Bethesda loves to hate you.
Published Thursday 26 Feb 2009 9:49am |
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It's painful really.
Oblivion: Glitch of the Year edition. I have played it to death, unfortunitly, quite literally.
Everytime I restart the game, I stumble over another game breaking glitch. It started with the Vampire Cure glitch, preventing any player who becomes a vampire from ever completing the quest to return to normal. I shrugged it off- after all, this game is awesome, and moved on, as a vampire... only to have the game freeze up due to the auto-save feature corrupting all my saves.
I had been burnt. But like a relationship that has gone sour, I figured I would hit it again, to remind me why I loved it. Oblivion gave me crabs the second time. Again, literally, as all the crabs in the game seemed to be frozen, which wouldn't have been a problem, if it didn't happen to townsfolk in certain cities as well.
I solved the problem by deleting all my game data, and re-installing. It had that brand new car smell. Auto-save... off! Vampirism... cured immediately. Things were going well. Until like a new car, I had a breakdown, a breakdown named: The Knights of the Nine. On completion of this quest, I was stuck up in the clouds, unable to leave, and unable to get the foul taste of Bethesda hatred from my mouth.
Oblivion was shelved. To preserve my sanity.
Roll on Fallout 3. The TV ad's had sold me on the title. Look how sexy it was- stuff blew up, America never looked so tattered, I was pleased.
I contracted another bad case of Bethesda. This time there was no cure. No patches were available. Freezing game, crashing sequences... game breaking stuff.
They seem so beautiful, Bethesda games. The perfect game for me. You see them across the room, before you know it, you've dropped a hundred bucks on them, you are down and dirty for a hot nights gaming. The following morning you have game herpes.
The worst part is I still love them. I just can't bring myself to play them. I want to give them a standing ovation, but they give me the clap.
So I just want to know why? And why do we still buy them? When will we learn? Better yet... when will they learn?
COMMENTS (19)
The thing that gets me though, I discovered these problems from my first play through. I must have logged 20 hours on the first game before it pants'ed itself. How can glitches like these slip through the cracks, or companies like Bethesda offer patches to some platforms, and not others :S
Oblivion was fun...until you got so distracted by side quests that you simply didnt care about the game anymore...
And I got sick of fallout 3 when my shins clipped into the ground and I got stuck...in the same place...over and over.
Eventually the no clipping came out to get around the problem...and pow, the game sucks now
from what i've seen the bugs have never ruined my game experience or screwed me up. they have always caused funny things to happen and give me a good laugh :P
bethesda games have always been buggy but so so amazing. My friend thinks they bug out cause of the random generating engine. (his thoughts not mine).
from what i've seen the bugs have never ruined my game experience or screwed me up. they have always caused funny things to happen and give me a good laugh :P
Still, the game is so damn amazing that it kind of makes up for the ridiculous amount of bugs I've encountered.
Yeah...Fallout 3 gets really irritating sometimes. The game has crashed four times on me and I've been stuck many times.
Still, the game is so damn amazing that it kind of makes up for the ridiculous amount of bugs I've encountered.
I, will not forgive them for creating Oblivion. Ever.
Don't get me started on Bethesda.
I, will not forgive them for creating Oblivion. Ever.
Although you are right, Oblivion was HELLA glitchy. Yay for being able to sleep on the floor and wake up in a black Room?
/sarcasm
Just pretend they have learned, and play their games from A-B as linearly as possible, and don't make use of any of the extras. You'll probably avoid a bunch of bugs.
I know you like the games, but I want them to keep pushing their capabilities, and this means stretching the f**k out of their playtesters...
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