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[–] [email protected] 121 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Man, "15 hours in and not a single bug." I love Bethesda, but I feel like that's an incredibly bold claim to make and that his definition of bug is probably a bit loose. I wish they wouldn't make this big of a hubbub about it and just let the game speak for itself if it's really that solid.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I wanna hear how bug free the game is from those 2,000 hours in one save file weirdos.

Yeah the games solid til about hour..269? Then everyone T-poses and then falls into geometry.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, maybe the 2,062 cheese wheels I have stored in my house could be bugging things out but I doubt it.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

👎 Not recommended

6,940 hours playtime

Bugthesda strikes again!

Think the game is stable? Try teleporting nothing but cheese wheels for three straight days.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah true. Why do the talking when you can do the walking.

This actually gives me more concerns than before, which is probably not what they intended.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly. By pointing a big red arrow at the problem they've historically had to the point of memory it just serves to make the skeptics more skeptical and create concern in everybody else since it's just a big "source: trust me, bro".

We'll just have to see.

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[–] [email protected] 113 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's such a low bar that it's clipped through the floor.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Least buggiest? Are we just giving up on English, "journalists?"

[–] Frozengyro 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I seems in general journalism has gotten worse and worse with their grammar. I honestly wonder if their editors even look at even the title before things are posted online.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

When I used to do copywriting for junk SEO, I began to suspect that my editor didn't actually read anything I wrote and just passed it through a content uniquness filter, so I started putting in random references to HP Lovecraft stories in the articles I got assigned.

They all got published, no questions asked. For a while if you searched "Homeopathy and the Esoteric Cult of Dagon" my content was the only result

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think the title is a joke about how Bethesda games are notoriously always full of bugs. Like, to the point that it's just expected for any new Bethesda game to be a bug-riddled mess at launch.

Hell, there are still bugs in Skyrim that never got patched, even after they re-released it onto modern platforms. Not even obscure bugs, but things normal players will encounter in their playthroughs.

[–] RedditWanderer 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

He's saying the "Least buggiest" is not proper phrasing. It should be something along the lines of "the least buggy/bugged" and it's a pretty bad title for someone claiming to be a "journalist".

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[–] meco03211 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It's crazy that they haven't used things like the unofficial patch to fix their own damn game. Like they could pretty much just copy paste that shit and be fine. But no. More than a decade later and that shit is still around and even propagated to things like FO4 and FO76.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The author is basing this claim on feedback from FIVE people who have been playing the game. If Bethseda are only expecting a similar number to play it once it's released, then this is a useful metric. Otherwise it's meaningless.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The author also used the phrase "least buggiest" in the headline, I think we can guarantee there isn't any actual journalism in the article

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

No worries about launching horses or trolls into orbit in a space game.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Redfall is looking awesome, it has Arkane's best gunplay yet."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I remember this one. Don't trust AAA developers and game journos. Wait for reviews before buying.

[–] Call_Me_Maple 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Seems like a standard marketing move to get ahead of the meme. We'll see how this article ages by next week, but I pretty sus. 😂

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (4 children)

"You won't find any bugs if you don't do any QA"

-Todd Howard probably

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

deletes the Jira ticket

“Problem solved!”

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have like zero hype for this game, and absolute bangers of games have dropped recently. I'm definitely going to put this on the "maybe" list and let other people test it out for me, I'm in no rush.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I still don't really know what it is. Because it seems to have random generation so that makes me think it's just going to be another no man's sky.

The big problem with randomly generating a bazillion planets is they're all boring. Random terrain generation will always result in dull terrain because an algorithm isn't creative, it's not even AI level aware, it's just maths.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm excited for it because Bethesda. I've always put hundreds of hours into their games despite all the ranting and raving.

I'm definitely a bit worried for the same reason as you are though. I think those are likely filler exploration radiant quest type stuff. I'm cautiously hopeful that the story is good and long and deep enough to keep me playing though.

Plus come on... space and customer ship! :D

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I have thousands of hours in Bethesda games. Something about sneaking around murdering bandits, mutants, mythical beasts, heavily armored soldiers, etc. especially sniping them with a bow in Skyrim and watching everyone run around like "who shot Steve in the face!?", that was just... chef's kiss. That and finding something interesting around every corner, and just the visual aspect of it. It's hard to explain but there is a certain Bethesda magic that no other game really captures. Plus the modding...

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I see the npcs still have the signature Bethesda empty stare… is that a stylistic choice or do they just suck at face mocap?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Do they even use facial mocap? Fallout 4's best facial animations were all reserved for Preston Garvey, and they are so not very smooth, I always assumed they were done by hand.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Your daily reminder to not preorder. Least buggiest is not a high bar, TBH.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a really low bar NGL

I'm going to wait for launch and reviews for sure

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[–] peopleproblems 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm a little disappointed I was looking forward to Skyrim bugs in Space

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The Giant Club space program could now actually send you to space; but there are no giants 😔

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[–] aulin 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That title hurts my eyes!

Least buggy*

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Bugleastest

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IIRC didn't Microsoft hold the game back specifically to ensure it didn't launch in a horrific state? Bethesda games are known for being a nightmare at launch, and even with these assurances, I'm still expecting the first few weeks to be a mess. That being said, if any Bethesda game was going to launch well, it would be this one.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

No fatal accidents in this workplace in over 30 days!

[–] Etterra 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's not much of a brag. Just because the monsters in this game won't mysteriously fly off into space only to reappear right behind you seconds later, doesn't mean we should celebrate.

[–] pgx 13 points 1 year ago

no, no, no

you see this is a space game, they are supposed to fly off into space in this one

FEATURE

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I'll believe it when I see it.

I mean even Skyrim ran pretty nice, till you started playing it long enough to start finding the bugs and jank. Of course, it helped that it had all the familiar jank from the previous games.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Just love the pre-release reviews being all "this is shit" when the game hasn't even released yet.

[–] Bye 11 points 1 year ago

This just in: the least-stinky shit you ever took still smelled like shit

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Least buggy?

Guess journalists are forgetting how to grammar.

[–] FrankTheHealer 9 points 1 year ago

Do the NPCs in this game give anyone else a sort of uncanny valley feel

[–] Transcendant 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I think we've all learned our collective lesson at this point (or at least, we should have) not to over-hype games, nor to pre-order them.

I'm going to have to temporarily move in with my dad in October potentially for a few months, should be some decent reviews in by then so I'm looking forward to killing time with this game!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For anyone who may have forgotten or may not know: the game is a day 1 launch on game pass. I already have it preloaded and I didn't preorder. You can easily see how buggy the game is for yourself next week.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Oh no, what'd they break this time?

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