Top 5 Buggiest Releases

[Cogwheel]

Things!

You know, you may have a point.

Other things!

Yes. Yes you should. Just, uh...

Well, it's less a learning curve and more a learning cliff composed entirely of a frozen, greased iron cliff with triple gravity. Also you're only given mittens and sandals to climb with.

It's a bit hard, is the point I'm trying to make. Could send you an introductory PM of sorts if you like. I've probably derailed the thread enough for a probation as is.

 

[irequirefood]

It's a bit hard, is the point I'm trying to make. Could send you an introductory PM of sorts if you like. I've probably derailed the thread enough for a probation as is.

If you can spare the time, that would be awesome

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Well, it's less a learning curve and more a learning cliff composed entirely of a frozen, greased iron cliff with triple gravity. Also you're only given mittens and sandals to climb with.

I believe this makes your point.

It's a bit hard, is the point I'm trying to make. Could send you an introductory PM of sorts if you like. I've probably derailed the thread enough for a probation as is.

Nah, de-rails are part and parcel. I'd suggest

1) Watch CapnDuck's video tutorial on Youtube.
2) Bookmark http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Main_Page
3) Download a Lazy Newbie pack. [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=59026.0]
4) Join http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/Dwarf-Fortress-Fans
5) ????
6) PROFIT!

 

[Reaper195]

Why the hell was Turning Point not on the list? That game was so fucking broken, it shouldn't have even been released, let alone pass any form of alpha testing.

 

[Cogwheel]

Summary

Okay, I feel a bit silly about sending that PM now. Oh well.

 

[Googenstien]

in the last 10 years I was mainly hooked on MMOs and I think they cant be beaten with bugs/unfinished releases/incomplete rushed out games.

Mourning
World War Online
Anarchy Online
Earth and Beyond
Asherns Call 2
Warhammer Online
Age of Conan
Champions Online

 

[Mandal0re]

KOTOR 2. Seriously,KOTOR 2. That game is flat out unfinished.

 

[Susurrus]

Medieval 2: Total War.

 

[xpk3]

The only game I've ever noticed bugs was Borderlands. I swear that game was trying to break me, I loved that game and it knew it. It would occasionally corrupt my save file, I'd get stuck in bits of map decoration and the bug where the elevator wouldn't work on Baron Flynt's digger Thor. Having to wait for the patch to fix that was excruciating.

 

[Exocet]

Oh god Dungeon Lord.

One race just could not fit into the doorway in a main questline temple.
Also,no autosave+constant crash to desktop=not fun

Twice we LAN'd our way through the first 7 hours of the game,twice we raged because the game crashed 10 seconds after lucking our way through a random,and deadly encounter with a big ass beast and we didn't have time to save.

Did I mention the water in the game?here's a description of the water in a lake:domed,as in,forming a dome.I crap you not.Maybe not a steep dome,but enough to notice and hide the opposite shore.
And yet,I don't hate the game as much as I should.Perhaps because my character was basically Chewbacca playing as a dual class Ninja+monk

 

[Tigurus]

I never really had trouble with any bugs or really noticed them.

Though once with Morrowind, I had a quest where I had to go to some house at some certain time and kill some person. But there was no person in or near that house.

Probably they knew and all packed their bags and ran before I came.

 

[Shycte]

Basically List the top 5 buggiest games before they were patched (or they are currently buggy still)

5. Oblivion-Guards and they telepathy and the stealth system did not work at all
4. Fallout 3-"Awesome Fallout 3 on release day!" Unable to read disk, reboot, start menu, crash
3. Fable II-Do you really need to ask?
2. Fable III-please regard Fable II
1. Fallout New Vegas-Great game but my god, my pistol should not be invisible!

Runner-Up: Alpha Protocol-Due to it sucking so bad it doesn't deserve a spot on the list.

What do you mean the stealth system didn't work at all? About the guards, if you're referring to the fact that they automatically track you down when you kill a guard, that's not a bug at all. Seriously, don't you think the game would be broken if you could kill guards without penalty just by remaining undetected and with no one witnessing the kill?

As for Fable II and III, enlighten me, I never heard about them being buggy either.

Fable II has all patched by the time I got to it, but Fable III is quite a mess. The Dog keeps getting lost and that golden dust thing leads you shit more then once. I blame it on Havok. I hate Havok.

 

[hmar9333]

Also, I played New Vegas for over 20 hours without a single crash or noticeable bug (meaning if there was one I didn't notice it), and therefore can simply not understand what everyone is complaining about (and I did get it on release day). Fallout 3 never crashed once for me, and that is on my very unstable and emotional PC. Same story for Oblivion, though in Oblivion the retarded NPC behavior did annoy me at times =p.

New Vegas, hmm.... I've had several crashes involving losing data, guns disappearing, falling through the world, enemies stuck in things, companions stuck in things, the list goes on.

Oh and not a bug, but really annoying: invisible walls.

But it's SUCH A GOOD GAME!!!

 

[RivFader86]

Gothic 3....DAMN

 

[brunothepig]

What you listed with Oblivion weren't even so much bugs as they were just unrefined gameplay elements.

This is true. What's more is I didn't have a problem with the stealth system. It certainly wasn't the best system, but it worked.
OT: Why does everyone complain about Fallout 3? I get it, it was buggy as hell on release day. But I didn't play it until there were a few patches, and I've never had any major problems with it.
Me, I've never played any games with major bugs. You see odd things in Morrowind. Like fish trying to swim on land.

 

[captaincabbage]

Oh look! Another thread wanting to capitalize on New Vegas' buggy release and to ***** about Obsidian! What a surprise!

At least the game is playable. There are much buggier games, like the PC release of Force Unleashed.

*cough-cough*Big Rigs*cough*

 

[TheColdHeart]

If I remember properly Battlefield 2 on release, quite a lot of people had a bug where they couldn't find servers to play on. There was definitely a day-1 patch.

Then every major patch for that game always had issues that involved either re-patching from start or modifying files.

 

[Christemo]

mw2. the care package glitch, commando´s range and THOUSANDS of technical errors.

 

[EvilMaggot]

you forgot

Warhammer: Online (still fun to play tho ^^, but damn in the beginning )

Age of Conan

Mercenaries 2: World in Flames ( they only released one patch for PC version and still loaded with bugs...)

 

[Jezzascmezza]

Mercenaries 2 was pretty buggy.
Just a whole bunch of silly little visual glitches...