10 Utter Trash Video Games You Love Anyway

Obsidian's overly ambitious spy RPG is infamous for being packed to brim with bugs. You know those online bed brands who deliver your entire bed compressed into a tiny box? It's like that, but with glitches.

Understandably, this gave the game a little bit of a bad rap. And, of course, when you're dealing with a dragon's hoard of technical issues, you don't exactly feel encouraged to keep playing.

Fortunately, the frustration was somewhat mitigated by many of these bugs being in the player's favor: enemies who can't see you even when your faces are close enough to make out; bullets passing harmlessly through your body like you've hacked the Matrix; bosses who stop fighting and just stand there, waiting to die.

However, if you could stomach all of that then you were rewarded with easily one of the most ambitions RPGs of its generation.

Player choices could change the path and the story dramatically. The dialogue options were especially fun, because as a spy, manipulating people is your job. And you got to decide who would be your real friends and who would be unwitting assets to use for your benefit.

The writing was excellent, the story thrilling, and the characters memorable. Buried underneath that pile of wreckage was a game that could have become a celebrated mainstay of the genre.