Through this post i'm adding my voice to seemingly many players that can't play Fallout New Vegas after installing Old World Blues.

It feels frustrating that despite the world's support for DLC products, we still find some that have seemingly not been tested enough to be sold to the public.I have tried repeatedly to play Old World Blues and the game just slows to the brink of freezing after loading the DLC (did it load really?). Can't access earlier saves, can't pause, can't access the PS3 desktop. I'M FORCED TO DISCONNECT THE CONSOLE in order to shutdown and restart the system...and stubbornly try again to the same result. : (

I have the new PS3 slim, and I have suffered equally destructive glitches/freezes sparingly and randomly in all Fallout (3 and New Vegas) DLC, and the main titles themselves.My previous first edition PS3 died during a New Vegas freeze! Now I even measure my time playing Fallout as not to taunt the game to freeze on me...and maybe help cause the death of my new PS3.

Old World Blues is on another level of unplayability.Unless a convincing update is released I fear I bought the equivalent of a PS3 virus.Use it at the peril of your system.

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Worse still, I hear Skyrim's engine is will not be at all un-simillar to Fallout's. I have it reserved at Gamestop...but after the recent glitches, I realize that despite the acceptance of their newer titles, Bethesda isn't working enough on its abysmal software problems (unchallenged in the market).They just render new things with them.

Maybe I ought to reassign my reserve credits. Safer for my system.

I'm definetly not buying this now. If it does not work on my platform of choice, then the dev is not getting my money. Fallout New Vegas also killed my fat PS3, I'm going to stay away from this buggy, glitchy, game from now on.

And BTW...I installed the latest update to the game just before installing the Old World Blues DLC. If that one was meant to fix anything, I don't know what it was. Maybe the programmers duded the marketing team with a blank update file and returned to smoking wasteland weed duties.


ITS SUCH A DARN SHAME. A game that has such an incredible exploration factor, a sense of a second life in such an interesting setting...and the benefit of players that still remember and love the old PC games (me included)....and we have to face THIS CAW DUNG. In my years playing console games in a dedicated way I have not faced software horrors like the ones I face regularly in Bethesda Fallout games.



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And I love Fallout. Sniff.