck in bits of map decoration and the bug where the elevator wouldn't work on Baron Flynt's digger Thor. Having to wait for the patch to fix that was excruciating.

 

[Exocet]

Oh god Dungeon Lord.

One race just could not fit into the doorway in a main questline temple.
Also,no autosave+constant crash to desktop=not fun

Twice we LAN'd our way through the first 7 hours of the game,twice we raged because the game crashed 10 seconds after lucking our way through a random,and deadly encounter with a big ass beast and we didn't have time to save.

Did I mention the water in the game?here's a description of the water in a lake:domed,as in,forming a dome.I crap you not.Maybe not a steep dome,but enough to notice and hide the opposite shore.
And yet,I don't hate the game as much as I should.Perhaps because my character was basically Chewbacca playing as a dual class Ninja+monk

 

[Tigurus]

I never really had trouble with any bugs or really noticed them.

Though once with Morrowind, I had a quest where I had to go to some house at some certain time and kill some person. But there was no person in or near that house.

Probably they knew and all packed their bags and ran before I came.

 

[Shycte]

Basically List the top 5 buggiest games before they were patched (or they are currently buggy still)

5. Oblivion-Guards and they telepathy and the stealth system did not work at all
4. Fallout 3-"Awesome Fallout 3 on release day!" Unable to read disk, reboot, start menu, crash
3. Fable II-Do you really need to ask?
2. Fable III-please regard Fable II
1. Fallout New Vegas-Great game but my god, my pistol should not be invisible!

Runner-Up: Alpha Protocol-Due to it sucking so bad it doesn't deserve a spot on the list.

What do you mean the stealth system didn't work at all? About the guards, if you're referring to the fact that they automatically track you down when you kill a guard, that's not a bug at all. Seriously, don't you think the game would be broken if you could kill guards without penalty just by remaining undetected and with no one witnessing the kill?

As for Fable II and III, enlighten me, I never heard about them being buggy either.

Fable II has all patched by the time I got to it, but Fable III is quite a mess. The Dog keeps getting lost and that golden dust thing leads you shit more then once. I blame it on Havok. I hate Havok.