@Zadkiel said:
@dhromed said:@Charleh said:now I have Red Dead Redemption and can shoot coyotes in the face...! Win.
I considered RDR, but ZP's review was fairly unfavourable.
Yahtzee isn't a reviewer, he's a critic. BIG difference.
Zad
In this case the criticism is valid though: the game really [b]is[/b] buggy as all hell -- atleast the PS3 version is.
There are the purely cosmetic bugs like animations 'freezing', which can cause any animated asset to suddenly slide across the screen like a static chess piece.
There are the annoying bugs, like models and textures glitching in and out of existance, sometimes resorting in you being slowly picked off by that bandit you can't quite get into your crosshairs because the game doesn't render his model. (This results in you painting the landscape with your shotgun until he gets hit or decides to relocate and suddenly the game decides it might want to load that graphics asset and actually display him after all.) Or your horse becoming stuck inside a rock wall (or randomly dissappearing and never coming back, or randomly dropping dead at your feet, or randomly falling through the ground, etc...)
There are the aggrevating ones, like having to restart an escort mission, because the NPC you're accompanying suddenly suffers from an AI 'freeze' at which point he/she will just stand there out in the open as every hostile in the vicinity opens fire on him/her.
And if you're unlucky enough, there are the hair-pulling ones like the game ending a 2 hr mission in a hard lockup before the auto-save completes. At that point you can either redo those two hours, or redo the entire game, because the lockup flat-out corrupted the game's installed data and save games. If you're [b]particularly[/b] unlucky, like the one or two players on older PS3 systems that have already having reported it, such a lockup might even corrupt the data of anything or everything installed on the console.
Lastly, there are bugs in the [i]'Who cares if it works! Ship it!'[/i]-category, like the special pre-order bonus for the game not being obtainable, because one can easily put the game into a state where a key NPC relating to the bonus quest never spawns.
And just to add insult to injury: what does Rockstar decide to do with their first patch? The one they promised to release quickly to fix all the above issues? They nerf the multiplayer experience gains to artificially lengthen the game time! (Grind moar!!!) Luckily, besides being occupied with prematurely re-balancing the game, they also found the time to fix 'numerous random crashes' and 'improve the multiplayer experience'. A number of players already report to the contrary, suffering from increased number of crashes after the (mandatory) patch and a greater number of multiplayer network disconnects.
Fallout 3 was Oblivion with guns? Think again...
PS: It's not [b]all[/b] bad though. To their credit, Rockstar [i]did[/i] fix the pre-order bonus as promised. So yeah; hooray for the early adopters! Whoop-tee-effing-doo! -_-