Jankiest games you have ever played?

[Iucounu]

Stalker Clear Sky (early patch). Otherwise great game, but not quite stable.

 

[NecroLord]

Otherwise great game, but not quite stable.

Heh, yeah, tell me about it...
That motherfucker was crashing on me like crazy.
And don't even get me started on that stupid faction war system.
Couldn't finish many of the quests due to bugs and the faction members not showing up at their supposed locations.

 

[Maxie]

Venetica maybe

 

[Zlaja]

Stalker Clear Sky (early patch). Otherwise great game, but not quite stable.

I remember once not being able to progress to the final area through that tunnel in the Red Forest, because one fucking mercenary glitched into the ground and couldn't be killed. This meant that the guy in front of the tunnel you have to talk to after crossing the bridge remained in aggro state. No amount of reloading helped, because the bug happens already on level transition and all my saves were made after I entered Red Forest.

 

[Iucounu]

Otherwise great game, but not quite stable.

Heh, yeah, tell me about it...
That motherfucker was crashing on me like crazy.
And don't even get me started on that stupid faction war system.
Couldn't finish many of the quests due to bugs and the faction members not showing up at their supposed locations.

The faction war can get stuck without actually being buggy though (even in a fully patched game). It's just that the routes NPCs take are often very non-direct, and if they get held up by opposition along the way they just wait there, instead of taking a different shorter route. Once you figure out where the stop is things usually go smooth again.

Stalker Clear Sky (early patch). Otherwise great game, but not quite stable.

I remember once not being able to progress to the final area through that tunnel in the Red Forest, because one fucking mercenary glitched into the ground and couldn't be killed. This meant that the guy in front of the tunnel you have to talk to after crossing the bridge remained in aggro state. No amount of reloading helped, because the bug happens already on level transition and all my saves were made after I entered Red Forest.

I always recommend frequent manual saves even with a fully patched game, especially before level changers.

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

Hard to say because I almost always stop playing them immediately and forget them. The most memorable jank game I played through was Geist on the Gamecube. That game played like shit, looked like shit, sounded like shit, and it has stuck with me for life. All the money in the world can't make up for creativity and that game was creative af.

Aliens: Dark Descent is a more recent one I like. That game is crap in alot of ways but it captures the spirit of the film in ways other Aliens games just completely fail at.

 

[Tavar]

Hacknet comes to my mind. It's got very janky controls which is quite a feat given that it's simulating a shell based interface.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Oh yeah, Clear Sky... everyone's first time is rough, then some people treat it like a comfort food later.
My first experience was inability to talk with Hog - mercs squad leader in Army Warehouse. Was playing with mounted ISO image - dismounting it and putting physical disc to the tray worked. To this day have no idea why it worked...

 

[ferratilis]

I'm trying to remember the name of a game I played in late 2000s, it was a bit similar to Stalker: RPG elements, different factions, reputations, open world, faction side quests etc. but it was set somewhere in South America, maybe Venezuela or something. There were communists, cartel, the army and some others. The game was janky af, and the English translation sucked. It was like a mix of GTA and Stalker. Does anyone remember the name? Next to Two Worlds, that was probably the jankiest game I ever played.

 

[Lemming42]

I'm trying to remember the name of a game I played in late 2000s, it was a bit similar to Stalker: RPG elements, different factions, reputations, open world, faction side quests etc. but it was set somewhere in South America, maybe Venezuela or something. There were communists, cartel, the army and some others. The game was janky af, and the English translation sucked. It was like a mix of GTA and Stalker. Does anyone remember the name? Next to Two Worlds, that was probably the jankiest game I ever played.

Possibly Boiling Point: Road to Hell.

 

[ferratilis]

Possibly Boiling Point: Road to Hell.

Yes! I remember all kinds of crazy bugs, vehicles falling through the ground, bullets disappearing in mid air etc. Maybe it was because I played the pirated, unpatched version, but it still had great atmosphere and a lot of charm.

