TheSlySoul
Member
My bet is on Battlefront. Those servers are going to be so buggy!
[MCV] QA testers warn: Broken games fiasco of last year may repeat this Christmas
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Banjo-Kazooie
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Halo and Star Wars are my bets.
I can't fathom Unisoft releasing Syndicaye broken after Unitys horror stories last year.
I can't fathom Unisoft releasing Syndicaye broken after Unitys horror stories last year.
Breakfast at Noon
Member
Can you guarantee me the pip boy edition if i did not pre order it?
no?
well then, i will spend my money how i damn well want.
The Jackdog
Member
id put money on battlefront.
i know they have a much bigger IP and need to get it right but....its dice and ea.
i know they have a much bigger IP and need to get it right but....its dice and ea.
Woody Invincible
Banned
This is why Street Fighter V is the only game I've preordered in the last 6 years.
Possumowner
Member
Yeah theres a reason ive stopped pre ordering.Im not suprised by this one bit
Predictions:
AC Syndicate will run mostly fine.
COD will run mostly fine after first patch and first week load.
Battlefront will have serious issues cause DICE can't help it but it won't be BF4 levels.
Halo will be fine for the most part, very few minor bugs. I just can't fathom 343 messing up. If they do...ohh boy...
Edit: Forgot Fallout...how could I forget. Yep, bugs galore on that one.
AC Syndicate will run mostly fine.
COD will run mostly fine after first patch and first week load.
Battlefront will have serious issues cause DICE can't help it but it won't be BF4 levels.
Halo will be fine for the most part, very few minor bugs. I just can't fathom 343 messing up. If they do...ohh boy...
Edit: Forgot Fallout...how could I forget. Yep, bugs galore on that one.
Backfoggen
Banned
RIP Battlefront
no it is impossible to have a 100% bug free title
Vincent Grayson
Member
Fallout 4 must be buggy. It's a Bethesda open world game and if their amount of bugs is increased by the same amount as we've seen with other developers, it's gonna be legendary
Really looking forward to it, but there's no way I'm touching it until next year.
Obviously the PS3 situation last generation was a problem for them, but otherwise, I'd argue their games have gotten less buggy over time.
I had far bigger issues with Daggerfall and even Morrowind at launch than I ever did with Oblivion, Fallout 3, and Skyrim. Most of my issues with their latest games have only cropped up after I started adding hundreds of mods.
Gunmonkey36
Member
anyone else read between the lines and see Star Wars Battlerfront? Because all I could read was star wars battlerfront....
I think Single-player will be fine.
But Multi-player will have issues in the first 2-3 weeks.
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
Testing finds bugs all the time. When I see gamers say "how could they not find it". They very likely did, but it was a business decision to say t was acceptable.
With the freedom to patch anytime now, this has become the standard to meet a shipping date to get the money back and fix problems afterwards. The Batman fiasco for PC is pretty rare in that they chose to pull it until it was better. Other games, especially those from Bethesda, need to meet that deadline. And they will ship with bugs.
7DollarHagane
Banned
I think rainbow six will be a huge mess of exploits and unbalanced maps as well as network trouble.
The half step delay to December tells me the game isn't ready but they cannot afford to have it slip out of Christmas because assassins Creed is the only other thing they have and its probably expected to do worse because of unity last year.
I actually expect fallout 4 to be pretty good at launch for a Bethesda game. They are talking like the game has been pretty close to complete ever since late last year and they spent this year completing content and bugfixing.
The half step delay to December tells me the game isn't ready but they cannot afford to have it slip out of Christmas because assassins Creed is the only other thing they have and its probably expected to do worse because of unity last year.
I actually expect fallout 4 to be pretty good at launch for a Bethesda game. They are talking like the game has been pretty close to complete ever since late last year and they spent this year completing content and bugfixing.
That's what came to mind. Halo 5 is in a can't fail state after MCC and with Call of Duty and Battlefront in play. I expect Nintendo's games to be fine as well. Fallout 4 and Battlefront are likely going to be a mess on an epic scale.
wild wild rice
Member
Of course it will. Looking forward to Fallout 4 in 2016! Luckily I'm not too concerned about StarFox or Yoshi.
i had to console teleport characters in skyrim in order to get a quest to play out correctly, and that was after downloading the unofficial patch in order to get the characters to speak for the same quest
How is Halo's track record besides MCC launching broken? I'm sure Fallout will have it's share of problems, but I wouldn't expect it to be totally broken. Star Wars? Sure, wouldn't be a dice game if it wasn't at least a little buggy and had some server problems at launch. It would be hilarious if AC:S was borked after what happened with Unity.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Which bugs were game breaking on Unity? By my understanding game breaking bugs usually=bugs that make it so completion is impossible. Like the Pyres of Novigrad bug in W3, or taking Quiet on certain missions in MGSV. Arkham Knight was a completely unacceptable release on pc, they didn't get away with it because it hurt their profits for pc.
