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Worst game-breaking bug you've personally experienced?
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Burning Justice
the superior princess
Golden Sun: The Lost Age, there's a certain spot at SW Atteka Islet where if you save and quit there, you'll be stuck the next time you reload your file. I happened to save there, and was forced to restart the entire game.
Of course, if I'd known about the sanctum trick, I could've continued, but I didn't at the time...
Of course, if I'd known about the sanctum trick, I could've continued, but I didn't at the time...
SolidSnakex
Member
In the DMC reboot I made it more than halfway through the game and was suddenly unable to select Eryx or Aquila (weapons). You need all of your weapons as certain puzzles can only be completed using certain weapons and some enemies can only be killed by using a specific weapon. Going back and fighting the bosses that give you the weapons didn't do anything either. So it just completely broke the game. That's the only time i've ever not been able to complete a game due to a bug.
TheGamingBox
Banned
can you go into more of this reformatting thing? why was the game doing it?
mcz117chief
Member
Gothic 3. Every dead NPC in a town vanished immediately after I killed the last enemy there. Many hours later I found out that one of the characters I killed but didn't get the chance to loot had an item that is necessary to advance in the game. I haven't played Gothic 3 since.
I remember I had a lot of bugs during my playthough of Daggerfall and Baldur's Gate 2.
Space Marine on Xbox360 was buggy as hell too, especially in multiplayer (I am talking legit bugs, not lag or connection issues of any kind).
It can't be worse than Ultima 8: Pagan. That game glitched out on me dozens of times in all conceivable places.
I remember I had a lot of bugs during my playthough of Daggerfall and Baldur's Gate 2.
Space Marine on Xbox360 was buggy as hell too, especially in multiplayer (I am talking legit bugs, not lag or connection issues of any kind).
It can't be worse than Ultima 8: Pagan. That game glitched out on me dozens of times in all conceivable places.
Duxxy3
Member
Memory leak problem in Prototype 2.
I was looking forward to it because I enjoyed the first one, but I couldn't play the second one for more than a few minutes.
Lack of QTE prompt in Tomb Raider for PS4.
Not sure what happened, but an early QTE in the game was completely fucked. I had copies on the XB1, 360 and PC and they all tested just fine. Haven't tried that version again because it just pissed me off.
I was looking forward to it because I enjoyed the first one, but I couldn't play the second one for more than a few minutes.
Lack of QTE prompt in Tomb Raider for PS4.
Not sure what happened, but an early QTE in the game was completely fucked. I had copies on the XB1, 360 and PC and they all tested just fine. Haven't tried that version again because it just pissed me off.
They're still around, and one of the biggest, richest developers in the world today. They just have a different name.
OnionPowder
Member
When I downloaded episode 5 of the original walking dead it wiped my save
Haven't bought a telltale game until its complete since
Haven't bought a telltale game until its complete since
CyclopsRock
Member
I played Dead Space 3 and about 20 my minutes into it there was a room that didn't exist. It was just the sky box and some floating enemies. I needed to cross this room but it wouldn't load. It was literally game breaking.
The worst that I personally experienced was the Mothership Zeta DLC that was included in Fallout 3 Game of the Year Edition on PC. There was a bugged script that wouldn't activate to progress further.
If I remember correctly, I only made a couple of saves after beginning the DLC, and reloading from either point didn't fix it. So I basically wasted two or more hours on that.
Reloaded to a save before I started the DLC and never tried the Mothership Zeta DLC ever again.
If I remember correctly, I only made a couple of saves after beginning the DLC, and reloading from either point didn't fix it. So I basically wasted two or more hours on that.
Reloaded to a save before I started the DLC and never tried the Mothership Zeta DLC ever again.
Think it was Neverdead, where you could throw your body parts around to damage opponents. Accidentally threw my head through a door, couldn't enter the room without it. Save game fucked.
That's a good choice though.
That's a good choice though.
Bobblehead Carth in KotoR 1.
If Mission finished the "spring everyone from Prison" mission while still cloaked, then about two hours later the game would lock up on Carth trying to talk to her during a cutscene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgqBQ8kW2Ac
If Mission finished the "spring everyone from Prison" mission while still cloaked, then about two hours later the game would lock up on Carth trying to talk to her during a cutscene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgqBQ8kW2Ac
Tyrant Rave
Banned
Only gamebreaking bug I've ever run into was in Fallout 4. One of the first story quests just didn't trigger so I had to restart
clem84
Gold Member
No one has mentioned Skyward Sword yet?
There was a bug in the second half of the game, that was admittedly difficult to trigger, where if you retrieved the songs in the wrong order (I think that was it) you could get stuck and wouldn't be able to proceed further. The problem was that, between the time where you take the action which causes the game to break and the time where you realize you really are stuck, there are plenty of opportunities to save your game, which means anyone doing so would wreck his save file.
I think they patched it later on through a download. I don't know if they ever patched the retail game though.
There was a bug in the second half of the game, that was admittedly difficult to trigger, where if you retrieved the songs in the wrong order (I think that was it) you could get stuck and wouldn't be able to proceed further. The problem was that, between the time where you take the action which causes the game to break and the time where you realize you really are stuck, there are plenty of opportunities to save your game, which means anyone doing so would wreck his save file.
I think they patched it later on through a download. I don't know if they ever patched the retail game though.
