Fallout 76

I pre-purchased the game after loving Fallout NV and Fallout 4. I canceled my pre-order after hearing it was going to be a microtransaction MMORPG. Several years later, I picked it up on fire sale for $8. The beginning of the game isn't bad, but isn't good. It's basically a multiplayer version of the previous games, with no noticeable improvements. However, once you leave the starting area, things breakdown quickly. Despite years of development, the game is buggy as hell. I eventually rage quit after 500 hours because I fell into a insta-gib vat AFTER defeating the scorchbeast queen. The game was super choppy and the server kept going unresponsive. At a particularly inopportune time, the server bugged my jump into a non-jump, and I fell in to the pit. No biggie. I respawned and went to loot my body. Except, you can't. My loot was in an unsurvivable pit, and after years of development, not a single designer wanted to write the snippet of code that would spawn your dropped loot 5 feet to the right so you can retrieve it. Losing my loot wasn't the end of the world in and of itself, but it was the final straw in a long series of annoyances and failures that made me give the game up. So, in the end, like many terrible MMORPGs, the game is just decent enough in the beginning to get you to spend real world money, then the quality degrades precipitously at higher levels. Thankfully, I never bought any game currency, so I was only out my $8. TL;DR for a game this many years into it's development, it is still wracked with bugs and defects. The real test of survival isn't the bad guys, it's the devs.

This game is not entertaining at all. It wastes way too much time on quests. You buy the game, but you still have to grind through endless missions just to buy the gun you want. If you want to get anything decent, you are forced to pay for a monthly subscription. It feels completely restrictive and suffocating within its own limitations.This is not a true open-world game like DayZ, Rust, or Destiny 2. I sat there all day, clicking 'skip' on dialogues until my hand physically ached, and the quests still weren't done. One mission leads to another, completely draining your time. The worst part is, I don't give a damn about the quests or the storyline. All I want is to buy specific guns. If anyone wants to waste the next 10 years of their life doing quests, go ahead. I bought the game and can't even get a refund now. No wonder the whole world trashes this game.

This review is subject to change but my recommendation of the game never will. Look, I love this game. I have played it since the early days on Xbox (with no NPCs) and loved it back then too. I fell into the trap of spending money in the atom shop because I loved the C.A.M.P. building. About a year and a half ago, I stopped playing completely because I wanted to stop paying for Xbox Game Pass, stop paying for Fallout 1st, and stop being tempted by the atom shop. I recently got a PC and started completely fresh at level 1 with no atom shop items. My friend started a new character as well, and we both decided we would play the game but not spend an extra penny. Guess what?! It's still fun. Don't spend any money in the atom shop or pay for Fallout 1st, and you won't feel so guilty about how poor your family currently might be. At that point, Fallout 76 is free fun. Like I said, I love this game.

No

When I saw all the complaints surrounding Fallout 1st and the game in general, I was expecting the worst to be honest. But I was glad to be proven wrong in my expectations, this game is rough around the edges and can be better I won't lie and I still strongly dislike the concept of "creating a problem to sell the solution." but Fallout 1st barely even grazes that territory with the only exception being the scrapbox which is pretty helpful for not forcing you to play tetris with your inventory if you're going past level 50. Overall its a good game, I dunno if I would buy it full price with my current knowledge of the game. You can also bang an assaultron in this game so that gives it a big boost in opinion on my end.

have played majority of the fallout games. i originally gave this game a decent chance years ago on my xbox than decided to give it another go on pc. especially with the success bethesda has had with the tv series i fugured the game has to be better by now. unfortunetly time did this game no good. compared to other fallout titles this game still feels souless. i miss the old fallout games. this game never should of been made multiplayer. we dont care. i buy fallout for a story rich immersive single player experience. the fallout 76 title feels like an entirly differnt game from others in a negative way. Bethesda just focus on the fallout 3 and new vegas remake pls. update and remaster the games you know that work.

What do you get when you put the guy responsible for the Nuka World DLC in charge of a game? This pile of ♥♥♥♥ and Starfield. ♥♥♥♥ Bethesda.

don't bother, the game is a pile of game breaking bugs and is a clear example of Bethesda saying a huge F U to their fan base.

Incredibly dull to play

I really like this game but bruv, bethesda has cultivated packrats with their games then they make a multiplayer game where you can only sell 1400 caps worth of goods per day... PER DAY!!! How backwards is that? Sure there are player vendors in the game but with no way to advertise your merchandise on a listing outside of the world you exist in, makes it really difficult to sell your stuff to people who are looking for it and vise versa which just leaves my stuff lingering in my stash box. Tedious for those people who are needing something but needs to hop from one world to another just to get what they're looking for. I use to play this game on xbox and this wasn't a problem on there because xbox has a group finder thing in the dashboard so the advertising was done there. But if player vendors are added to a game, there should be an in game method to advertise This really my only gripe with the game. I can't really play when my stash gets full so I go onto another game then come back onto this game, sell my stuff, loot some more. And no, I'm not buying fallout 1st, greedy bastards can stick it where the sun don't shine, I already paid for the game, I ain't paying for a sub too. Infact, they should pay ME to keep playing, How about that.