Fallout 76

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2.8

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 4921 Ratings

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  1. Gregnator
    Nov 14, 2018
    2
    As a die-hard Fallout fan, I can only say that this game is horrible.
    From an fallout perspective, this game is anything but fallout.
    Lore breaking changes that don't make sense, no dialogue system or quests what so ever (a first in the fallout franchise). Yes, it is a big open world, but it's empty. If you are a true fallout fan, this game Is absolutely not for you. If you are a fan    As a die-hard Fallout fan, I can only say that this game is horrible.
    From an fallout perspective, this game is anything but fallout.
    Lore breaking changes that don't make sense, no dialogue system or quests what so ever (a first in the fallout franchise). Yes, it is a big open world, but it's empty.

    If you are a true fallout fan, this game Is absolutely not for you.
    If you are a fan of simple sandbox games, like Rust, Conan exiles, ARK, but you always wanted that with a fallout skin, then this is not a bad game. Not the best, not the worst.

    See this as a Fallout for kids.
    A simple fallout game, with low effort, that's not meant for the fans.

    Fallout new Vegas was made in a shorter time period than 76, and simply is way better.
    Maybe it's time that Bethesda looks at obsidian for their spin off titles again.

    Unfortunately Bethesda hasn't listened to the fans since fallout 4, and to think they'll change is just a pipe dream.    … Expand
  2. roddiepiper
    Nov 14, 2018
    2
    Something of an online multiplayer spin-off adapted from the previous title, Fallout 4. The main storyline, dialogue system and human characters have been replaced with repeated world events (similar to the never-ending radiant quests of Fallout 4) and side-missions conducted through robot characters and audio logs found around the map. The game emphasizes the survival elements of FalloutSomething of an online multiplayer spin-off adapted from the previous title, Fallout 4. The main storyline, dialogue system and human characters have been replaced with repeated world events (similar to the never-ending radiant quests of Fallout 4) and side-missions conducted through robot characters and audio logs found around the map. The game emphasizes the survival elements of Fallout 4’s ‘hardcore’ mode and expands upon them, making the game more in line with other sandbox survival games like Rust and ARK... only Fallout-themed. You’ll be expected to eat, drink, cure diseases and take medication where appropriate.

    The game's core gameplay boils down to exploring the map, killing monsters, looting items, building bases, and crafting/upgrading weapons/armor. The game puts you in a world with 23 other players and you can choose to go it alone, work with other players, or fight against them in the limited PvP combat. There are workshops you can fight over that provide resources and act as semi-permanent bases on the map. You can build smaller, personal bases with the CAMP system in certain areas of the map also. PvP can only be initiated if you attack another player's workshop, or if you damage the player and they damage you back. There is also a bounty system that puts a prize on your head and leaves you open to being attacked/killed. Death in Fallout 76 in general doesn't hold much at stake. If you die, you'll drop junk from your inventory -- all of which is easily replaced, as the game is constantly spawning more of it everywhere you go. You can also respawn wherever you want, which makes dying a convenient mode of transportation.

    Combat with non-player-characters in Fallout 76 is almost identical to Fallout 4, both in how it controls and how combat engagements play out. The game typically spawns waves of hostile NPCs as you enter a zone or event area, and will sometimes respawn them if you stick around certain areas for too long. You’ll mostly be fighting robots, feral ghouls, super mutants, mirelurks, and a new adversary known as the ‘Scorched’ which can only be described as repurposed feral ghouls from Fallout 3 that can use weapons. There are also bigger, less common monsters you will eventually come across. While they may seem threatening at first, much of the time they can be outsmarted by exploiting their poor pathfinding and AI. The toughest of all adversaries you will face in Fallout 76 is known as the "Scorch Beast"; a mutated bat that is very similar to the dragons in Skyrim. The winged menace will endlessly fire magical radiation projectiles at you and take 10,000 gunshots before dying, making it more of a world boss.

    Weapon and armor variety is in the same vain as Fallout 4, with some new additions (mostly new outfits that can be worn over armor). Customization is also about the same. You unlock new mods for weapons/armor by scrapping them for parts. Your gear will break after some time and can be repaired at a workbench, though it is usually cheaper to simply craft a new one if you've learned the recipe. Gear also has its own levels which will scale with your own level, and so you will often find a weapon that is unusable simply because it boasts a higher level than your character. You’ll need to collect junk across the map to make use of all of the crafting facilities in the game, which can be a chore to organize and store. There is a universal storage chest that pops up at many key locations, and can also be put in your own base, but beyond that you will have to craft more storage containers in your own base.

    The game revamps Fallout 4’s perk system with a new “perk card” system. Each level you will gain 1 perk point that can be spent on a new card for each skill in the S.P.E.C.I.A.L. skill system. You will occasionally unlock perk card packs, which reward you with a small assortment of perk cards. Each card gives you a perk, and multiple cards of the same perk can be combined to provide a higher level perk card. Perk cards can be added/removed at a whim, and so your character build is a lot more flexible than in previous Fallout titles. As with the single-player games, you can expect a number of builds that are simply overpowered in PvP or otherwise.

    If most of your fun while playing Fallout games is made up of exploring open worlds, shooting-and-looting monsters, crafting items and upgrading your character, this game will likely keep you entertained for a couple of weeks. If you care about any of the RPG elements of Fallout, enjoy a consistent lore, storyline, dialogue, and a sense that your actions and choices are leading up to something larger in scale, then you should steer clear of this game as it's not for you.    … Expand
  3. Gizmaqq
    Nov 14, 2018
    2
    Это просто худшее дерьмо собаки которое я только видел в игродиве. 15 лет беседка с тодом насилуют мертвый движек моровинда, и вот на пике этого действа они выпускают сетевую игру в которой ВООБЩЕ ничего нет, и делать кроме постройки долбанного дома вообще нечегоЭто просто худшее дерьмо собаки которое я только видел в игродиве. 15 лет беседка с тодом насилуют мертвый движек моровинда, и вот на пике этого действа они выпускают сетевую игру в которой ВООБЩЕ ничего нет, и делать кроме постройки долбанного дома вообще нечего
  4. earthplay
    Nov 14, 2018
    2
    I wish I didn't buy this Fallout game. I am buying Fallout 4 GOTY when it goes on sale asap. I prioritized this... mess.. I keep hearing and reading is like Fallout 4 and if I liked that I will like 76... nope not at all. I can be a part of an open world sand box and feel control and comfort and everything can still make sense despite the bugs in the previous Fallout games.... FalloutI wish I didn't buy this Fallout game. I am buying Fallout 4 GOTY when it goes on sale asap. I prioritized this... mess.. I keep hearing and reading is like Fallout 4 and if I liked that I will like 76... nope not at all. I can be a part of an open world sand box and feel control and comfort and everything can still make sense despite the bugs in the previous Fallout games.... Fallout 76... The first 2 hours with assuming I would love it, were fun, but I steadily found out I regretted buying Fallout 76 and could not enjoy the features I thought I could… Expand
  5. noordelijk
    Nov 14, 2018
    2
    Worst
    Fallout
    Ever
    Waiting for pay 2 win game next time. Welcome to 2k19
  6. Wayforth
    Nov 14, 2018
    2
    I expected a multiplayer spin-off game, and got a map expansion for Fallout 4 with no NPC's and the same broken engine, although with multiplayer capabilities.
  7. GaiaCAT
    Nov 14, 2018
    2
    I suggest you watch an hour of continuous game play and then make your decision. If you are bored watching you will be bored playing it. I will never pre-order from Bethesda again. Same graphics and awkward movement as the last fallout games without the memorable NPCs. NO NPCS. Past Fallout games above all else has had memorable characters and intriguing story lines. Not this one. AddI suggest you watch an hour of continuous game play and then make your decision. If you are bored watching you will be bored playing it. I will never pre-order from Bethesda again. Same graphics and awkward movement as the last fallout games without the memorable NPCs. NO NPCS. Past Fallout games above all else has had memorable characters and intriguing story lines. Not this one. Add glitchy servers and immersion breaking multiplayer among other disappointments. Feels like nothing was improved (i.e. game play) and a lot has been taken out or made worse. I consider myself a huge Fallout fan and I can't stomach playing this anymore.… Expand
  8. Radpoater
    Nov 15, 2018
    2
    a fallout by name only, an insult to all fallout fans, a lazy cashgrap by bethesda to go with the " game as a service" trend, the series has lost it's identity and the developer just forgot what the franchise is all about , the dialogue and npc interactions and even the npcs themselves are gone,the narrative is non existent and the world is so big yet so empty, the game instead focuses ona fallout by name only, an insult to all fallout fans, a lazy cashgrap by bethesda to go with the " game as a service" trend, the series has lost it's identity and the developer just forgot what the franchise is all about , the dialogue and npc interactions and even the npcs themselves are gone,the narrative is non existent and the world is so big yet so empty, the game instead focuses on gameplay which is lackluster and gets boring very fast after spending hours upon hours defeating the same buggy enemies, if it isn't clear yet , you shouldn't buy this game , save your money for something else… Expand
  9. sirmalifact
    Nov 14, 2018
    2
    No story. No NPCs. No comprehensible lore. And putting aside the hollow feeling you get in your gut when you see a series that used to be a critique of the consumer culture of America and the dangers of unthinking violence, turned into a mindless, bug-ridden, soulless game - it's heartbreaking.
  10. Lampp
    Nov 14, 2018
    2
    Can’t fully opt out of PvP, got hunted down trying to get away (you still take damage even if you don’t fire back). I really didn’t need this on top of two separate questlines that terminated, unresolved (Path of Overseer and Signal Strength), the “might as well not have it” V.A.T.S., basically everything they had steadily moved away from (dehydration, hunger, disease, etc.)... well it’sCan’t fully opt out of PvP, got hunted down trying to get away (you still take damage even if you don’t fire back). I really didn’t need this on top of two separate questlines that terminated, unresolved (Path of Overseer and Signal Strength), the “might as well not have it” V.A.T.S., basically everything they had steadily moved away from (dehydration, hunger, disease, etc.)... well it’s every improvement nobody wanted. However most disappointing to me, is to see this descend into Battlefield and Call of Duty territory.
    Thanks for trying guys, World looks great. Prospect of working together with people is intriguing. If they decide to implement more punitive action against aggressor players they might have something worth taking on as a second job.

