Fallout 76 Reviews
Fallout 76 is not a completely broken game. It's not absolutely devoid of enjoyment, and every once in a while, it can live up to the franchise name it bears. The problem is that that enjoyment is buried under a mountainous pile of long stretches of boredom and emptiness, tedious and mind-numbing quests, baffling design choices, unbelievably bad technical issues, and a host of other problems that turn this into an experience that, frankly, has no business being out on shelves as a full-priced AAA game in its current state. What's concerning is that even if the issues that can be fixed through patches and updates are ironed out, the core fundamentals of the game are deeply flawed.
Fallout 76's mundane quest and lifeless story put too much weight on the aged combat and trivial crafting for them to bear. It's a multiplayer experiment with far too many flaws to put up with, both in its limiting player interactions and its woeful technical polish. Fallout with friends is still an idea that could work one, but that's not what Fallout 76 is serving up.
Maybe they can turn this game around. Maybe they can fix the bugs, add some actual life into the world, and make it to where playing with friends is more than just a co-op buddy. They did a lot for Elder Scrolls Online, maybe they can do it here, but I’ll be the first to tell you to wait until that happens before taking these country roads home.
Fallout 76 just barely fulfills its promise of the ability to experience Fallout with friends. However, an overall lack of content and polish will wear down even the most ardent Fallout fans.
On the dawn of Reclamation Day I left Vault 76, weary eyed and slightly optimistic about the journey that laid ahead of me in West Virginia.
Half-baked conflict ideas and witless quests to unearth the dead – this soulless sequel is perfect if you enjoy picking up rubbish in a wasteland
The much-feared online multiplayer is, surprisingly, almost a non-factor. But the tidal wave of glitches and technical hitches? Deal-breaker
Fallout 76 is an ambitious game that's burned by it. The online features hamper what could have been a great Fallout game.
There's no sugarcoating it: Fallout 76 comes up short at nearly everything it aims to be. It's not a good role-playing game and it's not a good multiplayer experience. It never really feeds into the gradual RPG power fantasy but it's also inadequate as a survival simulator. In wanting to be so much, Fallout 76 doesn't amount to much at all.
Fallout 76 is not a great Fallout game, but it's also not a great online survival experience. In failing to do either, Fallout 76 consigns itself to a mire of mediocrity.
Fallout's mutation into an online multiplayer hybrid leaves it weak and soulless.
Fallout 76 is a story about ruining a 20 year old franchise, story about wandering in a world that literally offers nothing enjoyable. Still, if you're a fan of fallout series, you might enjoy the atmosphere of this apocalyptic game and it's world, but in general Fallout 76 is no where near a great Fallout game.
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An interesting experiment that fails to nail either side of the experience, it uses Fallout trappings to good effect and can be fun with great environmental storytelling and West Virginia itself is gorgeous. The lack of NPCs and overall cohesion along with lacklustre PvP hinder its identity, however.
Bethesda has to improve her Creation Engine. You can't make an exclusive multiplayer game using an engine based on a single player game. In addition, the number of bugs and the optimization of the title is unacceptable.
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Fallout 76 is a disappointing game. The existence of the Fallout name on it and, of course, the relatively large propaganda it launched for Bethesda had many hoping for a well-designed multiplayer game, but the end product is now unplayable. What I'm sure about is that we are with a Publisher that faced this crisis a few years ago when it came to The Elder Scrolls Online and was able to contain it well. Nobody can recommend buying Fallout 76 at the moment, but maybe another year, the game will become the same fan-favorite for Fallout fans.
Review in Persian | Read full review
Although Fallout 76 offers the fans the opportunity to explore the wastelands of West Virginia, sadly it's only online. I say sadly, because the online elements don't really fit well with the established Fallout gameplay. The game also feels a bit aimless. If you enjoy exploring post-apocalyptic worlds, you should probably stick with Fallout 4.
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Fallout 76 is the answer to a question that now would be great if unanswered: “What if Fallout but with multiplayer?” Unfortunately, this experience is a broken mess, full of technical problems, lack of direction, boring and repetitive quests, and some archaic design choices that don’t work very well in a shared environment.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Fallout 76 is undoubtedly the worst Fallout title to date. A game which does away with what the series does so well, and instead replaces it with an under-baked and under-realised multiplayer. Fallout fans will still find things to enjoy here, there's fun to be had. However, 76 is so rough around the edges, and so riddled with questionable design decisions that it's hard to ignore. Hopefully Bethesda can turn this ship around over time.
Fallout 76 added survival and multiplayer elements to the game at the cost of pretty much everything that drew players to Fallout in the first place. No NPCs or dialogue trees leaves the game feeling empty and sterile, with exploration eventually feeling pointless as your tiny inventory and stash hit maximum weight.
.I did not think that one day an important release of the Fallout series would be disappointing like this one, I hope it's a very important lesson for the future of the Fallout series , and for the future of the video games titles they're working on right now
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