Fallout 76 - A Shockingly Bad Attempt at Multiplayer Survival - Push Square

Fallout 76 will be remembered as a defining moment for Bethesda Game Studios, and not in a good way. This entirely multiplayer take on the Fallout franchise is a technical failure stuffed to bursting point with bugs and performance issues. The real kicker, though, is that even without all of its glitches and frame rate problems, Fallout 76 would still feel like a janky, hollow cash in that fails to justify its existence on almost every level.

[italiangamer]

Aaahhh sweet sweet justice

[DarkVoyager]

Agreed. Here’s a 20 minute look at this dumpster fire if anyone’s interested. The game is full of bugs, glitches, and performance issues.

https://youtu.be/LZM18ZK9mO...

[kneon]

So standard Bethesda quality then. I was hoping they had improved, but it looks like Fallout 4 was just an anomaly.

[Dreamcatcher45]

I love it when he says "making the same game over and over again". Sums it up pretty well.

[oasdada]

and there's GAAS for ya folks!

[--bienio--]

Hahahahaha

[Elda]

Never got into the Fallout games but it's going to be $40 on BF & I thought about getting it but now after seeing these horrible reviews I will continue to steer clear from it.

[Sirk7x]

Play Fallout 2 or New Vegas. Stay far away from 4 and whatever the hell this mess is.

[Elda]

I tried Fallout 3 on the PS3 & I didn't enjoy it at all.

[Ninver]

Fatality

[mastershredder]

I dunno. From a programming standpoint it's new ground and pretty kick ass. Interesting that in order to get the things evolving, results in butt-hurtsies for comfotboxers. Even if you don't play these games if you are into game design/ development and programming as so many profess to be here, you'd have a lot to appreciate here.

[Hungryalpaca]

They took fallout 4, removed anything that makes it fallout aside from looks, didn’t bother fixing ANY of the F4 bugs and added connecting to other players. That’s it. Small indie teams do a better job than Bethesda.

[rainslacker]

I'm pretty into game design and programming, and programming in general, and I'm more into elegant code that works well, and does what its supposed to do.

What they're trying to do doesn't make much difference if they don't actually achieve a working product. I can appreciate technical achievement. I often do and defend games which achieve it when they're being criticized unfairly. But I don't spend time appreciating games that don't work, no matter how inspired they may be, and based on what I've seen, this game isn't really doing anything special in terms of game design.

[BlaqMagiq1]

Hopefully all the reviews turn out like this. This trash needs to be avoided like the plague.

[mkis007]

https://www.metacritic.com/...

highest review is a 70/100

[BlaqMagiq1]

That's a shame. Should be much lower.

[mkis007]

Well the average puts em a lot lower

[KingOfArcadia]

This is great news to anyone who is actually playing the game right now, because each salty butthurt review means less crybaby dicks online.

[Hungryalpaca]

The game is objectively bad. Get over it.

[italiangamer]

We found Todd

[gobluesamg]

So people with good taste and high expectations are salty and butthurt? Ok got it.

[Baza]

Maybe he’s saying that to feel better about wasting his money on garbage.

[BlaqMagiq1]

Thanks for being dumb enough to give Bethesda your money and beta testing the game for us. We'll do the smart thing and avoid this broken game.

[King_Noctis]

I’m happy that there are people who enjoy this game. But as for me (and I’m sure alot more people) we won’t and will never go near this game.

[rainslacker]

Yeah. Nothing like a MP game with less people playing.

[Dragonscale]

Have fun in your empty pos game. Gotta justify dat purchase lol.

[jjb1981]

Awesome game. Best Fallout ever!!

[Thundercat77]

Hi Todd!

[jjb1981]

Greatest Fallout in history!!

[AK91]

This game is up there with Metal Gear Survive as an absolutely abysmal entry in an otherwise celebrated gaming series.

[King_Noctis]

Hopefully this will wake Bethesda up and let them see what gamers actually want.

[Hardiman]

Fallout 76 is butthole monkeys bad!

[MasterCornholio]

This game is GaaS done extremely badly.

[ossyc]

This will hopefully teach Bethesda to stop trying to sell shit to us

[Phils_Libra]

Greed. Greed never changes…