Bethesda and unstable games......

[ctrl-alt-postal]

So I got myself a copy of "Call of Cthulhu".

Getting into it, great game, atmosphere ect.....

BUT!!!

Every time I save, the screen goes black. The inventory screen still works, I can hear sound effects and my own footsteps but no rendering. Every save point I have tried does this. I log out of windows and back in, and the save game is good, so I play until I save again and repeat.

Has anyone else had this specific problem?

Both Oblivion and FO3 were buggy as hell for me. On a clean install of XP with SP2.
Tweaked the hell out of them both, trying a variety of settings and .INI changes.
Has anyone ever played a Bethesda game without technical issue?
Any idea's why Bethesda has such an unstable engine?

 

[MiracleOfSound]

This is why so many of us have a love/hate relationship with Beth.

Fallout 3 is my favorite game of all time, but it's your closest friends who hurt you the most when they let you down.

Hence much frustration the 50th time I got jammed into rocks, or the game froze, or got stuck in VATS, or glitched a quest so it was unfinishable...

 

[Cryfear101]

Well its bound to have the odd crash every now and again because of the sheer mass of data the engine has to process, think about it , Bethesda are a development team that deal in massive high complex games and with this burdon your sure to find the odd glitch or bug.

 

[dududf]

Oblivion.

Laggy as fuck, and I WELL exceed the reccomended reqs...

FO3 is self explanatory... teleporting Deathclaws when I'm lvl 4? Yeah I think not.

 

[Marter]

Bethesda's games tend to be incredibly buggy, because they are of such great scale and offer so much freedom. Their testers are not going to be able to go through every scenario that players have happen when millions buy their games.

 

[Aedrial]

I have no Issue with running any bethesda game at max settings on my computer.
I may just be lucky....

 

[A Random Reader]

Oblivion crashes every time I press the quit button, but apart from that no I have not.

 

[Souplex]

Every developer has it's flaws, Bethesda's is bugs. The fact that we can overlook all of that is a testament to the quality of their games.

 

[Misterian]

Besthesta made one of the best games ever when they made Fallout 3. It's a game I still play to this day.

but I think they rather stumbled abit from they made WET. I know I haven't played it, but I started looking at it as unimpressed amd I'm gonna take Yahtzee's word for it when he said that game is bad the way he did.

I'm looking forward to Fallout 4 and Elder Scrolls 5 however, with Bethesda, I think anything's possible.

 

[TheXRatedDodo]

Here's why I don't understand why Bethesda tends to pick up so many GOTY rewards.

Last-gen graphics (especially the textures in Fallout 3, good lord..)
Last-last-gen animations
broken game mechanics (neither the FPS side or RPG side of Fallout 3 truly works perfectly, not even properly, and you'd think something would have to be pretty close to PERFECT to garner a game of the YEAR reward..)
Awful writing (most GOTY winners tend to have at least passable writing..)
Pretty meagre voice acting (again, most GOTY winners tend to get this right)
And buggier than the underside of that log timon and pumba look under to find some munchies during Hakuna Matata.

I don't get why anyone puts up with them anymore. If IW made a game like that everyone would point, laugh, then have a sudden realisation that they'd all spent $60 on a game of less than stellar quality, grab the pitchforks and start raising hell, but Bethesda manage to get away with it.

I mean has anyone else noticed all this or is it just me? I mean I'm putting aside my dislike of Fallout 3 here as well, I just don't get how Bethesda are at all respected in a world full of Naughty Dogs, Infinity Wards and Square Enix's.

 

[Irridium]

Yeah, I had to download a shit-ton of community made fixes before I was able to play oblivion in a stable state. I'm not just talking about the Unofficial patch, but lots of optimization mods. And I have well above the recommended settings, yet I could barely get it above medium settings.

Now with the unofficial patch, optimization mods, and streamline, I can play it how it was meant to be played.

Same thing with Fallout 3, only to a lesser extent, I only had to download the unofficial patch.

But still, I understand that finding every bug in games as big as Oblivion and Fallout 3 is pretty damn hard, but come on, I think they can do better.

 

[Furioso]

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Though I disagree with every one of your points (other than voice acting) you are still entitled to your opinion, they get GOTY because so many people love the games, with a very small number of people who hate it

 

[A random person]

My experience with buggy Bethesda games is with Fallout 3 on the PC. It's a very good RPG and I really found it to be fun, but I stopped playing it because on repeated occasions it suddenly crashed my computer and made me manually reset it. A shame too, as I really enjoyed it.

 

[DomEReapeR]

Fallout 3 is my favorite game of all time, but it's your closest friends who hurt you the most when they let you down.

I seriously couldnt agree more. I loved Fallout 3, one of the best games i ever played. But its really buggy! Bethesda are not very good at this.

 

[SimuLord]

Vanilla Oblivion works fine on my PC, even has a decent framerate, but who wants to play vanilla Oblivion? Once I throw Qarl's Texture Pack and the major overhaul mods into the mix, the game becomes crashier than a drunk drivers' demo derby.

 

[The_Stairs]

Funny you say this as i have a frozen Fallout 3 on my TV right now. Why must you hurt me so Beth!T_T

 

[Canadamus Prime]

THe only problem I had with Oblivion was that it occasionally crashed while quiting, which didn't bother me at all because I was quiting.