I just read the gamespot review and they said new vegas is the glitchiest and most bugged modern rpg!?!? I've played some pretty buggy modern rpgs such as gothic 3 so is gamespot being truthful in that assessment?

Well, i'm pretty sure it's not THAT glitched, but games do have glitches and bugs all the time. It's nothing special, bugs are going to be fixed.

It has a good amount, some game breaking. Obviously with a game this grand, it is to be expected, but it has more bugs than a Beth effort, except maybe Daggerfall.

The most bugged modern rpg of all time though?!?!

hmmmmm? No, probably Two Worlds. Than again I'm only 12-15 hours into NV. I have had two game ending bugs that made me restart my character.if your debating on buying, just wait for the patch to release.

Thats a ridiculous statement. I have yet to play an open world game that wasn't glitchy on release.

I've run into several probems but none of them were game breaking. I'm sure if someone relied on quicksaves/autosaves and lost 4 hours of play that would be frustrating.

Yea that was a buggy game but gothic 3 I think out does them all. I have the game on ps3 and its froze on me twice. The second time was really weird...my screen went black and then I was back at the ps3 xmb screen...really weird?

Dont have a PS3, so I never played G3. Didnt G4 just come out though?

no it's not that glitched, people are just spastic and over-dramatic.

if you don't buy the game as a digital download from steam you shouldn't have many issues at all. Most people I've talked to have encountered 1 or 2 very minor glitches after 15-20 hours of gameplay.

Yea arcania: gothic 4 just recently came out for ps3, 360 and pc...gothic 3 is pc only I believe.

@ skullkandy what's going on with the steam digital downloads?

No, there are legit problems with the 360 version. I cant attest to other versions, but mine is fairly messed up.

I'm a few hours into playing on 360, what sort of issues have you run into so far?

Aside from a few pathfinding/collision problems, I haven't experienced anything yet.

The worst I ran into and the ones that made me restart was: NPC voices not matching up with their lips and sounds coming in and out. No matter what I did, this problem wouldnt resolve itself.

Can someone please describe to me in detail what these "game breaking" bugs that everyone is talking about features? < Poor sentence looking at it now

double posted on accident.

Neverwinter Nights 2 was also buggy on release. And, could it be coincidence, Obsidian was also the developer. How they manage to break game engines other devs used successfully is beyond the mortal ken. Anyway, NWN2 wouldn't even run for most people, until the devs released a patch... several months later! Even after that, there were huge patches almost every day for several months, drastically changing content and fixing a host of tiny and large bugs.

So, now we have a few games to tie for the honor of "buggiest modern game on release" award. :thumbsup:

Gamespot also said that the main story was not as compelling as F3, so take their review for what it is worth.

Another problem I have when things get hectic: guns not firing, lagging up, especially in Freeside, guns not changing or equipping as fast as they should...

Yeah, the game is rife with glitches, and unplayable for many customers. I can only attest for the downloaded steam PC version, but I've had literally 30 to 40 crashes to desktop over 35 hours of gameplay on 2 different gaming rigs, both of which far exceed the recommended requirements. These are most commonly "falloutnv.exe has stopped working" errors, but I did have one BSOD. Even when the game works, there are the texture and graphical errors, wacky savegame system, poor pathfinding, and laughable AI issues that are moderate annoyances. I already warned a couple buddies stationed overseas against buying the game until a patch is released that addresses these issues. It is sad that the developers that brought us Planescape Torment, KOTOR 2, and Neverwinter Nights 2, have devolved so thoroughly, but with Alpha Protocol and now Fallout NV, their products are speaking for themselves. I hate to bad mouth the guys, because I've loved the majority of their products, and I'm a huge fan of the fallout series. However, if you can't take a game engine that is 90% finished and make a glorified expansion (not saying that's a bad thing, as a working Fallout New Vegas would be worth every penny spent!) out of it, what the heck is going on? I won't even talk about the obvious lack of quality testing, as a simple search for "Fallout New Vegas Glitch" on Youtube produces some simultaneously hilarious but sad results. Hopefully some patches will knock all of this out, and within a couple of weeks, everything will be running smoothly, but come on guys, shape up before you ruin the Dungeon Siege series too, will ya? Also, shame on the publishing side of Bethesda for letting a Fallout title be released in this state. Tarnished is the the name of a great and much loved series.

/rant

Can we still have a REAL Fallout 4?

I've been playing it on the 360 and thus far the only glitches that I've had are graphical glitches

Other than that I haven't had any freezing or other glitches happen thus far

Been playing about 7 or so hours

I've only had one bug, and is was a positive, infinite caps !

After going through several threads, it seems the majority of bugs are associated with the Xbox 360 version. Apparently that version is poorly tested.
Haven't heard that much about the PS3 version and PC version seems to have minor stuff, mainly lost quicksaves from what i understand.


Keep in mind though, that during a test period, the game isn't tested on every possible rig. Some systems - mainly the suped-up home-tweaked rigs - can cause unforeseen errors that the testers simply didn't experience.
I've not touched the system configuration (that much) on my gaming PC, and i've avoided alot of the bugs lots of other people experienced in various games. Patches tend to fix these though.