I was literally just talking about this nonsense on a forum. I ranted so much about how monetization is going for destroy the Fallout brand with this piece of trash that someone actually gave me the best compliment ever and said "You sound like Jim Sterling."
Yup, that is a pretty good compliment (I personally hope to someday reach the lofty heights of arguing like Totalbiscuit (still can't write the name without tearing up).
*"You've made your last cash grab kid, sorry you got twisted up in development. From where you're launching it may seem like an 18 karat run of incompetence....* *Truth is...the game was shit from the start...."*
you guys really need to learn what a game engine really is lol....not saying your comment is wrong but a game engine the way ive seen it been used the last few days has me like....please please stop talking about things your not understanding. the engine is not 16 years old lol.
From what I've heard - mainly from the modding community - is that the engine could be perfectly acceptable in the current gaming landscape, but Bethesda have not bothered to put in the work to improve it significantly.
@@Thunderbolt210 This is the same game engine used to build Morrowind back in 1998. That is 20 years ago. Sure, they added new features and renamed it to Gamebryo for Oblivion. Then added more features to the same base core and used it for Fallout 3. Then they used the exact same core with more duct tape holding on new features like two handed combat and called it Creation Kit for Skyrim. Then once more with duct tape to add in settlement building and used it for Fallout 4. It is literally the same core engine with features glued on as they decided on something new. It is bloated, unoptimized, and showing its age. Hell, it was showing its age with the expansions for Morrowind. It took community effort to create an unofficial patch it fix over 2000 mistakes Bethesda made.
There's a card-sharing system where you can share a perk with your entire party, and is limited by your Charisma. For every 3 points in Charisma, you can share 1 point's worth of perk cards. Meaning, at the max of 15 Charisma, you can share the benefits of a 5-point card with your entire party. Also, you need higher Charisma to equip Charisma-related perks in the first place, such as extra experience when traveling with a team or better prices at vendors.
I feel the exact opposite, they took out all the shitty, half baked RPG elements from 4 and made a game that relies on what I fell are the stronger elements of 4. I ended up playing, and replaying 4 more for the core gameplay loop then the quests because the lack of player choice in the quests made them made the boring after the first playthrough
Watching this game engine try to do and run everything that Bethesda is forcing it to do, is like watching an old person being tasered to get them to dance. Sure it works on some level, even mildly entertaining, but painful to watch.
Fallout 4 patch notes: Update 0.0.76 -removed NPCs -added multiplayer -added more microtransactions -fixed a bug where players could install 'mods' to make a broken game better
That quote about Fallout 76 merely having the appearance of Fallout reminded me of a quote from a review of Terminator Salvation: It's not a Terminator movie, it's a movie with Terminators in it
Brian Fargo: Fallout is the the worst-case scenario world I imagined growing up in the Cold War. It's a tale of human survivors building new societies in the ruins of the future as seen by people living in the 1950's. Todd Howard: Fallout is laser guns and super mutants and killer robots and where it's the 1950's all the time because that's so wacky!
I'd prefer Egoraptor's quote about Skyward Sword: "You look just like a Zelda, but you're not. You're a pampered, doughy snob wearing nice clothes expecting to graduate scot free because your daddy is an alum."
@@6Xero9 "So they're technically and actually wrong." Found the person who failed English. That or doesn't understand the meme Richard was referencing and needed to look smart by saying the same word effectively twice to show how HECKING MAD he is! "neil finder" "SJWs think that any joke that they are the butt of is automatically lame lol" ... Please tell me how you're going from the NPC meme to Social Justice, or that you actually know what you're talking about. Because I have doubts.
Expecting Bethesda to make a multiplayer game when their single player games are so buggy is like seeing a company that can't build a house that doesn't fall down, and getting excited about the new sky scraper they are building.
Except when developing a game for a multiplayer audiences you don't actually have to worry about programming an actual game, just make sure that your glorified monetization scheme is functioning correctly (ie poised to take cash from gamers while providing very little in exchange
Fan since Fallout 1 here. If this had, at the very least, been a GOOD game, I'd have accepted it as a spinoff and probably thrown a little money at it for cosmetics or something. But it's not a good game, or even a halfway decent one, so Bethesda can fuck right off. I'll give my $60 to somebody else.
Yes. People say Bethesda are bad. But so is Digital Homicide. The reason Digital Homicide isn't an industry leader is because it doesn't have millions of fanboys who will buy the shit it cranks out multiple times and then sing it's praises to the high hills. Bethesda is bad because we, as gamers, let it get bad. Sure we all complain about it's dated engine and graphics, and the gameplay that gets shallower with every release, but we still buy the games. When we do that, our criticisms are meaningless. Why should they bother listening to us when the game is already making them millions if not billions of dollars? It will take a true failure for Bethesda to change it's ways. This MAY be that failure, but I doubt it since Bethesda fanboys would literally pay $60 for a game that has no purpose other than to crash on launch. They would still call it GOTY
@@pt8306 I bought skyrim. It was fun, but they never once fixed the bugs. Then FO4 came out and I didn't buy it. Why? Same engine, worse gameplay, terrible ugly looking graphics, and the story was dumb. This should have been a $20 expansion for FO4 at best if not outright free. Since both TES6 and Starfield will use this potato game engine I am just going to never again buy a Bethesda game. They made the choice easy for me.
@@differentlyabledmuslimjewi4475 most things about fo4 wss bad honesty. Don't forget about the useless item pack dlc things for their settlement simulator. God the amounts of mods I had to use to make the game decent
@@differentlyabledmuslimjewi4475 Did they say they using the same engine for future games? I was (for some reason) under the impression that they were at least going to upgrade the engine.
Anyone else remember the SW BF2 debacle and the video Bethesda put out making fun of EA for their live service game and their commitment to single player games? Kinda ironic looking back at it now.
And they are still make single player games. Starfield for example. F76 is just spin off, no one says it replaces traditional Fallout 5. Also, Bethesda did quite a few online only games way before #SavePlayer1 thing. F76 is nothing new for them (as a publisher at least). Don’t be too dramatic about it.
@jbiehlable Guess what, people will forget about THIS garbage after about 8 days, so if anything you're just gonna hear MORE about the Mojave after the release of Aids 76.
jbiehlable The Legend of the Star is actually a really good quest, though. It weaves together the hyper commercialism of the Old World with the way echoes of the past are misunderstood in a post-apocalyptic setting. It was also more something to leave on the backburner, picking up caps here and there as you played the rest of the game. The Deputy Badges are just a fun punchline. I actually care about them as much as most rewards, they're unique loot that makes me smile and sits in the safe in my Novac suite.
@@GmodPlusWoW The minute they said "Multiplayer Fallout", I was certain it could only fail. Then it kept the engine, announced no NPCs, gameplay was shown and I knew I had been right to count it out as a proper game.
Counter productive to sell a game and ask the player to find their own fun. You wouldn't go to a brothel, drop 60 bucks on the table and then go outside hoping to get laid somewhere.
@@TellarHK No, that is an interesting comparison. To many, part of the benefit of Minecraft is that the game is effectively a physics system wrapped into a fully-breathing, but empty world. That's part of what drew me into the game, that lack of creative boundaries paired with the emptiness of the emptiness of the space you'd inhabited. That's not the case with Fallout 76, however.
Fans: We want a living, breathing, immersive world full of compelling characters to interact with. Bethesda: Do you guys not have imaginations? Also, enjoy the bugs.
Ironically the biggest fan-boyism you'll see connected to Betheshda is the New Vegas fans. Ironic why? Cause the game was developed by Obsidian and only published by Bethesda.
@@enskje The difference being that New Vegas is actually good...Our adoration actually comes from the quality of the game instead of nostalgia for games a company released in the distant past.
C’mon Jim. F76 is more realistic than RDR2. It actually makes you feel the regret, disappointment and anger you’d feel as a new dweller in a nuclear wasteland. That’s real gaming in 2018!! Example: spend 30 hours farming and creating the greatest base ever made, take a nap, get some clean water in your system, log back on and WTF!!! My base is gone! Oh...the sweet feeling of feeling like I’m actually there!
you know the game saves your base as a blueprint right and you can just plot it down whenever you want, it's called a C.A.M.P after all. I don't think you are all there!
The same thing happened to my cousin. He got 76 and told me he spent days making an awesome base, only to get nuked. When he tried using the prints to recreate it, he found the prints weren't there and they'd glitched.
How has Bethesda not yet realized that Fallout is more than just walking around the wasteland killing Fallout themed enemies and collecting guns named after puns. The whole deal of creating a roleplaying engine in a specific setting was to explore the storytelling possibilities of said settings, altering our perception of what would character interactions be in a completely different world than the one we as humans are used to, and using that to create all sorts of fun scenarios, like what would it be like to have the Roman empire in a post apocalyptic wasteland. This game just further evidences that Bethesda just copy pasted their elder scrolls formula over a setting they had no idea how to exploit, while also copy pasting the recognizable elements from the old games into different time periods of the setting where they don't really make sense, and the few new things they come up with are always new types of things to shoot at or shoot with, rather than complex reconstructions of quirky micro societies like the ones from the old games. This concept of Fallout 76 relies on the Skinnerbox nature of this engine and doesn't realize that what you find is never more interesting that the why and how you found them, in RPGs the journey should always be more interesting than the destination because their open-ended nature allows for the player to seamlessly create stories within the stories that the game has to tell.
@@amoryblaine3292 It may not be _all_ of us, but there sure is good enough numbers out there who are. And that's the point, it's not made for us, it's made for them, and this is just a result of them throwing money for shit like this.
That's the problem right there - people need to call out Todd Howard, not Bethesda. T Howard has overseen Bethesda's downfall, he's arrogant, out of touch and rich as fuck.
@Flharfh Lhar, Watch the Fallout 4 rollout presser from that E3. You can tell that being a FPS is, in Todd Howard's view, the most important thing that a Fallout game can be. It's kind of worrying when the head honcho literally has no idea what his fan-base actually likes and wants from the franchise.
Wait, there are super mutants? How are there super mutants so early? By the story, the FEV didn't produce supers until AT LEST a century after, and those were secretive and rare.
The Brotherhood of Steel also show up, or rather get mentioned since there are no npcs... But yeah, the lore has been completely twisted for this game to try and draw old fans in.
FO3, FO4 and FO76 have nothing to do with lore of FO1 and FO2. when Bethesda bought the IP, they threw all materials into trash can and made their own mash-up of things they liked (including out-of-lore things from FO:T, like Brotherhood splitting up and the liberal fraction travelling to the East Coast). FO:NV is actually, give or take, what Black Isle wanted for FO3 (story wise). Obsidian, at that time, consisted of a lot of people working at Black Isle during FO3 development - that's why FO:NV feels like the real third (and so far final) entry to the series. Don't get me wrong - I liked FO3, it was a good game, but it just wasn't the world we loved back in 90's. I always think about it as an alternative universe.
Unfortunately Bethesda thinks that a proper Fallout game is made only by recycling the same themes (super-mutants, brotherhood, ghouls, vault-tec) over and over again no matter what the lore actually says. So everytime they force one of those things in their game they use some half-baked excuse to justify that. That's one of the things that made New Vegas so great - it was a fresh perspective on the world that honored its lore (even that appearance of supermtutants was limited and well grounded). I really wish that Bethesda would hire someone who can come up with an original expansion of Fallout's world instead of repeating everythingg like a broken record.
Yeah. People say "it's beta, it gets better!", yet here we fuking are today, with Skyrim and Fallout 3 & 4 still having tons of bugs and broken questlines that have never been fixed by Bethesda. The fact that there is an "unoffical patch" for every Beth game made by modders says enough.
Mythic Entertainment did good by the Gamebryo... released in 2001, its servers are still live with a very small but devoted following... It's not the engine, it's the developers at BGS.
Battler not judging- It will be comical for sure. Its already god awful comparing their current gen games to others of this generation. They’ve never had the best graphics, but Jesus Christ it looks and feels like I’m playing A game from 2006.
Yeah but that requires actual work,so bethesda says No you don't want that,you want fallout online,with no human npc,no story(yeah fuck holotapes,this is 2018 ffs) and other retards are praising the shit out of it,so you won't ever see any of the previous games remastered/remaked whatever.
@@Reloaded2111 Out of curiosity do you think the micro-transactions in 76 are bad? So far, they seem a like the best kind. No lootbox randomness, and everything you can unlock is cosmetic. I've already earned more than enough atom to buy the most expensive item in the store, just by playing the game. (having said that, nothing in the shop really interests me so far) If Atom funds ongoing development for 76, then I'm all for it. I'll never pay for any of it, and I should have enough to get anything nifty just by playing the game.
I didn't mind the ten-minute holotapes, because they had the same brilliant writers on staff who filled out the worlds of Fallout 3 and 4. The holotapes were very nearly the only thing good about the game.
Hey, at least this game's versions of dragons aren't flying backward at launch! Still haven't been launched into orbit by an NPC, though. That was my favorite Skyrim bug. :-(
Bethesda: So you didn't like Preston's quests? Players: No! Bethesda: Did you like the lore in those computer thingies? Players: Yeah, guess it was alright. Bethesda: What if there were only computers in the game? Players: *sarcastically* Yeah right! Bethesda: *fully serious* SAY NO MOAR.
this is the only time i will ever disagree with jim sterling, i find this game fun. probably cause i know how to have fun in games like these. unlike most reviewers of this game
Fallout 76 is proof that Bethesda doesn't understand what Fallout is. Fallout is a character driven series, the plot is always about various different interests butting heads and the player reacting to these interests. In both Fallout 3 and 4, every character was a plot device. The game wasn't about the individuals, it was about Bethesda's story. Fallout 76 is the natural conclusion of this misunderstanding of Fallout. The removal of NPCs is quite literally the antithesis of what Fallout always tried to be. Fallout's story is the story of humanity, not some pathetic zombie disease story about the Scorch.
Fallout 76 is literally the logical continuation of bethesda's way of making fallout. 3 and 4 both had an on-rails main quest with isolated side quest storylets, that have nothing to do with the main one and some of which just act as a spawning pool for radiant quests. 76 just took it one step further and removed the need for a story as a vehicle to deliver the mmo style radiant quests. Now they focus on what they've always done well with fallout: create a large, open space and fill it with wacky stuff. I just hope someone picks up the mantle of obsidian and makes a story driven single player game on bethesda's engine again, so I can get some more fallout to play. It's clear bethesda has no intention of ever doing that again.
@@libaf5471 Frankly, I am not sure how long Bethesda can keep this up. They are using up all their good will and people don't even expect good games from Bethesda anymore. Fallout 4 sold incredibly well off the backs of the fandom hyping up the game based on the quality of the previous ones, the fanbase is no longer willing to do that. Even the critics who gave Fallout 4 a (much underserved) 10/10 have turned on them with 76. Bethesda is cashing out their good will and this is going to have long term consequences for them. I preordered the collector's edition for both Skyrim and Fallout 4, yet I haven't even bought 76 yet. I know many people who have done the same. I have no trust left to give this company.
@@mattbenz99 Honestly, I think you guys are missing out on some perspective. Part of the reason why fallout 4 sold well is because the core gameplay loop of explore, gather, craft, was extremely enjoyable to myself and a lot of folks. I was let down by the story, but I still put a ton of hours into 4, treating it like a gimpy loot lust game. (basically modding the game to hell, and focusing on hunting legendary enemies) Fallout 76 scratches that itch for me perfectly, and I've been playing it obsessively since launch. My personal hope is that 76 serves the loot lust audience, and that will free up the main line to focus heavily on dialgoue, choice, and story. (because, I love both of those types of games)
@@CatacombD Then why use the Fallout IP for that? Fallout is supposed to be a character driven game that comments on human nature, not a generic looter shooter.
Fallout 76 is not a basic misunderstanding on Bethesda's part about what Fallout is, it's a basic misunderstanding on Bethesda's part about what a good video game is...and what Fallout is.
Takes place 25 years after the bombs and everyone's dead but someone still built pipe weapons when actual weapons would be plentiful still. Only 25 years and the entire biosphere changes and mutates into complete alien creatures. Such a dumb game. Just fallout 4 with multiplayer and no npc's, copy pasted items.
