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

[BloatedGuppy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionheart:_Legacy_of_the_Crusader

Bought it based on Black Isle's pedigree. Truly appalling game. I've been gaming for roughly 30 years, and I can count the number of games I bought that I actively disliked on the fingers of one hand. This is chief amongst them.

 

[spartandude]

easily fable 3

 

[Grimfolse]

I bought Summoner new back when it was a PS2 launch title. Very broken. Glitches, rock-stupid AI, broken combat system, weapon stats that flat-out lie to you, the titular summoning is almost completely useless...and yet it's still one of my favorite games to re-play. Guess you'd call it a guilty pleasure.

 

[RaNDM G]

Left 4 Dead on the 360. It freezes constantly, even if I install it to the hard drive.

I would say Fable 3, but at least that game will actually start.

 

[Hal10k]

I've been gaming my entire life and never had any problems with broken games, and i've play Elders scroll 4 and 4, Fallout 3, NV and nearly any other game that is considered broken.

Did you ever play Big Rigs Over the Road Racing.
I never have but I hear it's notorious for being the most broken game of all time.
If you could play that without any bugs, I think you're DNA should be studied by the game industry. You obviously must have some sort of rare mutation.

You can't play Big Rigs without encountering bugs. It's literally impossible. The game itself is one giant, possibly malevolent bug. The whole thing is basically the minus world from Super Mario Bros, except some depraved individual at some point was purposefully involved in its direction. Probably only lasted a week before the shoddy coding swallowed him whole.

 

[Rowan Tritton]

Ghostbusters: The Video Game (PS2) - Incomplete animations and more crashes than I'd ever seen in a PS2 game, which had previously counted in at 0 crashing games ever.

Also not broken exactly, but the PC versions of both Ghostbusters: The Video Game and Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime had the multiplayer disabled or removed entirely... wait no online mode on the platform that established online play WTF!!!

Short of one of the old PC Ghostbusters 2 and Super Ghostbusters on Gameboy, most games from the franchise have been poor and buggy in general.

Cheers
Rowan/LSWSjr

 

[Exius Xavarus]

Saints Row 2. Unplayable piece of...

I just don't think about it anymore.

I feel like I'm missing something. I had no trouble playing Saints Row 2.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Most broken game I've ever bought and played. Planning to pitch it to help pay off my pre-order for Kingdoms of Amalur.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionheart:_Legacy_of_the_Crusader

Bought it based on Black Isle's pedigree. Truly appalling game. I've been gaming for roughly 30 years, and I can count the number of games I bought that I actively disliked on the fingers of one hand. This is chief amongst them.

I can count to 31 on 1 hand! I have to agree with this one, in conjunction to mine.

 

[nuttex]

One word:
Daggerfall.

 

[Toy Master Typhus]

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon.

There were no fights determining skill. All you did was press one button and it would go into a cutscene chase and then another button to fire the missile when you locked on; or if you liked 10% more challenge try gunning it down with the cannon, turning it into an arcadic shooter There was barely any user required. It didn't even have a great story like the others. It was just to focused on being a mainstream shooter.

My hopes dashed up against the wall when i heard a new game.

 

[Arakasi]

Though, I did buy a copy of Fallout 3 which just plain crashed everytime I tried to play it for more than 10 minuites on my PC.
Moral of the story: Only buy Bethesda games for consoles.

That's funny. I would only buy a Bethesda game on the PC.
With a couple of mods, Fallout 3 ran beautifully on my PC; the trick was installing the mods correctly.

I'm still waiting for Bethesda to patch Fallout 3 & New Vegas into working order on my ps3 and I'm getting the feeling that that's never going to happen.

On the PC you have options; on the consoles, you're at the mercy of the publisher and the sad thing is that more and more publishers are releasing a couple of lame patches than writing off the game. It's not just Bethesda, EA does it all the time too.

I suppose that's valid, however, I have had no problems with Bethesda games on my console (Xbox360), and on my computer I had unsolvable (Seriously, no mod I could find helped) crashes.

What I mean to say, is that they test for all of the consoles, but they can't test for all of the computers, so it's more likely to be fucked up on a PC than a computer, whist a PC is more likely to have a fix than a console.

