Now if I had Crisis Core in my hand now, I wouldn't even care about Bully..hehe.

outbackerdave

mmaadness

Lovesugarfeline

I simply want my product to work as it was suppose to and I'm not alone. Look around at other sites, plenty of people are ticked about the issue. They were the ones who told us a week, not I. The least they can do is get another PR mouthpiece to give us an update. Yet we don't even get that.

If that irritates you, sorry for that but my comments were not directed to you, just Rockstar, Microsoft, and Mad Doc. Though if you work for one of them in QA, then I guess my comments could be directed to you. I don't know so I guess I will just apologize to you and leave it at that.

outbackerdave

jmill911

shqiptar34

outbackerdave

mmaadness

outbackerdave

outbackerdave

outbackerdave

aleceiffel

outbackerdave

outbackerdave

outbackerdave

Hooray for progress.

Zombie_Crunch

1. Iffy framerates
2. Audio cutting in and out
3. Freezes, stinking annoying freezes!
4. Game not seeing both triggers being pushed in music class.
5. Achievements unlocking by themselves.

Another day, no patch...thanks ever so much R*.

outbackerdave

at least i read about this problem and is saving every day (in game time) which isn't nearly enough as I had to backtrack most of the day most of the time (once i was so pissed, i was on my way to save and sleep at the jock's hideout, got into a fight with jocks and it froze on me!!! ARGH!)

diablofreak

Nope, no patch yet.

Way to go Rockstar for your patch or lack thereof!

outbackerdave

Nope, no patch yet.

Way to go Rockstar on your 'speedy' patch or lack thereof.

outbackerdave

TheNeptunesFan

Consumers Held Hostage!
No Patch Yet From Rockstar!
Game Freezing Faster Then Ohio!
Game Framerates As Erratic as Britney!
Game Audio Cutting In And Out More Than A Bad Campaign Speech!
When Will The Torture End?

Oh wait, the President vetoed the bill that would stop torture. Guess it will never end! Nevermind.

outbackerdave

i had laughed off this one too, as rockstar was claiming that only old 360's were affected.

in a horrible karmic reaction to my holier-than-thou attitude to game issues, my copy of bully is completely unplayable.

every 2 minutes it freezes. i've only completed 1 mission and must wait until a patch arrives or take it back. arghhhhhhhhh! KARMA!

PGGB

How the blazes is a week 'quickly fixing the problem?'. The dropped the ball, they should have had a fix out before the weekend but nooo, they gotta have their weekends off. Screw the consumer. They have no problems with taking our cash but they sure have an issue with getting a fix out quickly.

Btw Jonas, awesome post!

outbackerdave

We've had some good times together, but recently, you've let yourself go. I'm used to seeing you take the time and dress yourself up nice, and warmly present yourself to me, but recently well, you've kind of gotten a bit fat around the quality control.

I've had you hard freeze once where you have to physically reset your gameplay, and have no further control, including pulling up the system dashboard. I can't stand it when you don't put out.

I've had multiple frame rate hiccups, walk animation issues (where Jimmy will just abjectly spin around for no reason while running straight), and have constant 10 second hiccups while handing flowers to people in the main lobby of the school. I try to show you my love, but you spurn me further.

This is unacceptable, I hold you in the highest regard, but for this pap to issue forth from your tried and true quality tested game-lab-womb, I am unamused.

Girl, you're telling me that it'll be okay in a week's time. I look at all the great games you've put out since having very poor memories of GTA III's glitches, driving around and randomly falling through the ground, and I am seeing a falter in your work. You were doing so well. I ask no quarter and give none, but needless to say, I do not enjoy spending my money on a pleasure that forces me to waste further time replaying the same thing over and over, if I wanted to do that, I'd just put in Devil May Cry 4 again, and be done with it. She's a fiesty senorita.

I love you baby, and some times we say things that hurt, but you're worth it, so don't make me hurt you. I love you so much that I wouldn't be able to stop my love swings of joy into your soft baby blue eyes if you keep on thinking that I'll accept you for your deep down game play. Honey, I'm shallow, I'm all about the looks and how you handle, and right now, taking you out for a spin is about as fun as giving a wolverine a hand job with a scouring pad.

Don't be that way. Come back and make sweet game love.

Yours truly,

Jonas '18 pack of Abs' B.

JonasNG

tk.

metallicorphan

What worries me about your comment is something that has been bugging me lately. "OH GOD A GAME CAME OUT ON A CONSOLE AND IT DOESN'T FART KITTENS AND RAINBOWS OUT OF THE BOX." I'm beginning to think that our expectations have gotten a little on the weak side. What we should expect is a game that WORKS. No freezes. No updates. No bullshit. I don't remember Bionic Commando freezing up on me on the NES. Don't think FFVII or Metal Gear Solid ever forced me to restart my system.

