Alright, I guess I'm going to have to put up an indepth post about this. Before I got the game people were mentioning how there were some bugs in the game. I didn't think much of it, and thought people had to be blowing it out of proportion. I was so excited about the release, and was happy when I was able to pick up my pre-order. Started playing the game for a while and posted back on here my experiences, minor bugs, nuisances, what measures I took to ensure the game played welll, etc. Ever since then, I've had to defend the fact that I indeed had issues with the game, despite the fact that when I checked back on the forum, 2 or 3 people said they had the same issues verbatim.
The issues I was talking about were fairly pronouced and detracted from both the gameplay and the immersion for me. I keep trying to keep myself from saying this, but in words similar to Exitium's before he got the game, Why do you guys feel the need to fellate Troika? Don't get me wrong, they make great games, and I'm enjoying the hell out of the game (I'm in fact planning my new character while I play through the first time). I even think Arcanum was the best thing since Fallout and PS:T and I had no issues whatsoever when I played it. It's just your single-mindedness that seems to be saying anyone who mentions the game has a lack of polish is an evil heretic fuck. When you have issues with what another person is experiencing their is no need to deride them.
Now as for the KOTOR vs. ToEE issue. I had game stopping issues with ToEE, even with their latest patch. I have yet to complete the game once. I had no issues with KOTOR, but other people apparently did. The thing is, KOTOR is ONE game out of the NUMEROUS games Bioware has put out. They also addressed the issues very quickly. Troika hasn't put out so much, so bad apples stand out very well. I'm not a big Bioware fan at all, while I am a Troika fan. I just don't like the games Bioware puts out, they might be long and have lots of content, but they are boring for me to play. I just feel like I play them just to get through them. In fact the only game that I liked that used the Infinity engine is PS:T by BIS. So you can't claim my argument stems from anything other than the facts.
And speaking about the bugs that I've seen in Bloodlines, some of them are fairly inexcusable, like missing the last line of subtitles for dialog, music too loud to hear the dialog, getting stuck into things and being unable to move requiring reloads (and I have tried jumping around, crouching, moving, what have you; sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't), etc. I haven't played that many games in the past year, but I've played Max Payne 2, Far Cry, Doom 3, Lionheart (oh, and Lionheart is boring as all fuck). NONE of those games had these sorts of issues. I haven't patched a single one of them and they play great for me. Since those are the only games I can base my judgement on as to modern standards, the fact that they were bug free for me lends me to say that Troika's lack of polish is very annoying. I guess I've come to expect polish. Oh, and I forgot to mention I got ToEE within the last year as well, but as I mentioned it was buggy as hell for me even with the latest patches.
So now you know at least for me, why I made the judgements that I did. So why is it that you guys (especially the ones who have admitted Bloodlines does have bugs that you've experienced), think it's alright to downplay the fact that they exist? Like I'm saying, having bugs isn't going to keep me from playing the game, but they are an annoyance (especially ones that cause me to have to reload). I agree bug free software is a utopian dream, but some of the bugs I mentioned were quite plain and obvious when playing the game, they should have been caught by QA.
Time to get off of my high horse until my next post :D. Good day to you ladies and gentlemen!
