What's the glitchiest mess of a game you've ever played?

[Amphoteric]

I have played New vegas for over 100 hours without any problems and I got it on the release date...

Oblivion was the same, I never understood why people complained about the glitches so much because I couldn't see that many of them.

I don't really buy games that much but hopefully TES: V won't be a mess.

 

[Riobux]

Of the games I played it is. I never played that CoC game. There's no way that either of the True Crime games could've been half as bad as Fallout New Vegas: granted Fallout New Vegas has a lot more TO go wrong with it.

Perhaps, it's hard to judge though since I haven't managed to play Fallout: New Vegas. However, I can guarantee that Call Of Cthulhu: Dark Corners Of The Earth is a ton more broken.

 

[BinaryCrystal]

The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games, I love them, but sometimes the hardware/software I run makes the game do some really weird things.

 

[Theron Julius]

Yar, you complain about F:NV. I got 67 hours out of it before the crashes got legitimately bad. Hell, I still play it even with the crashes. I'm actually gonna go with Fallout 3 for the PS3. My copy freezes at least once per session, is moderately prone to lag, the audio gets fucked up every time an explosion occurs, voices stop working when you skip any part of the conversation sometimes, and every now and then weird things happen to a character's face (like a missing eye).

 

[SJXarg]

Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines. I've played glitchier games, but this is the only game that has actively glitched me into anger.

Still like it though.

There's an official patch that fixes the game-breaking bug at the boat, never really had any problems with it otherwise.

For me;

Stalker Clear Sky, got a gamebreaking bug mid-game and the update invalidated my saves. Oops.
C&C Renegade, continually getting stuck in terrain causing reloads
Dungeon Keeper II, doesn't work on win7 x64. Worked great on XP
Finally, the honourable mention of Fallout: New Vegas, which I keep getting tempted to buy, but a quick look on these forums slaps that urge down.

I find that hard to believe, just because of Call Of Cthulhu: Dark Corners Of The Earth and the True Crime series.

Can you elaborate? Apart from crashing on alt tabbing, I've never had any real issues with DCoTE.

 

[Kevlar Eater]

Fallout New Vegas (360) by far. The game loads slower the longer I play it, there is an important NCR NPC guy that keeps "disappearing" each time I try to find him, rending the NCR path of the game unplayable (for me), and the game freezes at least once every few hours or so. I made the stupid choice of buying an Obsidian game for a console. Never again will I do that, nor buy anything they make.

 

[scorptatious]

Fallout New Vegas.

Even when it was patched I noticed several glitches in the game. It didn't completely ruin the experience for me, but goddamn was it noticeable.

Also Sonic 06.

 

[Bradd94]

My PC version of Fallout: New Vegas has never crashed, and by the general consensus of most on this site, that seems to be a rare occurrence.

I think my most buggy game was Halo: Wars.
And that bugged out so I didn't get my 24 Hours playtime achievement, which in turn prevented me from getting 100% game completion.

Quite terrible

 

[GonzoGamer]

First of all, thanks for the extensive explanation.
The thing is that FNV started cracking up after short play sessions: between half hour and forty five mins... Sometimes it was shortly after the start and one time it went back to the xmb before it even got into the game; from the load screen. In fact I remember being amazed one day when I was actually able to play a couple of hours without having to restart.
I have to say that I actually take pretty good care of all my electronics. The only bad thing I do is that my friends and I smoke around it, the sticky stuff too. But otherwise I keep it clean, clear, cool, and dry.
It plays all the other games (not connected to Bethesda at least) like clockwork, even Blops which is supposed to have a lot of issues too.
I know I said it before but experiences like this make me want to just get a really good pc when the next gen rolls around.

It might just be a specific game - some games are much harder on the hardware than others, and the additional work can drive hardware temps through the roof. I remember when Crysis first came out, the rig I was running could barely last 15 minutes before shutting down from overheating . . . whereas my current hardware doesn't even hiccup at that title with in-game settings maxed out, and runs at comfortable temps for hours.

It sounds like there might be some game bugs causing the crashes, but it also sounds like the primary culprit is simply heat. If you're willing to crack the console open, you'd probably be amazed at how much dust has built up inside, and smoking makes it a lot worse:

Pretty nasty, eh? Big reason why I don't smoke around my hardware. The tar makes dust stick even thicker, and makes it a major PITA to clean out (a can of compressed air usually won't work to break that free).

Also, between the processing cores (CPU and GPU) and their cooler, there's a layer of thermal paste that helps transfer heat from the core to the cooler . . . over time, the paste will dry up and break down, requiring it to be re-applied at some point. I'm not sure, but I believe this is a fix for the "red ring of death;" I can say that for computers, it's considered by a lot of "power users" to be "annual maintainence" (along with cleaning out dust, etc.).

I don?t do anything about the paste but I do clean the thing out regularly with the canned air. I have one of the fat ps3s so I should probably get some of that paste. I imagine you have to also clean out the paste that?s deteriorated. The only problem is that my consoles never tend to work quite as well after I open them up so I only tend to do that when I need to. I should probably place it lower in the room so it gets less smoke. You have to admit, smoking goes really well with some games: I was playing Katamari Forever yesterday and rolling up all sorts of things.
Those are some freaky pics. I used to let my desktops get even worse back in the day (when I didn?t know better).

Of the games I played it is. I never played that CoC game. There's no way that either of the True Crime games could've been half as bad as Fallout New Vegas: granted Fallout New Vegas has a lot more TO go wrong with it.

Perhaps, it's hard to judge though since I haven't managed to play Fallout: New Vegas. However, I can guarantee that Call Of Cthulhu: Dark Corners Of The Earth is a ton more broken.

Oh. And I was ready to take your word for it. Maybe you should try playing (through) Fallout New Vegas (on the ps3, so you have an idea of what the PC & 360 players have to deal with at launch) before making that claim.