In short, with all the hoopla and false starts that I've heard over the year with bugs in Fez, is this a good time to play it or is the game still buggy beyond reproach?

It's as good as it's going to get on XBLA. Fish refuses to patch it.

I was able to play it with no issues. I say just go for it if you really want to play it.

I jumped on the Fez train long after that patch and I had no problem at all completing everything.

@Hailinel: At $40,000 a patch can you really blame him? I'd rather keep that money to take a break and move on to the next game, after all this games been his life for a very long time.

Get it now or wait till the MS exclusive deal is up and get it on Steam....whenever that is.

what's done is done. play your game.

@MrPilkington: Yeah, go for it. It was more an issue if you had already started playing, then updated.

@RazielCuts said:

@Hailinel: At $40,000 a patch can you really blame him? I'd rather keep that money to take a break and move on to the next game, after all this games been his life for a very long time.

It's his own damn fault for releasing a broken patch

XBLA version is perfectly fine now, go for it. But if you like playing games on your PC, the inevitable PC version is guaranteed to be better (1080p and a better frame rate if nothing else).

@Bocam said:

@RazielCuts said:

@Hailinel: At $40,000 a patch can you really blame him? I'd rather keep that money to take a break and move on to the next game, after all this games been his life for a very long time.

It's his own damn fault for releasing a broken patch

The save game bug affected less than 1% of an installed base that's well over 100k. I'm no QA specialist but I don't think it's unreasonable for a development team of two to have missed it.

XBLA version is perfectly fine now, go for it. But if you like playing games on your PC, the inevitable PC version is guaranteed to be better (1080p and a better frame rate if nothing else).

@Bocam said:

@RazielCuts said:

@Hailinel: At $40,000 a patch can you really blame him? I'd rather keep that money to take a break and move on to the next game, after all this games been his life for a very long time.

It's his own damn fault for releasing a broken patch

The save game bug affected less than 1% of an installed base that's well over 100k. I'm no QA specialist but I don't think it's unreasonable for a development team of two to have missed it.

@Brad said:

XBLA version is perfectly fine now, go for it. But if you like playing games on your PC, the inevitable PC version is guaranteed to be better (1080p and a better frame rate if nothing else).

@Bocam said:

@RazielCuts said:

@Hailinel: At $40,000 a patch can you really blame him? I'd rather keep that money to take a break and move on to the next game, after all this games been his life for a very long time.

It's his own damn fault for releasing a broken patch

The save game bug affected less than 1% of an installed base that's well over 100k. I'm no QA specialist but I don't think it's unreasonable for a development team of two to have missed it.

But in this case, I am the 1 percent.

@Phatmac said:

@Brad

XBLA version is perfectly fine now, go for it. But if you like playing games on your PC, the inevitable PC version is guaranteed to be better (1080p and a better frame rate if nothing else).

@Bocam said:

@RazielCuts said:

@Hailinel: At $40,000 a patch can you really blame him? I'd rather keep that money to take a break and move on to the next game, after all this games been his life for a very long time.

It's his own damn fault for releasing a broken patch

The save game bug affected less than 1% of an installed base that's well over 100k. I'm no QA specialist but I don't think it's unreasonable for a development team of two to have missed it.

Thanks @Brad for taking the words right out of my mouth.

It's understandable that they missed it but I don't know if I'm comfortable with the idea of these types of things being measured by a team's size or budget. I mean the consumer still pays 10 bucks regardless of whether it was made by 1 person or 100 people.

I just lust feel like we're saying "I know some of you people got kind of screwed there but don't worry it's okay because they're a small team".

@Bocam said:

@Brad said:

XBLA version is perfectly fine now, go for it. But if you like playing games on your PC, the inevitable PC version is guaranteed to be better (1080p and a better frame rate if nothing else).

@Bocam said:

@RazielCuts said:

@Hailinel: At $40,000 a patch can you really blame him? I'd rather keep that money to take a break and move on to the next game, after all this games been his life for a very long time.

It's his own damn fault for releasing a broken patch

The save game bug affected less than 1% of an installed base that's well over 100k. I'm no QA specialist but I don't think it's unreasonable for a development team of two to have missed it.

But in this case, I am the 1 percent.

So clear your cache to remove the patch. When I updated it wouldn't let me load my game so I removed the patch and the game loaded just fine. That whole issue was blown way out of proportion.

I played the game for hours. Now It freezes every time I select continue game. It won't get past the load screen. It really sucks because I was just stating to unravel some of the mysteries! And without using the internet! I guess I'll pick it back up when it comes out on PC.

At this point, if you haven't bought it yet and your computer runs games, I'd wait for the PC version.

From what I understand, the patch issue only affected people who started playing it unpatched, then updated when they were well into the game. If you start playing with the patch installed, there shouldn't be any issues.

I had no issue's throughout but if you've waited this long you might as well wait for the inevitable steam version

@Brad: I think I'm gonna jump on the Xbox 360 version. My PC set up isn't the best these days. Thanks for information.

If you're playing it on 360 you're going to have about a 1 in 100 chance that it's going to go very wrong, but otherwise you'll be fine.

Loaded up Fez today and had a Corrupt save. I'm really glad I did everything in the game already, but I can't help feeling a little pissed that it happened to me.

Play it now. It's worth it even if you have problems.

@ProfessorEss said:

@Phatmac said:

@Brad

XBLA version is perfectly fine now, go for it. But if you like playing games on your PC, the inevitable PC version is guaranteed to be better (1080p and a better frame rate if nothing else).

@Bocam said:

@RazielCuts said:

@Hailinel: At $40,000 a patch can you really blame him? I'd rather keep that money to take a break and move on to the next game, after all this games been his life for a very long time.

It's his own damn fault for releasing a broken patch

The save game bug affected less than 1% of an installed base that's well over 100k. I'm no QA specialist but I don't think it's unreasonable for a development team of two to have missed it.

Thanks @Brad for taking the words right out of my mouth.

It's understandable that they missed it but I don't know if I'm comfortable with the idea of these types of things being measured by a team's size or budget. I mean the consumer still pays 10 bucks regardless of whether it was made by 1 person or 100 people.

I just lust feel like we're saying "I know some of you people got kind of screwed there but don't worry it's okay because they're a small team".

It's 10 bucks, I've had way worse problems on $60 games made by hundreds of people.

@Gamer_152 said:

If you're playing it on 360 you're going to have about a 1 in 100 chance that it's going to go very wrong, but otherwise you'll be fine.

That's only if you had an existing save before you patched the game. If you're starting fresh with the most recent title update, you're fine.

@ProfessorEss: No, he wasn't saying that. He was saying that since the bug is only experienced by less than 1%, it's understandable that a development team of two missed the bug, since statistically they'd be unlikely to run into said bug.

@Brad said:

@Gamer_152 said:

If you're playing it on 360 you're going to have about a 1 in 100 chance that it's going to go very wrong, but otherwise you'll be fine.

That's only if you had an existing save before you patched the game. If you're starting fresh with the most recent title update, you're fine.

Actually, yeah, that's true. Sorry for causing any confusion.

@RazielCuts: yeah i can blame him since im failry sure he made more than $40k from one of the biggest downloadable games in the past couple of years