Fallout 76

 Xbox One
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3.3

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 1839 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 519 out of 1839
  2. Mixed: 100 out of 1839
  3. Negative: 1,220 out of 1839
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  1. Rix_122131
    Jun 5, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. garbage....................................................................................… Expand
  2. Josephhrf
    Jul 28, 2021
    0
    If you want to spend 1/2 of your time logging back into the game, this is the game for you. The game is full of bugs that stop gameplay, either it will kick you or you will choose to restart. The game freezes often and can cause you to lose your place in the quest where you have to start all over again after spending so much time preparing for it. The loss of ammo spent and then having toIf you want to spend 1/2 of your time logging back into the game, this is the game for you. The game is full of bugs that stop gameplay, either it will kick you or you will choose to restart. The game freezes often and can cause you to lose your place in the quest where you have to start all over again after spending so much time preparing for it. The loss of ammo spent and then having to do it all over again is just as upsetting as the down time. They also will reboot for Maintenance often, too often. Then if you mention anything on their discord server they don't want to hear about it. You'll get a nasty response.… Expand
  3. dropdeadzed
    Oct 18, 2021
    0
    POS ruined fallout and elder scrolls with this online garbage. so much of the game is so much more inconvenient just because they want you to take so much longer playing in a cash grab pvp environment. absolute greedy pieces of **** not to mention they can't help but continue to sabotage the brotherhood of steel with their boring politics, choosing between progressive liberals andPOS ruined fallout and elder scrolls with this online garbage. so much of the game is so much more inconvenient just because they want you to take so much longer playing in a cash grab pvp environment. absolute greedy pieces of **** not to mention they can't help but continue to sabotage the brotherhood of steel with their boring politics, choosing between progressive liberals and conservatives. the conservative choice would not to execute unarmed prisoner scientists you stupid **** they ruined this lore.… Expand
  4. uesername
    Nov 2, 2021
    0
    I'm so sick of game companies becoming so money hungry that they have to ruin a franchise. I love the fallout games, all of them. When I was in the Marines coming back form Afghan I would dream about playing New Vegas. I still replay all of them even F4. But this game is nothing but a horrible money grab wanting subscriptions and people to buy skins. I just watched Tod Howard interviewI'm so sick of game companies becoming so money hungry that they have to ruin a franchise. I love the fallout games, all of them. When I was in the Marines coming back form Afghan I would dream about playing New Vegas. I still replay all of them even F4. But this game is nothing but a horrible money grab wanting subscriptions and people to buy skins. I just watched Tod Howard interview saying they know its bad and they want to make it better. Bu this is NOT what the fans want. I'm so scared that there will never be a good fallout ever again because they will be based on micro transition and you spending more money on stupid stuff instead of giving a high quality game like fallout NV and fallout 4. It makes me angry and sad what the company is becoming. I just want to play a single player RPG that is fallout and not asking me to pay more money to enjoy it better. I'm ok with paying for FINISHED DLCs for single player games. Hell I liked the concept of creation club because I thought we would see some DLC size mods but that was a lie to. I want fallout back. I want single player games back. I want to not walk back to a area I was just at and have creatures spawn back because someone I don't care about is in the same area and needs to fight the. I feel like they truly do not care about the reviews or thoughts of their fans and truly says in meeting **** them" because that's how it feels. It feels like we are getting ****ed and just like elder scrolls they will basically forces you to use the game because they wont create a new game that is not trying to take your money and is truly a single player game. I beg you Bethesda as someone who fought for this country and truly loves the fallout games STOP. Bring back what we love and stop trying to get more money from us. If you want more money make more DLC's, remaster the classics, support madders and again stop trying to get more money from us with microtransactions.… Expand
  5. Miska_Moloka
    Jan 26, 2022
    0
    Add Russian voice acting. It is not possible to play with subtitles. In the meantime, zero is the best estimate for such projects.
  6. JohnstonR
    Mar 30, 2022
    4
    The other reviews hit the nail on the head really, fallout 76 is one of the buggiest games I've ever played. There were many points where I had to reload the game to finish a quest. Enemies bugged out constantly, quest items disappeared etc. I would be lying if I said I didnt have fun occasionally, as the world is still fairly immersive, even if it does seem dead before they added npcs.The other reviews hit the nail on the head really, fallout 76 is one of the buggiest games I've ever played. There were many points where I had to reload the game to finish a quest. Enemies bugged out constantly, quest items disappeared etc. I would be lying if I said I didnt have fun occasionally, as the world is still fairly immersive, even if it does seem dead before they added npcs. Almost all the quests are fetch quests unfortunately. I played at launch and during the wastelanders update. They added more things to do and npcs but it still didnt seem like much of a fallout game. This game seems like a major step back from the usual fallout experience and I can only hope they learned lessons from the user feedback. Despite this I completed the game but I would not recommend it to others.… Expand
  7. knightlex
    Jun 30, 2022
    0
    Probablemente el peor juego de Bethesda, no merece el dinero si no estás acostumbrado a este tipo de juegos, arruinaron fallout
  8. MelodicVirus
    Nov 18, 2022
    2
    This is a game completely removed of what made Fallout such a great experience to begin with. I can't find much to like about it, everything about it back then and now is still pertinent. Simply put, Fallout 76 stinks - and has left a mark on Bethesda's reputation for how they handled everything surrounding the game afterwards.
    After seeing how much of a train wreck this game was on    This is a game completely removed of what made Fallout such a great experience to begin with. I can't find much to like about it, everything about it back then and now is still pertinent. Simply put, Fallout 76 stinks - and has left a mark on Bethesda's reputation for how they handled everything surrounding the game afterwards.
    After seeing how much of a train wreck this game was on release and beyond, I made a huge promise to never buy this game if I valued myself as a fan of the Fallout games. A few years later and I would find this game in a bargain bin for the low price of £2, so I decided to get it and see the complaints. Below are some articulated points I have for this game:
    Although I do see the appeal for online games, I rarely play them. This is mostly because I hate paying for subscriptions to use a service I'm already paying for. So this problem may be commonplace in online games and I'm just not aware of it, but the AI in this game is horrendous. The main enemies in this game are these weird ghoul creatures that technically aren't ghouls, and they have some unconventional movement patterns and behaviors that I'm not used to seeing as a predominantly single-player sort of person. Might just be a nitpick, but I personally found it annoying to see enemies constantly sidestep and jerk around irregularly.
    They initially released the game with no NPCs, the entirety of the game's story was told with audio logs. After some vocal complaints, Bethesda quietly began adding NPCs for the player to interact with - and yet I still don't know what they were going for in terms of story. If it's a prequel all the games preceding it, then why are there Super Mutants in the wasteland? The NCR didn't form until after the original Fallout, yet you can still obtain their gear somehow. And the overall game has this bizarre late 60s vibe as opposed to the previous games' post-World War II Americana. Basic plot points in that have been illustrated since the beginning have been disregarded for what I would love to describe as poorly-written fan fiction at this rate.
    I would think to myself how Fallout could have worked as an online experience, but this is not how to do it. What upsets me the most is that the previous Fallout games by Bethesda had something going for them, there was something about Fallout 3 and 4 that thematically felt like Fallout - but were otherwise completely different tonally. I find it difficult to give this game a recommendation: Play any other Fallout game other than this.    … Expand
  9. Luckymcdumpy
    May 1, 2023
    0
    Another **** cash grab by Bethesda. The only reason to play this game over fallout 4 is because of the multiplayer. I would pick fallout 4 any day over this as it doesn't suck me into quests. Fallout 4 also has good factions rather than you being solo other than the online.
  10. ilovebirdsalott
    May 11, 2023
    2
    Maps terrible and doesn't feel like a fallout map, pretty bland and the map looks misleading if im honest. Boring story and i can't really think of any memorable characters unlike previous fallout titles, the game might be fun with friends though?
  11. DumpyDom
    Aug 29, 2023
    3
    Fallout 76 is situationally fun. It can be okay when your not fighting robots, but every other thing you do contains robots, the bugs are plentiful (i get some bugs are bound to make it through but getting a bug that affects gameplay once every 20 minutes is ridiculous). The story is mid as hell and the events are lackluster. The main reason i wound up quitting the game was the terribleFallout 76 is situationally fun. It can be okay when your not fighting robots, but every other thing you do contains robots, the bugs are plentiful (i get some bugs are bound to make it through but getting a bug that affects gameplay once every 20 minutes is ridiculous). The story is mid as hell and the events are lackluster. The main reason i wound up quitting the game was the terrible rng. Rolled 100 3 star legendarys to not get a single legendary worth using. i get that might just be bad luck but oh well. The game is fun with other people and the questing is okay when it doesnt involve robots, if youre going to play solo however just play one of the other fallout games. Its also a game that makes a problem and then acts all high and mighty when they make a subscription to 'solve' the problem… Expand
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49