Do you see my point?

Smadubaku

Smadubaku

I LOVE my 360. (fourth due to RROD) But damn! I can't get through lost Odyssey now without a disk read error every ten minutes on the 4th disk. GRRRRR!!!!!!! When will it end??? My PS3? Never had a problem. Guess that extra year accounted for something.

Smadubaku

BryanGuitarDude

"OH GOD A GAME CAME OUT ON A CONSOLE AND IT DOESN'T FART KITTENS AND RAINBOWS OUT OF THE BOX."

well... when it came for PS2 it didn't had any issues

Gambare

EnigmaNemesis

tk.

Good to see their conscious of the errors and ready to fix them...and can.

lostpuppies

ca$h

BadSector

But in levels of polish, of graphics, stability and all, it's all so very last-gen.

But those technical issues will, for most, not hinder the core fun of the game significantly. Like, for instance, Mass Effect.

Guizzy

Honestly, these overreactions are quite irritating. From a technical perspective, porting games is harder than developing new ones. It's not just a matter of "The 360 is more powerful so it should be able to run PS2 games easily." While the system hardware is perfectly capable of displaying the number of polygons and the complexity of the textures and whatnot, the code behiind it all is completely different, and making it run on another platform is by no means easy. It's like trying to make Legos fit into an Erector set.

Having issues with console games is nothing new, and the only reason it's more common these days is because as the technology progresses so will the complexity of the software, and more unpredictable problems will arise. I can only assume that Rockstar (who have developed some of my all-time favorite video games) is not trying to rush sub-par software out the door just to make a quick buck. If they did know about the problems, why the fuck would they go gold with it instead of taking an extra week or so to fix the issue first. Believe it or not, most studios try to make good games, and Rockstar's track record speaks for itself.

I played the game for like 10 hours straight yesterday and it froze on me once. Aside from the single freeze (which happens now and then with any game), I haven't experienced any noticeable problems other than some low framerates here and there. Not sure why people complain about saving when the save point is literally 4 feet away from the bed that the character has to sleep in every day. My hardware is new though (I only just got a 360 about a month ago), perhaps the problem is really bad for people with older systems.

Eric

How's about the company that made the system it's on make sure the fucking console works before they sell to people; let's try that.

EvoAnubis

Channing

outbackerdave

nox

how hard is that, get one or two testers with 2 360s, test it by playing the game through once or twice!

i doubt anyone tested Bully SE

just because most people have an internet connection, doesn't mean you can get lazy and ship out untested/unfinished products and expect consumers to pay full price for it

diablofreak

TrettOff

Sustenance

You need just an internet connection. Dial-up through a router to the Xbox would still connect you.

Xirj

Isn't that the truth. It's fucking ridiculous and completely uncalled for when a console game needs a patch. Usually PC game companies have to test their game to make sure that it scales well on many different PCs, and even then they still have to patch up some issues. But a console doesn't have that problem, it's all the same architecture .... so what gives? Are companies just not play testing these damn games or what?! Where's the fucking quality assurance these days?

dead_red_eyes

Please do it once and do it right. It's as simple as that.

german-s

I liked console games because they worked very well at very good performance, if not, you return it or just don't buy. But now it's the same burden. DLC is cool to add content or minor problems, but now you can really see they don't really test the games. Can you miss the freezing/lockups? i mean, even a person working in QA for the first time can't miss those problems.

Tech Support Guy: "Oh sorry sir, yes, you picked Guitar Hero IV and there is no audio from the game and screen is flipped, don't worry, patch will be out shortly".

(yes, i'm still mad about the audio problem in GH3 Wii version)

KamuZ

garytek

I imagine if loack of internet connection and memory storage was a problem you could get Rockstar to replace the disk.

SAKY

shufflemoomin

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!! That will teach them to get jobs so they can afford hard drives!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Mr.SithNinja

Collapse The Control

Rizzo88

maxax

mydogisdexter

DaPress

I just save the game often just to be safe.

Great game, great fun!

Collapse The Control

meandering_drivel

bOOmStiCK83

ALLoGISTIC1

bleeps

Datacide

kickass solo

kingmanic

Jim Reilly

Benjamin Linus

BWolf06

NocturnOwl357

FP_slomo788

SAGA

I'm a PC gamer at heart, but I go to consoles to avoid worrying about system specs.

ShaggE

Part-Time-Viking

Im assuming the patch would be a small one, and thus could go to a memory card.

But you're absolutely correct. wtf is this bullshit, Rockstar.

Komrade_Kayce

Setzer IIDX

MURDERFACE

nlyonssmith

Perdew

What do people without HDs do in this case anyway?

maxax

What happens to the Troglodytes with a 360 and no high speed internet (like my father)?

Komrade_Kayce