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Worst Videogame Bugs of All Time: From Game-Ending Glitches to Data-Destroying Nightmares

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"We've all been there. Back to the wall. Knee-deep in the dead. When all of a sudden... the screen freezes. Congratulations, you just wasted six hours of your life. And man, did you get off easy.

Because some bugs do more than freeze your game. They can erase save files, ruin other games, and even damage the hardware they're played on.

They are... The Worst Videogame Bugs of All Time. "
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Published: 54 days 11 hours ago | Article | Xbox 360 | Wii | Nintendo DS | PlayStation 2 | Gaming | PC
 
 

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Muckbeast - 54 days 12 hours ago
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Oh my goodness. I personally experienced that bug ridden Pool of Radiance. It was a good game spoiled by bugs. Thankfully I didn't try to uninstall it before the patch.

This article brings back a lot of (bad) memories.
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Madusha - 54 days 1 hour ago
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Wow lol, Imagine encountering the Oblivion: Shivering Isles bug. You'll just suicide after playing for 150 hours and your game stops working.

"After installing the Shivering Isles expansion pack, all would be well until the 150-hour mark. Then it's game over, man! Game over! Six scripts controlling the movement of some city guards slowly ate up resources until no new items could be created or dropped. (Obviously, this could cause a few problems...) Even better, the problem strikes even if you never go anywhere near the new areas. Joy! "
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Lifewish - 54 days 11 hours ago
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pretty solid article though your site needs some work, some stuff hard to read
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Madusha - 54 days 1 hour ago
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Agreed, article is very nicely written. The whole website has excellent content quality but the design really needs work.

Keep up the good work
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poindat - 53 days 20 hours ago
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2.2 - Yeah, pretty solid....
...Despite being 3 years old.

Contributer fail.
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Graffin - 54 days 11 hours ago
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Some pretty scary stuff in there!
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Milky Joe - 54 days 10 hours ago
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That was a damn god article. Funny too.

I especially like the mention of the Ladybugs at the end. Classy stuff :D
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jpymai - 54 days 2 hours ago
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Gotta love the ladybugs :)
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ReservoirDog316 - 54 days 2 hours ago
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I only remember one bug. I still remember it till this day...

I think the game was called Croc and it froze (no memory card either) on the ending cutscene.

I never played it again.

edit: Also, one time my 360 version of Oblivion would take about 3 minutes to load anything. Don't know why it happened.

Stopped my Oblivion addiction though. So, in retrospect, it was actually a good thing.
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Glamis - 54 days 2 hours ago
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My goodness. Some of those are brutal - especially the ones that can actually trash your PC.

How does that happen? INSANE.
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Shnazzyone - 54 days 1 hour ago
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7 - nice article!!
What an amazing chronicle of developer buffoonery. I'm glad i have been fortunate enough to not even pick up 1 of these titles.
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Tony P - 53 days 23 hours ago
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Name: Neverwinter Nights 2
Type: Game-ending Bug

Description: ONE OF MY CHARACTERS TURNED INTO A DOG. Basically, if you have a summoned creature and a full party, you can't keep him out the whole time. If you do, you run the risk of overwriting one of your storied characters with their summoned creature. This of course breaks cutscenes, dialog scripts, and any scenarios featuring the lost character making the game impossible to complete. And the dog sucks in a fight.

Fix: Dunno. I uninstalled it and never looked back. Maybe they patched it by now.
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Pillville - 53 days 18 hours ago
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"Link's a lefty, damn it."

Damn straight, that's why I'm glad I played it on the GameCube and not Wii.
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jakethesnake - 53 days 16 hours ago
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Sacred 2. Fun game, unfortunately the game itself is one giant bug. Crashes more often than women drivers!
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bruddahmanmatt - 53 days 12 hours ago
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I liked the blurb at the end about a few of their favorite VG glitches. Upon reading that I immediately had thoughts of the famous JP scroll glitch from Final Fantasy Tactics. http://www.youtube.com/watc...
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