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Have you ever had a game that had all sorts of problems but you really liked it anyway. For me I loved an old early nineties game called “Star Legion.” It would crash all the time and the UI was terrible and it took a long time (by 1992 standards) to figure out the game but once I got into it I could not get enough of that game. You played a general of an evil alien race that conquered planets. You first started off invading Stone Age and pre industrial society and advanced to other futuristic cultures. It was a blast to obliterate world’s capital cities from orbit then teleport troops in the countryside to construct landing pads so your massive invasion force could land. I have never played a game quite like this one.

I would love it if it showed up on GOG or someone did a remake.

Do you love any broken games?
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, that game is bugged beyond belief even after being patched. Despite all those issues, I find the game to be the best of the Elder Scrolls series.
Dark sun: Shattered lands, and Dark sun: Wake of the Ravager

Those two games were buggy at the time, and also required a dos boot disk to run, but they were so much fun! They were instantly in my top favorites of all time! I believe it's games like them that influenced the creation of Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights.

They would crash, or have glitches left and right, but the story was engaging, and it made me really feel part of a game world- which no other game had done for me at that point.
Broken Sword ;)

Just kidding. One game I had a little trouble with was STALKER on Vista, but patches fixed the various bugs. It's a great game.
Runescape
I have two.

Dawn of War: Soulstorm, because it's buggy as hell. Once you fix all the bugs, though, it's a great game. (Provided you can get around stuff like METAL BAWKSES and shipments of 100 Baneblades.)

The other is Hellgate: London, but this one isn't buggy, it just has some (very) broken mechanics. It's still a fun game, though I only ever do singleplayer. This is the most "objectively bad" game that I've ever truly enjoyed.
One of the first games I got in the first console I had, the Atari 800XL, the game being "E.T. The Extraterrestrial". Never figured the game out, I just played for the sake of playing and always ended up in some abyss like screen, where I could still move around but the game wouldn´t end, so it was reset time.
Still I would keep playing it, collecting things here and there, I thought the manual that came with it would shed some insight into what I was supposed to do, yet I didn´t get any of it at that moment since it was all in english.
I'll go with Privateer 2. Buggier than the Colorado River at the height of mosquito season, but one I have a soft spot for all the same. It suffered from a rash of arbitrary and hair-pulling crashes, often mid-flight (or worse, when landing) which erased all in-mission progress. No in-flight save feature, you see. Sometimes even saved games would mysteriously become irrevocably corrupted when you loaded them-- the game would always crash during the next mission (regardless of what mission you'd accept, even if you tried detours, switching destinations, and such to "trick" the game), and thus rendered them utterly useless. And unlike other notoriously buggy games released in the late 90s--early 00s period of gaming, there was no comprehensive fan-patch ever assembled to save its fans from its myriad of bugs. Probably because there was no real Privateer 2 fanbase, and most of the bugs were probably un-fixable.

Still, I loved it (much more than Privateer 1, which most Origin fans prefer by a landslide), mostly on account of the vivid, edgy cyberpunk world which came alive in elaborate costumed and be-propped Mise en scènes boasting very solid thespians, including many "name" actors like Christopher Walken, Brian Blessed, John Hurt, Jürgen Prochnow, and of course, Clive Owen, in colorful dives, apartments, night-clubs and posh offices all across planets in its particular game-world. Quite a bit of detail and background went into all the people, places, and clans of the "Tri-Star" system you could read about in the database; I'd argue at least as much as any Wing Commander game. I think all the FMV production values and writing were really stellar, and deserved a far better game than the broken and mediocre space-sim engine we were given. I wish the game world, characters, plot, and cyberpunk flavor of Privateer 2 could be transplanted into, say, Freelancer's engine.

But mostly I just wish GOG would release it here, warts and all.
Post edited December 08, 2012 by MaridAudran
Dark Sun series are already mentioned above.

I'll just add VtM:Bloodlines. If not for the unofficial patch, I do not think I would be able to finish the game.
Cryostasis is amazing. Pity about the horrible optimisation =(
Another vote for Daggerfall.

I also loved Legends of Valor...very buggy for me on the Amiga
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mondo84: Broken Sword ;)

Just kidding. One game I had a little trouble with was STALKER on Vista, but patches fixed the various bugs. It's a great game.
Totally agree with you there - possibly my favourite game ever (neer seems to be uninstaled at any rate!).
The Guild.

It's broken everywhere and it looks horrible BUT IT IS THE BEST GAME EVER MADE
The first 2 games of the Elder Scroll Series. They seem quite fun and I would like to play them, but they are bugged and resist to being installed.
Dungeon Keeper 2

Bugs, crashes, glitches... I think it's not neccessary to continue - if you've played it you should know what I mean. But the game is excelent nevertheless!