Falout Vegas: Buggiest game ever

Scráib

There's no question mark in the title because I'm stating a fact :mad:

Honestly though, Fallout 3 was a game that I'd rate as one of my all-time favourites. When New Vegas came out I assumed that while it would be a copy that wouldn't be a bad thing.

But I was staggered by the crappiness of the game. I would play it and I was guaranteed that at a minimum, the game would crash twice every hour. Often it was worse. The bugs came in all shapes and sizes too: The loading screen would hang, when walking around the game would freeze or ridiculous amounts of screen tearing would happen, pip-boy menus would lock up, and my personal favourite was when the game would randomly just stop dead and you'd suddenly be back in the PS3 XMB menu with absolutely no warning whatsoever.

How the hell did a game like that get released? I mean if that were a car the maker would be in court over the quality of the construction.

If I were to give the game a score ignoring the bugs, it would be a 9/10. But because the game was utterly ruined by terrible quality control I'd knock it down to a 5. It's honestly unplayable at times.

Has anyone else been through this game and experienced that level of bugs?

Somnus

I haven't experienced them to the same extent as you. But it was very very buggy. A lot of quest breaking bugs where characters don't interact like the should and such.

I absolutely loved the game. I think the story is great and I preferred the choices and structure of the options that Obsidian did over the layout by Bethesda in Fallout 3.

But the bugs definitely took a lot of the enjoyment away from it. Even if there were fixes, I found myself saving loads, on multiple files, just in case there was a bug that prevented completion of quests and such.

I'd still recommend people to play it, but the bugs definitely ruin it somewhat

Chefburns

There are so many bugs because Bethesda gave it to some other company to make. Also it didn't help that it was made for PC first then ported to Xbox and Playstation which made every bug in the PC version get blown way out of proportion.

EGriff

Weird. I got to level 20 tonight and I haven't seen a single bug or had a crash. Played fallout 3 on xbox and I only came across one bug that ruined a minor quest.

TerrorFirmer

I've finished the game. On 360. Found it, despite the reviews, bug free for the majority of the game. Then, at level 25+, found myself experiencing some horrific bugs, many of which stopped my progress in the game dead. Fortunately, a few differnt measures meant I could continue, and I find myself having completed most of the game, but still a little bitter over those issues that prevented me from doing so much more...

Big patch ahead of next DLC, I heard...

noodler

For NV, the game defo gets worse as it goes on. Maybe it is because of the morew you discover or something? But the further to the edges you go the more it freezes (or goes incredibly slow for me - PS3).

As for the topic title - nothing is as bad as Fallout 3:GOTY Edition - the addons in that were of such quality that I don't understand how it was allowed to be released.

daca88

I absolutely loved this game but some of the bugs i came across ruined some of my enjoyment of it.
There's a quest where you are helping the Nightkin and Super Mutants in Jacobstown, and the doctor there does some experiment with a new type of Stealth Boy, well this quest would not complete i.e the last sequence wouldn't initiate no matter what i did. Tried a different save file and it still wouldn't complete. Therefore, when you get the dog off of The King, i could not change his brain, or do any other quests involving the doctor in Jacobstown. I know its nothing major an didn't affect the main quest, but still....it annoyed the hell out of me.

Another was that my followers would disappear for days(in game) on end and then randomly appear when i'm out exploring or in the middle of another quest.

Sephiroth_dude

Crashed on me twice yesterday :mad:

raze

daca88 wrote: »

Another was that my followers would disappear for days(in game) on end and then randomly appear when i'm out exploring or in the middle of another quest.

This was particularly irritating - especially if you needed to swap party members for a quest. It was a mini-game trying to find exactly where they disappeared to. I think it was patched in that they show up on the world map at least. More than once after losing a companion I had to 'wait' for 2 days to pass, then go back and pick them up from where I found them first.

I love NV, but there's something seriously wrong when you expect a game to crash during any given sitting.

jmx009

I hear that there is a new patch coming soon.

I have this game and am yet to start playing it. I hope the patch arrives by the time i finish playing assassins creed brotherhood.

Gunmonkey

Its out now on PC but no word on a consoles so far, probably in certification with Sony and Microsoft.

EGriff

I must have jinxed myself with my first post in this thread. It's crashed on me about 5 times since then. Usually when I have to trek somewhere on foot and I'm about 90% of the way there.

faceman

Fallout Vegas was appalling to play due to the bugginess. Many a controller was thrown at the screen!! really unacceptable from the makers.

daca88

raze wrote: »

This was particularly irritating - especially if you needed to swap party members for a quest. It was a mini-game trying to find exactly where they disappeared to. I think it was patched in that they show up on the world map at least. More than once after losing a companion I had to 'wait' for 2 days to pass, then go back and pick them up from where I found them first.

I love NV, but there's something seriously wrong when you expect a game to crash during any given sitting.

It has been a good 3 or 4 months since i played NV so i'm not sure about the patch or not, I never had any problems with Fallout 3 so that made it worse when it did happen.

i'm assuming the dlc for New Vegas is riddled with bugs, anybody able to shed some light on this? Would love to get back into this after my exams

raze

daca88 wrote: »

It has been a good 3 or 4 months since i played NV so i'm not sure about the patch or not, I never had any problems with Fallout 3 so that made it worse when it did happen.

I might be misremembering it, but to clarify - the patch I think I remember didn't fix anything. It should have just made party members show up on the world map so you could find them again.

I sincerely doubt any amount of patching could fix the bugs that NV has.

Helix

the first/second week patched fixed pretty much all the problems i came across for me, so much so that i actually marked the game up in the very next issue of the magazine based on it

Curdace

daca88 wrote: »

i'm assuming the dlc for New Vegas is riddled with bugs, anybody able to shed some light on this? Would love to get back into this after my exams

after completing dead money the game became unplayable.. it would always freeze at the title screen.. they released a patch that fixed the problem and thats the only bug i've come across so far.. unfortunately the patch wasnt released in time and i ended up deleted all my progress just so i could play :mad:

Polar101

Even the title seems to be bugged.

I'm worried about the DLC, based on my experiences of the Fallout 3 DLC.. never seen anything that buggy released on consoles.

nathansredarmy

this game is terrible really gets on my nerves full of glitches

sarumite

Obsidian are great at game design, and bloody awful at execution....Alpha protocol is a fine example, as is FO:NV. Both games have some great ideas and both have bugs galore.

landsleaving

Fallout 3 is one of my favourite games ever... so it was all the more upsetting when I had to just quit playing New Vegas because of the bugs. I'd bought the collectors edition and everything, only time I've ever paid extra for one.

Shame on Bethesda and Obsidian for releasing it basically unfinished and clearly untested.

noodler

Meh,

Fallout 3 was pretty buggy for me as well

For me the ranking is (PS3):

1) Fallout 3 GOTY Edition (I bought for the addons which were my worst experience ever in terms of performance)

2) Fallout 3 Vanilla and New Vegas Vanilla

The thing about NV for me is that the bugs were less consistent throughout - they seemed to be more prevalent at the outer areas of the map and certainly more so in the second half of the game. Red Rock for example and the surrounding area.