Fallout 76 is a game that I initially hated, but have grown to somewhat like.
I can respect the effort put into the Wastelanders update, and how it does its best to fix the game. It's still a mess, but it's a fun mess. Roaming the beautiful landscape with friends and taking out mutated creatures is fun, and so is surviving and building a small community together.
However, the numerous bugs and performance issues, along with the outdated engine holds the game back from being any good. I believe that if Bethesda had created a new engine to support the game on top of focusing more on the online and survival aspect, we might have gotten a neat little spinoff.
But as we all know, that's not what happened. You hear stories about games like No Man's Sky and FFXIV winning over their audiences with free updates and patches, and I want F76 to be in that same category. But at its very core, it's still broken, and no amount of Wonderglue or Duct Tape can fix it.
6/10
I can respect the effort put into the Wastelanders update, and how it does its best to fix the game. It's still a mess, but it's a fun mess. Roaming the beautiful landscape with friends and taking out mutated creatures is fun, and so is surviving and building a small community together.
However, the numerous bugs and performance issues, along with the outdated engine holds the game back from being any good. I believe that if Bethesda had created a new engine to support the game on top of focusing more on the online and survival aspect, we might have gotten a neat little spinoff.
But as we all know, that's not what happened. You hear stories about games like No Man's Sky and FFXIV winning over their audiences with free updates and patches, and I want F76 to be in that same category. But at its very core, it's still broken, and no amount of Wonderglue or Duct Tape can fix it.
6/10