Broken Playstation 3 Games A Growing Trend?

htownplaya - 404 days 2 hours ago

Sony needs to get their act together, when I buy a game, I wanna play it.

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Deviant - 404 days 2 hours ago

first it was TH then Fable2 and now Fallout 3 ...conclusion every system/game got its flaws

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jamesrocks3147 - 404 days 1 hour ago

who the hell approved this article?

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IronAva - 404 days 1 hour ago

This is just getting out of hand. One week its PS3 and the next week its Xbox360. Just because something does not go right one week does not mean it will not change the next week. Here we have Fallou 3 is broken and blah blah blah... MS paid them and now they are lazy. For the love of god no one paid anyone and this is just dumb. I do believe they will fix the game but it does take time. I love my PS3 and I love my 360 (my Wii can go to He**)j/k but again as gamers Lay off the doomsday articles for both platforms.

As always Play games not systems.

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arvfab - 404 days 1 hour ago

... the game is broken. The PS3 version may have more problems (but I doubt it), but the whole game is a mess.

I'm trying to play it on my PC and it crashes as soon I try to leave the vault. If a patch (or a workaround) to all these bugs isn't released soon, I will return the game.

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baum - 404 days 1 hour ago

Someone looking for hits, it seems. So 5 games are "broken" (assuming that needing a patch for an improved experience makes the game broken), 3 of which were fixed the month they launched (SOCOM, Little Big Planet and Bioshock), one of which has exclusive DLC for 360 (Fallout 3) and another of which its developer hates the PS3 (The Orange Box)?

Right, another dipsh1t looking for hits.

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Raoh - 404 days ago

socom and lbp were server related issues. microsoft does a good job of keeping their servers running well or atleast working with other companies to give good server support.

as for flawless 360 gaming. too human? ninja gaiden 2 required a frame rate and camera fix. mass effect suffered from grainly like effects during close ups, frame rate drops and screen tears. most open world games on the 360 suffer from frame drops and pop ins.

dont ask me how this is but 360 seems to do better with small environments and ps3 does better with larger environments.

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Fallout 3 bugs per platform:

All platforms

* It is possible to get “stuck” between rocks with no way of escaping (jumping, crouching, etc.) User can fast travel to escape (if no baddies near by.)
* Missing head/face in haircut screen - using the robot in the Megaton house to change appearance, you can still make the change in appearance, but you cannot preview what the change will look like because your face is missing
* No test on desk during G.O.A.T. test.
* Unable to proceed past the book when you are a baby. Fathers leg clip into door.
* During the Big Trouble in Big Town quest, after bringing Red and Shorty back to Big Town, when presented with the option to defend the town by repairing the damaged robots, the game will glitch and the robots will not be in the town. A reload to an earlier save did NOT correct this issue.
* Related to the previous bug: The robots actually flew through the air and died at my feet as I entered the town for the first time. As such, I didn’t know it was a bug that would affect anything… I thought they were just enemy robots.

[edit] PC

Technical problems

* No games saved when clicking “save”. Possibly related to having a roaming user profile.
* Sudden crash to desktop without a send/don’t send error report.
* Disk unable to be read, viewed or otherwise seen as media on some DVD drives such as a Sony DRU-720A.
* Game crashing when “New Game” is pressed in the main menu (related to ffdshow - adding fallout3.exe to the exception list off directshow audio/video apparently fixes this, but still remains an issue with others).
* Game crashing when “Play” is pressed in the launcher splash screen (discuss specific issues/solutions on Talk:Fallout_3_bugs).
* Memory leak related to excess processes, on-board sound card, and/or SLI.
* VATS - related severe performance issues.
* Game sometimes crashes on exiting with a send/don’t send error report.
* Player stuck unable to move, HUD also missing. Possibly due to bumping the ~,which opens the console to input cheats, directly above the TAB.
* Some sound clips get stuck and loop until very far away from source. - fixed by lowering hardwareacceleration in controlpanel > speaker > advanced [Seemingly related to EAX support]
* Mouse acceleration/smoothing cannot be disabled, causes mouse lag and strange acceleration
* Due to an error in installing, certain sound effects (like gun shots/reloading and monster sounds) do not play.
* Game freezes on loading screen when trying to load saved game.
* Game crashes more and more frequently without a trigger the more it is played, resulting in a “log in and crash straight back out” effect after only an hour or so of game time.
* Drop in FPS after playing for an extended period of time. Restarting the game fixes it.
* Rebinding The Pip-Boy key is only one way. You can open it with your newly bound key, but must close it with Tab. (May not be on all PCs?) (it is on mine… Try this to check on yours: set Pip-Boy to ‘I’, press ‘I’, it will show the Pip-Boy. Press ‘I’ again. Pip-Boy stays on. You actually have to press ‘Tab’ to close the Pip-Boy again.)
* Some key bindings are dropped (very rarely) after loading a saved game in midgame.
* Sometimes when firing full auto or pistols as fast as you can click sound of weapon is silent for a few shots.
* With 5.1 surround sounds from behind come through front speakers and vice-versa.
* Streaks, flickers, and graphical corruption on fullscreen with Vista and SLI enabled. Running in Windowed mode solves the problem.
* When the Pip-Boy’s color is changed, the color does not change in third person view. (In other words, if color is changed to amber, then the pip boy remains green until activated)
* Turning on radio causes graphics to stutter, possible solution: turn down the graphics a bit, if your graphics are walking on the edge, throwing in the sound might be just too much for a few seconds, and cause the stutter.
* On some configurations, no 16/9 or 16/10 resolutions available in setup
* Cant exit vault 101 - game crash. Loading imported save dont help - game crash after walking anywhere.
* Crash to desktop if Anti-Aliasing is turned on, usually when tab is pressed to bring up the Pip-Boy, but sometimes just on the loading screen. Turning AA off solves this issue.