    I’ll be taking this back.    … Expand
  11. BetaCHZ
    Nov 15, 2018
    2
    Played all day yesterday. By the time the day was drawing to a close I was like, "what am I doing here? What's the point?" I actually went online to search for the point. Come to find out, there is no point. Just another game to forget about. Waste of my money. I'll probably open it again from time to time just to explore a bit, but after an hour, with nothing to draw you toward any goalPlayed all day yesterday. By the time the day was drawing to a close I was like, "what am I doing here? What's the point?" I actually went online to search for the point. Come to find out, there is no point. Just another game to forget about. Waste of my money. I'll probably open it again from time to time just to explore a bit, but after an hour, with nothing to draw you toward any goal or care in that world, I'll just turn it off again and try something with a soul. I've played ever Fallout ever, from the beginning, and I had hope for this. I didn't know they would just give me an empty world and be expected to make friends with all those idiots running around shooting for no reason at the same things I'm shooting at. Why didn't they give us anything to care about? Ugh.. I'll stop now. :-/… Expand
  12. KillPizza
    Nov 15, 2018
    2
    War...war never changes...
    But Fallout does.
    Hey everyone!i am here to tell you sad story of Fallout 76. I am a big Fallout Fan(F1,F2,F3,FNV,F4)-finished all of theme 3+ times Now fallout 76.... Empty, soulless, pety... Ok i could handle no NPC's, but lack of activities.....thats too much! All quests are same ,go there ,kill this, bring this.I got bored after 1-2 hours of play.    War...war never changes...
    But Fallout does.

    Hey everyone!i am here to tell you sad story of Fallout 76.
    I am a big Fallout Fan(F1,F2,F3,FNV,F4)-finished all of theme 3+ times
    Now fallout 76....
    Empty, soulless, pety...
    Ok i could handle no NPC's, but lack of activities.....thats too much!
    All quests are same ,go there ,kill this, bring this.I got bored after 1-2 hours of play.
    It's not a true Fallout game.
    It's just a copycat of F4
    Just a way to earn money fast!
    DONT BUY IT!!!    … Expand
  13. AbraxoCleaner
    Nov 15, 2018
    2
    This game is a case of severe digital schizophrenia. By trying to please everybody it pleases no one and fails in all possible ways. The multiplayer part is broken. The storytelling part is artificial and cringy most of the time. The Sandbox part is way too limited. The RPG part is watered-down. The PVP part is pointless. The survival part don't really feature anything new or challenging.This game is a case of severe digital schizophrenia. By trying to please everybody it pleases no one and fails in all possible ways. The multiplayer part is broken. The storytelling part is artificial and cringy most of the time. The Sandbox part is way too limited. The RPG part is watered-down. The PVP part is pointless. The survival part don't really feature anything new or challenging. The graphics are outdated for a AAA FPS.
    If the dev. knew what they wanted to do at the first place it will maybe earn a mediocre 4 or 5. But all of this mixed together made a unsatisfying - and expensive - weird sludge.    … Expand
  14. Loscohones
    Nov 15, 2018
    2
    This game feels like a horrid console port gone FUBAR...Graphics are worse than fallout 4 , fps is worse than fallout 4, and the world....well...4 times fallout 4 but that is all. I had high hopes for this game because since fallout 3 i imagined a fallout world with coop capabilities, sadly this is not it. Even with a high end gaming pc it runs horribly, stutters like hell, no in depthThis game feels like a horrid console port gone FUBAR...Graphics are worse than fallout 4 , fps is worse than fallout 4, and the world....well...4 times fallout 4 but that is all. I had high hopes for this game because since fallout 3 i imagined a fallout world with coop capabilities, sadly this is not it. Even with a high end gaming pc it runs horribly, stutters like hell, no in depth graphics settings,(had to make tweaks through .ini files), VATS is a laughstock....Unfinished product ...that's what F76 is...Why Bethesda, a company who has every technological provess and money available at their disposal, keep making the same mistakes over and over, i just can't comprehend. Maybe in coming months they will fix most of the issues like they did in F4 but this is getting old. We don't deserve getting a half baked game for the full price of a AAA title.… Expand
  15. Pjotreq
    Nov 16, 2018
    2
    just lame and lazy way how to make money, buggy FO4+MultiplayerMod w/o story... i hope that spared time will be well used in ES6
  16. clonexman
    Nov 16, 2018
    2
    Get the game disk on pre-order, and its 200 megs with a 50 gig update file.
    Why bother selling the hard copy then?
  17. Encode_GR
    Nov 16, 2018
    2
    I'm a huge Fallout fan, and this game is a disaster. A complete disaster...
    It's full of bugs, performance issues, and the content is non-existent, especially for its ridiculous price. Even the PvP concept of the game is broken. Its "Main Problem" however, is that It pretty much has no story, and it feels lifeless, boring and empty.
    It's like it's made by some sort of cheap studio with    I'm a huge Fallout fan, and this game is a disaster. A complete disaster...
    It's full of bugs, performance issues, and the content is non-existent, especially for its ridiculous price. Even the PvP concept of the game is broken. Its "Main Problem" however, is that It pretty much has no story, and it feels lifeless, boring and empty.
    It's like it's made by some sort of cheap studio with lazy devs and managers. Oh well... Looks like Bethesda's goal was to make money from micro-transactions, and not to satisfy its customers and fans. It's a shame and disappointment really.

    -- Positive: Sort of "ok" graphics and atmospheric environment.
    -- Negative: Everything else (PvP, Bugs, Performance, Story, Gameplay, Price)    … Expand
  18. LasVegasHearse
    Nov 16, 2018
    2
    So, in Fallout 76, you can't play with your friends as there is no choosing your server, you have to listen to griefers using foul language in your headset, and the controls aren't intuitive compared to previous Fallout games? Thanks!
  19. Mitch_Please
    Nov 21, 2018
    2
    I am not one to exaggerate how good or bad a game is by giving it a 0 or a 10, so please understand that when I give this game a 2/10, I mean it. This game is really, really bad. It's not just unfun and boring, it's clunky, buggy, and it doesn't work.

    Fallout 4 may not have been the funnest game in the world, but the game at least worked. The story may have been fairly shallow, but it    I am not one to exaggerate how good or bad a game is by giving it a 0 or a 10, so please understand that when I give this game a 2/10, I mean it. This game is really, really bad. It's not just unfun and boring, it's clunky, buggy, and it doesn't work.

    Fallout 4 may not have been the funnest game in the world, but the game at least worked. The story may have been fairly shallow, but it made sense and there was quite a bit to it. The world may have been a tad empty, but there was no doubt that there was stuff to do and things to explore. The combat may have had too much emphasis on gunplay, but the gunplay was the most fluid of the Fallouts and combat was easy and worked really smooth.

    Not this game. This game doesn't work - it simply does not work. The game is not fun no matter how you slice it. Your framerate will drop to 15 FPS on console if you're ever in combat; the combat is very clunky and buggy; the graphics are okay, but the whole world looks more like a really good Fallout 4 mod than a new game; the storyline is GARBAGE because there is no story line, and while I know it wasn't necessarily supposed to have a main story, the sidequests are uninspired, recycled garbage that are meant to artificially extend the life of the game. The gun play is very difficult because of the sever frame rate drops. The building mechanics are glitchy and VERY restrictive. You cannot build a massive base like you could in Fallout 4, because the budget is so low due to trying to keep the frame rate workable.

    Lazy, uninspired, dull, unfun, lifeless game that will bore you very quickly. This game is a chore to play.    … Expand
  20. concernedfish
    Nov 16, 2018
    2
    Fallout 76 is a depressing shell of a fallout game, poor online, poor story, and overall a poor game.
  21. TwentysixNails
    Nov 16, 2018
    2
    The fact that nearly nothing has been changed since the BETA since this game was launched should be a sign of the game’s lack of quality. Now add that with the frequent crashes, myriad of animation and AI problems within enemies, graphical issues within the enviroment and unstable servers that have a tendency to go offline, that should paint the idea of what kind of multiplayer game thisThe fact that nearly nothing has been changed since the BETA since this game was launched should be a sign of the game’s lack of quality. Now add that with the frequent crashes, myriad of animation and AI problems within enemies, graphical issues within the enviroment and unstable servers that have a tendency to go offline, that should paint the idea of what kind of multiplayer game this will be and the sheer annoyance this will bring to newcomers and casual players along with their freinds. And then for long-running fans of the series, there’s the story elements. There’s the lack of npcs, the lack of bustling towns or settlements and the pitiful attempts to reinvent this world with lifeless robots and audio logs. Quite odd how a major new game in the Fallout franchise has none of the elements that define the series. What we have here is a dysfunctional mess of a RPG, a multiplayer shooter and a product on the market charging $60 for the experience (not counting the in-game store and it’s currency system; atoms). Do not buy this. It is a waste of money and time… Expand
  22. Angusbeefbear
    Nov 16, 2018
    2
    Gameplay - Boring really, no NPCs means the only things the you get to interact with are other players (good luck finding them though) and enemies. Even though the player could find lots of different badies to fight, the ones you'll see the most are the ghoul/raider hybrids.

    Graphics - Sometimes good, sometimes bad, overall a mixed bag of quality. At this point calling the graphics of a    Gameplay - Boring really, no NPCs means the only things the you get to interact with are other players (good luck finding them though) and enemies. Even though the player could find lots of different badies to fight, the ones you'll see the most are the ghoul/raider hybrids.

    Graphics - Sometimes good, sometimes bad, overall a mixed bag of quality. At this point calling the graphics of a game bad/good mostly comes up to personal taste. I frankly don't care, but I guess some people do. so hey.

    Sound - meh.

    Optimization - PISS POOR. Seriously unless you have the latest hardware available you aren't going to be able to play it at a consistent frame rate is near impossible. Some areas it's like trying to get a near sited 80 year old to describe the image on one of those magic picture toys. Not only that, but due to low frame rate I had to basically use the vats system in every single goddamn fight I got into.

    Basically, it's piss poor game.    … Expand
  23. imjude
    Nov 16, 2018
    2
    I was SO excited but now...I am just .....sad.

    The experience reminded me of the letdown I felt with the No Man's Sky. A few words to describe my point of few... clunky, awkward, and empty. I tried both the controller and mouse and they felt equally clumsy, .just off. Unfinished. I will NEVER preorder any game again. I hate to be unkind and hate to give bad reviews, but if    I was SO excited but now...I am just .....sad.

    The experience reminded me of the letdown I felt with the No Man's Sky.

    A few words to describe my point of few... clunky, awkward, and empty. I tried both the controller and mouse and they felt equally clumsy, .just off. Unfinished.

