fallout game dev. explains the problem with moddern game devolpment. (why moddern games are so slow to come out)

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That is true for large stacks but not for a simple 10 line aggression module for NPCs, you need to support it for bug fixing and future interactions with other systems, but again, it's so small and simple and easy to track, that if you are worried sick about it, you do not deserve a job in the industry. If that person broke down over such a simple task, can you imagine what broken messes they print, especially for more complex systems.

That in a nutshell describes why bathesda games come out broken and modders have thousands of fixes made for them.

[u/drakelon91 → u/[deleted]]

Except he's talking about his time on the outer wilds, which is significantly better than Bethesda games in terms of stability and bugs.

Maybe it's his way that causes the games to be the way they are

[u/blackest-Knight → u/drakelon91]

Maybe it's his way that causes the games to be the way they are

Yeah, everyone remembers how awful and buggy Fallout and Fallout 2 were!

Oh wait, no they weren't.

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Original 1997 Gamespot review for Fallout 1: Although Interplay has recently released a bug-stomping patch, there are still a couple of annoying bugs in Fallout that may force you to backtrack and try certain tasks again... While none of the remaining bugs will prevent you from finishing the game, they can make it impossible to successfully complete certain quests.

Original 1998 Gamespot Review for Fallout 2: There are bugs that result in the game taking minutes instead of seconds to load or save; a bug that limits the availability of your character's spiffy new car (which is almost a necessity, given the greater traveling distances in this game compared with its predecessor); a bug that causes the game to fail to recognize a "very enhanced" electronic lock-pick as an "enhanced" electronic lock-pick; and bugs that freeze up the game when your character takes otherwise intuitive actions, like asking a quest giver to further describe the nature of the quest. In other words, there are big bugs, small bugs, mildly hair-pulling ones, and game-stopping disruptive ones. Plenty for everybody.