Game play related

* After speaking with silver in springvale, cannot find moriarty anywhere *note* may be on balcony area outside of the bar.
* Sometimes NPCs get stuck on path while advancing toward deployed Frag Mines then instantly appears as though they teleported through it’s triggering area. Additionally, Frag Mines have also been observed warping nearby enemies onto the Mine…which then detonates…spectacularly. No known fix.
* Sometimes you get stuck in “slow walking mode” — this was a problem with Elder Scrolls Oblivion, has it been transferred to Fallout 3? What’s worse: your SAVE has the ‘walk slow bug’ saved with it. SOLUTION: You probably hit the CAPS LOCK, which locks down “run” and is on in the beginning. You’ve toggled it off, hit it again. And check if you are not carrying to much.
* Named NPCs spontaneously die in Megaton, possibly from falling off walkways or rad exposure near the bomb.
* NPCs appear to float and their head’s rotate around.
* During game play in Rivet City, DogMeat started attacking people seemingly at random - yet, the victims still were able to be “talk activated” — Rivet City seems to have some other bugs that we can call “plot glitches” — for instance, they assume you have already paid the bartender in Megaton to hear about your “true birth story” - yet, even if you have not, they’ll act like you already know the “secret truth” about your upbringing.
* Scribe Rothchild can get stuck, making the main quest line impossible to continue
* VATS - Uses up AP actions even if an obstacle is blocking path between player and target.

[edit] PlayStation 3

* Slow or Jerky Movement while in The Vault. (akin to Lag in an Online game), might be fixed by rebooting your PS3
* Graphic Glitch - Officer at Birthday Scene has left eye that stretches out for the entire viewable screen and follows head / eye movement
* Game freezes during GOAT exam, may be circumvented by saving and reloading.
* At the birthday scene, the door in the back opens up after some dialogue, and if you go through, you will be warped to another part of the vault, with no way back to the birthday scene
* Jefferson Memorial Freeze - While traveling or approaching the Jefferson memorial during main quest the PS3 freezes.
* Random objects blocking models both PC and NPC.
* Dogmeat rocks quickly forward and backward as though his physics are off when standing idle. This seems to be triggered when loading a save where Dogmeat is set to the “Stay” command. Fast traveling and reboot do not fix it. Only loading an earlier save will correct the problem.
* After visiting the GNR building, the player may find themselves permanently locked out the building.
* Speech Errors - NPC’s mouth moves during dialogue but nothing is said. Script/subtitles at the bottom of the screen “fast forward”.
* when playing with notification messages turned on the game may freeze, the game will return to normal after the notification has gone, go to system settings and turn off notification messages to solve the problem.

