Originally posted by: ShawnD1
Originally posted by: Zenoth
Everything in that list is FUD, not to mention that it originated from some random user on a very insignificant discussion board who claimed to be some sort of supervisor in a company which supposedly bought hundreds of Fallout 3 copies for testing purposes and they came up with those "conclusions" from their expertise after hours of testing. And most of the best modders the community has all verified those claims, they also tested, and they all concluded that it was all FUD and false information
Fair enough. I removed the fud list from my post so it doesn't get any more attention. This forum's posts seem to end up near the top of google search results.
I also don't buy that whole "the game engine is old" excuse. Quake was released in 1996, Half-Life was based on a modified version of the Quake engine, and Valve released Counter-Strike Condition Zero as late as 2004. The only reason for the engine to not work is if they never wrote it properly in the first place.
GameBryo being old is not an excuse, it
is old, but of course being old isn't the direct cause of it always crashing, however the developers themselves are probably qualified enough to know if they are the cause or not, and if they are they will certainly never say it out loud, but the modders know it, they post about it, they talk about it, and I'm sure Bethesda doesn't like it, but they never reply to their claims, so they all look innocent, of course, the fault is always the user, never the developer, that's how it is in the PC market, we're gamers, so we know nothing, whatever we say, we're never right.
And, anyway, the crashing and freezing issues are also present on the consoles version, that's right, those consoles that developers claim that all have the exact same hardware, making it much easier to optimize for, claiming that they don't need to check out for incompatibility issues with background tasks and third party codecs or random software installed like in a PC, well bad news even for the console version owners, it's crashing there as well, and guess what they're using as the main excuse? It's over-heating, but it would be fine if the damn thing could run at absolute zero I'd presume? Right, why not.
All of that, and more, lead me to uninstall Morrowind, Oblivion and Fallout 3, and what makes things worse is that all those Fallout 3 owners who miraculously play it with zero issues all wonder what the hell I and others like me are talking about, and with reason, but one day they might upgrade their system, re-install it, and then out of nowhere it's going to start crashing, then they will understand, but I certainly don't wish it, Bethesda do make good games, but jeez... I swear both STALKER games, Arma II and even Gothic 3 were more stable. And they're still using GameBryo for Fallout: New Vegas, but fortunately, and finally, Brink, their other game, is using id Tech 4.
