It is easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.  -Bethesda Mission Statement

 The moonwalking dog is just the reincarnation of Micheal Jackson. 

Has anyone (especially playing on a console) run into any actual crashing/game breaking bugs?  The uncertainty about that is what's preventing me from making a decision about getting this.  I can deal, to a certain extent, with random glitches and jank, but not a game that will straight up not run properly.  Moonwalking dog = cool.  Game seizing up after playing for a few hours = not cool.

The rotating head glitch is the best thing.

lol the spinning head seems so appropriately creepy. If I get this game, it probably won't be until after the patches. 

Well I've only played a little over two hours and haven't encountered any bugs or glitches. Though when I was following the girl with the dog she frequently stopped for a second and then kept running. Not a big deal. 

I have yet to run into any bugs, awesome or otherwise. Only a couple of hours in though.
The rotating head should be the normal opening sequence though, that was awesome.

We've had this conversation before. Competent QA people abound.
It's the dev's & pub's call to say whether they will or won't fix something in time for gold code.  "Broken but good." is the mantra I'm seeing all over the blogs and twitter... "Same but better."  And look at all the free YouTube PR...

Other developers are taking notes. This will happen again.

Good! This game is fun, but buggy as hell. That head spinning one would have creeped me out the first time.

I'm still waiting for them to patch fallout 3.

The more and more this site talks about this game, the more I question whether Bethesda are slipping something their way.
 

It's just, you know, buggy and will often test your ability to ignore flaw.

I just lost my save.  I don't think I'm going to play again until these patches are out.

" @DrBobUK said:

" I predict an unofficial fan patch for this game.  Before New Vegas, there was Oblivion and Fallout 3.  When will Bethesda hire competent playtesters? "

I highly doubt this was a problem caused by the QA department. I think the guys in the Bombcast were pretty spot on: The game runs on an engine that is jacked as hell and they know the game will sell even with those bugs ... so why not release it, take a deep breath and fix the bugs they find the most youtube videos about? "

While shipping games with ridiculous amounts of bugs is certainly one of Bethesda's core principles, it's not something new for the Fallout series - Fallout 1 and 2 - developed and published by Black Isle/Interplay - were also fundamentally broken at launch, and even after 13 years of fan patches, a lot of ridiculous bugs remain - like important quest characters randomly getting out of the map boundaries so you can't finish story quests. One of the most famous bugs in Fallout 2 when it was released was that the car you'd get a couple of hours into the game wouldn't always keep the stuff you put into the trunk, occasionally the whole back half of the car would disappear.

I guess Bethesda goes even further back with that stuff, considering Daggerfall was released a couple of years before the first Fallout and shipped with extremely game breaking bugs - like having dungeons that you could enter, but that had no exits. So you'd be stuck there forever!

All the buginess of Bethesda titles mean that you should never get them on launch, and never get them on anything but the PC - since that's the only platform that has a fan community that will make unofficial patches long after Bethesda drops support (they dropped support for Oblivion 2 years ago, there's still a fan community for that, but more impressive is that the fans still are developing patches and huge updates for Morrowind, which is 9 years old).

What platforms are these bugs on?  Because I have not had a lot of problems with my PC version, bought off of Steam.  I did have a few animation glitches, but only one CTD so far...knock on wood.

Glad I'm holding out on this till Dec 25th. Hopefully by then it won't be completely fucking mired by technical issues. I want this game so bad.

I do not give a shit about patches fixing any weird animation stuff until they fix the fact that on a good deal of steam copies of the game, autosaves and quicksaves do not work properly. This would not be so much of a problem if it wasn't for the fact that the game crashes randomly. I understand that there are workarounds but jesus christ.

The bugs in Fallout 3 were easy to avoid if you kept a stockpile of saves, about 15 and saved every five minutes at the max, even shorter time intervals if I was hurt or going through an important section of the game, like meeting that ex-Brotherhood of Steel guy at the end of the pit DLC. 
 
