Have you ever seen a buggier release?

[KarmakazeNZ]

I have not, but I'm genuinely curious as to whether you have. We all know of the optimization issues still plaguing many users (though I myself have been lucky enough to have it run fairly well) that seems to be the major source anger on the boards.

Battlefield Bad Company 2, Made by EA/DICE, one of the biggest names in gaming, has been out on the market for a year. I have NEVER been able to play the game for more than half an hour before the game causes a lockup requiring a hard reset.

I paid twice as much and I STILL can't play that game on the SAME computer that RO2 Beta worked fine on.

So I don't believe a single word you said. This is far from the buggiest game release ever, it isn't even the buggiest game release in the last year, and it is being made by one of the smallest and newest gaming companies on the planet.

RO2 was made with a fraction of the resources of BFBC2, but RO2 ACTUALLY WORKS.

So take these bull**** complaints somewhere else. Either you are lying, or you have never bought a game before. It's that simple.

 

[TheRealGunther]

Hands down its E.T. I got it for xmas at 7 years old even as a youngen new to video games I was like wtf santa!! it was not only buggy it was the Worst game of all time and singlehandedly ruined atari millions of copies of this game was buried in the desert lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3-2JTkVTyA&feature=relatedThe Worst Game Of All Time: ET - YouTube

 

[rukqoa]

Every single Battlefield game to date.

 

[NympH]

All the Battlefield games have been bugheaven at release, and some still have bugs that DICE just quietly ignores.

 

[skooma]

Every Paradox game ever.

Still, at least they run worth a damn at release. The MP is laggy as **** as been since beta.

 

[Knighter]

Sin (1998), if anyone remembers that game. That was a pain in the *** at the beginning. No sound at all etc.

 

[ukhazard]

+1 for Black Ops. However after the second patch I've been running smoothly, same with RO2, albeit of course with the usual bugs (server browser problems, rank/stats etc)

 

[koschi]

arma 2, arma 2 arrowhead, battlefield 1942, battlefield... well all of them
gta iv on pc, crysis and i think a lot more but i dont want to think right now

 

[Hoodie]

You mean S

 

[[DH]Chris89]

Sin (1998), if anyone remembers that game. That was a pain in the *** at the beginning. No sound at all etc.

Thats the only game i have had that, completely and utterly refused to work. Sometimes worked for a few minutes, but most the time crashed as soon as the first level began.

 

[teemu92]

black ops, brink, dead island for example.

 

[BigG]

Empire: Total War was pretty damn buggy at release

 

[badastle]

World of Warcraft had it even worse.

How very true. They have gotten better over the years. But even patch releases had broken the game before. I remember back before any of the expansions, the game would be down for few days after the release of a major patch.

Like I said though, they've gotten better over the years and the days of down time is only additional hours of maintenance.

Most releases have their issues, because a company cannot truly test every single variable that their clientele setups.

 

[GossamerSolid]

OP has never played a Call of Duty or Battlefield game at release, I guess.

 

[Merkin666]

Personally no I have not. Game is so bugged for me I cant play. Strange this is the beta ran like a dream lol. I have no idea what they did between the last beta patch and release.

 

[Joseph-Porta]

Bugs?

The game runs rally smooth and nice for me, just a few minor sillie things that I can ignore easily.

 

[MrWhitby]

Dead Island, last week. Enough said.

Yes. But dead island worked. and Bugs wasnt noticable, Atleast they released a game that was able to be played.

 

[Oook!]

Borderlands: basis of gameplay was coop. Didn't work for a massive proportion of the player base for around 6 months till they patched it.
Edit: Sorry I forgot how DRM on the DLCs is still corrupting players saves.

Fallout 3/new vegas: Massive bugs that cause random game crashes, for some very frequently(note that a lot of the issues were inherent with the oblivion engine but for some reason were ignored after years had passed) Game breaking glitches in quest AI. most of which has not been resolved at all.

Modern Warfare 2: Major issues with matchmaking causing players to be unable to join games at all or have to repeatedly retry. Host quitting mid game causing all players to be disconnected as opposed to passing the hosting on to the next most suitable player.

Bad Company 2: Random disconnects for lots of players still present. Major server issues for at least the first week of release rendering the game mostly unplayable.

Any questions?

 

[Ronseal]

Test Drive Unlimited 2 :/

 

[Oook!]

Every single Battlefield game to date.

This isn't unfair at all. Both BF1942 and BF2 were massively buggy until major patches were released a month or two down the line. Fans of the series conveniently forget this.