4) Fallout: New Vegas – 2010
Ever since its 3D iteration, the Fallout games (and iron-age cousin The Elder Scrolls) have sadly become synonymous with bugs. Not a virtual day goes by in the wastelands when you don’t come across some weird problem with character appendages, broken dialogue, or generally insane goings on. It’s been argued on more than one occasion that glitches like this are actually part of what makes the games so fun, and that removing them would remove part of the charm. The problem with that of course, is it’s kind of right.
Have you ever typed the words Fallout into a YouTube search engine without the suffix ‘funny glitches’? I’d wager not. It’s a complex dichotomy though, if you’re delighted to be paying for something that you hope isn’t quite built properly. I’d certainly question that logic if was boarding a plane, for example.
It all came to a head when New Vegas was released and literally the very first thing you saw in the game was defective – a man’s opening dialogue being spoiled somewhat by his peculiar rotating head (check it out above). Again, hilarious, but when you’ve just shelled out $60 on a post-nuclear survival thriller, “hilarious” is probably not what you were hoping for.