Top 5 Buggiest Releases

[Wutaiflea]

I can think of loads of very minor graphical glitches and the like, but my only really bad bug experience was with Mass Effect, although I don't think I've heard many people complain about it.

The installation continually corrupted itself, requiring a complete system restore and reinstall. It would play fine for a while, then the same thing would happen again.
Also, for some reason, every time it's been installed, the autosave function has been utterly unreliable- it only autosaves maybe once out of every five times it says it does.

I never had much trouble with Oblivion being glitchy on the PS3, so much as with some of the strange choices- particularly the fact that some characters could be killed even when you still needed them for a quest (Alessia Caro, I'm looking at you). It wasn't a bug, just a really bizarre decision!

 

[MrJoyless]

What!!!! No mention of Hellgate London!!!!

I know most of us have tried to forget how......awful that game was but #1 has gotta be Hellgate

What about the DOTA knockoff game (forget the name) that was unplayable for the first month/month and a half??

Hell i'd even go as far as to attack some of the "untouchables" like WoW, anyone remember the AQ or the Naxx patches before BC?? granted it took only a week or 2 for them to fix everything but at a time when i was raiding nightly (sigh i know, i got better) and not even being able to make it to the raid portals before the game locked up or kicked me out of the server and I had to re queue for another hour and a half.

Hell lets go REAL far back, how about Diablo 2 and its CONSTANT duping hacks / exploits on the ladders, when i decided to make a ladder character with my buddy and the first game we join the guy asks if we want to buy a full trang ouls set for 50 SoJs i was like screw this everyone is cheating....

I think im gonna pay for the Blizz hate......

 

[Eumersian]

Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing.

Definitely

Spoiler: Did they even finish the game before release?

 

[srm79]

I think Fallout 3 has frozen up on me maybe twice in all the time I've had it (PS3).

Newest addition to the list for me? F1 2010. I paid £40 for a beta version of F1 2011 basically. The patch that they had to release one month after the game came out fixes some stuff, but a lot of stuff is still plain fecked.

Shame on you Codemasters, shame on you.

 

[Quad08]

Funny.

None of these games have ever had bugs for me.

Go me!

Same here! It's awesome!

 

[crudus]

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.

I was wondering that too. I have never had a problem with glitches crashing a game with any one the other games listed. I barely noticed glitches in Fallout 3 or Oblivion. Maybe Superman has just jaded me.

 

[Macrobstar]

i honestly think i have been really lucky, games that everyone says are really buggy i dont, like alpha protocol fallout 3 and new vegas and oblivion, even if they did bug out i think i would still enjoy them

 

[imnot]

Action 52. seriously just look it up.

and I never found fallout 3 buggy, i've had mabey 2 crashes and a few minor glithes but nothing big.

 

[Atmos Duality]

Any Gamebryo Engine title (that's Bethesda's beloved Morrowind and Oblivion engine).
Most of DMA-Design's engines have proven to be very buggy when ported to PC (think GTA games, hell, they were buggy on the Playstation 2 due to certain game-save-killing bugs) and until Battlefield 2, DICE's engine work was cringe-worthy and random.

 

[Netrigan]

I'd like to spend this moment remembering SiN, including a bug that only affected the little used Sound Blaster sound card

In a world of 5MB patches, its initial patch game in at 31MB.

The worst thing is, the game was actually pretty damn good. Sure, it was the first game to get Valved in reviews for not being Half-Life, but it also featured some really cool things that hadn't been seen in FPS up until the point, such as your actions (or non-actions) affecting how subsequent levels played. But the abundance of game-stopping bugs killed it dead.

 

[Oliver Pink]

"Big Rigs Over the Road Racing" Need I say more?

 

[zfactor]

Here's one that stopped working with Vista: Shattered Union.

They never patched the game ever (still v1.0) and it won't run on Vista (or 7) and crashes when it feels like it and has glitchy graphics.