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 33 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 33
  2. Mixed: 18 out of 33
  3. Negative: 13 out of 33
  1. New York Daily News
    Dec 20, 2018
    60
    But it’s hard to feel as if you’re truly affecting the world when there are no NPCs to express satisfaction or disdain, or to be directly influenced by your actions. Even killing feels hollow. Some of my best battles in Fallout 4 came when I stumbled across an outpost and found there a raider in there; he’d yell and scream at me as we were facing off. The Scorched, while armed, feel like nothing more than zombies.
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  2. TrueAchievements
    Dec 11, 2018
    50
    The addition of multiplayer feels as though it comes at the expense of Fallout’s memorable story-driven moments. What good is a vast map full of players if they're given little to no purpose? When no other players are around, the game’s world feels almost empty. The attention-grabbing locales and landmarks add to Appalachia's charm, but it's difficult to not wish for living, breathing characters to inhabit it. Post-apocalyptic West Virginia is described as a wasteland, and this term paints an inadvertent but accurate picture of what Fallout 76 is right now.
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  3. Windows Central
    Nov 30, 2018
    60
    If you enjoy multiplayer games of this type and are willing to overlook the engine anomalies, you may find yourself rapidly addicted to the game's exploration density and loot systems. If you're easily frustrated by bugs and issues, you may want to sit tight a bit to see what Bethesda does to polish things up, cus oh boy, it could use a bit right now. If you're a fan of the single player, branching narrative the series is known for, you'll want to wait for Fallout 5.
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