Yes, yes, a thousand times yes, Fallout 4 is absolutely riddled with bugs, glitches, hitches or whatever you want to call them. This was by far the most pervasive complaint in the reviews, with Polygon warning players that if they've been worn down and infuriated by Bethesda's bug-ridden titles in the past, they may want to "exercise caution" with this one. IGN reviewed the game on all platforms and saw "occasional crashes" across the board, while Eurogamer did a brilliant job summarising the problem with this terrific rant, "If you despair of Bethesda's creaking game engine, with its frequent glitches, stutters and occasional fatal crashes, then you'll also find everything you feared...often falling apart at the seams and pushing its game engine far beyond its comfortable limits. If you were expecting the move to powerful new generation console hardware to smooth out the kinks that endured in Bethesda's RPGs for the decade-long lifespan of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, you'll be disappointed...It's impossible to miss the glitches, bugs and downright broken bits in Fallout 4...appalling frame rate that plummets to what appear to be single figures during moments of intense action, and lengthy pauses while the game hangs and decides if it wants to continue or not." After the last two Fallout games suffered immensely from bugs, especially on consoles, it's a shame that once again consoles seem to get the worst of it. You ultimately need to decide whether you can forgive them enough or if they're just too infuriating. As such, it's frankly a surprise that it hasn't dented the reviews more.
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