Fallout 76

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2.8

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 4921 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 3,531 out of 4921
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  1. Hics
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    Loot is level locked. PVP is invite initiated. There are no human NPC's. Every mission is mind numbingly repetitive. The "story" is told through hundreds of holotapes cause, again, no human NPC's. It looks absolutely terrible for a 2018 game and runs like hot garbage. Shall I go on? What a mess, Bethesda Softworks used to be one of the best gaming studios, now it's a bad joke.
  2. gomemk
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    lazysda was trusted and given the pass too many times and this mess is the result .
  3. akshaysk
    Nov 18, 2018
    10
    Game is fun and I enjoyed myself. Fallout was always meant for MMO-style and I can't wait for the sequel
  4. Seph82
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    Worst game I tried in years. I made an account just to write this comment. Shame on you Bethesda.
  5. WhooDeeer
    Nov 18, 2018
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. My Fallout 76 review, to put it simple the game is a Blast. I have over 30 hrs played since Tuesday and been having a blast. Yes the game has no NPC's this is true and listening to holotaps is a bit boring I can agree. If you played MGSV and enjoyed that game for what it was, then you'll like fallout 76. It's basically fallout 4 Online, the game also has a MMO twist and there is some PVP element to it ( just need to tune into a radio station).

    9/10 - The reason for my score, because nothing is perfect in this world.    … Expand
  6. 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"
  7. 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
  8. finnonfire
    Nov 18, 2018
    3
    The endgame content is grinding. The bugs and glitches are game breaking (game freezes and crashes). Roleplaying is nonexistant. No one plays the pvp. Building is locked by perk cards making it late game content for most people. Stash is too small
  9. Elfien
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    You get games like Horizon: ZD, RDR 2, WITCHER 3, MARVEL´s SPIDER MAN and then THIS **** **** which looks like some early PS3/X360 game and moreover even runs so **** bad. HOW can Bethesda even think of any success of this crappy game. And we all know that the technical state of this game isnt the only issue it has. Unbelievable.
  10. F00berChu
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    There are too many problems with this "game" to list in just one post, so read through points others have made for most issues with this "product".

    I'll just add that the one thing this game had going for it was the multiplayer aspect, and it just didn't work out. The single most common defense for this game was that "it's fun with friends!" but anything is fun with right friends! If    There are too many problems with this "game" to list in just one post, so read through points others have made for most issues with this "product".

    I'll just add that the one thing this game had going for it was the multiplayer aspect, and it just didn't work out.

    The single most common defense for this game was that "it's fun with friends!" but anything is fun with right friends! If something is only fun with friends that's not point for the games benefit, but your friends, you may as well be playing spin-the-bottle, heck, that would be so much better than this "game".

    There are hardly anyone to be found playing the multiplayer, so if you do not have bunch of friend ready to drop everything and jump into the game with you 100% of the time you will not be having good time.    … Expand
  11. Zabaoth
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    I never give something a 0, and it's definitely not review bombing, and I know Bethesda's games are buggy and crash until usually the community fixes it. But on PS4 it crashed right on the title screen. Three times. I reinstalled, and moved from system to external storage to troubleshoot. Kept crashing at title screen. It wasn't even a very nice title screen. So that's a 0.
  12. sgy0003
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    You know, this is what happens when you try to build an MMO on a concept that has always been about singleplayer. I mean, fallout always have been about wandering around the wasteland by yourself or sometimes with a one(1) companion, and trying to make a multiplayer only game on that makes it completely fall on its ass. Elder Scrolls didn't get this (at least before the updates) so why doYou know, this is what happens when you try to build an MMO on a concept that has always been about singleplayer. I mean, fallout always have been about wandering around the wasteland by yourself or sometimes with a one(1) companion, and trying to make a multiplayer only game on that makes it completely fall on its ass. Elder Scrolls didn't get this (at least before the updates) so why do it with Fallout?

    The game could have been filled with rich lore, NPCs with a wide variety of personalities, cool looking locations, and amazing storytelling. But no, it's a Multiplayer-only game. There is no narrative within the world, and you have to "make your own story". You mean a story where classic lore has been retconned, NPCs with personalities are nonexistent, discovering dull looking locations, and getting killed by **** players?

