hmm windows games that did not require any patches im sure many of them exist but would be interesting to know which ones....

Most GOGs require no (further) patching. :-P

Not fair! ;) The original Pong didn't suffer from bugs because it's not a computer program. It's a hardwired digital electronic game from the days dinosaurs roamed the earth. (Think of one of those 300 in 1 electronics project kits you used to be able to buy at Radio Shack.)

Half Life 2...

^^

Didn't it ship with some nasty bugs?

I played 100+ hours of New Vegas and never saw a significant bug.

That's bullshit and you know it.........i'm sure there's plenty of Radroaches in that there game, bucko.

No, Valve is perfect. Fuck off! :P

Actually, they have been introducing new bugs with every update. Fun, isn't it? :D

Well, you got me there. Damn roaches!

lol haha now how about monkey island 3 and 4 i dont recall seeing any patches for it
and Chicago 1930 no patches either
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_1930

Here's my trouble with this "patch it later" mentality: with PC games, fine. It's very difficult to test software on every possible hardware combination. Some games will work better with NVidia cards, others with ATI, and others will only work if you hire a voodoo shaman to dispel evil spirits from your desktop.

Console games, on the other hand, have very little excuse to require patching. There is only one hardware configuration per console (well, that's not entirely true as "slim" re-releases for systems like the PS2, PS3 and Xbox 360 do contain some miniscule hardware differences).

"But Fall Out is an open-world game, so the player may do things that are unexpected by the developers."

Fair enough, but I played the intro of Fall Out 3 on PS3 at my friend's house and the game crashed within six minutes! Up until you leave the underground shelter, the game is as linear as Doom, so it's not like I could've done anything that was unexpected. The only thing that could account for it is a lack of proper testing.

You haven't played New Vegas. That's my biggest issue with the TC he hasn't played it either. It's like Alpha Protocol, the game was brilliant yet people kept going on about the bugs, endlessley. All we care about that game is the bugs and how we can laugh at Bugsidian. People completely miss the fact Alpha Protocol was the first new game in years and we will never see it again thanks to people who never even played it.

But, as you'll notice, I never mentioned New Vegas. I was talking about the patch mentality as a whole. I can't say whether or not New Vegas is riddled with bugs as the OP insisted, but I do know that Fallout 3 and many other console games have crippling bugs despite the points that I made. With only one hardware configuration per console is should be relatively simple to beta test for game-breaking bugs.

D-d-d-d-didn't they have S-t-s-t-s-tuttering problems wh-wh-when it came out?

Just had to point this out. Bethesda did publish New Vegas, but it was developed almost entirely by Obsidian.