Fallout 76

People go into FO76 automatically hating it, just to align with their confirmation bias.

Maybe the game sucked ass at release, but people saying they uninstalled after 10 minutes are hyperbolic as fuck. It gets boring just like ALL of Bethesda's shit, but it isn't nearly "uninstall in 10 minutes" levels of bad.

Kirun said:

People go into FO76 automatically hating it, just to align with their confirmation bias.

Maybe the game sucked ass at release, but people saying they uninstalled after 10 minutes are hyperbolic as fuck. It gets boring just like ALL of Bethesda's shit, but it isn't nearly "uninstall in 10 minutes" levels of bad.

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Friend who is a huge Bethesda / Fallout fan hated 76 when it came out. But he tried it again after they brought in npcs, etc. and loved it. Still plays that game off and on, although he's done just about everything you can do in that game.

I never got the reason why he hated 76 in the first place. Think he did just because everyone else was on the hate train. People get that way, fucking herd animals without brains.

I can take or leave the fallout games. Good games, but I was never in love with them. i played 76 when it launched and liked it well enough. It seemed like all the other fallout games, same experience, even down the fucking clunky engine.

Grim1 said:

Friend who is a huge Bethesda / Fallout fan hated 76 when it came out. But he tried it again after they brought in npcs, etc. and loved it. Still plays that game off and on, although he's done just about everything you can do in that game.

I never got the reason why he hated 76 in the first place. Think he did just because everyone else was on the hate train. People get that way, fucking herd animals without brains.

I can take or leave the fallout games. Good games, but I was never in love with them. i played 76 when it launched and liked it well enough. It seemed like all the other fallout games, same experience, even down the fucking clunky engine.

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It barely had any story to it at launch and no NPCs. The world felt bare compared to other FO games. The quests that existed were rudimentary. It was more of an action game than an RPG, imo. Even then, the lack of space and ammo issues hindered even that aspect. That's before all the bugs and poor performance.

It was a pretty significant departure from the series that just can't be chalked up to "herd animal". Nice way to think about your friend instead of asking him.

DickTrickle said:

It barely had any story to it at launch and no NPCs. The world felt bare compared to other FO games. The quests that existed were rudimentary. It was more of an action game than an RPG, imo. Even then, the lack of space and ammo issues hindered even that aspect. That's before all the bugs and poor performance.

It was a pretty significant departure from the series that just can't be chalked up to "herd animal". Nice way to think about your friend instead of asking him.

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Our friends and even our family can have herd animal moments. Doesn't mean you stop loving them.

The MSQ sort of starts off slow (the lost treasure mystery), but gets better once you have to visit beneath the White Springs resort. You also can start the Brotherhood of Steel stuff a short while into the MSQ, which runs somewhat parallel to the MSQ stuff.

New expansion announced that takes place in Ohio

Walter Goggin’s ghoul character also shows up (chronology wise that is curious - Fallout76 takes place only 25 years after the bombs fall and the tv show takes place post fallout4 which is the latest entry in terms of chronological order)

DickTrickle said:

It barely had any story to it at launch and no NPCs. The world felt bare compared to other FO games. The quests that existed were rudimentary. It was more of an action game than an RPG, imo. Even then, the lack of space and ammo issues hindered even that aspect. That's before all the bugs and poor performance.

It was a pretty significant departure from the series that just can't be chalked up to "herd animal". Nice way to think about your friend instead of asking him.

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It was an RMT infested GaaS pile of bullshit at release. They were selling boosters and currency in an in game shop if I recall as well. Empty game designed to get the player to spend real money for progression.

You recall incorrectly, or at the very least, not completely accurately.

They made most of their money on cosmetics or items to put in your base. They did sell a couple items like scrap kits (they scrapped junk without needing to use a bench) and carry weight boosters, but no one ever bought them because you could easily get them in game for free. The closest thing to "pay2win" was Fallout 1st, which iss a monthly subscription which gave you currency you could spend in the store, access to private servers, special monthly cosmetic rewards, and unlimited scrap chest storage. Most people who played the game a lot mostly bought it because of the scrap chest, although what a lot of people would also do is buy Fallout 1st for a month, farm a ton of shit and store it in the scrap chest, then cancel. You couldn't add more to the chest after the subscription canceled, but you could withdraw from it.