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I'm expecting some bugs obviously but:

A) Brand new engine, so it should look better and hopefully be less buggy

B) They'll patch them quickly if there are bugs

C) It'll still be awesome regardless



richardhutnik said:

Anyone here want to argue that Bethesda has a track record of games low in bugs?  I know of them back to the DOS days, and their games, even then were noted for having a decent amount of bugs.  Their attempts are epic, but have bugs.

So, this version of Elder's Scroll will be in an even smaller game world than the last?

This, Bethesda had always built ambitious huge game but full of bugs (daggerfall, Elder scrolls). I don't think this will change... Or as noted, could be better if they really plan to reduce the world and maybe amount of content...



But we must first concentrate ourselves on the way to entertain people, for video games to live. Else, it's a world where sales representative will win, which has as effect to kill creativity. I want to say to the creators all around the world:"Courage, Dare!". Shigeru Miyamoto.

Chairman-Mao said:

I'm expecting some bugs obviously but:

A) Brand new engine, so it should look better and hopefully be less buggy

B) They'll patch them quickly if there are bugs

C) It'll still be awesome regardless


I'm going with D) All of the above.



bannedagain said:
Chairman-Mao said:

I'm expecting some bugs obviously but:

A) Brand new engine, so it should look better and hopefully be less buggy

B) They'll patch them quickly if there are bugs

C) It'll still be awesome regardless


I'm going with D) All of the above.


That's correct for $25,000. Would you like to go for $50,000 or walk away with $25,000?



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richardhutnik said:

I am seeing the hypefest for Skyrim.  However, consider how New Vegas turned out, generating an article on VGChartz to not support buggy software.  Well, I am curious if people are not expecting it to have issues with bugs.  Do people think it won't be buggy or will have issues with bugs?


You do realize Bethesda didn't make New Vegas correct?



twesterm said:
richardhutnik said:

I am seeing the hypefest for Skyrim.  However, consider how New Vegas turned out, generating an article on VGChartz to not support buggy software.  Well, I am curious if people are not expecting it to have issues with bugs.  Do people think it won't be buggy or will have issues with bugs?


You do realize Bethesda didn't make New Vegas correct?

They did publish it though, and even in the DOS days, they had issues with bugs.



Have faith my freinds. lol



Bugs, oh no. Heard of patches?

Gothic 3 was unplayable when it released, due to bugs but after the first two patches came out it became a true masterpiece (imo, love the series). If a hopeless game can turn into a gem with patches, imagine a good game with some bugs with a few patches (and tons of mods). I'm glad this is finally being released next year, I didn't really like either of the Fallout games, mostly due to the fact that I have played the first two but also because I'm not a huge fan of contemporary and sci-fi settings in RPG's.



richardhutnik said:
twesterm said:
richardhutnik said:

I am seeing the hypefest for Skyrim.  However, consider how New Vegas turned out, generating an article on VGChartz to not support buggy software.  Well, I am curious if people are not expecting it to have issues with bugs.  Do people think it won't be buggy or will have issues with bugs?


You do realize Bethesda didn't make New Vegas correct?

They did publish it though, and even in the DOS days, they had issues with bugs.


There's a HUGE difference between publishing and developing.  FFXIV was a massive mess, should I expect FFXV to be an unfinished mess when it's released?

As for Bethesda, every game has bugs.  Some games have more bugs than others, what's important is that those bugs don't completely break the experience and there aren't a lot of them.  I found my faire share of bugs in Oblivion and a few in Fallout 3, but they were either incredibly minor or incredibly rare so I wasn't really upset.  Like I said, every game has bugs.  If you wanted the thread to be about games Bethesda made, you should have stopped at Fallout 3.

Obsidian, the developers of New Vegas, on the other hand, they're games have lots of bugs and bad bugs.  I haven't played New Vegas but I have played NWN2 and KotoR 2 and, well, I'm not surprised about New Vegas.  I had to stop playing both of those games because I encountered game breaking bugs that I could do nothing to get around.

Oh, and lol, Alpha Protocol.