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[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 18 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] Cabrio@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[-] TesterJ@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] ForgetReddit@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

I almost like the bugs and feeling like Bethesda games are breaching at the seams because they made so much possible.

[-] Cabrio@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] dojan@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I had plenty of issues with quests and scripts not running when they should when I played through Skyrim the first time.

Might’ve been a PC thing though.

[-] Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

at least on PC you can pop the command console and fix it if you look up the command for it.

game consoles are just stuck trying to reload, or worse, losing possibly hours to going back to old saves until the problem didnt trigger.

[-] dojan@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I did that a lot. It does take you out of the experience though.

When it comes to Bethesda games I prefer to wait a few years until the modding community has matured and fixed everything. The games are usually not worth playing just by themselves.

[-] Rabbithole@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

Got couple bugs in here, some broken scripts right there

The fans will fix it anyway so we don't care

[-] WagnasT@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 11 months ago

Surprised there's not already a placeholder on nexus mods for unofficial starfield patch.

[-] Shadesto@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

This is honestly not a bad idea.

I'm not sure about mods, but if the game is modable, it gives you a year for all that to be created and your experience is going to be way better.

[-] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

It'll almost certainly be moddable, but the only mod I'll have on my first playthrough will be the unofficial patch. Maybe a UI overhaul if it's as console-centric as vanilla Skyrim.

[-] Neato@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] Rabbithole@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 points 11 months ago

Give it 5 or 6 years and you can get the Definitive Deluxe Starfield Special Game of the Year Edition. Pretty good deal.

[-] PeterPoopshit@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[-] Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] PeterPoopshit@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

Bethesda as a company dies as soon as they try to lock down modding to their monetized creation club bullshit.

[-] TheSaneWriter@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

Indeed. So many problems are fixable too, to the point where users have patches for hundreds of the game bugs by just modifying attributes and using the game engines scripting. It's honestly unexcusable, they can do better than this.

[-] emptyother@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Who do you think has been reposted/released the most, this joke or the Skyrim game?

[-] emptyother@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Who do you think has been reposted/released the most, this joke or the Skyrim game?

[-] G_Wash1776@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

It’s a feature not a bug 😂 honestly their bugs are usually hilarious and enjoyable

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