Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Giant Ants and Cazadors Aren't the Only Bugs in New Vegas

Cazador.jpgSo New Vegas has been out for, oh, I'd say less than a month now? I finally beat it the other night (on PC) and can confidently say that it's a great FPS and RPG hybrid, just like Fallout 3 was. However, I'm sure I'm not the first person to encounter some problems during my travels in the Mojave Wasteland.
   I remember back when 3 came out, and there were a lot of complaints regarding bugs on the PC version of the game. Whether it be because of the monster of an Alienware I had back then, or just sheer luck, the only problems I encountered were a few crashes while exiting the game. Now that New Vegas is out, however, I think I understand how those people felt. Even with my hella-fast XPS-260 video card (I've got a 500 on the way!), I encountered a few areas and combat situations that felt, for lack of a better word... sticky. *Possible Spoiler* I could be fighting the hordes of Legion at the Hoover Dam and not experience a thing, but trying to find the All-American in Vault 34 was like wading through a time-dialation field from some old Star Trek episode. Also, for anyone who pre-ordered the game at Gamestop, you may have noticed that the Weathered 10mm Pistol can't have a silencer equipped without the model completely dissappearing and forming an exclamation mark above the Courier's head (I confirmed this on PC and 360, a friend of mine had the same problem).
   Now, I don't want this to become a ranting thread, but it REALLY pisses me off when a game gets released that could still use a lot of work. Another great example was S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat, in which I couldn't even finish the damn game! Cmon Obsidian/Bethesda, look at how successful Bioware and Blizzard (for the most part on the latter) are with releasing finished games. All I'm asking, and I'm sure that everyone else would agree, is that video-game designers in general take just a little more time polishing off the game before rushing it to the shelf.
   If you've got any bugs or buggy games you think should be known about, be sure to name em in a reply!

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