What's the most broken game you have had the misfortune of buying?

[GonzoGamer]

How about you. What is the most broken game you have ever bought?
Did you regret the purchase?
Did it encourage you to avoid future releases in the series or of the same dev team?

- Rage. Because it's poorly done, overhyped, flawed product that to this day refuses to work. What's worse, the official answer was "f*ck you people, upgrade your drivers".
- Whooooooooooo boy. I regret i can't wipe my arse with that and send it back to developers.
- It made me rethink developer's position in the crusade against piracy among other thing.

Fallout 3 for me.
It crashes EVERY time you try to leave the Vault. I don't even bother anymore...

It's fixed now.
For some people it was because of flawed installation.
For some - the problem with multi core processors that was resolved by adding a few lines in *.ini config file.
And for some - the broken crack.

Fallout 2

Despite some flaws, mismatches, glitches and loose ends that cried for one line of dialogue more, F2 was finishable from beginning to the end. :|

I think everyone should make that edit to the Fallout3.ini regardless. I only wish there was an equivalent tweak on the PS3.
I believe Rage was another game published by Bethesda. There seems to be a pattern of them not being the tightest publisher.
It's amazing that people are so surprised that Skyrim is messed up.
It's too bad, Rage looked really cool and I was looking forward to it.

It's already been said, but Sims 3. The core game would just fail to load properly for me 80% of the time, leaving me with missing objects and random crashes when I tried to use something that hadn't loaded right. And don't get me started on the DLC >.>; I spent a few pounds buying new clothes and hairstyles (because the included collection was woefully small) and a new neighbourhood, and never once got them all to download and install correctly, so my game just refused to load. Then the core neighbourhood started doing the same thing, so the game would load with a load of floating houses and nothing else. I tried for about two months to fix it on and off but was completely unable to, and EA basically told me it was my PC's fault. I can assure them my PC is close to double the recommended spec, so if my PC is causing the problems, then their code is *broken*. I uninstalled it and am refusing to ever buy another Sims product.

Yea, WTF is up with that?
The past Sims games had some kooky bugs but they eventually got patched. It seems that EA has written off fixing Sims 3 which is weird because they're still trying to sell expansion packs. Even my wife gave up on Sims 3 and she's a fanatic.

 

[everythingbeeps]

Fallout New Vegas. Not even a contest. It's so broken that I can't even think of what would be next on the list.

 

[Vivi22]

I was only 14 and had wasted a good 35 bucks on it, so I was going to try my hardest to finish the game.
it was a god awful game without the bugs (It was like a re-skinned Zelda, but shit) but dammit, that's my pocket money, I was going to finish it.

I can't remember how old I was when it came out, or even what I did with my copy. I think I may have traded it in, or even just outright gave it away to a younger family member who would enjoy it more despite being a bad game. I just couldn't bring myself to slog through it though. After the first couple of hours I decided it was actually preferable to just stop playing and at least save myself more torment.

 

[GonzoGamer]

Though, I did buy a copy of Fallout 3 which just plain crashed everytime I tried to play it for more than 10 minuites on my PC.
Moral of the story: Only buy Bethesda games for consoles.

That's funny. I would only buy a Bethesda game on the PC.
With a couple of mods, Fallout 3 ran beautifully on my PC; the trick was installing the mods correctly.

I'm still waiting for Bethesda to patch Fallout 3 & New Vegas into working order on my ps3 and I'm getting the feeling that that's never going to happen.

On the PC you have options; on the consoles, you're at the mercy of the publisher and the sad thing is that more and more publishers are releasing a couple of lame patches than writing off the game. It's not just Bethesda, EA does it all the time too.

