Long time Fallout fan, at least since the release of Fallout 3. I had played every title (including the classic titles) up until Fallout 4. My favourite, surprise surprise, is New Vegas.
Since I didn't have the means to play 76 at release, I merely watched how it crashed and burned and all the chaos that it was created since then. I had friends who were a lot more invested than I was in the franchise struggling to come to terms with a lot that was happening, which I completely understood.
Since 2018, however, I kept tabs in the game just to see what would come out of it, and to tell you the truth, I was impressed when I finally got around to actually play it.
While I'm not particularly fond of the lore of this game in particular, I actually found the game to have an interesting gameplay loop and the main story was interesting enough to keep me interested for all the time that I spent on it. The community is probably one of the nicest communities in any multiplayer game that I've played. When the game actually functions it's a fun time.
However, the glaring flaws that this game has are so apparent at times that it really proves the criticisms that it still receives to be correct. The scope of this game is SO BIG that it falls short quickly after you finish the main story (including the DLCs); character building is fun but it's really convoluted at times even though the changes that i've seen happening were good; Bethesda's ventures into the subscription world is absolutely horrendous; the repetitive nature of the overworld events makes them extremelly boring after doing them more than a couple times.
But I feel like with Appalachia being so big and varied they really nailed the exploration and the overall vibe of exploring in a Fallout game. The humor thrown in into some of the voiced NPCs is also very well appreciated. The C.A.M.P. stuff is just what 4 had been trying to do but better and more varied, even if creates a lot more problems than expected. Some of the big "raid"-like events are cool and once past a specific level threshold I feel like they're a must.
All this considered, and given that it has an active playerbase, an active community creating content for it, and it being fully free on Gamepass does make its flaws weight a lot less at the end of the game. It's a mediocre game that when it clicks, it just clicks, and it can actually turn to be a very enjoyable experience even with all the stuff that go against it.
Every once in a while, I still log in and explore around, do some events, and enjoy the scenery. I still have to do the Atlantic City DLC, but I'm waiting for it to be released in its entirety.
3/5
Since I didn't have the means to play 76 at release, I merely watched how it crashed and burned and all the chaos that it was created since then. I had friends who were a lot more invested than I was in the franchise struggling to come to terms with a lot that was happening, which I completely understood.
Since 2018, however, I kept tabs in the game just to see what would come out of it, and to tell you the truth, I was impressed when I finally got around to actually play it.
While I'm not particularly fond of the lore of this game in particular, I actually found the game to have an interesting gameplay loop and the main story was interesting enough to keep me interested for all the time that I spent on it. The community is probably one of the nicest communities in any multiplayer game that I've played. When the game actually functions it's a fun time.
However, the glaring flaws that this game has are so apparent at times that it really proves the criticisms that it still receives to be correct. The scope of this game is SO BIG that it falls short quickly after you finish the main story (including the DLCs); character building is fun but it's really convoluted at times even though the changes that i've seen happening were good; Bethesda's ventures into the subscription world is absolutely horrendous; the repetitive nature of the overworld events makes them extremelly boring after doing them more than a couple times.
But I feel like with Appalachia being so big and varied they really nailed the exploration and the overall vibe of exploring in a Fallout game. The humor thrown in into some of the voiced NPCs is also very well appreciated. The C.A.M.P. stuff is just what 4 had been trying to do but better and more varied, even if creates a lot more problems than expected. Some of the big "raid"-like events are cool and once past a specific level threshold I feel like they're a must.
All this considered, and given that it has an active playerbase, an active community creating content for it, and it being fully free on Gamepass does make its flaws weight a lot less at the end of the game. It's a mediocre game that when it clicks, it just clicks, and it can actually turn to be a very enjoyable experience even with all the stuff that go against it.
Every once in a while, I still log in and explore around, do some events, and enjoy the scenery. I still have to do the Atlantic City DLC, but I'm waiting for it to be released in its entirety.
3/5