 

[__scribbles__]

Not the jankiest I played but what comes to mind when I think jank is Pathologic 1.

 

[Necrensha]

I'm just remembering now Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness
I cannot count how many times something broke in that game, like:
-Early in the apartment section where the gas is building up, I somehow loaded the game and the gas was gone so I could explore freely
-The helicopter chase didn't work, it just stood there frozen
-The bar in Paris would not load any textures for me, my younger self could not make sense out of the floor missing and the barman being just a mandible and floating teeth
-Sometimes Lara would just phase through the floor, or fail to reach a ledge for no reason
-A lategame gun I bough for 800€ would not do any damage to anything and was completely useless
-In another lategame area I managed to phase through a fence I wasn't supposed to without grabbing one of those ''I now feel stronger'' things and could not continue, had to reload a save from hours ago
-In the lab area, the Leviathan would attack me but it would deal 0 damage, so that was confusing
-The dog boss... you could just walk backwards constantly and it would never be able to hit you because it's animations where that bad
-When I got to the plant boss, I could not continue anymore because the boss was bugged to the point where my shots would not reach it's hitbox from any angle and could never finish the game
10/10 game, would recommend.

 

[I eat frozen vegetables]

Possibly Boiling Point: Road to Hell.

Yes! I remember all kinds of crazy bugs, vehicles falling through the ground, bullets disappearing in mid air etc. Maybe it was because I played the pirated, unpatched version, but it still had great atmosphere and a lot of charm.

It's on Steam.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Kids these days...

 

[Raghar]

What are some of the jankiest games you have played?
Include both rpgs and non rpg games.
It can be both the "good" kind of jank - the game has a certain primitive charm, or the "bad" kind of jank - game simply does not have redeeming qualities and is generally of a extremely poor quality.

Witcher.
UBOAT.
Arcanum.
Factorio.

 

[Dark Souls II]

Stalker is not janky. It is a 2007 game having full ballistic physics simulation, and niggers play hitscan goyslop in 2024 and call Stalker janky. Get real.

 

[Fargus]

I'm trying to remember the name of a game I played in late 2000s, it was a bit similar to Stalker: RPG elements, different factions, reputations, open world, faction side quests etc. but it was set somewhere in South America, maybe Venezuela or something. There were communists, cartel, the army and some others. The game was janky af, and the English translation sucked. It was like a mix of GTA and Stalker. Does anyone remember the name? Next to Two Worlds, that was probably the jankiest game I ever played.

Possibly Boiling Point: Road to Hell.

Played it as kid. That game was crappy and very funny. It had Imhotep from The Mummy as protagonist doing cocaine. I think more people learned about it from trash reviews than from actually playing.

 

[Elttharion]

One of my favorite games of all time, pretty janky tho

 

[Humanophage]

Everything is janky if you're Eastern European enough.

In terms of janky experience, probably the original Bloodlines. For newer games, Eador: Genesis.

 

[Vladimir]

shadowrun on snes probably

 

[whydoibother]

What are some of the jankiest games you have played?

Early versions of STALKER, VTM Bloodlines and Witcher (the first one) were unholy levels of jank. All were good games, but they demanded buddhist monk levels of patience from the player.
These days, the most jank I play is big mods, for games like Rimworld or Civilization, that have to get weird about implementing their new features or UI elements. The Rimworld multiplayer mod is basically sending console commands from one player to the other, using the debug tools to spawn changes into the map, to sync the two singleplayer games. As you can imagine, jank af in play.

Actually played and enjoyed? Probably EYE.

Divine Cyberpancy is a good call too. A standalone game that played like a very ambitious and half finished HL Mod when I tried it. But full of soul.

 

[Tweed]

BARR-BERRYANN

 

[Filthy Sauce]

Derek Smart

 

[Vladimir]

The biggest problem of the original Witcer was combat. I couldn't play it until I installed the Rise of the White Wolf mod. After that I greatly enjoyed it, only battles vs human enemies were too easy. I wouldn't call Witcher especially junky apart from the combat mechanics