Bethesda teasing something Fallout related (UPDATE) It's Fallout 76 - by Bucky Seifert
EvaUnit02 on 31/10/2018 at 03:36
Played for ~1.5 hours. It's MP Fallout 4 with shallow questing, what's there to say? At least they're handcrafted quests and not some procedurally generated "your settlement is under attack" bullshit. The Fallout 4 mod to disable Preston Garvey Radiant quests was a godsend.
Navigation of the various menus was awful, hugely keyboard oriented, requiring you to use arrow keys at times. Even Ubisoft menus can be pretty much navigated completely with a mouse in recent times. After a decade of crap consolised menus I doubt they're gonna change now.
Bucky Seifert on 31/10/2018 at 20:48
I love Bethesda's games but the impressions I'm getting from this scream (Get it on sale or as a birthday gift), rather than spend my own money on it. Like I'm sure it will be fun but doesn't really seem like it provides what I go to a Fallout game for.
EvaUnit02 on 2/11/2018 at 06:34
The game is okay.
As usual Bethesda's environmental storytelling is absolutely on point. You had better like that aspect of their game design because there's no traditional RPG main storyline, the entire game is side-quests where you read flavour text and listen to audio logs.
The MMO-esque world events repeating ad infinitum is a huge immersion breaker. I tried to do one world event where you escort a Mr. Handy but he couldn't pathfind around a rock and then turned invisible. Bugthesda, Bugthesda never changes.
They need to rebalance hunger and thirst meters, the rate at which thirst in particular degrades is ridiculous. I don't recall the survival meters in Hardcore Mode of New Vegas being as ridiculous as they are in 76.
It's an adequate timesink, chill out game. Perfect for unwinding with a podcast playing. As it stands I rate it higher than Zelda: Bored of the Wild because the world Bethesda has crafted is highly intriguing IMO.
Bucky Seifert on 20/11/2018 at 23:42
Is it too much to hope that the 76 situation will make people stop banging on about Fallout 4 being the worst thing evar and instead appreciate it as the undeniably flawed but still fantastic game that it is?
... ahh who am I kidding it won't.
Sulphur on 21/11/2018 at 11:30
You can't really play the 'quality relative to' game without acknowledging that the entries in the series preceding FO4 were better at various different things, so no, that ain't gonna happen.
Better to just judge each game on its own pros and cons if that's the kind of perspective you want.
KennethJeans on 4/12/2018 at 16:25
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"Better to just judge each game on its own pros and cons if that's the kind of perspective you want."I strongly agree with this. It's better to do it that way as well.
robthom on 5/12/2018 at 01:03
The thing about Fallout/Skyrim games with me, is that I never play them for the story lines.
I have no idea what any of the sory's where about.
I just play them to wander around finding things and shooting things...
Just a fantasy sandbox.
So on that scale,
even though I thought FO4 was kind of boring as far as new or interesting content in and of itself,
its the most STABLE version of the base engine to wander around in a FO world.
And I can just add all the modded content I want myself.
Plus with the simcity aspect that makes it into a living self creating world.
Just for the stability of the engine over NV or 3, 4 is my preferred version of it to wander around in.
Bucky Seifert on 7/12/2018 at 08:28
So far we've had a:
*Game that's barely functional on launch
*Also has serious design flaws
*A nylon bag snafu
And now to top it off, the attempt to fix it resulting in a bug they revealed user's personal information.
At this point, more than anything, I pity Bethesda. This was supposed to be their flagpole release this year and it's been nothing but a disaster. They are going to need to pour their entire soul and all their blood, sweat and tears into Starfield to recover. Otherwise, we may not even get Elder Scrolls 6.