I'd definately have to agree with shinzo 110,000%! I became a huge fan of fallout 3 for a first when I aimlessly pick up the title and started playing for hours on end. Rarely never experiences any major bug issues there and absolutely it! So naturally when I picked up FNV I was like a kid in a candy store, as it were, only to be fully disappointed by the time I actually got the main guest going finding numerous frustrating glithes and downright stupid issues with the games main physics. I mean really!... what in thee blue hell?! I cant recall how many times I've have to restart during those annoyingly long load times, much less after I made quite a bit of progress, not even realizing I'd have to save every 5 mintues or so, just so I wouldnt have to redo a quest, reattain equipment I spent hours on, trying to get for my own personal amusemant or have to kill those deathclaws all over again! Yeah sure I'm currently still playing NV as I speak, only becouse I paid my hard earned moment for it, but rest assured there hasnt been a time upon turning on my console that my spiral into the fallout world wasnt obsured by some buggy heavily cussed at incident of the game "cheating" as I call it. I've found myself frequently wanting to get up and just snap the disc in two out of sheer moments of being highly enraged with some things like all of you have stated should have been addressed and fixed well upon prior to the titles release. its almost like they fused and threw it all into a blender and let the game itself decide how to play out. The shoddy AI alone is a joke, mainly when my companions are no where to be found. I've caught Boone standing blindly in a spot, no enemies in sight, and had to engage in one on one conversation just to get him to follow me again after I already coordinated his tactics. The was a perticular spot where I accessed the train tunnel door by lockpicking it by rauls shack, and after killing all the ghouls came upon the entry way to the left mid way through, and kept falling THROUGH the floor, only to end up on the opposite end of the tunnels exit. Even my companions couldnt go through the door, but the ghoul inside that room came out attacking just fine. For once I never thought I'd get the "pleasure" of seeing such a huge and obvious clipping issue with any game period! Thats just inexusable Bethesda! I mean come on, it wouldnt have killed all of you to spend a few more months working out all those major kinks that defy the point of even enjoying it, yeah like any hardcoe gamer, much less a loyal fan to your franchise ISNT going to notice something like that! Are you people actually trying to turn away consumers or what?? Not too bright on buisness stradegies are we? My personal opinion(since yes they are like a*holes, we all gottem) and advice as a fan of fallout and oblivion, dont hype up and make such a big deal about such a universally proclaimed sequal to an otherwise title with your own built renown for your company unless you plan on effectively and efficiently delivering a quality product at least of decent proportion. nuff said.

Dear Obsidian,

I feel absolutely compelled to share my frustrations about Fallout: New Vegas with you. This is not something I would normally do, but I really feel that as a consumer who has purchased your product with my hard-earned dollars I have a right to speak my mind.

Before I start, let me just say that I played though Fallout 3 (Xbox 360) twice (good guy/bad guy) for a combined total of 193 hours. I also purchased and completed all of the expansion packs that were released. In all that time, I can only think of a handful of occasions where there were some minor glitches in the game that briefly interrupted my experience. I LOVED Fallout 3.

Now, onto New Vegas.

In the 66 hours I've invested into your game so far, I have experienced:

- Countless game crashes where I've had to restart my console. I would say confidently that on average, I have to restart my console once for every one and a half hours of gameplay.
- Broken quests, which have resulted in me having to go online to find out exactly what I did that caused the glitch to occur, and reload old save games (costing me hours of time) in order to go back and do it another way.
- Items disappearing from my inventory, never to be seen again.
- Horrendous, inexcusable load times, some in excess of 2 minutes, that have almost fooled me into thinking the game has frozen.
- Frame rates so bad the game is unplayable, resulting in me having to back out of the game completely and restart it.
- Audio glitches, including one last night where Knight Lorenzo's voice changed in mid-conversation.
- Enemies and NPCs falling through, or floating above, the game world.
- Unresponsive controls, ex: having to press 'B' multiple times to enter my Pip-Boy (not during combat, simply standing around doing nothing).
- Companions who 'wait' in locations for no apparent reason.
- Invisible walls all over the friggin' place! Seriously!?

I could go on, but I think you get the point. I'd also like to mention that in my opinion, based on my own personal experience with New Vegas, that the patches released so far have done NOTHING to fix any of these problems.

I do understand that with a game this complex, and of this size, that certain bugs are bound to get through testing. However, there is no excuse for releasing a game this broken, this buggy, to retail.

I am writing this post just to let you guys know that once I am finished with the main quest, seeing as how I've already invested quite a bit of my time (I'm not even going to bother with any side quests at this point), I'm going to trade your game in for credit towards another title (which is something I've never done before). I will not play though it a second time as I was planning to do before I picked it up, nor will I purchase any expansions to the game (which are also extremely broken and buggy from what I've read). I am so insulted, quite frankly, at the quality of this game that the odds of me ever purchasing another title developed by your company is slim to none. Too bad.

Update:

So I believe I'm fairly close to completing the main quest, however, now the game seems to freeze every other time (give or take) that I fast travel. Needless to say, this is more than frustrating. In fact, it's f**king ridiculous. Has anyone heard if New Vegas is going to get another patch or what? I would really rather not trade this game in before beating the main storyline, simply because I'm uptight like that and it will annoy me to no end knowing I've invested so much time for nothing. Anyways, I'm going to try and beat the game today, wish me luck.