Fallout 76

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2.8

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 4921 Ratings

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  1. Matthewvania
    Nov 23, 2018
    4
    While its not like the game has NOTHING going for it, I cant help but be just disappointed. The game objectively isn't good, and subjectivity is hardly pliable. The game is shallow. That's the fact. Bethesda is a shell of who they once were and we need to stop giving them a free pass. I dont know the last time I genuinely enjoyed a Bethesda Game. I have little faith I will again, and thatWhile its not like the game has NOTHING going for it, I cant help but be just disappointed. The game objectively isn't good, and subjectivity is hardly pliable. The game is shallow. That's the fact. Bethesda is a shell of who they once were and we need to stop giving them a free pass. I dont know the last time I genuinely enjoyed a Bethesda Game. I have little faith I will again, and that hurts because I used to hold the company in very high regards. Skyrim? Vanilla bland version of Oblivion. Fallout 4? Fallout for dummies and little to no world design. Doom 2016? Instead of a fast paced fps run and gun you have lots of meaningless, boring, tedious acrobatics, and a game that in general just overstays its welcome.
    Im getting off topic though, back to 76.
    Now with 76 we have... Nothing. A decent co-op time for sure, but no NPC's, no reason to explore, no uniqueness left in the game whatsoever. The enemy designs are among the best the series has ever had-- I'll give it that. Thats the most I can say, though. Its fallout 4 but with even LESS to do, less content, a larger, more barren map, and a restricted highly limited building system compared to 4's.
    This would also be a good time to mention I have ~70 hours in 76, I have played the game extensively since launch. And I understand all the hate. Look at a game like Fallout 3, over a decade old, and holds up better than Fallout 4 or 76 ever will. The game had an actual WORLD. Vivid and practically alive locations and residents, each person was an actual individual, there was something to do at every location and town. 76 is so lifeless its embarrassing Bethesda even /thought/ of this game.

    Fallout 76 has next to nothing to offer outside of some fun co-op moments with friends. The entire game is a bland, lifeless experience, and is hardly worth playing. Bethesda is a ghost of who they once were and I doubt they'll ever be back to their golden days. Each game they pump out s just mediocrity after mediocrity. Bethesda is dead.    … Expand
  2. xInFerN0
    Nov 24, 2018
    4
    I like Fallout but the game is kinda repetitive. You start a mission, go to the location, kill everything, go on a terminal, defend or repair something, done. The "Events" are just either defending or killing something it gets boring real fast. Since no NPC's are in this game your talking to robots the entire game and the story gets told through terminals, I'd rather have an NPC tell meI like Fallout but the game is kinda repetitive. You start a mission, go to the location, kill everything, go on a terminal, defend or repair something, done. The "Events" are just either defending or killing something it gets boring real fast. Since no NPC's are in this game your talking to robots the entire game and the story gets told through terminals, I'd rather have an NPC tell me the story then having to read it. I never thought these words would come out of my mouth... Bethesda... You really F$%ked up.… Expand
  3. LeSpink
    Nov 30, 2018
    4
    4/10 for the sole fact the game is unfinished. I run around in desperate hope to find easter eggs or hidden quests to prolong any fun I can find but I just can't. Everything seems like a dead end. I finished all of the main, side and misc quests before hitting level 50, firing a nuke is too easy (I set my first one off two days after release) - I hoped this would be difficult and rare4/10 for the sole fact the game is unfinished. I run around in desperate hope to find easter eggs or hidden quests to prolong any fun I can find but I just can't. Everything seems like a dead end. I finished all of the main, side and misc quests before hitting level 50, firing a nuke is too easy (I set my first one off two days after release) - I hoped this would be difficult and rare since it's more of an "end game" thing and even going into a blast zone is a flop as it's just pure radiated wasteland and/or repetitive enemies that you see in a normal zone, hitting a regular fissure site I saw absolutely nothing, I saw more enemies in a random part of the map blast! Then hitting a prime fissure, you get the "scorched earth" event which seems impossible on PS4 because the frame rate pretty much drops to 1 FPS.

    I'm currently playing the game to get a platinum trophy as I'm a big trophy hunter and some of the easy trophies are bugged and will not pop. The game has endless bugs and feels like an alpha rather than a beta.
    Very unrewarding experience to say the least.

    This game is definitely not suitable for hardcore gamers, if you're a casual then you might enjoy it because the content will drag out but if you're a grinder like myself then you'll have done everything in a week.    … Expand
  4. natDread
    Jun 20, 2019
    4
    Great game loads of content, keeps on getting better and better, can be unstable at times but that's because of all the magic.
  5. DaMy
    Oct 27, 2019
    4
    The game is not worth its price, and 100$ membership for 'singleplayer' mode is just a joke; but not only this, the main game is still seriously bugged, sometimes even unplayable, and now pay-to-win micro transactions. Just better spend money on The Outer Worlds.
  6. Axomarine
    Aug 25, 2021
    4
    While this game still has some irritating bugs, Fallout 76 has improved a lot since its disastrous release back in 2018.
  7. Deiradinn
    Nov 20, 2018
    3
    Some points

    -A game made by Bugthesda -No story driven gameplay. -Deceptive title name, this is Fallout Online folks. -Live Service cash cow to get that financial flow endlessly from microtransactions. -Built on an ancient game engine that showed its age a long time ago. -No where close to being made for it's longtime fans. -It's an okay junk collector simulator. Am I being    Some points

    -A game made by Bugthesda
    -No story driven gameplay.
    -Deceptive title name, this is Fallout Online folks.
    -Live Service cash cow to get that financial flow endlessly from microtransactions.
    -Built on an ancient game engine that showed its age a long time ago.
    -No where close to being made for it's longtime fans.
    -It's an okay junk collector simulator.

    Am I being crass, yes, unfair.... no.    … Expand
  8. disbroc
    Dec 2, 2018
    3
    A lonely game that feels like a departure from the traditional fallout experience. Not enough features to make it a true mmo, or single player game; it ends up being mediocre at both. This is nothing more than a generic survival mmo with a fallout theme.
  9. SaintJames012
    Nov 19, 2018
    3
    On the most fundamental level, the game simply does not work. The very concept of exploring the vast world and creating your own settlements is cut down by the fact that the world offers little if anything in the way of exploration, and no NPCs in combination with the limited number of players makes settling a camp a tedious task with nothing to really propel motivation forward. PlayerOn the most fundamental level, the game simply does not work. The very concept of exploring the vast world and creating your own settlements is cut down by the fact that the world offers little if anything in the way of exploration, and no NPCs in combination with the limited number of players makes settling a camp a tedious task with nothing to really propel motivation forward. Player interactions for the most part are surprisingly friendly, but exploring an empty world with a companion is only slightly better than exploring the void alone. Bethesda has never been known for their exceptional or even competent gunplay mechanics, and the idea for covering up that flaw in past games, V.A.T.S., is a complete mess within Fallout 76. overall it is a mess and skippable with no real reason for playing other than to experience the trainwreck occur, and the remnants to burn with a confident, albeit melancholic "I told you so"… Expand
  10. GamergodsFail
    Nov 30, 2018
    3
    Fallout 76 not only fails miserably at being a Fallout game, it's simply not a good game in any particular way, shape or form. It fails at storytelling. It fails at having an immersive open world. It fails at being a solid MMO. The game's servers are horrendously unstable, as it suffers severely from frequent framerate drops and constant crashing.

    Fallout 76 is not Fallout. It's hardly    Fallout 76 not only fails miserably at being a Fallout game, it's simply not a good game in any particular way, shape or form. It fails at storytelling. It fails at having an immersive open world. It fails at being a solid MMO. The game's servers are horrendously unstable, as it suffers severely from frequent framerate drops and constant crashing.

    Fallout 76 is not Fallout. It's hardly even functional. Perhaps it'd be acceptable as a free-to-play down the line. As a paid for product however, this is the worst game of 2018 by a "AAA" studio. As long as Todd Howard and Bethesda continue this dishonest behavior of hyping up garbage, stop supporting them and stop buying their unfinished broken products.    … Expand
  11. root_san
    Nov 17, 2018
    3
    Wow, that's actually incredibly bad. To be completely frank it's like Fallout 4 with different textues all over the NPC's and some of the weapons but with Mesozoic level graphics, a whole bunch of bugs, s h I T - like VATS system due to the fact this is online game and mobs with the intellgence of autist under the both speeds and barbiturates at the same time, that went through aWow, that's actually incredibly bad. To be completely frank it's like Fallout 4 with different textues all over the NPC's and some of the weapons but with Mesozoic level graphics, a whole bunch of bugs, s h I T - like VATS system due to the fact this is online game and mobs with the intellgence of autist under the both speeds and barbiturates at the same time, that went through a lobotomy. Btw the story and lore are still good and that's why it's 3 and not a 0.… Expand
  12. Quink666
    Nov 14, 2018
    3
    Fallout 76 is not a game for the fans it's a game for the wallet of investors.
    Fallout fans will be extremely disappointed in this game while new players might find some fun in it.
    Everything that was Fallout have been removed and you are left with a almost empty shell of a game. Building is very disappointing and fairly buggy. PVP is useless and there is no incentive to PVP unless    Fallout 76 is not a game for the fans it's a game for the wallet of investors.
    Fallout fans will be extremely disappointed in this game while new players might find some fun in it.

    Everything that was Fallout have been removed and you are left with a almost empty shell of a game.

    Building is very disappointing and fairly buggy.
    PVP is useless and there is no incentive to PVP unless you want to grief people by removing the floor beneath them.
    Weapon modification has less then half the options in Fallout 4.
    Gear drop is stupid since the good gear has level requirements way above your current level.
    There is very little story and about 40% of it you have to read the rest is from holotapes.
    There are NPC's but none are memorable or have anything to offer dialogue wise.
    The world feel really lifeless, way to lifeless even for a post apocalyptic world. Teaming up with randoms is almost impossible.

    There are bugs, but i have not encountered anything game breaking so far. Mostly animation issues and the occasional flying body. Your camp can get reset between log outs if someone else build their camp near yours.
    The game is far to easy. You can kill a level 12 mob at level 4 with ease.
    Microtransactions are there but can be ignored. But it would be better if they weren't there at all.

    But with all that said the game is certainly not a 0/10. With friends you can have a good time but i would be surprised if anyone plays this to max level.

    It's not worth the full 60 bucks so you are better of waiting for a sale and get it when it is below 25 bucks.

    Maybe Fallout 76 will become like No Mans Sky and actually get good after 1 year of updates, but as it currently stands it's a soulless game made with no passion.    … Expand
  13. finnonfire
    Nov 18, 2018
    3
    The endgame content is grinding. The bugs and glitches are game breaking (game freezes and crashes). Roleplaying is nonexistant. No one plays the pvp. Building is locked by perk cards making it late game content for most people. Stash is too small
  14. illegalmonkey
    Nov 15, 2018
    3
    "We wanted to add a multiplayer aspect to Fallout 4. We ended up adding more stuff to it and decided to release it as a separate game... Fallout 76!"

    Bethesda's explanation of how this "game" came to be should be evidence enough of how bad Fallout 76 is. It is the laziest of efforts and feels more like a shameless cash grab. I've played every Fallout since the days of 56k modems. Yes    "We wanted to add a multiplayer aspect to Fallout 4. We ended up adding more stuff to it and decided to release it as a separate game... Fallout 76!"

    Bethesda's explanation of how this "game" came to be should be evidence enough of how bad Fallout 76 is. It is the laziest of efforts and feels more like a shameless cash grab. I've played every Fallout since the days of 56k modems. Yes they have gotten a bit "worse" over the years as they strayed further and further from the "your choice matters" kind of narrative but I still enjoyed them. You know why? Fantastic story telling and immersion via INTERESTING NPC PERSONALITIES.

    I'm just floored that they thought completely removing any NPC interaction would be a good idea. I played the beta and was completely bored within an hour. My wife, who loved watching me play Fallout 4, fell asleep in less than an hour watching me play FO76. It becomes extremely repetitive as soon as you leave the vault. Walk here, find some junk, kill some enemies, loot their junk, find a workbench, scrap your junk... rinse and repeat. The quests don't even serve any real purpose other than helping you find other places to loot some junk. Any quest that asks you to "find where so-n-so went" fall 100% flat since EVERYBODY IS DEAD so you already know you will never find anyone. You end up running from computer to computer, or note to note, until you discover what happened.

    I had made a choice to play this rather than RDR2 because I like sci-fi and I'm not really into westerns. After the beta I immediately bought RDR2 and have been loving it. You know why? Fleshed out, totally immersive NPC INTERACTIONS! Bethesda has failed horrendously with this game. I'm giving it a 3 because I like picking up loot a lot, but that only stays fun if I have an immersive story and characters to keep dragging me along.    … Expand
  15. celeban
    Nov 16, 2018
    3
    Attractive graphics and a large play map are not enough to carry this insult to the Fallout franchise. You have gutted the very soul of Fallout with this abomination through forced player interaction (which doesn't usually happen), nickel-&-dime'ing cash grab transactions, etc.
    (Sad. I did enjoy all the other titles - even Fallout 4.)
    You should be ashamed - and your "big idea"    Attractive graphics and a large play map are not enough to carry this insult to the Fallout franchise. You have gutted the very soul of Fallout with this abomination through forced player interaction (which doesn't usually happen), nickel-&-dime'ing cash grab transactions, etc.
    (Sad. I did enjoy all the other titles - even Fallout 4.)

