OK so finally, I manage to get MTW2 to install properly but now it refuses to install the expansion that came with it or play battles at all. The game has numerous bugs reported on the Forums.(I have seen literally hundreds on the forums).

My drivers are fully updated and everything in perfect working order so now I do declare MTW2 the buggiest game ever.

Discuss your cases of extremely buggy games.

Yeah I hated Mormon Trombone Wrestling 2 as well. The first one was much better.

Decoy Doctorpus:
Yeah I hated Mormon Trombone Wrestling 2 as well. The first one was much better.

LOL Medieval Total War 2

This thread is supposed to be about your instances of horribly buggy games not mine.

Off the top of my head I can think of You Are Empty (pile of sh*t game). I'm sure there's buggier though.

I'd say Splinter Cell Double Agent for the pc. It was the worst port of a big name game I've ever seen. The menus didn't work, the training missions didn't work until they were patched, it ran like ass, quitting a game meant you had to watch the pre rendered background run for a minute or so before the menu kicked in. It was downright insulting.

Two Worlds.

Practically Unplayable.

Big Rigs, I believe that's its name. If you ever saw the review, you know of the horrors. Trucks fall through the bridges, leave the land, AI doesn't race you (They stay there at the start like an idiot), you can run through any thing in front of you as if it wasn't there, and there's no sound at all.

To top it off, here's our favorite quote of how they say you win..

"YOU'RE WINNER!"

Yes, I are winner.

Edit: Many grammar mistakes in this post. I have cleansed my sins!

Neverwinter Nights 2. I couldn't even play it on my machine, even though games with much higher requirements run fine. I delayed buying The Witcher for almost a year because I was concerned over the fact they are based on the same engine. NWN2 wins entirely because it put me off of other similar games.

I would be inclined to say Alone In the dark, but the game still actually works....badly and I know there are worse ones. I would probably nominate an area rather than a specific game, pc ports from consoles generally tend to be incredibly buggy

The first few months of the 'first' incarnation of Star Wars: Galaxies. Talk about a game that was realsed by SOE with no apparant QA in beta.

Crap-tastic from day one....and I was sucker to stick with it for a whole year before I finally just gave up on it altogther.

Knights of the Old Republic II has more than one killer bug that can result in no game completion scenarios.

Ghost Recon 2 for the xbox. Fun as hell and the most broken game I have played.

As much as I loved it Oblivion is one of the buggiest games ever. It had the lot, graphics glitches, occasional incompleteable quests and the brilliant dialogue glitches. In particular the ones where you could calm an NPC and make them friendly to you, allowing you to engage them in a conversation consisting of "I HAVE NO GREETING!" on their part.

Ice Storm:
Big Rig Truckers I believe that's its name. If you ever saw the review, you know of the horrors. Trucks fall through the bridges, leave the land, AI doesn't race you (They stay there at the start like a idiot), you can run through any thing in front of you as if it wasn't there, and there's no sound at all.

To top it off, here's our favorite quote of how the say you win..

"YOU'RE WINNER!"

Yes, I are winner.

Actually the title is "Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing", and you're totally right about how broken the game is. One of its more interesting glitches is that when you go in reverse there's no top speed, you just infinitely accelerate. There's even a YouTube video where a guy holds down the reverse key for a while and goes something like 600,000 MPH. When you let go of reverse, the truck immediately stops in place.

Alone in the Dark.

The ONLY game where my car looked like it was crashing, tilted forward at a 40 degree angle, flew in the air, and slammed back on the ground and I managed to recover from that.

Medieval 2 is the buggiest game ever!? You gotta be joking man.

THE buggiest game ever, is Big Rigs, which is right above Splinter Cell: Double Agent (PC) which is right above Mercenaries 2.

Two words: You're Winner!

ElArabDeMagnifico:
Medieval 2 is the buggiest game ever!? You gotta be joking man.

THE buggiest game ever, is Big Rigs, which is right above Splinter Cell: Double Agent (PC) which is right above Mercenaries 2.

You have no idea how bad it is for me....

Morrowind and Too Human have to be the buggiest games I've played. Morrowind would crash to desktop all the time for me before all the patches it got. TH... ugh, even the demo was buggy. You could select locked characters, and they would be fully playable

Morrowind froze and crashed on many an occasion for me, but it doesn't have the crushing glitch in its sequel. In Oblivion, you can get promoted (actually demoted) from Master Thief to Shadowfoot if you start the Grey Fox quests too early. If this happens, then during the sceno at the end of the final quest, the Grey Fox will walk out of the building without talking to you, leaving you stuck immobile in sceno move, unable to continue without reloading a previous save game.

mspencer82:

Ice Storm:
Big Rig Truckers I believe that's its name. If you ever saw the review, you know of the horrors. Trucks fall through the bridges, leave the land, AI doesn't race you (They stay there at the start like a idiot), you can run through any thing in front of you as if it wasn't there, and there's no sound at all.

To top it off, here's our favorite quote of how the say you win..

"YOU'RE WINNER!"