On the 360 they're probably okay but I have a ps3, so I end up playing on the PC a lot.
Do you mean all games crash on your PC or just Bethesda games? If it's all games, there might be something wrong with your video card or something.
If it's just Bethesda games, there could be a few things. Have you ever done the .ini file tweaks. The guy who made the FWE mod made a great video for installing mods and after I followed it, the game ran beautifully. I'll see if I can find that for you.
We shouldn't have to do do all that for the pc, and on the console you shouldn't have to turn off autosave and rush through the main quest.

Just Fallout 3 crashes. But it's alright, I got the GOTY edition on Xbox360 and gave my PC copy to my cousin for Christmas.
I did try numerous fixes including the quad core fix, all the .ini file tweaks I could find, anything.
But after (If I was lucky) 10 minutes, it would crash.

 

[PotluckBrigand]

Most broken was probably Messiah. I have never had that game run on any of the four machines I have owned since I bought it. Even the GOG version, which ostensibly is supposed to work on newer versions of windows, doesn't really play. I got farther in that one that any of the previous iterations I had tried. It even loaded a level! Then the sound went out... my textures dissolved, my cat died, and my machine crashed.

Sword of the Star 2 was also a major big-riddled mess. I felt genuinely bad for the dev team. I have NO idea what happened, but they seemed as perplexed as their customers. As far as I know, they are still trying to fix it, but the damage is done. People care far too much about review scores to let a 42 Metacritic score slide, and to be fair, the state the game launched in didn't deserve HALF of that score.

And finally, I know it's pretty much rote by now, but Skyrim is/was one broken-ass game. It hasn't crashed on me since the patch a couple weeks ago, but it got to the point where I was crashing on pretty much 1 out of every 3 area transitions, and then just randomly every five minutes or so. No good.

 

[Zouriz]

Enter the Matrix DVD version. It has this game breaking glitch that makes it impossible to beat a certain level. There is this one driving level where you are chasing something(I think that was it, it has been awhile), but no matter that you do, you always fail. I must have tried this level 100 times and found no real way to even survive a minute in that level before failing. I tired everything I could, but couldn't find a way to fix this problem. So I gave up. Oh well, it's a pretty crappy game anyway.

 

[Dark Prophet]

Fallout NV never have I played a more broken game at launch, and it's still fucking shit. It's made all the more frustrating by the fact that the game world is beautiful and the game if without the bugs and glitches and constant crashes is near perfect.

 

[Frybird]

Saints Row 2 (PC)...can't get it to run.

Alone in the Dark (360)...not that bad in terms of glitchyness or something, but i feel like the bold and innovative game mechanics just didn't work out.

Enter the Matrix DVD version. It has this game breaking glitch that makes it impossible to beat a certain level. There is this one driving level where you are chasing something(I think that was it, it has been awhile), but no matter that you do, you always fail. I must have tried this level 100 times and found no real way to even survive a minute in that level before failing. I tired everything I could, but couldn't find a way to fix this problem. So I gave up. Oh well, it's a pretty crappy game anyway.

Yep, had that one too ("Path of Neo" wasn't that much better either)...not only a buggy mess, an ugly one too, they couldn't even get circles (like car tires) right.

 

[TomLikesGuitar]

Wow.

Are you all trolling?

A lot of my 2600 games are far more broken than any modern game could POSSIBLY be and I have a few that are actually unplayable. To say that New Vegas is broken is silly.

I have a play through of New Vegas where I have done every single possible quest and gotten every single possible piece of notable loot and have done all the DLC's and gotten 100's in every skill (Yeah, I had no life for a while.), and the ONLY problems I had were a few crashes (just autosave and quicksave more) and a broken quest for one of my companions.

When you think about the incredible size and scope of a game like New Vegas and call it "THE most broken game" because of a few minor problems that are easily fixed, you're being stupid.

 

[Necroid_Neko]

Skyrim when I first installed it and it refused to update correctly. 2 days and a lot of magenta-faced characters, square light rendering and being kicked out of the game after a minute of gameplay and it finally updated and fixed itself.

 

[Kaymish]

Fallout New Vegas so far with other games i have i have had only the minimum of bugs or haven't bought the buggy heap as such so it wasn't so bad or bought it after it was patched into a reasonable state
but FO:NV is so buggy even now that it will randomly crash on me or things will mess out or what ever
the next worst game i have bought was VTMB but with all the community patches it is almost perfect now

 

[Cyrus Hanley]

Fallout: New Vegas is the most broken game I have ever bought, but I bought it after watching Yahtzee's review and hearing about all of its faults.

Despite that I've never actually encountered any game-breaking glitches or bugs and, so far, the purchase has proved itself to be worth it.