 

[thespyisdead]

Temple of Elemental Evil. It crashes so often it's simply unplayable.

the game in it self is ok. it just took 2 official patches, and a tsunami of community patches to get it working properly...

i blame the studio for poor choice of publisher, because they are the ones the ran the studio into the ground

 

[DioWallachia]

Requiem: The Avenging Angel
The conversation sounds tends to overlap
one another every single time. Some connected areas had points of no return because elevators/doors wont come back/open and need to no clip to return to areas that you are supposed to go back or just need to because you dont have items progress with the game. Gameplay and Story Segregation at his finest when you are supposed to use a spell of resurrection on a dead person that its critical for the plot but not used anywhere else for all the others plot relevant people. Death sounds gets repeated over and over by the enemies non stop.

And those are in the first hours of the game. Surelly the critics trashed this game back then right???

"The highest praise for the game came from PC Zone, in a review by Charlie Brooker. Brooker praised the game's variety of well-designed character models, and its advanced animation system, stating that the game had "impressive character models that move in all kinds of unpleasantly believable ways". The game achieved a "recommended" award and was given 89% by the publication.[1]

IGN claimed that the level design was boring and uninspired, and although the game had a competent single player experience, multiplayer was lacking. It gave the game 6.7/10, a "passable" rating.[2] GameSpot commends the game's innovative angelic powers available for use, comparing them favourably with the force powers in Jedi Knight. However, it states that although the game has several attractive features, in the end, it was just a typical shoot 'em up with no groundbreaking elements, awarding the game a rating of 7.3/10."
From Wikipedia

WTF CHARLE BROOKER?? CHARLIE Screenwipe Brooker????? WHO MADE THIS GAME?? Develop by Cyclone Studios and published by 3DO and Ubisoft?? 3DO from Heroes 3 of Might and Magic?? How could they let this happen???

And the game Black & White. Seriously, fuck that game.

 

[5ilver]

Alpha Protocol and Planescape: Torment. I consider both absolutely unplayable, damn shame too because they're both very interesting games.

 

[yaydod]

Id say Gothic 3, every random amount of you would have a message WHERE IS THE GURU? apeare, then the game crashes. It took 7 years for a fan made patch to fix it. Even with that you sill have strange disapearing quest, weird AI and alot of others.
Also there is Drakensang River of time, wich would crash at certain point in the game because of a typing error in one of the UNAVOIDABLE dialogs had to look again for fan made patches -_-'

 

[Hasido]

there was that one game the name of which i don't remember that i bought a few years ago that turned out to be incompatible with any computer but the windows 98 i have. this is the windows 98 that is now so damaged it can barely run solitaire well, so was a little disappointed at the loss of ~$10

Good news for you, there's a thing on most computers now called compatability mode. Might wanna look into that. You can have a computer run a program like a previous version would.

you know didn't think of that, and i would try it, but i no longer know of the whereabouts of this game.

 

[Arakasi]

Though, I did buy a copy of Fallout 3 which just plain crashed everytime I tried to play it for more than 10 minuites on my PC.
Moral of the story: Only buy Bethesda games for consoles.

That's funny. I would only buy a Bethesda game on the PC.
With a couple of mods, Fallout 3 ran beautifully on my PC; the trick was installing the mods correctly.

I'm still waiting for Bethesda to patch Fallout 3 & New Vegas into working order on my ps3 and I'm getting the feeling that that's never going to happen.

On the PC you have options; on the consoles, you're at the mercy of the publisher and the sad thing is that more and more publishers are releasing a couple of lame patches than writing off the game. It's not just Bethesda, EA does it all the time too.

I suppose that's valid, however, I have had no problems with Bethesda games on my console (Xbox360), and on my computer I had unsolvable (Seriously, no mod I could find helped) crashes.

What I mean to say, is that they test for all of the consoles, but they can't test for all of the computers, so it's more likely to be fucked up on a PC than a computer, whist a PC is more likely to have a fix than a console.