    Bethesda also decided to make FO76 on the same engine as FO4, which not only is an outdated crappy engine on its own, making FO76 look carbon copy of FO4, but also can be used to create mods. Now mods on Bethesda games generally were great, but the said games were FRIGGIN' SINGLEPLAYER GAMES!. You seriously think some players won't be ****s and create mods that give unfair advantages and may even break the game? Yeah, there could be an anti-cheat software, but then it will also block mods that were genuinely trying to improve the game. And there aren't even private servers yet, which I am hoping there won't be any monetization scheme to run the private servers.

    Guys, just get Red Dead Redemption 2 instead.    … Expand
  13. Justlovegaming
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    Fallout 76 is just a tired, glitchy and recycled old engine that needs laying to rest. I'm a huge Fallout fan but this game is empty and a literal mess.
  14. diegomc97
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    Este trozo de caca nunca superará al dios Cory en la casa blanca. Porquería que nunca debió existir
  15. SenorCoconut
    Nov 18, 2018
    5
    Okay so i will try to tell as much + and - points. Positive:
    +West Virginia is beautifull and varied
    +Very fun to explore +A lot of new ennemies and creatures +a ton of new items negative: -A LOT OF BUGS AND GLITCHES (honestly you already knew that) -Very ugly shadows -A pretty outdated engine -An absolutely disgusting motion blur -No human NPCs = no characters -No companions    Okay so i will try to tell as much + and - points. Positive:
    +West Virginia is beautifull and varied
    +Very fun to explore
    +A lot of new ennemies and creatures
    +a ton of new items
    negative:
    -A LOT OF BUGS AND GLITCHES (honestly you already knew that)
    -Very ugly shadows
    -A pretty outdated engine
    -An absolutely disgusting motion blur
    -No human NPCs = no characters
    -No companions
    -The quests are not fun because you know that the person that gives you the quest is dead so you don't even have the motivation to do the quest
    -can't change your fov as of right now
    -Your carryweight is very small
    -A story? What's that never heard of it
    -Remember how i said that there were a lot of cool new items ? WELL GOOD LUCK GETTING THEM BECAUSE ENEMMIES ONLY DROP CRAPPY LOOT
    -Your weapons break so often you have the feeling they're made from cardboard
    -Items are leveled. WHY???!!!! this was nerver a feature in fallout and nobody ever asked for this, oh and by the way you cannot upgrade a weapon to your level because that would be too easy
    -The fact that you need to eat and drink (yeah i don't like this feature)
    -The Atomic shop i have nothing to say except that putting microtransactions in a game that already has a bad reputation isn't really a good idea
    -don't even think about doing pvp in this game because the system for that sucks more than a vacuum
    -the servers are not F****** encrypted ! that means someone can cheat ingame, make you disconnect from the server and the worst that he can do is get your IP adress HOW? FFS this the first thing that bethesda should have worked on