    You should be ashamed - and your "big idea" decision-makers tossed to the curb. 3/10    … Expand
  16. masseffectabc
    Nov 21, 2018
    3
    First of all let me say that i`m a huge fan of Bethesda. I have been playing their games even before the company was founded !!!!
    That been said i have to be brutally honest about Fallout 76.
    First, you can`t launch a broken/unfinished game anymore. It is unacceptable. Second, you can`t launch a game when you don`t even support your own server infrastructure. and finally, you can`t    First of all let me say that i`m a huge fan of Bethesda. I have been playing their games even before the company was founded !!!!
    That been said i have to be brutally honest about Fallout 76.
    First, you can`t launch a broken/unfinished game anymore. It is unacceptable.
    Second, you can`t launch a game when you don`t even support your own server infrastructure.
    and finally, you can`t launch a game so shallow and empty like this. Sure the map of west virginia es huge.....but there is nothing in it.
    I`ll give you a 3 out of 10, only because the game has the word Fallout on it.    … Expand
  17. OldSkoolGamerz
    Nov 16, 2018
    3
    Any fun to be had from exploring and scavenging will quickly evaporate into frustration due to technical problems at a fundamental level. Core quest design is also heavily hamstrung by not having any NPCs - the lack of consequences or social positive reinforcement for your time and effort makes your adventure seem purposeless.
  18. bxgdvn
    Jul 30, 2019
    3
    WTF Todd, are you okay? Maybe you need some help? Running a major league company and lacking marketing skillet to predict such obvious flop? I don’t believe in that. It’s more like some personality disorder or a deeply messed up perspective of objectivity.
  19. Martinp123
    Nov 14, 2018
    3
    The game while impressive in size and scope has lost what has made it a "Fallout" game. The audio logs are good but they are not a reasonable substitute for a traditional single player Fallout story. The Pvp doesnt seem very balanced and it comes with all the usual jank and bugs that are a given with a BGS game. With friends i can see this game being fun (if not very easy as the AI forThe game while impressive in size and scope has lost what has made it a "Fallout" game. The audio logs are good but they are not a reasonable substitute for a traditional single player Fallout story. The Pvp doesnt seem very balanced and it comes with all the usual jank and bugs that are a given with a BGS game. With friends i can see this game being fun (if not very easy as the AI for most enemies seems braindead), but if you are wanting to play solo, unless you are into pretty dull fetch quests everywhere interlaced into some interesting locations this is for you. Honestly it seems like an ideal Podcast game to just zone out playing but honestly there are better games out there that do this type of game better. Fallout 4 being one of them. It has potential but at the moment it feels bad to play.… Expand
  20. VagueShape
    Nov 24, 2018
    3
    I see a lot of phony reviews both positive and negative, so I'm gonna give my best shot at a fair objective review.

    Lets start with the limited positives: - Huge map (this probably the only impressive part of the game) - decent survival mechanics They won't amaze you, but they are fairly deep while not being too obnoxious - Group Objectives are fairly well done Perhaps the only    I see a lot of phony reviews both positive and negative, so I'm gonna give my best shot at a fair objective review.

    Lets start with the limited positives:
    - Huge map (this probably the only impressive part of the game)
    - decent survival mechanics
    They won't amaze you, but they are fairly deep while not being too obnoxious
    - Group Objectives are fairly well done
    Perhaps the only actual content worth playing, sadly they are usually fairly tough to complete solo meaning solo players completely miss out on the only content worth playing.
    - Nice environments
    A few places on the map are really nice.

    Negatives:
    - No reason to do anything (really, there is just no point)
    - Holotapes, Holotapes, and did I mention...Holotapes
    Whoever thought tape recordings were an adequate replacement for NPCs should be fired. Its soulless and tiresome. It defeats the point in tracking down Suzie when you know all that is gonna be there is her corpse with a tape next to it.
    - Servers have very few players on them
    For a game that focuses on multiplayer there are very few multiplayer interactions. Largely because there are only like 3-5 players on a server at the same time and often their levels aren't even close so they have no reason to play together
    - Slow progression
    And I mean painfully slow, It definitely feels slower than single player Fallouts. Its clear that rather than give us actual content, Bethesda decided to drag what little content there is out as much as possible. But its not fun, and It makes it nearly impossible to catch up to your higher level friends; which kills the multiplayer angle. Either they are stuck in low level areas not having fun, or you get dragged into high level areas where you still don't level very fast and struggle constantly.
    - Laggy servers
    - Tons of bugs
    - Frame rate drops constantly, and often for no reason; sometimes down to an absolute crawl.
    I think you get better frame rates watching a flipbook set in motion than this game.
    - V.A.T.S
    Idk why they bothered trying to keep it, might as well have just removed it for this installment. Its ultimately fairly useless in anything except pvp.
    -PvP
    Should be a positive, but its executed so poorly its relegated to the negatives. For those that don't know, both players have to to consent to pvp via shooting each other once but the player who fires first is at an extreme disadvantage. From what I can tell, nobody even bothers trying to pvp because there are no rewards or incentives and its not even competitively fair. Aside from that one guy who is level 40 trying to goad level 5s into pvping with him.

    Conclusion:
    Fallout 76 does a couple of things right and a whole lot of things wrong. While there are certainly some nice environments and moments you can enjoy; most of the time they are ruined by lag, bugs, or the overwhelming feelings of pointlessness. Its a multiplayer game that you spend most of your time alone and lonely in without any writing or story driven narrative to follow to motivate you to progress. I'm honestly not sure who enjoys this game, but I'm guessing not many people do. Its not a good single player experience, its not a good co-op experience, its not a good pvp experience. Its just a game that tries to do everything and excels at nothing.

    I am giving it a 3/10 because it does have a few things that can be appreciated and I feel somewhat generous at that score.    … Expand
  21. EDU_4804
    Nov 14, 2018
    3
    all that we wanted was a new Fallout more RPG, nobody asked for a multiplayer Fallout this game just doesn't work with creation engine, and really Bethesda ? a Fallout with no plot ? you're killing yourself like Interplay did. #SavePlayer1
  22. OnlyWaterH3O
    Nov 21, 2018
    3
    Opinion from the Russian player. Хоть мы и в России очень любим всё ядерное и катастрофическое, Fallout 76 не вызывает желания ринуться в магазин и бросить в кассира деньги со словами - "Мне 10 копий игры Фоллаут, пожалуйста".

    1. Пару слов о технической составляющей: периодически тени в игре ведут себя очень странно, прорисовываясь прям перед лицом и шанс, что они порисуются корректно    Opinion from the Russian player. Хоть мы и в России очень любим всё ядерное и катастрофическое, Fallout 76 не вызывает желания ринуться в магазин и бросить в кассира деньги со словами - "Мне 10 копий игры Фоллаут, пожалуйста".

    1. Пару слов о технической составляющей: периодически тени в игре ведут себя очень странно, прорисовываясь прям перед лицом и шанс, что они порисуются корректно крайне мал, зачастую в в водоёмах и реках не прорисовывается такая мелочь, как сама ВОДА, открытый мир, в котором нам предлагается подзагрузка при входе в закрытые помещения, частенько возникает такое ощущение, что игра "играется"с динамическим разрешением, что заставляет течь кровь из мох глаз ещё сильнее. В общем и целом - игра поломанная.
    P.S. Я кстати был одним из тех, кому Bethesda Launcher удалил игру с компьютера.

    2. Визуальная составляющая. Из-за или благодаря устаревшему движку, который особо то и не предназначен для сетевых проектов, картинка в игре не особо то и радует то, что осталось от глаз. Прошло 3 года с релиза Fallout 4, но такое ощущение, что разница между ними - пару месяцев. Посредственно.

    3. Геймплей особо далеко не ушёл, практически полная копия 4ой части, за исключение, разумеется, режима ВАТС, который подразумевает собой обычный аимбот, и система SPECIAL, которая с трудом, но подстроилась под сетевой режим. Опять же - посредственно.

    4. Сюжет. Знаете, если не задумываться, что все кто тебе дают квесты умерли, за исключением роботов, то мотивация возможно и присутствует. Большинство квестов направлено на - убей, принеси, правда иногда встречаются интересные и необычные задания, но это исключение, поэтому зачастую вы будете убивать и нести.

    Подводя итоги, хочется отметить, что кооперативных игр не там много, и поэтому, это идёт в плюс к игре, но учитывая всё выше сказанное, выглядит игра как халтура и я не советую её никому покупать, чтобы Тод сделал выводы и не думал, раз в названии стоит Fallout, то можно особо и не запариваться.    … Expand
  23. mike4156
    Nov 16, 2018
    3
    glitchy as hell, cant shoot people infront of you, framerate is trash nuff said!
  24. JayCeeDenton
    Nov 15, 2018
    3
    After a good chunk of time playing the game, I already feel like I've seen everything there is to see. And for a Bethesda game that prides itself on hours upon hours of content, that's a death sentence. If this was a released as a lower priced spin off, it would be worth full price. In it's current state? It's fun for a couple of hours, but nothing like the time you could sink into earlierAfter a good chunk of time playing the game, I already feel like I've seen everything there is to see. And for a Bethesda game that prides itself on hours upon hours of content, that's a death sentence. If this was a released as a lower priced spin off, it would be worth full price. In it's current state? It's fun for a couple of hours, but nothing like the time you could sink into earlier titles. It can also be fun with friends, but what isn't?… Expand
  25. Kernyx21
    Nov 25, 2018
    3
    Here's my understanding of the rating system:
    10: (almost) perfect
    9: outstanding 8: very good 7: good 6: okay 5: average/mediocre/playable 4: bad 3: very bad 2: terrible 1: unacceptable/unplayable 0: malware Stability/Bugs: Fallout 76 is full of bugs that affect your gameplay. Enemies just spawn around you, teleport around, move at ridiculous speeds, ... Players are being    Here's my understanding of the rating system:
    10: (almost) perfect
    9: outstanding
    8: very good
    7: good
    6: okay
    5: average/mediocre/playable
    4: bad
    3: very bad
    2: terrible
    1: unacceptable/unplayable
    0: malware

    Stability/Bugs:
    Fallout 76 is full of bugs that affect your gameplay.
    Enemies just spawn around you, teleport around, move at ridiculous speeds, ...
    Players are being severely punished for unstable servers.
    The game's networking system allegedly opens the floodgates for cheaters and hackers and is therefore potentially harming.

    The Story:
    There is no proper story, human NPCs are completely missing without explanation.
    The story contradicts the plot.
    The start of the game is uninspired and has no logic at all.
    The most common enemy, the scorched, have a very contradictory backstory.

    Gameplay Design:
    When starting the game, it sometimes spawns you in the middle of a nuclear explosion, surrounded by enemies, in the middle of an irradiated river or in other problematic positions.
    It also very often just removes your house from the game, apparently because "something" was in the same spot on that particular server.
    You can't place buildings where they were before, because placement by building parts and placement by blueprint have different placement constraints.
    In certain areas enemies just respawn within seconds.
    Sometimes enemies' corpses just disappear within seconds before anyone can loot them, despite the game having a mechanic that preserves corpses for looting.
    Playing together (which is the base idea of the game) is made difficult when player's levels differ.
    If you have 2 lvl20 players in your party and 1 lvl40 player, the game will spawn tons of lvl40 enemies on events and quests, which lvl20 players will have a hard time fighting against and won't be rewarded appropriately either.
    PvP is made hard to pull off, puts attackers on a disadvantage, serves no purpose and raises the question if it would even benefit the game if it was patched to actually work.
    Except for a bunch of voice recordings and a variety of mostly very common MMO quests, the world has no substantial reason to be visited.
    The leveling system, espcially the perk cards, is very bad:
    Through the franchise it went from "design a very special/specific person, and then keep them alive as they develop as a character" to "shuffle cards to find out what you're able to do" with a severe disconnect between the character's abilities from who they are - since the player character themselves has no personality.

    Level/Map Design:
    The world map was clearly rushed out, since there are quite a lot of random objects floating high in the sky which were probably not cleaned up properly (which usually happens when the creator is in a hurry).

    Graphics:
    Alpha-textures flicker for a while occasionally.
    Godrays sometimes come out of the ground.
    Shadows sometimes follow the player's point of view, instead of actual light sources.
    Depth of field can't be turned off, sometimes causes unsharpness to occur in the middle of the screen and occasionally misses out a mode-switch which causes you to see the world in the blurry DoF, that you see at the borders of your scope, while not using your scope.
    The game sometimes destabilizes and loads low-LOD objects instead of high-LOD objects.

