Bethesda, I love the type of games you make. The non-linear progression and open world atmosphere is awesome. My only gripe is you constantly put out products which are incredibly buggy. I never finished oblivion because I was stuck as a vampire and there was a bug with the cure quest. I stopped playing fallout new vegas, because I could hardly hack any computers because nothing would show up on the screen, among other glitches. And now in skyrim there are so many bugs it is hard to keep up. Problems with interactive items in the homes. dragons bugging out and flying backwards. I killed a dragon last night that didn't give me it's soul nor did it disintegrate like the other dragons. And now the game is freezing on me all the time. Show some form of standard and loyalty to your customers and give us a solid game. I would have happily waited 3 more months before release or more for a game that isn't so buggy.

Again I love your games, but I hate the unpolished products you seem to continually put out to fit your time table for making money.

Word.

already has been expressed many times.... devs working on it as we speak.... Check out their twitter or blogs.

close thread. :flamethrower:

All games you mentioned worked perfectly on my pc.

I agree with you to some extent, but bugs are ultimately inevitable in huge, open world games where all of the variables are completely unpredictable. Still, I would've rather they waited a month or two to do some extra testing.

By the way, Bethesda Game Studios didn't make Fallout: New Vegas.

I should probably start buying them on pc, since they also look a lot better on there too. Unfortunately I had all the games I referred to on console.

That's a pity.

They work perfectly fine for me.

The FACT of the matter is, Skyrim is one of the overall least buggy games of the year. And the fact that it is an open world game, which are infamously far more difficult to bug test then a linear game like Gears of War or Mass Effect, only adds to the case of just how overall great a job Bethesda did with the engine and game construction.

Skyrim DOES have its problems. The 1.2 patch DID break other things. But they are working to fix those things.

Pretty much everything on this board is going to be something that has already been talked about. People need to stop making this argument. You people are extremely annoying. If you don't like complaints, don't read the posts. This is your problem, not other people's.

Anyways, I disagree that Bethesda has continually put out products that are super buggy. Games like this are going to have a certain amount of bugs. However, the level of bugginess that Skyrim was released with was a bit over the top. It's blatantly clear that they were forced to rush the game. This is also apparent in how certain things in the game feel underdone compared to others (bard's college, the civil war quests...etc.). This was a business decision, and it's hard to blame them. However, it does make me sad to think of what could have been.

I'm sorry, but I think that you're delusional. This is easily one of the buggiest games that I have played in my life. It's also one of my favorite.

Yes I know it is impossible to get all the bugs, even in smaller scale games there will always be some form of bug. But what I am referring to are the game affecting, breaking bugs. The obvious bugs that strongly affect the game playing experience. Like the marriage bug, game freezing, backwards flying dragons, interactive options, npc bugs etc. All of these are obvious things to check and really have no excuse to be buggy. That's just my opinion and as a former game tester, I know that these things would have been unacceptable where I worked, the game would never have shipped like that.

Totally agree with you. I don't know what games the other person was playing.

The excuse from developers used to be 'the pc platform has so many variations it is hard to test them all for bugs'. bethesda what's your [censored] excuse now the xbox and ps3 have not changed in 5 years?

Note i said "of the year".

Also, lets not forget the issues with RAGE, and they spent 6 years on that. So compared to many other games, Skyrim is doing fairly well considering.

I play on the console and only downloaded the day one patch and have no problems. I think the problems are hit our miss based on you hardware. My xbox runs the game fine, but my friend on the PC says he has lots of bugs. Just like you see on the forums, it hit or miss on the hardware.

Thank god after 12/12/12 we are DONE with stupid marketing deadline release dates for the cool factor.

11/11/11 is the reason for your bugs. They set an artificial release date and the game suffered as a result of not enough de-bugging. The PS3 seems to have taken it up the backchute the most though.

I don't think you understand logic either. The buggiest game that I have ever played, would be worse than the buggiest game that I have played this year. I played a ton of games this year, none were even half as buggy as this one. In fact, I can hardly think of any bugs in the other games I have played this year.

Whereas, dozens come to mind for Skyrim. I haven't come anywhere near close to playing every game this year. For you to have played anything buggier than Skyrim, you most have picked some garbage games/games that were in Beta (I don't think it's really fair to compare a beta to a "finished" game anyways). I don't mean to be insulting, but I just don't see it.

Pushing back the release date would have done more or less nothing with the bugs. They had maybe a few hundred testers playing through before release, of course theyre not going to find everythning. Hundreds of thousands of players found more bugs, shocking right?

Some of the bugs really should have been caught, PS3 saves and X360 textures, and they need to have some heat put on them for that.

And I play on the 360 and this as been the absolute cleanest Beth game at release for me. I remember the bug fest that was OB and F3.

Lol what you smokin'?

This game is one of the least buggy Bethesda games (as far as I've played anyway) but it is hands down the most buggy game I've played all year, and I've played most of the AAA titles amongst other releases since the start of 2011.

Least buggy? What?! Now you just being delusional this game is buggy as he'll and crippled beyond belief. This is the buggiest game ever released on a controlled platform.

Least buggy? What?! Now you just being delusional this game is buggy as he'll and crippled beyond belief. This is the buggiest game ever released on a controlled platform.