    In the end i think the game has potential but has a lot of negative points that really hurt the game in it's gameplay and it's reputation.    … Expand
  16. mefdns
    Nov 18, 2018
    4
    To many technical issues. Oftime FPS drops and freezes on PS4, bugs with general quests, sounds, graphics. Current state of the game is very, very bad. It is disaster for franchise and reputation of Bethesda.
  17. hemelsbrood
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    the game is a cash-cow, without innovations. lootboxes due too add-on packages. no real story and no npc's whatsoever. hope the sharehoders are happy, cause the players certainly aren't.
    just sick
  18. hicap
    Nov 18, 2018
    1
    Is this a joke? Should have a stable game before release. I was excited for this and now I want to nuke my PC back to Fallout 3
  19. SFM92
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    Disgraceful. We are apparently braindead cattle who deserve a braindead game. Bethesda destroyed the franchise, and I'm quite infuriated about it.
  20. Wolfhunter4466
    Nov 18, 2018
    7
    A decent game but shouldn’t have been released for a few more months because of bugs and noticeable rushing of the game. So it’s filled with bugs, server issues, frame rate problems and the game freezes sometimes as well... a BIG problem as well is that there is poor balance with weight in the game!!! You start out with 100 carry weight (that’s terrible for a fallout game) and so you getA decent game but shouldn’t have been released for a few more months because of bugs and noticeable rushing of the game. So it’s filled with bugs, server issues, frame rate problems and the game freezes sometimes as well... a BIG problem as well is that there is poor balance with weight in the game!!! You start out with 100 carry weight (that’s terrible for a fallout game) and so you get over encumbered ALOT!! And also the “My stashes” in the game (basically the place where you put your items in but you have the ability to find them all over the map so you can access you stuff.) only has a max weight limit of 400 weight which is STUPID!!! Because that is nothing at ALL so it’s very frustrating because you are constantly again over encumbered all the time!! It’s got to the point where I am now stuck over encumbered... I have heard there fixing this (hopefully soon) i don’t know how well but we will see I just hope they will fix this game because it’s actually ALOT of fun especially with friends! If your looking to play don’t come looking for your typical fallout experience look at it more as a mod or an addon to fallout 4. But something I wish they would have done is delayed the game and fixed these issues before launch so the game could be more stable, but I give them a bit of a pass because it’s there first online game so they have that but a lot needs to be improved on!!… Expand
  21. MathiasVoorhees
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    No NPCS, no story, Fallout 4 copy and pasted graphics, a ton of bugs, cancerous community with names like pu$$y_licker, an empty world. Every game critic goes ham 10/10 5/5 100/100 best game of the year. Oh and I almost forgot microtransactions when the game already costs 60$. And yes these are all issues that Bethesda pretty much confirmed are to stay.
  22. Raymond8
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    Such a disappointment made by Bethesda, being a massive fan of fallout to witness this rubbish! No NPC’s to showcase a narrative story line, following online multiplayer call of duty gimmick crap with random players causing you grief annoying you, venders don’t restock there cap limits but rather always have 0 caps once they’ve ran out meaning you can never sell loot, Frame rate drops soSuch a disappointment made by Bethesda, being a massive fan of fallout to witness this rubbish! No NPC’s to showcase a narrative story line, following online multiplayer call of duty gimmick crap with random players causing you grief annoying you, venders don’t restock there cap limits but rather always have 0 caps once they’ve ran out meaning you can never sell loot, Frame rate drops so bad you’re hits to enemies are delayed! This is garbage am sorry.. I’ve deleted this from my console till they either patch this game properly or go back to there roots with a new fallout without online crap. Such a let down Bethesda.… Expand
  23. czacha79
    Nov 18, 2018
    10
    This game doesn't deserve so much hate from people that even didn't play it.
  24. DaTruf
    Nov 17, 2018
    0
    This was a plain cash grab! nothing more, nothing new. If you told me 5 years ago that Bug-thesda would scr*w their playerbase over like this id knock you to ur knees but now im the one on mine asking why this was done what we did to desive this!
    Dont buy this game unless theres a 50% off special or its a year or 2 later, youd be happier with FO4 and its expansions which are far better    This was a plain cash grab! nothing more, nothing new. If you told me 5 years ago that Bug-thesda would scr*w their playerbase over like this id knock you to ur knees but now im the one on mine asking why this was done what we did to desive this!
    Dont buy this game unless theres a 50% off special or its a year or 2 later, youd be happier with FO4 and its expansions which are far better than this filth!    … Expand
  25. arcanum2240
    Nov 17, 2018
    0
    This game is possibly one of the worst games I've ever played. Don't waste your money on this glorified pre-alpha of a game.
  26. janettaplanetta
    Nov 17, 2018
    8
    This is my short, interim take on this game which I've played through the B.E.T.A. and now full game. I'll have much more to say in a month or two when I've played it more and seen the improvements and possible new content.