I've been lucky enough not having experienced anything really bad. The closest call was probably the bug that could randomly disable jumping in Half-life 2 towards the end of the game if you were unlucky. The inability to jump was stored as part of the game state, so if you reused a small number of slots, it could infect all of them before you realized that you were caught by the bug. Also, jumping was absolutely necessary to get past one of the obstacles in the Citadel, so there was no way to complete the game in the bugged state.
I didn't lose too much progress myself, though, and if I had, HL2 also allows you to start a new game from any chapter you've already reached. I just hope something similar doesn't happen in a game without such features (e.g. Singularity, which has autosave-only without any chapter select feature).
I didn't lose too much progress myself, though, and if I had, HL2 also allows you to start a new game from any chapter you've already reached. I just hope something similar doesn't happen in a game without such features (e.g. Singularity, which has autosave-only without any chapter select feature).
Generalpsyduck
Banned
Got stuck in novovugrad in the witcher 3. My save file got corrupted to. It was on a 80 hour file
Rockin' Ranger
Member
Tomb Raider 2013, about 75% in to the game I had an entire room where the objects in it not load so I could do the puzzle to get through it. Even reloading the save didn't work, though thankfully I found a save file online that was a little behind where I had been and it was okay the second time through.
am still traumatised to this dayUcchedavÄda
Member
I recently played Legendary, a mostly forgettable shooter with enemies taken out of various mythologies. Towards the very end of the game you have to take a short elevator ride up to the final confrontation. However, the game engine cannot handle this properly if the frame-rate is above 30, even though the game is not capped at 30 FPS, with the result is that you will fall through the floor of the elevator, every time you try to progress. Luckily, you can tweak some values in an ini file, forcing the game to run at a lower frame-rate, which fixes this problem.
aygomyownroad
Member
Oblivion. Was one quest that never worked. The guy died as scripted and I had to kill a Troll or ogre or something. Once I killed him I was meant to go back to the dead mans wife according to a guide I looked at to find out what was going on, but it never triggered.
I went and done the whole game again (as I loved it So much) and did the quest again... It just had the dead guy clipping through the ground and the final gate to let me out never opened...
There has also been a load in Fallout 3, and especially New Vegas.
Fallout 4 has crashed 4 times on me but that has been since the DLC
I went and done the whole game again (as I loved it So much) and did the quest again... It just had the dead guy clipping through the ground and the final gate to let me out never opened...
There has also been a load in Fallout 3, and especially New Vegas.
Fallout 4 has crashed 4 times on me but that has been since the DLC
Witcher 3, game froze at boss fight for over 2 weeks before a patch fixed it. Never experienced a bug or glitch that completely halted by ability to play before then. I've had my fair share of mishaps and crashes, especially in Bethesda games like Morrowind, Skyrim, FO3, NV and other games, but always was able to work around things or find a solution fairly easily. But not so with the Witcher 3. Just had to forget about the game for a couple weeks and hope one of the many patches they released addressed my issue.
Chozo_Lord
Member
I got the wii and Zelda Twilight Princess day one. In the beginning in the village there is a fishing part that's required to continue. No matter what I did the fishing rod wouldn't work. I looked up what videos I could at the time and saw what they did and it simply wouldn't let me do it. I even created a new save and everything multiple times. I returned my copy to gamestop for a new copy and voila the new copy worked as intended. I must've gotten a rare bugged copy of the game.
In the PS3 version of FF X-2 you need to complete a mission (finding a guy for a music thing) and talk a NPC to advance the plot. What happens next however is both frustrating and hilarious. I entered the screen where the guy was supposed to be and he was. Only he was floating into the air. Seeing this was a bug, I decided to reload the save, but sadly he was in the same place. But it gets worse, now he walks of into the air. I reloaded my save like twenty times, but he wouldn't appear anymore.
So I have to replay the entire game again :/
So I have to replay the entire game again :/
VeryGooster
Banned
True Crime: New York City had a bug that pretty much kept you from finishing the game where you had to fight some dude in a warehouse.
fallout 3. ten hours in it autosaves right before the game crashes for no partivular reason. every reload results in the game crashing. when i restarted i made sure to manually save in several slots very very often
i have over 1,000 hours in a save like ten years old. i still play yearly. i hope i never get this
i have over 1,000 hours in a save like ten years old. i still play yearly. i hope i never get this
User 479360
Banned
I was playing Dark Messiah of Might & Magic: Elements on console last gen. I thought it looked great before release, but it turned out to be disappointing, yet I decided I'd beat it because I didn't really dislike it.
Anyways, I got pretty far and to a point where I had two companions. We were going into some sort of pyramids. But just before we went into one, a game breaking bug occurred.
The female magic weaver started and wouldn't stop shooting my other companion. Reloading saves, dying and respawning, nothing worked.
Anyways, I got pretty far and to a point where I had two companions. We were going into some sort of pyramids. But just before we went into one, a game breaking bug occurred.
The female magic weaver started and wouldn't stop shooting my other companion. Reloading saves, dying and respawning, nothing worked.
I ran into about five or six of them in Daggerfall but it was so long ago that I can't remember.
One I do remember is that if you try saving Phantasy Star 1 in the GBA PS collection when the music loops the game will freeze and it might delete your save, or at best only delete your progress.
One I do remember is that if you try saving Phantasy Star 1 in the GBA PS collection when the music loops the game will freeze and it might delete your save, or at best only delete your progress.