SimuLord:

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.

That's only because the thread's full of whippersnappers who don't remember how Daggerfall, as shipped in boxes, was so completely broken that the main questline could not under any circumstances be finished because a required NPC did not spawn. Also, whilst this didn't matter at the time, playing it on anything faster than a 486 meant that without complete magic resistance or cheating you would inevitably die to every caster from about level 10 upwards, because there was no delay for enemy spellcasters, and no mana limit, meaning they hit you with hundreds of spells per second (Depending on the speed of your processor).

Frontier: First Encounters was also a bug-raddled monstrosity, to the extent that they had to rerelease the game with the patches on a floppy in the box, and took out full page ads in the gaming press of the time apologising for what a mess it was.

Surprises me that nobody has mentioned the S.T.A.L.K.E.R games yet.

Just to mention how buggy they are - Clear Sky had 4 patches released in less than 25 days...

I am gonna be one of thos smug gits who steps in and says

MTW2, are you kidding my copy plus expansion pack works perfectly. Mind you you do know that it's 'buggyness' as you describe it is more than likely down to the Securom anti piracy software it installs. Remember reading a bout people who had installed other Securom protected games; Bioshock, STALKER, Spore etc having problems getting other Securom games to install, patch update and run in general.

I also notice a lot of folk saying Oblivion, lol that's another game I never had any problems with.

Stalker on the other hand, BSOD every time you moved between areas, turned out to be a conflict with Nvida's new memory leak fixed drivers for the 8series GPUs. I have to run year old drivers to get the game to work. I also read about Clear Sky and it's serious bug issues so I am still thinking about weather to purchase that game or not.

Gmod can be twitchy as well, especially since it allows any old crap created by any triple thumbed goon to run on it, right up until it locks up and goes off for a coffee and fag break.

Meh, i had loads of problems with Bioshock, especially at its release, and i know that i wasnt the only one that had problems....

I had a huge problem with Bioshock, mostly the fact that it was complete and total tramp pants. Does that count as a bug?

Galactic Civilizations 2... of course it got patched pretty quick...
CIV III: play the world

I looked up "You Are Empty" and yeah, hilariously unprofessional...

the futurama game, almost unplayable it's so frustrating.

axia777:
KOTOR 1 on the PC before they put out the patch. Great game, crashed all the time. Even with the patch it was bad. Not as bad, but still bad enough to piss me off something awful. If it was not as awesome I would have stopped paying it in the first 5 minutes.

Urgh, that game was horrible until they fixed that memory leak. I didn't have any problems after that though. On the plus side, that was my first time seeing a memory leak in action, so much like the first time I had a case fan die on me and got to see how weird a computer acts when it starts to overheat slightly, it was a good learning experience.

Driver 3! I managed to win a particular mission by finding a bit of floor where you just fall into nothingness and lured my enemies so they would disappear :D!

TOGSolid:
Daikatana

I win

not sure if it was buggy as much as a pile of crap, at least it showed everyone who the real talent at id was and it wasn't Romero

yeah Big Rigs was pretty bad, it's one of the only game to not receive a score on xplay cause 1 is the lowest they can give it

as for buggy games, i'd have to say either Arena or Daggerfall. Daggerfall was released and in the first 2 months had 50+ megs worth of patches for it. comparatively Morrowind and Oblivion are pieces of coding masterpieces

Are you kiddin, Big Rigs is comedy genius (whether intended or not). mind you I got it for £2, best 2 pounds I ever spent!

Sirisaxman:
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.