Don't mean to defend the game TOO much, it's still a disappointment on pretty much every level, but it didn't take the biosphere that long to change in-setting. We have first-hand accounts of the literal first days after the bombs fell thanks to the logs from Honest Hearts, and it's clear that the gonzo levels of mutation started early and just kept ramping up, nevermind the environmental changes. Not like Bethesda read them anyway, though.
People need to stop treating Todd Howard like a God and give him shit. Why is it ok for him to lie, but Sean Murray gets completely destroyed by the internet for lying about No Man's Sky? Todd Howard is no different, in fact, he's far far worst. If people spread their disgust with this game the way they did with No Man's Sky, then maybe Bethesda will realize they can't get away with it anymore.
@British Mapping Yeah but I just wish people would stop saying they can "No Man's Sky" this and that about every game that comes out terrible, it used to be if a game was terrible, even one that's in a good franchise, we would call it a shitty game. Not to be confused with games that are misunderstood, Fallout 76 is an awful game and deserves to be seen that way. We shouldn't have to rely on them to unscrew us after they screw us.
Apparently the original idea was for it to be FO4's multiplayer. They said that as time went on it just needed to be its own thing, but I'm pretty sure it's because it wasn't working.
@@ARMIV4 nah, I'm pretty sure it's because they wanted to get into the monetisation game and this was all they could pull out of their ass that they could tart up with mictotransactions later.
It was made with as little effort as possible to try and make a bunch of money. Triple A games have been doing that for a while now, but this is the worst and most obvious one yet
For real, the lack of NPC's is just lazy, obviously other people besides vault dwellers survived the blast, where are they? Surely every NPC in Fallout 1, 2, 3, NV and 4 isn't the descendent of a vault dweller
I grew up on Fallout 1 and 2, it's my favourite franchise (I even liked Fallout Tactics, and Fallout 4 despite its problems) but I can't imagine wanting to play this game. Fallout is about dialogue and how your choices impact npc characters. F76 looks like it lacks everything that makes a Fallout game, Fallout Shelter is better than this.
Anytime a game like this comes along, I worry. Not so much about microtransactions or bugs or shit gameplay- though I worry on that a lot- but what I stress the most on is that the company, in this case Bethesda, will learn the wrong lesson. They already learned a wrong lesson in fans "wanting multiplayer" to mean changing the genre instead of "let me invite 1 to 3 of my friends to tackle this otherwise enriching single player campaign"... leading to ESO instead of multiplayer Skyrim. But it can potentially be much worse... I worry that instead of saying "oh, the game style is not good. Let's go back to what makes Fallout a Fallout game and tighten that up", they will instead say "hmmm, guess players don't like Fallout anymore. Let's shutter it." It is the path EA went down Star Wars and the single player game fans crave. It is the path X-Com almost went down. It is the road being walked with mobile versions of Dungeon Keeper, C&C, and *possibly* Diablo (yeah, they are supposedly working on 4, but SquareEnix is supposedly working on that Final Fantasy remake that's been hinted at since that Sony tech demo... I'll believe it when it actually releases). I am a HUGE Fallout mark. Ever since I played the PC demo two decades ago, I was hooked. I played EVERYTHING. Even Brotherhood of Steel. I got a copy of Wasteland from some magazine compilation disk after learning about the connection. But this is the first time I was thoroughly uninterested. Not because of everything it is, but because of what it isn't. Fans want a follow-up to New Vegas. Not necessarily because of geography, gameplay, or graphics alone (all of that adds to why), but because that was the best evolution of the "Post Apocalyptic Role Playing Game". This is a decidedly "not that" direction. This is a bland shooter with FO skin and iconography. And if I were certain this was just a side project and there were a NV2 or FO5 coming that gets back to basics, I wouldn't feel so dismal about the future of the franchise. I'm more stoked for Wasteland 3, and hopefully that path will not be hindered by the recent acquisition.
My major issue with Bethesda is they refuse to admit that Obsidian did it better then them. FO:NV was a masterwork that was bogged down by the fact that the world didn't realize yet that Bethesda doesn't fix bugs..........ever. So now we have an online game that they are going to bail on once they realize online games actually require updates........yay.
GhengisJohn I am not getting this game but I'm still down voting because I don't like jim or this video. I have a feeling he wouldn't have liked this game even if it was good.
@@grady3691 And yet it's not. So you're upset because Jim said something _warranted_ about the product of your waifu corporation? Or just because Jim exists? Because neither is really reasonable.
K 9 Poodle I don’t believe it will be, Skyrim still has bugs and some of them gamebreaking, it’s been year now and if they are comfortable letting those slide I see no reason why they’d want to fix this.
there are plenty who are defending this shitty, lazy "game", in spite of all it's flaws, because it's "fun", all i can say to those people is raise your standards.
Why are people surprised? How did they watch ANY of the reveal at E3 and think even for one second this game might be fun? I LOVE Fallout but god damn I am amazed anybody looked at that and thought "this might be fun"
Flying Toaster People hoped that Bethesda was aware that they were not on very good standings after fallout 4 and knew that a game that literally doubled down on the elements that fans didn't like (base building, streamlined down dialogue systems, less rpg mechanics), would further escalate the issue if they didn't do something to subvert those expectations. Should've hired rian johnson, he still would've made a more compelling narrative than a literal fucking treasure hunt.
@@FieryShaverdian here's where they failed I think: Fallout has NEVER had great combat. It had decent enough combat but the game is built entirely on the setting and the narrative. When you decide to build an online version of Fallout, you're sacrificing some of that story/world building. But the core gameplay of Fallout isn't good enough to carry the multiplayer experience. A game like Monster Hunter World has nailed core gameplay. It doesn't need story or world building in order to be fun because the act of playing the game itself is rewarding enough. That isn't the case with Fallout games where the combat is a means to an end rather than a fun experience in and of itself. So making their entire game built on that alone is a recipe for disaster.
I agree with you up until the fun part. How can people look at the E3 reveal, then complain that the stuff they showcased in the reveal is in the game? How did you not know you wouldn't like it?
JoshK31 I remember when Jim gave the original rage a 7 and Bethesda asked him to "reconsider" or when new vegas didn't get a 90 metacritic so they caned a sequel to be made a obsidian (just to have fallout 4 score worse). Maybe they just don't care anymore after feeling 'betrayed' with the fallout 4 critical reception or this is just some elaborate survey to see what elements or game genres people would want in a future Bethesda project, just like Fallout 4 could of been a texture pack for a future borderlands/minecraft inspired IP. All I know is starfield is looking more and more like a precipice of all these experiments.
nah, blizz/activision was much, much worse. it’d only be similar if at the next e3, or the one after that, bethesda unveils a elder scrolls mobile instead of showing a proper 6th game.
The aesthetic isn't even charming at this point either. The game just looks so ugly and dated, and we've been seeing some of these assets for ten years now. I know there are these arguments of "oh, thinking the engine is the issue is a misunderstanding of what an engine is." that have been making the rounds, but however you want to characterize it, Bethesda needs a dramatic overhaul of the tech at the core of their open world RPGs.
I think the argument about the engine generally is about how people say Bethesda needs a completely new engine, which they don't. Engines can be upgraded, but it takes time and money. But perhaps it's better and easier to create a completely new engine in this case.
@@CaptainIcebeard I think the issue is there's a lot of different API's out there now, openGL, Vulcan, Metal, etc... Some of these engines were not designed to 'swap' the graphics API out in order to maximize newer hardware so they can either essentially re-write the whole thing again OR they can start fresh and leverage modern tech. Both are expensive, so im sure someone high up goes "Hmmm.. nope we'll use the old one, just add some motion blurr and change the font' edit: remove accidental -strikeout-
@@CaptainIcebeard i dont know the codebase but i can imagine how awful it is. they've probably tacked on way too much crap to make meaningful changes to it, so the old bugs stay, new ones are introduced. sure they could try and fix it but i imagine it would involve such massive overhauls that it's literally cheaper to rewrite the whole thing. trying to fix and upgrade the old engine is probably like trying to modify an oldtimer car to electric and modernize it to the point it can keep up with modern cars. sure you can do it but it's easier to develop a completely new car.
That for sure it will be on same engine... knowing 76 has the same bugs as in fallout 4 and 3... expect to have to have the same type of game from their sides for long time.. further more, they will have to remake their money after this fiasco.
@James Reilly I would say Bethesda will rush out Starfield (or whatever) for "good PR" or to save face but if they do that it will be a bigger disaster because the engine is like 20+ old (give or take), their unable to de-bug earlier game AND it will be rushed! Name a game that was rushed to market that was good! Lets face the truth Bethesda is a company that will never change willing, not until someone drags them to court.
I don't hate multiplayer in principle, but it's the fact that it's become the focus of the industry, pushing players like me who prefer, more focused narratives or at least the freedom to go at my own pace, further to the edge. Instead of the elder scrolls 6 we've had ESO and skyrim released again and again for eight years, why work on better games when you can just make money with a service that's boring and doesn't work. The single player games aren't dead of course, we've had really good ones. It just annoys me.
I feel the same way. I tried to have a conversation with another person at work last night who plays games, and every game they wanted to talk about was an online multiplayer one, usually with microctransactions. Me: "You excited about the MediEvil remake? I am!" Them: "What's that? Oh, old stuff. No. But I'm hyped PUBG is finally coming to PS4." Me: "Oh. Umm . . . do you play anything where you're not shooting other people?" Them: "No. Why?" People nowadays are so obsessed with accomplishing things in games that they no longer care if the game itself is fun: they just want to get rewarded for playing it in the first place, and if that means dropping money on loot boxes and other microtransactions to get their reward fix then they'll do it. Remember cheat codes? Game Genies? Unlockables? I miss those things.
Try Red Dead R2. You can play it in FP, good narrative, and loads of stuff to do. Except for the fantasy it has a little Skyrim vibe to it. (Exploring, survival, and micromanagement)
yup, I've pretty much dropped gaming altogether and gone back to books apart from a few rpg's; sick of the cut corners, psychological manipulation, and forced grinding
MusicTaster at least it’s not a millionth Scorched assault. By the way, Scorched are literally just Fallout creatures with human dialogue put over them. Bethesda INSISTS that every human character be an actual person playing the game
See how he's looting everything? That will last until level 5. Then your stash caps out and you end up playing "Inventory Management 76" for the rest of the game. Remember being able to loot everything in FO4 to make awesome and impressive settlements you could be proud of? Kiss that goodbye unless you are willing to pass up every lootable thing while questing (except adhesive and screws) and then going back later to pick up building supplies piecemeal to make your CAMP. Which has a building limit size that is further restricted by your level. No more selling extra loot to vendors either. All of the vendors are linked to other vendors in their area and have a caps limit of 200. So no point in running around to different vendors to sell, unless you want to spend hours running to each area or spending money to fast travel to those locations-assuming you have discovered them. Once that 200 is gone from one, it's gone from them all. For 24 hours of real time. Maybe. If it doesn't bug out and doesn't replenish at all. Questing and drops gives legendary gear which is usually several levels above your current level. So you can't use it and have no room to store it, best to just drop it on the ground. Especially if it's not something you'll use for your current build-no saving gear for alts with different builds. Nothing is more fun than playing an online game and being rewarded with legendary gear and then being forced to drop it on the ground to rot, right? Remember power armor? Don't even bother picking it up when you find it. Each piece weighs 10 lbs + the 10 lb frame, and you can't even use the lowest pieces until level 30. Plus the cores to run one weighs 3 lbs each. Heavy guns? Again, don't bother. The weight of the gun + the ammo you need to carry to make it viable means you'll be running at your max weight limit most of the game. They basically made every single MMO mistake that Blizzard did with WoW. Back in 2004. And that they have already fixed (usable loot for your build, being able to save epic gear for later use, having a player auction house-especially since Bethesda stated they wanted to create a player driven economy) You would hope that Bethesda would have at least learned something from the last 20 years of MMO gaming.
This sounds far worse. Classic warcraft had easily obtainable 16 slot bags, plus a bank which you could put up to 6 additional bags into, and not to mention that you could make alts to get more of all of this. Most people had at least 1 bank alt. Guild storages would have several. Furthermore, you could abuse the mailbox system for only 30c per letter for even more storage. An item in the mailbox doesn't count towards an item limit (aka librams), and could sit on as many letters as you wanted to send. Also, unlike later MMOs, they did not have a cash shop selling bags or any kind of space. Back then, there was no cash shop of any kind. All you could buy was THE GAME, and THE SUB. Of course today they have a huge booming store that sells everything under the sun, in addition to still selling the game and the sub...
Yo dog I've been playing the game for like 3 days now and a lot of the shit you're saying is highly exaggerated. I get some features are tedious and annoying, however alot of the problems you are complaining about can be easily fixed, such as weight problems being solved via perk cards. Or the fact you can leave power armor pieces on the chassis which the weight will remain 10lb( btw found lv 15 power armor pieces). Sure I found plenty of gear over leveled for me, but I've only been able to find just 2 legendary weapons and they were the right levels for me so I guess I was just lucky. I mean even if it is useless to you, you could always scrap whatever... Instead of just leaving crap on the ground.
"I like to think you have enough sense to do the right thing. The rewards for doing so are immense... as are the punishments for not doing so." - Mr. House
@@gruntkil1a540 Yeah been thinking about doing that. I want to do all the pantheons also, but dear god they're insane haha. I've gotten over 100% on completion and all that. I know I can get to 112% on it. I haven't played a game that good in a long time. It's definitely one of my favorites now.
To be fair, it is better to tell the player to hand off controlled when server attempt to resync. Bethesda use a particularly shit way to highlight such fact, and server quality is just...... Bethesda, ''it just works''.
@@Dermetsu also they are heavily invested in the franchise. Some channels are basically just Fallout lore channels, so they *need* 76 to succeed in order to protect their own financial success. I'm really not surprised. Jim on the other hand? Well his success is independent of any one games success or failure, so he speaks freely.
@@MediumRareOpinions -- Also I'm pretty sure Bethesda won't send him review copies or any of the other benefits afforded to outlets that play nice, since Jim's been brutally honest towards them in the past. So he really has nothing to lose from them, and no reason to kiss their ass.
"DISEASED super mutant" Weren't super mutants immune to disease and radiation thus the reason why the Master in the first game wanted to transform all of human kind into super mutants as they were the most fit for life in the wasteland?
Either Bethesda taking a sledgehammer to the lore once again, or they're just forgetting small details again, they don't have a good track recod of that either.
Or they are a carrier, because a person can be immune to a disease and not suffer any ill effects but still transfer it to others. Which makes a lot of sense in this instance. and calling them diseased is a way to denote they are infected. not that they are sick.
@@donovandelozier7156 Asymptomatic carriers are not immune, they carry the disease and simply do not show the symptoms. Supermutants ought to be immune - they shouldnt be able to contract the illness in the first place.
@@opicikostra3446 "resistant to a particular infection or toxin owing to the presence of specific antibodies or sensitized white blood cells. "they were naturally immune to hepatitis B"" people with Sickle cell anemia are called immune to Malaria (also people who only have one of the two allele's for the genetic disease which means they are assymptomatic for that as well), but their immunity comes from the shape of their red blood cells, with nothing having to do with antibodies or white blood cells. But their blood can still transmit the disease. If you are never affected by a disease you are effectively immune, regardless of if your body kills it or not.
"Fallout 76 is dogshit" This is exactly the words I expect from a 'professional' review of a game this terrible, unfortunately the rest of the reviews are just too accommodating. This game IS dogshit...end of story.
Back in my day, we made do with twigs! Look at you gaymers, expecting us to build you engines with story and characters and things. Spoiled! Now go buy a special edition for a game with loot boxes, games are expensive and our investors need caviar.
A friend was quite excited when announced, as he liked FO4 ... must ask ... or warn? ... him if he still is hot for this. I liked all FOs so far, but this had me zero excited from the start ... even Tactics seems way more exciting.
