What is the glitchiest/buggiest game you own (or know of)?

[Nz17]

I own Sonic '06, Sonic Boom / Toon: Rise of Lyric, Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed 3DS, and Sonic: Lost World PC - and all of them are buggy and glitchy.

[RARusk]

Rustler (PS4 and Switch) which is basically is medieval spoof of GTA 2. And the developer pretty much abandoned them too - the PC version is getting all of the updates and even DLC too.

[Querjek]

There's a bug near the end of Donkey Kong Country 2 in Castle Crush that I've heard can brick a console. Same for some code in NES Metroid, and I sorta remember that the glitch could brick 3DSes or something?

[Gameguy]

I used to own a copy of Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars for the GBA. There's a few glitches in this version but the one I remember is that saving while at a certain location in the game causes an item/hotspot to no longer be selectable, making the game impossible to complete. I had to delete my save and start over because of it. It's an adventure game, you're expected to save often while playing these types of games.

[jb143]

There's a bug near the end of Donkey Kong Country 2 in Castle Crush that I've heard can brick a console. Same for some code in NES Metroid, and I sorta remember that the glitch could brick 3DSes or something?

That seems very unlikely as there's nothing in the NES or SNES that can be bricked. There would have to some re-writable chip in them for that to be a possibility, and to the best of my knowledge, they don't...outside of maybe prototypes having an EEPROM on them or something.

The 3DS, I suppose it could be possible, but still unlikely.

[AceAerosmith]

Just Cause 2 for the 360 reached unplayability for me when it just decided all characters including mine would have no upper torso. You could switch weapons and fire them, drive vehicles, etc. but no upper body. Also, went to reload past save and there was nothing there in the save file. Then when I got out of the save file, all the NPCs were gone. I still had no upper torso but everywhere I went there were no other people.

I just had to give up on RDR Undead Nightmare downloaded for Xbox One. Deep into the game, all zombies and some NPCs had no heads and some of them had no arms. Then NPCs you were required to help to progress the game disappeared off the map and zombies just kept respawning so you couldn't save the town. It was such a shitshow I ended up just deleting it.

[Kitsune Sniper]

The final fantasy 3 glitch someone spoke of is executed as such:

Have Realm and Gau in your party. Go to the veldt.

have Gau "leap"

when Gau returns to join your party, have Realm "sketch" him.

Funny, I got the glitch at random at Kefka's Tower.

I am aware that there's two or three different FFIII variants, though. The same cart and sticker, but different code.

[Damaniel]

Two off the top of my head:

- Deadly Towers (NES) -- I'm actually one of the unfortunate few to have actually finished this game. I remember having all 7 bells and burning them, but the game let me keep on burning them after I finished all 7, causing weird graphical glitches every time I did. Not to mention that the game locked up quite frequently (in an era where 'freezing' console games was pretty rare). It could have been a connector issue with my NES, but all my other games worked fine.

- Daggerfall (PC) -- one of the buggiest PC games I've ever played, plus it seems like every time that Bethesda released a patch for it, they somehow managed to make previous save games incompatible. I got so frustrated that I could never finish it (though I loved Morrowind and Oblivion).

Extreme Paintbrawl (PC) was also a pretty buggy game. You know that the QA guys at Head Games were asleep at the wheel for that one (assuming they had QA guys in the first place)

[ProgrammingAce]

Only counting console games, my award goes to GTA Vice City.

Hundreds upon hundreds of glitches, shooting through walls, not being able to pick up items, events not triggering... It was horrable for the ps2 (at least the first printing). The game actually killed one of my xboxes. The game locked up so hard it stopped the system fan.

[Aussie2B]

Shenmue 2 for the DC, of course I was playing the import on a NTSC Dreamcast, but it would always crash when I entered a house, new day or randomly when it accessed the disk.

Were you playing a burned copy? The reason I ask is because a lot of groups who were ripping DC games weren't doing it correctly and when the image was being written it was writing in alphabetical order by the name of the files (when in fact the game files were strategically placed in certain spots so that the laser wouldn't have to run all over the cd).

These bad rips, caused problems such as this. I had a friend who beat shemnue 2, I'll have to ask him if he had any problems.

