What's the glitchiest mess of a game you've ever played?
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Oblivion. The last time I played it, giant, yellow diamond-shapes with explanation points in the middle had started popping up everywhere. It was very distracting. Kind of an immersion-killer. Also, let's not forget the countless random crashes, audio glitches, horses getting stuck in terrain, enemies getting stuck underground(leading to very confusing wolf attacks) and, of course, the famous duplication glitch. That was at least fun while it lasted. Like the time I ended up knee-deep in magic rings, worth over a thousand gold each.
for me has to be oblivion, had to restart the game a few times because the game had bugged and wouldn't let me progress any further through the game, each time with different bugs.
Black Ops, I haven't played Fallout NV and I hear its pretty buggy, but seeing as how I couldn't play Black Ops on my PC the first month and a half cause of how choppy it ran, i'll go with that.
YES, that bug is horrible. It wasn't even in the original release of the game, it was introduced via a botched patch, and AFAIK still hasn't been undone... First I uninstalled the whole game on my PC, then skipped the update and played it and all of the audio diaries played successfully. Ultimately though I updated it and just listened to the audio diaries on Youtube instead. But ingame it would just repeat the same damn one again and again.The King of Rock and Roll said:
Onlive doesn't work on half the computers I try it on, and their tech support has not helped at all. But when it works, it works fine.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines was all sorts of both broken and incomplete. Yet I still love the game dearly though.
Half-Life 2 was patched during May 26th of 2010 with an update that brought it's 2004 era engine to the modern day Source version. It also added achievements. Although it was highly anticipated by fans the patch broke the game.
Many trigger events that the game depended on happening wouldn't play, animations were broken, and it was less stable than before. To this day VALVe still hasn't fixed the problems but a fan made patch exists.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines was all sorts of both broken and incomplete. Yet I still love the game dearly though.
Half-Life 2 was patched during May 26th of 2010 with an update that brought it's 2004 era engine to the modern day Source version. It also added achievements. Although it was highly anticipated by fans the patch broke the game.
Many trigger events that the game depended on happening wouldn't play, animations were broken, and it was less stable than before. To this day VALVe still hasn't fixed the problems but a fan made patch exists.
I Would agree with the OP on Fallout:New Vegas. I Would play it now but i'm afraid the game might crash on me....Again
Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness.
One time I walked into a wall and stayed there for all eternity.
One time I fell off the ledge, accidentally quicksaved, and watched Lara Croft's shins burst out through her knees multiple times before starting the game over.
I beat a boss who was supposed to give me the second pistol, and never did.
I was eaten to death by the Leviathan, ON THE SECOND STAGE. Strangely, the leviathan wasn't supposed to show up till level 7.
Also, the game disc suddenly cracked in half- or maybe that was me breaking the DVD in two with my teeth.
One time I walked into a wall and stayed there for all eternity.
One time I fell off the ledge, accidentally quicksaved, and watched Lara Croft's shins burst out through her knees multiple times before starting the game over.
I beat a boss who was supposed to give me the second pistol, and never did.
I was eaten to death by the Leviathan, ON THE SECOND STAGE. Strangely, the leviathan wasn't supposed to show up till level 7.
Also, the game disc suddenly cracked in half- or maybe that was me breaking the DVD in two with my teeth.
Mass Effect 2
Fallout New Vegas may have had its glitches, but besides the occasion crash (which, with the game's autosave, really wasn't that big of a deal), the glitches rarely ever bothered me or my gaming. However, the bugs in Mass Effect 2, such as that little interaction-square for opening dialog/doors/etc (the damn thing never worked, sometimes I'd have to constantly dance around a person or door for 10 minutes before the game would FINALLY for a split second let me select something), the game's crappy enemy lock-on mechanism(for using powers and stuff), and the fact that it keeps crashing during gameplay, pissed me off to the point where at some points i just wanted to chuck my computer monitor across the room.
And yet, i've almost never heard anyone mention this fact. whenever people talk about Mass Effect 2, they talk about it like its pure solid gold. I admit its a good game, and i don't regret the purchase, but its not that great; the cover-based combat can get boring, the dialog is often unconvincing and unbelievable, the dialog options normally suck, the moral choice system is usually horrid, only leaving you the choices of being mister goody-2-shoes or a complete douche just for the sake of being a douche, the bugs(as stated above) greatly hurt the immersion/combat/general likability, the storyline(though interesting,) is very basic at its core, many of the missions are far too short and unmemorable, its just not the solid-gold nugget people make it out to be.
Fallout New Vegas may have had its glitches, but besides the occasion crash (which, with the game's autosave, really wasn't that big of a deal), the glitches rarely ever bothered me or my gaming. However, the bugs in Mass Effect 2, such as that little interaction-square for opening dialog/doors/etc (the damn thing never worked, sometimes I'd have to constantly dance around a person or door for 10 minutes before the game would FINALLY for a split second let me select something), the game's crappy enemy lock-on mechanism(for using powers and stuff), and the fact that it keeps crashing during gameplay, pissed me off to the point where at some points i just wanted to chuck my computer monitor across the room.
And yet, i've almost never heard anyone mention this fact. whenever people talk about Mass Effect 2, they talk about it like its pure solid gold. I admit its a good game, and i don't regret the purchase, but its not that great; the cover-based combat can get boring, the dialog is often unconvincing and unbelievable, the dialog options normally suck, the moral choice system is usually horrid, only leaving you the choices of being mister goody-2-shoes or a complete douche just for the sake of being a douche, the bugs(as stated above) greatly hurt the immersion/combat/general likability, the storyline(though interesting,) is very basic at its core, many of the missions are far too short and unmemorable, its just not the solid-gold nugget people make it out to be.
Fallout, Fallout 2, and Arcanum. Combine this with others' complaints about Vampire: Bloodlines, NWN2, and Fallout: New Vegas, and I think you see an interesting pattern. The in-house development team at Interplay in the late nineties (from which Troika and Obsidian sprung) had a decent bit of creativity but very little discipline.
Oddly enough, Mass Effect 1 and Stalker: Call of Pripyat. I hit one game breaking glitch in each. Tried to get it to glitch again and couldn't. New Vegas was glitchy too, but nothing game breaking. Didn't know that the Steam overlay eats up so much processor power, stall New Vegas four times until i figured that out.
Advent Rising, hands down. While I loved the game, it had some horrible bugs. I remember having to restart an entire level because the end of it wouldn't start, and falling through things randomly. It was awful, and yet I still loved it with all my heart.