Shamus Young said:
Experienced Points: Obsidian Does it Again
Did Obsidian even test Fallout: New Vegas before releasing it?
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This is a pretty shameful article right here. You're only partially correct about a few things, and completely wrong about several.
KotOR2 was rushed because of the publisher breathing down their neck. It was a decent game up to about 3/4 of the way through.
NWN2 is a fine game, nothing wrong with it. Yes it's poor in places and has some obvious flaws, and yes it requires a monster PC considering what's onscreen, but it's still one of the best D&D games out there. Furthermore, the expansion packs are EXCELLENT. Mask is one of the best games I've ever played - it's right up there with BG2. Zehir is not quite as good but still great. Your stubborn refusal to play them is quite shameful PC elitist behaviour.
AP is crap, no argument there.
Now to FONV, I think you probably don't understand the way games are released. The publisher insists on a very strict timeframe for release, the game was probably put to disc the INSTANT it was deemed ready BY THE PUBLISHERS. The devs have likely known about the bugs since that point, and have been working around the clock since then to release a day-one patch. Obsidian being obsidian, it turned into a day-four patch or whatever, but hey. (Although it was day-one for me, in Europe. But that's no excuse)
Day One patches allow the publisher to force games to be released much earlier than they SHOULD be released. And this is the fault of the PUBLISHER, not the devs. This is the industry standard, now. It's not a matter of how long will it take to kill all the bugs. It's a matter of how many serious bugs do we iron out before putting the game to release and killing the rest of the bugs with a day-one patch.
Now anyone can see that Day One patches are crappy, that's easy. But bitching at the devs is pointless. These days, it's all about the money. And Day One patches save money for publishers. Simple.
Danish rage said:
Pc gaming is useless overkill. Buying a pc today you are asking for trouble.
You might not get top of the line grapich with a console, but at least it works. Im yet to have a crash or glitch 10 hours in.
The Pc gaming community is responsible for the decline of good games, demanding that every singel AAA game is to be released for PC and about a trillion different grapich/ram/prosessor setups. You Guys are sucking the fun out of games with you grapich fetish.
You must be joking.