Top 5 Buggiest Releases
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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)...
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)...
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*LegendaryGamer0 said:
Never saw that Fable 2 glitch.Judgement101 said:
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.
So you just assume everyone knows and experiances the issues with fallout 2 & 3? I've played fallout 2 atleast 10 times and never encountered a bug. ANd 3 has run smooth for me so far. What errors did you get? I'm always curious when someone mentions an intensly buggy game when I've seen noneJudgement101 said:
Buggiest in personal experience, in no particular order.
Gothic II - to this day I haven't managed to actually play the damn thing for more than 10 minutes
Anachronox - besides the classic 'crash to desktop for no particular reason' I seem to recall it sometimes lost track of quest progress, joy.
Nomad Soul - I'm not one to easily complain about graphic glitches, but recurring blank blocks taking over the screen is pretty bad. Ironically a glitch was what got me through the final boss fight.
The very first Tomb Raider - I was just a wee lass then, but those were some memorable bugs. Like jumping in a corner and into a black, infinite abyss beyond the game world. Or saving before a fight and reloading only to watch Lara instantly die out of habit.
Edit: just saw some clips of the "were-people" of Red Dead Redemption. I really lay curled on the floor for a while, I laughed so hard
Gothic II - to this day I haven't managed to actually play the damn thing for more than 10 minutes
Anachronox - besides the classic 'crash to desktop for no particular reason' I seem to recall it sometimes lost track of quest progress, joy.
Nomad Soul - I'm not one to easily complain about graphic glitches, but recurring blank blocks taking over the screen is pretty bad. Ironically a glitch was what got me through the final boss fight.
The very first Tomb Raider - I was just a wee lass then, but those were some memorable bugs. Like jumping in a corner and into a black, infinite abyss beyond the game world. Or saving before a fight and reloading only to watch Lara instantly die out of habit.
Edit: just saw some clips of the "were-people" of Red Dead Redemption. I really lay curled on the floor for a while, I laughed so hard