After A Historically Bad Launch, Is 'Fallout 76' Worth Saving?

Forbes: Fallout 76 is one of the worst-reviewed major releases in recent memory. Can it, and should it be saved?

[anonymousfan]

As an online focused game I can imagine it'll get better... meanwhile it should have been cancelled rather than released in this piss poor state.

[Forbidden_Darkness]

Yeah, I believe in a year or so from now, Fallout 76 might be worth playing, but right now it's more like an early access game advertised as a full fledged release. They should have had a long multi-month beta period to enhance the game before even thinking about a release date.

[Stanjara]

In a year or so there will be other games to play. Not to mention a whole other generation.

[raWfodog]

Yes, this reminds me of the launch of No Man's Sky. While a few people liked me enjoyed it, it was thrashed by a lot of people. But now, many of those people have come around to the new updates and even I can attest that it is a much better game than when it first launched.

[frostypants]

I don't think it will get any better. They tried to shoehorn an online game into an engine geared towards single player, one that was already super outdated. It's so fundamentally jacked up that I doubt there's a ton to be done about it.

[anonymousfan]

seing how they botched this game and how retarded their graphics engine is... I've been dialing back my expectations for Starfield and TES VI

[chris235]

wrong question. the real question is if bethesda can be saved. i say no, they already passed the point of no return with the abysmal fallout 4. corporate greed took another one. there is no turning back from that.

[ChristopherJack]

Where'd all this FO4 hate come from? Seems relatively new. At least since all the crossplay talk from my memory, that's when I started seeing your kind of comments. Sony fanboy backlash?

I personally don't think it was as strong as New Vegas but it was about as good as FO3, certainly not nearly as buggy during my numerous playthroughs, in fact, NV was by far the buggiest game I had played.

[Garrett_the_GOD]

What exactly did his comment have to do with Sony fanboys?he was strictly talking about Bethesda Game Studio..idk if you were aware of this or not but Bethesda is a third party publisher/developer..they arent a first party Microsoft studio,so how exactly did you come to the conclusion that anyone that has something negative to say about Fallout 4 is automatically a Sony fanboy?I've been playing Bethesda games since Morrowind and I've enjoyed everything from the time Morrowind released to Fallout 4's release.while I enjoyed Fallout 4 I thought Morrowind,Oblivion,Skyrim,Fall out 3 and Fallout New Vegas were all better games than Fallout 4..(I know New Vegas was developed by Obsidian but its still a better Fallout game than Fallout 4)..with that being said,after Fallout 4 I didnt think that was the end of Bethesda...after Fallout 76,I have my doubts about Bethesda's future ESPECIALLY after they recently came out and said they are planning on using this same ancient engine to develop Starfield AND Elder Scrolls 6..that will be 3 generations of using this engine which is beyond ridiculous as they shouldve been done with this engine after Fallout 4

[ChristopherJack]

You new here Garrett? Ever since some of Bethesda's cross play comments regarding the PS4, the fanboys have been rabidly anti-Bethesda lately but it also seems to have translated into FO4 hatred as well.

[Phoenix76]

Bethesda themselves won't have to worry about being saved. They are one of the big publishers out there, plus they have the financial backing of Zenimax. Although I'm sure that the investors will be pissed at this.
Fallout 4, whilst not a good Fallout game, was a commercial success for Bethesda. But 76 is by far worse. It breaks most of the world lore and history, with untold amount of bugs (some which have plagued the game engine for years), and is nothing more than an asset flip with a MP mod and full on MT's for good measure.

The real question should be, has this train wreck finally highlighted up enough what's really wrong within the games industry? Why are substandard, misleading and unfinished products being pushed out on to the market? Its time for a change and hopefully the average consumer is now wising up to this problem.

[frostypants]

Please. Fallout 4 wasn't abysmal. It sold well and got very good critical reception, no matter how much a few very vocal diehards hate it or spam low scores. Hate on Fallout 76 all you like, but let's not succumb to revisionist history and pretend Fallout 4 was anything close to this.

[Cmv38]

If they can find a way to patch in the fun, I say go for it

[Newmanator]

Hahaha!

[cabbitwithscissors]

The dice has been thrown. Historically, game reviewers have never given a second look at a game after their review, and have never changed the scores given to games. Why should they do so now ? Just because it's Bethesda ? If they do start doing this, they had better start doing it for others as well, or else it's going to look like favours being exchanged.

[Cmv38]

Not true, drive club and no man sky come to mind. But I don't think there's much saving that can happen with 76

[AK91]

No

[DrumBeat]

No.

[warriorcase]

After A Historically Bad Launch, Is 'Fallout 76' Worth Saving?

That's Betheada game studio's call. It's all subjective but Monster hunter world was a bad port on release which got fixed up and is now rating alot higher by users and games like No mans sky has seen a massive slew of content drops amd users comming back after people also argued that it shpuld be abandoned.

Fallout 76 is without a doubt a shell of it's real potential but we'll have to see if Bethesda attempt to bring it back around with contect and graphical updates or if their post launch content falls as short as it's launch.

[william_cade]

For the people that bought it? Yes.
It should have never been made. Not every game needs to be a live service.

[jaklink]

No. It's a disaster. I'm expecting some form of an apology next E3 after they quietly phase the game out over the next few months and pretend it didn't happen.

[LoveSpuds]

I am sure the game could be saved with enough effort, however, the damage to the game and Bethesda's reputation has been done. Fallout76 will never recover enough to hit the sales projections that the publisher probably expected.

I am quite pleased as I have always felt Bethesda got a free pass in respect of technical failings where Fallout and Elder Scrolls games were concerned, perhaps they will actually get their act together. When you see what other devs have achieved with their open world's, there is just no defending the shoddy programming demonstrated in Bethesda's open world's.

[badz149]

WHY? why would any gamer help save this CRAP of a game and a shameless effort to nickle and dime gamers with pretty much no effort at all? the game is a broken mess but the MT part is well and running! I hope this game die a quick but painful death

[MrChow666]

what a embarrassing, shameful spectacle. I hope all publishers are taking notice.

[PapaBop]

The game itself? No, it's not worth saving but from a Bethesda reputation standpoint, it goes without saying they need to support this should have been aborted fetus they gave dirty manbirth too. The "fallout" will be just far too damaging for their reputation if they dropped support for it.

[Garrett_the_GOD]

As bad as I hate to say it,being a longtime fan of Bethesda,Im glad this game is getting ripped to shreds..nobody asked for this trash as game..Bethesda got the big head from always having such a loyal fan base.they thought we would gladly buy anything they stamp their logo on even if they pulled a EA and/or Activision move by sucking the soul out of one of their most loved franchises while packing it full of microtransactions and making it multiplayer only...and what makes all this so much worse to me is the fact that Bethesda showed up at E3 2017 proclaiming themselves as the savior of singleplayer games,then they had the nerve to show up at E3 2018(after claiming to be the savior of singleplayer just a year earlier) with a dumbed down multiplayer version of one of their 2 big franchises most loved franchises...and to think these idiots already came out and said they plan on using the same ancient engine for a third generation with Starfield and Elder Scrolls 6...smdh