    I will NEVER preorder any game again. I hate to be unkind and hate to give bad reviews, but if you have not bought this game, WAIT. Maybe ( and I'm being optimistic here) it will improve in the next few patches?    … Expand
  24. xz1x
    Nov 17, 2018
    2
    Сорри что на русском.
    Но я специально зарегился тут, чтобы написать отзыв. Потому что в пс4 нету отзывов.
    Сразу! я очень бы хотел чтобы мне вернули деньги за эту игру. Тут нет ничего от фолыча. Это похоже на какую то поделку из глубин стима, которая стоит 50р. Я бы поиграл за 50р в такое и даже может быть не расстроился. В это не возможно просто играть на пс4. все глючит, не возможно    Сорри что на русском.
    Но я специально зарегился тут, чтобы написать отзыв. Потому что в пс4 нету отзывов.
    Сразу! я очень бы хотел чтобы мне вернули деньги за эту игру.
    Тут нет ничего от фолыча. Это похоже на какую то поделку из глубин стима, которая стоит 50р.
    Я бы поиграл за 50р в такое и даже может быть не расстроился.
    В это не возможно просто играть на пс4. все глючит, не возможно стрелять потому что ты не понимаешь из за лагов в кого ты попал, что произошло.
    Тупые, и одинаковые квесты. Ты просто бродишь по огромной карте непонятно вообще зачем. И носишь с собой куча хлама чтобы крафтить, и ты не понимаешь даже какие предметы тебе нужны для крафта. Лагеря нет, базы нормальной нет. Не черта вообще нет.
    Может это все было бы норм, если бы не глючело, хотя бы мягко работало, можно было бы по врагам пострелять. Но не за такие деньги. Если бы это была бесплатная онлайн игра например.
    Итог таков, что я очень расстроен что беседа выкатила эту помойку. И теперь я начинаю опасаться за судьбу ее будущих проектов. И теперь вряд ли куплю заранее или сразу что то от них.    … Expand
  25. Jarden714
    Nov 17, 2018
    2
    How anyone can honestly say this game is a "hit" is beyond me. It LOOKS like a Fallout game, thats it. Whats INSIDE is, well, highly lackluster. Barren and hollow with no NPC, and its multiplayer aspect, the pvp, ect, is also not tuned whatso ever. Its a game that doesnt know what it wants to be. Not to mention technical glitches galore which folks always excuse Bethesda for. EveryoneHow anyone can honestly say this game is a "hit" is beyond me. It LOOKS like a Fallout game, thats it. Whats INSIDE is, well, highly lackluster. Barren and hollow with no NPC, and its multiplayer aspect, the pvp, ect, is also not tuned whatso ever. Its a game that doesnt know what it wants to be. Not to mention technical glitches galore which folks always excuse Bethesda for. Everyone said, quit complaining, its a beta, theyll fix it. Its exactly the same game. Soo..ok..maybe not a 0..but honestly? A 2 is as high as i can go. Radically disappointed, was a rabid fallout fan.… Expand
  26. RipCityRoyalty
    Nov 17, 2018
    2
    As a die hard Fallout fan, even I have to say there's not much to like with this game. It can be a decent time killer, but it lacks heart and even real passion... This is a cash grab, plain and simple.
  27. JackTriggerson
    Nov 18, 2018
    2
    Fallout 76 is a joke. And it's not a funny one. This game has absolutley no content, it is devoid of any fun, everything you do is walk through an empty map, and it is so bad that a structured review isn't even possible. Never play this broken, unfinished mess of a game, if you can call it that.

    2/10 "AWFUL"
  28. Jtburkh
    Nov 18, 2018
    2
    This is simply a cash grab. It is literally just Fallout 4 with multiplayer and should have been treated as a DLC to Fallout 4. The graphics are not very good if you compare them to games like RDR2. The story is ultra boring and does not make sense. It was kind of cute how fallout 4 had bugs before but it is really just sloppy now. They must have lost their top tier developers.This is simply a cash grab. It is literally just Fallout 4 with multiplayer and should have been treated as a DLC to Fallout 4. The graphics are not very good if you compare them to games like RDR2. The story is ultra boring and does not make sense. It was kind of cute how fallout 4 had bugs before but it is really just sloppy now. They must have lost their top tier developers. Lastly, I think there are some major exploits going on. I was a level 4 and got PVP killed by another player with 2 shots. I hadn't fired on this other player and was just exploring. I don't mind being killed, it just shows how many problems this game has. Bethesda just has this left over engine sitting around and no talent left in their ranks. That is plain to see. I give it a 2 out of 10 because I need to justify to myself that I spent 60 on this, otherwise I would give it a 1. It's not as bad as No Man's Sky but it's pretty close.… Expand
  29. x1POSSUM2x
    Nov 18, 2018
    2
    terrible...... absolutely......terrible..... sad really was looking forward to this game..... co op fallout sounds great..... pushed it out way to fast...... nothing but glitches non stop........ never have i wanted a refund so bad for a game...... they need to stick to putting work in their games skyrim and oblivion fallout 3 and new vegas..... soooo amazing.....saw them starting to fallterrible...... absolutely......terrible..... sad really was looking forward to this game..... co op fallout sounds great..... pushed it out way to fast...... nothing but glitches non stop........ never have i wanted a refund so bad for a game...... they need to stick to putting work in their games skyrim and oblivion fallout 3 and new vegas..... soooo amazing.....saw them starting to fall with fallout4.....now this...... its a joke..... what you doing bethesda....... return to your old ways cause whatever you are trying now is not working.... i would love to see your games co op....... but not thrown out so fast..........… Expand
  30. fury_cutter_inc
    Nov 20, 2018
    2
    Fallout 76 is a game that has merit (such as the improved environmental design and art direction) but is heavily marred by issues beginning at the conceptual levels. The premise of Fallout 76 has several issues such as the removal of any human npc’s. This creative decision leaves the world feeling empty, lifeless and uninteresting. This game also focuses on areas of the fallout franchiseFallout 76 is a game that has merit (such as the improved environmental design and art direction) but is heavily marred by issues beginning at the conceptual levels. The premise of Fallout 76 has several issues such as the removal of any human npc’s. This creative decision leaves the world feeling empty, lifeless and uninteresting. This game also focuses on areas of the fallout franchise that were not fan favorites (shooting, looting and fetch quests) in a blatant attempt for Bethesda and, by extension, Zenimax to get a piece of the ‘games as a service’ pie and to provide the company with a reliable source of finance for years to come, through the overpriced ‘Atom Shop’. Furthermore, the games horrendous performance on anything that isn’t an Xbox One X, the platform this game was clearly built for if the fact that the first gameplay trailer was announced at the Microsoft’s E3 conference, hampers any real enjoyment possible in this game. Overall this Fallout 76 is a definite avoid until it goes on sale for the price the game actually is worth ($30).… Expand
  31. FTChaos
    Nov 19, 2018
    2
    Honestly, it feels almost like a regression from Fallout 4. They scrapped several mechanics throughout and there just wasn't anything to replace them with. The fact that there is just nobody around in the game NPC wise makes it feel incredibly lonely.
  32. Golconda
    Nov 20, 2018
    2
    I wanted so badly to like this since I love the franchise so much. I bought the fancy Tricentennial package and was excited and as I began to play the beta and then the standard game, and I suddenly was left empty. It almost felt like the soul of Fallout was ripped away and now I run around, shoot things and sometimes hear some random guy yell at his children or roommates. Not having chatI wanted so badly to like this since I love the franchise so much. I bought the fancy Tricentennial package and was excited and as I began to play the beta and then the standard game, and I suddenly was left empty. It almost felt like the soul of Fallout was ripped away and now I run around, shoot things and sometimes hear some random guy yell at his children or roommates. Not having chat at start and it just feels like running around and doing nothing but collecting stuff and hearing the same old story on holotapes over and over again.

    I love Bethesda and probably will even after this but this is not Fallout and should not even be associated with it. I did give it 2 points because the scenery and setting is beautiful but that gets old quick.    … Expand
  33. koyokami
    Nov 20, 2018
    2
    missione principale noiosa e buggatissima. pvp inesistente a dispetto del dichiarato, infatti in 35 ore di gameplay non ho avuto una singola interazione con altri player persino negli eventi. crash al ordine del giorno e un frame rate disastroso circa 20 su una 1080. il resto viene a noia, sistema di perk si interessante ma sbilanciatissimo (alcuni talenti sono fortissimi, quasimissione principale noiosa e buggatissima. pvp inesistente a dispetto del dichiarato, infatti in 35 ore di gameplay non ho avuto una singola interazione con altri player persino negli eventi. crash al ordine del giorno e un frame rate disastroso circa 20 su una 1080. il resto viene a noia, sistema di perk si interessante ma sbilanciatissimo (alcuni talenti sono fortissimi, quasi indispensabili rispetto ad altri praticamente inutili) e un ia di una seplicita imbarazzante. interre aree di nemici fermi nella t pose per bug. a volte un singolo ramoscello riesce a bloccare i colpi e a volte passano atraverso a spessi muri. Visivamente gradevole ma molto lontano dalla grafica di un gioco del 2018, modelli identici di fallout, neanche rivisitati e incollati in questo nuovo mondo di gioco. gli olonastri a volte non vengono presi correttamente, a volte nel inventario ne abbiamo piu di uno e in fine le schede di accesso sono un delirio. rimasto bloccato piu di tre ore a cercare di sbloccare una porta per la missione principale di cui la chiave non mi era stata data.… Expand
  34. unhappydweller
    Nov 22, 2018
    2
    After playing the B.E.T.A and giving it a solid 6/10 with lots of room to improvement, the full launch has me rating the game at 2/10. i played through the B.E.T.A with 0 issues what so ever. there was one disconnect, but thats to be expected during a stress test of the servers. However,

    It has an overabudance of gamebreaking issues, the servers are unable to sustain the endgame without    After playing the B.E.T.A and giving it a solid 6/10 with lots of room to improvement, the full launch has me rating the game at 2/10. i played through the B.E.T.A with 0 issues what so ever. there was one disconnect, but thats to be expected during a stress test of the servers. However,

    It has an overabudance of gamebreaking issues, the servers are unable to sustain the endgame without crashing(We launched a nuke and it instantly killed the server we played at, wasting all launch keys and keycards) it lags so much people are unable to loot and it randomly crashes due to 10 people being in the same vicinity inside the game. Certain quests resets upon leaving a server which crashing and disconnecting counts as.
    Not to mention the numeric bugs and glitches that carried over from fallout 4 that they havent bothered to fix.

    The game is fun as long as you dont run into bugs/gamebreaking glitches, sadly. there are more of those than raditation in this game.