I played Fallout 3 from day one on my PC and have no bitterness like a large majority of other people do towards the glitches. 
That's not to say that a lot of them should've been fixed, but I wasn't affected by them. 

still loving this game.. even with the bugs

I just need to do zeta on 3, then I can get around to vegas, once it's almost playable, lol.

Obsidian should have a dedicated team just for fixing bugs and releasing patches as this will not be the only patch, I hear people are suffering from corrupt saves as well. I'll still buy it though.

I'm playing right now and I just saw some Radscorpions walking on their pincers.  I love Fallout jank.

Will probably get this on PC eventually. Sounds like it is more interesting than Fallout 3, which is good, because that game didn't do a lot for me.

On PC, I witnessed a bug where a scorpion was shaking,  stuck in the ground, I was still able to kill it though. Framerate is erratic. I would have areas with 140 fps, then turn around and it would suddenly drop to 12 fps, and there is no real difference in the number of models on screen. The original Fallout 3, I had no problems THAT severe. Hopefully this gets fixed soon. Video drivers all updated, etc.. All other games run fine.  

" Will probably get this on PC eventually. Sounds like it is more interesting than Fallout 3, which is good, because that game didn't do a lot for me. "

I know that I'm supposed to be all "awesome! They're good guys and fixing this right away! Hurrah!", but part of me can't help but think about an entire generation of videogames that are going to be quickly fucking useless, because as soon as the 360 ceases being supported, the only game content you're going to have is what's on the disk. If what's ont he disk is horribly broken, that's the game you're stuck with.

Come on guys, you shouldn't rush out an obviously buggy game. 
Of course bugs are nothing new to the Fallout franchise. Fallout 2 players might remember the crashing and a patch that ERASED ALL YOUR SAVE GAMES.

One thing I hate about this generation... shipping busted games. 

LMAO I fucking love rotating head glitches no matter what game it is

" One thing I hate about this generation... shipping busted games.  "

" @RE_Player92 said:

" One thing I hate about this generation... shipping busted games.  "

People have short memories. Broken, buggy and glitchy titles have been made and shipped since the dawn of videogames. "

That spinning head will give me nightmares.

" I know that I'm supposed to be all "awesome! They're good guys and fixing this right away! Hurrah!", but part of me can't help but think about an entire generation of videogames that are going to be quickly fucking useless, because as soon as the 360 ceases being supported, the only game content you're going to have is what's on the disk. If what's ont he disk is horribly broken, that's the game you're stuck with. "

the biggest issue is steamcloud removing 2 hours of save progress
 
the second biggest issue is the huge slow downs and framerate issues

KILL IT!! KILL IT WITH A SPADE!!

biggest problem i'm having is the godawful load times, it shouldn't take a minute to go to different parts of freeside

Glitched Doc Mitchell is downright terrifying.

I was hoping you guys would post the exorcist bug

Haha, that Exorcist-bug was awesome!
I don't get it though... It looks as if they don't even bother to properly test it :/

WHAT IS WRONG WI

That crazy floating, head spinning NPC freaked me out!
 
I have played the game for 5+ hours now and have not run into any bugs at all.  I am playing the PC version.  It's kind of funny because after reading Jeff's review I was actually hoping to run into a couple of bugs and glitches just for the lols but no such luck... my game seems to be working properly (for now).

" Haha, that Exorcist-bug was awesome!I don't get it though... It looks as if they don't even bother to properly test it :/ "

Welcome to the world of Bethesda. :)

Even the universally loved Morrowind had a lot of moments where you could only think "what the ... didn't they test this game at all?".

I'm gonna have nightmares tonight about that Doc Mitchel one. Also is that Michael Hogan voicing him? Sure sounds like him. Yes I watched all of Battlestar Galactica :D

They should just move that over to the crazy trait for the non serious players. Sounds good for the moon walking dog

" Severe LOL at the possessed NPC. "