I would say 6. They have had 5 years to polish it but its innevitable that some major and a lot of small bugs will make its way through at first release. People will complain a lot of it but you can't cover a world as extensive as millions of fans who brought the game can. Should be expected but won't be by most people sadly and IGN will completely diminish the game for it and while they're doing that they will also probably go down on MW3 and svck it. We know its truth.

Taking my experience of Oblivion, I expect a lot of bugs- I'd wait a full month after release to buy Skyrim. At that time, all major bugs will have been fixed.

10, most of my anticipated games this year have been total bugfests (TDU2, IL2), seems like the year of buggy games.

I have come across very few bugs in all Bethesda games, the most buggy for me so far is definitely New Vegas (not Bethesda, but whatever), and it wasn't even that bad. I usually am really good about finding work-arounds for bugs, for example the New Vegas savegame bug, I figured out it was being caused by sending items to Novac, so I just stopped doing that. (Before the warnings were posted)


Oblivion I had one true bug, involving Clavicus Vile's quest. I essentially could never get the Masque, because completing the quest (Clav gives you some wierd item, and I think that was the cause of the bug) would lock the game in the ending sequence.


Morrowind, not counting Dialog issues or things that can be forgiven (Clipping issues because I jumped into one of those rock spires at 350mph), I didn't encounter a single bug.

If FoNV would be a 10 xD Then Skryim will prbably be a 3 or 4.

Once the patches are out I'm sure it'll all be fine, but for release I'm predicting a 4.

I'm expecting a fair amount of bugs, while annoying i see them as an indicator of ambition, the more things are added the more chances there are for bugs to appear, so their presence will not bother me much as long as i know the game-breaking ones will be patched eventually, hopefully a 7 out of ten lol.

They've got ALOT of new game developers on-board this time - hopefully this will mean
that they've got more guys working on eradicating these bugs before the game's release.

I'm thinking 3 or 4.

On a scale of 1 to 10.....

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211706798214

Or I could just be really hungry.... for a certain pastry that is a homonym of a certain ratio

Five or six, without any real patching after one or two patches. That's new Beth, I'd say.

I couldn't pick a number but I know it'll have some. They're very proud of their new engine and I'm hoping that once we get in there and start pushing it to its limits that there won't be too many.

The bugs that bother me the most are logic bugs...kinks in the storyline for a quest that just didn't allow for what someone might think of doing in any order. I hope all their brains are crawling all over each quest to find every left turn in the quest flow and allow for all kinds of choices/decisions the player can make. I don't want to have a quest breaking because a speech option doesn't come up...that kind of thing. In FNV there was a quest where I had talked with someone before I had the quest and then when I did have it, the necessary speech option was gone and wouldn't come back. So I don't want that...it was frustrating and it actually ended my game. We're supposed to talk to everyone in case it leads somewhere and it made me afraid to do that because it might break a quest. (Obsidian wrote FNV, not Bethesda)

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Considering my luck with F:NV, I'd say 3.

Another reason for playing on PC :dance:
Maybe 6-7. Every Bethesda game I've played has had bugs but not gamestopping ones (although I wait for a patch or 2 to come out before buying).

No poll in this thread? lol

5. Working main storyline, a handful of broken quests, easily exploited mobs, crashes every 5 hours..

5 or higher. patches will eventually fix it. i won't be able to get it or play for a few months after release anyway, so i don't really care cuz it will be fixed.

I'm going to say 2. I'm honestly just shocked by how much people complain about bugs. Maybe I'm just incredibly lucky, but I never seem to encounter bugs that cause me any types of problems at all. I remember people saying Dragon Age 2 was almost impossible to complete without a recent patch, yet I went through the whole game without noticing a single problem. People complain about Oblivion's bugs all the time, but anything I've ever encountered has been non-obtrusive to the gameplay, and that's after 1000+ hours of playing.

There will, of course, be bugs in Skyrim. It's a giant open-world game with about a million things going on at once, and the unpredictability of the AI lends itself to some problems occurring.

Hmmm, you got me thinking. Ok then, let me adjust my approach so I won't get too frustrated when Skyrim comes out because it's a game I want to love for years. I guess what I'll be doing then is paying for the opportunity to be a bug-tester because I know I can't wait until it gets the first patch. I guess I can deal wtih that if it all turns out right in the end. I can't control the game, only my approach to it and the bigger these games get, the more chance for problems...that's just reality and I don't want the games to get smaller. Thanks.

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I do love you Bethesda but your games tend to have more bugs than a square mile of jungle. I predict at least a 5.

"Homophone." Not homonym.

The worst part will be those that confuse something with as many variables as Skyrim with something as scripted and buttoned-down as MW3.

Jeez, I remember that from New Vegas. Granted, that was buggier than an entomologist's undies, but the whinging was the worst.

im going with an 8. their should only be a select few bugs when the game releases and the ones they didnt cover will be covered with a patch

6.

5

I've had good luck with Beth games, though I only bought fallout 3 around launch an got oblivion and morrowind years later. People have complained about crashes etc with F3, but I never patched it my first playthroughs and don't recall any ctd or freezes or bugs, besides full repair glitches. NV was a buggy pos though, but that was obsidian.

I expect a few quests that will have bugs, such as being unable to complete, or if you do the quest in a way the devs hadn't thought of it glitches. Probably some ctd, and graphical bugs. I just hope they fixed the floating items, I hated picking stuff up and watching everything around it float up a few inches. Also I expect to fall through the floors and have items do it too.

I'm going to say 5 best case, 7 worst case scenario.

1, and the highest being 3 or 4. I don't see this game being as buggy as it's predecssors. It's a new engine, Beth is taking the time to have this game developed instead of doing a quick 2 year cycle. Are there going to be bugs, sure in an open world game it's almost impossible to be completely bug free unless you want to take a decade to build the game. I'm thinking we may have some issues with Radiant Story, maybe 1 or 2 nasty glitches, and some AI issues with a couple of the NPC's but other then that I don't see the problems that occured in Oblivion, FO3 and New Vegas occuring in Skyrim. Not to mention that if the bug is just an NPC keeps his store open a couple hours longer or forgets to sleep, that's not a big deal at all. It's the other stuff that causes save files to be lost, freezing, lost quests, those are the bigger ones and that probably won't happen this time around.

Why do you hate Bioware so much? The Mass Effect games are great and Dragon Age Origins is currently my favorite RPG of All Time. Neither has teally ANY bugs that I've found. DA2 was a letdown yes, but Don't troll because of one mistake in a long line of huge success.

Andwith that, my guess is around 4-5 on the bugginess scale.