    It has the potential to be a great and fun game, sadly, that is too far out of reach at the moment, while it has alot of features promised, i can only judge it on what it actually has at the moment. It is a broken game that shouldnt have launched in its current state.    … Expand
  35. anotheronetoday
    Nov 21, 2018
    2
    Sorry i thought this was the released game not the BETA perhaps i am confused? So you get the game day 1 you then have to download an update that is the whole game. even with my 600m connection still took nearly 2 hours due I think to server loading. Then you have to do this again less than 5 days later at least this time it was only an hour. You take a great franchise that was not brokeSorry i thought this was the released game not the BETA perhaps i am confused? So you get the game day 1 you then have to download an update that is the whole game. even with my 600m connection still took nearly 2 hours due I think to server loading. Then you have to do this again less than 5 days later at least this time it was only an hour. You take a great franchise that was not broke and tried to fix or should I say Fu.... it. Incredibly slow to load, huge amounts of lag, often grinds to a complete halt.
    If this is not bad enough then your faced with multiplayer and with no warning you have lost everything you have spent 2 days collecting, then 2 days later you die and game craps out and you lose it all again. Some instructions or tutorial for the multiplayer would have helped.
    making people pay for a poor BETA sucks

    Currently boring, slow and frustrating, I was so looking forward to this release    … Expand
  36. Aiun
    Nov 21, 2018
    2
    Huge waste of potential. The only good thing about it at the moment is that at least on console, you can return the disc. Empty, buggy, systems that had great promise that went unfulfilled, and as always, hell is other people. There's no real point to building anything - camp just becomes an inventory item, not a mark on the world. Imagine having to share control of an etch-a-sketchHuge waste of potential. The only good thing about it at the moment is that at least on console, you can return the disc. Empty, buggy, systems that had great promise that went unfulfilled, and as always, hell is other people. There's no real point to building anything - camp just becomes an inventory item, not a mark on the world. Imagine having to share control of an etch-a-sketch that wipes itself every ten minutes.

    Check back in a year, I guess, when modders finish the game on Bethesda's behalf.
    I put more effort into signing up to leave this review than they appear to have put into the game. If I thought they'd actually made mis-steps in the pursuit of fun instead of trying to cover up corporate compromises (like always online, no PVE/server-selection, no human NPCs), it might be worth a pity 3 instead of a 2.    … Expand
  37. NitreXD
    Nov 22, 2018
    2
    FFS Besthesda you can do better than this! Countless bugs, terrible gameplay experience, **** graphics, really bad "storyline" told by terminals and holotapes (WHY!?!?). I started playing the B.E.T.A with a positive mind, thinking that all of the bugs and textures would be fixed at launch, so i bought the game. BIG MISTAKE, After 30 minutes i ran out of stuff to do. Story got boring afterFFS Besthesda you can do better than this! Countless bugs, terrible gameplay experience, **** graphics, really bad "storyline" told by terminals and holotapes (WHY!?!?). I started playing the B.E.T.A with a positive mind, thinking that all of the bugs and textures would be fixed at launch, so i bought the game. BIG MISTAKE, After 30 minutes i ran out of stuff to do. Story got boring after 10 minutes, so i started building a house with the "CAMP" system (So ****). THIS IS A TRIPLE A STUDIO WTF. THEY SOLD US AN EARLY ACCESS FALLOUT 4 COPY FOR 60$!!?!?… Expand
  38. bobbyfetta
    Nov 23, 2018
    2
    I had to make an account to signal boost just how bad this is. Full disclosure: I did my research, wasn't gonna buy it, but Bethesda stuck this in EVERY console bundle deal in my region yesterday (black friday), so buying a second PS4 (I have a 7 month secondment across the country coming up and kids at home who would be pretty agro if I took their PS4 with me), meant I had to get thisI had to make an account to signal boost just how bad this is. Full disclosure: I did my research, wasn't gonna buy it, but Bethesda stuck this in EVERY console bundle deal in my region yesterday (black friday), so buying a second PS4 (I have a 7 month secondment across the country coming up and kids at home who would be pretty agro if I took their PS4 with me), meant I had to get this game. It came with Spiderman and Lego Batman also part of the deal, and considering the price and competition I'm pretty sure Bethesda gave it away.

    Like I say, I wasn't planning to buy it, but now owning it, and after a family sesh of spiderman last night, I felt I had to see what all the fuss was about. I've seen a lot of people saying they're having fun with this game, and I heard most of the bugs were on PC, so I was kinda thinking everyone was over reacting and the PS4 version would really be okay. I've put 3.5 hours in at this point, and .. yeah it's the worst AAA game I've played, hands down. If I payed real money for this, I'd be angry - I'm even annoyed that it came with the bundle TBH. I want to give it 1/10, because it really is a joke of a $60 game, but I'll leave it as a 2/10 on the assumption they fix the bugs.

    To be clear, this game will be really boring I think even once they fix the bugs. I would place it around the level of no man's sky in terms of things to do, meaning you try make your own fun. On the topic of bugs, no it's not just PC, yes they are that numerous, yes it is utterly ridiculous for what's supposed to be a AAA game. Most common ones for me are graphics errors where things are not loading or popping in, atrocious frame rate (even though there's sometimes not that many things visible and the ones that are look like assets from a 10 year old game, the framerate will still noticeably slow down), some animation errors where they seemingly don't load the next animation or skip one, and, of course physics bugs. It's not AS bad as what I've seen people saying the PC one is, but it is totally unacceptable. You think; this came with Spiderman which is supposed to be it's equal in terms of price and quality and this game just feels like a cruddy indiegogo game built with fan-made fallout assets next to a polished, quality product.

    As for the game play... there's nothing "wrong" with it, there just isn't really any. You get a list of chores, you do a list of chores, you get bored and see if anyone else is about to play with but they're all bored too.. If bethesday don't do something fast (meaning about a year of development in a month) it seems inevitable that the active player numbers will drop below sustainable by christmas.

    Don't buy this game, and if it came free with your console, don't waste your time playing it until it gets the development it needs.    … Expand
  39. Bbplayer
    Jan 2, 2019
    2
    I had this at a 6, I did, that was before the bag issue, the miscommunication on the update and the upcoming lawsuit....I tried I really did but this is not a good game. Maybe I will still play it later but I doubt it.
  40. JonnyDotNet
    Nov 24, 2018
    2
    OK so I pre-ordered and played the BETA. I bought Tod's reassurances that it would be cool to play solo. It wasn't, it was boring as hell and the engine is now obviously outdated. The game just feels empty and there is no incentive to invest yourself in the experience so I refunded. Now I can't uninstall the game as the Bethesda.Net launcher is 'broken'. Apparently this is 'OK' though -OK so I pre-ordered and played the BETA. I bought Tod's reassurances that it would be cool to play solo. It wasn't, it was boring as hell and the engine is now obviously outdated. The game just feels empty and there is no incentive to invest yourself in the experience so I refunded. Now I can't uninstall the game as the Bethesda.Net launcher is 'broken'. Apparently this is 'OK' though - Bethesda support says just delete the install folder. What a bunch of cowboys.… Expand
  41. YeitsHim
    Nov 25, 2018
    2
    I bought the game on release as long time fallout fan i didnt expect much of it, ive played for the last few days and i started to get some severe stomach and lower back pain, 2 days ago i went to the doctor to get checked on my colon and i was diagnosed with stage 2 cancer, im just 24 years old.. Well i think its safe to say this game gave me cancer.
    Well aside from the devastating news    I bought the game on release as long time fallout fan i didnt expect much of it, ive played for the last few days and i started to get some severe stomach and lower back pain, 2 days ago i went to the doctor to get checked on my colon and i was diagnosed with stage 2 cancer, im just 24 years old.. Well i think its safe to say this game gave me cancer.
    Well aside from the devastating news i can confirm that this game has gamebreaking bugs like being stuck in power armor and not being able to get out of it, Many exp exploits and infinite carry capacity glitches.. Since the beta.. and guess what... Radio silence from bethesda.
    Speaking of radio, starting quimo next week wish me luck, have fun with other games and dont play this garbage    … Expand
  42. Psquizzle
    Nov 26, 2018
    2
    I have been a huge fan of Fallout games since Fallout 3 - Fallout 76 has let me down entirely. I join worlds and am disconnected within minutes. I play 1/6 worlds and then get disconnected and lose progress i had mad.

    I understand the premise of the game - but Todd Howard lied through his teeth. This game is absolutely not worth buying - and Bethesda won't refund me for a game that is    I have been a huge fan of Fallout games since Fallout 3 - Fallout 76 has let me down entirely. I join worlds and am disconnected within minutes. I play 1/6 worlds and then get disconnected and lose progress i had mad.

    I understand the premise of the game - but Todd Howard lied through his teeth. This game is absolutely not worth buying - and Bethesda won't refund me for a game that is basically an early access. The PVP is broken and the griefing is out of control. The NPCs don't make sense and are bugged more often than not. The quests glitch and cannot be completed. Power armor is bugged to the point of non-use.

    At the core - it's similar graphics to fallout New Vegas with online connectivity worse than playstation 2 games.    … Expand
  43. sam70-
    Nov 28, 2018
    2
    I actually like the dead world without human npc´s. When i´m playing with friends there´s no time to stand around and listen to long dialogs and you could not change the main story with dialog options even if you wanted too because it´s online. So holotapes that you can listen to on the go is better, even if someone in your team is probably talking over the voiced audio. I had very muchI actually like the dead world without human npc´s. When i´m playing with friends there´s no time to stand around and listen to long dialogs and you could not change the main story with dialog options even if you wanted too because it´s online. So holotapes that you can listen to on the go is better, even if someone in your team is probably talking over the voiced audio. I had very much fun exploring the map but it came to an end because all the bugs. It looks crap because textures are not loading in. The combat is usually only at a couple of frames per second on my PS4 Pro. Animations don´t work. Invisible walls and ruble. Loot disappears in objects. Enemy´s don´t fight back. Enemy´s spawn in beside you. Enemy´s get stuck inside objects. Path finding is awful, enemy´s are running against walls. Settlement building is bugged. VATS is broken, accuracy can shift between 100 and 0 for no reason. And much much more, even bugs from fallout 4 is still there, mainly power armor bugs. The final nail in the coffin was that my character takes damage all the time without any reason where ever i am, what ever i do. This is the first Bethesda game i played for less than 100 hours..… Expand
  44. iamjosueh
    Nov 29, 2018
    2
    Lack of story, buggy unfinished mess. All of the bugs would be tolerable if the world actually had human NPS instead of boring fetch quests. The "story" is just go listen to holotapes, read terminals and notes. Awful story, I can't stress how much this game is in the need for the implementation of Human NPS.
  45. theciruja
    Dec 2, 2018
    2
    Bethesda really messed this one up. This new installment in the Fallout series is an experimental one, where Bethesda tried a whole new multiplayer experience by copy-pasting 90% of Fallout 4 assets.
    I played for a little bit more than 76 hours, I've reached lvl 80 and in the process completed several innumerable quests, fought in pvp and took part of events. I really wanted to like this    Bethesda really messed this one up. This new installment in the Fallout series is an experimental one, where Bethesda tried a whole new multiplayer experience by copy-pasting 90% of Fallout 4 assets.
    I played for a little bit more than 76 hours, I've reached lvl 80 and in the process completed several innumerable quests, fought in pvp and took part of events. I really wanted to like this game because it feels so comfy just walking around the Appalachia exploring, and discovering the over 100 different locations in it but simply this game just doesn't work.