    Recommendation:
    I highly recommend to put this game into re-development.
    It is riddled with bugs, has a contradicting uninteresting story and suffers from very poor gameplay design decisions. Comparing this game with the rest of the installments of the franchise a purely Co-Op based Online functionality would have been better to bring players together. PvP could still happen through a separate optional system (such as signing up for it at an arena). The start of the game could have been staged as a dire struggle for survival of the (actually alive and mostly computer controlled) population of Vault 76 as they open the doors (together!) for the first time with story/quest initiators like missile silos or the nuclear power plants Co-Op players could for example take control over an NPC they created themselves, who is one of the vault dwellers. Knowing that this game is probably too big of a failure and the old storytelling method is just that: old, I recommend a reboot with said changes, that puts effort into proper dramaturgy.    … Expand
  26. Theocrates
    Nov 14, 2018
    3
    What a disaster. Why Bethesda thought a multiplayer Fallout game would work is beyond me. For starters, the game is painfully boring. All "quests" are given by a robot or a holotape. The world is empty and astonishingly ugly (this is probably not helped by the archaic xbone system). GTA V Next Gen from 2014 (yes 4 years ago) was miles ahead of this. Hell, Skyrim remastered wasWhat a disaster. Why Bethesda thought a multiplayer Fallout game would work is beyond me. For starters, the game is painfully boring. All "quests" are given by a robot or a holotape. The world is empty and astonishingly ugly (this is probably not helped by the archaic xbone system). GTA V Next Gen from 2014 (yes 4 years ago) was miles ahead of this. Hell, Skyrim remastered was significantly better looking than this. The gunplay is serviceable, typical Bethesda rpg fare we've seen hundreds of times before, but it's wasted even more by the abysmal pvp system/policy. Most of us saw this coming from the beta. Stop supporting this laziness by Bethesda. Avoid this game.… Expand
  27. M4nU
    Dec 12, 2018
    3
    I played almost all the previous Fallout games; the 3rd stil remains the best for me and the 4 well, I enjoyed it btw. But...this one...honestly, I can't give more than 3 out of ten...potentially it might have been a good game, but...it is probably one of the worst Fallout ever "made"; sorry, maybe the correct word is "arranged"...'cause this game is simply embarrassing.
  28. waddon1
    Mar 25, 2022
    3
    Fallout 76 is a disappointment in every possible way. All you do is walk around and pick up items and kill stuff. There is an almost non-existent story told through audio logs. This just goes against everything the Fallout Franchise stands for. If Bethesda really wanted to make an online Fallout game they could have just added optional coop to a Fallout. Also don't get me started with the bugs.
  29. BrettSiebenhaar
    Jan 12, 2019
    3
    Ok, I will be admit that the game is not perfect, but wow, it doesn't deserve the low scores that it is getting. It is still a Fallout game, it looks like a Fallout game, and it plays like one. I have put about 10 hours in the game so far and I have had fun. I have ran into many other players and they have not attacked me, that is a PLUS! There are no human NPC's. We all know this.Ok, I will be admit that the game is not perfect, but wow, it doesn't deserve the low scores that it is getting. It is still a Fallout game, it looks like a Fallout game, and it plays like one. I have put about 10 hours in the game so far and I have had fun. I have ran into many other players and they have not attacked me, that is a PLUS! There are no human NPC's. We all know this. We are the NPC's for later games. That is the point. You do get most of your missions from holograms or computers, but that is fine. The game world is great. The map is huge. I want to explore, but I am a level 10, I will wait a little while for that. YOU DO NOT NEED TO PLAY MULTIPLAYER! You can go at is solo. That's what I am doing. Please ignore all the low scores. Everyone knew exactly what they were getting into with this game, it was no secret. Nothing will ever beat New Vegas, this game isn't even close. If you liked Fallout 4 for the most part, you will like this game. If you are a Fallout fan in general, you should play this game JUST BECAUSE! Solid 7 so far.

    UPDATE!!!!!!!!! 15 Nov 2018 5 p.m.

    Ok, so there i was just minding my own business and two idiots decide to follow me around forever all the while shooting me. You do take damage after every shot. I was under the impression, if they fire at you and you don't fire back, you only take that first bit of damage, but no, you will continue to lose health. It isn't much health, but still! I don't mind other players running around in the world, but Bethesda really should make an option where if you want to interact or not. If you don't, you should still see the people, but not interact with them.. That's what I think. When I am trying to complete a mission, being attacked by ghouls, that is enough, but no, you have to worry about other people attacking you. Its dumb...DUMB DUMB DUMB. Weren't we all supposed to be from the same vault rebuilding the world? Why would we kill each other? I will leave the score the same. I am still enjoying this game, but I hope Bethesda changes certain parts of the "online" experience.

    UPDATE!!!! 16 Nov 2018 1 p.m.

    Back again with another update. I am really really trying to like this game. I keep telling myself that it is Fallout, I LOVE FALLOUT, but after a while, it doesn't feel like Fallout anymore. A major gripe that I have is using melee weapons. I get swarmed by level 1 ghouls, I am a level 15. I swing the golf club, the ghoul moves. It takes forever to set up again and swing again, the ghoul moves again while I am being attacked by 5, 6, 7 more ghouls. I know, I can use guns, but these are level 1 ghouls! The melee combat sucks. its worse than any other Fallout game. The most annoying part is when you are being swarmed and then the frame rate freezes, then it catches back up and you are no longer facing the way that you were and now the ghouls are behind you. Its annoying. And another thing, since when did the rad moles or mole rats, whatever they are become such a problem. HOLY SH*T! For issues like I have been running into, the score is being lowered from a 7 to a 6.

    UPDATE!!! 22 Nov 18

    Ok, so my mind hasn't changed much regarding this game, but I have something new to gripe about. When you go to an area and there happens to be another real player there and this player is very much above your current level, all the enemies in that area will be around that players level. Top of the World, most enemies are not above level 10, I am currently level 20. I left the area and came back a bit later and there was a level 48 person there, all the enemies were level 45. This kind of takes the fun out of the game. Bethesda should never ever try online ever again. they should stick to what they do best, make memorable single player games! I am still enjoying the game for the most part and for what it is i guess, but this game actually makes me miss Fallout 4, and I didn't like that game that much.

    UPDATE: 26 Dec 2018

    The game sucks, score lowered to a 3. I am pretty sure I don't need to give an explanation as to why my score lowered. Go to youtube and watch people talk about the game. Everything they say is absolutely true! Terrible. I am scared about Rage 2 and the next Fallout. I am scared about TES6!    … Expand
  30. BreakzJ
    Jan 25, 2019
    3
    Garbage. This should be a free-to-play. So disappointing.Why Bethesda would release a game with so many problems is beyond me. This makes me worried for future installments and for games like Starfield.
  31. Egregore
    Nov 26, 2018
    3
    I rented this from Redbox for 3 days for $7 and I feel like I overpaid. I feel sorry for whomever in my small town rents it next.
  32. Flower_guy
    Nov 14, 2018
    3
    There is very little updated from Fallout 4, and some of the content you had at the start, you know how to grind to acquire. Level requirements on most of the things you pick up takes away the fun. "You found power armor congrats! Oh you have to be level 20 to wear any armor with it though." Content has been replaced with grind. No actual story, just grind so you can grind late game and beThere is very little updated from Fallout 4, and some of the content you had at the start, you know how to grind to acquire. Level requirements on most of the things you pick up takes away the fun. "You found power armor congrats! Oh you have to be level 20 to wear any armor with it though." Content has been replaced with grind. No actual story, just grind so you can grind late game and be better at grinding. No chance of spoilers if there isn't and story to spoil. Last note, no push to talk currently. So those guys streaming and talking to their chat about cheese sandwiches, people yelling at their dogs to stop barking, and that one dude with heaving breathing that really should see a doctor, you are going to hear all of that.… Expand
  33. ElEbbo
    Nov 14, 2018
    3
    To be fair
    It feels abit like a real Fallout. Its the same Universe. But thats all.
    The world is a empty soulless bad animated sandbox. The Players wanted to have a Mulitplayer - Fair enough... But they wanted a mulitplayer FALLOUT not a mulitplayer "battleground with quests with Fallout feeling" If Bethesda would just keep FO76 as a Mulitplayer and bring a FONV2 in the next year it    To be fair
    It feels abit like a real Fallout. Its the same Universe. But thats all.
    The world is a empty soulless bad animated sandbox.
    The Players wanted to have a Mulitplayer - Fair enough... But they wanted a mulitplayer FALLOUT not a mulitplayer "battleground with quests with Fallout feeling"
    If Bethesda would just keep FO76 as a Mulitplayer and bring a FONV2 in the next year it would be ok..I could play a real Fallout and sometimes when iam drunk at 2 am i could play FO online...

    But this "Game" is boring. I played roundabout 12h in one session. Today i wanted to continue but there wasnt any motivation to start the game... Insteed i installed FO:NW again and looking for mods atm...

    Sorry Bethesda but i hope you will get your payback for this    … Expand
  34. BlindKraken
    Nov 15, 2018
    3
    Bethesda, just no... I honestly had more fun with the character creation than the actual game itself. This is by far the worst game in the Fallout franchise (including BoS). The game engine is obviously outdated as the landscape constantly pops in and out in the distance and nothing has any actual depth to it. The gameplay is incredibly generic and essentially boils down to hold L1 toBethesda, just no... I honestly had more fun with the character creation than the actual game itself. This is by far the worst game in the Fallout franchise (including BoS). The game engine is obviously outdated as the landscape constantly pops in and out in the distance and nothing has any actual depth to it. The gameplay is incredibly generic and essentially boils down to hold L1 to win. The crafting system is horrendous. The new S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Cards are just an absolute nightmare and it makes no sense why they abandoned the skill tree. There is no plot whatsoever, all youre trying to do is take 3 nuclear silos, thats it. The Pip-Boy makes the most annoying radio static sound at all times that you cant turn off and will drive you crazy in 5 minutes if you play with headphones. Not to mention that the game is shockingly lifeless, it feels like you're the only character on the map most of the time. My legit first reation out of the vault was disgust as I saw how flat, dull, and lifeless the overall world of 76 is. This is not okay Bethesda. Way to release the Fallout equivalent of Mass Effect Andromeda! Elder Scrolls Online wasn't near this bad at launch.… Expand
  35. Butcher2225
    Nov 15, 2018
    3
    This is just simply an awful and boring game. It's literally filled with bugs. I haven't ever played an Early Access game that had that many bugs as this game. And they have the guts to ask 60 bucks for this game. The quests are utterly boring and meaningless, there is no NPC's, the world is empty and even the crafting system has been dumbed down so you can't even build anything anymore.This is just simply an awful and boring game. It's literally filled with bugs. I haven't ever played an Early Access game that had that many bugs as this game. And they have the guts to ask 60 bucks for this game. The quests are utterly boring and meaningless, there is no NPC's, the world is empty and even the crafting system has been dumbed down so you can't even build anything anymore. The graphics are bad, yet the game runs even worse.

    And seriously, items have level requirements, c'mon! The character building is even worse than Fallout 4: some randomized cards, really? You can't build your character any way you want, you just add the cards you happen to get from the packs. There are no skills, stats mean nothing and levels don't matter at all. There's no challenge and the AI is hopeless. Only fun thing in this game is shooting. For a while. Once you get bored of that, you literally run out of things to do.