Nate

I can vouch for him since I watched my boyfriend play through a legit European copy of Shenmue 2 on our US Dreamcast, and he had issues with crashing quite a few times.

Anyway, I'm not sure what the glitchiest game I own is, but probably the most glitchy yet still really good game I have is Lufia 2. Man, does it have a million problems, including an entire area where the graphics are scrambled. I remember calling up Nintendo of America's helpline thinking I had a busted cart or something, and they really couldn't offer much of any help. I managed to work my way through the area since it's mostly just a matter of heading up, and then years later I learned online that ALL copies of the game have that area completely scrambled. It's a shame too because it's pretty significant story-wise. I suspect that a lot of the glitches are a result of a poor localization that screwed up the code.

[exit]

Dragons Lair 3D is pretty glitchy, to the point where it just turns into trial and error in most parts. One I had to restart my game, because I got this weird blue screen of death type deal that had a bunch of coding on it. It wasn't a big deal since the game isn't that long and I just kept on making backup saves just incase it happened again.

[Push Upstairs]

Extreme Paintbrawl (PC) was also a pretty buggy game. You know that the QA guys at Head Games were asleep at the wheel for that one (assuming they had QA guys in the first place)

Ahh Head Games. I think i remember reading in PC Gamer that that game shipped with no AI at all.

Head Games "Extreme Rodeo" is still my favorite review simply for the line "pretty soon my hard drive was crawlin' for some uninstallin'."

[crazyjackcsa]

Shenmue 2 for the DC, of course I was playing the import on a NTSC Dreamcast, but it would always crash when I entered a house, new day or randomly when it accessed the disk.

Were you playing a burned copy? The reason I ask is because a lot of groups who were ripping DC games weren't doing it correctly and when the image was being written it was writing in alphabetical order by the name of the files (when in fact the game files were strategically placed in certain spots so that the laser wouldn't have to run all over the cd).

These bad rips, caused problems such as this. I had a friend who beat shemnue 2, I'll have to ask him if he had any problems.

Nate

Nope, the legit version. Truth be told, my DC on the whole has been getting a little buggy so that might be causeing it as well.

[swlovinist]

If my memory serves me correctly Master of Monsters for the Playstation was bug full. Crashing, freezing, and one big pile of crap.

[dubiouscubanx]

The game that I owned w/ the most glitches would have to be True Crime: Streets of L.A., for the Gamecube. Every now and then, when I would drive to a "mission", my car would drive straight into the ground, and I would get a message that said "Welcome to NOWHERE!" The game would proceed to run at about 4 fps, and finally it would freeze. A reset of the system would cure the problem.

BTW, first post here!

[biscuitdough]

enter the matrix is probably one of the buggyest of current gen.
the only time though a bug has absolutly ended the playing of a game for me was with deus ex 2: invisible war for xbox. i spent 5 hours on one save game and saved it at a random point. then when i started it back up i was stuck in a box, spent at least an hour trying to get out again, never could. i havent played that game since.
also tony hawk 2 would always get me floating above the pavement in a constant trick line like i was always falling. it was really anoying but cool if you could master it and do it at will.

[Shamuel L. Jackson]

I dont know if anyone here has or wants to pick up battlefield 2 on the 360 but thats full of glitches from what i hear. and im saying from what i hear because im stuck at a point were one of the bad guys i need to kill keeps going to a part of the level i cant go to and if i try to go to him the game just kills me after I leave a certain point of the map.

[diskoboy]

E fucking T.

The entire game is one giant glitch.

[ProgrammingAce]

E fucking T.

The entire game is one giant glitch.

I think you might be the winner... ET is the ONLY 2600 game i own too...

[GameSlaveGaz]

I dunno if it's just my copy or if it's the game itself, but my copy of Me and My Katamari for PSP has some really bad audio glitches. For most of the levels the audio won't play at all, and sometimes it finally starts up in the middle of the level and is really choppy and warped. I didn't get a chance to ask my co-worker - who is the only person I currently know personally who owns the game - before he got fired, so I dunno if it's a glitch or a defective copy. That's the most recent example I can think of, I can't remember anything else off the top of my head.

Although while I was still at GameStop I learned that the 360 versions of Major League Baseball 2K6 froze up if you saved it on the hard drive. You have to save it on the memory unit or else your game will screw up and/or get erased.