Shittiest port ever: Saint's Row 2

The game is great when it wants to work. I have dual graphics cards, but it only uses one and freezes for 20 seconds at a time (it freezes the display drivers, so nothing works, no alt + tab, crtl + alt + del, etc...). Sometimes it crashes on startup, other times it never unfreezes or crashes on loading a new area (so when you drive around...). The sound quality (everything but the music) was crap, too. All a result of bad porting.

Then again, about 75% of all my PC games have issues on install (except the newer ones and the Orange Box)...

 

[zfactor]

Action 52. seriously just look it up.

and I never found fallout 3 buggy, i've had mabey 2 crashes and a few minor glithes but nothing big.

I don't know if I should be happy or sad that I got that refernce...

 

[Exterminas]

Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines.
Gothic III

Both leave New Vegas waaaay behind.

 

[Zorpheus]

Oh and not a bug, but really annoying: invisible walls.

You know, I thought it was just me, but I'm glad someone else noticed. That's the one thing that truly disappointed me with New Vegas. In Fallout 3, it at least let me go anywhere I could get to.

 

[WittyName]

Stalker.
X3 Terran Conflict.
X3 Terran Conflict.
X3 Terran Conflict.
X3 TERRAN CONFLICT JESUS CHRIST.

*Calms down*
I'm okay...I'm...I...ARGH!

EDIT: May as well back myself up providing I don't rage in the process.
Two or three missions which are almost ASSURED to break in about 8 different sections if you aren't flying the right ship, or if you're not flying the right ship with the right weapons and the right equipment, or if you even dare to use a jump drive to cut down the hour travelling time to about 10 seconds, or if you kill the particular groups of enemies who actually have NOTHING to do with any part of the mission after that section.

And even if you can safely tick all of those boxes which should prevent any issues arising, you're going to need some god tier luck for the mission to actually go smoothly, because it can still turn its head around and go "You know what? Nah, fuck you, I'm going to grief you today." *Mission breaks*

God help you if you haven't made a separate save before you start every mission, because if you're using just one and a mission breaks, no matter how many times you reload that save, your mission will brick itself, so bye bye 20 hours of gameplay time, fleets of capital ships and never ending trade empires and hello crappy fighter and 1000 credits.

ARGH.

Aaaaaaand...relaaaaaax.

OT: The most buggy game I played would probably be Fallout 3 Game Of The Year edition. Not an hour went by without it crashing or something going wrong.

 

[Safaia]

I haven't played it but I've heard that Final Fantasy XIV is really buggy.

 

[Jamboxdotcom]

I am appalled at the lack of mention of Fallout 2.

Seriously, you do not know bugs if you did not play Fallout 2, it makes New Vegas seem glitch free.

(Only 1 guy mentioned Fallout 2, for shame).

I actually didn't have much trouble with bugs in Fallout 2, aside from Cassidy going hostile on me periodically. In fact, i found that the patches only made certain things more difficult (quests to get the car, etc.). Fallout 1, on the other hand... infinite Ians... *shudder*

 

[FlyAwayAutumn]

3. Fable II-Do you really need to ask?
2. Fable III-please regard Fable II

Sorry, what?

I don't recall those games being buggy in the slightest.

in Fable 2 you could jump and dig at the same time and it made your character fly around in a pose that looks like he was being crusified. And Fable 3 I'm just angry at because it deleted my wife and now my character is stuck with a girl he can't find or divorce.

Never saw that Fable 2 glitch.
Never saw that Fable 3 glitch.

The only thing I'm mad at is that after I finished the main quest, trying to be as good as possible, of course just about everyone died (At least 5,000,000) which would've been fine except EVERY LAST SHOPKEEPER IN THE WORLD IS DEAD. That's bullshit.

 

[Nahhnbah]

Seems like my most hated genre and games suffer from the most bugs. Sweet.

Also, Shattered Memories. My god, the controls were like a brain damaged fish having an epilectic fit in my hand.