I'm really surprised at the number of people who come here to defend the game. It's as simple as this: name ONE product you can think of that gets released with the intention of fixing it later. Don't get me wrong, patches for games are a GREAT thing, but crappy developers are using it as a crutch to push UNFINISHED and UNTESTED products out the door. I'm positive Bethesda/Obsidian knew of all the glitches and problems with the game but wanted to beat the holiday market so that saps like us would go spend our hard earned money on a broken product instead a working game. There is absolutely NO WAY they finished this game thinking it was finished. They had every intention on selling us a broken/buggy game and just attempting to fix it down the road.

Again, think of one product besides video games where this is occurring. You wouldn't buy a car advertised with 250hp but craps out at 100hp and just wait for the company to fix the problems. If you're in school, you wouldn't turn in a paper full of awful grammar, unorganized themes, etc and just tell the Professor - "No worries, I'll just email you corrections later. Just needed to make that deadline." For all those saying FONV is a massive game and it's bound to meet some problems. Yes, this is true, but going back to the term paper anology, it wouldn't matter how grandiose your theme was - if your paper is crap it turns your theme to crap. Plain and simple, if the scope of their game was too much for Obsidian/Bethesda to handle then they should have scaled back the game to meet their ABILITIES or, of course, it should have been pushed back to provide a quality product. I mean, not only does the game frequently freeze, but missions are unplayable and the faction alliances are so glitchy it seems impossible to actually maintain a logical relationship in the game.

With games outselling movies and ranking one of the highest entertainment industries it's become all about money for these developers. Half finished product. A decent title but one that can't match up to the others coming out this holiday. Screw it - push the thing out the door.

I can guarantee all of you, at best Obsidian/Bethesda will fix the freezes to a level which most players can put up with. That will be it. All the ingame glitches, buggy alliances. We won't see any solution to this. Why? You've already made your money off the game so why do the work after the fact? The game will be left as is to make room for more money making opportunities. Once the freezing gets to a level where most gamers have been silences they will be pushing DLCs on a broken game.

Vote with your wallet. Don't buy anymore of their products or DLCs. Let your friends/families know this product is not worth buying as the company is not willing to take care or communicate with their customers.

Congrats on getting my 60 bucks, but it won't happen again.

I really don't think the size of the saved files is the main determining factor here. I just brought this game today, installed, patched and can't get any further than the 2nd group of Gekos before the game freezes. Not always in the same place, but around that area.

Walmart would not allow me to return this POS game. They can only exchange it for another copy of the POS game. What a waste of $$$. Saddened by this...was always a huge fan of Fallout. For those who actually got to return the game...which store or which walmart accepted the return?

I think it is related or at the very least has something to do with the memory in the ps3 and how the game uses it during gaming. I personally think the ps3 doesn't have enough memory for this game but if its not that it could just be the game isn't optimized to run on the ps3's small internal memory. Memory and don't get that confused with hard drive or hard drive space, can have a big effect on anything, it can cause errors, crashing, freezing, etc. If I were the one to be tasked with fixing this freezing problem I would start looking there.

I have the 120gb slim ps3 and it seems the only time it will freeze during gaming is after several hours or loading a lot of big places like the strip or the more populated areas.

I don't think it is related to the memory what so ever only because, I like you own the same 120GB slim PS3 and my game freezes whenever I do the following:

Go Into V.A.T.S.
Enter a building
Speed Travel
Try to Buy/Sell something

I don't see how doing any of those basic tasks could be related to the Ram on the PS3. Even right after my game loads if I don't do anything but hit R2 instant freezes.

In lieu of the above, and JaymesB effort in tracking various principle matters within the problems I believe the system in question is also a matter. It has to be taken into consideration the amount of people reporting freezes, crashes, hanging, problems more often than those of a Slim 120GB for example. I am not saying getting a Slim is the solution, however I have noticed that older gen' systems are more proliferate when users report problems. Having said that, there are those that report no problems or very little - which in consideration is still the same condition but just not as suffered as those here. I think a massive testing has to be done by the developers regarding the handling of the game via the systems, if not to fix it, but in proving it is not the system - if that is the case.

Reno