    For now I will say that I'm *really* enjoying this game. I love the Fallout world and this game feels like Fallout. The world is amazing, beautiful to look at and    This is my short, interim take on this game which I've played through the B.E.T.A. and now full game. I'll have much more to say in a month or two when I've played it more and seen the improvements and possible new content.
    For now I will say that I'm *really* enjoying this game. I love the Fallout world and this game feels like Fallout. The world is amazing, beautiful to look at and varied in its locations. That, in itself, is a pleasure to a Fallout lover. I have played solo quite a bit and I enjoy that because I can take my time, fully explore and read the terminals and notes, listen to holo tapes etc. and I'm intrigued by the story which I have a growing sense of. It's also very fun to run around with friends and do quests, take on big enemies etc. There's some great additions to the enemies in the form of weird and wonderful creatures. The perk system is surprisingly deep which provides so many options in the kind of build you want to go for.
    On the downsides, I *am* becoming frustrated with the inventory and stash limits which are manageable but just not fun to manage. THIS IS BEING INCREASED! Just read Bethesda's latest bulletin and am very happy about that. I also want to get deeper into base building, having been really into the settlement building in FO 4, but am going through a spell at the moment where my base has been removed every time I rejoin the game and my main building (which is blueprinted) is dismantled. Feeling a bit fed up about that but it may be something I'm doing wrong....I'm working on it and will report back. I should add that that's only just started happening, Prior to the last day or two either my base was where I left it or I could replace it perfectly without any problems. Performance wise I'm not experiencing the freezes and crashes that some people are reporting, It gets a bit laggy at times but that's about it. Neither have I experienced a lot of bugs. In fact in my experience it's running pretty well. I'm running a PS4 Pro & have good internet. (I'm also playing on PC and it runs smoother and the game looks even better on that). I'm really looking forward to where this game is going, and I have the strong sense that Bethesda will be continuing to improve on the teething problems and adding new content. Don't believe all the rubbish that's being spouted out there. Game wise it may not be for you, but everyone I gave a free code to so they could participate in the BETA (Bethes gave all who pre-ordered 3 free codes for friends and I had double - PS4 & PC) really enjoyed their time in the game and 100% came out feeling much more positive about the game than they had been prior. Several of them who told me they weren't interested prior to playing it have now bought it and are having a good time with the game. This is a good game with some things that need to be improved, and they are being improved. I'm happy with it.    … Expand
  27. Diskyp2
    Nov 17, 2018
    0
    Bethesda just did nothing but a lot of PR as usual. This is the same game with the same graphic and gameplay content that previous part. The only new things here is the bugs and horrible attempt to create some abomination of the concepts from other games. There is no ideas and no content so the game is boring as s**t looks like s**t and, i can feel, smell the same.
    So now fallout is yet    Bethesda just did nothing but a lot of PR as usual. This is the same game with the same graphic and gameplay content that previous part. The only new things here is the bugs and horrible attempt to create some abomination of the concepts from other games. There is no ideas and no content so the game is boring as s**t looks like s**t and, i can feel, smell the same.
    So now fallout is yet another raped by cashgrabber company franchise.
    I did it last time and i did it again - bucking 0/10.    … Expand
  28. Foster52rus
    Nov 17, 2018
    0
    Я как средний фанат fallout начавший знакомство с серией с f3 (был ей просто восхищен) fnv впечатлила чуть меньше но твердая 4.5 из 5 сейчас полетят тапки)) f 4 воспринял на ура хотя были сомнения по поводу слишком яркого мира, но лор все объяснил. Потом стал видеть косяки в виде кошмарно тупых ботов и убогих диалогов, но от игры не отвернулся она порежнему мне очень нравится. Но 76 этоЯ как средний фанат fallout начавший знакомство с серией с f3 (был ей просто восхищен) fnv впечатлила чуть меньше но твердая 4.5 из 5 сейчас полетят тапки)) f 4 воспринял на ура хотя были сомнения по поводу слишком яркого мира, но лор все объяснил. Потом стал видеть косяки в виде кошмарно тупых ботов и убогих диалогов, но от игры не отвернулся она порежнему мне очень нравится. Но 76 это полный шлак с фансервисом для дегродов!!! Вместо того чтобы пилить годные синглы с упором на сюжет и реиграбельность жадная беседка сделала онлайн стрелялку выживалку с открытым миром на костылях. Вобщем попыталась охватить все хайповые жанры а результат криво сделанное дополнение к f4 , может еще аниме добавить для охвата аудитории???… Expand
  29. mmmarkb
    Nov 17, 2018
    10
    Might be the quintessential Fallout experience. You exit the vault to a great feeling of emptiness, accompanied by a feeling of fear and genuine suspicion of every person you run into. The world is huge and gorgeous. There is plenty of story and lore here, don't let any one fool you. This is not Fallout 5, but if you love Fallout you'll love Fallout 76.
  30. Jonhuggs
    Nov 17, 2018
    9
    The game is awesome, been playing mostly solo and besides real time vats, hunger and thirst mechanic and occasionally seeing other people it plays a lot like 3, new vegas, or 4. Most of the negative reviews are from people who haven't even played the game.
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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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