The worst case of that ever happening to me was when I was looking over the capital city as the sun rose over it, getting in the mood of some free-roaming adventure. It looked beautiful. Then I tried to move, and I realised the whole thing had frozen. It took me by suprise that time, but now that I have my 1000 gamerscore I never need to touch it again.

cleverlymadeup:

TOGSolid:
Daikatana

I win

not sure if it was buggy as much as a pile of crap, at least it showed everyone who the real talent at id was and it wasn't Romero

yeah Big Rigs was pretty bad, it's one of the only game to not receive a score on xplay cause 1 is the lowest they can give it

as for buggy games, i'd have to say either Arena or Daggerfall. Daggerfall was released and in the first 2 months had 50+ megs worth of patches for it. comparatively Morrowind and Oblivion are pieces of coding masterpieces

Daikatana wouldn't even install for me. Every attempt resulted in either corrupted installs or it crapping out while trying to install it no matter what rig I tried to put it on.
I've never played a game since then that was that buggy (and now I feel kinda old).

I'll have to get Big Rigs soley to witness that masterstroke train wreck and play it for laughs.

Anyone here ever played UFO:Aftershock? This game was extremly buggy. Crashed all the time or sometimes your soldiers just left all their guns at home...and startet the mission without any firepower. Yeah, great.

The buggiest game I have ever seen was/is S.T.A.L.K.E.R clear sky. It's just a short while after it's release and it's already on it's 4th or 5th patch. I had to replay the game like 7 times due to mission bugs and not being able to load saves after patch. Not to mention the artifacts that fail to appear when you're standing right over them with a top class detectors after you spent 20 minutes getting to them through radiation, fire and exploding anomalies and the ever so sweet bug fixed in the first patch that caused the grenade to stick to the players hand. However with those horrible things said about the game let me even it out. If it were any normal game, I would have thrown it out the window after the third unreloadable patch, however the gun combat, the story, the beautiful graphics, the depressing surrounding, the mutant dogs, faction wars and the fights that make crysis on hard feel like a walk in the park, more than give you reason to keep on moving.

I've personally had problems with: Oblivion, The Orange Box and Mass Effect.

Oblivion often has trouble acknowledging that I've fufilled certain objectives and, for some strange reason, has every weapon shop in the world closed and locked even at midday.

The Orange Box largely has trouble with me when I play Half Life 2 and it's spawn (yes, I dislike Valve and their games). I frequently have situations where a vital NPC will disappear (most notably, Farther Grigori at the end of Ravenholm) meaning that I'm stuck at one of their thrice cursed 'gates' because I can't open the damn thing myself (it would appear that Gordan doesn't have poseable thumbs).

Mass effect has issues with Shepard getting stuck on terrain meaning that I cannot escape or otherwise move anywhere leaving with no choice but to load a previous game (I once lost an hour and a half of progress because of this).

Halo 2 mp. had its share fare of glitches but most were cool. there was one where you could get knocked through a wall and your dead body would become giant and float on the top of the map

Rezfon:
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

PC ports from console generally has horrible controls that simply doesn't work, and bad graphics, I guess that is far worse than most bugs.

Iron Mal:
I've personally had problems with: Oblivion, The Orange Box and Mass Effect.

Oblivion often has trouble acknowledging that I've fufilled certain objectives and, for some strange reason, has every weapon shop in the world closed and locked even at midday.

The Orange Box largely has trouble with me when I play Half Life 2 and it's spawn (yes, I dislike Valve and their games). I frequently have situations where a vital NPC will disappear (most notably, Farther Grigori at the end of Ravenholm) meaning that I'm stuck at one of their thrice cursed 'gates' because I can't open the damn thing myself (it would appear that Gordan doesn't have poseable thumbs).

Mass effect has issues with Shepard getting stuck on terrain meaning that I cannot escape or otherwise move anywhere leaving with no choice but to load a previous game (I once lost an hour and a half of progress because of this).

For clarification, is this on PC or XBox? And if PC, do you have all the latest patches for both the game and your hardware?

All three of the games I detailed were the Xbox versions, any suggestions as to what is wrong/solutions?

CyberAkuma:
Surprises me that nobody has mentioned the S.T.A.L.K.E.R games yet.

Just to mention how buggy they are - Clear Sky had 4 patches released in less than 25 days...

Oh God don't remind me! They have released so many patches and fixed none of my problems. I can only hope Clear Skies is doing better than the first.

