Buggiest Game Ever

[anicecupoftea]

Yep Medieval total war 2 is certainly up at the top of the list.

If we include MMO's im going with AoC as the crafting systems, ah, bank, quests etc all had bugs on release.

 

[Darth Marsden]

Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor

Early versions of this game wiped your hardrive if you uninstalled it.

I seem to recall Myth II having a similar glitch. Un-installing Windows? Something like that.

EDIT: Yeah, it uninstalled your Windows directory if you tried to nuke the game. God bless Penny Arcade.

 

[dukethepcdr]

Giants: Citizen Kabuto...

I'm not sure if anyone else has ever played this game but on my original PC it took a minor miracle to get that game working. Sound glitches, video glitches, saving glitches, random crashes, you name it that game had it.

I second that nomination! Giants drove me insane. I had a PC that totally trounced the system requirements and had hardly anything running in the background and it still played terrible. This was even when I had an anti-virus program that was easy to turn off (I always played games with it turned off). Nothing I tried helped much. It was so disapointing too, because the fragments of the game I got to play were really funny and clever.

A close second to Giants would be Enter the Matrix. That game looked and played awful on both my PC and Xbox even when it wasn't experiencing a game halting glitch. Another major let-down. I've boycotted buying anything made by Shiny ever since.

 

[dukethepcdr]

Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor

Early versions of this game wiped your hardrive if you uninstalled it.

Wow, talk about a bad bug! And I thought finding out (after I had bought and tried to install the games, rendering it unreturnable of course) that certain games were incompatible with a CD-ROM drive that I had in my old PC was bad. In some cases, it took a lot of digging on the game publisher's website to find that out too.

Wiping your HD, now that's really bad. That's class-action lawsuit bad.

 

[Slycne]

Daikatana


I win

I am going to agree with this one. There are arguably buggier games, but the true measure of buggy, in my opinion, comes from shooting for the moon and blowing up on the launch pad.

 

[axia777]

KOTOR 1 on the PC before they put out the patch. Great game, crashed all the time. Even with the patch it was bad. Not as bad, but still bad enough to piss me off something awful. If it was not as awesome I would have stopped paying it in the first 5 minutes.

 

[shatnershaman]

Well it obvious Big Rigs wins. I think PAC-MAN for the 2600 is worth a mention though for its blinking ghosts.

 

[Logie--bear]

@Knights of the old republic 2

I got hit by that doozy. It was horrible!!

Though I'd have to say X-men 2 Wolverines revenge OR Ubersoldier

 

[BaronAsh]

Zero Wing.

Yeah I've got it!

So what?!

Spoiler: So...

Spoiler: You know what I'm going to say next.

Spoiler: It's painfully obvious

Spoiler: Really REALLY obvious.

Spoiler: Okay, I warned you

All your base are belong to us.

ROFLCOPTER

 

[GloatingSwine]

EDIT: I notice that Daggerfall is now the third Elder Scrolls game to be mentioned in this thread---anyone know if Arena was a buggy mess too? It'd be interesting to see Bethsoft hit for the cycle.

That's only because the thread's full of whippersnappers who don't remember how Daggerfall, as shipped in boxes, was so completely broken that the main questline could not under any circumstances be finished because a required NPC did not spawn. Also, whilst this didn't matter at the time, playing it on anything faster than a 486 meant that without complete magic resistance or cheating you would inevitably die to every caster from about level 10 upwards, because there was no delay for enemy spellcasters, and no mana limit, meaning they hit you with hundreds of spells per second (Depending on the speed of your processor).

Frontier: First Encounters was also a bug-raddled monstrosity, to the extent that they had to rerelease the game with the patches on a floppy in the box, and took out full page ads in the gaming press of the time apologising for what a mess it was.

 

[CyberAkuma]

Surprises me that nobody has mentioned the S.T.A.L.K.E.R games yet.

Just to mention how buggy they are - Clear Sky had 4 patches released in less than 25 days...

 

[Laughing Man]

I am gonna be one of thos smug gits who steps in and says

MTW2, are you kidding my copy plus expansion pack works perfectly. Mind you you do know that it's 'buggyness' as you describe it is more than likely down to the Securom anti piracy software it installs. Remember reading a bout people who had installed other Securom protected games; Bioshock, STALKER, Spore etc having problems getting other Securom games to install, patch update and run in general.

I also notice a lot of folk saying Oblivion, lol that's another game I never had any problems with.

Stalker on the other hand, BSOD every time you moved between areas, turned out to be a conflict with Nvida's new memory leak fixed drivers for the 8series GPUs. I have to run year old drivers to get the game to work. I also read about Clear Sky and it's serious bug issues so I am still thinking about weather to purchase that game or not.

Gmod can be twitchy as well, especially since it allows any old crap created by any triple thumbed goon to run on it, right up until it locks up and goes off for a coffee and fag break.

 

[tk1989]

Meh, i had loads of problems with Bioshock, especially at its release, and i know that i wasnt the only one that had problems....

 

[Laughing Man]

I had a huge problem with Bioshock, mostly the fact that it was complete and total tramp pants. Does that count as a bug?

 

[haveyouseen_mywallet]

the futurama game, almost unplayable it's so frustrating.

 

[TOGSolid]

KOTOR 1 on the PC before they put out the patch. Great game, crashed all the time. Even with the patch it was bad. Not as bad, but still bad enough to piss me off something awful. If it was not as awesome I would have stopped paying it in the first 5 minutes.

Urgh, that game was horrible until they fixed that memory leak. I didn't have any problems after that though. On the plus side, that was my first time seeing a memory leak in action, so much like the first time I had a case fan die on me and got to see how weird a computer acts when it starts to overheat slightly, it was a good learning experience.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

Daikatana


I win

not sure if it was buggy as much as a pile of crap, at least it showed everyone who the real talent at id was and it wasn't Romero

yeah Big Rigs was pretty bad, it's one of the only game to not receive a score on xplay cause 1 is the lowest they can give it

as for buggy games, i'd have to say either Arena or Daggerfall. Daggerfall was released and in the first 2 months had 50+ megs worth of patches for it. comparatively Morrowind and Oblivion are pieces of coding masterpieces