So I had the hankering to return to Fallout 3 and just... dick around in the wastes.  Y'know, killing raiders, ambushing Enclave camps and looting abandoned locale.  Since my character was so ripped and little in the game posed a threat, I went on a "Walk About."  No clothes, no items, no aid; just a combat knife (Occams Razor to be exact.)  So I fast travelled to the temple of the Union and christened that my base of operations once I purged the nearby enclave threat when all of the sudden... I'm hit with that infamous UI bug where the foreground and background mesh and it totally fucks up my view, then it froze my Xbox.   
I restarted my Xbox and kept at it, regardless of the glitch.  After about 3 hours of dealing with glitches, bugs and lockups I reluctantly turned off the console for the last time that evening.   
Which leads me to the point of this blog.  Why is it that Fallout 3 is fucking great and fucking broken at the same time?   

So I had the hankering to return to Fallout 3 and just... dick around in the wastes.  Y'know, killing raiders, ambushing Enclave camps and looting abandoned locale.  Since my character was so ripped and little in the game posed a threat, I went on a "Walk About."  No clothes, no items, no aid; just a combat knife (Occams Razor to be exact.)  So I fast travelled to the temple of the Union and christened that my base of operations once I purged the nearby enclave threat when all of the sudden... I'm hit with that infamous UI bug where the foreground and background mesh and it totally fucks up my view, then it froze my Xbox.   
I restarted my Xbox and kept at it, regardless of the glitch.  After about 3 hours of dealing with glitches, bugs and lockups I reluctantly turned off the console for the last time that evening.   
Which leads me to the point of this blog.  Why is it that Fallout 3 is fucking great and fucking broken at the same time?   

never encountered a bug in fallout, great game anyways. 
 
ps. Lost fan?

Why is this in the Bug Reporting forum?
 
This forum is for bugs on the site.

"  ps. Lost fan? "

Broken stuff is the magic of Bethesda games... their whole draw for me is to see how I can totally break the system and get away with some crazy stuff...

It's never glitched that bad for me, though it is glitchy.
 
Though I have been itching to go try and replay Oblivion and can't remember how glitchy it is.

I heard/read it is alot more glitchy on the Xbox?  Is there still quite a few glitches for the PS3 version?

" never encountered a bug in fallout, great game anyways.  ps. Lost fan? "

" never encountered a bug in fallout, great game anyways.  ps. Lost fan? "

Haven't met any major bugs to the extent you did in such a short period of time.

" I ended up going back anyway and beating the last few missions I had missed.  Now I am pretty sure I've seen all there is to see in the game. :/ "

" @HatKing said:

" I ended up going back anyway and beating the last few missions I had missed.  Now I am pretty sure I've seen all there is to see in the game. :/ "

HAHA... There is so much that can happen in the Wastes of Fallout 3  that no one can ever REALLY finish that game. "

Surprisingly, I've only encountered a bug twice. My game just froze up. Restarted my console, no other problems. 500+ hours played too.

Try clearing your system cache, it may help. It helped remove a glitch from one of my games. Still, I feel your pain, dude. I don't quite remember how to do it. It's somewhere in the system settings. I found out by doing a search in the answered questions section of GameFAQs. So if you don't know how, try looking there. If you can't find it, just send me a PM or something and I'll try to help you out.

Damn it. now I really do have to play Broken Steel, don't I? I bought it when it came out but have never actually played any of it.

the games messed up, i even had to reload once because the quest messed up.  I can't wait for new vegas hopefully it is more polished.

Never had it freeze up on me. I've seen some creatures half stuck in the ground though and have been immobile in a few places that I shouldn't have been.

" @angelkanarias said:

" never encountered a bug in fallout, great game anyways.  ps. Lost fan? "

The original Fallout or Fallout 3? "

" @angelkanarias said:

" never encountered a bug in fallout, great game anyways.  ps. Lost fan? "

Surely you aren't talking about Fallout 3. "