Patches, while they fix stuff, are annoying, especially on previous gen consoles like PS3 & Xbox 360.
Why is this?
Well, if you're a game collector, or just refuse to get rid of any game you own, and considering a PS3/Xbox 360 won't last you too many years, you'll be going through systems, and formats.
What does this mean? Well, tons of patches and DLC that has to be re-downloaded, which is especially a problem depending on how much games and DLC you have.
This may not be an error for some of us, but it makes you miss the days of memory cards and no patches. When devs got one chance to get everything right.
The problem with patches is sometimes they don't fix all the bugs. That is at least one benefit of PC games. You can have "unofficial" patches made by fans where they fixed a lot of bugs the official patch did not.
Every Elder Scrolls game I've played, from Morrowind to Skyrim has had an unofficial fan made patch. In Morrowind there were *thousands* of bugs still after the official patches.
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While it sucks that games need patches, I don't think anybody wants to go back to the old days were a game was what it was.
For example, Witcher 3 and it's crazy small inventory font characters would of been like that forever. Because of a patch, it's much better.
I think the idea that games back in the day were perfect pieces of software is ****ing crazy. A lot of games had problems, even the "supposed" good ones. Also, trying to compare a game released today to before is a bit wishful thinking. Today's videogames are entirely more complex than before and it wasn't for patches, a lot of great games would of been less.
I'm happy for patches. They add and fix issues that developers didn't believe would be problems.
**** memory cards. And **** the idea that it be better of developers only had one chance to get it right. You would be losing out great games and great developers who went belly up because their first game was buggy.
Yeah I am happy at least in this day and age you can get patches for console games. Back in the day if a game had a bug that was that.
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My copy of The Suffering for the PS2... i can't even finish the ****en game because of a certain spot in the game freezes up and once that happen's it stuffs the save up.
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Last edited by Kazenji on Feb 7th, 2016 at 04:37 AM
Yeah, but it sucks for the people who lose systems and then have to realize that years of gameplay went down the toilet because of something they couldn't control, and internal storage.
Memory on a ps2 could potentially be timeless because of the memory cards.
Like, my ps2 breaks, no big deal, still got my games, and my memory cards, no memory lost, nothing to patch.
PS3 breaks "WTF, all that work on all those RPG's just because I didn't buy PS Plus!! I have to re-patch my 30 physical games!! I have to re-download HUNDREDS of DLC one-by-one off the store!!! All my saved data for every game I've played, six years, so much work, down the toilet!! **** Sony!!"
You should really only comment if you've lost a PS3, its really only for people who have PS3's without PS Plus, and have had them bricked.
And while I'm apparently the only one on the site thats had that happen, it really DOES suck.
That being said, it isn't getting fixed without all the memory being deleted, why would I wanna continue using a burnt out hard drive that only works for a few months and then stops?
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