Distributor: It seems that the game is ready, put it on sale! Betatester: Umā¦thisā¦hey, but thereās a bug here⦠Distributor: It doesnāt matter, probably the players wonāt notice⦠Betatester: Butā¦the horse is deformed and walks sideways! Distributor: Itās a magicianās fault. New philosophy of video games
And developing for new generation consoles has become so extremely expensive that, as they say in Ludoqia: it seems that āthe player is no longer the final clientā. Or it could also be that it is simply their desire to make money that causes games that are not yet āmatureā to go on sale ahead of time (did someone say Lair?).
A clear example of this is the new and acclaimed Assassinās Creed from Ubisoft, which has some impressive bugs, which supposedly occur when the player dies or when he suddenly āfalls off the worldā.
Bug No. 1: The deformed horse that walks sideways
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I didnāt know very well how to define this bug, since it consists of Altairās horse being deformed in such a way that some of its legs are facing Bilbao and the others are facing Cuenca. It has two variants: front legs and back legs. Because nowadays what is fashionable is to tune animals by dislocating their limbs.
Bug No. 2: Me and my clone
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This bug, what it is about is that two Altairs appear at the same time and you can control both simultaneously. Unfortunately, just because there are two of them does not mean that you have double the life, since it is enough for one of the two to die to lose the game. Furthermore, they can kill each other, something that is somewhat⦠paradoxical.