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Are ‘Spider-Man 2’ And ‘Starfield’ As Buggy As Players’ Posts Suggest?

Paul Tassi: “I have seen bugs in games like Starfield and Spider-Man 2 weaponized as so-called evidence that Microsoft or Sony, Bethesda or Insomniac, has released an unfinished, technically poor game.”

Flawlessmic215d ago (Edited 215d ago )

nope, its been straight up pathetic console fanboys purposely trying to break both games and then going seeee, look how buggy it is!!

Having played both, the only bug i can think of running into on starfield was floating doors in 50+ hrs lol spider man 2 crashed once on me in 13 hrs and thats literally it it for either of them.

so basically both games came out really good quality wise, but you know xbots and ponys gotta protect there box by dragging the other down.

forza is the one with the most egregious bug iv seen so far where after tuning your car from winning a race it then locks up so you have to close the game and then redo the race you already completed again, was happening to much so ive actually stopped playing it due that bug so until its patched im done and yet that gamw has gotten away scot free in terms of bug critisism, you know why, in the console war its not as big as saying starfield or spider man is broken of which neither is.

either way its been kinda pathetic to see the discourse around both games rather than providing genuine praise and critisism

Neonridr215d ago

honestly I don't mind when we come across a bug here or there. Reminds us all that nobody is perfect. Usually they just end up being funny and we move on. It's not like the game is ruined because 2 NPCs walked through each other for a second or like you said, you came across a floating door.

-Foxtrot214d ago

Some of the Spiderman ones are literally people trying to break the game, going out of their way to find them.

darthv72214d ago

It should be the devs trying to break it, not the players. That way they can ensure its fixed so players dont run into the same thing.

Im convinced many of the glitches, like the spider cube one (my son had that happen and I recorded it) are related to the system being worked so hard. Because he ran into that after playing for like 14-15 hours. The game really pushes the hardware at times.

Crows90214d ago (Edited 214d ago )

Not sure you understood. Some people are looking for the bugs instead of playing the game.

That's not how you find normal bugs people will come across. You don't get in a car and crank the engine over and over and see how much it can take before an accident happens...and then point and say...see it's faulty.

darthv72213d ago

@crows, i understood completely. Maybe you fail to realize devs are gamers as well. They know there are always going to be those whose intention is to try and break the game, find exploits and profess them publicly. Which is why i said it should be the devs who do that so the players DONT find them.

DaCajun213d ago

Darth you need you realize that a couple hundred devs compared to millions of players looking for bugs is going to provide different results. The devs can spend tens of thousands of extra hours searching for possible bugs. But that is not always realistic. Games would never release if you tried to break the game until its perfect.

pixlz213d ago

I've had several bugs. Spawning into a bridge where I had to reset. Game crashes. Criminals spawning into buildings where I can't finish crimes. Mysterium's had some really weird loading. I didn't try to break the game at all.

That being said, the games so amazing, It's really easy to look past.
I look forward to some patches that make all that stuff a thing of the past.

Abnor_Mal214d ago (Edited 214d ago )

I don’t know about Starfield, but I’ve seen videos of people using the bike on train tracks get hit by a train fly off and the character becomes stuck in a weird pose still trying to ride a non existent bike. But as I said they took the bike to a place it didn’t belong, outside it’s specified mission.

Another vid I saw was people using photo mode to rotate the characters into NPCs so that they merge into one and then taking photos posting them online and calling them glitches.

darthv72214d ago

Have you seen spider-cube (pong suit)? That one is kind of funny.

Abnor_Mal214d ago (Edited 214d ago )

No I haven’t seen that one yet, does it happen in a specific part of the game with a certain character or suit?

Honest I’ve just been doing my own thing going around the open world, switching the controls, and gliding back and forth between Manhattan and Brooklyn on the Manhattan Bridge.

Story wise I’m up to the part after the gang goes to Coney Island, and then back to the lab. I quit that mission last night just so I could get back into the free roam stuff.

--Onilink--214d ago (Edited 214d ago )

For me it was about 2-3 hard crashes and 2 instances of cutscenes going black (but still had audio), though thankfully the game autosaves right as the cutscene starts so when I restarted the game, it jumped right into it again rather than skipping it (or having to redo the whole fight)

But overall, during normal gameplay it was pretty bug free.

Same with Starfield, a couple of broken sidequests that I have no idea if they already fixed and 1-2 hard crashes, but in general quite bug free

EvertonFC214d ago

@forbes

Never ever compare the 2, NXT

Petebloodyonion214d ago

Well, you are proving the author's point of view :)

BanginTunes214d ago

I was pretty excited to play Spider-Man and didn't install the day one patch the first session I played (since it was 40gb). Without the day one patch the game was very buggy and looked rough in performance mode.

Not to knock the game for this, post patch it's a night and day difference and I haven't seen any bugs since, though this might explain a lot of the bugs people are seeing, and this opens the door to some disingenuous narrative about the state of the game.

Now Rift Apart on the other hand I played a year later and that was buggy lmao

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Starfield's recent player spike is good, but it needs its Cyberpunk 2077 moment now

Starfield's recent player spike is a good sign, but Bethesda desperately need to line up their Cyberpunk 2077 moment.

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ZeekQuattro21h ago

I feel like the second big update that releases late this year will do just that. Part of the story expansion is also new means of transportation on planets.

P_Bomb21h ago

A good DLC could turn some heads. The Destiny games got momentum that way too.

piher20h ago

What player spike?

I checked steamcharts through the link in the article and it went from 8,000 to 11.500, so yea 20% but when the game peaked at 330,000 It's safe to say that the actual effect of this update was negligible.

LostPotato15h ago

Doubt it'll ever get redemption. As many developers have said in various interviews it's beyond saving.

Just release the mod tools and expansion and move on.

Profchaos7h ago

Cyberpunk 2077 had some strong bones i disliked it on launch because I could see the potential I could see the strengths of what they wanted to achieve but it wasn't done yet

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Jingsing1d 6h ago

They didn't get the memo the game is dead and the Bethesdabots only want magic and fantasy.

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