handymanphil79 wrote:look at Fallout 3 and New Vegas. they run stable untill you add on the dlc. the GOTY NV is a nightmare.
New Vegas was far from stable even without the DLC.
I bought that **bleep** game at launch and it froze after 5 minutes of play. It hardly got better after that.. Don't forget about the game crippling hat glitch that was in the orginal version either.
That being said, you do have it right that they got worse with the DLC. This is true all the way back to The Shivering Isle for Oblivion. For whatever reason Bethesda and Sony just don't get along.
THEGREENSKEEPER wrote:The 360 versions don't fare that much better. Oblivion, Skyrim, FO 3, and FO NV all freeze on me. Now that could be the games or my systems but ever since Dawnguard was released my game hasn't frozen but it sure does run a lot slower when loading or sifting through the menu. Bethesda builds games that are so big in scope that they seem to have A LOT of stuff fall through the cracks.
Hearthfire was released for the 360 yesterday and if you check out the 360 forums you'll see several different game crippling glitches going on with this brand new dlc. I am not going to buy this at all until a patch is issued. Bethesda dropped the ball here. Trust me ps3 Skyrim players aren't missing much because the dlc has made things worse.
You're right the Xbox versions of their games don't fare much better, but compared to their PS3 versions excluding Oblivion, Xbox is orders of magnitude better than the PS3 versons. It's sad to say, but it's true, and it shows there's an obvious bias on the part of Bethesda toward the Xbox.
The huge world/scope argument is getting tired and worn out. It would be one thing if this was Bethesda's first huge world, but this isn't. They've been using the same engine and creating "huge" worlds since Morrowind 10 years ago now. One would believe that in all that experience with this engine and creating such "huge" worlds they would have mastered it by now. Yet every time they put out a new game the problems get worse and worse. Skyrim is by far the buggiest and worst performing game Bethesda has ever released, despite what they claim to the contrary.
Hopefully the gaming media, and the ESRB especially pick up on the naked children glitch in Hearthfire and have it pulled from the Xbox store, thus forcing Bethesda to fix something for once.
Edit: I've filed a complaint with the ESRB about this naked children glitch in Hearthfire, and I encourage everyone to do the same thing. PS3 won't be receiving any DLC anyway so what will it hurt? Other than Bethesda. 
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