10 Broken Video Games That Fans Had To Fix

Beloved action-RPG Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines was nothing short of a glossy dumpster fire when it first hit storefronts in 2004, for despite being a deep and uncommonly well-written entry into the genre, it was marred by game-breaking technical issues.

Bugs could crash the game in an instant, unbearably long loading times made play a chore, the A.I. didn't work believably, and both stealth and combat were poorly implemented.

Frustratingly, poor sales due to releasing alongside Half-Life 2 caused most developers at Troika Games to be laid off shortly after release, at which point official support for the game was effectively ended.

In the 15+ years since, however, Werner "Wesp5" Spahl has worked intensely to bring the game up to standard, delivering numerous fan patches that fixed just about every major technical issue and also restored cut content, with fans even voicing missing dialogue themselves.

And so, the legendary Unofficial Plus Patch is in many respects the gold standard for fan patches, even receiving input and assets from those who worked on the game.

Better still, the patch is so universally beloved that it's now sold with the game on GOG, and has been fully endorsed by co-director Leonard Boyarsky.

And it doesn't even end there - Spahl went on to create his own prequel mod to the game. Impressive isn't even the word.