    I have finally lost all my hope for Bethesda and I will most likely not buy a single Fallout title again. Fallout 76 and Fallout 4 have been so bad and this game made me realize how far Bethesda has driven the franchise from the original ones. These are not Fallout games, no matter how much you try to give them the same name. Fallout franchise is dead to me and I will never pre-order anything from Bethesda again. Good job, Todd Howard!    … Expand
  36. CerberClaw
    Nov 15, 2018
    3
    This isnt Fallout anymore just an online mod for Fallout 4 which isnt even finished and well made, Sad :/. Playing with friends makes this game significantly better but it doesnt change the fact of overall experience regarding this game in comparison of whole genre.
  37. tonnes
    Nov 15, 2018
    3
    There are no talking NPC’s except for a few robots. The only live humans you run across are other players. You’re constantly following the paths of other people via audio diaries and just when you think you’re about to catch up with them and meet them, you just find a body, sometimes looking like they’ve died just minutes before you arrive. It feels very lonely and empty without any of theThere are no talking NPC’s except for a few robots. The only live humans you run across are other players. You’re constantly following the paths of other people via audio diaries and just when you think you’re about to catch up with them and meet them, you just find a body, sometimes looking like they’ve died just minutes before you arrive. It feels very lonely and empty without any of the rich characters that fallout has always been filled with. Relying on other players to fill the void just doesn’t work. And it’s not like NPC’s in games like this aren’t possible either...… Expand
  38. pat93
    Nov 15, 2018
    3
    As a die hard Fallout fan, i came out very disappointed. Graphics are not up to par, buggy quest requires me to redo it after wasting numerous bullets and lastly doesn't feel like a fallout game. Save your money folks and go elsewhere.
  39. SheffieldGull
    Nov 16, 2018
    3
    I wasn't expecting anything mind blowing, but Fallout 76 actually falls below my meager expectations. Somehow the animations are far worse than Fallout 4, way more stiff and un-lifelike, gear is level gated, the perk system isn't very fun and doesn't allow you to build a character the way you want. The world seems empty and lifeless. Grouping and gaming with other people is a challenge,I wasn't expecting anything mind blowing, but Fallout 76 actually falls below my meager expectations. Somehow the animations are far worse than Fallout 4, way more stiff and un-lifelike, gear is level gated, the perk system isn't very fun and doesn't allow you to build a character the way you want. The world seems empty and lifeless. Grouping and gaming with other people is a challenge, unless you already have friends. Crafting is level gated and requires alot of work for simple items. Workshops are difficult to manage. Even the visuals can't come close to RDR2 or Assassin's Creed Odyssey. Not as good as Fallout 4.… Expand
  40. PrinnyGod
    Nov 16, 2018
    3
    So I find myself in the same situation as I did when I was playing FFXIII. This is to say that I kept asking myself the whole time am I enjoying myself? And after bout 10 hours into 76 i feel the short answer is no. The game tried to do something differant, and while that doesnt mean bad right away it just feel lacking. Imagine playing FO3, FONV, or FO4 and just remove all NPC's andSo I find myself in the same situation as I did when I was playing FFXIII. This is to say that I kept asking myself the whole time am I enjoying myself? And after bout 10 hours into 76 i feel the short answer is no. The game tried to do something differant, and while that doesnt mean bad right away it just feel lacking. Imagine playing FO3, FONV, or FO4 and just remove all NPC's and have the only story elements be holotapes. It isn't even that I expected more, I just expected a game while this just feel like a complete was of time. I don't really know what they could do to fix this game by way of patchs, I think they just need to accept that it is/was a failed concept and move on. Im just gonna go play Skyrim again.… Expand
  41. Haldirr
    Nov 16, 2018
    3
    Ok, really quick I been playing the game for 3 days trying to get a feel for it. This is what I came up with.

    The game can be fun but you break out of the really fast when you can not expand your storage at all. I tried building more and deploying more but it just did not work. What we had to do is make more character and trade between people to even store the loot. The loot system    Ok, really quick I been playing the game for 3 days trying to get a feel for it. This is what I came up with.

    The game can be fun but you break out of the really fast when you can not expand your storage at all. I tried building more and deploying more but it just did not work. What we had to do is make more character and trade between people to even store the loot. The loot system does not support the current gameplay. Please fix this so this game start to look playable. Many of the other reviews have been correct in clunky gameplay and borning. This was completely heartbreaking because I love Fallout and to see it get treated with such disrespect from its own is the part that has me up in arms.

    I would say first fix the storage system so people can start playing the game.    … Expand
  42. motbot
    Nov 18, 2018
    3
    Sometimes it's good to stretch one's comfort level and try new things. Sometimes, it doesn't work out. Piling on here, but this game is not fun. I thought I'd give it a try, even though it was not going to be a single player game. I didn't understand that meant the game would lose the strong thread of storytelling and character that even Fallout 4 exhibited (though maybe not as well asSometimes it's good to stretch one's comfort level and try new things. Sometimes, it doesn't work out. Piling on here, but this game is not fun. I thought I'd give it a try, even though it was not going to be a single player game. I didn't understand that meant the game would lose the strong thread of storytelling and character that even Fallout 4 exhibited (though maybe not as well as some other editions of the franchise.) By losing the tension of the Lone Wanderer, this game has lost its heart. My other real complaint -- and this is probably my lack of understanding how online gaming works -- I did not understand that I would have to sign up and pay for a Playstation+ account to play this game for more than two days. Given that all the previous editions were single-player games, I think Bethesda should spell that out. For those of us who long for a game and story as well-told as Fallout New Vegas, let's hope that Bethesda learns from this mistake. It's also up to us to vote with our dollars -- don't buy this if you're on the fence! All that said, I did think the graphics were well done, and I liked the idea of a prequel. I think you could have some amazing NPC characters in that world!… Expand
  43. RPGjayy
    Nov 19, 2018
    3
    Truly wanted to love this game since I have played enjoyed most of Bethesda´s previous games with the exception of Fallout 4, I played the B.E.T.A and enjoyed it but as soon as I got the real game and put some hours into it I quickly became bored with the repetitive quests. It´s truly sad what Bethesda has become from the masterpiece Oblivion to this mess of a game. I expect better fromTruly wanted to love this game since I have played enjoyed most of Bethesda´s previous games with the exception of Fallout 4, I played the B.E.T.A and enjoyed it but as soon as I got the real game and put some hours into it I quickly became bored with the repetitive quests. It´s truly sad what Bethesda has become from the masterpiece Oblivion to this mess of a game. I expect better from Starfield or else I won´t even bother looking at Elder Scrolls VI… Expand
  44. jbrobst865
    Dec 28, 2018
    3
    **UPDATE** After playing about 40 more hours, I think I've hit burn out on this game. It took two weeks for the community to go from helpful to toxic. It's repetitive, full of game breaking glitches, and often times more frustrating than it's worth. If you can stay online for a few hours without a crash, someone attacking you to take everything you've worked hours to get, or find**UPDATE** After playing about 40 more hours, I think I've hit burn out on this game. It took two weeks for the community to go from helpful to toxic. It's repetitive, full of game breaking glitches, and often times more frustrating than it's worth. If you can stay online for a few hours without a crash, someone attacking you to take everything you've worked hours to get, or find something new there is some enjoyment to be had. Your friends use you as an ATM and a parts resource for everything they need. Don't waste your money… Expand
  45. FalloutFan101
    Nov 19, 2018
    3
    After 25 hours of playing Fallout 76, and as a Fallout fan since Fallout 3, I can honestly say that I am disappointed with Fallout 76. Here is my list of pros and cons:

    Pros: - World feels alive - Map is gigantic - New weapons and enemies - Build anywhere you want - Weapons and armor can break - More weapon customization Cons: - Same bugs and glitches that Fallout 4 had with    After 25 hours of playing Fallout 76, and as a Fallout fan since Fallout 3, I can honestly say that I am disappointed with Fallout 76. Here is my list of pros and cons:

    Pros:
    - World feels alive
    - Map is gigantic
    - New weapons and enemies
    - Build anywhere you want
    - Weapons and armor can break
    - More weapon customization

    Cons:
    - Same bugs and glitches that Fallout 4 had with more to compensate
    - Enemies are extremely buggy
    - Hit-boxes are generally nonexistent
    - Melee weapons have an unrealistic close range
    - Guns break faster than anticipated
    - Game runs at low FPS
    - Loot de-spawns occasionally when picked up
    - Workshop mode is complicated and has the same mechanics as Fallout 4
    - Enemies have superhuman accuracy
    - World sometimes becomes a colorful, glitchy mess
    - Cannot play if you have no internet capabilities (Xbox Live or PSN)
    - Animations are worse    … Expand
  46. kyberion
    Nov 20, 2018
    3
    After reading a lot of **** reviews and a lot of "awesome" reviews I decided to post my own. First of all though, please do yourself a favor and ignore the 0-1 reviews and the 9-10 reviews as well. They're way too extreme.

    Instead I have 3 different reviews depending on who you are and what your expectations are: 7 / 10 - this is something you would give if you are new to the    After reading a lot of **** reviews and a lot of "awesome" reviews I decided to post my own. First of all though, please do yourself a favor and ignore the 0-1 reviews and the 9-10 reviews as well. They're way too extreme.

    Instead I have 3 different reviews depending on who you are and what your expectations are:

    7 / 10 - this is something you would give if you are new to the franchise, decide to give the devs some slack for being their first MMO game, want to just have fun and enjoy the game. Sure the graphical engine is oldish, the world is devoid of humans but hey at least it's full of stuff to do and you won't get bored for the first 10-20 hours.

    5 / 10 - this is the review for those of you who have heard of Bethesda and Fallout but are not die-hard fans. What you'll get is a mixed bag of single player / multi-player RPG features that don't quite work together. The old engine shows, there are pesky bugs all over the place. Not enough to make you leave but enough to take the joy out of it. All in all, a thoroughly average experience.

    3 / 10 - this is the grade for Fallout fans through and through. This game just doesn't deliver. And we have come to expect so much from Bethesda. Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 4, were all awesome games, with great characters and immersive through rich story-telling and intrigue. This is all missing in a soul-less reincarnation of Fallout 4. From the concept. If we take into account the lazy implementation of a non-functional multi-player experience, city building, leveling up and character customization and the 10-year old graphical engine it becomes just a spit in every fan's face.

    This is Bethesda we're talking about. They could have invested a lot of money in a new engine, in talented programmers and artists to build the most awesome MMORPG there is. But no, they decided to just make a quick buck.

    Last but not least, shame on the publications that took Bethesda's money and write fluff pieces and 7/10+ reviews to sugarcoat what should be clear to anyone it is a full-size disaster.    … Expand
  47. Graigori
    Nov 20, 2018
    3
    First, it's pretty bad at this point; more like an early access than a completed AAA game. However, some of people's gripes are unwarranted. They explained this was not 'Fallout 5'. This wasn't meant to be a single-player story driven installment of the series. But...

    You need NPCs. Hopefully Bethesda is working on adding some degree of settlements or recruit-able NPCs or    First, it's pretty bad at this point; more like an early access than a completed AAA game. However, some of people's gripes are unwarranted. They explained this was not 'Fallout 5'. This wasn't meant to be a single-player story driven installment of the series. But...

    You need NPCs.

    Hopefully Bethesda is working on adding some degree of settlements or recruit-able NPCs or something to make this a more interactive world. The crafting and building aspects are great, and remain my most fond memories of Fallout 4; and I'm sure that they will be releasing patches at time goes on to build larger and more relevant homesteads. But as long as there is such a low limit to concurrent players, the inability to select a specific server, and lack of NPCs; it remains just a poorly designed single player experience.    … Expand
  48. Bugeyedboxer
    Nov 20, 2018
    3
    I think my score is higher than I want to give, but I have to give the game some good points in certain areas. The details in graphics are pretty good although not as clean as they should be. The map is huge and has plenty of places to explore. Downside start there, armor and weapons wear fast. Hard to find ammo for anything other than .308 caliber. Up to level 20 and the best guns I haveI think my score is higher than I want to give, but I have to give the game some good points in certain areas. The details in graphics are pretty good although not as clean as they should be. The map is huge and has plenty of places to explore. Downside start there, armor and weapons wear fast. Hard to find ammo for anything other than .308 caliber. Up to level 20 and the best guns I have are bolt actions, the rest don't matter cause I don't ever have ammo for them. Ever. The missions just seem boring and repetitive. No actual work/thought ever seems involved. I walk all over and nothing really happens. No one has had a mic that I have come across and half the ones I've interacted with tried to kill me, one was successful. I play the game for a couple hours and when I'm done I feel like something is missing and I'm bored, gameply just seems unfulfilling. Glitches just like New Vegas but New Vegas was fun, and there was a good story line to everything. I paid for the power armor edition and I regret every cent. Even the helmet was a bit of a let down. I wanted to like the game but everything is just meh.… Expand
  49. Crespo7
    Nov 26, 2018
    3
    This game is clearly a work-in-progress that had a hard release date. It's entertaining enough but I feel like I paid $60 for an early access game. This will hold me over for a little bit, but I've definitely lost some faith in Bethesda. Random Crashes, wasted time traveling, severe stash limits in a game built on collecting EVERYTHING.....poor load times, my CAMP disappearing randomlyThis game is clearly a work-in-progress that had a hard release date. It's entertaining enough but I feel like I paid $60 for an early access game. This will hold me over for a little bit, but I've definitely lost some faith in Bethesda. Random Crashes, wasted time traveling, severe stash limits in a game built on collecting EVERYTHING.....poor load times, my CAMP disappearing randomly because another player on another server built in the same place as me, VATS is also buggy, randomly jumping from 0-95% in an instant.