[edit] Xbox 360

* Cannot read disk during tuning of the “Radio” or any other random event, usually at the beginning of gameplay. The longer you play, the less likely this happens. Restart system fixes.
* Sometimes while approaching the Jefferson Memorial the game freezes. Clearing cache does not work to fix the issue.
* Some people have main quest achievement problems.
* After dying and having the game auto-load, sometimes the primary fire button will get ’stuck.’ By this, you cannot fire by pressing the trigger. It will keep firing automatically every few seconds. So far, the only known way to fix this is to completely shut down the console and restart it.
* After getting into a fight in tenpenny tower and speed traveling away the game locks upon re-entering tenpenny tower. The only fix is to re-start from an earlier save.
* After completing The Wasteland Survival Guide Mission where you hide an observation device in a Mirelurk Lair, Fast traveling back to Megaton causes an infinite load time. It goes to the load screen but never succeeds in loading Megaton. Restarting the Xbox has not helped.
* After seeing the Enclave for the first time in the Monument, Dad fills the control room full of radiation. As you try to escape with Doctor Li, load freezes trying to access the next room. Restarting and switching to a friends X-Box has not helped the problem, as well as switching to another disc.
* After assisting the temple of the union with the Lincoln memorial the refugees never show up if slavers are killed first. The only known solution is to wait until Hannibal asks for help with slavers before eliminating opposition at the memorial.

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Meus Renaissance - 404 days ago

Ugh

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ultimolu - 404 days ago

No, not clicking for hits.
Enough is enough already.

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Hellsvacancy - 404 days ago

I hav only experienced 1 glitch so far and that was the G.o.a.t - a quick restart is all it took

I experienced more problems with Viking Battle For Asgard(Ps3) than wot i hav with Fallout 3(Ps3)

I cant be bothered im off to play Fallout

The games great

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Lucreto - 404 days ago

How is it a trend? We had a huge gap between this and the last glichy one.

It was that sports game from EA can't remember the name and the orange box are the main problems.

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power of Green - 404 days ago

As devs get better and learn more and more on how to (true core) develope multi core/multi threaded titles.

You'll see PC and 360 games pull away, with the 360 falling short of PC long after PS3 does(RAM, GPU, VIDEO CARD etc).

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power of Green - 404 days ago

LOL at trying to mix sloppy coding/patches in *with* games that fall short for different reasons and can not be fixed due to the actual hardware falling short.

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Hellangelzx - 404 days ago

This is the dev's fault.

It's not the ps3's. Otherwise, many other games that work fine today would not be working well at all.

It's either laziness as others have said, or the devs themselves weren't too sure about the coding and stuff that had to do with the ps3.

Now i'm not game developer myself, but it's obvious that once a developer gets used to coding for the ps3, it's easy, or at least easier than before.

All common sense here.

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jayvivz - 404 days ago

i love how as soon as a console's problems are being addressed EVERYONE has to come in and bash the article and throw in the words "flame" and "fanboy" out in the air. rofl as if these issues are taboo that are not to be spoken of!

lmaooo it's close-minded thoughts like that that bring about the fanboy in all of you. i also find it funny that none of you realize that this article isn't only about Fallout 3. maybe if you think back some games you will notice the trend of inferior multiplatform games on the PS3.

guess the truth always hurts more than lies. maybe all game sites should just be praising consoles from now on. that'll sure help gaming and developers instead of showing them where they've gone wrong and where they need to improve.

oh yea, btw, the person that wrote this article only owns a PS3.

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Ramzadel - 404 days ago

So you are still getting a patch later right? Its not permanent, and also do first part Sony titles versus their third party contain more glitches, if not then this can be fixed and not a common problem. So patches should fix until the fix this problem, if it is an epidemic

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OnslaughtX - 404 days ago

Broken Playstation games?

Wow, if the idiots who wrote this would take a minute and examine the industry instead of just looking to bash the PS3, which seems to be a popular trend in the media, they would notice something...

The ship now, patch later mentality is hitting ALL PLATFORMS! And its something we gamers shouldn't have to deal with. Oh but I'm sure they'll gloss over the fact that Gears of War 2 is glitch city. Howabout that PS3 exclusive game, Fable 2? That is SO buggy! Oh wait, Fable 2 is a 360 game!

God, this site is getting worse and worse every day.

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aiphanes - 403 days 23 hours ago

The Xbox 360 port is gonna have problems...but they are still gonna blame the PS3.

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Sheddi - 403 days 23 hours ago

correction "Broken developers a growing trend?"

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kazan - 403 days 23 hours ago

fix Vista

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LittleDozer - 403 days 23 hours ago

Wow this article fails. Maybe devs just need to start porting right, just like they did in GTA4 (PS3 version looked better because they ported right).

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tk - 403 days 23 hours ago

Should rather read:
- Is the press exagerating anything about PS3 games?
Simple because LBP had a song that had to be removed it made the list? Or because Beta testing results in some errors showing - which is the point of Beta programs exactly... so the media jumps on it...
Kind of retarted really. I wrote many programs in my life - and bugs is a part of programming... It has nothing to do with the platform. Sometimes the media bias is just incredible...

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Mutley416 - 403 days 23 hours ago

I wanna say something Fanboyish....Trend like RROD...lol...Dammit now my Xbox is gonna fail...

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GWAVE - 403 days 23 hours ago

I think the title is extremely misleading. Broken games on the PS3 isn't a "growing trend". If anything, it's a dying trend. Does anyone remember the days of nigh-on-unplayable multiplatform PS3 games in 2006 and 2007?

The trend that is growing is using the PS3 as the lead development platform. THAT trend ends up showing improvements for both the PS3 and 360 versions of the game.

Lastly, I'd like to mention (as if it wasn't painfully obvious) that this is the fault of the developers, not the PS3 hardware. You might as well say "The Wii can't handle anything except flash games" and hold up a copy of Game Party....oh wait! What's this? Super Mario Galaxy?

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CaptIndecisive - 403 days 22 hours ago

PC version keeps bloody crashing pissing me right off!

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gnothe1 - 403 days 22 hours ago

why does it always have to fall back on the developers. you guys dont wanna put none of the fault on sony. its sony's fault for makeing the system the way it is. MS TALKED to developers about what they wanted in system SPECS. but sony just said ,this is our system ENJOY!!

thats what gabe an carmack was complaining about. sony went SO FAR away from a conventional system that developers had to completely RETHINK the way the build games,all while trying to spend as little cash as possible an make as much cash as possible, an the PS3 isnt given developers this right now.

last gen developer KNEW if they wanted to make money on a game they almost HAD to put it on the PLAYSTATION, it was the most popular an it had the biggest userbase, an thats something I think the PS3 is kinda suffering from now!! it doesnt have the biggest userbase therefore its not selling the most games an now developers have OTHER OPTIONS. last gen there was none.

an lastly, why does a developer HAVE to start a game on the PS3 first in order to have both versions good. if you had any logical thinking skills you would ask yourself, if the PS3 is SO POWERFULL why does a game have to be made first of the more powerful system(PS3) in order for the PS3 version to be good!! seems to me that the 360 can handle any game made on the PS3 with identical settings without error but games made on 360 as lead the PS3 version suffers for frame rate problems, LOWER resolution no AA, therefore resulting in a LESSER PS3 version. how many PS3 lead games have had no AA or lower resolution or frame rate problems on the 360!! but I know many of you wanna blame it on CODE related problems but what really is the problem. is the PS3 TRULEY 2x as powerful as the 360 LOL!!

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FBl - 404 days 2 hours ago

Websites looking for hits through flame-bait a growing trend

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FBl - 404 days 2 hours ago

I'm probably buy another copy of Fallout 3 on Ps3 just because I can

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jayvivz - 404 days 1 hour ago

seriously FBI? if this post wasn't true or if you didn't believe some part of it was true then would you be saying this huh? fanboys get so pissy soon as an issue they don't agree with is addressed. guess if it's not praising a console it's automatically flame bait. smh. you know what makes it worse? a PS3 owner wrote this article.

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FBl - 404 days ago

I can't wait to pop in a second copy of Fallout 3 on my beautiful Playstation 3 system

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etownone - 404 days ago

so sad for ps3 owners.....

at least you guys get to see Batman on blu-ray this dec.

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mrkeith - 404 days ago

im a ps3 owner but i have to agree sort of. sony needs better instruction manuels for making games. :)

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dale1 - 404 days ago

my mates 360 just locked up on this,can,t seem to get on live now its bricked his system.do not use your 360 as this is not isolated

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livespawn - 403 days 23 hours ago

FBI why aren't you playing your wonderful PS3? i always see your face in almost every thread...

at least im playing WOW and check up on here when waiting to do a battleground or on a flight path. and if FO3 is so amazing on PS3 then WHY AREN'T YOU PLAYING IT???

anyways, i have to pwn alliance in Vengence AV.

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devilhunterx - 403 days 23 hours ago

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sleepyk - 403 days 19 hours ago

and from what i heard, the 360 and PC versions has bugs on it, too.
Should i blame the developers or the console manufacturer?

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ps3freak18 - 403 days 13 hours ago

fallout 3 is not broken, it works just fine for me.

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