I was just thinking the other day, how these great and beautiful but broken and ultra buggy games will be remembered in the future. We may be annoyed about the game's exceptional glitchness now, but I believe that in a few years while games come and go, we'll be able to forgive the developers/publishers or whoever made the mistake and let the game out too soon or without proper testing. Actually it will be "kinda cool" and a rare item to have a copy of New Vegas in your shelf while many of us have probably sent the game flying long ago. We have seen buggy games before but I'd say that the state of New Vegas is unusual. It's almost as if we gamers get a peek to the developing of a game, to something we shouldn't be able to see before things are sold to us. So savor those funny buggy moments, you never know what happens next in the world of NV! Maybe that's the only way to enjoy New Vegas, as a much sold but still rare piece of work in it's media that shouldn't be taken seriously.

As all games tend to hold many memories and tell something of the time they were published so will this too be a monument of an era. It's a peculiar era of videogames becoming ever so popular and mainstream, competition for profit tightening it's squeeze around creativity and quality. I've thought that the Fallout series was already a remarkable creation and Fallout 3 blew my mind. It wasn't just about being a good videogame, but a strong experience and a bitter vision of one possible future. Fallout 3 (+ it's dlcs) still remain as one of the most inspiring and thought provoking science fiction ever made. And I have no doubt that NV could reach that greatness but I don't know yet because my 360 rroded after just scratching the surface of this seemingly vast game. But what I'd like to say is that in a few years New Vegas will still be a topic for discussion whether succesfully patched or not. Sad thing is that the game will probably be remembered and played in a different way than it was meant to.

Is it this time the Fallout game's rickety structure that's the vision of one possible future? Future of gaming industry? I hope not. It would be as depressive vision as the world of nuclear destruction it depicts. Time will tell if the game can be fixed to a playable state. But what has happened before that has already left a permanent mark to the history of videogames. And yeah, it's sad that this time I had to start a videogame wondering and studying it's flaws, while I, like all of us, waited another playable game. It's like a long waited movie that comes out only on scratched dvds. Now we are distracted from the essential...

Hopefully the game can still be fixed with an update and this kind of speculations will be the funny stuff we'll be laughing at in the future, not the game.

Fallout 3 was rather buggy too at release. After a couple of patches I doubt New Vegas will go into the history books as one of the buggiest games of the decade or something. I've had worse.

We'll i have'nt.
Possibly in the bad old days of early PC releases, i think one version of Football (Championship) Manager used to crash on a certain date (causing a lot of grief) but certainly i've never come across a console game so ineptly put together as this piece of crap.