    When you combine all those issues with no NPCs and a multi-player aspect that is poorly executed, it just doesn't feel great. When fixes come in, they may warrant a score adjustment.    … Expand
  50. gmccarty13
    Nov 27, 2018
    3
    This game is utter garbage... When I bought and played The Elder Scrolls Online way back when, I thought it was an ok game, but when it was released, it wasn't liked by the community at all. This didn't stop me from playing it nonstop all summer and it didn't once bore me to the point of abandonment. Now... it's 2018, and I have played through all of the console Fallouts after I fell inThis game is utter garbage... When I bought and played The Elder Scrolls Online way back when, I thought it was an ok game, but when it was released, it wasn't liked by the community at all. This didn't stop me from playing it nonstop all summer and it didn't once bore me to the point of abandonment. Now... it's 2018, and I have played through all of the console Fallouts after I fell in love with the fourth. Even now I remember how people absolutely hated FO4, but it only was a small thing in comparison to what was to come for the franchise. I honestly wish FO76 was more like ESO... and I can't believe that I would ever be saying that but I guess this is what we've come to.… Expand
  51. Kickit_gaming
    Dec 7, 2018
    3
    This game has a lot of potential to be fun, only fun thing is i can play this with my wife. In the coming dlc please bring in npc's and in game events, or more battles between the creatures in fallout.. I honestly have not read one bit of lore because its boring, Destiny did this **** with grimoire cards. WHO WANTS TO READ LORE!!! I WANT TO PLAY IT! so done with companys doing this ****This game has a lot of potential to be fun, only fun thing is i can play this with my wife. In the coming dlc please bring in npc's and in game events, or more battles between the creatures in fallout.. I honestly have not read one bit of lore because its boring, Destiny did this **** with grimoire cards. WHO WANTS TO READ LORE!!! I WANT TO PLAY IT! so done with companys doing this **** Let me get emersed in the game not search for god damn notes.... IMPROVE AI its dumb as **** way to easy and if you pull this in elder scrolls 6 and starfield eveen with the next fallout your player base will plummet and you will get every once of **** and hate you deserve because right now bathesdsa... YOU'RE GOD DAMN LAZY!… Expand
  52. Inny74
    Dec 13, 2020
    3
    This game has massively improved compared to the state it was in at launch, but still took a few steps back on some aspects (Introducing Fallout 1st comes to mind.) Fallout 76 still is a buggy mess. But hey, its at a better state than Cyberpunk 2077 on consoles: It doesn't look like Super Mario 64 up close, doesn't lag down to 15 FPS (most of the time...), it doesn't have as bad bugs, andThis game has massively improved compared to the state it was in at launch, but still took a few steps back on some aspects (Introducing Fallout 1st comes to mind.) Fallout 76 still is a buggy mess. But hey, its at a better state than Cyberpunk 2077 on consoles: It doesn't look like Super Mario 64 up close, doesn't lag down to 15 FPS (most of the time...), it doesn't have as bad bugs, and Fallout 76 is playable, so Bethesda has that going for them. Finally gives them a break from the press I suppose… Expand
  53. B1GpPmAn
    Jun 29, 2019
    3
    Feels empty And was not worth 60$ at the time that I bought if it was 20$ I wold consider giving it a higher score but it’s unfinished feels clunky and boring I feel if they had kept adding cool and fun things to do it wold be a really fun to play and people wold still be playing it
  54. Chempion1
    Mar 8, 2022
    3
    Не может быть, думал я, что такая серия может скатиться до такого дна. Короче купил я эту поделку, на какой то распродаже, что бы составить своё мнение об игре.
    Сразу скажу, что игру до конца, если он, конечно, есть, я не прошел. Понял только одно: Bethesda решила сделать свой World of Warcraft и стричь с терпил деньжата, при этом особо не заморачиваясь, на протяжении многих лет.
    Только    Не может быть, думал я, что такая серия может скатиться до такого дна. Короче купил я эту поделку, на какой то распродаже, что бы составить своё мнение об игре.
    Сразу скажу, что игру до конца, если он, конечно, есть, я не прошел. Понял только одно: Bethesda решила сделать свой World of Warcraft и стричь с терпил деньжата, при этом особо не заморачиваясь, на протяжении многих лет.
    Только они ошиблись, на таком говне нужно было начинать стричь бабло лет 15 назад, подсаживать лохов с 5 летнего возраста, которые и сейчас в свои 25 лет продолжают скупать все, что касается WoW.
    А теперь на такой графон, такой геймплей и т.д. много не наловишь. Времена изменились. О чем красноречиво говорят оценки!
    Сегодня вышло дополнение 1.36 Wastelanders. Говорят сильно меняет игру. Скачаю, попробую. Изменит ли это моё мнение.........посмотрим!
    Была говном, говном осталась. Теперь вместо роботов задания могут выдать живые нпс. Всё!
    Дополняю свой отзыв по игре уже в третий раз за 2 года. После всех вышедших патчей в этот раз продержался в игре часов 40 к ряду.
    Что сказать. Ну систему прокачки немного доработали, чаще выпадают нужные карты, а не всякий хлам. Так же немного докачали VATS, хотя он здесь и убогий, но часто использую его по мелким целям, в которые трудно целиться, вроде работает.
    В остальном же игра невероятно коряво выглядит. Я не знаю как такое можно было сделать после Fallout 4 ( хотя и там не фонтан), но почти все враги, почти всегда передвигаются не двигая ногами, что касается всяких собак и волков то они вообще тупо левитируют над землёй. Выглядит просто ужасно. Попадания по противникам иногда могут не защитываться несколько секунд.
    Рожи у нпс стали выглядеть намного хуже чем в четвёрке. Освещение вообще с ума сходит, либо не видно не хрена, либо после включения фонарика всё засвечивается, да так, что все предметы сливаются. Ведь игра HDR поддерживает! Где он?
    И в конце концов игра просто скучна. Все до единого задания это: пойди найди, пойди убей, пойди принеси. Исключения есть, но их крайне мало.
    Вообще по игре бегают прокачанные до 200 - 300го уровня мудаки и мешают жить всем подряд, то начинают дубасить по тебе без остановки, то c.a.m.p. твой закрывают, то орут в чате как одержимые. Всё это конечно не критично, но сильно бесит. Почему модераторы не борятся с этим говном?
    Это провал.    … Expand
  55. Passion4TheHunt
    Oct 31, 2019
    3
    Great fun but... this is a broken game. All new 'free' content Bethesda puts out is a total mess. Recently, Bethasda has made the game Pay2Win (you can argue about semantics because PvP is optional but paid subscribers get a HUGE advantage). Now more than a year after release it is very clear to me this game will never improve.
    If you are a big fallout fan and can get it dirt cheap,    Great fun but... this is a broken game. All new 'free' content Bethesda puts out is a total mess. Recently, Bethasda has made the game Pay2Win (you can argue about semantics because PvP is optional but paid subscribers get a HUGE advantage). Now more than a year after release it is very clear to me this game will never improve.
    If you are a big fallout fan and can get it dirt cheap, you'll have fun. If you pay normal AAA game price, you'll feel ripped off.
    The makers of this game, Bethasda game studies, has a tendency to lie and distort the truth. They treat their costumers like idiots.
    It has great potential that will be never reached, which makes it even sadder.
    I would not recommend this game to anybody.    … Expand
  56. sergejs
    Dec 19, 2019
    3
    One of the biggest games by Bethesda waited by the many (including me) and has been a massive disappointment. Before this game was out I have always had the dreams of playing together and now after it's release my dream still has not come true. Compared to other MMO's almost all other MMO games allow players to connect to each other and this one does not as the servers are broken, buggyOne of the biggest games by Bethesda waited by the many (including me) and has been a massive disappointment. Before this game was out I have always had the dreams of playing together and now after it's release my dream still has not come true. Compared to other MMO's almost all other MMO games allow players to connect to each other and this one does not as the servers are broken, buggy and not to mention character creation is dull and useless. Despite the bugs there is a lot of things to do such as questing and grinding. And not to mention weapons, resources and all the nice stuff is limited to the awful atomic store. What makes fallout give me a score of 3 is that when you do get a chance to play it, you have the beautiful view, almost no lag and an authentic fallout experience similar to fallout 4.… Expand
  57. ShinishiKudo
    Aug 4, 2022
    3
    Its a scam
    You want a bigger Fallout 4 with less interesting to explore no real story and less options to build. Well then Fallout 76 might be for you. Keep your pocket open becouse Bethesda needs all the money you got for their **** in game shop.
  58. Sehr_Wolf
    Feb 24, 2020
    3
    Glitch and bugs. Cheap story. Idiotic HUD and playermanagement .. Only plus is the building.
  59. avishay
    Mar 15, 2020
    3
    This game feels like a very unsuccessful past copy of this game. There are a lot of bugs in the game and the game is very boring too bad that this fallout series is very successful !!
  60. SpiderSucc
    May 7, 2021
    3
    I remember asking for this game on Christmas the year it came out and holy **** the story is boring as all hell the special cards make little sense and the objectives are boring or just padding for an empty world with not much going on
  61. Astralwurst
    Nov 16, 2021
    3
    The performance is really bad. I don´t mind some bugs/glitches but this is too much. They tried to improve it, but i can´t get into it anymore, it is still boring in my opinion
  62. Danton1996
    Jan 4, 2022
    3
    The fallout game has been rather downgraded than improved. In a way multiplayer mode with some friends is fun, but it gets boring fast. You dont get to interact with a lot of NPC's and most of them are just enemies that do something. Now your only friendly interaction is with computers or only through some radio chat. The leveling system is broken and its just do this and fetch that, withThe fallout game has been rather downgraded than improved. In a way multiplayer mode with some friends is fun, but it gets boring fast. You dont get to interact with a lot of NPC's and most of them are just enemies that do something. Now your only friendly interaction is with computers or only through some radio chat. The leveling system is broken and its just do this and fetch that, with long distances so you have to walk instead of want to walk.… Expand
  63. Makaveli
    Nov 15, 2018
    2
    Fallout 4 multiplayer for $60, That is what it is.. I also dont understand how Bethesda manages to still make a buggy game when they should be pros with that engine by now.. No NPCs = no likable characters.

    I dont see people playing this game for very long. It's so boring and the people you meet up with dont want to play multiplayer anyway..WTF was Buggthesda thinking with this pos.    Fallout 4 multiplayer for $60, That is what it is.. I also dont understand how Bethesda manages to still make a buggy game when they should be pros with that engine by now.. No NPCs = no likable characters.

    I dont see people playing this game for very long. It's so boring and the people you meet up with dont want to play multiplayer anyway..WTF was Buggthesda thinking with this pos. Easy cash grab.... dont have to hire voice actors, use most of the assets from fallout 4, dont need too program any AI.. So wtf is the $60 price tag for?

    Most games give multiplayer modes for free.. Bethesda charges $60 and STILL have bugs but Bethesda fanboys will defend them no matter what.

    I dont understand how people are defending this game.. is it to justify your purchase?    … Expand
  64. Korkenzieher
    Nov 15, 2018
    2
    I am really sorry for the fantastic franchise but Fallout 76 is exactly what i DONT want. Where is another fantastic single player RPG Bethesa is famous for? F76 is only another not even good MMO... this is not worth to call it a bethesa game. Time is over that I will simple buy a game because Bethesa stands on the cover.
  65. Farmerlynch
    Nov 14, 2018
    2
    -No text chat, this is just dumb for a MMO in 2018
    -No NPC’s so no fun and engaging back stories to uncover, or no fun interactions between the PC & other NPC’s (you know the stuff fallout is famous for?!?)
    -Forced PvP, yes I know the lamest mechanic in history being the slap one is there , but it doesn’t work, it doesn’t protect PvE players from griefers & it frustrates PvP players as    -No text chat, this is just dumb for a MMO in 2018
    -No NPC’s so no fun and engaging back stories to uncover, or no fun interactions between the PC & other NPC’s (you know the stuff fallout is famous for?!?)
    -Forced PvP, yes I know the lamest mechanic in history being the slap one is there , but it doesn’t work, it doesn’t protect PvE players from griefers & it frustrates PvP players as it limits there potential challengers. Just split PvP & PvE to different servers so we can ALL enjoy the aspect we prefer
    -bugs bugs & more bugs, man you guys really live up the name Bugthesda, given all the money you have made over the past few years we’d expect a far highher quality standard than this especially considering you can’t rely on modders to correct your laziness.
    -graphics, LOL is all i can really say, didn’t you guys keep saying its an improvement upon fallout 4?!? Love to get hold of what you guys are smoking.
    -Stash limit, I understand having a limit in an MMO but considering tou have spent the last 20+ years turning us all into hoarders, giving us such a low lit is an insult to your fans. Although judging by your “we plan to upgrade it” comment I guess it will be something we will have to pay for in a future update

    -Overall, I do see potential of this game but I’m not sure if enough of us fans will stay around to be part of it. You’ve really burned a lot of us with this blatant cash grab on an existing brand, as that’s exactly what it feels like.    … Expand
  66. EHuntington
    Nov 14, 2018
    2
    Fallout 76 is one of the most frustrating games I've ever played. I've poured thousands of hours into the games from Bethesda Game Studios. They used to make games that were impressive and pushed the boundaries of video games. Fallout 76 marks the end of that legacy. It's a soulless, joyless, haphazard experience that doesn't work on any level. The story is abysmal and the entire world ofFallout 76 is one of the most frustrating games I've ever played. I've poured thousands of hours into the games from Bethesda Game Studios. They used to make games that were impressive and pushed the boundaries of video games. Fallout 76 marks the end of that legacy. It's a soulless, joyless, haphazard experience that doesn't work on any level. The story is abysmal and the entire world of Fallout 76 is a joke. Flaming pitchforks, snow-ski swords, and paddleball paddles are the kinds of ridiculous items you'll find in this world. Bethesda undermines their own narrative constantly. They want their version of West Virginia to be haunting, but it's full of silly quests and stupid items.

