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5 Painful Current-Gen Glitches

Koku writes: "This console generation has given gamers many great games, some of which will even go down as some of the greatest games of all time. Even moreso, some journalists and bloggers have called this generation of video games the strongest since the 16 bit era. In all honesty, I may have to agree with them, due to the fact that I don’t believe that I’ve had as much fun with video games since those days of my youth. However, with every positive, there is a negative, and even moreso, there is no such thing as a perfect game."

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Cinotix5753d ago

It's pathetic that glitches even come up with a purchase of a $60 product.

Ziriux5753d ago

That's why you wait, read reviews and look out for patches.

zootang5753d ago (Edited 5753d ago )

I tend to give it a month before a purchase. By then, a patch has been released to fix any problems and they would be better deals to be had.

jagstatboy5753d ago

and then they have the nerve to complain when we buy used.

Megaton5753d ago

That is something that bothers me about this gen, even though it's somewhat balanced out by patches. It's like they're selling betas at retail sometimes.

himdeel5753d ago

...either way since they showed a picture of Fallout 3 I'll talk about that. The Point Lookout DLC with the Game of the Year edition became all but unplayable for me. It kept freezing every 3-5 minutes having to reset my PS3, I had to keep deleting game data to play longer than 10 minutes and it was just painful to try to continue although I really enjoyed what I did get to play. I've since decided to stop playing the game all together.

SilentNegotiator5753d ago

Glitch article haz 404 errorz.

Don't divide by zero ever again. We're lucky to have survived this one.

Christopher5753d ago (Edited 5753d ago )

No game is glitch-free. For many of these studios, we're talking about some of the best programmers out there. Yet there are still glitches.

The complexity of games today has increased exponentially with the advancement of graphics, physics, lighting, and polycounts/models. This is one of the reasons, the inability to perfect our current level of technology with our software products, that most analysts believe this generation will be longer than others.

I'm not saying that this is an excuse for everyone. Some glitches are just horrific and shouldn't be so prevalent in the game. But, for the most part, my comments above hold true.

ambientFLIER5753d ago

Um....EVERY piece of software has glitches. Even professional software that costs hundreds of dollars. Don't be so shocked that a $60 game has a few.

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gauntletpython5753d ago

Its lame that companies can shove out broken products and then 'fix' them later with a patch. The worst thing to happen this console generation.

Ziriux5753d ago

Well it happened on all console generations, it just happens that this generation is hit with most, but that's because developers are going above and beyond with graphics and whatnot.

kneon5753d ago

well it's also because they can get away with it. That was much harder to do when things were shipped on cartridges or before downloadable patches.

Back then you had to get it right the first time.

N4GAddict5753d ago

I especially hate this for multiplayer games.

badz1495753d ago

have been around for ages for PC games but to bring it to the console realm is kinda sucks!

grashopper5753d ago

Everybody wants betas to play the game early even though they are glitchy and buggy. Why not put up with a few minor bugs in a retail release until it gets patched? I'm fine having the game in my hand a few weeks earlier with some minor issues.
Then again I would be really pissed if I didn't have a online connection :)

alphakennybody5753d ago (Edited 5753d ago )

Games aren't as simple as past gens, but that doesn't mean some devs should be easily forgiven for rushing out half-baked games in hope of quick bucks & fame.

CobraKai5753d ago

The flip side is at least they can fix bugs now. All the way up to the PS2, if you bought a bug filled glitchy game, you were stuck with it.

Sarick5753d ago

GT2 was recalled and one of the disc was replaced. This was rare but it did happen in some extreme cases.

"Recall
When Gran Turismo 2 originally shipped, it was discovered that players could not obtain a 100% completion ranking. Polyphony Digital and Sony soon discovered this and re-released the game with minor changes to allow for 100% completion. They also started a program where players could send in their "Simulation" discs and be provided with an updated copy. Soon after the program began, however, they stopped requiring the original discs be returned, and began sending out discs to anyone who completed the brief process for obtaining a replacement.

Although it was never officially revealed why players could not obtain 100% completion, it was widely suspected that a last minute decision to remove drag racing from the game caused this. Drag racing had been discussed several times during the development as a new feature. Additionally, there was a single car with 1001 horsepower that could be earned as an event reward. It was tuned to have incredibly fast acceleration and straight line performance, leading many gamers to be believe it was, in fact, a drag car. "

Now days instead of recalling they can simply create a patch and have the "sell it now Fix it later" altitude. If They had to recall disc this Gen a few developers would've gone bankrupt shipping bugged games.

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Hideo Kojima put Low Roar in Death Stranding because gamers need more culture in their lives

It's important in life to maintain a broad palette when it comes to culture and the arts. Hideo Kojima agrees, as he continues to use video games like Death Stranding to introduce people to music and other elements they might not otherwise discover.

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Mojang partners with Merlin Entertainments for the Minecraft theme park, Minecraft World

Mojang has partnered with Merlin Entertainments to build the world's first Minecraft theme park in the UK.

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Yakuza Live-Action Miniseries Debuts March 17 Exclusively on IGN

A three-episode live-action adaptation of the first two Yakuza video games will debut Tuesday, March 17 exclusively IGN. Each episode is about an hour long and will stream on IGN.com and IGN’s YouTube channel.

CrimsonWing6976d ago (Edited 76d ago )

I hope it’s better than that Prime series… woof.

shinXseijuro76d ago

Haven’t watched it . Is it not good ?

Seth_hun76d ago

Looks like everyone is a miscast :)