    The story. Honestly, I stopped caring about the story at some point. Listening to monologues on holotapes all the time is boring, specially when the game doesn't stop (because of it's online feature) and you're always hearing noises, enemies and random people talking on their microphones. It's just a really weird way of replacing NPC's and dialogues that doesn't work pretty well. Sometimes I would find myself venturing into a random building, hacking into terminals and reading the mails and information to learn more about the lore but most of the time I wouldn't find anything interesting. In general it just sucks that everyone is already dead when you get out of the vault.

    The enemies. Ghouls and scorched are spread everywhere so you're going to see A LOT of them and killing them gets way too repetitive after a couple of hours. The AI is way too primitive, enemies get stuck everywhere or sometimes it seems like they can't see you at all. You're gonna spend the first hours of the game admiring the flying Scorchbeasts flying above you and once you're strong enough to take one down with your friends you're in for a huge disappointment as these boss-like enemies don't drop any notable loot and they're just a waste of ammo, because trust me they usually take a lot of ammo to kill. You know when you're playing a game and after hours of farming and grinding you kill a specific enemy or boss and you feel so much pride of what you just accomplished? Well, you're not gonna get that feeling here.

    The PVP aspect. When you shoot someone first you barely deal any damage so you gotta wait until the other player shoots you back in order to begin a "duel", unless they have a bounty on them. The most fun I've had so far was finding two players (bounty on them) attacking someone else's camp and taking them both down with my .50 cal. machine gun from behind, later accepting one of the player's challenge to kill each other. The worst experience I had with pvp was getting killed by a player wielding a knife and sporting a jet pack, this guy hit me and flew onto a building rooftop, of course I couldn't follow since I don't have a jet pack yet. He eventually killed me, I came back for revenge only to realize he was glitched so no matter what weapon I used I wasn't dealing any damage. This is a common issue, by the way.

    The copy-pasting. Basically, what Bethesda did here was recycling most assets from Fallout 4, like weapons, armors, automated turrets, buildings and enemies, without providing with more content, which is what most fans expect from a new game. We have this whole new map to explore only to find the same power armors (except for the new Ultracite PA), the same guns and the same enemies from Fallout 4. Charging fans $60 for a multiplayer Fallout 4 experience complete with the same glitches it had 3 years ago is totally unacceptable. We deserved a whole new game, not a recycled one with a few add-ons.

    The collector's edition. I just want to say I'm really disappointed with this, I care very little about the bag not being canvas although Bethesda failed to delivered something that was already promised but the T-51 power armor helmet's quality is outrageous, we paid $200 for it and it has glue everywhere, it feels cheap as hell and I feel like I'm gonna break it if I touch it too much. I also own the Titanfall 2 Vanguard's Edition helmet and the quality is 100x better even thought the price was around $150 I think.

    Overall the whole game is broken, every day people find new bugs and Bethesda fails to keep up the pace fixing things. A huge disappointment.    … Expand
  46. NotUnLikeABoss
    Dec 9, 2018
    2
    I have played around 50 hours of this game, and I can say that if you're expecting a nuanced and detailed story like previous Fallouts, you will be disappointed. Fallout 76 strips you of interesting sidequests and storylines that made previous Fallout games. There's no factions or reputation system, There are no companions or NPCs that have interesting backgrounds or stories to tell. InI have played around 50 hours of this game, and I can say that if you're expecting a nuanced and detailed story like previous Fallouts, you will be disappointed. Fallout 76 strips you of interesting sidequests and storylines that made previous Fallout games. There's no factions or reputation system, There are no companions or NPCs that have interesting backgrounds or stories to tell. In fact, I can hardly say there is a "story" with this game at all, as it just involves running quest marker to quest marker, quest marker to quest marker. The quests are given out by holotapes and voice recordings and the main protagonist just decides to follow them ad nauseam. Fallout 76 completely takes away any semblance of player choice that made Fallout such a good franchise in the first place, you can not choose who to side with to finish the main story, as you are forced to work with different "factions" that consist of only dead people and robots.

    All of this is to be expected of an online Fallout, though, right? What about the gameplay? The gunplay and shooting mechanics are serviceable, to the game's credit. I don't think there have been this many guns in a Fallout game, so you will always pick up new varieties of guns to shoot and play with, which was a big positive. You can mod the guns by scrapping old weapons and learning mod schematics, which I thought was pretty interesting. Power Armor is back as well, being as cool and tanky as ever. Scavenging for junk to build and mod your armor and weapons is time-consuming, but I thought looting and shooting was the most enjoyable part of the game. Some of the guns and armor I picked up though are locked behind level caps, such as the experimental mirv I found being only available past level 45. I know this is to balance the game's "PVP", but they mess that up terribly. The PVP system was the main thing I was looking forward to in the game, being able to snipe and kill people from long range, blow them up, etc. The PVP, however, is very underwhelming. If you attack someone, or they attack you, the damage dealt is reduced by about 90%. This "damage" is more equivalent to being hit with a pool noodle. There was one point where a level 50 came up to me, a level 10, and hit me with a super sledge around 10 times and only took off about a quarter of my health. You can literally choose to play the game without other people bothering you at all! If the person attacked fights back, however, you both do regular damage to each other. This system leads to people getting shot at, then going into their pipboy and taking all of their chems and just barrel stuffing their attacker with a shotgun. This system is unlike any I have ever seen, it just doesn't work properly. Without a properly working PVP, the game turns into a subpar shoot and loot. The game pretty much devolves down into go here, kill these guys, come back. Go there, kill these nameless enemies, come back. Though I did find myself enjoying exploring the numerous dungeons and areas, the enemies were always the same. It's just scorched, ghouls, mole miners, and super mutants, over and over again. This is unfortunate as some of the areas have super interesting backgrounds, and they're completely glossed over for just killing the same nameless enemies again and again.

    The "RPG" mechanics as Fallout is known for are minimal. Your character never seems to get any interesting skills, and most, if not all of the perk cards are things like "10% damage boost with rifles" or "Junk items weigh 25% less". Gone are the days of interesting perks that can change the way the game is played. The perk cards serve their purpose, but for the sake of "balance", any interesting builds and perks from even Fallout 4 are scrapped.

    All of this to mention that the game, technically, is similar, if not WORSE to any other Bethesda game. I had my game crash around 20(!) times in my playthrough of Fallout 76. I also had numerous occasions of bugged quest markers and glitched quests that I literally had to close my game numerous times to get the quests to actually work. The game runs like absolute crap on PS4, with frame drops and lag spikes very, very common. There were points in the game when I was in buildings in the wasteland where I was getting around 5(!) frames per second. This wasn't spikes in frames either, no. There were certain buildings where if you visited them this would be CONSISTENT until you left. Games in this state should NOT be released, especially for 60(!!!!!) dollars as a "AAA" experience.