Players forgave Bethesda games for all the bugs and low quality graphics because the story was so engrossing and full of interesting NPCs. Now that isn’t a story or NPCs Bethesda is getting rightfully hung out to dry. 1st Fallout game ever I won’t buy
@@fall190 I'm going to respectfully disagree, Piper, Valentine, Cait and Curie were my favourite parts of FO4. Engaging dialogue, believeable motives and personalities that were unique to them. Diamond City, while sadly empty, still had interesting charcters in it. Goodneighbour was a great place to go and KLEO still makes me smile though I've heard her dialogue a million times (slight hyperbole there). Even if you don't like the NPCs in FO4 you still have to admit that losing them is gonna make the world a barren and empty place. Also losing them means everything bad about this godawful engine is now the primary focus. It could be forgiven when there were decent quests and decent stories and pushed aside when the quests began to suck, but the story was still there. Now the quests suck and the story is hidden so what else are we supposed to focus on? The combat, well that's never been good in a Bethesda game. So we're left with graphics, animations and such. Which are being rendered in a decade old engine... no wonder this game looks like hot garbage, becuase by stripping out what made their Fallout series playable, they've left us with the unplayable remains. Well done Bethesda. I in no way direct that last part at you Fall, it just occured to me as I was typing out the first paragraph. To anyone else reading this, I do not suggest Bethesda have ever made a great story. Only ever some decent ones, and some effing awful ones.
Nah, Having fun with my copy. I took a chance and I like it. Granted I didn't blindly buy it. I played the beta and found it was pretty damn fun so I left my preorder. I figured I would cancel but nah. I quite enjoyed my time. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean everyone is with you. Thank God I didn't listen to the peanut gallery on this or all the wannabe programmers.
@@almightydeity Just curious but why would you spend 60 bucks on this when there are games exactly like this, but are better quality, that are free to play? Do you just like to waste money on badly designed buggy games? If so then power to you I guess.
Me: I honestly trusted Bethesda enough to make a competent Online Fallout... I honestly trusted Bethesda enough to make a competent Online Fallout... I honestly trusted Bethesda enough to make a competent Online Fallout... S: What's he saying? H: He's just been saying, "I honestly trusted Bethesda enough to make a competent Online Fallout " over and over again ever since Fallout 76 came out.. He only stops to drink. Even in his sleep, you can hear him uttering those words through the fissures of your dreams by some sort of subneural connection. S: Yikes! Poor sod.
@@FortressLordJP193 I never said it was boring because that's subjective but you can't say a game isn't buggy when there are numerous videos showing such and a direct statement from the developers saying it would be broken at release. You may have had a lucky experience and not caught some of the bugs on display. Or you may not have been paying much attention because some of the bugs would easily be missed if there's a lot going on on-screen. But I don't see how you can argue your single experience means that the game isn't a buggy mess given everyone showing T posing models, random spawning of mobs right next to your after you just finished killing them, or the numerous other issues people have complained about.
Why does Bethesda enjoy the popular reputation it has? This is what they did to Fallout. They took an in-depth single-player roleplaying game that had tons of different ways to play it with an engrossing story featuring a compelling antagonist and slowly over a decade turned it into this atrocity.
Several reasons: 1. Games "journalists" have been completely compromised in the last decade or two and they're now just corporate mouthpieces - this has hugely immunised Bethesda and EA from deserved backlash for a long time. Next time you see a "AAA" game come out check out the User Score versus the Critic Reviews. Critic Reviews only drop to about 65% absolute minimum for big releases, even if they're total shite. Indie games get reviewed much more harshly. I don't know how publishers are influencing journos so much but it's clear something is very wrong with the system. 2. Bethesda have spent huge amounts of money on PR and marketing to sell crap games like this and people keep buying it out of some sort of deranged "loyalty". Then they get buyer's remorse and start trying to defend the game. 3. Unfortunately a large number of stupid gamers with more money than brain cells are _happy_ paying $14 for blue power armour. This means Bethesda and EA construct these games purely to milk these fools.
@@SerMattzio Correctamundo. The sheer number of tweenaged dipshits wailing about how "Todd has 10 Charisma" is making me insane. HorseSHIT he has 10 Charisma. That would imply he succeeded in the difficult task of manipulating smart people. He just has 10 PER, and he uses it all to spot fuckin' morons and sell them turds. A moron will buy anything. Hard, Sad ol' Truth Time: If you bought this game without bothering to read any reviews first, you're too gullible to survive outside a 1st world country and deserve what you get. Which is robbed and manipulated by people who excel at ripping off low INT types. Zero sympathy. Bethesda's NOTORIOUS for this shit and yet they double their profit on every new bugfest they put out. Some people truly exist only to be robbed.
Yup, 300+ employees, 3 years of development, assets, and engine all predesigned from FO4. And this is what we get? It better be a side project or they'll be making EA and ActivisionBlizzard appear as competent managers.
Sadly this is not a side project...nope Pete Hines said this is chroniclal...so the next real Fallout is not for another 10 years plus if Bethesda even lasts that long
@@adren42 So what your saying is they were lazy and incompetent, wasting 300+ manpower and 3 years of dev time on something that moders with dev tools could cobble together in 6 to10 months and a 30man team?
Seeing as how Fallout 4 came out pretty recently and they also have Starfield and TES6 in development, I’d guess that their resources weren’t really stretched too thin. Also, the game is really no worse than Fallout 4.
As soon as it was announced at E3, I was pretty upset (so upset that my boyfriend and I had our first big “fight” because he thought I was being dramatic) because I knew it’d be a buggy, lazy cash grab. Not trying to sound like a FO purist, but nothing about this game is Fallout. Sure, it looks like fallout, and it has Vault Boy’s adorable face everywhere, but the introspective look at the horrors of war, nationalism, xenophobia, and the dangers of staying in the past - what MADE the series, besides the RPG aspects - are all gone to make room for run-n-gun trend-chasing. And that’s just in combination with the rocky launch and bugs that come from using a decade-old, broken engine. At least they’re going to finally update it for Starfield and TES6! Oh wait. edit: before yall worry, my bf and i are doing great and constantly laugh about how we argued about the game (and other stuff)
It's funny because I felt the same way about Fallout 3 when it came out, that not much about it felt Fallout, I guess I am a bit of an FO purist in that sense but its nuts to see just how far Bethesda ran this IP into the ground. I think their days are numbered somehow especially after Red Dead and the trailer for cyberpunk (though we will still have to wait and see on that one).
They're crashing this plane, with no survivors. Tbf we should've known. It becomes popular, devs dumb it down so they can get even more money. Is this the end?
@@lancew9351 I hope not, Arkane, Tango and IDs output have been amazing in spite of bethesdas lackluster re-releases of Skyrim(only putting this here because people love it for some reason) and nothing else of note. I would really hate to see those development studios go into limbo or die with bethesda.
The instant I heard that this new Fallout game was going to be online multiplayer-only, I figured it would be shit, but Bethesda managed to blow those expectations out of the water and back even deeper into the barrel.
Let's not confuse things: Fallout BoS was a crap; still better than 76. Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel was an awesome game in the Fallout universe. Oh, how I wish for overhauled versions of the original 3 games! For F3 and F:NV we have mods that improve graphics and fix glitches, while for F4 we have no need of anything, not even the game.
@@justanotherrandomontheyout4791: Oooh... that I could actually get behind. Though I don't trust Rockstar's monetization schemes as far as I can throw them, so... I'd be leery about that part. But they do know how to tell a damn fine story, that's true.
heres are start. don't look up a game you don't like. then proceed to shit on it in the comments instead of, lets say playing a game with friends. friends that you don't have.
Be me, playing Fallout 3 in my Xbox360, I was 15 years old, maybe 16, while playing I think: Man, I would love to play with my friends in this world. 10 years laters we have this. Well, thank you Bethesda for destroying my dreams.
Many fans have been asking for the same thing for at least as long, longer still with Elder Scrolls. And we know what happened with Elder Scrolls *it's an mmorpg now! also lets strip everything down because WoW is the standard and nobody would want to play with our mechanics that's not the whole reason they want us to make this or anything* but even that was more well-made than 76. Rough stuff.
@@KnownAsKenji I have a little piece of hope, that in the future, with bug-fixes and patches, this will be an enjoyable game, until then... I'm dissapointed. They could put "multiplayer" in Fallout 4, where you can invite 2 or 3 friends and do stuff and shit together in the Wasteland, but i guess not. :/
Was watching itsagundam play it and a scorcher literally phased through the door like kitty pryde with a bad yeast infection I died. This game is a joke. No amount of patches will fix glaring issues like that.
An enemy phasing through a door is a deal breaker for you? Have you ever played any bethesda game at launch before this? That's a minor bug compared to the amount of shit that was broken with launch oblivion, skyrim, fallout 3, and fallout 4.
@@CatacombD The difference: All these games were freely moddable and about any issues you could think of got fixed - by modders. A heavily modded Skyrim puts this Fallout76 junk to shame even from a graphical perspective. And I am not speaking about the 64bit Skyrim SE, but the original 32-bit Skyrim. If a modded 7 years old game looks superior to your current AAA-game, has a better KI and at the same time is still more stable you are no longer producing AAA games. Bethesda got to the point were they just are not an AAA-developer anymore.
You're right when you say that Fallout 76 is a bad concept. No sense of a living, breathing world, or even a hopeful world that can be redeemed, since there are no people. You're not fighting for anything. Why they didn't just make a game where the players play as lackeys of the FO4 factions is mind boggling. That's easy, and everyone liked them. Then you can keep settlements and people.
@@MrXmoda 24 players, maybe broken into teams, doing mostly their own thing doesn't really equate to the feeling of fighting for the futures and hopes of settlements or a civilisation of people hanging on by the skin of their teeth, at least not to me. The protagonists of all the Fallouts except 4 are voiceless blank slates, how are characters like that going to breath life into this world? I know that you are supposed to provide your own objectives but that is limited by the game itself. In Fallout 4, you fight, explore, build, and engage in whacky conversations and follow the crazy lives of the NPCs. In Fallout games you enter into a world with people affected by the harshness of the world who have recreated civilization after nuclear annihilation. But in Fallout 76 I just don't see where the retention time is going to come from, perhaps 24 players band together and create a mission to fight for something, or perhaps Bethesda could add competitive levels to equipment so that there is an ever-present yearning for better gear, like Destiny. Maybe make the player count higher, especially since they made the map bigger. But once again, I just don't know where the retention time is going to come from.
I remember watching interviews with Todd Howard about FO76. In them, he described interactions between players as a big part of the game, which was my first red flag. He wanted players to think before they shoot, to maybe try peaceful resolutions, or to encourage meaningful conflict when it had to happen. Players don't work that way Todd Howard. Technically, no one in Escape from Tarkov HAS to shoot anyone except NPC scavs, but guess what? All but maybe 2% of interactions with players will end with someone dead. As he continued talking, I realized he wasn't saying anything specific - no details about HOW any of his absurd goals would be accomplished. I realized he didn't know how to make the game he wanted. I'm disappointed that Bethesda continues down this absurd rabbit hole.
Come on Jim, it's not *Bethesda's* job to make their own games good. Just wait a decade or so, and it might be good if you install about three dozen community mods!
Didn't Bethesda produce a smug and cringeworthy video for E3 a year or two ago, where the congratulated themselves for making single player experiences, and not entering the always online trend? That looks really bad in context now.
The Creation Engine is essentially a revamped version of the Gamebryo engine, which Bethesda used on projects dating back as far as Morrowind. Each successive game Bethesda released relied on a tweaked and expanded Gamebryo engine. In 2011, they basically rewrote the graphics pipeline for the Gamebryo engine for Skyrim. This is what is known as the Creation engine. They tweaked and expanded the engine for Fallout 4, and now Fallout 76. Bethesda is notable for releasing... buggy games, and this is largely ignored due to the typical quality of those games. The problem comes when you realize that each new version of their game engine introduced new bugs, and little work was done to remove these as time went on. The thought that Bethesda could make a stable online game using this mess is laughable. It would require a complete rewrite (which obviously didn't happen) or a completely different engine (which also did not happen). Honestly, it looks like they just took the Creation Engine as it was for FO4, plugged in some netcode, told it to call home every once and a while and called it a day. Considering the reputation of the company for releasing broken products, the result is predictable.
I think Bethesda's only solution to this growing problem is to just fucking make a new engine from the ground up. Instead of ever working on this game, they could have spent valuable production resources developing a new engine for their mainline FO, ES games and now Starfield.
@@brianross3747 Besides, the hardcore Fallout audience seems to have already written it off anyways... I know I sure fucking have. I'll just play more modded New Vegas.
$1.95 to roll back your last level up. $2.95 each additional card pack. $4.95 for a consumable that raises one item's level. $9.95 horse power armor, delivered to your camp. $19.95 to respec your character. $89.95 to uninstall the game, freeing up over 100 GB on your hard drive. Which of these predictions (or prices) do you think are accurate?
IMO, the best part of recent Fallout games are the cool NPCs, weird quests, and the companion mechanics. I just don't think I want Fallout without those things. Why couldn't they have added these things to 76, while also allowing for all the online stuff? Too much?
Yeah, one of the only things I can really honestly praise about Fallout 4, I genuinely liked the companions and NPC encounters I found several of them very memorable. Just look online at the plethora of fanart celebrating these fondly remembered characters! What does BGS do? *Removes all interactable human NPCs*
It's such a fucking waste - before I learned it was going to be another cashgrab multiplayer clusterfuck I was intrigued by their choice of setting. So much potential pissed down the toilet.
Look into Civ VI. You'll lose your job because you won't sleep in time for work because you feel bad leaving the game with as much time put into it as you did plus you'll leave everyone hanging right when it's starting to get good so you end up calling in to finish up and go to sleep just to wake up in the afternoon and start a new game and repeat the cycle continually.
They are a second job. The fucked up part is that there are customers that demand it be made into that. They point to the existence of people that will play the game 40+ hours a week (of which they are usually one). They say it wouldn't be fun if it only took people (specifically them) a week to progress to the next level. Then they insist it should take 400 hours to achieve that progression. Generally they're either completely incapable of grasping the concept that MOST people don't put 40 hours a week into a single video game, or, they consider anyone that doesn't put in 40 hours a week to be a filthy casual pleb that doesn't deserve to make any progress at all. Due to the fact they actually have that much free time to burn they're also the most prolific posters in the development forum for the game. After the game is released any thread in which a person who plays 1/4 as much as them expresses frustration about it taking 10 months of their free time to achieve minute levels of progress will get a reply from 40-hour a week guy smugly saying "I don't find it hard to progress."
That’s basically what nearly all video games have become. The focus on competition, multiplayer, and monetization has absolutely DESTROYED most video games for me. I like falling into a game and getting immersed in its world. And I don’t mean needing to spend 8+ hours a day on it-immersed, I mean just falling in love with the fun of it-immersed. I remember playing a game like oh, idk, Mark of Kri for PS2, and picking it up for a few hours every couple of days, and being absolutely head over heels for that thing, and feeling like I’m inside that world. It wasn’t trying to sell me something. It wasn’t asking me to compete online against children and hardcore gamers. It had unlockables that were actually fun to go after and not shoehorned into the experience because “achievement/trophy hunters” demanded them. There have only been a generously large handful of truly fun video games in the last generation and a half. Hell, even games like Elder Scrolls are fucking abysmal. Everyone tells me how AMAZING a game like Skyrim is. It’s really not. It’s a job. Yeah, it’s a silly physics engine, and if you get to level 10 you’re basically playing godmode for the rest of the game which can be a source of minor enjoyment when used sparingly. But good lord, I essentially never had fun playing Skyrim. I’ve played it a number of times with new builds and play styles, and every time it’s the same damn thing. Grind your ass off for no reason, get over-encumbered, do math to figure out what has the best resale to weight ratio, watch a glitchy animation here or there, hear the same five people speak, and do actual work for NPCs that are usually cunts to you and will actively agitate you. People find this enjoyable? Chopping wood and being an errand boy? Getting chastised daily for not getting to the cloud district often enough? Having creepy court wizards robotically recite a script at you about how great they are and how much you stink? Mistakingly touching something you weren’t supposed to, being chased down by the law, get forced to pay a fine, go to a loading screen, and get transported to the front of a castle after processing? If you want to live a peasantry feudal life just join a medieval faire and get on with it. I feel like crowd mentality has just totally fucked everything. Everybody expects it/wants it to be the best thing ever, and this bugged out glitchy mess gets all these free passes and praise because nobody wants to be the person that points out how boring and dull and bland it all is. Bethesda is garbage, and has always been garbage.
