Buggiest games ever
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The obvious answer is anything Bethesda has ever been involved in making. Fallout 3, New Vegas, Oblivion... they can all be buggy messes sometimes, although I usually let it slide because they're too damn fun to hold it against them for long and it's only rarely that the bugs actually get in the way of gameplay in any meaningful way. Other than that? I've run into some dramatic compatibility issues on PC (i.e. trying to run Saints Row 2 on Windows 7--it runs at about 2 times the normal speed; the only way I could make it playable was with a third party piece of software that slowed the game down).
Fallout 3 on PS3. Damn thing crashed on me at least once every two hours without fail, requiring a system restart. It didn't stop me getting all the achievements for the game and DLC, though - it's a bloody good game 
I've not has anywhere near as many problems with FNV (PC), but it sounds like I'm one of the lucky ones there.
Special mention goes to The Sims 3 - each new expansion adds new bugs while retaining all the old ones. You have to love the way it sometimes just stops letting you save succesfully, wiping your progress for that session.
I've not has anywhere near as many problems with FNV (PC), but it sounds like I'm one of the lucky ones there.Special mention goes to The Sims 3 - each new expansion adds new bugs while retaining all the old ones. You have to love the way it sometimes just stops letting you save succesfully, wiping your progress for that session.
The original release of Vampire the Masquerade:Bloodlines. Awesome game after a couple years of 3rd party patches but diabolically screwed up on release.
I think Sheogorath programmed it,s engine
I think it,s out for a few years it got a bunch of un-official patch and STILL has bugs.
also I think this is where Bethesda started the tradition of cramming it games full of bug,s
Gothic 3 before community patch was released 1 year later.
Oh God,that game was buggy as hell.I managed to finish it eventually.
Oh God,that game was buggy as hell.I managed to finish it eventually.
MASTER OF ORION III wears the great jeweled crown of shit upon its unnaturally broad, mongoloid brow. I made the mistake of buying this so-called game. How to describe the bugs....... Ah, yes. Imagine removing cancerous tumors from a hundred people so that they might live. This is debugging. Now imagine gathering all the tumors under the assumption that since it came out of people this diseased mass will become a person if you just stitch it all together. This is MOO3.
OBLIVION used to just drop to desktop at random intervals. Sometimes I'd get less than a minute, sometimes hours. The program would simply disappear like it had never been running at all -- no crash report, nothing. It was a rare session that ended with me saving the game.
FALLOUT 2. I made the mistake of trying to play it without patching first. Oh Lordy, what a testament to the evils of early release. Don't talk to this character or the game will hang. Don't acquire this type of ammo or the game will hang. Don't walk to this part of Town X or the game will hang. And so forth.
FAR CRY used to crash to desk at regular intervals. I reached a point beyond which I could not progress due to crashes. I never did finish it.
BIOSHOCK. I'm pretty sue the blame here rests on SecuROM, that lovely specimen of digital feces with which BioShock came pre-smeared. Regardless, my computer exhibited some seriously screwy behavior while I had them installed. Refusing to run the game with the legitimate DVD, mistaking Avast antivirus for copy protection violation, random crashes, overall reduced system stability, the list goes on. I do not jest when I say my machine has had extremely tenacious viruses that were less invasive, less destabilizing, and easier to remove. I got it all cleaned out eventually but I tell you what: the people who wrote SecuROM, and the company spokespeople who defend it, should be publicly flogged.
MASS EFFECT. Unnaturally sluggish to the point of near unplayability (on a machine that can whistle right along on Crysis), prone to crashing, and best of all the save feature doesn't work right. Not sure it's worth trying to finish.
Edit: And FALLOUT 3. More or less like Oblivion, surprise surprise.
OBLIVION used to just drop to desktop at random intervals. Sometimes I'd get less than a minute, sometimes hours. The program would simply disappear like it had never been running at all -- no crash report, nothing. It was a rare session that ended with me saving the game.
FALLOUT 2. I made the mistake of trying to play it without patching first. Oh Lordy, what a testament to the evils of early release. Don't talk to this character or the game will hang. Don't acquire this type of ammo or the game will hang. Don't walk to this part of Town X or the game will hang. And so forth.
FAR CRY used to crash to desk at regular intervals. I reached a point beyond which I could not progress due to crashes. I never did finish it.
BIOSHOCK. I'm pretty sue the blame here rests on SecuROM, that lovely specimen of digital feces with which BioShock came pre-smeared. Regardless, my computer exhibited some seriously screwy behavior while I had them installed. Refusing to run the game with the legitimate DVD, mistaking Avast antivirus for copy protection violation, random crashes, overall reduced system stability, the list goes on. I do not jest when I say my machine has had extremely tenacious viruses that were less invasive, less destabilizing, and easier to remove. I got it all cleaned out eventually but I tell you what: the people who wrote SecuROM, and the company spokespeople who defend it, should be publicly flogged.
MASS EFFECT. Unnaturally sluggish to the point of near unplayability (on a machine that can whistle right along on Crysis), prone to crashing, and best of all the save feature doesn't work right. Not sure it's worth trying to finish.
Edit: And FALLOUT 3. More or less like Oblivion, surprise surprise.
Metroid 1, one of my copies had major bugs where random letters and numbers would spray from enemies like blood splatter and then they'd die. After a while the game would crash.
Empire: Total war.
This thread pales in the face of the broken bug Ocktober fest that is that game. 50% of the people who bought it couldn't finish it - despite patch after patch after patch that was applied. The hours I sunk into trying to fix that game make a whale seem like a chihuahua.
This thread pales in the face of the broken bug Ocktober fest that is that game. 50% of the people who bought it couldn't finish it - despite patch after patch after patch that was applied. The hours I sunk into trying to fix that game make a whale seem like a chihuahua.