    The narrative, or story, of the game is poorly told through holotapes, terminals, and environmental story-telling. Not once have I met an NPC that is alive. The main plot is bad. Gone are the choices that defined the older Fallout games. You can't affect the world or the story in any real way. You're stuck with a static world that is, conversely, more cluttered and more empty than any previous Bethesda game. The audio log mechanic is poorly executed as well. It's easy to pick up 2 or 3 holotapes in the same area, and have to sort through your inventory to find them and play them. That's assuming there's no other players around making noise and drowning out the audio from that holotape.

    The gameplay, likewise, is awful. The shooting mechanics of Fallout 4 are back in Fallout 76. Well, mostly. VATS has become a shell of its formal self. No more a slow-mo killcam, instead VATS has become a glorified auto-aim. It has also become almost useless. The enemies dart around, forcing the hit percentages to vary wildly. The inventory space is far too small, the stash size is laughable, and the mechanics around scrapping and crafting are so badly implemented that it's amazing Bethesda released the game in this state. You'll spend the entire game at or over the inventory limit. The entire game is built around exploration and Fallout 76 punishes you for ever bit of exploration you do. Multiple guns are necessary, as the ammo is scarce and unable to be broken down and re-crafted. The trouble is, those guns break often and are quickly replaced by higher-level guns. You'll always be out of space and holding out-dated weapons. Which brings us to another problem. The level-locked loot is a major problem in a game like this. You'll discover items you can't use for 20 levels. What are you supposed to do with said weapons? You could drag them back to camp and break them down, but they're essentially dead weight in your inventory. You could drag them to one of the rare vendors around and try to sell them, but they're so undervalued that you'd only get a few caps for them. The bottom line is that the inventory system, much like everything else, is poorly designed.

    I can't believe in 2018 Bethesda released a game like Fallout 76. It's a miserable game with miserable mechanics. Red Dead Redemption 2 just released, and that game pushed the boundaries of gaming. God of War was released earlier this year and it was a magical experience. Horizon Zero Dawn and Breath of the Wild released last year, and made for substantially better worlds to explore. Bethesda has learned nothing since the Elder Scrolls: Oblivion days, and it's showing. In a year that had some truly superb games, Bethesda dumped out a game that belongs in 2010. It's pathetic.    … Expand
  67. Lycanthropunk
    Jan 4, 2019
    2
    I love the Fallout franchise, and I was totally up for a MMO version of it, but I must echo everyone else on here and say that this is a huge disappointment. I remember the backlash ESO had upon release, people wanting "Skyrim with friends", but that was way better at launch than this, and since then with its upgrades it has become my favourite online game ever. TONS of content, greatI love the Fallout franchise, and I was totally up for a MMO version of it, but I must echo everyone else on here and say that this is a huge disappointment. I remember the backlash ESO had upon release, people wanting "Skyrim with friends", but that was way better at launch than this, and since then with its upgrades it has become my favourite online game ever. TONS of content, great storylines and characters, much better graphics than its main rival, WoW and on the whole, runs very smoothly, even with loads of other players on screen. With this game, I wasn't expecting "Fallout 3 with friends", but at the very least something on par with ESO, vaguely hoping Bethesda would've learnt from Obsidian's release. With its constant bugs, atrocious graphics, awful AI, complete lack of immersion and characters, and enemies spawning out of nowhere, it appears not. It seems that Bethesda have gotten too big for their boots, and if they think they can crap on their customers by thinking that this is good enough for us, then they need to learn a valuable lesson: it doesn't matter how big you are, a business is NOTHING without its customers. We've parted with our cash and been stung this time- we won't next time.
    I can only hope that they have just enough humility to realise that they have really messed up, and hopefully they will sort this mess out and give us the game we deserve, because, as of now, they have not only seriously tarnished the Fallout brand, but also their own brand.    … Expand
  68. NojEsco
    Jan 25, 2019
    2
    This is a world that is completely empty and dead, and not in the atmospheric way. Bafflingly, the promise of: "There are no NPC's in this game," was seen as a positive in some peoples' eyes, because it just made a world with interesting ideas and basic art assets one of the least Fun and most Boring games ever made.

    There's simply nothing to engage you with - battles are either    This is a world that is completely empty and dead, and not in the atmospheric way. Bafflingly, the promise of: "There are no NPC's in this game," was seen as a positive in some peoples' eyes, because it just made a world with interesting ideas and basic art assets one of the least Fun and most Boring games ever made.

    There's simply nothing to engage you with - battles are either annoying and overlong hassles, or exploits of terrible AI, what very few interesting story bits that exist are separated by hours of joyless exploration, grinding takes way, way too long (thanks to a patch), the audio is sparse to the point where it sounds like an Alpha build before the sound design was performed and implemented, and visually this game is surprisingly ugly. This isn't because of the Ruined elements - every Fallout game before this, as well as other games involving Ruins, from Metro 2033 to Final Fantasy X, all look miles better than this. This only compounds the survival hassle that is a nice enough idea, but only adds needless busywork to what should be fun. Oh, and the Missions just suddenly appear as if the Starship Enterprise beamed down a to-do list for you.

    This does not bring me pleasure as I've greatly enjoyed most Bethesda games, but those were great because the worlds were grand and interesting, as well as nice looking from both technological and artistic standpoints. But those were also because world-building was a strong factor, so even if you came across a character that was poorly written or poorly acted, you would still keep your level of immersion; it's the same reason why immersion was maintained despite graphical glitches as well. But here, there is literally nothing to distract you from such problems, as the problems, when they come up, are the ONLY things that you are presented with. There is no living, breathing world to think about to allow you to overlook these issues, nor anything fun to do that you can concentrate on either. Monster animations suddenly going odd were fine in Oblivion, for example, because you were engaged in the combat, but the combat here feels more like Metal Gear Survive than the Post-Morrowind games that Bethesda has made over the past decade.

    The reason I don't just give this a 1 is really because this game feels like a legitimately decent game that was simply released in pre-Alpha. This isn't like Metal Gear Survive; there's actual legitimate value here that's simply hidden by a lack of functional design. I can't deny, Oblivion or Skyrim might've been boring as well if you took all of the NPCs out and removed all of the graphical fixes made in the last 6 months of development. But the world is pretty well designed, like I said the story elements that exist aren't bad, and the gameplay works from a basic blueprint; it just feels like they had to abandon a project about 40% of the way through, and then someone released it to the public with working servers.

    But because of these problems, I don't think that this will be fixed. Like ME:Andromeda, the problem here isn't a large set of bugs, but the content itself being fundamentally either flawed, mis-designed or simply non-existent. This game doesn't require fixes, but rather a complete overhaul of the content within. I can ignore the bugs, and even the problems with release like paying $20 for a Santa in-game outfit (although that's pretty disgraceful), but this game is essentially a buggy, ugly and boring experience that has virtually nothing to offer of its own beyond constrictive gameplay and world almost completely free of content.    … Expand
  69. Zenren
    Nov 24, 2018
    2
    First, this is not a Fallout game. I think if Bethesda had created a survival fps and not used the Fallout franchise to do so, this game would've gotten a higher rating, however, they didn't do that, they were money hungry and lazy and decided to cash in on a successful franchise (a legacy that was bought, not earned) and that is the crux of the issue. The game is okay, not bad, but notFirst, this is not a Fallout game. I think if Bethesda had created a survival fps and not used the Fallout franchise to do so, this game would've gotten a higher rating, however, they didn't do that, they were money hungry and lazy and decided to cash in on a successful franchise (a legacy that was bought, not earned) and that is the crux of the issue. The game is okay, not bad, but not great, however when you choose to make an okay game and then laud it as the next Fallout, you're going to have issues. The graphics are okay, the game play is okay sometimes and poor at others (lag is a major factor here, with some mobs hitting you once or twice after you've killed them and others not being hit at all). This game feels rushed and still in the alpha stage (not really even beta) and that's the other issue. THERE ARE NO NPCS OTHER THAN ROBOTS! And I put that in Caps because that's a serious thing to me. Fallout was about an immersive post apocalyptic world where the people you met were as important as the destinations. This was missed by Bethesda. I think what happened is you got a bunch of young designers that love PUBG and Fortnite and decided they were going to make a Fallout based on those games. Again major fail and the game deserves the ratings it's gotten.… Expand
  70. PillowChew
    Nov 16, 2018
    2
    I'm not surprised that my review had to come to this; this has got to be the worst Fallout game I've played in recent years.

    Now, I personally never played Fallout games for the combat because the combat in all of them is quite bad. I've always played Fallout for the dynamic world building and RPG elements. Fallout was the type of game that made me feel like my choices matter; this is    I'm not surprised that my review had to come to this; this has got to be the worst Fallout game I've played in recent years.

    Now, I personally never played Fallout games for the combat because the combat in all of them is quite bad. I've always played Fallout for the dynamic world building and RPG elements. Fallout was the type of game that made me feel like my choices matter; this is seen especially in Fallout 3 and New Vegas. Fallout 4, a bit less so.

    The mechanics of this game aren't very different from Fallout 4, a lot of innovations that came from that game are inherited into this game. Fallout 76 has a lot of recycled aspects and because of that it feels like that this game is rushed.

    Now, take the world building, RPG elements, and NPCs out of a Fallout game. What do you get? A glorified battle royale with Fallout 4 combat mechanics, which wasn't even good to begin with.

    Graphics are quite bad; low texture quality, ugly mesh models, and stiff animations make this game an eyesore to look at. Performance is awful as well; how can an engine, that's almost a decade old mind you, run so poorly on the current generation of consoles?

    So yeah, Fallout 76 is a game with such wasted potential. If this game wasn't charged for full price, I would've been more lenient. However, they want me to believe that the game is as good as a game like Red Dead Redemption 2, and that game is superior in almost every single way in my opinion. I would rather recommend you to purchase that game rather than this, especially when Red Dead Online comes out.    … Expand
  71. AikiNoodles
    Nov 16, 2018
    2
    For a 60$ game, you get random bits of written texts, no dialogue, no voice acting (audio tapes are trash), no story. Take FO4, remove all content but the map and make it different, add a few new mmo monsters, awful bugs (technical but also mobs), cheaters, a broken, out of date engine with poor performance graphics, fetch quests and rampant boredom fever spreading fast.
    Just no, enough.    For a 60$ game, you get random bits of written texts, no dialogue, no voice acting (audio tapes are trash), no story. Take FO4, remove all content but the map and make it different, add a few new mmo monsters, awful bugs (technical but also mobs), cheaters, a broken, out of date engine with poor performance graphics, fetch quests and rampant boredom fever spreading fast.
    Just no, enough. You can't make a solo game without looking dumb and silly in the end and yet you managed to make your situation worse when avoiding making all the things you kinda suck at.

    Shameless cash grab and shame on you Bethesda for trying to outdo EA in terms of being a cumbucket.    … Expand
  72. Schwarzspuk
    Mar 20, 2019
    2
    Ist ja schon genug drüber geschrieben worden.
    Einfach ein Desaster das ganze Spiel.
    Die Leute, die für die guten gute Spiele verantwortlich waren haben den Laden lange verlassen.
    Hab's versucht ne weile zu spielen aber schon ewig nicht angehabt und das wird auch so bleiben.
    Naja. ist vorgemerkt für den nächsten Titel von der Bande...
  73. JStiving
    Dec 3, 2018
    2
    This game has proved to be a disappointment. No NPCs, forced online play, and a weak storyline make this the worst fallout game to date. As a huge fan of Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas, and Fallout 4, I was really excited for a change from the urban wasteland environment. Now if feels like endless wandering while randomly being killed by other players.
  74. LM2020
    Nov 14, 2018
    2
    While it sounds interesting on paper, in practice Fallout 76 as a shared universe with PvP combat just doesn't work. I loved Fallout 3 and 4 as well as New Vegas. I loved them in spite of their clunky graphics and less than great gunplay. I loved them because of the bleak, funny story and the chance to get lost in it. Well, Fallout 76 is the clunky gameplay with the great storyWhile it sounds interesting on paper, in practice Fallout 76 as a shared universe with PvP combat just doesn't work. I loved Fallout 3 and 4 as well as New Vegas. I loved them in spite of their clunky graphics and less than great gunplay. I loved them because of the bleak, funny story and the chance to get lost in it. Well, Fallout 76 is the clunky gameplay with the great story stripped out and frankly, playing online with other people sucks. I barely made it out of Vault 76 when there was some idiot standing their hitting me in the head with a pipe. Where's the fun in that?… Expand
  75. RenovatioX1
    Aug 27, 2023
    2
    It’s mindblowing. 5 years after the release. I started playing the game for the first time and it still has a good amount of bugs. Mindblowing

    Textures don’t load. The game crashes randomly several times during a tantrum. Enemies not seeing my presence immediately. And more

    Otherwise, I like this game. Been playing now for 30 hours. Doesn’t get boring. But the bug issues. Damn
  76. christhewiz
    Nov 25, 2018
    2
    I am absolutely astonished by the company's audacity to publish this disconcerting gaming concoction that offers nothing but frustration and boredom for a triple A price. ​​