Fuck Bethesda for screwing obsidian over for gay ass metacritic score that actually is the fault of Bethesda anyway because they didn’t give obsidian enough time to make the game (and yet they still made the best fallout game to date). Never forget
@jbiehlable Ooooohh! Retro! 😎I do actually wish I still had all my old consoles, it would be a pretty big collection. Only the Nintendo products would still work though, lol
Thank you, today I was having the thought I might check the game out. However I was feeling hesitancy because I heard that on PC it was only releasing on their website... Sketchy. I don't imagine Bethesda has a return policy on games bough from their site..
Fallout 76 has major flaws in addition to what Jim says here. Firstly, there's a 400 pound limit on storage for your character, and now that everything weighs something, it quickly becomes counter-productive to gather materials past a certain point or to store anything besides Junk in your storage. This means you have to seriously consider if storing that 20+ pound legendary Fat Man is worth it when you also have to keep mini-nukes that weigh 3 pounds each on hand. This coupled with the fact that as items get stronger, they generally weigh more, and you quickly find yourself extremely limited in terms of the options you have for playing your character. Power armor frames can be found at early levels, but the gear is normally unwearable at the level range they're found in. This coupled with the fact that you can only store 1 Power Armor frame at a time (granted, I couldn't imagine storing more than 1), will mean that it's pretty pointless to get them prior to when they're actually useful. Vendors always have 200 caps, and whenever you buy something from them, they only get a fraction of the caps that you pay out. This makes the "Better prices" perk useless since a lot of times you end up just dropping items you don't currently need due to how limited your storage is. Also keep in mind that despite being able to buy ammo, you can't sell it, meaning that it's pointless to pick up ammo for weapons you don't currently have. Trading is currently bugged, and if you offer up an item and close the window out before you go to the acceptance screen, there's a chance that the items you offered up are just gone. It also doesn't function well as a way for people to actually purchase goods from one another, since other players aren't exactly willing to purchase all of your useless weapons and armor, especially when they can see the good stuff. Workshops, besides being a "better" C.A.M.P., can glitch out and cause either the resources you're trying to farm to stop working, or your turrets to go crazy and attack a random structure in the area for no reason. Opposing players can also try to take over your base, but none of your turrets or defenses will try to protect your base from them while they do so. While the act of claiming does open players up to PvP for the short time that they are claiming the workshop, they won't actually become Wanted unless they destroy something in your area. The player trying to take over the workshop is also at a major disadvantage if the area isn't vacant since anyone can come up and shoot them similar to how it works against a Wanted character. Stealth inside of buildings is non-existent in this game. Groups of enemies have been tied together and God help you if you walk into an area with multiple floors. Sure, you can get the sneak attack on the first enemy, but you'll wish you ignored them when you see the horde of his friends coming from every corner of the map.
@@DaDog I believe there's a glitch where if you deploy a power armor frame from a stack, the stack disappears, so unless there's some way I don't know of to store them in your CAMP outside of the stash, it's pointless to have more than one.
@@wolfking1409 that moment when you place down a different container and realize all player made containers work as a Player stash. EDIT: Ha, he deleted the comment.
I like Jim -- he is one of the only people who stands up against AAA publishers and has the gall to call them out. However, sometimes he misses the point. I have been playing Fallout since '02 when I first played Fallout 2. I enjoy the take on the game that Bethesda created and all of it's trappings. Running around, exploring the world, shooting SuperMutants, leveling up your toon. Going back to Fallout 3 95% of the game are these activities that some consider mundane. Jim, in his SpiderMan review, stated that leveling up Peter, exploring the world, and swinging around are so much fun to do. Just playing the game makes the character progression system worthwhile. I guess if you are not a fan of a game and how it plays it can effect how seemingly mundane tasks are viewed as not fun. Picking up bottles might be boring for some, but I've enjoyed the scavenging for resources spin that Bethesda introduced with Fallout 3 and expanded on with the crafting elements of Fallout 4. I am enjoying the game on PC. Most of what I enjoyed about Fallout 4 came from these elements that some would consider mundane, since the story and writing (aside from the terrific companions) were a step backwards. I honestly believe Bethesda missed the mark by omitting NPCs, but to say that all the quests are dog shit is not true. If you are on the fence about 76 I would hold off for a while until Bethesda makes some changes to the game. The most glaring thing other than the lack of NPCs is the 400lb storage in your settlements which gets maxed fairly quickly. I think they will probably be adding human NPCs in the future in a narrative arc, but Jim is right when he says the game seems a bit empty without them.
@@TheConst4nt If you wouldn't talk like that to someone's face, you shouldn't do it on the interwebz. I don't enjoy multiplayer games like Fortnight, but I am smart enough to understand these games aren't shit. Objectivity isn't that hard if you slow down and take a deep breath homey.
Ironically enough No Mans Sky has made a decent comeback with its big updates these coming years. Fallout 76 is now literally the 2018 version of the once "No Mans Lie"
Indeed, No Mans Sky is now a relaxing timesink. Will happily sit and potter about for a few hours. Hello got a lot of deserved shit for the initial release, but now, it really isn't bad at all.
@@raremessagefound7138 Yeah! People who liked Fallout because of its fantastic storytelling, NPC's and RPG elements will surely love the same elements in fortnite.
I was literally just talking about this nonsense on a forum. I ranted so much about how monetization is going for destroy the Fallout brand with this piece of trash that someone actually gave me the best compliment ever and said "You sound like Jim Sterling."
Would that we all sounded like that handsome, handsome man.
Thank God for Patrick Sangregorio
Yup, that is a pretty good compliment (I personally hope to someday reach the lofty heights of arguing like Totalbiscuit (still can't write the name without tearing up).
@@JimSterling Would that we all.
Hahaha
*"You've made your last cash grab kid, sorry you got twisted up in development. From where you're launching it may seem like an 18 karat run of incompetence....*
*Truth is...the game was shit from the start...."*
Carlos Fred that really made my day. Hahaha
Heh heh
BIG IRON BIG IRON
Ring-a-ding baby 😎👌
Play that guitar again, Johnny!
An always online game with no NPCs running on a 16 year old engine.
Good thinking Bethesda,
you guys really need to learn what a game engine really is lol....not saying your comment is wrong but a game engine the way ive seen it been used the last few days has me like....please please stop talking about things your not understanding. the engine is not 16 years old lol.
@@Thunderbolt210 do you smell your own farts?
From what I've heard - mainly from the modding community - is that the engine could be perfectly acceptable in the current gaming landscape, but Bethesda have not bothered to put in the work to improve it significantly.
arghhhhh don't use Photoshop to edit images!!!!! its a 20 year old ENGINE!!!!
@@Thunderbolt210
This is the same game engine used to build Morrowind back in 1998. That is 20 years ago.
Sure, they added new features and renamed it to Gamebryo for Oblivion. Then added more features to the same base core and used it for Fallout 3. Then they used the exact same core with more duct tape holding on new features like two handed combat and called it Creation Kit for Skyrim. Then once more with duct tape to add in settlement building and used it for Fallout 4.
It is literally the same core engine with features glued on as they decided on something new. It is bloated, unoptimized, and showing its age.
Hell, it was showing its age with the expansions for Morrowind. It took community effort to create an unofficial patch it fix over 2000 mistakes Bethesda made.
What is the purpose of charisma in a game with no NPC's?
You know what, I never thought to ask that lol. You have a good point lol
It buffs your party. There are perks that give X more stats based on how many teammates you have and stuff. Its also where the building perks are.
@Snarbalax That sure sounds like "charisma" to me.
TurkeyShoot there are robots 😂😂
There's a card-sharing system where you can share a perk with your entire party, and is limited by your Charisma. For every 3 points in Charisma, you can share 1 point's worth of perk cards. Meaning, at the max of 15 Charisma, you can share the benefits of a 5-point card with your entire party.
Also, you need higher Charisma to equip Charisma-related perks in the first place, such as extra experience when traveling with a team or better prices at vendors.
Is like they took everything wrong with Fallout 4 and decided to make a game out of it.
🤣🤣
And there wasn't a lot of right in Fallout 4
I've heard that there is a settlement...
I feel the exact opposite, they took out all the shitty, half baked RPG elements from 4 and made a game that relies on what I fell are the stronger elements of 4. I ended up playing, and replaying 4 more for the core gameplay loop then the quests because the lack of player choice in the quests made them made the boring after the first playthrough
So it's basically Fallout 4 :D
Watching this game engine try to do and run everything that Bethesda is forcing it to do, is like watching an old person being tasered to get them to dance.
Sure it works on some level, even mildly entertaining, but painful to watch.
it is also a sad display
Their game engines can barely run a single player game.
enigmaPL you kidding me? I would die laughing seeing an old guy getting tasered
@@model-t6020 then you may want to start seeing a therapist.
Model T-60 seek help because your clearly a sadist freak.
Fallout 4 patch notes:
Update 0.0.76
-removed NPCs
-added multiplayer
-added more microtransactions
-fixed a bug where players could install 'mods' to make a broken game better
-completely butcher perk system even further
Man totally haven't seen that exact comment a million times before
@@nathansstuff1547 Yeah, it is a repost, but funny and worth reposting I think.
Correction - Bethesda pressures modders to remove those mods claims theirs so much better (head is in the clouds).
@@Captiiva .... this ... isn´t funny .... it´s rather depressing for a fan of the franchise to see it be so violated and further shat on ..
That quote about Fallout 76 merely having the appearance of Fallout reminded me of a quote from a review of Terminator Salvation: It's not a Terminator movie, it's a movie with Terminators in it
ARK FailOut Evolved 76
Brian Fargo: Fallout is the the worst-case scenario world I imagined growing up in the Cold War. It's a tale of human survivors building new societies in the ruins of the future as seen by people living in the 1950's.
Todd Howard: Fallout is laser guns and super mutants and killer robots and where it's the 1950's all the time because that's so wacky!
But I liked it 😁
Salvation... well,I don't think ANYTHING can *salvage* this game after the critics are through reviewing it. :P
I'd prefer Egoraptor's quote about Skyward Sword: "You look just like a Zelda, but you're not. You're a pampered, doughy snob wearing nice clothes expecting to graduate scot free because your daddy is an alum."
I fucking died from laughter when I realized that Bethesda basically considers their players NPCs.
Well to be fair you aren't playing another person's character so their not technically wrong lol
@@urameshitrev1851 NPC = Non PLAYER Character. So they're technically and actually wrong.
@The Infidel We did get it. It's just that the joke was so lame people are desperately trying to make some fun out of it
You are the NPCs!
@@6Xero9 "So they're technically and actually wrong."
Found the person who failed English. That or doesn't understand the meme Richard was referencing and needed to look smart by saying the same word effectively twice to show how HECKING MAD he is!
"neil finder" "SJWs think that any joke that they are the butt of is automatically lame lol"
...
Please tell me how you're going from the NPC meme to Social Justice, or that you actually know what you're talking about. Because I have doubts.
Expecting Bethesda to make a multiplayer game when their single player games are so buggy is like seeing a company that can't build a house that doesn't fall down, and getting excited about the new sky scraper they are building.
Throw into the mix the blind fanbois apologists, and there's a real problem.
Except when developing a game for a multiplayer audiences you don't actually have to worry about programming an actual game, just make sure that your glorified monetization scheme is functioning correctly (ie poised to take cash from gamers while providing very little in exchange
warystatue33 There's still a hard core of the irrational who are defending it and beth though.
@@Gungho1a Hardcore fans of FO4 who have never played any other FO game maybe.
Fan since Fallout 1 here. If this had, at the very least, been a GOOD game, I'd have accepted it as a spinoff and probably thrown a little money at it for cosmetics or something. But it's not a good game, or even a halfway decent one, so Bethesda can fuck right off. I'll give my $60 to somebody else.
This is what happens when a company as self-absorbed and negligent as Bethesda gets a free pass to mess up for years on end.
Yes. People say Bethesda are bad. But so is Digital Homicide. The reason Digital Homicide isn't an industry leader is because it doesn't have millions of fanboys who will buy the shit it cranks out multiple times and then sing it's praises to the high hills.
Bethesda is bad because we, as gamers, let it get bad. Sure we all complain about it's dated engine and graphics, and the gameplay that gets shallower with every release, but we still buy the games. When we do that, our criticisms are meaningless. Why should they bother listening to us when the game is already making them millions if not billions of dollars?
It will take a true failure for Bethesda to change it's ways. This MAY be that failure, but I doubt it since Bethesda fanboys would literally pay $60 for a game that has no purpose other than to crash on launch. They would still call it GOTY
@@pt8306 I bought skyrim. It was fun, but they never once fixed the bugs. Then FO4 came out and I didn't buy it. Why? Same engine, worse gameplay, terrible ugly looking graphics, and the story was dumb. This should have been a $20 expansion for FO4 at best if not outright free.
Since both TES6 and Starfield will use this potato game engine I am just going to never again buy a Bethesda game. They made the choice easy for me.
@@differentlyabledmuslimjewi4475 most things about fo4 wss bad honesty. Don't forget about the useless item pack dlc things for their settlement simulator. God the amounts of mods I had to use to make the game decent
@@differentlyabledmuslimjewi4475 Did they say they using the same engine for future games? I was (for some reason) under the impression that they were at least going to upgrade the engine.
@@arcadius2569
Yes. Elder Scrolls 6 and Starfield will most likely look and play like shit because they're using the same engine for them two.
“It’s better with friends”.
So is prison.
I'm proud to claim the 69th like
Anyone else remember the SW BF2 debacle and the video Bethesda put out making fun of EA for their live service game and their commitment to single player games? Kinda ironic looking back at it now.
Yesss!!!! I wish more people called Bethesda out on this!!!
Fucking unbelievable man. Bethesda can kiss my arse
For anyone not familiar, it was #SavePlayer1.
well, to be fair they haven't unveiled their micro-transaction -racket- ... um plan yet, so let's wait and see.
And they are still make single player games. Starfield for example. F76 is just spin off, no one says it replaces traditional Fallout 5. Also, Bethesda did quite a few online only games way before #SavePlayer1 thing. F76 is nothing new for them (as a publisher at least). Don’t be too dramatic about it.
Patrolling west virginia almost makes you wish for the Mojave.
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
When I got this assignment I was hoping there would be more gambling.
@jbiehlable Guess what, people will forget about THIS garbage after about 8 days, so if anything you're just gonna hear MORE about the Mojave after the release of Aids 76.
I'd rather go to actual west Virginia than this... And that's saying something.
jbiehlable The Legend of the Star is actually a really good quest, though. It weaves together the hyper commercialism of the Old World with the way echoes of the past are misunderstood in a post-apocalyptic setting. It was also more something to leave on the backburner, picking up caps here and there as you played the rest of the game.
The Deputy Badges are just a fun punchline. I actually care about them as much as most rewards, they're unique loot that makes me smile and sits in the safe in my Novac suite.
Fallout 76 didn't just die, it was
An out of season April fools joke
I see what you did there with both references
It was never alive to begin with, frankly. Fuck this cynical cash-grab and the horse it rode in on.
XD
@Dark Cat So, you claim undead are *immortal* ? then we must prove, *they are not*
*BETRAYAL INTENSIFIES*
@@GmodPlusWoW
The minute they said "Multiplayer Fallout", I was certain it could only fail.
Then it kept the engine, announced no NPCs, gameplay was shown and I knew I had been right to count it out as a proper game.
Counter productive to sell a game and ask the player to find their own fun. You wouldn't go to a brothel, drop 60 bucks on the table and then go outside hoping to get laid somewhere.
Funny, that's what people said about Minecraft.
Minecraft didn't start as a $60 AAA game.
Clearly you have never been to Minsk...
@@TellarHK Funny, this is nothing like minecraft.
@@TellarHK No, that is an interesting comparison. To many, part of the benefit of Minecraft is that the game is effectively a physics system wrapped into a fully-breathing, but empty world. That's part of what drew me into the game, that lack of creative boundaries paired with the emptiness of the emptiness of the space you'd inhabited. That's not the case with Fallout 76, however.