    Fallout 76 feels like a game without identity, straddling the line between PVP and PVE, while not committing totally to one or the other. It's too scared to fully embrace the PVP, yet it relies on being multiplayer too much to have any interesting RPG elements, NPCs, Factions, or side quests. Bethesda should have just fully committed to one or the other, and not give us this mediocre "run here, shoot this" type of game.    … Expand
  47. PS4Joshua
    Dec 9, 2018
    2
    I want to enjoy this game..but it's just so buggy. They just wanted to cash in on skin sales like every other company after Fortnite .. trying to milk their customers. This buggy mess and the canvas bag ripoff is proff they dont care about their consumers, besides their wallet.
  48. Mikhailovitch
    Dec 14, 2018
    2
    1. A straight up cash-grab on the part of Bethesda, a company that has apparently chosen to swallow a huge helping of poisonous karma by burning up their credibility in exchange for a few caps.
    2. Yes, we the formerly loyal fan base are used to -- and even often amused by -- the numerous bugs and glitches that have traditionally been associated with fresh Bethesda game drops. I mean, we    1. A straight up cash-grab on the part of Bethesda, a company that has apparently chosen to swallow a huge helping of poisonous karma by burning up their credibility in exchange for a few caps.
    2. Yes, we the formerly loyal fan base are used to -- and even often amused by -- the numerous bugs and glitches that have traditionally been associated with fresh Bethesda game drops. I mean, we get it: the worlds they typically create are huge and ridiculously complicated, so it's totally unsurprising that their new games will be more infested with bugs than a tenement apartment has cockroaches.
    3. This game, however, is a whole new level of horrific, half-baked gameplay; frankly, I can think of no other phrase than dumpster fire to describe the sheer, virtually colossal degree of jammed-up, low- frame, repetitive, bugged-out pile of flaming garbage that is Fallout 76.
    4. To clarify where I personally am coming from, I am both a long-time fan of the series -- yes, one of those crazy people that spent hundreds of hours playing and replaying Fallout 3, Vegas, and 4 -- and am most definitely not the sort of fellow that typically complains about games on internet forums.
    5, Which is why I signed up on metacritic just to write this post. This game and -- as is becoming abundantly clear -- the company behind it has stepped so far over the line in terms of willfully screwing over their customer base that i simply felt obligated to warn off other video game fans from getting suckered into plonking down their hard earned green in exchange for a burning chunk of roadside debris.    … Expand
  49. WastelandN
    Jan 3, 2019
    2
    Having played every iteration of Fallout from the start (including having a stash of Nuka-cola caps somewhere in my bedside table), and a long history with MMORPGs, I should have been the perfect target audience for an open world Fallout game. However, the reality is that Bethesda rushed a half-baked game that stripped the charm of Fallout series from the game, while failing to implementHaving played every iteration of Fallout from the start (including having a stash of Nuka-cola caps somewhere in my bedside table), and a long history with MMORPGs, I should have been the perfect target audience for an open world Fallout game. However, the reality is that Bethesda rushed a half-baked game that stripped the charm of Fallout series from the game, while failing to implement basic aspects of the MMO genre that have evolved over the last decade into standby's of the genre. Gone are the compelling Fallout stories, characters, quests and emotional ties to factions and companions. Gone is the humour and quirkiness, or surprising bits of lore that were embedded into the very fabric of the post-nuka landscape. Effectively, the Fallout world was reduced to another post-apocalytic wasteland with echoes of what drew people to Fallout over the past 15-years. Combine this with failing to implement any form of zoning mechanics, a total lack of instancing, terribly buggy re-spawn, woeful inventory mechanics, recurring and frequent bugs with C.A.M.P. spawning/placement, and totally non-intuitive levelling, and you have an MMO that learned NOTHING from WoW or other pioneers of the MMO space. From vanilla WoW through to Cataclysm, WoW always had a strong storyline and quest-givers that kept you involved - Bethesda could have taken this approach and not rushed the game to market and thereby would have kept the feel of the Fallout world, but alas, they chose not to.
    Overall, after playing Fallout76 for a couple months, giving it more that a fare share of playtime, I can't rate this game more than a 2/10.    … Expand
  50. KusoGaki
    Mar 1, 2019
    2
    The most enjoyable moment in this game is when you got banned for playing 100 hours.
  51. Deathxgrind
    Jun 3, 2019
    2
    Напрочь отсутствующий сюжет, баги, тормоза(резкое падение фпс), вылеты, графические артефакты, желание выбить из тебя деньги, это только малая часть того недовольства с чем сталкиваешься играя в худшую игру вселенной. 76 не достойна нести имя этой серии.Напрочь отсутствующий сюжет, баги, тормоза(резкое падение фпс), вылеты, графические артефакты, желание выбить из тебя деньги, это только малая часть того недовольства с чем сталкиваешься играя в худшую игру вселенной. 76 не достойна нести имя этой серии.
  52. Trespass20
    Mar 5, 2019
    2
    I am disapointed in this game. It felt lonely. There are large gaps of no enemies. The game has interesting lore, and can be fun to explore. Overall the game need alot of work and better content. I do want to see if Bethesda will continue with there antics, or give us the game we paid for. At this point in time I would not recomend this game. I do love Bethesda games but there is no reasonI am disapointed in this game. It felt lonely. There are large gaps of no enemies. The game has interesting lore, and can be fun to explore. Overall the game need alot of work and better content. I do want to see if Bethesda will continue with there antics, or give us the game we paid for. At this point in time I would not recomend this game. I do love Bethesda games but there is no reason for releasing the game in this state.… Expand
  53. goatpounder89
    May 9, 2019
    2
    To call this game hot garbage would be an insult to hot garbage. Time and time and time again Bethesda has released buggy, low quality, shambling monstrosities called "video games", with Fallout 76 being the culmination of how wretched they can be. Deceptive marketing and other promotional products, a money-grubbing micro transaction store, newly introduced pay-to-win micro transactions,To call this game hot garbage would be an insult to hot garbage. Time and time and time again Bethesda has released buggy, low quality, shambling monstrosities called "video games", with Fallout 76 being the culmination of how wretched they can be. Deceptive marketing and other promotional products, a money-grubbing micro transaction store, newly introduced pay-to-win micro transactions, and multiple year old bugs from Fallout 4 being introduced in new patches?

    Nothing about this game was finished, which would make sense, as Bethesda had their B-team on it. For such an ambitious project, only the best in the industry should've been around for it, not the shovelware-tier developers. Development could have continued into Q1 or Q2 of 2020, and I still have doubts that any level of polish would've made its way to 76.

    Countless videos and essays and articles have been written, however, Joseph Andersons' pair of videos ((If you care to have THREE ENTIRE HOURS of bug reviews, plus his full format review)) for the issues with Fallout 76 itself, as well as Internet Historians' video covering everything surrounding 76 are excellent ways to recap everything wrong with modern Bethesda.

    Illegal conduct in the means of marketing, illegal conduct in the means of negligence, illegal conduct in the means of customer deception, as well as inconsistent return policies, and this threadbare, duct-tape-and-bubble-gum excuse for a "video game" leave only one option. Bethesda is never to be trusted to produce a product of quality, instead, a train wreck, to point and laugh at out of morbid entertainment.    … Expand
  54. Rastapopolos
    Jun 23, 2019
    2
    I have only played for 16 h and refuse to play for another minute, this has only happened twice in the last years and that was when bought the latest Fifa and later was lured by an ignorant (no longer) friend to buy NBAn2k. If you are the least sensitive to clumsy and greedy business-practices this is not the game for you.

    The metacritic-reviews that defend this game or give it 10/10    I have only played for 16 h and refuse to play for another minute, this has only happened twice in the last years and that was when bought the latest Fifa and later was lured by an ignorant (no longer) friend to buy NBAn2k. If you are the least sensitive to clumsy and greedy business-practices this is not the game for you.

    The metacritic-reviews that defend this game or give it 10/10 suffer from one of the things that have bothered me the most when playing Fallout 3 - 76 as well as Skyrim. Why not settle with something realistic such as you either be the leader of the Dark Brotherhood or head of the Companions or Arch-mage. Or why not just Joe Schmoe in a big world of wonder?

    Yeah, I know; it sounds stupid but in an fantasy-world it's unrealistic that you are the chosen one as well as the leader of any organization you happen to stumble across. And it's totally unrealistic that anyone who has played any AAA-title in the last five years actually thinks this booooring mess is actually really good unless you are paid to say otherwise.

    Sadly it has (at least for now) made me grow totally tired of all them. I've uninstalled both Skyrim and Fallout 4 from my ps4 and doubt I'll ever play anything from Bethesda again... :(    … Expand
  55. hypeTrainHobo
    Oct 26, 2019
    2
    The game is not worth the 60$ for the base game, rather maybe 20$. I give it a 2 because between the bugs, glitches, lonely servers, repetitive enemies, and complete lack of story, some fun elements exist. The crafting system is nice, as is the camp building and survival aspects. So that is the +2 points. The other 8 points...well let’s start from the beginning and work our way forward.The game is not worth the 60$ for the base game, rather maybe 20$. I give it a 2 because between the bugs, glitches, lonely servers, repetitive enemies, and complete lack of story, some fun elements exist. The crafting system is nice, as is the camp building and survival aspects. So that is the +2 points. The other 8 points...well let’s start from the beginning and work our way forward. The game released riddled with bugs and glitches that I would expect to see in a beta for most devs, but this being Bethesda, it was about par for the course. Which would have made it forgivable iif not for them announcing before hand that the game had 16 times the detail of FO4. I’m not sure where this detail is supposed to be found, but it is not in any part of the game I have explored in the last 100+ hours. Further more, the story is lifeless. I had an open mind with the holotape telling of the story and robots and the like...but the story itself simply lacked life, As usual with a Bethesda game now, combat is unimpressive as well. We move forward and see that the atomic shop now includes functional items, seemingly contrary to Bethesda’s original statements, but they conveniently only said the Atomic Shop would be cosmetics. Not that it would be cosmetics ONLY. I’m not sure that any of the player base caught that one prior to launch. Now instead of working on content that has been promised, begged for, and could save the game (NPCs), they have announced a 100$ a year paid subscription to private servers, something that was confirmed to be in the plans prior to launch, but never mentioning it being charged for, much less 100$ a year. Given the nature of mods (a core part of Bethesda games now), they are likely to be behind this steep pay wall as well. Given all of these facts, a 2/10 seems more than generous for a game that was released half baked and over priced, and remains so to this day.… Expand
  56. ryman221
    Apr 20, 2020
    2
    2.75 out of 10 - Very Bad game. Barely better than Anthem. Exposes all of Bethesda's shortcomings over the years.

    Scoring Scale: 1 - (AWFUL) Among the worst games ever made. The developer should be ashamed. 2 - (VERY BAD) These games are so bad they're insulting. 3 - (BAD) Just bad. Game suffers from a wealth of problems in all areas, very few redeeming qualities. 4 - (MEDIOCRE) A    2.75 out of 10 - Very Bad game. Barely better than Anthem. Exposes all of Bethesda's shortcomings over the years.

    Scoring Scale:
    1 - (AWFUL) Among the worst games ever made. The developer should be ashamed.
    2 - (VERY BAD) These games are so bad they're insulting.
    3 - (BAD) Just bad. Game suffers from a wealth of problems in all areas, very few redeeming qualities.
    4 - (MEDIOCRE) A game that has its fair share of serious problems with a few glimmers of quality sprinkled throughout. More than anything it's forgettable.
    5 - (OKAY) For every positive this game has there is just as many negatives. You may be able to find enjoyment in these games however you will likely be met with equal amounts frustration and disappointment.
    6 - (GOOD) There is a decent amount of fun to be had in these games albeit with a few noticeable drawbacks. Worth checking out at some point especially if on sale.
    7 - (GREAT) A game that has some flaws but all in all is a great game worth every penny of its purchase price.
    8 - (AMAZING) Game of the year contender only allowing for some minor flaws.
    9 - (SUPERB) One of if not the best game released that year, truly special.
    10 - (NEAR PERFECT) One of the best games ever made.    … Expand
  57. BlackKnight36
    Apr 25, 2020
    2
    I've heard this game is an absolute joke.
    Especially the "HOLIDAYS EMOTE BUNDLE" For "50% off" of 2400 atoms. It was released half price. That's just ridiculous.

    Thank god I never brought this "game"
    I'm not sure If I can even call it a game.
  58. doberman_egk
    Jul 17, 2020
    2
    Pre Wastelands DLC - 0 score
    Was one of the worst games i had displeasure to play. I played for a few days and the game left pretty bad taste in my mouth to point of me begging for my refund.
    Post Wastlanders - 2 score The game improved a lot, some bugs where fixed, but most improvements were made in making it more monetary success, not much changes in terms of game play. You join    Pre Wastelands DLC - 0 score
    Was one of the worst games i had displeasure to play. I played for a few days and the game left pretty bad taste in my mouth to point of me begging for my refund.
    Post Wastlanders - 2 score
    The game improved a lot, some bugs where fixed, but most improvements were made in making it more monetary success, not much changes in terms of game play. You join servers and you only spot few players who just stand afk waiting for some trades and automated-junk collectors. Addition of NPC didn't solve the biggest problem of the game: it feels empty, don't get me wrong you have a lot of quests to do, but somehow world doesn't feel alive, bad voice acting and recording does help.
    I really would love to see them scrap this game and start from scratch, maybe with new engine    … Expand
  59. Psychonaut89
    Oct 29, 2020
    2
    Man this game sucks. I loved fallout and Skyrim and had this game preordered in 2018 but after the reviews came out I never picked it up. I got it now, years later because apparently the “Wastelanders” dlc finally made it a playable game. I got out of the vault, played for like 2 hours exploring the admittedly beautiful and interesting map they created. Then I put it down and haveMan this game sucks. I loved fallout and Skyrim and had this game preordered in 2018 but after the reviews came out I never picked it up. I got it now, years later because apparently the “Wastelanders” dlc finally made it a playable game. I got out of the vault, played for like 2 hours exploring the admittedly beautiful and interesting map they created. Then I put it down and have basically 0 desire to pick it back up again. What a tragic waste of talent and creativity.