    Fallout 76 is not a game, it's a just a husk of a game and should have never been released. Bethesda calling Fallout 76 an experiment is a distortion of the truth: It's painfully obvious that they neither have    I am absolutely astonished by the company's audacity to publish this disconcerting gaming concoction that offers nothing but frustration and boredom for a triple A price. ​​

    Fallout 76 is not a game, it's a just a husk of a game and should have never been released. Bethesda calling Fallout 76 an experiment is a distortion of the truth: It's painfully obvious that they neither have invested adequate thought nor time and resources into this project – most likely with the sole purpose to reap as much profits with as little effort possible.    … Expand
  77. John_Mullins
    Nov 24, 2018
    2
    anus cancer level 9000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  78. Fedeastica
    Nov 19, 2018
    2
    No NPCs, no offline mode, 13 years old screaming, bugs everywhere... someone should throw an atomic bomb at this whole game. Bethesda, listen to your fans and stick to single player games please.
  79. Le_Habitant
    Nov 22, 2018
    2
    What were they thinking? Epic Fail and I'm so worried about Elder Scrolls 6.
  80. jawrsh
    Nov 14, 2018
    2
    I gave the game 2 points for the good world design but everything else about the game is wrecked. It looks like Fallout 4 but modified for multiplayer. I am not interested in multiplayer and would not have minded just ignoring that aspect of the game but Bethesda broke everything I like about Fallout 4 to accommodate it. I'm grateful for the beta because it gave me a chance to play andI gave the game 2 points for the good world design but everything else about the game is wrecked. It looks like Fallout 4 but modified for multiplayer. I am not interested in multiplayer and would not have minded just ignoring that aspect of the game but Bethesda broke everything I like about Fallout 4 to accommodate it. I'm grateful for the beta because it gave me a chance to play and decide to cancel my preorder.… Expand
  81. Slava_Antonov
    Dec 25, 2018
    2
    Это какой-то лютый пипец. Сначала они убили диалоги и квесты в Fallout 4, а теперь и всю игру в целом.
    Не покупайте это недоразумение.
  82. CodySellers
    Dec 11, 2018
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I have gotten to level 40, so My opinion is backed by a lot of gameplay. The crafting is a good addition, i dare say an improvement over Fallout 4's. though that is pretty much the only part of the game I enjoyed.

    I fortunately did not experience constant crashing and glitching like others did, but it allows me to further look into the gameplay, which does not hold up. combat is lacking. The gunplay is bad as always, though its worsened by the fact that the starting guns are slow, weak, and awkward. Normally I would not care about the "weak" part, but seeing as how I can walk around with a board and kill most things in just 2 hits, its an issue. Enemies can of course still block your sledgehammer with knives, though it does not seem to be as bad as it is in FO4. Weapon variety is sadly lacking. It has been 10 years since FO3, I am not trying to sound like an ass, but its time for some new stuff. Aside from the black powder weapons and a tesla rifle I found it was more of the same. Also, why can we still not use a shield, or dual wield, or use a pistol or SOMETHING with our free hand when using one handed weapons? there is no reason to not use the one handed stuff unless it just happens to deal a **** ton of damage or if you can be dark souls parry king with it.

    the story is lacking. Everything coming from holotapes and computer records takes out all the engagement and interest. there are in fact NPCs in the game: but they are on dimensional robots that only exist to trade or give you fetch quests. The scorched are basically mindless zombies, but unlike those of say the walking dead, they pose little to no threat, both due to simply being weak and due to poor AI programming. (had some simply stand there and let me kill them) the only interesting enemy among the scorched are the scorch beasts. this gets to my last point

    lack of enemy variety. I was looking forward to seeing no super mutants as they do not come around until FO1, but lo and behold, we see em prowling the wastes, because " vault-tec poisoned the water" but thats ok, we should not see deathclaws very much either because at this point they are rare? nope, one can still find quite a few deathclaws around. It sums up the issue of the game itself: the game recycles so many assets and so much content from the previous games: its basically Fallout 4, but with no story, interesting characters, or anything meaningful in the world. We do have a few new enemies like the grafton monster and the windego, but they are so rare that i can hardly bring myself to count them, and because of the lack of story driven NPCs, we cannot have any new factions to spice things up. To sum it up, the game is empty and boring. And with the recent controversies surrounding the game my trust in Bethesda is decreasing. If you want to play a good Fallout game just pick up New Vegas or Fallout 3. Sure the graphics are literal **** but they have an interesting story, and memorable character, and new vegas in particular has great roleplay. &6 has none of these things. Maybe it will improve with updates, but as of now it is a failure.    … Expand
  83. MegaVadzik
    Nov 15, 2018
    2
    Игра ужасна, не берите её.
    Do not buy this game. It's awful, no story, broken PVP.
    There's absolutely nothing to do.
  84. LoRDHitMan
    Nov 25, 2018
    2
    clearly NO ONE at bethesda has even bothered to playtest the game for more than 5h or play any other survival or multiplayer games.
    and pc ports is a joke, made in a day.
  85. Sammo_644
    Nov 16, 2018
    2
    Starts out fine, but genuinely just gets boring after a few hours. There's no soul to the game, and with no NPC's, theres nothing driving you to do any quests. Really wanted to like this game, and have been left extremely disappointed.
  86. Mawetta
    Nov 14, 2018
    2
    It's about time we hold Bethesda accountable. They've taken a really, really bad turn in their development. It scares me and at this point, I think they'd be better off selling their assets off and cashing out.

    New Vegas is the best Fallout and Bethesda didn't even develop that game. Fallout 4 is a joke with a dialogue system that makes Mass Effect Andromeda more interesting to play.    It's about time we hold Bethesda accountable. They've taken a really, really bad turn in their development. It scares me and at this point, I think they'd be better off selling their assets off and cashing out.

    New Vegas is the best Fallout and Bethesda didn't even develop that game. Fallout 4 is a joke with a dialogue system that makes Mass Effect Andromeda more interesting to play. That being said let's get into Fallout 76.

    Oh boy, Fallout 76... 80% fallout 4 in every aspect only further dumbed down, fewer interesting weapons and even less story. I am beyond words for the lackluster development of this game. Unlike most people complaining about the game, My qualms have nothing to do with Online only, nothing to do with it not being New Vegas pt2. My qualms with this game are unbias factual critiques,

    No story whatsoever. Yes there are radio signals, holotapes and other trash story bits dropped across the wasteland but nothing deliverable. Nothing worth merit or conviction. The kinds of story pieces only NPC's WITH dialogue and choices can give you. There is nothing here, no purpose to do anything in this game.

    Loot - Building. In Survival games loot and building make sense. It works in those games because let's say you need wood, you go get wood. You need whatever material you go get that material with the tool you crafted. Here in Fallout you literally just randomly walk all over the wastland picking up JUNK and you have no idea how much of it you need, what exactly you need or where to get it ETC ETC

    Graphics/Performance - OMG This game looks like it came out of 2011 and honestly that's just not acceptable. AT ALL. Let's take Oblivion for example. That game literally pioneered how good graphics could be for the time period. Now look at Fallout, Looks like absolute trash. From a Triple AAA studio who ha smillions upon millions to invest in development, that's just sad and unacceptable.

    Vats/Gunplay/PVP/Gameplay. Oh Geez, where to start. Firstly VATS could have worked fine in real time if it wasn;t buggy and if it had a better auto targeting system. It also absolutely should not cost AP to initiate VATS. Using AP just to start VATS is utterly ridiculous, After it starts only shooting your weapon should use up AP. Gunplay is atrocious, I'd honestly take Call of Duty II Gunplay over this and that game is over 10 years old. It boiggles my mind that ID just didn't develop the gunplay. With all of the buginess in VATS, Gunplay and abysmal hit detection PVP is impossible to take seriously. Additionally trying to hit anything moving or jumping at you is a hassle. Combine that with the Worst A.I I've ever seen in a Triple A game and you've got a disaster.    … Expand
  87. kurniau
    Dec 21, 2019
    2
    Редкостное говнецо данная игра. Всё отвратительно в ней, графика, пустой мир, лагает даже на PS4 Pro. Не советую в это играть никому, вообще никому.
  88. DarkVanilla
    Nov 16, 2018
    2
    So disappointed with this entry.
    I understand what the goal was but what it has ended up being at launch is sad.
    I give it points for looking good and the fact that it plays almost identical to Fallout 4. But when every other release is upping the ante in terms of innovation and sustenance, its hard to root for something so boringly dull and a seemingly lazy effort. It makes me super    So disappointed with this entry.
    I understand what the goal was but what it has ended up being at launch is sad.
    I give it points for looking good and the fact that it plays almost identical to Fallout 4.
    But when every other release is upping the ante in terms of innovation and sustenance, its hard to root for something so boringly dull and a seemingly lazy effort.

    It makes me super scared to begin wondering if this mediocrity will bleed over into Elder Scrolls 6.    … Expand
  89. Baelorn
    Nov 18, 2018
    2
    Fallout 76 is an unfinished mess of a game. I honestly think a team of modders could have done a better job at making an online Fallout game.

    Nothing about it makes you feel like the people working on the game cared about what they were making. FO76 was not a labor of love. It feels more like an obligation to test the waters of online to see if they could have a GTA:O-size hit in the    Fallout 76 is an unfinished mess of a game. I honestly think a team of modders could have done a better job at making an online Fallout game.

    Nothing about it makes you feel like the people working on the game cared about what they were making. FO76 was not a labor of love. It feels more like an obligation to test the waters of online to see if they could have a GTA:O-size hit in the future.

    On top of the total lack of passion and care that went into this game is all the technical issues that Bethesda would normally rely on their fans to fix. In this case, though, it all falls on them and it isn't something they, or their more die-hard fans, are used to. We'll see if they can get it together but I wouldn't count on it.    … Expand
  90. JonnyMenthol
    Nov 14, 2018
    2
    2 is the absolute most I can give it, I tried to justify a 3 but that would but it on par with No mans sky at release and it's no where near as good as no mans sky at release. I really hope bethesda can rectify all they are doing to destroy their franchises, this is utter trash for 2016 and would be better served as a free or at least cheap update to fallout 4. Bethesda need to change2 is the absolute most I can give it, I tried to justify a 3 but that would but it on par with No mans sky at release and it's no where near as good as no mans sky at release. I really hope bethesda can rectify all they are doing to destroy their franchises, this is utter trash for 2016 and would be better served as a free or at least cheap update to fallout 4. Bethesda need to change their engine, ASAP and perhaps move some of their more tired staff to B projects. I will not buy a single bethesda RPG again until they bring themselves into this decade. This game might have been a 5 in 2008 but 2 is the highest I can rate it in 2018. I'm massively disappointed and hugely embarrassed for Bethesda.… Expand
  91. EnriqueAcevedo
    Nov 18, 2018
    2
    A big disappointment... A Fallout game without an interesting story, completely full of bugs and a AAA price... I really love Bethesda games but this is unacceptable... A long wait to Fallout 5
  92. Rifter12
    Sep 16, 2021
    2
    It's really disgusting.I played for 10 hours, but then I realized what kind of **** it was, just incredible ****.I was hoping for a story company, to run around alone and delve into the plot,but I got some incomprehensible **** where it's just written buy, buy, buy.Why would I buy something in this boring world with no prospects?This is disgusting greed.If you release such **** and call itIt's really disgusting.I played for 10 hours, but then I realized what kind of **** it was, just incredible ****.I was hoping for a story company, to run around alone and delve into the plot,but I got some incomprehensible **** where it's just written buy, buy, buy.Why would I buy something in this boring world with no prospects?This is disgusting greed.If you release such **** and call it fallout 5, you can never release games in the series again.… Expand
  93. Mattthelemon173
    Nov 18, 2018
    2
    This game in it of itself is not "a hit" if anything it's a miss, and an embarrassment to Bethesda and the fanbase. Lack of A.I., lack of Base Building, lack of PVP, lack of meaningful multiplayer, and a lack of good quests other than just protect this person, kill this person, or explore this place and bring something back. Don't give me that lie that lack of characters means immersion,This game in it of itself is not "a hit" if anything it's a miss, and an embarrassment to Bethesda and the fanbase. Lack of A.I., lack of Base Building, lack of PVP, lack of meaningful multiplayer, and a lack of good quests other than just protect this person, kill this person, or explore this place and bring something back. Don't give me that lie that lack of characters means immersion, because it doesn't, it means your just more lonely than ever. Most mechanics like hunger and thirst restrict you too much from actually exploring the world, which is the main point of this game, and other than a lack of things Fallout 76 has dozens of bugs, more than I could count. And don't say "oh wait for an update" because that means we're giving these companies more of a chance to abuse us rather than giving us games that are actually finished. And now more than ever are we being given shlock (except Red Dead Redemption 2) than ever before. I want games to be innovative, and refreshing, not stale, and poorly outdated. And speaking of outdated, Skyrim 2 will be having the same engine as Fallout 76, which honestly makes me cry to think about, poor lighting, an engine being tied to framerate, and probably even fewer RPG elements. Overall, don't buy this.… Expand
  94. DoTheBartMan
    Nov 28, 2018
    2
    People defending this pile of garbage by saying "Bethesda plan on patching and constantly updating" need to stop, Mass Effect Andromeda got panned so this belongs in the same bin, you only get one chance at a first impression and Fallout 76 Sh*t it's pants
  95. Pavloff1
    Nov 20, 2018
    2
    Well what is there to say,... I think Bethesda got the signs on time this was not going to make it to the successes of previous titles but yet they still wanted this game to happen,.. The game is a empty void, with lots of buggs uninspired quests, and the thing we need the least in a Fallout game. Multiplayer.
    I liked some of the creature designs in it, but that's all i had to add to it.    Well what is there to say,... I think Bethesda got the signs on time this was not going to make it to the successes of previous titles but yet they still wanted this game to happen,.. The game is a empty void, with lots of buggs uninspired quests, and the thing we need the least in a Fallout game. Multiplayer.
    I liked some of the creature designs in it, but that's all i had to add to it. If you want to bring a multiplayer game at least make sure the servers do run properly...    … Expand
  96. RIPBillyMays
    Nov 20, 2018
    2
    pvp is what i was looking forward to in this game, but i was very skeptical. turns out it's not only pointless, but it's entirely broken. you initiate a duel by shooting someone, and the only way that a fight can take place is if the person who gets shot shoots back, then you will start the fight and take damage. this means that the person who gets shot first can walk up to the person thatpvp is what i was looking forward to in this game, but i was very skeptical. turns out it's not only pointless, but it's entirely broken. you initiate a duel by shooting someone, and the only way that a fight can take place is if the person who gets shot shoots back, then you will start the fight and take damage. this means that the person who gets shot first can walk up to the person that shot them, put on their best gear, consume every power up in their inventory, and then vats them in the head for a one hit kill, and there's nothing the other person can do about it. on top of that, you can also build a platform super high, bait someone to come up with you, and then remove the floor from under them and they will fall to the ground and need to be revived. this will allow you to shoot them once and you will get credit for the kill, so have fun with that cause i assume bethesda will patch the ability to do that soon instead of patching all the game breaking bugs.… Expand
  97. rooderthanyou
    Nov 14, 2018
    2
    Seeing as lots of people here are giving it a 0 rating without actually playing it, i figured i'd give a review after putting in close to 5 hours with a mate.

