What's the most broken game you have had the misfortune of buying?

[GonzoGamer]

I wanted to buy Skyrim until I tried playing Fallout New Vegas on my PS3 again; and yes I know Bethesda didn?t develop New Vegas but they did publish it and took responsibility for the patching...and they dropped the ball in a big way.
But New Vegas was such an ordeal and I?m hearing that Skyrim has so many of the exact same issues, I just don?t have enough of the masochistic tendency needed to buy it. As far as I can remember (and I?ve been playing since the 70s), New Vegas is probably THE most broken game I have ever bought and I really wish I had just rented it.

How about you. What is the most broken game you have ever bought?
Did you regret the purchase?
Did it encourage you to avoid future releases in the series or of the same dev team?

 

[piplink]

the only "broken" game i have bought was fallout NV, other than that, i think gothic 2 i alittle broken because you have to go into the text file and change some things to get certain features that were supposed to be in the game in the first place, like quick save/load, gamepad support, and potion hotkeys. i was dissapointed when i found out i had to do that.

 

[Gorilla Gunk]

Brink probably.

Paid $60 for it day one and in the month I owned it never once played in a match that wasn't A)laggy as fuck, and B)a full room full of actual people.

 

[Pinhead Larry]

Soulcalibur IV.
Lol, Yoda

 

[hazabaza1]

NwN2. Not broken as in unbalanced. Broken as in fucking always crashes. No I will not shut up about how shit it is.

 

[Skoldpadda]

Temple of Elemental Evil. It crashes so often it's simply unplayable.

 

[Sirron Kcuch]

EYE Divine Cybermancy

Objectives disappearing, teleporting from level to level and random points

Fucking broken

I strongly disliked that game even when the premise seemed good

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

ANYTHING with "S.T.A.L.K.E.R" In the title. Sweet troll jegus that thing is broken. Nothing works, it needs constant patching, i needed to recode it to allow my graphics card in the source files, it crashes instantly with any antialiasing, the AI bugs in clear sky even WITH the patches (both player made and official) so you cant continue the story and the lag at points was so intense i couldnt play despite owning 8g of ram.

But... i love it. Its a fucking brilliant series and i want more so goddam badly. It was a poorly held together piece of junk, i had to tape it, use work arounds, add new parts and work with the bad but dear god was it the ride of my life. Love those games. Not a misfortune. A HUGE time waste making it work sure, but a hell of a time playing.

 

[Buzz Killington_v1legacy]

Probably Darklands [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darklands_(video_game)], a 1992 DOS RPG from MicroProse. It had a huge number of bugs on release, and this was before the Internet was widespread, remember--if you wanted a patch, you had to find it on a BBS somewhere or actually write MicroProse and have them send you an actual physical disc. (A 3.5" floppy, no less; this was also before CD-ROM drives became popular.) It was worth sticking with, though, largely for the setting: 15th-century Europe as the Europeans thought it was.

 

[putowtin]

I never had a problem with New Vegas til' I had to patch for DLC

biggest most buggy piece of crap ever ... sims 3 ... more crashes than a crash test dummy ... every new expansion causes more problems than the G4 summit.

 

[Slash Dementia]

Two Worlds

It would rain--"Bandits!" There would be an orc--"It's raining." Very severe lag and frame rate issues were a constant; sound issues, but those weren't as consistent. The game was just a mess inside and out. Though, there were a few times when I actually enjoyed myself while playing. Those times were just accepting that the game was horrendous and that I'll only have fun if I poke fun of it while playing.

 

[Scrustle]

I second Two Worlds.

That thing was a complete mess. Constant glitches everywhere and loads of crashed and generally everything that could possibly go wrong going wrong. I can't understand how anyone could even think that game was good enough to release. It was like it was in super early pre-alpha.

 

[BlindTom]

Everything Bethesda has ever had a hand in.

 

[galaktar]

Red Steel - only rented though. Had to go find my wii-mote outside.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Well, I don't think I'd call them broken but it was stupid-easy to exploit Fallout New Vegas Final Fantasy VIII and, Oblivion to the point that my character could be a sort of God before even completing all of the tutorials. I had fun exploiting those games though, like finding a loophole in the universe.

 

[Crazedc00k]

Temple of Elemental Evil. It crashes so often it's simply unplayable.

There is a patch. I say this because you owe it to yourself to play it. It's a gem, regardless of crazy buggitude.

NwN2. Not broken as in unbalanced. Broken as in fucking always crashes. No I will not shut up about how shit it is.

And yet, it's better than a majority of what's released today. Effing shovelware.