Truly Bethetic.
Yep in the lexicon now!
i wanna like this comment but the number of like is the perfect 69
teckworks ohhhh I like that, I’m using that saying sire XD!
What are you doing here??????
your commen?
Fans: We want a living, breathing, immersive world full of compelling characters to interact with.
Bethesda: Do you guys not have imaginations? Also, enjoy the bugs.
Thank God for JS and brutally honest opinions not corrupted by fan-boyism.
Ironically the biggest fan-boyism you'll see connected to Betheshda is the New Vegas fans.
Ironic why? Cause the game was developed by Obsidian and only published by Bethesda.
@@enskje Yeah but NV deserved the fanboyism, 76 does not.
why are u thanking god? lol he has the default reaction that everyone with a brain and knows a thing or 2 about games, or fallout, has
@@enskje The difference being that New Vegas is actually good...Our adoration actually comes from the quality of the game instead of nostalgia for games a company released in the distant past.
u can add me to the fan-boyism section of new vegas, no shame, its rly a fantastic game
C’mon Jim. F76 is more realistic than RDR2. It actually makes you feel the regret, disappointment and anger you’d feel as a new dweller in a nuclear wasteland. That’s real gaming in 2018!!
Example: spend 30 hours farming and creating the greatest base ever made, take a nap, get some clean water in your system, log back on and WTF!!! My base is gone! Oh...the sweet feeling of feeling like I’m actually there!
you know the game saves your base as a blueprint right and you can just plot it down whenever you want, it's called a C.A.M.P after all. I don't think you are all there!
@@heavylegs5686 No, it glitches and people can steal.
The same thing happened to my cousin. He got 76 and told me he spent days making an awesome base, only to get nuked. When he tried using the prints to recreate it, he found the prints weren't there and they'd glitched.
How has Bethesda not yet realized that Fallout is more than just walking around the wasteland killing Fallout themed enemies and collecting guns named after puns. The whole deal of creating a roleplaying engine in a specific setting was to explore the storytelling possibilities of said settings, altering our perception of what would character interactions be in a completely different world than the one we as humans are used to, and using that to create all sorts of fun scenarios, like what would it be like to have the Roman empire in a post apocalyptic wasteland.
This game just further evidences that Bethesda just copy pasted their elder scrolls formula over a setting they had no idea how to exploit, while also copy pasting the recognizable elements from the old games into different time periods of the setting where they don't really make sense, and the few new things they come up with are always new types of things to shoot at or shoot with, rather than complex reconstructions of quirky micro societies like the ones from the old games. This concept of Fallout 76 relies on the Skinnerbox nature of this engine and doesn't realize that what you find is never more interesting that the why and how you found them, in RPGs the journey should always be more interesting than the destination because their open-ended nature allows for the player to seamlessly create stories within the stories that the game has to tell.
They aren't stupid. They know what they're doing. Fallout 76 is a cashgrab and they think we're all stupid enough to eat it up.
@@amoryblaine3292 yea well I ain't hungry. This game is shit even before my initial concerns are addressed
@@amoryblaine3292 It may not be _all_ of us, but there sure is good enough numbers out there who are. And that's the point, it's not made for us, it's made for them, and this is just a result of them throwing money for shit like this.
That's the problem right there - people need to call out Todd Howard, not Bethesda. T Howard has overseen Bethesda's downfall, he's arrogant, out of touch and rich as fuck.
It doesn't matter whether they realise it or not, Fallout 4 was the shittest Fallout game but also one of, if not the best selling one.
Hey guys, I have an idea - let's remove the best part Fallout, the story, and emphasize one of the bad parts, the twitch FPS combat mechanics!
Implying that the any Bethesda made fallout storyline was any good. :V
At least it was there, so you can poke your stick at it. There's nothing to poke now.
Like the fans of the originals have been saying all along! fallout gains diddly squat from being FPS....and now finally it can be laid to rest.
@Flharfh Lhar, Watch the Fallout 4 rollout presser from that E3. You can tell that being a FPS is, in Todd Howard's view, the most important thing that a Fallout game can be. It's kind of worrying when the head honcho literally has no idea what his fan-base actually likes and wants from the franchise.
The best part is the exploration.
Wait, there are super mutants? How are there super mutants so early? By the story, the FEV didn't produce supers until AT LEST a century after, and those were secretive and rare.
tyrongkojy yep, they broke lore in fallout 4, not surprised they doubled down here
The Brotherhood of Steel also show up, or rather get mentioned since there are no npcs...
But yeah, the lore has been completely twisted for this game to try and draw old fans in.
*Insert some bullshit bethesda retcon because they were too lazy to design a new enemy type*
FO3, FO4 and FO76 have nothing to do with lore of FO1 and FO2. when Bethesda bought the IP, they threw all materials into trash can and made their own mash-up of things they liked (including out-of-lore things from FO:T, like Brotherhood splitting up and the liberal fraction travelling to the East Coast). FO:NV is actually, give or take, what Black Isle wanted for FO3 (story wise). Obsidian, at that time, consisted of a lot of people working at Black Isle during FO3 development - that's why FO:NV feels like the real third (and so far final) entry to the series. Don't get me wrong - I liked FO3, it was a good game, but it just wasn't the world we loved back in 90's. I always think about it as an alternative universe.
Unfortunately Bethesda thinks that a proper Fallout game is made only by recycling the same themes (super-mutants, brotherhood, ghouls, vault-tec) over and over again no matter what the lore actually says. So everytime they force one of those things in their game they use some half-baked excuse to justify that.
That's one of the things that made New Vegas so great - it was a fresh perspective on the world that honored its lore (even that appearance of supermtutants was limited and well grounded).
I really wish that Bethesda would hire someone who can come up with an original expansion of Fallout's world instead of repeating everythingg like a broken record.
Well, it is just a beta, I mean early release, I mean the first year. You can't expect working products in the first year, people.
I c wat u did ther
well is just a beta, is more fun with friends, same holotape over and over... like the game
Yeah. People say "it's beta, it gets better!", yet here we fuking are today, with Skyrim and Fallout 3 & 4 still having tons of bugs and broken questlines that have never been fixed by Bethesda. The fact that there is an "unoffical patch" for every Beth game made by modders says enough.
E n t I t l e d g a m e r s
@@DanaBanana94 wooosh
Apparently elder scrolls 6 is running on this engine, rip,
And their space game too :(
Really? WTF
yap...F
Mythic Entertainment did good by the Gamebryo... released in 2001, its servers are still live with a very small but devoted following... It's not the engine, it's the developers at BGS.
Battler not judging- It will be comical for sure. Its already god awful comparing their current gen games to others of this generation. They’ve never had the best graphics, but Jesus Christ it looks and feels like I’m playing A game from 2006.
Fallout 76?
_More like Fallout 7-6 fps._
@@bradmaxwell7354 about 95 people think so too
@@brucey9855 Sick burn my friend 😆
Fallout 63 cuz just 63fps on PC...
Brad Maxwell *you're
Actually it's 7.6 fps
This entire game: *Mr. Frame rate, I don't feel so good.*
F̶̕e͘r͏̶n͠a̛nd̡́͘ǫ ͏͝Ho̸̧od̨͠͡ this game should have been executed by a ranger with a big iron on his hip.
A Fallout 3 10 year Anniversary Edition would have out-sold the shit out of 76.
Yeah but that requires actual work,so bethesda says No you don't want that,you want fallout online,with no human npc,no story(yeah fuck holotapes,this is 2018 ffs)
and other retards are praising the shit out of it,so you won't ever see any of the previous games remastered/remaked whatever.
They would've done that if they could find a way to implement micro-transactions into Fallout 3.
Any remastered edition of any fallout would have outsold this.
@@Reloaded2111 Out of curiosity do you think the micro-transactions in 76 are bad? So far, they seem a like the best kind. No lootbox randomness, and everything you can unlock is cosmetic. I've already earned more than enough atom to buy the most expensive item in the store, just by playing the game. (having said that, nothing in the shop really interests me so far)
If Atom funds ongoing development for 76, then I'm all for it. I'll never pay for any of it, and I should have enough to get anything nifty just by playing the game.
I didn't mind the ten-minute holotapes, because they had the same brilliant writers on staff who filled out the worlds of Fallout 3 and 4. The holotapes were very nearly the only thing good about the game.
" _No your video has not frozen up_ "
me: *silly me, i shouldn't have automatically refreshed video, its Bethesda game!*
_Silly!_
+
I thought my pc crashed but then realized I was watching on my phone.
Hey, at least this game's versions of dragons aren't flying backward at launch!
Still haven't been launched into orbit by an NPC, though. That was my favorite Skyrim bug. :-(
The video does not freeze with mods
Bethesda: So you didn't like Preston's quests?
Players: No!
Bethesda: Did you like the lore in those computer thingies?
Players: Yeah, guess it was alright.
Bethesda: What if there were only computers in the game?
Players: *sarcastically* Yeah right!
Bethesda: *fully serious* SAY NO MOAR.
What are you talking about?
I'm pretty sure that everybody loved my quests.
[Preston hated that.]
@@prestongarvey1776 ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh f off Preston.
ua-cam.com/video/4Kwh3R0YjuQ/v-deo.html
@Jusey1 don't lie.
@@polishdanreviews Preston isn't a real person. Todd Howard, and the writers, and the devs at Bethesda are though...those writers are terrible people.
Players: “So.... this is Rust?”
Bethesda: “No. it’s nothing like Rust.”
*The game is literally Rust.*
@Luke Genness Because Rust has consequences and doesn't coddle their players.
this is the only time i will ever disagree with jim sterling, i find this game fun. probably cause i know how to have fun in games like these.
unlike most reviewers of this game
@@hanzo5q you sound defensive
Thank you, I’ve been saying that since I saw the reveal. It’s a waste of dev time, player and company money, and player time to play good games.
@@hanzo5q Yeah but convincing yourself that something bad is actually good does not make it actually good.
Fallout 76 is proof that Bethesda doesn't understand what Fallout is. Fallout is a character driven series, the plot is always about various different interests butting heads and the player reacting to these interests. In both Fallout 3 and 4, every character was a plot device. The game wasn't about the individuals, it was about Bethesda's story. Fallout 76 is the natural conclusion of this misunderstanding of Fallout. The removal of NPCs is quite literally the antithesis of what Fallout always tried to be. Fallout's story is the story of humanity, not some pathetic zombie disease story about the Scorch.
Fallout 76 is literally the logical continuation of bethesda's way of making fallout. 3 and 4 both had an on-rails main quest with isolated side quest storylets, that have nothing to do with the main one and some of which just act as a spawning pool for radiant quests. 76 just took it one step further and removed the need for a story as a vehicle to deliver the mmo style radiant quests. Now they focus on what they've always done well with fallout: create a large, open space and fill it with wacky stuff. I just hope someone picks up the mantle of obsidian and makes a story driven single player game on bethesda's engine again, so I can get some more fallout to play. It's clear bethesda has no intention of ever doing that again.
@@libaf5471
Frankly, I am not sure how long Bethesda can keep this up. They are using up all their good will and people don't even expect good games from Bethesda anymore. Fallout 4 sold incredibly well off the backs of the fandom hyping up the game based on the quality of the previous ones, the fanbase is no longer willing to do that. Even the critics who gave Fallout 4 a (much underserved) 10/10 have turned on them with 76. Bethesda is cashing out their good will and this is going to have long term consequences for them. I preordered the collector's edition for both Skyrim and Fallout 4, yet I haven't even bought 76 yet. I know many people who have done the same. I have no trust left to give this company.
@@mattbenz99 Honestly, I think you guys are missing out on some perspective.
Part of the reason why fallout 4 sold well is because the core gameplay loop of explore, gather, craft, was extremely enjoyable to myself and a lot of folks. I was let down by the story, but I still put a ton of hours into 4, treating it like a gimpy loot lust game. (basically modding the game to hell, and focusing on hunting legendary enemies) Fallout 76 scratches that itch for me perfectly, and I've been playing it obsessively since launch.
My personal hope is that 76 serves the loot lust audience, and that will free up the main line to focus heavily on dialgoue, choice, and story. (because, I love both of those types of games)
@@CatacombD
Then why use the Fallout IP for that? Fallout is supposed to be a character driven game that comments on human nature, not a generic looter shooter.
Fallout 76 is not a basic misunderstanding on Bethesda's part about what Fallout is, it's a basic misunderstanding on Bethesda's part about what a good video game is...and what Fallout is.
Sea of thieves = vast empty open world experience
Metal gear survive = live service cash grab off a popular series
Fallout 76 = hold my beer
@jbiehlable Not saying that you're _wrong_ , but JC2 had a lot more going on than what you saw in cut scenes
Wait did the first two come out this year? I forgot about them.
Yeah February for MGS and March for SoT. it's been a looooooooooooooong year of shit.
I'm still bummed out that they fucked up sea of thieves. That game had such a vast amount of potential
Derravart the best of both disasters
Takes place 25 years after the bombs and everyone's dead but someone still built pipe weapons when actual weapons would be plentiful still. Only 25 years and the entire biosphere changes and mutates into complete alien creatures. Such a dumb game. Just fallout 4 with multiplayer and no npc's, copy pasted items.
Not to mention some buildings actually looks worse for ware than a lot of Fallout 4 buildings, and that games was 200+
as jim said, the game fails on the concept level.
Don't mean to defend the game TOO much, it's still a disappointment on pretty much every level, but it didn't take the biosphere that long to change in-setting. We have first-hand accounts of the literal first days after the bombs fell thanks to the logs from Honest Hearts, and it's clear that the gonzo levels of mutation started early and just kept ramping up, nevermind the environmental changes. Not like Bethesda read them anyway, though.
Mods'll fix i- Oh wait. Oh dear.
Maybe we'll get some kind of mod that ports the map, items, enemies and weapons to fallout4?
The best mod would be to trash the game.
so trash a trash game?@@genericwhitemale7028
The piece of shit supports mods. It doesn't verify files in any way. There's already cheat mods out
@@Zontar82 Could just do a Final Fantasy XIV and just pull the game and re-work it completely and re-release it but that's never going to happen.
People need to stop treating Todd Howard like a God and give him shit.
Why is it ok for him to lie, but Sean Murray gets completely destroyed by the internet for lying about No Man's Sky? Todd Howard is no different, in fact, he's far far worst. If people spread their disgust with this game the way they did with No Man's Sky, then maybe Bethesda will realize they can't get away with it anymore.
@British Mapping Yeah but I just wish people would stop saying they can "No Man's Sky" this and that about every game that comes out terrible, it used to be if a game was terrible, even one that's in a good franchise, we would call it a shitty game. Not to be confused with games that are misunderstood, Fallout 76 is an awful game and deserves to be seen that way. We shouldn't have to rely on them to unscrew us after they screw us.
@@megamax898 It was a lot more than that. The collector's edition, the refusal of refunds, etc. Bethesda deserves blame.
Sean Murray also learned from his mistakes and got his shit together. Todd needs to reach that low before we see any improvement
Looks like something that should of been included with my Season Pass for Fallout 4.
*should have or should've
Apparently the original idea was for it to be FO4's multiplayer. They said that as time went on it just needed to be its own thing, but I'm pretty sure it's because it wasn't working.
Right on the money.
Why release as part of the game when it can be DLC?? why release DLC when we can charge as a whole new game?? genius
@@ARMIV4 nah, I'm pretty sure it's because they wanted to get into the monetisation game and this was all they could pull out of their ass that they could tart up with mictotransactions later.
This game is shocking in how bare bones and stripped of the core premise of the franchise it is.
Stripped?They practically tore everything off deatchclaw style.
Betatron
And nuked it into oblivion.
I see all EA and absolutely no Fallout here.
It was made with as little effort as possible to try and make a bunch of money. Triple A games have been doing that for a while now, but this is the worst and most obvious one yet
For real, the lack of NPC's is just lazy, obviously other people besides vault dwellers survived the blast, where are they? Surely every NPC in Fallout 1, 2, 3, NV and 4 isn't the descendent of a vault dweller
I grew up on Fallout 1 and 2, it's my favourite franchise (I even liked Fallout Tactics, and Fallout 4 despite its problems) but I can't imagine wanting to play this game. Fallout is about dialogue and how your choices impact npc characters. F76 looks like it lacks everything that makes a Fallout game, Fallout Shelter is better than this.