Like Besthesda they claimed that they've finished the content of the game earlier than ever and have been polishing ever since.
Give War A Chance
Member
This isn't a "preorder" problem. This is a "we have the means to patch it" problem. And as such, it's really not going to go anywhere soon.
We shouldn't have another MCC on our hands any time soon, I would imagine, but another BF4? Absolutely! As much as people love to tell other people what to do with their money, even if those guys didn't preorder, they'd still buy it Day 1/midnight release. The preorder is only for extra content, deals, money, and convenience.
We're in a "new" age of games where "we'll fix it in post" is a possible, and viable, strategy. Publishers will use it. Until this is actually legislated in some form, there's really no stopping it.
We shouldn't have another MCC on our hands any time soon, I would imagine, but another BF4? Absolutely! As much as people love to tell other people what to do with their money, even if those guys didn't preorder, they'd still buy it Day 1/midnight release. The preorder is only for extra content, deals, money, and convenience.
We're in a "new" age of games where "we'll fix it in post" is a possible, and viable, strategy. Publishers will use it. Until this is actually legislated in some form, there's really no stopping it.
Shrennin
Didn't get the memo regarding the 14th Amendment
Halo 5 is seriously the one game I don't expect to be a broken mess. Halo MCC was broken because it was rushed, made by many teams, and incorporated different games that ran on different versions of XBL together. It's likely why Gears Ultimate is JUST a remake of Gears 1. Lesson learned. Halo 5, on the other hand, has been all about performance and the sacrifices needed to be made to make that performance a top priority. It will likely run just as well if not better than Halo 4.
SEGAvangelist
Member
I'd replace Halo 5 MP with Battlefront. Halo 5 MP was great in beta and that was almost a year ago.
LegendofJoe
Member
This fact of life is one reason why I always play games on a lagged schedule. I'll probably buy Dragon Age 3 sometime over the holidays and play that plus my collection of small, indie games until March or so and then I'll probably look into buying Battlefront and/or Fallout 4 depending on user reviews and/or sales.
RespectThySole
Member
Battlefront and Fallout 4 are pretty safe bets to be broken.
Probably Battlefront and AC
Bolivar687
Banned
Why is Battlefront a given?
Hardline seemed fine from what I heard and I didn't have any issues with BF3, BC2 or its Vietnam Nam expansion at launch. I get that you're only as good as your last game and think it's a positive thing that we look at them that way but acting like its brokenness is a foregone conclusion because DICE seems like hyperbole to me.
Hardline seemed fine from what I heard and I didn't have any issues with BF3, BC2 or its Vietnam Nam expansion at launch. I get that you're only as good as your last game and think it's a positive thing that we look at them that way but acting like its brokenness is a foregone conclusion because DICE seems like hyperbole to me.
That would cause a humongous legal problem, wouldn't it?
I'm not buying any of these Fall 2015 games until at least Spring just because of anticipating broken-ass multiplayer and bugs.
Interfectum
Member
Assassin's Creed, Fallout 4, Battlefront and Halo 5 are all candidates. Instead of wanting them to name names just don't preorder those games. Wait.
No way Halo5 launches in the same state as MCC or anywhere close to it. I think it'll be fine, I really can't see MS putting out two broken halos years apart, especially when they're behind in sales and need a good halo.
I can see Battlefront though, rushed out for the holiday and full of bugs because it'll sell like hot cakes regardless. AC is another top candidate considering how little we've seen of it this year.
I can see Battlefront though, rushed out for the holiday and full of bugs because it'll sell like hot cakes regardless. AC is another top candidate considering how little we've seen of it this year.
You don't need names, just the ability to wait and see if the games you're interested in work well at or around launch
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
NDAs, how do they work? Not to mention he really doesn't tell us anything that we wouldn't know based on common sense.
ebullientprism
Member
Takes a brave man to preorder Halo, AC or BF this holiday. Thats where my money is.
Crankshaft
Member
Preorders has nothing to do with it. This is the holiday season rush. This is Mom, Dad, and Grandma buying little Jimmie his christmas present. This has everything to do with rushing a game out for the holiday sales deadline.