Honestly at this point I feel like if Skyrim were completely bug free, it’d actually be less entertaining than it is, because sometimes it’s fun to exploit some of them or watch some experienced player completely break the game at every turn to do ridiculous things like beat the game without even using the walk controls.
Bug acceptability is based entirely on the effect hey have on the general player experience.
Fun, useful, interesting, optional = good.
Disruptive, harmful, game breaking, unavoidable = bad.
I have a personal one year embargo on starfield for this exact reason.
Not touching it t until a year after release, waiting to see if it’s fucked or not… Bethesda, eh.
Got couple bugs in here, some broken scripts right there
The fans will fix it anyway so we don’t care
You’ll definitely know within a day, at most a week, how fucked it is. The only kind of bug I can think of that may take so long to come out is if there’s a save bug that wipes saves. Which is more of a concern on console.
True, but I figure a year gives me time to see how things pan out. You need some time to find out what the community patches will be like.
Such a pathetic state of affairs.
At least in Bethesda’s case, the bugs are rarely game-breaking. Must of them are just visual or physics bugs which can be amusing. If Starfield releases in a similar state to Skyrim’s launch, I’ll be happy.
Then again there was that one game-breaking bug on PS3 when your Skyrim save got too big. Hopefully we don’t have a repeat of that.
physics bugs arent so amusing when it causes quest items to fall through the floor into the endless void of misery, forcing you to reload a save repeatedly until it decides to not phase through solid matter.
WE RESPECT THE LAWS OF PHYSICS IN THIS GOD DAMN HOUSE, GOD DAMNIT.
I almost like the bugs and feeling like Bethesda games are breaching at the seams because they made so much possible.
Personally, in retrospect, I feel like Bethesda games did less “push the boundaries” and more “spread the spill”.
Skyrim was always touted as this deep character development based game, but in terms of functional combat mechanics and interactability it felt wide as an ocean, but actual meaningful character development both personal and story driven, seems only as deep as a puddle.
I genuinely don’t understand the Hype skyrim gets, and I say that as someone who has played a shit ton of skyrim.
Skyrim is so simplified and boiled down compared to even oblivion.
I can’t wait for Starfield to come out. If it’s a broken mess on day 1 and there will be lots of juicy internet drama. It might even be as entertaining as the 2020 presidential debate.
If?
Its a Bethesda game.
Bethesda has never released a game that wasnt a broken mess.
Thats why they support modding so much, they basically outsource testing and bugfixing to their community of eager modders.
Thats why they support modding so much, they basically outsource testing and bugfixing to their community of eager modders.
Good point. It could be a lot worse. They could not do mod support and still release broken buggy games like many other publishers do.
Bethesda as a company dies as soon as they try to lock down modding to their monetized creation club bullshit.
