Most buggy game you have played?
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I recall in the early days of 3D gaming, on the PS1, collision detection issues were rife as developers got used to the new technology. It was easy to push the camera through the scenery or get the player character stuck in walls and furniture in the game world.
The buggiest game I recall from recent times is Mafia 3. I enjoyed it but bigs were rife. Texture issues, physics engine mishaps and a good number of fatal errors which froze the game and forced the CPU to shut it down.
The buggiest game I recall from recent times is Mafia 3. I enjoyed it but bigs were rife. Texture issues, physics engine mishaps and a good number of fatal errors which froze the game and forced the CPU to shut it down.
Lego Star Wars on the Nintendo DS - continually falling through scenery, only way to recover was to turn it off and on again to back to previous auto save point.
Once managed to hit a save point at the same time as finding a new place to fall through, leaving only option to start entire game again. Got rid of it after that.
Once managed to hit a save point at the same time as finding a new place to fall through, leaving only option to start entire game again. Got rid of it after that.
Fallout 3. Some were funny, like bodies stretching to stupid proportions or the wrong voices being assigned. Some were creepy, like dead bodies taking to you. Some were rather annoying, like getting you stuck in the ground or corrupting save files. Either way, the game had more bugs than an African summer. It was still great though, like that classic car you love but are never sure if it will get you home.
The one that sticks in my mind is Red Dead Redemption on PS3, cut scenes when you're talking to a pair of floating eye balls in a hat were pretty funny, but riding along and either suddenly falling through the ground in the vast expanse of nothingness or getting stuck knee deep in it wasn't given how long it took to get around the place.
Whilst not a bug per se the online game was ruined by hackers and cheats, flying about the place, using guns that fired horse carriages and things like that - it wasn't worth playing.
Couple that with a character who reacted to water like you might molten rock in real life and it makes for a flawed game, brilliant, absolutely brilliant, but flawed. R* didn’t patch it much, updates were usually to push DLC and they didn’t seem bothered about fixing the online game.
Whilst not a bug per se the online game was ruined by hackers and cheats, flying about the place, using guns that fired horse carriages and things like that - it wasn't worth playing.
Couple that with a character who reacted to water like you might molten rock in real life and it makes for a flawed game, brilliant, absolutely brilliant, but flawed. R* didn’t patch it much, updates were usually to push DLC and they didn’t seem bothered about fixing the online game.
Zynaps - Amstrad CPC 464 (side ways scrolling shoot'em'up) - collision detection on the first stage with the scenery was terrible at one particular point. You had to ignore what your eyes told you and position your ship well above the gap. Get past this and the game was great.....
No rage quit in those days as it took 10 minutes to load.
No rage quit in those days as it took 10 minutes to load.
P-Jay said:
The one that sticks in my mind is Red Dead Redemption on PS3, cut scenes when you're talking to a pair of floating eye balls in a hat were pretty funny, but riding along and either suddenly falling through the ground in the vast expanse of nothingness or getting stuck knee deep in it wasn't given how long it took to get around the place.
Whilst not a bug per se the online game was ruined by hackers and cheats, flying about the place, using guns that fired horse carriages and things like that - it wasn't worth playing.
Couple that with a character who reacted to water like you might molten rock in real life and it makes for a flawed game, brilliant, absolutely brilliant, but flawed. R* didn’t patch it much, updates were usually to push DLC and they didn’t seem bothered about fixing the online game.
What's strange is I've played RDR loads & have never had any glitches at all - never played online though.Whilst not a bug per se the online game was ruined by hackers and cheats, flying about the place, using guns that fired horse carriages and things like that - it wasn't worth playing.
Couple that with a character who reacted to water like you might molten rock in real life and it makes for a flawed game, brilliant, absolutely brilliant, but flawed. R* didn’t patch it much, updates were usually to push DLC and they didn’t seem bothered about fixing the online game.
I find some of the Lego games can be a bit icky at times.
Nothing beats Big rigs: Over the road racing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rigs%3A_Over_the...
No collision detection, no AI, no objectives. It's fun to play just to see how bad it is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rigs%3A_Over_the...
No collision detection, no AI, no objectives. It's fun to play just to see how bad it is.
My favourite that springs to mind is from an old favourite of mine: X-Com Apocalypse. Anyone familiar with the franchise will know you have bases with storage and the ability to buy or manufacture weapons etc.
It was very, very hard to progress through the game under the budgetary constraints you were placed under. Then at some random point in the mid-game, you'd get a message saying your storehouse was full so no further manufacture could be carried out.
Rather than this being a problem, it meant the game had decided you had 67,000 of some random commodity, usually some alien tech with a very small size and a high value. That you could sell.
At which point you went from being permanently broke to having up to a trillion dollars.
It was very, very hard to progress through the game under the budgetary constraints you were placed under. Then at some random point in the mid-game, you'd get a message saying your storehouse was full so no further manufacture could be carried out.
Rather than this being a problem, it meant the game had decided you had 67,000 of some random commodity, usually some alien tech with a very small size and a high value. That you could sell.
At which point you went from being permanently broke to having up to a trillion dollars.
Ian_sUK said:
Nothing beats Big rigs: Over the road racing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rigs%3A_Over_the...
No collision detection, no AI, no objectives. It's fun to play just to see how bad it is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rigs%3A_Over_the...
No collision detection, no AI, no objectives. It's fun to play just to see how bad it is.
