I played 76 a few years after it came out and I thought it was super fun. Idk if it was way worse when it came out or if my standards are just shit but me and my wife loved it
Honestly, I tried it with mates well after release, and it was really grindy and boring. The few quests we did had too much padding and lifeless NPCs, even if the environments were neat. And we were all big BGS fans since Oblivion, yet not overly nostalgic over the old games or anything.
I will say coop always makes games more fun, and AAA tends to skip this.
But there’s also a lot of really awesome 2P coop these days.
Consistent crashing, tons of lag, and lots of additions from BGS that were two steps back for every step forward. Think about what it would be like if half the players at the SBQ disconnected in the fight and make them 4-5 times stronger than when they were last I played (when expeditions were released).
Then you would have quests that gave atoms, the currency you give IRL money to get, that were literally unachievable. The camera ones were the best as they ran for weeks with no camera being available in the game.
There was a raid. Almost no one could do it. The game either crashed or people rage quit.
I wont even talk about Nuclear Winter.
The game is a miracle for what it is but it took a while to be acceptable. Loved the game at one point but now it is too much a reminder of COVID shutdowns.
1 - The first season was already in the south west US, as with… every Fallout game not made by Bethesda.
2 - They are almost certainly going to retcon large elements of New Vegas’ plot and world elements out of existence or into nonsense, as the first season already did with a whole bunch of shit.
They couldn’t even put Shady Sands on the right spot on a map.
They already broke Mr. House’s character and backstory by including him in that rountable corpo discussion.
His… and New Vegas’ backstory in the game are based on House more or less hating all other corpo leaders, determing via statistical modelling that nuclear was was inevitable… and then doing everything he could to build a goddamned ICBM defense shield for Vegas.
He had to act solo precisely because he was kept out of the inner circle of corpos and gov high ups who were much more in the knoe, by the older canon.
But more fundamentally… House has spent almost 200 years looking for the platinum chip, because he was just a few days late in having it delivered, pre-apocalypse.
Why and or how could that possibly happen if he was in the meeting that decided to end the world?
New Vegas as a storyline is literally irreconcilable with the TV show already, its like shitty fan fiction.
Fallout 3: Find and disappoint your father.
Fallout 4: Find and disappoint your son.
Fallout 76: Find and disappoint your audience.
Edit: I forgot about New Vegas.
Fallout New Vegas: Find your attempted killer and be disappointed knowing Obsidian won’t make another one because Emil and Todd are salty.
Or… Find your attempted killer and disappoint the NCR, Mr. House, Caesar, or all of them.
Edit 2: Throwback time!!!
Fallout 1: Find your water chip and disappoint your overseer.
Fallout 2: Find the G.E.C.K. and disappoint your village.
I played 76 a few years after it came out and I thought it was super fun. Idk if it was way worse when it came out or if my standards are just shit but me and my wife loved it
They went back on a lot of decisions after the release.
Honestly, I tried it with mates well after release, and it was really grindy and boring. The few quests we did had too much padding and lifeless NPCs, even if the environments were neat. And we were all big BGS fans since Oblivion, yet not overly nostalgic over the old games or anything.
I will say coop always makes games more fun, and AAA tends to skip this.
But there’s also a lot of really awesome 2P coop these days.
Yeah idk it was fun because I got to play with my wife and it felt enough like fallout four that it felt like playing that together.
Y’all should try split fiction too!
I mean, I guess there are a lot of options depending on what else yall enjoy playing, but its a high fidelity, fast paced, and good one for sure.
With the right crew it can be fun
It was way worse for a year or so
Yeah I heard. What was so bad about it?
Consistent crashing, tons of lag, and lots of additions from BGS that were two steps back for every step forward. Think about what it would be like if half the players at the SBQ disconnected in the fight and make them 4-5 times stronger than when they were last I played (when expeditions were released).
Then you would have quests that gave atoms, the currency you give IRL money to get, that were literally unachievable. The camera ones were the best as they ran for weeks with no camera being available in the game.
There was a raid. Almost no one could do it. The game either crashed or people rage quit.
I wont even talk about Nuclear Winter.
The game is a miracle for what it is but it took a while to be acceptable. Loved the game at one point but now it is too much a reminder of COVID shutdowns.
Ah makes sense. Thank you.
I love the game too, but I’m not going to deny many were disappointed.
New Vegas:
Find that motherfucker that failed to permanently put you in a grave.
… You can kill him, eat him, fuck him, scare him into slavery, replace him at his job… potentially all of those in the same play through, I think?
I am probably missing some.
Close enough.
At least Fallout season 2 will be in New Vegas instead of the east coast
1 - The first season was already in the south west US, as with… every Fallout game not made by Bethesda.
2 - They are almost certainly going to retcon large elements of New Vegas’ plot and world elements out of existence or into nonsense, as the first season already did with a whole bunch of shit.
They couldn’t even put Shady Sands on the right spot on a map.
They already broke Mr. House’s character and backstory by including him in that rountable corpo discussion.
His… and New Vegas’ backstory in the game are based on House more or less hating all other corpo leaders, determing via statistical modelling that nuclear was was inevitable… and then doing everything he could to build a goddamned ICBM defense shield for Vegas.
He had to act solo precisely because he was kept out of the inner circle of corpos and gov high ups who were much more in the knoe, by the older canon.
But more fundamentally… House has spent almost 200 years looking for the platinum chip, because he was just a few days late in having it delivered, pre-apocalypse.
Why and or how could that possibly happen if he was in the meeting that decided to end the world?
New Vegas as a storyline is literally irreconcilable with the TV show already, its like shitty fan fiction.