Every Bethesda game launches with horrible bugs. Every. Game. It's quite the achievement. : games

[+] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wouldn't know since I don't really touch modern games anymore but that's sad to hear. You'd think it would have gotten better given how huge the budgets for games are nowadays.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 years ago

It's like there's some kind of tendency of the rate of profit to fall.

Weird! 🙃

[–] Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Some combination of absolutely massive codebases (game, libraries, engine) which constantly grow and nothing staying the same (games have new features or content added to keep interest) makes this inevitable for any large production

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

nintendo and fromsoft have managed to keep it relatively bug-free for the typical player even with massive codebases

[–] Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

That’s true. They certainly spend the extra time and effort to apply a heavy coat on polish on most of their releases. Kind of a rarity in the industry

[–] NoisyOwl@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bugthesda.

[–] ElGosso@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I remember people complaining when Fallout 76 came out because there was a bug that had been in the engine since Morrowind that the community would normally patch but couldn't because it was an always online game data-laughing How pathetic of a studio can you be that you can't fix a twenty year old bug that the community can?

[–] Yurt_Owl@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

Bethesda is too busy tormenting its trans staff to fix bugs

[–] replaceable@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

Paradox fans: first-time

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's not really fair to judge Arena based on an emulation of it tbh

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean true but I literally got no other way to play it

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

Normalize buying a PC from 1994 to give Todd Howard a fair chance to impress you with his first Elder Scrolls game

[–] SupFBI@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

BGS' games have the same bugs, game after game, decades later. Modders fix bugs for Bethesda. And BGS won't even implement the fix(s) for their next AAA release. BGS should be embarrassed.

[–] Alunyanners@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago

"eh, the fans are gonna fix it anyway, so why bother"

[+] Teekeeus@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years ago

The physics bugs are based but quests getting softlocked is not tolerable.

[–] pumpchilienthusiast@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

I mean, that's not terribly impressive. What's really impressive is that they never actually manage to reduce the number of bugs, regardless of how many point releases they issue.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

I'm convinced they've started deliberately adding more bugs because that's part of what people like about their games.