Anytime a game like this comes along, I worry. Not so much about microtransactions or bugs or shit gameplay- though I worry on that a lot- but what I stress the most on is that the company, in this case Bethesda, will learn the wrong lesson. They already learned a wrong lesson in fans "wanting multiplayer" to mean changing the genre instead of "let me invite 1 to 3 of my friends to tackle this otherwise enriching single player campaign"... leading to ESO instead of multiplayer Skyrim. But it can potentially be much worse...
I worry that instead of saying "oh, the game style is not good. Let's go back to what makes Fallout a Fallout game and tighten that up", they will instead say "hmmm, guess players don't like Fallout anymore. Let's shutter it."
It is the path EA went down Star Wars and the single player game fans crave. It is the path X-Com almost went down. It is the road being walked with mobile versions of Dungeon Keeper, C&C, and *possibly* Diablo (yeah, they are supposedly working on 4, but SquareEnix is supposedly working on that Final Fantasy remake that's been hinted at since that Sony tech demo... I'll believe it when it actually releases).
I am a HUGE Fallout mark. Ever since I played the PC demo two decades ago, I was hooked. I played EVERYTHING. Even Brotherhood of Steel. I got a copy of Wasteland from some magazine compilation disk after learning about the connection. But this is the first time I was thoroughly uninterested. Not because of everything it is, but because of what it isn't. Fans want a follow-up to New Vegas. Not necessarily because of geography, gameplay, or graphics alone (all of that adds to why), but because that was the best evolution of the "Post Apocalyptic Role Playing Game". This is a decidedly "not that" direction. This is a bland shooter with FO skin and iconography. And if I were certain this was just a side project and there were a NV2 or FO5 coming that gets back to basics, I wouldn't feel so dismal about the future of the franchise.
I'm more stoked for Wasteland 3, and hopefully that path will not be hindered by the recent acquisition.
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OI there my fellow namesake! :) +1 agreement.
My major issue with Bethesda is they refuse to admit that Obsidian did it better then them. FO:NV was a masterwork that was bogged down by the fact that the world didn't realize yet that Bethesda doesn't fix bugs..........ever. So now we have an online game that they are going to bail on once they realize online games actually require updates........yay.
I mean. ESO is an actually fun game at least. This is just.. a vacuous hole to put money into.
wait did you imply skyrim was good?
This legit looks like some greenlight garbage, but it costs $60....
But this game isn't on steam tho.
@@heavylegs5686
"looks like"
@@heavylegs5686 You missed his point entirely...
Not even close. Those shitty greenlight games tend to at least have _some_ content. Shit content > no content.
Well, it only cost $60 for a week.
Bethesda thinks they can get away with everything but this time they fucked it up real good.
Some idiots will give them a pass no matter what. Lookat those 1.3k downvotes.
GhengisJohn I am not getting this game but I'm still down voting because I don't like jim or this video. I have a feeling he wouldn't have liked this game even if it was good.
@@grady3691 And yet it's not. So you're upset because Jim said something _warranted_ about the product of your waifu corporation? Or just because Jim exists? Because neither is really reasonable.
Wait for a year. It's going to get fixed. Then buy this game not now
K 9 Poodle I don’t believe it will be, Skyrim still has bugs and some of them gamebreaking, it’s been year now and if they are comfortable letting those slide I see no reason why they’d want to fix this.
Who saw this coming....? Who could have guessed...?
Everyone, literally fucking everyone.
there are plenty who are defending this shitty, lazy "game", in spite of all it's flaws, because it's "fun", all i can say to those people is raise your standards.
@@Daredhnu Well, you know, some guys just like fucking the fat feminists..
I'm sure Laura will love it in the same insane way she liked No Man's Sky. At least at first.
Except for the people that pre ordered ...
elonwhatever have you actually played the game?
No Mutant's Sky
Sea of fallout
Dave Brohman
No Man's Land
@Fleer Ultra props on that one
Fallout of thieves
Dave Brohman no mans fallout
Why are people surprised? How did they watch ANY of the reveal at E3 and think even for one second this game might be fun? I LOVE Fallout but god damn I am amazed anybody looked at that and thought "this might be fun"
Flying Toaster People hoped that Bethesda was aware that they were not on very good standings after fallout 4 and knew that a game that literally doubled down on the elements that fans didn't like (base building, streamlined down dialogue systems, less rpg mechanics), would further escalate the issue if they didn't do something to subvert those expectations. Should've hired rian johnson, he still would've made a more compelling narrative than a literal fucking treasure hunt.
@@FieryShaverdian here's where they failed I think: Fallout has NEVER had great combat. It had decent enough combat but the game is built entirely on the setting and the narrative.
When you decide to build an online version of Fallout, you're sacrificing some of that story/world building. But the core gameplay of Fallout isn't good enough to carry the multiplayer experience. A game like Monster Hunter World has nailed core gameplay. It doesn't need story or world building in order to be fun because the act of playing the game itself is rewarding enough.
That isn't the case with Fallout games where the combat is a means to an end rather than a fun experience in and of itself. So making their entire game built on that alone is a recipe for disaster.
I agree with you up until the fun part. How can people look at the E3 reveal, then complain that the stuff they showcased in the reveal is in the game? How did you not know you wouldn't like it?
But it’s fun with friends...if you hate your friends and yourself lol
JoshK31 I remember when Jim gave the original rage a 7 and Bethesda asked him to "reconsider" or when new vegas didn't get a 90 metacritic so they caned a sequel to be made a obsidian (just to have fallout 4 score worse). Maybe they just don't care anymore after feeling 'betrayed' with the fallout 4 critical reception or this is just some elaborate survey to see what elements or game genres people would want in a future Bethesda project, just like Fallout 4 could of been a texture pack for a future borderlands/minecraft inspired IP. All I know is starfield is looking more and more like a precipice of all these experiments.
Blizzard: "Nobody can disappoint our fans like us!"
Bethesda: "Hold my beer"
Microsoft: Hold my Tequila.
Tbh Blizzard dissapointed me more. At least i was prepared for garbage from Bethesda...
Don't you guys have beer?
nah, blizz/activision was much, much worse. it’d only be similar if at the next e3, or the one after that, bethesda unveils a elder scrolls mobile instead of showing a proper 6th game.
lol
The aesthetic isn't even charming at this point either. The game just looks so ugly and dated, and we've been seeing some of these assets for ten years now. I know there are these arguments of "oh, thinking the engine is the issue is a misunderstanding of what an engine is." that have been making the rounds, but however you want to characterize it, Bethesda needs a dramatic overhaul of the tech at the core of their open world RPGs.
I'ts a pitty that Elder scrolls 7 will stil be using the same dam old engine. i'm calling it now
I think the argument about the engine generally is about how people say Bethesda needs a completely new engine, which they don't. Engines can be upgraded, but it takes time and money.
But perhaps it's better and easier to create a completely new engine in this case.
There’s no excuse for such ugly graphics especially when open world games like Witcher 3, Assassins Creed Oddyssey, and Red Dead 2 exist.
@@CaptainIcebeard I think the issue is there's a lot of different API's out there now, openGL, Vulcan, Metal, etc... Some of these engines were not designed to 'swap' the graphics API out in order to maximize newer hardware so they can either essentially re-write the whole thing again OR they can start fresh and leverage modern tech. Both are expensive, so im sure someone high up goes "Hmmm.. nope we'll use the old one, just add some motion blurr and change the font'
edit: remove accidental -strikeout-
@@CaptainIcebeard i dont know the codebase but i can imagine how awful it is. they've probably tacked on way too much crap to make meaningful changes to it, so the old bugs stay, new ones are introduced. sure they could try and fix it but i imagine it would involve such massive overhauls that it's literally cheaper to rewrite the whole thing. trying to fix and upgrade the old engine is probably like trying to modify an oldtimer car to electric and modernize it to the point it can keep up with modern cars. sure you can do it but it's easier to develop a completely new car.
"of course the mayor was a computer" LMFAO
When i see this trash i fear TES6
I fear for Starfield
fallout and todd "the little scamer" howard are both through, there will be no es VI nor other game from their side
Nah, they got the sub par ES with ESO. ES6 should be good.
That for sure it will be on same engine... knowing 76 has the same bugs as in fallout 4 and 3... expect to have to have the same type of game from their sides for long time.. further more, they will have to remake their money after this fiasco.
@James Reilly I would say Bethesda will rush out Starfield (or whatever) for "good PR" or to save face but if they do that it will be a bigger disaster because the engine is like 20+ old (give or take), their unable to de-bug earlier game AND it will be rushed! Name a game that was rushed to market that was good!
Lets face the truth Bethesda is a company that will never change willing, not until someone drags them to court.
I don't hate multiplayer in principle, but it's the fact that it's become the focus of the industry, pushing players like me who prefer, more focused narratives or at least the freedom to go at my own pace, further to the edge. Instead of the elder scrolls 6 we've had ESO and skyrim released again and again for eight years, why work on better games when you can just make money with a service that's boring and doesn't work. The single player games aren't dead of course, we've had really good ones. It just annoys me.
I feel the same way. I tried to have a conversation with another person at work last night who plays games, and every game they wanted to talk about was an online multiplayer one, usually with microctransactions.
Me: "You excited about the MediEvil remake? I am!"
Them: "What's that? Oh, old stuff. No. But I'm hyped PUBG is finally coming to PS4."
Me: "Oh. Umm . . . do you play anything where you're not shooting other people?"
Them: "No. Why?"
People nowadays are so obsessed with accomplishing things in games that they no longer care if the game itself is fun: they just want to get rewarded for playing it in the first place, and if that means dropping money on loot boxes and other microtransactions to get their reward fix then they'll do it.
Remember cheat codes? Game Genies? Unlockables? I miss those things.
Try Red Dead R2. You can play it in FP, good narrative, and loads of stuff to do. Except for the fantasy it has a little Skyrim vibe to it. (Exploring, survival, and micromanagement)
ESO wasn't even Bethesda game studios it was Zenimax online that developed it BGS only helped with the lore and some quests
@@zensoredparagonbytes3985 make sure to watch Jim's video on that game beforehand tho...
yup, I've pretty much dropped gaming altogether and gone back to books apart from a few rpg's; sick of the cut corners, psychological manipulation, and forced grinding
9:50 WTF! Ticks, ants and wolves are teaming up to destroy water pipes?! ... I'm lost.
If you didn't get the picture, all of the quests are MMO fodder style. Fetch quests and nonsensical checklists.
And the ticks are drinking the water too
Oh man that's so epic! And fun with friends :)
MusicTaster at least it’s not a millionth Scorched assault. By the way, Scorched are literally just Fallout creatures with human dialogue put over them. Bethesda INSISTS that every human character be an actual person playing the game
It's alright, you have to kill wolves anyways to get their sweet sweet pre-war money.
See how he's looting everything? That will last until level 5. Then your stash caps out and you end up playing "Inventory Management 76" for the rest of the game. Remember being able to loot everything in FO4 to make awesome and impressive settlements you could be proud of? Kiss that goodbye unless you are willing to pass up every lootable thing while questing (except adhesive and screws) and then going back later to pick up building supplies piecemeal to make your CAMP. Which has a building limit size that is further restricted by your level. No more selling extra loot to vendors either. All of the vendors are linked to other vendors in their area and have a caps limit of 200. So no point in running around to different vendors to sell, unless you want to spend hours running to each area or spending money to fast travel to those locations-assuming you have discovered them. Once that 200 is gone from one, it's gone from them all. For 24 hours of real time. Maybe. If it doesn't bug out and doesn't replenish at all. Questing and drops gives legendary gear which is usually several levels above your current level. So you can't use it and have no room to store it, best to just drop it on the ground. Especially if it's not something you'll use for your current build-no saving gear for alts with different builds. Nothing is more fun than playing an online game and being rewarded with legendary gear and then being forced to drop it on the ground to rot, right? Remember power armor? Don't even bother picking it up when you find it. Each piece weighs 10 lbs + the 10 lb frame, and you can't even use the lowest pieces until level 30. Plus the cores to run one weighs 3 lbs each. Heavy guns? Again, don't bother. The weight of the gun + the ammo you need to carry to make it viable means you'll be running at your max weight limit most of the game.
They basically made every single MMO mistake that Blizzard did with WoW. Back in 2004. And that they have already fixed (usable loot for your build, being able to save epic gear for later use, having a player auction house-especially since Bethesda stated they wanted to create a player driven economy) You would hope that Bethesda would have at least learned something from the last 20 years of MMO gaming.
You can wear raider power armour at lvl 15
This sounds far worse. Classic warcraft had easily obtainable 16 slot bags, plus a bank which you could put up to 6 additional bags into, and not to mention that you could make alts to get more of all of this. Most people had at least 1 bank alt. Guild storages would have several. Furthermore, you could abuse the mailbox system for only 30c per letter for even more storage. An item in the mailbox doesn't count towards an item limit (aka librams), and could sit on as many letters as you wanted to send. Also, unlike later MMOs, they did not have a cash shop selling bags or any kind of space. Back then, there was no cash shop of any kind. All you could buy was THE GAME, and THE SUB. Of course today they have a huge booming store that sells everything under the sun, in addition to still selling the game and the sub...
Yo dog I've been playing the game for like 3 days now and a lot of the shit you're saying is highly exaggerated. I get some features are tedious and annoying, however alot of the problems you are complaining about can be easily fixed, such as weight problems being solved via perk cards. Or the fact you can leave power armor pieces on the chassis which the weight will remain 10lb( btw found lv 15 power armor pieces). Sure I found plenty of gear over leveled for me, but I've only been able to find just 2 legendary weapons and they were the right levels for me so I guess I was just lucky. I mean even if it is useless to you, you could always scrap whatever... Instead of just leaving crap on the ground.
increase your stash by 100 for 5 dollars
You can stash stuff in your camp though. I get the criticism but overcumbed is not one
Hey Jim I thought you were done playing Slaughtering Grounds ? Lol .... this is SG’s right ? 😅
The truth is... The game was rigged from the start
"I like to think you have enough sense to do the right thing. The rewards for doing so are immense... as are the punishments for not doing so." - Mr. House
cant upvote enough
Off topic but I beat Hollow Knight recently. That game is a Damn masterpiece. Only bringing it because of your profile pic.
Courier 6 You haven't truly beat it until you finish the game on Steel Soul mode
@@gruntkil1a540 Yeah been thinking about doing that. I want to do all the pantheons also, but dear god they're insane haha. I've gotten over 100% on completion and all that. I know I can get to 112% on it. I haven't played a game that good in a long time. It's definitely one of my favorites now.
Holy shit... there are people defending this?
Yep, people defending this garbage when you have red dead redemption 2 that just shits all over this in every way.
@@FortressLordJP193 Jim _literally addresses your shitty argument in this very video_ . Try harder, son.
When red dead redemption 2 comes out with its mulitplier it'll make fallout look like 5 cent indy title.
don't play it
there are a LOT of them
Ain't That a Kick in the Head
lmao :D
Ring a Ding, baby
The truth is... The game was rigged from the start
Maybe you guys screw fans without looking them in the face, but I'm form Beth, dig?
No, actually its a kick off the server LOL
They really dropped the mini nuke on this one. Glad I gave it a miss.
Rhys Amen. Im heading back to Megaton
I really hope Bethesda gets hurt financially. They deserve it.
sorry lad turns out you didn't have the serendipity perk so you just died. try reloading.
Hit or miss huh
"Server Not Responding
Controls have been temporarily disabled."
wat?
To be fair, it is better to tell the player to hand off controlled when server attempt to resync.
Bethesda use a particularly shit way to highlight such fact, and server quality is just...... Bethesda, ''it just works''.
When a game can just do those things to you whenever it wants it is no longer a game it’s a “service”
the reason they added that is so they don't have to code a proper rubber banding system. Its lazy.
