Actually, the Xbros have it worst of all from what I hear. The PS3 and PC versions are the ones with the least amount of bugs. Hell, if you count the issues with Steam and user hardware issues on the PC side, the PS3 version is actually the one with the least amount of bugs.

Lucky S.o.Bs

Every game I have followed for the last few years has had its forum turn into a sad clown circus shortly after release.Its always more about the moaning than the reporting.Please just use the bug report forum and let this one be about having fun.If some people are too frustrated to not throw it aggressively in the faces of the rest of us, why not get some exercise instead to release the stress?

Does anyone think the hard working people who brought us the game will want to help you more if you shout load enough?Its enough to report the issues in the correct place and find something else to do until your issue is fixed.Its the weekend so maybe head out and blow off some steam with your friends.

Maturity can occur even in young teenagers from time to time...I have seen it with my own eyes, its not impossible.

Imagine how much moaning a delay would have created.People would be in uproar!
I shall steel myself for the stressed people who might want to shut me up, but its time this endless bickering ended.I like many others would like the friendly atmosphere to come back most ricky tick.This post is directed at all moaners and not any one in particular.Many people have reported bugs in a mature way and I tip my hat to them.

It won't end, I'm afraid. This is the fourth time these forums have experienced massive amounts of rage. First Morrowind, then Oblivion, then Fallout3, and now Fallout: New Vegas have been/still are subject too far too much complaining and shouting. With that said. what the heck are all these bugs? As a PS3 player, I was expecting to be among the first of three groups to have problems, but the game is running very well for me.

If you save, quit the game, then boot it back up and load it, it will unglitch for a short while.

Atleast Alpha Protocol was a good game.

I only had two bugs so far. One was I got frozen in VATS and the second was my save got corrupted so I had to start over.

Same with me man, im on 360 and have only seen the minor bugs that tend to amuse me.I remember the F3 release was the same...I would hate for this to last as long.We are all here because we are passionate about these games, passion leads to anger all too often it seems. :facepalm:

Buggy mess? In 31 hours of playtime I've had only two crashes and three freezes. I haven't had any quest errors.

Its obsidian and the game engine thats being used, they need to use a new one and then less glitches will occur. I loved G4's feedback today, they gave this a 4/5 and said it was a very low 4 because its the glitchiest game they have ever played in their life. They then went onto to talk about all their glitches and game crashes, etc.. Now, I love this game but it definitely needs a patch; whatever happened to the day 1 patch? It is like this game was never tested and that there was no Q/A sessions, if there were testers they must have been really high or drunk.

It's a lot more likely that they ran out of time for bug fixes before release, and they didn't want push back the release date. In fact, that's definitely what happened. There's no other explanation for how they released a patch for the PC that included fixes for over 200 bugs on the day after the game was released.

20 hours and I have had only 1 glitch:
Saving reloads quick saves on PS3.

Very ticked about that one, as I lost all 2 hours on the strip, and making my way towards the strip.
Other than that, everything is great. Ps3 version finally came out to be "Top dog?"

Not really, the 06 era engine is really limiting the game.

I find it absolutely fascinating how poorly (unfortunately) these forums reflect, in my opinion, the views of most* of those who buy and enjoy Obsidian Entertainment games.

*Naturally, I would have no way of proving this statement, but the phrase “the silent majority” comes to mind. The majority being silent in this case because they are happily enjoying New Vegas =P

I feel sad because of the bad rep the good game companies are getting. This point has been made again and again earlier in this thread (thanks to skullkandy specifically, well said). Compared to other similar companies, I say Obsidian Entertainment does a fine job of making truly remarkable games despite the market trends of copy-paste over and over again.

I appreciate those who bring up specific bugs for the purpose of enlightening others, however the repetition of some (especially those already fixed) gets old fast. Similarly, I find myself slightly annoyed at the repeated comments of “X hours in, no bugs”. While this is as simple as a refute can get, it provides no groundwork upon which a discussion can be based, nor sustain any arguments made previously.

Say what you will, but realize that your opinion may be taken into account by Obsidian Entertainment. I would hate to see them start putting out games with a different ‘feel’ than the Elder Scrolls or Fallout series because of comments made here.

its a general rule of thumb not to go to game fourms areound the weeks of a release because you will get a neitive vibe. all the appy people are off playing video games

This. I agree with basically every word you said.

Oh. But there's one small thing:

Obsidian has nothing to do with The Elder Scrolls. That's all Bethesda.

Sorry, I just feel like I had to point that out.

