Good god the programming in this game is so fucking amateurish.
I'm doing the "Birds of a Feather" quest. The second major errand (after playing bodyguard in front of the Silver Rush) is to take a package from Gloria Van Graff and deliver it to a man at a designated location. I did that and returned to Graff headquarters at the Silver Rush. The next errand was to be given to me by Jean-Baptiste Cutting. Before I could commit to the job, I asked "So what exactly do I need to do for you?"
Jean-Baptiste responds with "No fuck that, that's not how it works, either you're in or out." Because I know Jean-Baptiste is a scumbag who will probably ask me to murder someone, I say, I'm out!
As soon as the conversation is over, the "Birds of a Feather" quest gets updated as if I accepted Jean-Baptist's job. In the top left of my screen I see, "Quest update: Find Rose of Sharon Cassidy and get her to follow you." When I tried to talk to Jean-Baptiste afterwards, his first words are "Have you found the bitch yet?"
=/ Now when I try to talk to him, I get nothing but "Have you found the bitch yet" from him - there are no options to find out who this woman is and why she wants me to find her and what he wants me to do with her (get her to follow me doesn't sound like it'll end well, so my gut feeling about him was right).
edit: So it doesn't sound like I'm nitpicking on just one aspect of the game, this kind of annoying thing has happened twice before:
1) The first time I ever entered the Silver Rush, I started moving around and was instantly killed. I didn't know why at first. When I re-loaded my auto save, I found out it was because the game wanted me to listen in on a conversation between Gloria Van Graff and a petulant client. That is such bad design, honestly... they programmed this sequence so that you'd be forced to stay inside an invisible perimeter in the Silver Rush lobby and listen in on said conversation, otherwise the guards would kill you. But it is so dark in the Silver Rush, and this conversation of theirs is so quiet, that the moment you encounter this sequence you have no idea what is going on and start walking casually and get killed instantly by the guards.
2) Regarding the White Glove Society and Henderson's son: After I crashed Mortimer's dinner party with Henderson and showed the entire White Glove Society that Mortimer was a heretic and a cannibal, I killed Mortimer right there ("He's a criminal, cannibal is punishable by death!!!"). Motherfucking incomprehensibly, if I exit this room, the White Glove Society is attacking me every chance they get. There was no way for me to return Henderson to his father without having to murder every single White Glover, including Marjorie herself (the leader). When I killed Mortimer the other White Glovers were standing around like I had done them a great favour. I exposed a cannibal who had tried to feed them all human flesh. I SAVED them, and then I get stuck in an inescapable bout of hostility with the White Glovers....
3) Also, I'm trying to do "Nothing but a hound dog" and trying to get Rex to follow me, but it keeps saying "You can only have one follower at a time." Good grief man, who thought up this shit? I'm running around for 25+ hours with Boone and ED-E following my ass, yet the game has the balls to say I can only have one follower at a time? The game was trying to tell me I can only have one robotic follower at a time, evidently. I sent ED-E packing and now I have Rex following me. Phew.
edit2:
I should say, I love with this game. I'm easily gonna invest 100 hours into this (maybe more, with the DLC, and the extra playthroughs). I love the characters, the vegas strip, the factions, the entire lore in this game (and Fallout 3 as well). But the above four points are really aggravating.
