New Vegas - an absolute mess.

[Souplex]

I'm playing the 360 version. No problems so far.

 

[Lem0nade Inlay]

Well I'll be buying it later this week, Fallout 3 didn't cause me any problems (besides the occasional crash) so we'll say how this goes!

 

[chronobreak]

I can't believe they let this happen again, and why anyone would continue to buy games by Bethesda.

So, what did you do to help the situation? .

Hey, like I said, I just rented it. I've had two crashes in my few hours of playing, forcing me to hard reset my 360. I'm just tryin' to get the word out so this apparantly greedy company doesn't hornswoggle anybody out of their money for a buggy release.

Also, I have to say I really do like the game. And, there are a decent amount of quicksaves, thankfully, so I haven't had to redo too much playing, but it's still a major annoyance that shouldn't even be happening.

 

[Tiny116]

Fallout 3 has only crashed on me two or three times, which I consider ok.
Not played Oblivion....I really need to rectify that.
Never had a problem with Morrowind (But that is the best one XD)
I'm sure I'll manage New Vegas. XD

 

[Snotnarok]

Bethesta and Obsidian are the worst developers in history, they leave their games to be finished by moding communities for god sakes.

They make good games but they're often bugging out badly.

Hell Fallout had a bug that was reported to bethesta, what did they do? "Play the game in windowed mode"

LOL I thought you said worst but you obviously mean best. Hahahaha good joke.

In all honesty though I've never played anything by Obsidian so I won't judge them. Fallout 3 and Oblivion are my two favorite games though. They are both critically acclaimed so I doubt Bethesda is the worst developer ever.

It's half a joke and half not, while their games are often fun and what not, their games are incredibly buggy, often unfinished and the modding community is usually left to fix what they wouldn't. Bethesta anyway, I hear Obsidian is roughly the same.

But regardless, they never put out patches they just pump out expansion packs and never fix what's broke.

So while I think Fallout 3 is a good game, I also hate fighting with their inability to fix what's broken, it leaves me unwilling to finish it. I play games to unwind not scream fuck as it crashes and I gotta replay half a dungeon. Ah yeah must have been their other patch "save often" along with their "windowed mode"

 

[moshineko]

I did kind of expect a buggy experience- which is why I rented the game. Still, it just ain't right. Don't they pay people to test this stuff? For $60, you figure they would release a game that wouldn't crash your system. To me, it just represents having no conscience as a company to charge such an ridiculous amount of money for something that isn't even stable. Spread the word, hopefully something gets done about it.

Funny thing about gametesting for PC, everyone's got a different system, different hardware, and is trying to do different things in a game that offers thousands of possibilities. My guess is that the folks who do playtesting don't have to scrape by on the $300 P.O.S. that the rest of us have, and that spending all their time walking the character frames into walls leaves them with very little time to, you know, play the game the way we do. Blowing shit up, shooting all the civvies, planting dynamite under pet dogs, all that stuff.

Haven't had too much problem with it so far, but honestly I'm just so glad to have something to wash the disappointment out of my mouth after Dead Rising 2 forced me to restart like 10 hours in because of the timer, that I'm going to allow a couple of flying geckos and that weird bullshit with the rifle popping up over my shoulder. At least I know there's a Holy Hand Grenade waiting for me in there somewhere.

 

[Delusibeta]

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/10/19/fallout-new-vegas-old-obsidian/

That should cheer you up if you haven't seen it; I know it did me.

Could see it coming a mile off yet everyone seemed to ignore the past. Bethesda are alright on their own, but Obsidian destroy their own games, let alone making it with an already buggy engine.

Funny, I've heard most of those bugs happened at Fallout 3's launch as well.

 

[rockyoumonkeys]

You guys have still had better luck than me. My copy has no sound. NONE.

 

[DayDark]

Remember your math rules boys.

It's an Obsidian developed game, published by bethesda.

 

[Airsoftslayer93]

is it a good game though?

 

[InnerRebellion]

Lies, lies, lies! I refuse to believe you! I cannot see that which you are typing!!

/Immaturity.

Seriously though, it just came out, these may be unforeseen bugs that will be patched in due time.

 

[thenoblitt]

nope been playing for 4 hours and it hasnt crashed on me yet

 

[C95J]

luckily, I am getting it on the xbox 360, and Fallout 3 never crashed on me once

There was this funny glitch where a Deathclaw would go flying in the air though

 

[Nmil-ek]

You know I have to wonder why people buy games made by these companies if they are known to have serious game ending bugs. The best thing to do is not buy the games at all.

Because the fan communities so good no matter how hard Bethesda drops the ball it will be community patched within the month.

 

[Dr. wonderful]

[HEADING=1]I FUCKING CALLED IT![/HEADING]
And so did everyone else who knows Obsidian's/Bethesda's track record.

I've been saying this would happen ever since the game was announced.

Honestly, all I can say is "know shit?"

Its an Obsidian game on a Bethesda engine, what else did you expect? A stable game? HAH!

This is why I'm waiting a few months before buying. The community will have fixed the bugs, and have a pretty sizable mod-pool for it.

New Vegas has been fine to me.

Me too, I don't know what you guys are on about...

I think they pretty much overreact on EVERYTHING anything postive.


As a Troper, I'll say this: Your Mileage may varies. You may get it good, you may get it done.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

It's not like Obsidian are going to leave it the way it is? Lol, have you played Kotor 2?

For the last fucking time, I was Lucasarts who screwed over KOTOR 2. They gave them a 9 month development cycle, and then denied Obsidian the opportunity to release the restoration patch.
Fucks sakes its not that difficult people!