SteamPoweredRudeBoy Clash fan
FUN HAS BEEN TEMPORARILY DISABLED. CONTINUE PLAYING OUR CASHGRAB ONCE THE ISSUE DISAPPEARS
It's insane to me how few critics like yourself are willing to call 76 out.
They aren't paid to call out things. They're the 3rd party advertising wing. Imagine if uber did reviews.
Most of the major Fallout channels were wined and dined before release by Bethesda, hence why all those bribed channels have tons of praise for it.
@@Dermetsu also they are heavily invested in the franchise.
Some channels are basically just Fallout lore channels, so they *need* 76 to succeed in order to protect their own financial success.
I'm really not surprised. Jim on the other hand? Well his success is independent of any one games success or failure, so he speaks freely.
@@MediumRareOpinions -- Also I'm pretty sure Bethesda won't send him review copies or any of the other benefits afforded to outlets that play nice, since Jim's been brutally honest towards them in the past. So he really has nothing to lose from them, and no reason to kiss their ass.
@@kalathi1898 Exactly, this is think is why I find him sincere.
He's not got that conflict of interest sone do.
"DISEASED super mutant" Weren't super mutants immune to disease and radiation thus the reason why the Master in the first game wanted to transform all of human kind into super mutants as they were the most fit for life in the wasteland?
Either Bethesda taking a sledgehammer to the lore once again, or they're just forgetting small details again, they don't have a good track recod of that either.
What is that? Lore? Ew, get that away from me!
Or they are a carrier, because a person can be immune to a disease and not suffer any ill effects but still transfer it to others. Which makes a lot of sense in this instance. and calling them diseased is a way to denote they are infected. not that they are sick.
@@donovandelozier7156 Asymptomatic carriers are not immune, they carry the disease and simply do not show the symptoms. Supermutants ought to be immune - they shouldnt be able to contract the illness in the first place.
@@opicikostra3446 "resistant to a particular infection or toxin owing to the presence of specific antibodies or sensitized white blood cells.
"they were naturally immune to hepatitis B"" people with Sickle cell anemia are called immune to Malaria (also people who only have one of the two allele's for the genetic disease which means they are assymptomatic for that as well), but their immunity comes from the shape of their red blood cells, with nothing having to do with antibodies or white blood cells. But their blood can still transmit the disease. If you are never affected by a disease you are effectively immune, regardless of if your body kills it or not.
I can't believe this game has the balls to ask for 60 dollars when Spiderman and Red Dead Redemption 2 are on the shelf for the same price.
"Fallout 76 is dogshit" This is exactly the words I expect from a 'professional' review of a game this terrible, unfortunately the rest of the reviews are just too accommodating. This game IS dogshit...end of story.
Doom was good but their are alot of good tripple A titles out there.
Hey, don't offend dog shit...
There aren't many reviews, it seems the big sites are afraid of Bethesda.
@@shaun239 That won't last much longer at this rate
since when was being professional being fat and gay... end of story.
What? Don't you guys have imaginations? Lol
Bbooooooo!
DO YOU GUYS NOT HAVE PHONES????
Back in my day, we made do with twigs! Look at you gaymers, expecting us to build you engines with story and characters and things. Spoiled! Now go buy a special edition for a game with loot boxes, games are expensive and our investors need caviar.
Did anyone have any REAL hopes for this game?
my friends.
Started with 3, played some of the OLD ones but never really got into it. I'm quite enjoying Fallout 76.
Its honestly better than I expected it to be!
no. I knew it was going to fail once it was revealed as a live service game
A friend was quite excited when announced, as he liked FO4 ... must ask ... or warn? ... him if he still is hot for this.
I liked all FOs so far, but this had me zero excited from the start ... even Tactics seems way more exciting.
Hey random person scrolling down the comments..
You're awesome! Have a great day
Thank you, you as well 👍
You're awesome too!
This is just like-bait...
Thank you ❤
Ghey
Thank You Jim Sterling you save me more money than WalMart 😂
Derron Patrick Lmao 😆
Form your own opinion instead of copying youtubers.
@@Spiffo0 fuck off
@@Spiffo0 Brah everyone else got it
The joke went over your head
@@Spiffo0 sooooooooo he should buy the game and give the developers money they dont deserve for a shit game just so he can form his own opinion?
Players forgave Bethesda games for all the bugs and low quality graphics because the story was so engrossing and full of interesting NPCs. Now that isn’t a story or NPCs Bethesda is getting rightfully hung out to dry. 1st Fallout game ever I won’t buy
what interesting story or characters ? these have been terrible from oblivion onwards
Bethesda hasnt made a good game since Oblivion, Fallout 3/4 and Skyrim sucked
Maybe I’m in the minority but I really loved FO3
@@fall190 I'm going to respectfully disagree, Piper, Valentine, Cait and Curie were my favourite parts of FO4. Engaging dialogue, believeable motives and personalities that were unique to them. Diamond City, while sadly empty, still had interesting charcters in it. Goodneighbour was a great place to go and KLEO still makes me smile though I've heard her dialogue a million times (slight hyperbole there).
Even if you don't like the NPCs in FO4 you still have to admit that losing them is gonna make the world a barren and empty place.
Also losing them means everything bad about this godawful engine is now the primary focus. It could be forgiven when there were decent quests and decent stories and pushed aside when the quests began to suck, but the story was still there. Now the quests suck and the story is hidden so what else are we supposed to focus on? The combat, well that's never been good in a Bethesda game. So we're left with graphics, animations and such. Which are being rendered in a decade old engine... no wonder this game looks like hot garbage, becuase by stripping out what made their Fallout series playable, they've left us with the unplayable remains. Well done Bethesda.
I in no way direct that last part at you Fall, it just occured to me as I was typing out the first paragraph.
To anyone else reading this, I do not suggest Bethesda have ever made a great story. Only ever some decent ones, and some effing awful ones.
@@DragonLawyer No, I'm with you on that. Had a bad experience with NV sadly but I know it's a better game. Just prefer 3 personally.
Poor souls who preordered...
Who am I kidding. HAHAHAHA at the fools who preordered.
Snarbalax I feel bad for you if this is your idea of fun.
Nah, Having fun with my copy. I took a chance and I like it. Granted I didn't blindly buy it. I played the beta and found it was pretty damn fun so I left my preorder. I figured I would cancel but nah. I quite enjoyed my time.
Just because you don't like it doesn't mean everyone is with you. Thank God I didn't listen to the peanut gallery on this or all the wannabe programmers.
@@almightydeity Just curious but why would you spend 60 bucks on this when there are games exactly like this, but are better quality, that are free to play?
Do you just like to waste money on badly designed buggy games? If so then power to you I guess.
Me:
I honestly trusted Bethesda enough to make a competent Online Fallout...
I honestly trusted Bethesda enough to make a competent Online Fallout...
I honestly trusted Bethesda enough to make a competent Online Fallout...
S: What's he saying?
H: He's just been saying, "I honestly trusted Bethesda enough to make a competent Online Fallout " over and over again ever since Fallout 76 came out.. He only stops to drink. Even in his sleep, you can hear him uttering those words through the fissures of your dreams by some sort of subneural connection.
S: Yikes! Poor sod.
@@FortressLordJP193 I never said it was boring because that's subjective but you can't say a game isn't buggy when there are numerous videos showing such and a direct statement from the developers saying it would be broken at release.
You may have had a lucky experience and not caught some of the bugs on display. Or you may not have been paying much attention because some of the bugs would easily be missed if there's a lot going on on-screen. But I don't see how you can argue your single experience means that the game isn't a buggy mess given everyone showing T posing models, random spawning of mobs right next to your after you just finished killing them, or the numerous other issues people have complained about.
Why does Bethesda enjoy the popular reputation it has? This is what they did to Fallout. They took an in-depth single-player roleplaying game that had tons of different ways to play it with an engrossing story featuring a compelling antagonist and slowly over a decade turned it into this atrocity.
this has got to be a turning point in that reputation. This game has no redeeming qualities.
OsirisLord They've been coasting on the love their older games for a long time now. Personally, I hope this is the beginning of the end for that.
Several reasons:
1. Games "journalists" have been completely compromised in the last decade or two and they're now just corporate mouthpieces - this has hugely immunised Bethesda and EA from deserved backlash for a long time. Next time you see a "AAA" game come out check out the User Score versus the Critic Reviews. Critic Reviews only drop to about 65% absolute minimum for big releases, even if they're total shite. Indie games get reviewed much more harshly. I don't know how publishers are influencing journos so much but it's clear something is very wrong with the system.
2. Bethesda have spent huge amounts of money on PR and marketing to sell crap games like this and people keep buying it out of some sort of deranged "loyalty". Then they get buyer's remorse and start trying to defend the game.
3. Unfortunately a large number of stupid gamers with more money than brain cells are _happy_ paying $14 for blue power armour. This means Bethesda and EA construct these games purely to milk these fools.
@@SerMattzio Correctamundo. The sheer number of tweenaged dipshits wailing about how "Todd has 10 Charisma" is making me insane. HorseSHIT he has 10 Charisma. That would imply he succeeded in the difficult task of manipulating smart people. He just has 10 PER, and he uses it all to spot fuckin' morons and sell them turds. A moron will buy anything.
Hard, Sad ol' Truth Time: If you bought this game without bothering to read any reviews first, you're too gullible to survive outside a 1st world country and deserve what you get. Which is robbed and manipulated by people who excel at ripping off low INT types. Zero sympathy. Bethesda's NOTORIOUS for this shit and yet they double their profit on every new bugfest they put out. Some people truly exist only to be robbed.
This looks like a Fallout 4 pre-alpha build
It looks like a Fallout 4 mod...
That's because it is the pre-alpha build. We'll be getting the official beta in a few years.
a fallout 4 pre alpha mod made by a first time modder
pre-pre alpha world build before any NPC's.
And even the finished Fallout 4 wasn't exactly good.
Yup, 300+ employees, 3 years of development, assets, and engine all predesigned from FO4. And this is what we get? It better be a side project or they'll be making EA and ActivisionBlizzard appear as competent managers.
Sadly this is not a side project...nope Pete Hines said this is chroniclal...so the next real Fallout is not for another 10 years plus if Bethesda even lasts that long
@@adren42 So what your saying is they were lazy and incompetent, wasting 300+ manpower and 3 years of dev time on something that moders with dev tools could cobble together in 6 to10 months and a 30man team?
@@Geraduss YES
Seeing as how Fallout 4 came out pretty recently and they also have Starfield and TES6 in development, I’d guess that their resources weren’t really stretched too thin. Also, the game is really no worse than Fallout 4.
Looks like we have to wait for Cyberpunk 2077 for an actual good RPG...
As soon as it was announced at E3, I was pretty upset (so upset that my boyfriend and I had our first big “fight” because he thought I was being dramatic) because I knew it’d be a buggy, lazy cash grab.
Not trying to sound like a FO purist, but nothing about this game is Fallout. Sure, it looks like fallout, and it has Vault Boy’s adorable face everywhere, but the introspective look at the horrors of war, nationalism, xenophobia, and the dangers of staying in the past - what MADE the series, besides the RPG aspects - are all gone to make room for run-n-gun trend-chasing.
And that’s just in combination with the rocky launch and bugs that come from using a decade-old, broken engine. At least they’re going to finally update it for Starfield and TES6!
Oh wait.
edit: before yall worry, my bf and i are doing great and constantly laugh about how we argued about the game (and other stuff)
It's funny because I felt the same way about Fallout 3 when it came out, that not much about it felt Fallout, I guess I am a bit of an FO purist in that sense but its nuts to see just how far Bethesda ran this IP into the ground. I think their days are numbered somehow especially after Red Dead and the trailer for cyberpunk (though we will still have to wait and see on that one).
They're crashing this plane, with no survivors. Tbf we should've known. It becomes popular, devs dumb it down so they can get even more money. Is this the end?
We didn't know how good we had it. I remember looking forward to the future of video games.
@@lancew9351 I hope not, Arkane, Tango and IDs output have been amazing in spite of bethesdas lackluster re-releases of Skyrim(only putting this here because people love it for some reason) and nothing else of note. I would really hate to see those development studios go into limbo or die with bethesda.
Well, good point about "what Fallout is made of".
The instant I heard that this new Fallout game was going to be online multiplayer-only, I figured it would be shit, but Bethesda managed to blow those expectations out of the water and back even deeper into the barrel.
Some may call this junk. Me, I call them Fallout 76.
Failout 70Shit is what it sho...............(disconnected from server)
Congratulations, Todd! You finally dethroned Brotherhood of Steel as the worst Fallout game!
I thought Fallout 4 did that already?
Don't even joke about that.
@@TheRibbonRed Fallout 4 did that already. This one just one-upped everything else.
F4 was pretty terrible, this looks like an abortion
Let's not confuse things:
Fallout BoS was a crap; still better than 76.
Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel was an awesome game in the Fallout universe.
Oh, how I wish for overhauled versions of the original 3 games! For F3 and F:NV we have mods that improve graphics and fix glitches, while for F4 we have no need of anything, not even the game.
To be honest they should give fallout back to Obsidian.
Obsidian never owned Fallout, so it wouldn't be "giving it back to them," but I agree that they should license more stuff to them at the very least.
YoungerOstrich9 that wouldn't help dude. The same devs that Worked on New Vegas are no longer with Obsidian, there is no way out of this shithole.
Or Rockstar i'd love to see rockstar's take on the series
@@justanotherrandomontheyout4791: Oooh... that I could actually get behind. Though I don't trust Rockstar's monetization schemes as far as I can throw them, so... I'd be leery about that part. But they do know how to tell a damn fine story, that's true.
@@DandySoleil Obsidian understands RPGs and story, they'd still be leagues better. I almost just want Fallout to die.
Take me home, country roads,
To the place, away from this
heres are start. don't look up a game you don't like. then proceed to shit on it in the comments instead of, lets say playing a game with friends. friends that you don't have.
Jesus Christ it’s a joke chill
@@oliverhilton6086 Jesus Christ it's a joke chill.
heavylegs did I get bamboozled
@@oliverhilton6086 i DON'T KNOW MAYBE.
Konami makes Metal Gear Survive. Bethesda says "hold my microtransactions, I have an idea!"
I honestly kinda dug survive.
I was at least able to look past the first two words of the game title.
So did I honestly, but it’s all just rip offs of Rust. And I’m pretty sure that Rust doesn’t have micro transactions. Correct me if I’m wrong, though.
Hold my only cosmetic cash shop with earnable currency, i have an idea!
Be me, playing Fallout 3 in my Xbox360, I was 15 years old, maybe 16, while playing I think: Man, I would love to play with my friends in this world.
10 years laters we have this.
Well, thank you Bethesda for destroying my dreams.
Many fans have been asking for the same thing for at least as long, longer still with Elder Scrolls. And we know what happened with Elder Scrolls
*it's an mmorpg now! also lets strip everything down because WoW is the standard and nobody would want to play with our mechanics that's not the whole reason they want us to make this or anything*
but even that was more well-made than 76. Rough stuff.
@@KnownAsKenji I never did.
@@KnownAsKenji I have a little piece of hope, that in the future, with bug-fixes and patches, this will be an enjoyable game, until then... I'm dissapointed. They could put "multiplayer" in Fallout 4, where you can invite 2 or 3 friends and do stuff and shit together in the Wasteland, but i guess not. :/
The sad truth is we don't really know what we want. That's why our favorite games usually surprise us. They gave us something we never knew we wanted.
That seems to be the general feel:
People wanted a way to play co-op within the Fallout universe... not his horrid online mess!
The frozen screen! Oh my God 🤦🏻♀️. That was painful to watch.
@Eiszapfen der wütenden Winde I know that reference...
I refreshed this vid twice cos I thought youtube had frozen. Jesus.
Relax, it was just another user using VATS.
Remember when Bethesda championed themselves as “savior of single player!!!!” ...... And now we get this.
smoni19 I nearly did that.
Was watching itsagundam play it and a scorcher literally phased through the door like kitty pryde with a bad yeast infection
I died. This game is a joke. No amount of patches will fix glaring issues like that.
Same.
An enemy phasing through a door is a deal breaker for you? Have you ever played any bethesda game at launch before this? That's a minor bug compared to the amount of shit that was broken with launch oblivion, skyrim, fallout 3, and fallout 4.
