| twesterm said: Games *rarely* ship completely broken out of the box. There may be bugs and there may even be nasty ones that happen under certain specific circumstances but they're rarely broken. -edit- I should add I already know the answer to this is more than probably no. Not because I know the specifics of every game out there, but because I know every console game has to go through a specific test of requirements in order to be shipped on that platform. If the game doesn't work, it doesn't pass those requirements. Yes, game breaking bugs may exist, but that has been true since the NES days and those only happen under specific circumstances where you're probably trying to break the game or gaming the game in some way other than normal play. |
Well The witcher 2 for pc didn't work for me until the first patch. For consoles I don't know. It usually doesn't say what the patches are for on day 1. I assume they should work, how else can people who don't have their console connected online play the game. That doesn't stop the stories of corrupt game saves for some games and people having to start over. I myself got stuck on a bugged quest in Fallout NV but could luckily revert to an older save 4 hours back.
However the news about the introduction of 'offline pass' for Arkham city where you have to download the rest of the game is not sitting right with me. Yes it is less then 10% of the game and the game still works fine without it, but it's a slippery slope.
