Triple-A games with nasty bugs

[Seveneth]

OK, so is anyone else getting thoroughly fed up with several recent AAA games getting shipped with bugs that, quite honestly, should not be in there?

Fable III had the "silent Jasper" bug, which not only made your John-Cleese-voiced butler almost completely mute, but could also prevent you from progressing in the game.

Dragon Age II had bugs that had permanent negative effects on your character (the Isabela/Sebastian friendship issues), but which only manifested late in the game, meaning "start again" wasn't really a good option.

Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 broke the matchmaking system for its online play with its first patch, so I would frequently be matched up with players several orders of magnitude above me in ability.

And now Mortal Kombat is freezing on me when I try to play the single-player Challenge Tower or online multiplayer.

I don't mind a game shipping with bugs if they are benign, easily ignored, or quickly patched, but this is getting old, fast. I'm the sort of guy who likes to pick up new games on launch day, and I feel like I'm getting punished for it. I've worked in game testing so I'm inclined to say this is more the fault of the dev teams or the publishers than the testers (although this is, of course, entirely dependent on how thorough the testers are). Deadlines are deadlines, after all, but should you compromise the integrity of your product to meet a deadline?

It's not like me saying any of this is going to change anything, of course. I just needed to vent.

 

[Veldt Falsetto]

Any Bethesda titles? Need I say more?

Dragon Age: Origins had a horrible amount of bugs too.

And hey, doesn't the Call of Duty franchise hold some pretty nasty glitches?

 

[Sniper Team 4]

Dragon Age 2 is the only one that comes to mind for me--which I see you already mentioned--and the only bug in it that NEEDS to be fixed already (are you listening BioWare?) is the Merrill one. Everything else I can live with, but would still like fixed, but this one is bad. VERY VERY BAD!

Also, while it wasn't shipped with the bug, the update to Dragon Age Origins broke some of the trophies, and they STILL haven't fixed that.

 

[RatRace123]

Fallout New Vegas seemed like it was barely out of its beta build when it launched.
Both Dragon Ages shipped with glitches.

I've never really had any glitching problems with non RPG games, but I agree that faaaaaar to many games are launching with bugs nowadays. It's hard to believe that it's acceptable for some of them.

 

[PettingZOOPONY]

This has always been the state of gaming, thats why you never buy a game on release.

 

[Seveneth]

That's just the thing though, Zoopony - it HASN'T always been like this. If it had, I would have stopped buying games on release long ago. It's only been recently that I've noticed it.

And I'm pretty sure I couldn't refrain from buying a game I really wanted on release, even if conventional wisdom told me not to. That's probably a bad sign. :/

 

[Trolldor]

Games can be released at lower standards than they could ten years ago because technology has assisted in 'on-the-go' patching etc.

 

[highgamer]

FALLOUT NEW VEGAS

Most glitchy game i've played in my entire life.

 

[0thello]

FALLOUT NEW VEGAS

Most glitchy game i've played in my entire life.

Quoted for truth.

Fallout NV has got to be up there with the worst of them. It has come to a point where I will never buy anything from that company again.

 

[asspills]

I'm not sure if you would count it as a bug or just bad programming, but Halo Reach's friendly AI is atrocious, notably when you put them in control of any aspect of a vehicle. When one of your AI teammates gets behind the wheel, they will literally drive off the edge sometimes, and other times, they'll go full speed, and then stop dead for a small piece of debris, and then back up 2 feet, and go forward 2 feet, infinitely.

Also, Dead Rising 2 has this REALLY annoying bug, wherein every time you save while playing co-op, the co-op partner gets booted. This gets even more annoying in Dead Rising 2: Case West, when you can't open your pictures file without booting your partner, because it auto-saves when you do.

 

[asspills]

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[asspills]

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[Jazoni89]

Fallout new vegas

A Triple A game, wrapped up in freezes, slowdown, and bugs.

If it was any other game, i would of packed it in after the first couple of hours, but seeing as it's Fallout, i feel its worth biting the bullet for.

Also, their a new patch coming out this week that will fix stability issues, woot!

Never have i been so excited for a patch.

 

[Fooz]

all your gunna get are people saying "Fallout 3 & NV"

which is true, im just sayin

 

[mjc0961]

OK, so is anyone else getting thoroughly fed up with several recent AAA games getting shipped with bugs that, quite honestly, should not be in there?

Hell yes. Little bigs I can deal with. But gamebreaking bugs are unacceptable. Too many publishers and devs are talking the ability to patch games later too far and just pushing them out the door unfinished. Had they done that shit in any previous hardware generation, they would have been done for as their games would be buggy forever and nobody would buy them.

This has always been the state of gaming, thats why you never buy a game on release.

No it hasn't. I guess you've never owned any console older than a 360.

 

[Instant K4rma]

Time to beat a dead horse. Yay!

Fallout: New Vegas. Don't get me wrong, I love the game to death, but man, I've never seen a game so full of bugs, glitches and bad design choices. I have to imagine they hired blind folks to test New Vegas if what they released was their "finished product". I think the truly depressing part of it all is that through all of it's massive flaws, I've still racked up several hundred hours of gameplay on it, and I know I'm not alone in that statistic. That, coupled with the success of Minecraft, just goes to show that you don't need to release a finished game to be successful.

 

[GonzoGamer]

FALLOUT NEW VEGAS

Most glitchy game i've played in my entire life.

Quoted for truth.

Fallout NV has got to be up there with the worst of them. It has come to a point where I will never buy anything from that company again.

FNV is far glitchier than any other game I have ever bought. I would've forgiven them if it was patched up quickly (I expect a few bugs in any big open world game) but it's been 6 months, they have released multiple patches, and it's still a mess. It's also the last ps3 game I'm getting that has anything to do with Bethesda.
Many of the Bethesda games this gen are really messy.
Fallout 3 was starting to look good but if you install more than one dlc, it starts cracking up again.
Oblivion also was really messy (especially on the ps3) but neither of them had nearly as many problems as FNV.
I'll probably get Skyrim for the PC and only after they have (or the modders have) ironed out the bugs.

Like OP I feel that there's a huge double standard going on with the Publishers. They want us to buy their games new at launch, but rather than concentrating on releasing quality products at launch they concentrate more on coming up with online pass-like schemes and pre-order "bonuses" that can sometimes (like with LA Noir) make you feel like you're not getting the whole game. So the only incentive is to not be "punished" for buying used by receiving less content when you're already being punished by buying a shoddy product.

 

[Jazoni89]

FALLOUT NEW VEGAS

Most glitchy game i've played in my entire life.

Quoted for truth.

Fallout NV has got to be up there with the worst of them. It has come to a point where I will never buy anything from that company again.

Your loss man, but their's a new patch coming out this week.

It's going to be Fixing stability issues, something everyone has been hoping for since the game was released.

 

[Biodeamon]

Fallout. Definitly fallout. And crysis 2 surprisingly, with that bug where enemies just run into walls until you kill them.