Another vote for Vampire - bloodlines. gave up on it eventually Prince of persia warrior within - save game kept going corrupt - had to give it up
Sims 3 - It REFUSES to work for more than 3mins, it's so incredibly annoying and EA won't help Fallout 3 - crashes every 10mins, or whenever I use VATS, or whenever I stay in a small-ish room for more than 15seconds. Sigh.
Sims 3 I heard was a pain to run. Sims 2 still has an aggravating amount of loading screens. Although I do love the house building.
GTA IV, installed and runs fine, just takes ages to install everything. Even managed to get it running at a higher quality than the game recommended and still got at an average of 42.80 FPS's.
Final Fantasy VIII for PS1.. I didn't save that often, and the game froze just as Squall got into space. I don't think that I saved for that entire disk. :-|
docodine: A friend and I were just talking about SE's most celebrated RPG, FFVII. The most annoying aspects were the invisible objects, doorways and levels of perspective you occasionally had to find (with no indication in the static backgrounds as to which and where) and the ease with which you could blow the entire story and save without having answered a question correctly -- not a problem in this age of ubiquitous walkthroughs, but teeth-gnashingly irksome if no one warned you back then. I have a friend who still has his save point just before the battle with the final boss. He got there without having known about the checklist which, if followed, might have allowed him to win. Legend has it he hurled the SE RPG across the room and hasn't played another since. ========== Of the numerous examples I could cite, Impossible Mission is probably the most frustrating of all. In its Atari incarnation, this doomsday game was literally impossible to finish. In [term for motherless son] form on certain other plats, it would crash constantly, and the controls were so off as to become why-do-I-live-only-to-suffer-and-die hilarious. No one I've ever heard of managed to get to the end, which made many people think the hook in the title was that the game was, in fact, impossible. Then an updated version was released for the DS two decades later and, suddenly, the mission could be completed by anyone. This reduced the original meaning of the title from ingenious worldplay involving a subversive concept to "Hey, let's market our latest robot holocaust orgy by using a cheap variation of the name of a 70s TV show! The title has nothing to do with the actual game? Even better!" Still, the wee robots and 80s digitized speech were highly fun. Perhaps some of you remember the battle cry of Professor Atombender: "Stay awhile. . . . Stay fo-reh-vuh!"
sf4 - i get owned online so much by the pros.....so annoying! but most of all.... nfs underground....i want to play this game but till EA sort it out i cant
OMG forgot the ole ballache its self.... Battlefield 2....its b0rk central. installs....plays....will random BSOD....crash...and then not work at all...
hmm I played titan quest + expansion on hamachi with friends.. had no issues with it, you didn't miss much though, the ending is nothing great.. Spoiler it's a portal then the show you a bunch of 3d models of the monsters that last boss drops a turtle key though- can use it to get into a cheese room on the next difficulty buggiest game.. well if you install like dosbox can usually get away with playing really old stuff- can even install win98 in a vm if you wanted to.. can't really say there was a game that was so buggy I couldn't actually play through it- even crysis on release when everyone was crying.. played it full up very high everything on a crt at 1280x768 looked amazing for back in 2007.. but if I had to pick one I would say c&c generals.. because the chinese were so unbalanced with that rolling chaingun, the arabs and us weren't even playable heads up.. I remember trying to beat a friend who mastered the chinese and it was rididulous- the other 2 had no weapon on that level that early, it could shoot through buildings and cover the sky (and never missed btw) agree with oblivion comments.. played that on a ati x800xl aiw and don't remember having issues with it actually- alot of cvar tweaks think even made a video back when it came out (I used to save and reload inside the portals till I got the 20% shielding upgrade for my armor- like my orc could go into any city and take on like 10 guards at once lol before the expansions came out, think ended him at level 46 without cheating.. the expansions were pretty easy after that- was alot like a heavly armored cleric in the end- with that super heal and the shielding, cheese)
actually this guy recently in sf4 was frustrating, come to think about it- but I'm gettin too old lol that's my story and I'm sticking to it (doesn't help that he sucks you into his yin/yang belly when he's down)
saying this, i recently got the last DLC and it updated Fallout3 again... It now doesn't crash when closing it anymore! Only instability left is that it sometimes (rarely) doesn't recover from alt-tab...
Final Fantasy for Nintendo by far. Not because it was buggy or anything, and not even because if you put your entire party on one monster they wouldnt attack something else if it died/skipped turns. No it was because of the final boss - Chaos. Had all my chars maxed with 2 fighters a white mage and a black mage. Both Fighters had 999hp but Chaos would still randomly kill the entire party with one attack. Usually the first attack. Requiring you to run though a lot of crap to get back to him including 2 other bosses. And no - im not talking about the remake for PS1. The orginal for the NES. I remember when I finally got up to the boss, I ended up doing that part more than 10 times until i finally got a spell off. At attempt count greater than 15 I did finally get him. Possibly one of my greatest gaming achievements.
easily UT2K4 when I play like crap ... or CS where everyone is camping a corner and if you're the one who peaks, you're dead.. what a stupid game
Vista is rather notoriously terrible for this. It has all sorts of random quirks in its application structure. Why does it set some game installation directories to 'hidden', for example? That's just strange. 2000, XP and 7 don't do it. Just Vista. What could it possibly be intended to prevent? The worst game I've encountered was Pirates of the Caribbean for PC. It's literally unplayable, as in, you cannot run it on XP or newer without extensive hacks and workarounds. It has a laughably broken DRM system that always identifies it as pirated on any machine newer than 2000 or using any of the vast majority of modern DVD drives. Ironically, I've heard the pirated versions work just fine.
In general gaming on Windows is a bit of a minefield. It's one big advantage that console gaming seems to have that issues seem to be ultra rare. Sometimes the solution isn't always obvious either as I found out when recently I bought CM Dirt for the PC and it would just crash upon entering a race. I installed all the patches, updated all my drivers, changed all the options around so I didn't have AA too high etc and it just would crash. In the end it turned out to be the fact I have an i7 920 8 core processor and somewhere in one of the .ini type files in the installation directory are some settings and you need to open it and edit a specfic part of the file. Thankfully through the assistance of others and the internet I got it to run, but imagine if I was new to pc's and gaming would I have just given up and wasted my money. What's the solution, well who knows, maybe there isn't one, but one things for sure thank heavens the internet exists and is full of helpful people.
It seems like the final bosses in most JRPGs of that era were designed to be next to impossible to kill... and down to pure luck whether you managed it or not.
There is no worse game for me as Oblivion... That's my opinion, sorry if it doesn't coincide with yours. ------------- original glitter graphics collector
Now that's a fantastic way to ameliorate the community to you as a newcomer May I recommend at least the use of emoticons, or something? Not that you don't sound friendly and democratic, or anything. In relevant news, Ninja Gaiden's first boss was a terrible difficulty wall. I did the rest of the game fine, but that first boss was so goddamn hard - not because of complex mechanics or tactics, but simply by virtue of the awful camera angles. Maybe they fixed it in NG: Black, I haven't checked yet...
Is it just me that found Oblivion quite stable? Also, if you no-cd patch Sims 3, you don't have to go through the annoying launcher, much better Double also, Sims 3 works without a hitch on the machine in my sig. Only recent game that's CTD'd an awful lot on me was Crysis/Warhead. Off-topic: Anybody played [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_Waters_%28game%29]Hostile Waters[/url]? I just reinstalled it, along with Deus Ex (which I've just found some new bugs for )
