It's not a new thing for games to be released with bugs and technical issues, but it seems to be becoming more normal now, and even more accepted in big releases. Clearly a byproduct of more complex games and the 'patch it later' approach to publishing, and yet day one patches don't necessarily address major issues, and you're left playing a bit of a mess for a good few months at least while wondering whether they'll ever get round to doing anything about it.

Most recently I've had major issues with my 2 most played games this year, X-Com 2 and Invisible Inc. on PS4 (both turn-based strategy games, and both conversions of PC games, whether that has any relevance or not). As I mentioned in the X-Com thread, the framerate is terrible a lot of the time, almost stuttering to a halt even in cutscenes, and the loading times are a joke. Apparently, the PC version also had the loading problems, and I don't think they've been addressed since its release in February. Basically, as the game goes on the loading times increase between missions, until gradually you find yourself waiting literally 5 minutes at a time and wondering whether it's worth it.

With Invis Inc. it was more forgivable in a way because it's a small indie game worked on by a few people who made an effort to patch the issues as soon as possible (although it still took a while). With something like X-Com 2 I feel like I'm paying for a full price game and getting a test version, and it's not good enough.

So, I suppose I wanted to know what you lot thought about the situation, and what other examples there are. Is it really worse than it used to be? Also, should review scores reflect these issues more? X-Com 2 is a great game and for that deservedly gets big review scores, but then that hardly discourages publishers from releasing more buggy games in the future.