Re:We Need Software Updates Forever
by fxtentacle on Thursday September 23, 2021 @04:05AM
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Playstation 2 games were generally bug free. Same goes for Nintendo cartridges.
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Re:We Need Software Updates Forever
by cortesoft on Thursday September 23, 2021 @12:02PM
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This is completely not true, all those old games had tons of bugs.
I think we don't think of them as having a ton of bugs for a few reasons; one, we didn't have the social media forums to post bugs and read about them, so unless you personally encountered a bug, you wouldn't know about it. Since most bugs only trigger under rare circumstances, most people aren't going to know about them. Secondly, since we knew there were never going to be updates, we didn't think about things not working as being 'bugs' that can be fixed... they became just part of the game.
> Since most bugs only trigger under rare circumstances
That's true of old games (when updates couldn't be delivered), but certainly not any newer AAA game at release that I can think of.
Those games had a ton of bugs. Look into speed run tech. Super Mario World even has an arbitrary code execution bug you can trigger from controller input.
Re:We Need Software Updates Forever
by timw4mail on Thursday September 23, 2021 @08:49AM
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Probably not bug free, but the bugs that remained were subtle enough to be difficult to notice, or they happened in rare circumstances, or they actually worked to the benefit of the game.
Video games have never been produced in an environment where bugs can be completely stamped out.