I made a game once, and it sucked for that very reason.

Anyways, Ghost Recon AW. The first time it would be impossible to get the rocket launcher and destroy the tank on the second level. Eventually they released a patch to fix it. Now I can't even control my squad members and sometimes events wouldn't occur when they were suppose to. I can't get through that game because of all the bugs.

http://fromearth.net/LetsPlay/Sonic2006/

This will break your mind just watching it. Watch as Pokecapn and his crew turn from optimists to psychopathic killers.

ARRGh I was so frustrated by Clear Sky. I got about Half way through twice and had to restart due to bugs and scripting errors, I said "Fuck this, I'm goin back to Zombie Panic" so I did.

Cutthroats: Terror on the High Seas

Alright, it will never win the 'Most Bugs Evar' award, but it's still pretty darn buggy. Also, it's pretty darn fun. The only pirate game, alongside with Sid Meier's Pirates!, that actually makes you feel all piratey, without having to have magical elements.

Daikatana.

I watched a Lets Play of it. At one point, a cutscene occurred that was supposed to open a door for the player to get on with the level. After the scene ended, the door was still shut and it was impossible to progress.

Seriously, the players had to no-clip through the wall to move on.

Also, how many other games do you know have the no-clip option shortcut keyed by default? Ion Storm obviously knew what a buggy piece of shit their game was.

Oh, John Romero. You fail so hard. :D

ETA: Eek, accidental double post. Sorry, ya'll.

SaberFire:
http://fromearth.net/LetsPlay/Sonic2006/

This will break your mind just watching it. Watch as Pokecapn and his crew turn from optimists to psychopathic killers.

Oh god, that LP. Those poor guys. D: Didn't they calculate how much of their LP was loading screens? It was over 10% if I remember right. Oh, poor pokecapn. AND THE ELISE/SONIC MOMENT, WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT? :weeps:

TNA Impact Wrestling.

The game itself is a glitch. Infact, the wrestling games on Sega Mega Drive had more solid foundation then this game. You can't even pass the story mode, and the special moves button combo doesn't even work. Not to mention the 200,000 other glitches, likely every piece of code gone into making the game.

Ice Storm:

"YOU'RE WINNER!"

That's all of a sudden my new favorite game quote.

Saints Row 1. Apparently if you delete any of the DLC you may have downloaded for the game, it corrupts your save, and makes you start over again, naked, and with a transparant, uh...crotchal region.

Seriously.

The most buggy games I've played were LoZ:OoT and Baldurs Gate, both for Gamecube. (Neither were really buggy, but the thread...)
In LoZ there were several times when Epona fell through the earth never to be seen again, until you restarted from the previous save. Baldurs Gate had many, many times where I fell to my death but didn't die; I was able to run around my blood splatter in the poisonous fog for a few minutes until I jumped and died when I landed.

Deadly Creatures for the Wii.

...what do you mean not that type of bugs?

It's good to see this thread back just when I was thinking about finding it again to point out that Bethesda strike again, and Fallout is nigh on comprehensively broken in almost every way imaginable, whether it's the stupid scripting that turns Arefu hostile, bugging out Paradise Falls so you can't complete Rescue from Paradise, crashing when you go to the Jefferson Memorial so you can never complete the main quest, or any one of a hundred other stupid ways you can break the game.

Daggerfall, probably not the buggiest game ever, but its definitely up down there.

Also World in Conflict, definitely not the buggiest game, but I thought I should voice my experience that, no matter WHICH hardware setup I play it on, or WHICH patch I play it from, its never stable enough to play for more than an hour at a time, unpatched only about 10 minutes before BSOD.

Most buggiest game for me was NFS Most Wanted, always at the end of most of the races id hit some invisible wall and and would have to restart the race. Dont know if im the only one who has faced that, but nearly doubled the time i had to play MW.

Big Rigs has to be the buggiest game ever.
Gamespot's review;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB1zWEhgrLs