So I stayed up late last night to download The Pitt, the new DLC for Fallout 3 and was disappointed to discover that it would be delayed for two hours. Well no big deal I thought, just meant I had time to watch the latest episode of Heroes that I recorded. So at 4:05am I go to download it and after playing it for an hour or so, I start to see some texture corruption. So thinking it may just be a temporary glitch, I decide to reboot the game. Well the game just refused to load (freezes while it's still loading the save file). So I went back to an earlier save and again it freezes just as I'm about to enter the "Downtown" area. Getting a little frustrated I went online and saw to my dismay that pretty much everyone was having this problem. During this time, MS had also apparently reuploaded the DLC file (and had also apparently caused a glitch for some that messed up their download licenses, i.e. telling them to pay another 800 points for the DLC). So I clear my cache, download the latest patch again and redownload the DLC, hoping it was just a corrupted upload. Well the same thing happens--it still freezes at the same damn point, even when I go back and play the whole thing all over again.

After Operation Anchorage came out without so much as a hitch, I had expected another flawless release from Bethesda. Which is why this glitched/incomplete DLC is all the more surprising. Now I realize that not many people actually stay up until 2am in the morning just so they can download a DLC for a game (especially when they have a term paper due in three days) but is it really too much to ask for a product to at least be playable after its release, especially when you have to pay for it?

Well at least Bethesda is working on it and in some sense it's probably not their fault. But still, whoever is to blame for this, it still sucks that something like this occurred. In any case, I'm exhausted so I'll probably be off to bed now. Maybe when it gets patched later on in the day I may get a chance to actually play a substantial portion of it.

But hey, at least I got the first achievement.