If only the game worked

akakjs · 3 Feb 2006 at 23:14

I've just been browsing my game collection, and I came across The Jupiter Incident. And I remember playing it and loving it to bits, but I just couldn't finish it. Hours of hunting through forums, looking for fixes, patches, drivers nothing worked. In the end I gave up.

Now I was wondering how many other people have been unable to finish a game due to bugs?

akakjs

me227 · 3 Feb 2006 at 23:17

One of the Quest for Glory games. Old games and before the internet was common place. Right at the end about a minute before it played the ending movie.

AWPC · 3 Feb 2006 at 23:17

akakjs said:
I've just been browsing my game collection, and I came across The Jupiter Incident. And I remember playing it and loving it to bits, but I just couldn't finish it. Hours of hunting through forums, looking for fixes, patches, drivers nothing worked. In the end I gave up.

Now I was wondering how many other people have been unable to finish a game due to bugs?

link removed im afraid as it has links to emulation Try doing a search here or posting as they are very helpful in getting old games to work.

Quantic · 4 Feb 2006 at 00:03

AWPC said:
removed.... Try doing a search here or posting as they are very helpful in getting old games to work.

It's not an old game. Was released last year IIRC.

leezer3 · 4 Feb 2006 at 00:34

Frontier: First Encounters................
They never bothered to finish the game or even the storyline properly, but a great game!- There are massive segments of storyline visible in some of the data files that no-one has ever enabled or found yet...........

-Leezer-

HangTime · 4 Feb 2006 at 09:22

Well, I was unable to even load, never mind complete the retail version of Unreal

I did eventually manage to copy a patch onto floppies at a netcafe to get it working, after spending well over an hour on the phone to GTi.

Area51 would have been impossible for me to complete if I hadn't figured out what was causing one of the bugs (there is no patch). Basically if your framerate is over around 100fps, then jump doesn't work! :rolleyes:

I couldn't work out why I kept failing this one jump in a platformy section, it was near a corner so of course all the other jumps in the main room were fine (fps<100 due to more open spaces), but for this final jump my FPS would soar and cause me to miss the jump.

Sleepery · 4 Feb 2006 at 11:08

Ulltima 9. God, what a mess. It rivalled Frontier for bugs, even after several patches.

AWPC · 4 Feb 2006 at 12:29

If you have any sort of XP customisations installed like Windows Blinds/XP Boot Skins or some other visual GUI/Boot screen upgrade it can prevent certain games from running. Both GTAVC + GTASA do not run (crash to the desktop with no error message) if windows blinds is installed on my PC yet if I remove it they both work fine.

MNuTz · 4 Feb 2006 at 16:52

Warrior Kings. I would be very suprised if there was a buggier game out there!

akakjs · 4 Feb 2006 at 18:50

AWPC said:
If you have any sort of XP customisations installed like Windows Blinds/XP Boot Skins or some other visual GUI/Boot screen upgrade it can prevent certain games from running. Both GTAVC + GTASA do not run (crash to the desktop with no error message) if windows blinds is installed on my PC yet if I remove it they both work fine.

Seriously it really was the game, the developers where well aware that it was bugged to heck, and I got the impression they where not happy having to release it. They virtually admited so on their forums.

akakjs