Fallout 76 is a Bigger Redemption Story Than Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 and Fallout 76 have similar spectacular tales of regaining players' trust, but Fallout 76's path to redemption was more turbulent.

[Dazelya]

Nope, it's not.

[GhostScholar]

In what way?

[Plague-Doctor27]

Hint: in no way

[peppeaccardo]

In April 1st way ....

[RupeeHoarder]

Don’t think so but okay let’s play this game. Two games there were a launch disappointment but Fallout has an additional 2 years of patch improvements available to it. This is such a waste of an article to pump up Bethesda. More opportunity to improve due to duration of time, but still the worse game.

[GhostScholar]

I think the worst thing about fallout 76 is that no one wanted it in the first place. It was just a dumb gamble that a multiplayer game void of even npcs at launch is what the fans wanted or anyone looking to get into the fallout universe.

[shinoff2183]

Fallout 76 should've been a completed single player game. What a waste of resources.

[porkChop]

If they were going to do online it either should have been a proper MMO like ESO or a spin-off like New Vegas but with coop. Instead they made this weird Destiny/Division-style game that no one wanted.

[Wretchedstain]

No one may have wanted the piss poor online only Fallout that 76 was. But, I love Bethesda games, they tick my boxes and I get load of enjoyment out of the games, yay for me. However, a story of people just emerging from the vaults, or living in a world not long after the bombs fell should have been a full story offline game. That again would have ticked the boxes for me, lets sink another 200 hours on a play through... They ruined it chasing what everyone else is making money from. No true fan of Bethesda wants that surely.

I believe, had it been offline full story, considering their other IP's of Elder Scrolls and all Fallout games which many love and play on their fridges... they would have killed it like all the others 💰💰💰. I will never bring myself to play this game.

[CrimsonWing69]

Like hell it is.

[banger88]

This should have been to Fallout 4 what New Vegas was to Fallout 3. Instead we got this always-online mmo shite.

[Sonic1881]

Nothing save Fallout 76😂

[VersusDMC]

Cyberpunk was good on PC at launch. The console versions were the problem.

Fallout 76 was garbage no matter where you played it. And let me bring up the audacity of Bethesda of charging 12.99 a month or 99 a year for that Fallout 1st subscription service while the game was still broken.

Just because fallout 76 made a bigger upgrade of trash to average than the good to great cyberpunk upgrade doesn't mean it deserves more credit than cyberpunk.

[jznrpg]

That’s why even Xbox fans are calling for it to be cancelled. People say the craziest stuff

[GhostScholar]

You say “even Xbox fans” like Xbox fans like every game that is on that platform. I’m an Xbox guy and I hate fallout 76, redfall, and crackdown 3. I like good games and don’t like bad games no matter where they are.

[jznrpg]

Some love everything period. It’s seen here all the time

[GhostScholar]

@jznrpg

Yes and some PlayStation fans on here hate everything that comes out on Xbox whether it’s good or not. Some Sony fans can’t admit that ps plus is awful compared to game pass. Some Nintendo fans won’t admit their online service is laughable. Some Xbox fans won’t admit that Sony and Nintendo have better exclusives. It’s the nature of fanboyism. It clouds the judgement. There’s nothing anyone can respond to what I’m saying that nullifies what I’m saying on this matter. A million downvotes wouldn’t matter or affect the truth of what I’m saying. I have all three systems and I know the good and bad of all of them.

[jznrpg]

@ghost Wow tangent man

[Crows90]

Big difference being one game was always incredible and the other was hot garbage!

[isarai]

Nope.

[AdonisIsBeast]

Gamerant is an Xbox shill site

[GhostScholar]

If so then this site is for sure a PlayStation shill site

[AdonisIsBeast]

What? The ratio is probably like 60-40 PS to Xbox at most. Go to Xbox articles and they clearly outweigh the Sony fanboys

[shammgod]

LOL!

[nzjono]

Rubbish. Player numbers clearly show this is utter nonsense.

[Profchaos]

No chance it's only been able to achieve playable not a great game by any metric

[MarcianoBR360]

I played it a few days ago and it's still very bad

[ChronoJoe]

I think Fallout 76 has improved a lot but it's still not a great game in the end. The problem is more at its core with how it plays. The endgame PVE and PVP completely loose all of the survival elements and end up being very irrelevent as you run about at full speed in power armour slaughtering everything to farm events and whatnot.

I don't know, it always seemed like a game with a bit of an identity crisis to me. It wants to be a surivival MMO but it doesn't know how to do that in an MMO format so it ends up falling into traditional MMO encounter design and whatnot.

[GhostScholar]

It has improved a lot that’s true. It was just a game that no one wanted. I’m sure die hard fallout fans were excited and then disappointed after they played it.

[Rutaprkl]

Clickbait. Move on.

[XBManiac]

No. It isn't.

[Mikeyy]

Microsoft funded puff peice.

[Soulsborne]

Its so irrelevant even M$ forgot it exists. Meanwhile cyberpunk Phantom Liberty is Blood & Wine levels of dlc . CDPR catered to the masses and released the game before it was finished, fo76 was just a scam from the start and still is.

[anast]

The tech. side alone shows that 76 can never be redeemed. It is 2023 and 76 is stuck in 2006 or so. The narrative side of things shows that CP2077's story is well written, for a video game, down to the way it meshes with the world, the story beats, voice acting and the overall shape. 76 fails at all of these things, which means that the narrative cannot be redeemed either.

To put it simply, Bethesda would have to either build or use an engine that is up to current standard then remake 76 with some heavy hitting creative talent to be redeemed. People have to get sick of game writers demanding that gamers lower the bar.

[mastershredder]

..And by redemption, you mean “buy redemption”. Right?

[gold_drake]

its not quite the same.

cyberpunks story and the game itself is amazing, just tat the game shipped with alot of glitches and bugs

fallout76 was marketed as a multiplayer game and looked terrible when they showed it off lol. it took a while to make it somewat enjoyable.

cant rly compare them

[AnotherGamer]

F no.

[Hereandthere]

lol, not even close