    The game itself surprisingly doesn't have many bugs, at least not many that I noticed, the only issues I've found is that it runs absolutely abmyssal, being around 25fps usually but frequently dipping below 10fps at certain    Seeing as lots of people here are giving it a 0 rating without actually playing it, i figured i'd give a review after putting in close to 5 hours with a mate.

    The game itself surprisingly doesn't have many bugs, at least not many that I noticed, the only issues I've found is that it runs absolutely abmyssal, being around 25fps usually but frequently dipping below 10fps at certain encounters. This is on a PS4 Pro, my friend with a base PS4 encountered even more frame-rate problems.

    Outside that, it never crashed and I never had any issues with items dissapearing or monsters "t-posing", it seems they fixed that from the BETA.

    The biggest issue lies in the fact that Fallout 76 is just so bloody boring. Boring and Empty are the two best words to describe this game, and it pains me to do it because I am such a huge fan of the Fallout series and went into 76 with cautious optimism, hoping that it might be okay.

    The Good:

    - The world is really pretty, Appalachia is an excellent setting and the map is very big, so its obvious Bethesda put some effort into creating a diverse enviornment

    - Some of the elements of the game are well done, for example I like the inclusion of corpses that would have been mummified in the initial nuclear blasts.

    - The base building element is done alright, but its essentially just a portable version of the base building you had in Fallout 4.

    The Bad:

    - The atrocious frame rates! This game looks identical to Fallout 4 which came out more then 3 years ago, why on earth does it run worse then the latest bleeding edge titles?? Its not even in 4k! I've never played a console game that has performed quite this terribly, and given Bethesda's giant budget I am absolutley floored at the performance!

    - The fact there is utterly nothing to do, Bethesda decided to remove all human NPC's which means the world is filled with corpses and notes and holotapes, rendering each quest a fetch quest with no actual people to spur you on, you are just following breadcrumbs left behind. Its utterly lifeless and soulless, there is no sense of life anywhere, which for a Post Apocalyptic game should make sense but rather then increase the atmopshere it just makes things more dull.

    - On top of the previous point, because the game has you listening to Holo-tapes, playing with a friend actually ends up being a bit of a hinderence, because you can't actually listen to the Holo-tapes and pay attention with someone activley talking in your ear.

    - The removal of a traditional V.A.T.S system and the fact the enemies still run around like crazed maniacs because they think you can stop time with V.A.T.S to kill them makes all encounters with enemies far more challenging then they should be.

    - Weird lore breaking additions like Super Mutants and the B.O.S which shouldn't have existed at this part of the game

    - Clunky menu system that worked fine in a singleplayer game with a PAUSE option, but given this is always online, if you are over encumbured or need to switch weapons while being pursued by fast, agressive super mutants, good luck bucko, cause you can't easily do anything in the god awful menu, and pulling it up means you just die faster.

    - Outrageously expensive microtransactions, one outfit costs around 8-10 real life dollars, for a cosmetic item it seems a little steep, but honestly the microtransactions are the least of this games problems.

    Overall the game feels like so much wasted potential, its identical to Fallout 4 in every single way except it has little to no proper quests, everything feels like a fetch mission, there is no life anywhere and the co-op/online aspect is completley unnecessary and shoe horned into the game for no reason whatsoever. The map is cool and some of the elements are neat, but this game would have been fine as a $20 add on DLC for Fallout 4 3 years ago, not a full priced standalone game when they've had 3 years to develop it.

    It seems like Bethesda spent 3 years crafting a great, big open map and trying to shoe horn some garbage online element into it which goes against what traditional Fallout is about, and completley forgot to actually populate it with quests or anything actually FUN to do.

    As it stands avoid this game, perhaps they will patch it in a year or so and then maybe buy it for $10-20 on sale to experience it for yourself.

    I gave this game a score of 2/10 only because of the interesting environment and a few cool additions, as well as the hope the game will improve in time.

    I will be returning this game.

    Dissapointing Bethesda, Dissapointing.    … Expand
  98. LynnetteJJW
    Nov 16, 2018
    2
    Honest Review? Here you are. My experience and the like.

    i am about a full day in playing this game. 22h on record now. i played by myself for 8 hours. then actually went out to look for a gang to team up with. no one would join me. it seams very very hard out of the maybe 30 people i have run across, that would like to be friends. My first 8 hours of playing this game... it was dead    Honest Review? Here you are. My experience and the like.

    i am about a full day in playing this game. 22h on record now. i played by myself for 8 hours. then actually went out to look for a gang to team up with. no one would join me. it seams very very hard out of the maybe 30 people i have run across, that would like to be friends.

    My first 8 hours of playing this game... it was dead it seamed. it was as if i was playing Fallout 4 after the main mission. I was able to get a power armor frame. and a massive plethora of pipe pistols. that i can only seam to sell for 1-2 bottle caps or deconstruct into one or 2 screws. depending on item condition. and after about 8 of those hours, compiling materials and a few quests. i still couldnt build a full on house (4 walls and a roof). So after i gave up on the building aspect of the game. i then got board of doing the same kind of quests over and over again. ether fetch, baby sit, kill something, or read an entire essay worth of hidden quest paths. I have been around the block a few times with these holotape and such story systems. Fallout 1 and especially Fallout 2 had them already. It wasnt new.

    My next few hours. from hour 8 to about 12 i found one of my friends in game. And we didnt go on some massive adventure our the like. i was helping him get his quests done and the like he was helping with some of mine. We still couldnt really build much. And he got tired of just doing the same kind of quests as well.
    From about hour 12 to 13 we just talked and tried to figure out the leveling system, some crafting, and where to go and do next. so from hour 13 to about 16 we went to the edge of the maps. We tried to find the largest landmarks. and we ended up getting frustrated as we kept running out of ammo, and getting chased down by a gang of 4 other players wanting to PvP.
    My friend left on hour 16 and i went back to where i like to set up my shop. trying to work with the crafting system in some way. seeing what i could or couldnt do.
    Then followed by me Alt-Tabing out of the game to see how to start looking for nuclear launch codes... to no real prevail.

    My Review of this game is a 2/10. its boring. its empty. theres nothing at those cool looking locations. the story didnt hook me or my friend. the quests are generic MMO quests. its still buggy. and as i have seen from previous BGS games, they will remain buggy to the end of their life.
    The Engine is too old for this stuff they expect it to do.
    The players ruined my experience. but it was alright when i was playing with just my friend. the no push-to-talk system is cancerous.
    There is no amusement to about 80% of these locations.
    There is no random special encounters with lets say as happens in Fallout 3 or new vegas.
    Its arsenal is lack luster. it will be an E.A. like system where i have to play some 100+h before i get to end game equipment. that i might not even have the level to use. I already got power armor frame and a minigun though. Ammo is harder to come across.
    The survival aspect of this game is a joke. you dont get hungry or thirst too often at all. Softcore survival just means that you are to not have too harsh of a penalty on death... not have it become a massive chore when you actually need to drink or eat.
    The game is alright for exploring and some time with friends. But thats all that is here. wide as an Ocean, deep as a puddle. ill give it points for the looks and the environment. but everything else? No.

    Out of this entire experience, i came out feeling ripped off. I payed $65 pre-order... i get home to open my PHYSICAL CD case. to find that where the CD is, its a cardboard disk... THERE IS NO PHYSICAL COPY OF FALLOUT 76. and it was STILL a FULL PRICED game. Not only that but the pre-order from Gamesstop; Their special pre-order item? was a Fallout Sticker to put in your car window.

    I have no idea what Bethesda is doing. idk if this is Todd's idea. but if this is a joke. it went right over all of our heads.

    As of today. I know this wasnt your first Online game, Bethesda. i am no longer a Bethesda fan. Goodbye Bethesda.    … Expand
  99. BillyBobJim
    Nov 14, 2018
    2
    They could've given us another New Vegas-style game instead of this, but Bethesda just had to chase the Rust-clone survival multiplayer crafting craze.

    Instead of a game that might have potentially fixed the flaws of Fallout 4 we have instead gotten a glitchy mess, even by Bethesda's standards. What little story there is is just Bethesda's trademark 'environmental storytelling' where    They could've given us another New Vegas-style game instead of this, but Bethesda just had to chase the Rust-clone survival multiplayer crafting craze.

    Instead of a game that might have potentially fixed the flaws of Fallout 4 we have instead gotten a glitchy mess, even by Bethesda's standards. What little story there is is just Bethesda's trademark 'environmental storytelling' where long dead skeletons conveniently remember to record their login details in audio logs right as they expire.

    There are no memorable npcs (or forgettable ones for that matter, there are no npcs at all), no actually important quests where you decide the fate of the wasteland or anything like that. It's all been sacrificed on the altar of multiplayer - and it cant even do multiplayer well. The servers are awful even after a couple of weeks of stress testing with the beta, PVP is completely irrelevant, and there are no private servers (something a game like this desperately needs) so you're stuck playing with whatever idiotic 12 year olds the game decides to connect you with.

    Over eight years later people still fondly remember Fallout New Vegas. Eight years from now? I doubt people will have much to say about Fallout 76, assuming it is even still playable considering the servers might have been taken down by then.    … Expand
  100. ArthurMKII
    Nov 14, 2018
    2
    Buggy and broken and empty. They even put a limit on storage for some stupid reason.
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  1. Cubed3
    Jan 22, 2019
    40
    So utterly disappointing and flawed in every possible way… The first few hours, most of it can be ignored, and occasionally the flaws can be forgotten, but only briefly before they come storming back to the forefront. An awful, boring, empty, pointless experience. There is, however, a glimmer of hope. It's worth mentioning that there has already been a Bethesda title that was equally as unimpressive: The Elder Scrolls Online - but looking at it now, it has transformed into one of the best MMOs out there. There's always the hope the Fallout 76 develops the same way and becomes something special, but for now, that seems impossible. It's a world away from that.
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  2. Vgames
    Dec 25, 2018
    50
    Fallout 76 isn't your typical fallout experience. You don't have NPCs or dialogue, but instead get real players that should fill this void - that ultimately fails to do so. It does some things right, but as of now I cannot recommend getting this game as long as it stays a broken and boring mess that it is right now.
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  3. MMORPG.com
    Dec 19, 2018
    70
    Fallout 76 is the series’ Freshman introduction into the world of online, multiplayer games. As a result, we are experiencing all of the awkwardness and clumsiness associated with that season of life. It is imperfect and a bit uncomfortable, but I see opportunity for Fallout 76 to be more than it presently it - to be a truly great, rich Fallout experience.
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