    The worst part is, in the 6 hours I was waiting for the game to download, I was watching videos about what Bethesda has been doing over the past couple years, and all the crap they’ve pulled related to 76 and I’m just so disenchanted with them. I’ll never pre-order another Bethesda game, that’s for sure. Honestly it’s basically good riddance at this point, go extort Xbox players.    … Expand
  60. MrBrooun
    Feb 20, 2022
    2
    Зачем и для кого это надо было делать, просто тихий ужас
  61. POLFAZ
    May 31, 2022
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I have lost my money This Fallout 76 is not a spring game, but a great cannon without ammunition The developers have made a fatal experiment for Bethesda and today they are losers… Expand
  62. Fallout76garba3
    Mar 17, 2023
    2
    It's really really really terrible there's no ward enough to describe my awful experience with this game in 2023 and i played a lot of games from all genre bad and good but this is the worst it's the worst game i played in my life i feel insulated and i am sorry about myself wasted time with this game and anybody want to play this please don't play anything else but not this garbage
  63. gaset04
    Jun 19, 2023
    2
    I spend 3 hours playing Fallout and my opinion will never changed. It's seems to be good but nowadays there are still bugs and a poor optimization. It's a pity
  64. Nemo888
    Nov 28, 2018
    1
    Wow, how did this ever get released? I've played better mods. Bugs from 4 years ago and most of the same assets. I think this is just a recycled garbage Christmas money grab. Don't buy this game. Don't let Bethesda get away with this.
  65. mortendynamo
    Nov 14, 2018
    1
    I pre ordered this game and expected something similar to previous games. I played it for some hours, but i'ts a dead lifeless world with good things missing from it. Biggest disappointment I have had with a game for as long as I can remember.
  66. RidleayRomero
    Dec 1, 2018
    1
    I don't think I've seen a more broken Bethesda game until now. From refusing to start on my PC every single time, to so many network crashes you'd think they dropped more then 3 nukes. The amount of incompetence with how this game was planned out is staggering, no NPCs at all except for robots (BEEP BOOP), story progression is told through holotapes, and practically useless user interface.I don't think I've seen a more broken Bethesda game until now. From refusing to start on my PC every single time, to so many network crashes you'd think they dropped more then 3 nukes. The amount of incompetence with how this game was planned out is staggering, no NPCs at all except for robots (BEEP BOOP), story progression is told through holotapes, and practically useless user interface. If you've made a game that makes your entire player base rethink all of your previous games, you made a very large mistake. Watch as the update patch comes out and it fixes absolutely nothing in the game; that'll be good for a few laughs.… Expand
  67. dissapointed
    Nov 18, 2018
    1
    The huge download for this game was an inconvenience, but not really a deal breaker. Unfortunately, that is the smallest of my complaints about this game. Fallout is a great franchise that they have simply broken with their insistence on making this a multiplayer game. The story is weaker than i would have thought possible, with the first 4 story quests nothing but picking up an audiotapeThe huge download for this game was an inconvenience, but not really a deal breaker. Unfortunately, that is the smallest of my complaints about this game. Fallout is a great franchise that they have simply broken with their insistence on making this a multiplayer game. The story is weaker than i would have thought possible, with the first 4 story quests nothing but picking up an audiotape of the elusive vault overseer. As soon as you pick up one, another shows on the map. Yippee. I cannot pause the game to look through the 400+ items i have or take a piss without being attacked by a mole rat at the base I built. Oh and by the way, they can open doors to your base. the VATS sytem is useless because it cannot slow time, and switching to another weapon in a firefight with with multiple enemies when you run out of ammo is comedy gold. I never got past these things to find out more because i was so frustrated. Did I mention the lag or the 5 second screen freeze during fights? F you, Bethesda, you made a great SPG into a sh** MMO.… Expand
  68. Agilio333
    Nov 15, 2018
    1
    Just a very lazy rehashing of previous IP to make a fast buck. Fallout 4 was pretty bad and this is just Bethesda cashing out on the last of the value this game has. This franchise had it's glory days and it's over.
  69. TheAtheist
    Nov 14, 2018
    1
    I truly feel that this game is an artistic failing, that has completely abandoned its roots in order to embrace the masses with limited attention spans. There is no depth here and its essentially just radiant quests forever. It might be fun with friends, but there are better more deserving games. Don't sheepishly go along with the marketing manufactured hype and reward the removal ofI truly feel that this game is an artistic failing, that has completely abandoned its roots in order to embrace the masses with limited attention spans. There is no depth here and its essentially just radiant quests forever. It might be fun with friends, but there are better more deserving games. Don't sheepishly go along with the marketing manufactured hype and reward the removal of artistic integrity within games, especially from series' that featured mostly fantastic immersive RPG experiences.… Expand
  70. robdot
    Nov 20, 2018
    1
    Broken, boring, tedious mess. Flawed on its most basic level of design. 90 percent of the game is simple inventory management because you are constantly overweight,hungry, thirsty,or radiated. Or diseased.The perk system is simply designed to overcome these flaws which shouldn't be there in the first place. So,I don't know if this is fixable. The world itself is lifeless,,and dull. Don'tBroken, boring, tedious mess. Flawed on its most basic level of design. 90 percent of the game is simple inventory management because you are constantly overweight,hungry, thirsty,or radiated. Or diseased.The perk system is simply designed to overcome these flaws which shouldn't be there in the first place. So,I don't know if this is fixable. The world itself is lifeless,,and dull. Don't bother with this,… Expand
  71. maximovich
    Nov 14, 2018
    1
    To expect people to spend their hard-earned money on this is an attack on common sense. Let us be responsible for our actions, let us punish with our purchase decision and with low scores those developers who want to enrich themselves with million-dollar advertising campaigns and products of dismal quality.
  72. Goo4you
    Nov 29, 2018
    1
    I am convinced any, and every perfect score given by users on this game are bots. This game was not ready for publication, not even close. At absolute best, it was a late Alpha/early Beta release.

    This isn't a game; this is an unfinished project that was handed in because they ran out of time.
  73. Rsharp254
    Nov 19, 2020
    1
    After all this time - Bethesda using an extremely outdated engine still causes the same issues I experienced in games over 15years ago. I leveled myself to 77 when this first came out and then stopped playing completely for the last couple of years. I 'thought' given the amount of time it's been, they should of had enough time to address many of the issues that made me quit in the firstAfter all this time - Bethesda using an extremely outdated engine still causes the same issues I experienced in games over 15years ago. I leveled myself to 77 when this first came out and then stopped playing completely for the last couple of years. I 'thought' given the amount of time it's been, they should of had enough time to address many of the issues that made me quit in the first place. And of course, creating a fresh character makes me run into the same issues that have pissed me off with every Bethesda iteration. In this case, I talking specifically about the button mapping issues that has persisted for decades now. And every time, I need to go back and reset to the default button layout so that I can see where the button's' that don't work, get mapped to. As the engine has a terrible time showing and correctly mapping buttons. I am a pc gamer - I map my "Active/Activate" button to the letter 'G' - but in FO76 - the letter G only rotates items when you try and build sometime and does not allow you to actually place the item. So again...I have to reset buttons to default, see that the default is 'E' - reroute this to another button that doesn't 'rotate' items when in build mode.
    I'm so tired of this...I've experienced some form of frustration around the button layout in virtually every single Bethesda game I've played for the last 15-20 years. Why is this so hard to address?!?    … Expand
  74. Zenn3k
    Nov 16, 2018
    1
    Boring husk of a Fallout game. Even if you try as hard as you can to have fun, you're still gonna be bored in a few days. Avoid.
  75. Ubervelt
    Nov 16, 2018
    1
    It's a buggy mess. No reason to progress, nothing to interact with, nothing to drive me forward. Zero incentive to play.

    This is an appalling attempt at a multiplayer Fallout game. It would be overzealous to call this a pvp game, or even a multiplayer.

    Literally a mile wide and half an inch deep.
  76. trytoblockmenow
    Nov 16, 2018
    1
    A stunning embarrassment. An ancient graphics engine, some of the worst enemy AI i've ever experience, no fun, nothing to do. Waste of money cash grab on a beloved franchise.
  77. ratchet23
    Nov 20, 2018
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It's actually not as bad as I expected. Got vored by mothman and ate his toes from the inside. Real insight into the emergent gameplay potential this game holds but there's just not enough of it.

    Environmental storytelling by way of toejam was verty cool.    … Expand
  78. Stormcloud72
    Nov 16, 2018
    1
    Game is a buggy, laggy mess. World so far feels completely lifeless. Rubberbanding due to insufficient connection to server with 200mb consumer connection. Have gotten stuck in the game world several times, forcing me to reload my gave instance. The building of camps in the game is a joke. On the first day, players cheated to get nuke codes and launched nukes on the first day of release.Game is a buggy, laggy mess. World so far feels completely lifeless. Rubberbanding due to insufficient connection to server with 200mb consumer connection. Have gotten stuck in the game world several times, forcing me to reload my gave instance. The building of camps in the game is a joke. On the first day, players cheated to get nuke codes and launched nukes on the first day of release. Bethesda says this is a fallout game with perpetual updates. The game does not even look, or feel, post apocalyptic in any way.… Expand
  79. Johno752
    Dec 16, 2019
    1
    I gave it a 1 because it was at least free (for a weekend). Over a year since launch and this game is still a mess, it is primarily a first person shooter but the combat is completely broken, enemies not taking damage, enemies shooting through walls and more, the list is endless. It’s such a shame because I love exploring the world and the lore.
  80. hockeyplayer
    Nov 26, 2018
    1
    Wish i could get refunded the $5 from RedBox for this game its that bad. Seeing how they wont even refund a ps4 purchase they promised someone i don't see that happening.

    I've loved these games fallout 3 , new vegas and 4! With that said 76 is a garbage cash grab. Developers like Naughty, rockstar or cdProject would be embarrassed to release something this bad. Sad.. im sure the    Wish i could get refunded the $5 from RedBox for this game its that bad. Seeing how they wont even refund a ps4 purchase they promised someone i don't see that happening.

