10 Baffling Oversights In Otherwise Great Video Games
3. Fallout: New Vegas Only Works With A Cowboy Hat
In a way, you could argue that everything about the initial release of Fallout: New Vegas was an oversight. Coming out the gates virtually unplayable, the title was riddled with bugs from beginning to end, providing players with one of the funniest, yet most frustratingly broken games of the last generation.
However, there was one oversight in the development of this game that was so specific and so ridiculous that it had to be featured on this list. Once you arrive at the titular strip of New Vegas in the original version of the title, you almost immediately encountered a game-breaking bug that would make your character unable to enter the most important area of the game if you weren’t wearing a specific cowboy hat.
For some reason, if you weren't equipped with this seemingly inconsequential piece of attire the game would refuse to work, crashing every time you attempted to enter the titular New Vegas strip. Every. Single. Time.
Fortunately, some time later a patch resolved this issue, however it didn’t resolve the biggest question left hanging from the whole debacle; just why was the game only programmed to work with that one, stupid hat?