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Most glitchy game you ever played?

Big Rigs is the only correct answer

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The game had so much ambition and potential but was riddled with so many bugs and "clues" that led to content that just didn't exist in the game.
You still owe me a mansion, dammit!
. It was both brilliant and terrible at the same time.
 
Oddworld games released on Steam. Sound, video, framerate.... Just utterly broken. It's beyond me how old console games ported to PC could be so broken. And it's even worse that they continued to sell it to unsuspecting gamers.

The one good thing that came out of the botched Oddworld games is the hilarity of the Oddworld forums.
 
This is a weird thread to read simply because the experiences described by some couldn't be more different at times. Infamous is someone's "most glitchy" game? That's insane. I've played through that game multiple times and I didn't even know there were glitches.

To the question though, Bethesda is the easy answer, and more specifically this gen's Fallout titles. Gamebryo (I think that's the engine name) is so horrendously prone to glitches, it's barely acceptable. Thankfully, through frequent saving I never ran into a problem I couldn't fix. (Though Skyrim actually bugged out a few missions to make them unfinishable.)

My most frustrating glitch was ZombiU though. There is a point where you need to pick up a gas can tucked away in a corner. If you walk past it and leave the area, the gas can disappears. Since the game has only one save and auto saves constantly, you can't progress and can't reload. When asked about a patch Ubi basically shrugged its shoulders. Unbelievably frustrating. Had to restart the whole game after 7 hours of very intense play.

Edit: Totally forgot the new Xcom! I love that game, but the glitches make Ironman mode a very broken experience.
 
The one that comes to mind is Battlefield 3.
While most of them have been fixed by now, the overall incompetence of the developer sure was something to behold.

With every mega patch they released they tried to fix some stuff, yet always broke something else in a horrible, horrible way.
 
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If this isn't your answer then consider yourself lucky. Most broken game I've ever had the displeasure of playing. 3 different copies crashed my Xbox. SOOOO terrible.
 
Count me in on the Daggerfall bandwagon. I spend so much time falling into the Void. Its a bit odd that all these years later its still one of my favorite games despite it being a buggy mess.

ETA - Also the Pools of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor (not the Gold Box one the modern rerelease that pre-patch had a glitch that could erase your entire hard disk when uninstalled)
 
Boiling Point or ARMA 2 probably. I've also got some games on Steam that have never even worked for more than 5 minutes like Legends of Pegasus. On consoles State of Decay definitely.

Special bonuses go to ARMA 2 for working properly at start but when I uninstalled it and tried to get back on it a few weeks ago, it wouldn't even install properly from Steam.

I didn't really mind Daggerfall because it was so ambitious in scope but I disliked it on other reasons.
 
Sonic Adventure, both the DC and GC versions. You constantly fall out of the stages and die if you are not careful, etc. Just problems like that.
 
Oh wait, almost forgot that Stardock MoM clone. It was both terrible and buggy. Tried the supposedly improved Fallen Enchantress version after Steam sales to get my Master of Magic fix but after I got out of character creation half the graphics had no textures and the troops had either no heads or eyeballs. Never trust Stardock.
 
I would have said Skyrim, but then I remember I still haven't been able to get Rage to work properly and I consider constant texture pop-in to be a pretty large and noticable bug.
 
Oh Bethesda.

First it was Oblivion where it somehow let me start a thieves guild mission 2 missions ahead of time which broke the entire thieves guild quest line because the Stranger was in the wrong place to continue.

Then Fallout 3 several side quest characters fell through or disappeared from the world. One of them being the person you turn in Regulator stuff to, which happened immediately after I got the perk.

Then New Vegas meeting the Great Kahns before getting a main mission for them broke the dialog choices and the only option was to kill everything.

Both Fallouts I waited several months to let them patch the game a few times before playing.

Honorable non-Bethesda Mention to Mass Effect on PC, where for the first 6 months of existence if you skipped any dialog it would crash nvidia cards. Worked great after patch, but that was a LONG wait.
 
Fallout 3 on PC. Mostly because of framerate glitches and the fact that the game kept freezing/crashing whenever I took a step indoors due to some sound issue that I couldn't fix despite hours and hours of work. I probably spent almost as much time trying to fix that issue as I spent playing the damn game.

Combine that with a terrible console port interface, and I just wrote off the game as unplayable.
 
When STALKER was first released it was very difficult to make progress in the main story as every other quest you'd get would have a quest breaking bug in which the dudes you'd have to kill to make the AI trigger the next part of the quest would clip through a wall and be gone FOREVER.
 
Sometimes bugs are like magic. I had tons of trouble with FO3 but played through New Vegas (before patches) without any major hitches. All quests I tried completed, nothing...
 
Colonial Marines for me...The first night my friend and I were playing our team mates just up and fell through the level.

And I actually have never really experienced that many glitches in Fallout >.>
Edit: Ok I forgot the time in NV that I shot a raider with the anti-material rifle and his body wigged the fuck out and ragdolled half way across the map.
 
this kind of shit happens to me TOO often when playing Fifa.

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I don't know why I keep buying this crap. Please help me.
 
It is entirely my fault, but Counter Strike Source.

I bought a refurbished 6800 the week Half Life 2 came out. The card was busted. Counter Strike would look beautiful but then the card would freak out and the graphics would start smearing and white piles would start to appear everywhere.

I couldn't look at the water in Aztec since it messed up my card. Same thing with the outside walls in Office. I also couldnt fire guns that created flashes. So I would run around looking at safe areas with my UMP and restarting the game every 10 minutes or so. It was actually pretty funny.
 
I'm playing Alpha Protocol right now and it's the buggiest game I've ever seen. I thought people are overreacting, as always, but.. it's really bad.
 
Turok 2 N64

not crashing but a stuttering, clipping, glitchy mess to attempt to actually play. 10-20fps at most with the 4mb RAM, super dodgy hit detection...shotgun enemy to the face with no reaction. Main character was 4feet tall in the gameworld and had a limp. Ladder climbing physics from hell, tiny walkways above 1 fall death pits.

Magazines reviewed different version before it was compressed onto a cart, hell even the PRIMA guide maps were inaccurate to the release maps.
 
While not the worst ever, I've actually had to restart missions multiple times in Luigi's Mansion.

It really sucks when you're 25 minutes into a level and Luigi gets stuck behind something he shouldn't even be able to get behind, or gets stuck in an animation loop. That being said the game is still fantastic and should still be picked up by anyone with a 3DS.
 
Skyrim for sure. Can't count the amount of times the game decided I should be a pacifist and not allow me to attack or how many times a dragon fell out of the sky dead (last one happened several times and hilarious every time!)
 
People saying things like Uncharted 3 either don't play many games or are just lying.

Anyway, this is my pick:

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I heard the PS3 version isn't nearly as bad, but by god this game is the worst I've seen.
 
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