All I can say to this is shame on Bethesda and Obsidian for continuing their legacies of horrendous coding and poor quality assurance. I played the PS3 version of Fallout 3 as well, and just like New Vegas, experienced a lock-up within the game's opening minutes, among numerous other bugs and weird glitches that cropped up. As a reward for my curiosity, the game completely froze on me during the tutorial within the first twenty minutes. I picked up the PS3 version today knowing full well the myriad bugs that have been found and posted on Youtube, but I wanted to see the game for myself. I know it's like beating a dead horse at this point, but as someone that works in software quality assurance and that has tested games in the past, I can't express how utterly frustrating it is to see a game released in such a sorry state. I had initially intended to send this to the bombcast e-mail address, but as it grew in length, I decided that its purpose would be better served as a blog post: Hey guys, I'm writing in to express my frustration with the bugs in Fallout: New Vegas. I am a fucking moron, but so help me, I will never buy another Bethesda or Obsidian RPG ever again. Shame on me for buying this buggy piece of shit and rewarding Obsidian for their incompetence. Why is it still buggy if it's this old? You'd think someone would have patched this kind of crap out of the engine by now. Hiding behind the Gamebryo engine shouldn't be an excuse anymore. Yes, games like New Vegas and Oblivion are large, open world games where a lot can happen, but even a decent level of QA and attentive pre-release bug fixing could uncover and resolve some of the most glaringly obvious, damning and simply idiotic bugs that have existed in all of these games.

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