 

[Insanity72]

I wanted to buy Skyrim until I tried playing Fallout New Vegas on my PS3 again; and yes I know Bethesda didn?t develop New Vegas but they did publish it and took responsibility for the patching...and they dropped the ball in a big way.
But New Vegas was such an ordeal and I?m hearing that Skyrim has so many of the exact same issues, I just don?t have enough of the masochistic tendency needed to buy it. As far as I can remember (and I?ve been playing since the 70s), New Vegas is probably THE most broken game I have ever bought and I really wish I had just rented it.

How about you. What is the most broken game you have ever bought?
Did you regret the purchase?
Did it encourage you to avoid future releases in the series or of the same dev team?

I've been gaming my entire life and never had any problems with broken games, and i've play Elders scroll 4 and 4, Fallout 3, NV and nearly any other game that is considered broken.

 

[an874]

Mass Effect 1. It's a good game and I love it, but it had audio, visual bugs, couldn't hold a frame rate at all on either pc or xbox. Add some annoying glitches, not very balanced leveling (it gets a bit too easy towards the end, no matter how high the difficulty) and a generally tedious interface, especially for inventory, and it definitely deserves a mention.

 

[Freaky Lou]

Probably New Vegas, but it's also my favourite game of all time. It's also a lot more stable now than when I first bought it back in December 2010.

Captcha: Checen rice-taxes

 

[go-10]

its a tie between X-Blades and Golden Axe: Beast Rider
both suck and are broken as fuck

 

[MercurySteam]

Brink. The broken AI on a damn team based game was broken to the point of ruining the entire game. Could've been good but sadly wasn't.

Finally decided that the rage was not worth it and returned it.

 

[GonzoGamer]

Though, I did buy a copy of Fallout 3 which just plain crashed everytime I tried to play it for more than 10 minuites on my PC.
Moral of the story: Only buy Bethesda games for consoles.

That's funny. I would only buy a Bethesda game on the PC.
With a couple of mods, Fallout 3 ran beautifully on my PC; the trick was installing the mods correctly.

I'm still waiting for Bethesda to patch Fallout 3 & New Vegas into working order on my ps3 and I'm getting the feeling that that's never going to happen.

On the PC you have options; on the consoles, you're at the mercy of the publisher and the sad thing is that more and more publishers are releasing a couple of lame patches than writing off the game. It's not just Bethesda, EA does it all the time too.

I suppose that's valid, however, I have had no problems with Bethesda games on my console (Xbox360), and on my computer I had unsolvable (Seriously, no mod I could find helped) crashes.

What I mean to say, is that they test for all of the consoles, but they can't test for all of the computers, so it's more likely to be fucked up on a PC than a computer, whist a PC is more likely to have a fix than a console.

On the 360 they're probably okay but I have a ps3, so I end up playing on the PC a lot.
Do you mean all games crash on your PC or just Bethesda games? If it's all games, there might be something wrong with your video card or something.
If it's just Bethesda games, there could be a few things. Have you ever done the .ini file tweaks. The guy who made the FWE mod made a great video for installing mods and after I followed it, the game ran beautifully. I'll see if I can find that for you.
We shouldn't have to do do all that for the pc, and on the console you shouldn't have to turn off autosave and rush through the main quest.

I've been gaming my entire life and never had any problems with broken games, and i've play Elders scroll 4 and 4, Fallout 3, NV and nearly any other game that is considered broken.

Did you ever play Big Rigs Over the Road Racing.
I never have but I hear it's notorious for being the most broken game of all time.
If you could play that without any bugs, I think you're DNA should be studied by the game industry. You obviously must have some sort of rare mutation.

 

[someonehairy-ish]

Fable 3 *shudder*

 

[Leemaster777]

Teen Titans for PS2. Starfire kept getting stuck in the walls. And you can't continue without ALL your party members, so the computer kept fucking me over... on level 2.

Fuck that game.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Pool of Radiance: The Ruins of Myth Dranor. Objects and characters kept disappearing when I moved the camera the wrong way. I actually got so pissed off with it that I smashed the disk.