Yes, I are winner.

Actually the title is "Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing", and you're totally right about how broken the game is. One of its more interesting glitches is that when you go in reverse there's no top speed, you just infinitely accelerate. There's even a YouTube video where a guy holds down the reverse key for a while and goes something like 600,000 MPH. When you let go of reverse, the truck immediately stops in place.

Dang, I knew my post wasn't the right title of the game!

Oh well, we all remember X-Plays review of it. They admitted that it wans't even going to be rated, because they can't score anything lower then a one. Ugh, I hope that game died painfully. It was a tragic event to happen to all gamers.

Tokyo Xtreme Racer 2 was so buggy that it's developer Genki actually apologized publicly to save face... even though it was topping sales charts in Japan for a while.

Ice Storm:
Big Rig Truckers I believe that's its name. If you ever saw the review, you know of the horrors. Trucks fall through the bridges, leave the land, AI doesn't race you (They stay there at the start like a idiot), you can run through any thing in front of you as if it wasn't there, and there's no sound at all.

To top it off, here's our favorite quote of how the say you win..

"YOU'RE WINNER!"

Yes, I are winner.

By law that should not be considered a game. It should also be a sin and offense to mention that accursed name anywhere...same goes for E.T..

Neverwinter Nights had to be pretty buggy up until the first major patch - clipping through surfaces, objects you couldn't interact with, and a bunch of partner pathing effects were really rough to deal with. Thankfully, the developers were on top of things.

I'd honestly say MMOs are the most susceptible to bugs, as they have to support a large playerbase and balance classes among a bunch of users who frankly are going to be paying for testing in some form or fashion.

I believe the current record-holder (in its weight class) is TakeTwo's original release of Battlecruiser 3000, which was rushed out the door in effort to get a shot at the Christmas market in a pathetic, pre-beta state. Eventually it was finished properly, and even released as a free download to prove that it was worth the wait, but never saw the success it might have deserved.

I bought the proper, final version and liked it. I feel sorry for the folks who had the original release foisted upon them.

But for me? Oblivion on the PC. It crashed, on average, every ten minutes- and this isn't even considering the legion of non-fatal bugs the devs left in and never bothered to patch. It's utterly shameful that one of the most popular mods is the "Unofficial Oblivion Patch".

MTW2 is buggy? I never heard that. I believe you, but I never encounted one bug, and I've played the hell out of that game. Well, one text error actually. Not really a bug though.

And Mercenaries 2 is the buggiest game ever. Seriously. Look it up. At any one time you're playing you're encountering atleast 2 glitches at a time. Every single bit of the game is prone to glitching. Depending on how bad whatever you're running it on is. Apparently some xboxs are more prone to glitches, my friend literally could not play the game on his xbox, and it was a known fact that his has glitches/freezes more often. He got a new xbox after that, and the game was fine. Well not fine, but actually playable.

-Seraph-:
By law that should not be considered a game. It should also be a sin and offense to mention that accursed name anywhere...same goes for E.T..

I am sorry master. I shall never speak of the name Big Rigs agai-...

... Dang it, not again! Anyways, yeah it's so awful that it should have never been published, let alone made!

Buggiest game is Half-Life 2 when 500 pellets come from your shotgun and the gravity is 10

Ghost recon advanced war fighter2's co-op missions.

Oblivion for the Xbox 360. Aside from the game-breaking glitches listed above, I learned to save VERY often because it tended to crash a LOT. As in, freeze in the middle of the game and the ONLY way to start it up again was to hold down the power button on the console. I still played the shit out of that game, but it froze on my Xbox and my roommate's Xbox almost every time it was played.

zachatree:
Ghost Recon 2 for the xbox. Fun as hell and the most broken game I have played.

GRAW was worse I would say with all the bugs like hearing a heli (and seeing the shadow) and not seeing it. Or not being able to advance because it wouldn't trigger an event.

Let's leave aside games like Big Rigs and focus on games that the developers actually put effort into that still came out buggy as hell.

In that vein I nominate Darklands and Daggerfall.

EDIT: I notice that Daggerfall is now the third Elder Scrolls game to be mentioned in this thread---anyone know if Arena was a buggy mess too? It'd be interesting to see Bethsoft hit for the cycle.

Giants: Citizen Kabuto...

I'm not sure if anyone else has ever played this game but on my original PC it took a minor miracle to get that game working. Sound glitches, video glitches, saving glitches, random crashes, you name it that game had it.

Zero Wing.

Yeah I've got it!

So what?!

Decoy Doctorpus:
Yeah I hated Mormon Trombone Wrestling 2 as well. The first one was much better.

Epic, Epic, Epic, You should take Chuck Norris's title as most well groomed human being of all time.

Personally, it was a game called rEVOlution Sci-Fi with system shock trappings, about bionic something or others...game was so incredibly made from fail you had to cheat to beat the second level because the code was flawed and wouldn't let you exit the level. Alternately the game had so many sound glitches half the time you fired your pistol it wouldn't even make a sound.