I want to try that, just to see how comically bad it is
northwest monkey said:
P-Jay said:
The one that sticks in my mind is Red Dead Redemption on PS3, cut scenes when you're talking to a pair of floating eye balls in a hat were pretty funny, but riding along and either suddenly falling through the ground in the vast expanse of nothingness or getting stuck knee deep in it wasn't given how long it took to get around the place.
Whilst not a bug per se the online game was ruined by hackers and cheats, flying about the place, using guns that fired horse carriages and things like that - it wasn't worth playing.
Couple that with a character who reacted to water like you might molten rock in real life and it makes for a flawed game, brilliant, absolutely brilliant, but flawed. R* didn’t patch it much, updates were usually to push DLC and they didn’t seem bothered about fixing the online game.
What's strange is I've played RDR loads & have never had any glitches at all - never played online though.Whilst not a bug per se the online game was ruined by hackers and cheats, flying about the place, using guns that fired horse carriages and things like that - it wasn't worth playing.
Couple that with a character who reacted to water like you might molten rock in real life and it makes for a flawed game, brilliant, absolutely brilliant, but flawed. R* didn’t patch it much, updates were usually to push DLC and they didn’t seem bothered about fixing the online game.
I find some of the Lego games can be a bit icky at times.
reading between the lines, the game really pushed the PS3 to it's limits because of the way it was coded (or words to that effect) so if you had in any way a less than perfect disc or system it would play up, mine was one of the original fat 40GB PS3s from 2006 - with an upgraded HDD so fairly worn out. Ironically though, that same system played GTAV perfectly up to about 18 months ago when it finally keeled over after 10 years loyal service.
Currently playing The Division, it seems every couple of weeks there's a new update to download, usually 1GB+ which is very annoying when I average 1Mbps download speeds. And even then it never launches first time. Usually takes a couple of attempts to start the game up, very frustrating.
As above, Big Rigs is the obvious one- I do wonder if the sheer amount of negative publicity it got has actually led to more people buying the game "to see how bad it really is" than would have even heard about it otherwise...
The other big one on PC was the original Hidden & Dangerous. A very ambitious game for the time (WW2 squad-based tactical shooter, 1st/3rd person, full loadout customisation, planning screens, and some of the best map design I've ever seen in a game of that type), but unfortunately also bugged almost to the point of being unplayable in it's original release.
I persisted but it was an exercise in abject frustration- seeing that there was clearly such an incredible game hidden (pun partially intended) beneath a mask of dangerous (pun definitely intended and not well suited) system crashes, falling through the landscape, sound-bugs, random deaths, numerous AI issues.
For the 20% or so of the time that it worked though, it was brilliant, and felt way ahead of it's time.
The other big one on PC was the original Hidden & Dangerous. A very ambitious game for the time (WW2 squad-based tactical shooter, 1st/3rd person, full loadout customisation, planning screens, and some of the best map design I've ever seen in a game of that type), but unfortunately also bugged almost to the point of being unplayable in it's original release.
I persisted but it was an exercise in abject frustration- seeing that there was clearly such an incredible game hidden (pun partially intended) beneath a mask of dangerous (pun definitely intended and not well suited) system crashes, falling through the landscape, sound-bugs, random deaths, numerous AI issues.
For the 20% or so of the time that it worked though, it was brilliant, and felt way ahead of it's time.
Gran Turismo 6 was the worst I've had in recent times.
Quite amusing that you could brake hard enough sometimes to cause the back wheels to lift off the ground.
But also there were quite annoying bugs relating to laps not being counted and so on. It was quite plain to see that the game was released unfinished (especially considering there were features on the box that weren't in the game)
Quite amusing that you could brake hard enough sometimes to cause the back wheels to lift off the ground.
But also there were quite annoying bugs relating to laps not being counted and so on. It was quite plain to see that the game was released unfinished (especially considering there were features on the box that weren't in the game
) Edited by budgie smuggler on Friday 13th January 12:46
budgie smuggler said:
Gran Turismo 6 was the worst I've had in recent times.
Quite amusing that you could brake hard enough sometimes to cause the back wheels to lift off the ground.
But also there were quite annoying bugs relating to laps to being counted and so on. It was quite plain to see that the game was released unfinished.
That's interesting to hear- I fancied another GT fix recently so started playing GT-5 again having bought it back in 2010 but had only got around to playing around 5 hours or so. Quite amusing that you could brake hard enough sometimes to cause the back wheels to lift off the ground.
But also there were quite annoying bugs relating to laps to being counted and so on. It was quite plain to see that the game was released unfinished.
Edited by budgie smuggler on Friday 13th January 12:45
I considered getting 6 (being the last one available for the PS3) thinking it would obviously have more up-to-date cars etc, but seeing that and having read some rather underwhelming reviews perhaps I'm better off sticking with 5.
Squirrelofwoe said:
That's interesting to hear- I fancied another GT fix recently so started playing GT-5 again having bought it back in 2010 but had only got around to playing around 5 hours or so.
I considered getting 6 (being the last one available for the PS3) thinking it would obviously have more up-to-date cars etc, but seeing that and having read some rather underwhelming reviews perhaps I'm better off sticking with 5.
In general it's a better game, but the bugs and constant patches got tiresome.I considered getting 6 (being the last one available for the PS3) thinking it would obviously have more up-to-date cars etc, but seeing that and having read some rather underwhelming reviews perhaps I'm better off sticking with 5.
Here's a pic of the 'stoppy' bug btw
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