I think he means he wouldn't want to see Obsidian stray from the Bethesda model of game styles, because he likes them the way they are. Oblivion being an example of one of those styles. ^_^

Of course there are going to be lots of posts about bugs, people wouldn't make a thread saying "IVE ENCOUNTERED VERY LITTLE BUGS DURRR" so naturally it's going to seem like more people than not are having game breaking bugs. I've been playing for about 25 hours and have only encountered one bug that ended up with me dieing (was teleported to 50 feet in the air after leaving VATS and came crashing down to my rock grave) and that is it other than just NPCs walking strangely.

I just wanted to pop in and say how much fun I'm having with the PC version. I can't comment on the console versions, but this game is reasonably stable and bug free for me, especially now with the patches and a few fan discoveries mentioned in the tech thread. Hopefully for those of you on the consoles (though I 'm confused by the wide variation in experiences being reported on those systems) the upcoming patch solves the major issues. This really is a good game.

Im not one for people whinning about games that have a normal amount of launch bugs/issues... but true to Obsidians history, Fallout New Vegas can be called seriously buggy compared to most games. New Vegas is a solid game, although I do like Fallout 3 a lot better (bigger map, more locations, better feel, more open). Yet here are some of the extreamly bad issues I have run into:

1. I need to roll 5 save files because my saves keep getting messed up. I'm sorry, but there is no excuse here. In a game that can often run 30-40 hours a save, you simply DO NOT let a bug slip through that can corrupt those save files... it really svcks to lose 40 hours worth of work after all.

2. Several times my VATS has glitched in which my character will not fire a round... and I will be beaten/shot to death in slow motion.

3. Quite often I have brief 5-10 second spells in which I can't do ANYTHING... almost as if the game refuses to recognize my keyboard briefly (seems to happen after using VATS, having an effect notice pop up, or getting hit several times). This has killed me more times then I care to remember already.

Those are just the three big ones for me right now that keep coming up. I'm sorry but those are near game breaking for me, and should have been fixed before launch... no excuse. Were not talking a few broken quests, or the occasional crash which can be expected from most new games. We're talking horribly frustrating, make you want to bash you're keyboard style issues. Defend Obsidian and blame the engine all you want, but these issues were not in FO3 (at least not nearly on this scale), and Obsidian has a long history of releasing bug ridden and broke games. I'm sure with a few patches the game will be better... but it was clearly rushed and not ready for launch (might also explain why the lower left side of the map is not finished/used).

You do know that the majority of people working for obsidian wrote and developed the original fallout series right?

So lets have some fun.

Kotor2: LA forced Obsidian to release the game ahead of schedual even when the game wasn't done.
NWN2: Atari pushed Obsidian to have the game out early. Despite that, SP was just fine.
FalloutNV: I haven't really seen these earth shattering problems people are going on about.

Then again there's so many hardware configs these days, and not to mention the complete [censored] that people run on their computers. It wouldn't surprise me that people continue to have issues. You know that whole '250 things running the taskbar', along with the '1100 malware infected pieces of junk' running in the background aren't built around having a stable machine.

Now I will say that steam is a pile of steaming [censored] and has caused no shortage of problems.

Some of you guys cry like little kids, just stop it.

Listen to the rest of the folks in this thread that have been a voice of logical reason.

It's not the end of the world. Bugs are pretty much guaranteed in any new release. Then bugs get fixed. You'll still keep complaining though, right?

Either play it or don't.

Ran into something far more sinister... Apparently when you get further in your journey, I'm currently level 22, Ive found that load times get longer and longer. As of now, load times are somewhere in the one to two minute range. The only way to alleviate this problem is to save on a new file, then turn your 360 off. Also I'm getting crazy lag south and west of Freeside. Great game, but I wouldn't of mind a month delay to get this stuff straight.

Have you tried clearing your cache? That usually reduces load times and magically fixes game instability. Amazing, I know.

Also, the OP is a troll.

Cleared cache, downloaded, deleted and downloaded the game to my hard drive, deleted all other games from hard drive. The only thing that makes it better is turning my box off.

That's odd. Maybe you shouldn't install it to the HD. I run off the disc and I don't have that issue.
Some games are actually made worse by installing you know.

I did, I just said that in the above post. Getting a little tired EP? Its getting on the verge of unplayable. Just to get into Camp McCarren to see Contreras for example takes a good 8 minutes with all the loading. I want to skull [censored] this game until it throws up blood (Which is a good thing) but the game is telling me No, means no. :sadvaultboy: