13 Biggest WTF Video Game Moments Since 2010

5. Batman: Arkham Knight Launches As A Broken Mess (On PC)

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Warner Bros.

There are two possible explanations for how Batman: Arkham Knight made it to PC in its original, laughably broken state. Either Warnor Bros. and Rocksteady outsourced its quality control phase to the nearest zoo, or it simply skipped the optimization period entirely and hoped people just wouldn't notice how catastrophically awful it was.

As much as I'd love for the former to be true, I can only lean towards the latter, which only begs the question of how in the seven hells could all the parties involved have thought this was an acceptable standard for a game to ship in?

Despite what internet chatter from clueless forum goers would have you believe, optimizing video games for PC isn't an easy or simple task. Even so, that doesn't excuse the garbled mess of code that passed for Arkham Knight on launch day. A lot of pain would have been avoided if Warner Bros. had done the right thing and delayed its PC debut rather than - knowingly or not - push it out prematurely.

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