    I've loved these games fallout 3 , new vegas and 4! With that said 76 is a garbage cash grab. Developers like Naughty, rockstar or cdProject would be embarrassed to release something this bad.

    Sad.. im sure the super die hard Bethesda fans will except it, But not this fan.

    Learn from your many mistakes! but i doubt they will.    … Expand
  81. ice05
    Nov 15, 2018
    1
    I don't like when ppl are just either 0/10 or a 10/10 but man this game is LAZY! . I'm playing with friends and still we all kinda get bored. I find the game kind of ugly with the bad lighting, there's a mod for PC to fix that but not on ps4. Really just a unwanted game and unfinished game that ask for money. Also the no NPC's is ......worst idea they could of done.
  82. REKT
    Nov 23, 2018
    1
    It is now obvious the reason they chose to do loads of live action trailers is because they couldn't keep the game working long enough to record an in game trailer.
  83. fhl333
    Nov 15, 2018
    1
    Gameplay: clunky, boring, full of glitches.
    Graphics: Old looking
    Sound: weapons sound very unrealistic
    Longevity: None. No end game content
  84. vault2wasteland
    Oct 21, 2019
    1
    Preface: I have spent 2,400 hours on fallout 4. 100s on fallout 3 & New Vegas

    Bethesda promised cosmetic only microtransactions
    Pete Hines is a liar

    It breaks my heart but this is a buggy dumpster fire of a game with no charm
    This is a cash grab trying to squeeze every cent from the consumer with a low effort put in. A thoroughly unenjoyable game

    Shame on you Bethesda
  85. brandonb7
    Nov 20, 2018
    1
    Just seems like a shell of a game. No NPCs, quests are boring, and everything seems meaningless...and that's all when the game is actually working.
  86. lionking3344
    Nov 15, 2018
    1
    Lack of NPCs, the game is full of bugs, the game world is empty and boring,slaughtered the game, come to you, bestheda , game infamous
  87. metadubrev2
    Nov 22, 2018
    1
    After ~150gb of downloads and updates is a game riddled with bugs, frame rate problems and crashes. The "game" is a boring 2nd life with long slow travels walking to constantly find food and water. You're health and action bars are constantly lowered by unavoidable disease, irradiation, thirst and hunger. Your inventory is low, vendors carry little cash and necessary supplies are limited.After ~150gb of downloads and updates is a game riddled with bugs, frame rate problems and crashes. The "game" is a boring 2nd life with long slow travels walking to constantly find food and water. You're health and action bars are constantly lowered by unavoidable disease, irradiation, thirst and hunger. Your inventory is low, vendors carry little cash and necessary supplies are limited. So fine the game forces you to live with very little. Don't get attached to a good weapon because it breaks and you don't have the resources to repair it. Don't build because someone will drop a nuke and you'll lose your camp. Don't modify anything because again it'll break and you can't repair it without looking for items for hours. You can't afford to buy them. You can't afford to fast travel and you can't run so you'll walk forever to go anywhere. If you do fast travel free back to base and when you go through doors both with long load times you'll likely be surrounded by a hoard of enemies when you spawn and you'll die. When you die you lose all junk and you have to go back and die again trying to retrieve it if someone doesn't steal it first. There's no way to play co-op even with friends much less strangers because everyone will take different times to manage items, health, read/listen to items. There's so few people on your server on a huge map there's no help in public events which give you fewer gifts than the supplies you'll use accomplishing them. And if you claim a workshop for a public event your caps were spent on something that disappears when you log off or someone steals it. Welcome to your new life. Basically don't buy, build or get attached to anything. Live off of whatever weapon you can find at the moment and when it breaks or the ammo runs out have a back-up and pick up whatever else is dropped. The maps will show you in general where you'll be walking to but won't show local maps or anything helpful like locations for benches. Since the game is live good luck trying to hack a computer because you'll be attacked during. And good luck trying to use the vats or manage weapon and health items during combat. So if living with nothing, having your whole day be occupied with looking for food and water and having what little you acquire be taken away this is the game for you.… Expand
  88. e0068
    Dec 4, 2018
    1
    Ads and trailers are the best part of the game. Boring and unplayable, even with friends.
  89. Enlade
    Nov 19, 2018
    1
    Fire Howard already and give Fallout to Obsidian back! This is a f****ng hilarious.
  90. oleghelezcov
    Nov 15, 2018
    1
    This is a very raw and boring game, regardless of whether you are playing alone or not alone.
    Standard actions, the absence of the NPC, annoying combat system, a simple journey around the world quickly bored, nothing to catch in the game
  91. michaelgundam
    Nov 30, 2018
    1
    The concept is good, but the development is really rubbish!!!!

    BUGS!!! BUGS!!! BUGS!!! BUGS!!! BUGS!!! No guide for newbie. Leak of information about new system (e.g. PVP, Pacifist Mode...) Sxxk Pacifist Mode: I just want to PEACE!!! PLEASE Don't let me auto join the PVP mission!!! Don't let me be wanted when i steal something in other's workshop!! You never told me i will be wanted    The concept is good, but the development is really rubbish!!!!

    BUGS!!! BUGS!!! BUGS!!! BUGS!!! BUGS!!!
    No guide for newbie.
    Leak of information about new system (e.g. PVP, Pacifist Mode...)
    Sxxk Pacifist Mode: I just want to PEACE!!! PLEASE Don't let me auto join the PVP mission!!! Don't let me be wanted when i steal something in other's workshop!! You never told me i will be wanted when i do this!!
    Todd, please leave the FALLOUT series alone!!!!    … Expand
  92. Manzor
    Nov 17, 2018
    1
    At mid November 2018, this game is almost unplayable. It's broken. Don't lose your time with this.
  93. falloutisbae
    Nov 14, 2018
    1
    Obsidian needs to come back to fix this **** Please, for the love of all things holy please Bethesda have Obsidian make the next Fallout game, You guys are terrible and you don't understand what makes a good Fallout game. Returning
  94. Heizenblog
    Nov 19, 2018
    1
    I'm a huge Fallout fan, so I'm incredibly sad and disappointed to be playing this mess of a game, I do kind of wonder if this is just a cash grab from Bethesda with added micro transactions on an already expensive game.

    The games has massive bugs, terrible PS2 style graphics on a tired and old engine. I hate the multiplayer aspect as this does not fit with the story driven style of the    I'm a huge Fallout fan, so I'm incredibly sad and disappointed to be playing this mess of a game, I do kind of wonder if this is just a cash grab from Bethesda with added micro transactions on an already expensive game.

    The games has massive bugs, terrible PS2 style graphics on a tired and old engine. I hate the multiplayer aspect as this does not fit with the story driven style of the previous Fallout games, give me NPC's and a real purpose. Next time Bethesda listen to your fans and not assume you know what you're doing.    … Expand
  95. XenoVerde
    Nov 25, 2018
    1
    this is not fallout. it is fun such as can be fortnite if you play with friend.
    if it is fun it doensnt mean it is a good IP. Horrible quest design and not deep narrative..
    is the same graphich engine of elder scrolls with great lights.

    and it went out with a full price 79€. dont buy play fallout 4, 3, new vegas.
  96. houmie
    Dec 22, 2018
    1
    The game has a weak story and contradicts its own lore. It's a complete asset flip from Fallout 4. They have recycled the entire graphics, even though fallout 76 is supposed to be only 20 years after the war and not 200. With the exception of God-ray lighting, the in-game graphics and animations are from a decade ago. It feels very dated in 2018. The lack of NPCs makes the game a veryThe game has a weak story and contradicts its own lore. It's a complete asset flip from Fallout 4. They have recycled the entire graphics, even though fallout 76 is supposed to be only 20 years after the war and not 200. With the exception of God-ray lighting, the in-game graphics and animations are from a decade ago. It feels very dated in 2018. The lack of NPCs makes the game a very lonely place. While the game has fun moments, I left frustrated after the game deleted my entire hard-earned power armor due to a bug. The game has too many game breaking bugs. I would stay clear for 6-12 months until they have fixed everything and added better content, let your wallet speak, maybe they'd stop rushing it for next time like this.… Expand
  97. johnlemon04
    Jan 22, 2019
    1
    All the people who are giving this game a score above 4 are lying. this is a mess. what a big failure. Todd and bethesda are the new hello games plus the new EA. and you know what bothers me? theyre working and theyre the ones who will release the new doom games and that worries me. not going to trust Todd howard again. Why everything that goes mainstream dies or gets destroyed? justAll the people who are giving this game a score above 4 are lying. this is a mess. what a big failure. Todd and bethesda are the new hello games plus the new EA. and you know what bothers me? theyre working and theyre the ones who will release the new doom games and that worries me. not going to trust Todd howard again. Why everything that goes mainstream dies or gets destroyed? just trying to milk the fallout franchise. what a joke and Fallout 4 is one of the weakest games of the series.… Expand
  98. Soles
    Dec 7, 2018
    1
    Similar to playing with your garbage bin. No storyline and quite boring. Only up side is that there'll be less bugs playing with your garbage than Fallout 76
  99. SaberZer0
    Nov 14, 2018
    1
    Disappointed in the presentation. This look like a modern game and certainly not up to triple A standards. Extreme disappointed. Avoid this cash grab until it hits the sale bins.
  100. Carter478
    Jan 6, 2019
    1
    I knew that this game wasn't gonna be mind blowing by any account but my friend and I had planned to both get it to play it together. I thought at the very least it'll be enjoyable playing with them.. I didn't think i'd end up falling asleep whilst it playing with them. I went into this game expecting it to be average but average would be a compliment. Fallout 76 feels like a small gradeI knew that this game wasn't gonna be mind blowing by any account but my friend and I had planned to both get it to play it together. I thought at the very least it'll be enjoyable playing with them.. I didn't think i'd end up falling asleep whilst it playing with them. I went into this game expecting it to be average but average would be a compliment. Fallout 76 feels like a small grade up from those asset flip **** games that people would put on steam. As consumers for Bethesda games we expect bugs on launch... but I got this a month after launch (cheap thankfully) and it's one of the buggiest games I've ever seen. There's no story, no NPCs to talk to and no sense of wonder as youre exploring the map. Buildings and places are just shamelessly reused from other fallout games and pasted.

    It's just a mess and I wish I could sell this game but I'd feel guilty putting the pain of the game onto another living person. This game has broken my faith in Bethesda and I have lost my excitement for Elder scrolls 6 because of it.    … Expand
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 43 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 43
  2. Mixed: 29 out of 43
  3. Negative: 12 out of 43
  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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