@@CatacombD The difference: All these games were freely moddable and about any issues you could think of got fixed - by modders. A heavily modded Skyrim puts this Fallout76 junk to shame even from a graphical perspective. And I am not speaking about the 64bit Skyrim SE, but the original 32-bit Skyrim. If a modded 7 years old game looks superior to your current AAA-game, has a better KI and at the same time is still more stable you are no longer producing AAA games.
Bethesda got to the point were they just are not an AAA-developer anymore.
Bethesda should just publish iD software games. What a lovely burn there Jim sir! Yes indeed
and arkane studios :)
@@sinephase hmmmm Wolfenstein the new order is not the most stable game on PC.... I'm still waiting for a patch!
That comment filled me with dread, realizing that Doom 2 may be published exclusively on the Beth launcher.
If all any company could do was publish ID software's mindless offal, then it would indeed be time to close the doors for good.
@@Holammer OH GOD! D:
Best intro ever, Jim. Well played
Coach Toolshed Gaming wow I didn’t expect you to be here :p
@Nicholas Bumgardner
Hello there
Dammit, that text did not pop up soon enough. My internet's real bad so I just assumed it had frozen and I reloaded.
Hey Coach!
Simulation of whole experience
You're right when you say that Fallout 76 is a bad concept. No sense of a living, breathing world, or even a hopeful world that can be redeemed, since there are no people. You're not fighting for anything.
Why they didn't just make a game where the players play as lackeys of the FO4 factions is mind boggling. That's easy, and everyone liked them. Then you can keep settlements and people.
Arcadius 256 you do know it’s an online multiplayer game right?... those are the people on the world
@@MrXmoda 24 players, maybe broken into teams, doing mostly their own thing doesn't really equate to the feeling of fighting for the futures and hopes of settlements or a civilisation of people hanging on by the skin of their teeth, at least not to me. The protagonists of all the Fallouts except 4 are voiceless blank slates, how are characters like that going to breath life into this world? I know that you are supposed to provide your own objectives but that is limited by the game itself. In Fallout 4, you fight, explore, build, and engage in whacky conversations and follow the crazy lives of the NPCs. In Fallout games you enter into a world with people affected by the harshness of the world who have recreated civilization after nuclear annihilation. But in Fallout 76 I just don't see where the retention time is going to come from, perhaps 24 players band together and create a mission to fight for something, or perhaps Bethesda could add competitive levels to equipment so that there is an ever-present yearning for better gear, like Destiny. Maybe make the player count higher, especially since they made the map bigger. But once again, I just don't know where the retention time is going to come from.
But then they have to pay voice actors and writers.
@@jays.6843 (clutches my pearls)
@@arcadius2569 just wait until the battle Royale update
I remember watching interviews with Todd Howard about FO76. In them, he described interactions between players as a big part of the game, which was my first red flag. He wanted players to think before they shoot, to maybe try peaceful resolutions, or to encourage meaningful conflict when it had to happen.
Players don't work that way Todd Howard. Technically, no one in Escape from Tarkov HAS to shoot anyone except NPC scavs, but guess what? All but maybe 2% of interactions with players will end with someone dead. As he continued talking, I realized he wasn't saying anything specific - no details about HOW any of his absurd goals would be accomplished.
I realized he didn't know how to make the game he wanted. I'm disappointed that Bethesda continues down this absurd rabbit hole.
what was funny though in my experience was that a lot of players weren't attacking each other
wide as an ocean........deep as a puddle
Looks like gas station toilet water
Elite dangerous is not alone anymore!
I mean that's standard for Bethesda. But on top of it, this highlights that their engine is really shit.
More like as wide as a puddle and as deep as a piece of paper
@@PARAN0IDxGERBIL Agreed, The game isn't even as wide as an ocean.
Fallout 76 reminds me of that SpongeBob episode when he waited til the last minute to write his essay.
Come on Jim, it's not *Bethesda's* job to make their own games good. Just wait a decade or so, and it might be good if you install about three dozen community mods!
I'd be a lot more partial to someone actually ripping F76's landscape into a huge expansion mod to Fallout 4 instead.
You're assuming of course that the servers would still be up by then...
Just buy it on the Switch in 8 years when they've ironed out some of the bugs.
MetaL556 peep Fallout Cascadia if you haven’t already
Really low balling the number of mods there.
Didn't Bethesda produce a smug and cringeworthy video for E3 a year or two ago, where the congratulated themselves for making single player experiences, and not entering the always online trend? That looks really bad in context now.
The Creation Engine is essentially a revamped version of the Gamebryo engine, which Bethesda used on projects dating back as far as Morrowind. Each successive game Bethesda released relied on a tweaked and expanded Gamebryo engine. In 2011, they basically rewrote the graphics pipeline for the Gamebryo engine for Skyrim. This is what is known as the Creation engine. They tweaked and expanded the engine for Fallout 4, and now Fallout 76. Bethesda is notable for releasing... buggy games, and this is largely ignored due to the typical quality of those games. The problem comes when you realize that each new version of their game engine introduced new bugs, and little work was done to remove these as time went on. The thought that Bethesda could make a stable online game using this mess is laughable. It would require a complete rewrite (which obviously didn't happen) or a completely different engine (which also did not happen). Honestly, it looks like they just took the Creation Engine as it was for FO4, plugged in some netcode, told it to call home every once and a while and called it a day. Considering the reputation of the company for releasing broken products, the result is predictable.
I think Bethesda's only solution to this growing problem is to just fucking make a new engine from the ground up. Instead of ever working on this game, they could have spent valuable production resources developing a new engine for their mainline FO, ES games and now Starfield.
According to a video recently released by YongYea, Bethesda is planning to continue using this engine for Starfield and ES6
I give it a month from launch until they introduce micro transactions with those f***ing cards.
Haze1434: There are micro transactions for cosmetics already so I wouldn’t doubt it.
@@brianross3747 Besides, the hardcore Fallout audience seems to have already written it off anyways... I know I sure fucking have. I'll just play more modded New Vegas.
$1.95 to roll back your last level up.
$2.95 each additional card pack.
$4.95 for a consumable that raises one item's level.
$9.95 horse power armor, delivered to your camp.
$19.95 to respec your character.
$89.95 to uninstall the game, freeing up over 100 GB on your hard drive.
Which of these predictions (or prices) do you think are accurate?
@@jamesmcdonald3054 All of them. If you tried the beta, you already had to pay $60 to get it off your hard drive.
IMO, the best part of recent Fallout games are the cool NPCs, weird quests, and the companion mechanics. I just don't think I want Fallout without those things. Why couldn't they have added these things to 76, while also allowing for all the online stuff? Too much?
The engine probably wouldn't have been able to handle it.
Yeah, one of the only things I can really honestly praise about Fallout 4, I genuinely liked the companions and NPC encounters I found several of them very memorable.
Just look online at the plethora of fanart celebrating these fondly remembered characters!
What does BGS do? *Removes all interactable human NPCs*
"We at Bethesda don't take lightly to fans saying we have lost our way."
Country roaaaaaaaads
Take me hooooooome
...
*Silence*
It's such a fucking waste - before I learned it was going to be another cashgrab multiplayer clusterfuck I was intrigued by their choice of setting. So much potential pissed down the toilet.
I don't have faith in any multiplayer game in this time. They looks like a 2nd job not a thing to enjoy.
Look into Squad. Great game!
Look into Civ VI. You'll lose your job because you won't sleep in time for work because you feel bad leaving the game with as much time put into it as you did plus you'll leave everyone hanging right when it's starting to get good so you end up calling in to finish up and go to sleep just to wake up in the afternoon and start a new game and repeat the cycle continually.
They are a second job. The fucked up part is that there are customers that demand it be made into that.
They point to the existence of people that will play the game 40+ hours a week (of which they are usually one). They say it wouldn't be fun if it only took people (specifically them) a week to progress to the next level. Then they insist it should take 400 hours to achieve that progression.
Generally they're either completely incapable of grasping the concept that MOST people don't put 40 hours a week into a single video game, or, they consider anyone that doesn't put in 40 hours a week to be a filthy casual pleb that doesn't deserve to make any progress at all.
Due to the fact they actually have that much free time to burn they're also the most prolific posters in the development forum for the game. After the game is released any thread in which a person who plays 1/4 as much as them expresses frustration about it taking 10 months of their free time to achieve minute levels of progress will get a reply from 40-hour a week guy smugly saying "I don't find it hard to progress."
That’s basically what nearly all video games have become. The focus on competition, multiplayer, and monetization has absolutely DESTROYED most video games for me.
I like falling into a game and getting immersed in its world. And I don’t mean needing to spend 8+ hours a day on it-immersed, I mean just falling in love with the fun of it-immersed.
I remember playing a game like oh, idk, Mark of Kri for PS2, and picking it up for a few hours every couple of days, and being absolutely head over heels for that thing, and feeling like I’m inside that world. It wasn’t trying to sell me something. It wasn’t asking me to compete online against children and hardcore gamers. It had unlockables that were actually fun to go after and not shoehorned into the experience because “achievement/trophy hunters” demanded them.
There have only been a generously large handful of truly fun video games in the last generation and a half. Hell, even games like Elder Scrolls are fucking abysmal.
Everyone tells me how AMAZING a game like Skyrim is. It’s really not. It’s a job. Yeah, it’s a silly physics engine, and if you get to level 10 you’re basically playing godmode for the rest of the game which can be a source of minor enjoyment when used sparingly. But good lord, I essentially never had fun playing Skyrim. I’ve played it a number of times with new builds and play styles, and every time it’s the same damn thing. Grind your ass off for no reason, get over-encumbered, do math to figure out what has the best resale to weight ratio, watch a glitchy animation here or there, hear the same five people speak, and do actual work for NPCs that are usually cunts to you and will actively agitate you.
People find this enjoyable? Chopping wood and being an errand boy? Getting chastised daily for not getting to the cloud district often enough? Having creepy court wizards robotically recite a script at you about how great they are and how much you stink? Mistakingly touching something you weren’t supposed to, being chased down by the law, get forced to pay a fine, go to a loading screen, and get transported to the front of a castle after processing?
If you want to live a peasantry feudal life just join a medieval faire and get on with it.
I feel like crowd mentality has just totally fucked everything. Everybody expects it/wants it to be the best thing ever, and this bugged out glitchy mess gets all these free passes and praise because nobody wants to be the person that points out how boring and dull and bland it all is.
Bethesda is garbage, and has always been garbage.
@@LastFractionZero And I'm really starting to hate that.
I guess that Bethesda wont be giving themselves a bonus huh?
Fuck Bethesda for screwing obsidian over for gay ass metacritic score that actually is the fault of Bethesda anyway because they didn’t give obsidian enough time to make the game (and yet they still made the best fallout game to date). Never forget
@jbiehlable PS3? Does anyone still use them? I saw one in my local museum the other day 😄
@jbiehlable Ooooohh! Retro! 😎I do actually wish I still had all my old consoles, it would be a pretty big collection. Only the Nintendo products would still work though, lol
@@-Trauma. New kids, lmao. You made my 48 year old day 😁
@@pseudonayme7717 I'm 64.
Thank you, today I was having the thought I might check the game out. However I was feeling hesitancy because I heard that on PC it was only releasing on their website... Sketchy.
I don't imagine Bethesda has a return policy on games bough from their site..
It does but if you return it you cant uninstall it from your pc.
kyubii972 Todd Howard is a Goof
Fallout 76 has major flaws in addition to what Jim says here. Firstly, there's a 400 pound limit on storage for your character, and now that everything weighs something, it quickly becomes counter-productive to gather materials past a certain point or to store anything besides Junk in your storage. This means you have to seriously consider if storing that 20+ pound legendary Fat Man is worth it when you also have to keep mini-nukes that weigh 3 pounds each on hand. This coupled with the fact that as items get stronger, they generally weigh more, and you quickly find yourself extremely limited in terms of the options you have for playing your character.
Power armor frames can be found at early levels, but the gear is normally unwearable at the level range they're found in. This coupled with the fact that you can only store 1 Power Armor frame at a time (granted, I couldn't imagine storing more than 1), will mean that it's pretty pointless to get them prior to when they're actually useful.
Vendors always have 200 caps, and whenever you buy something from them, they only get a fraction of the caps that you pay out. This makes the "Better prices" perk useless since a lot of times you end up just dropping items you don't currently need due to how limited your storage is. Also keep in mind that despite being able to buy ammo, you can't sell it, meaning that it's pointless to pick up ammo for weapons you don't currently have.
Trading is currently bugged, and if you offer up an item and close the window out before you go to the acceptance screen, there's a chance that the items you offered up are just gone. It also doesn't function well as a way for people to actually purchase goods from one another, since other players aren't exactly willing to purchase all of your useless weapons and armor, especially when they can see the good stuff.
Workshops, besides being a "better" C.A.M.P., can glitch out and cause either the resources you're trying to farm to stop working, or your turrets to go crazy and attack a random structure in the area for no reason. Opposing players can also try to take over your base, but none of your turrets or defenses will try to protect your base from them while they do so. While the act of claiming does open players up to PvP for the short time that they are claiming the workshop, they won't actually become Wanted unless they destroy something in your area. The player trying to take over the workshop is also at a major disadvantage if the area isn't vacant since anyone can come up and shoot them similar to how it works against a Wanted character.
Stealth inside of buildings is non-existent in this game. Groups of enemies have been tied together and God help you if you walk into an area with multiple floors. Sure, you can get the sneak attack on the first enemy, but you'll wish you ignored them when you see the horde of his friends coming from every corner of the map.
oh don't worry, within a month they will have hyper-expensive microtransactions to buy more stash space
You can store more than 1 power armor frame, I had 3.
@@DaDog I believe there's a glitch where if you deploy a power armor frame from a stack, the stack disappears, so unless there's some way I don't know of to store them in your CAMP outside of the stash, it's pointless to have more than one.
I KNEW IT@@pt8306
@@wolfking1409 that moment when you place down a different container and realize all player made containers work as a Player stash.
EDIT: Ha, he deleted the comment.
"I cannot create my own fun if there's no fun to be had."
I like Jim -- he is one of the only people who stands up against AAA publishers and has the gall to call them out. However, sometimes he misses the point. I have been playing Fallout since '02 when I first played Fallout 2. I enjoy the take on the game that Bethesda created and all of it's trappings. Running around, exploring the world, shooting SuperMutants, leveling up your toon. Going back to Fallout 3 95% of the game are these activities that some consider mundane. Jim, in his SpiderMan review, stated that leveling up Peter, exploring the world, and swinging around are so much fun to do. Just playing the game makes the character progression system worthwhile. I guess if you are not a fan of a game and how it plays it can effect how seemingly mundane tasks are viewed as not fun.
Picking up bottles might be boring for some, but I've enjoyed the scavenging for resources spin that Bethesda introduced with Fallout 3 and expanded on with the crafting elements of Fallout 4. I am enjoying the game on PC. Most of what I enjoyed about Fallout 4 came from these elements that some would consider mundane, since the story and writing (aside from the terrific companions) were a step backwards. I honestly believe Bethesda missed the mark by omitting NPCs, but to say that all the quests are dog shit is not true.
If you are on the fence about 76 I would hold off for a while until Bethesda makes some changes to the game. The most glaring thing other than the lack of NPCs is the 400lb storage in your settlements which gets maxed fairly quickly. I think they will probably be adding human NPCs in the future in a narrative arc, but Jim is right when he says the game seems a bit empty without them.
@@TheColemancreek You have shit taste, sad.
Todd doesn't even know what NPC stands for, he called players NPC's yeah no Todd NPC = Non Player Character
yup, even to sandbox, you need the fucking sand in the box first
@@TheConst4nt If you wouldn't talk like that to someone's face, you shouldn't do it on the interwebz.
I don't enjoy multiplayer games like Fortnight, but I am smart enough to understand these games aren't shit. Objectivity isn't that hard if you slow down and take a deep breath homey.
No Man's Vault, Poor Man's Rust.
Rich Man's Rust, you mean. It's a lot more expensive than Rust.
Just go with fortnite, red dead redemption
Ironically enough No Mans Sky has made a decent comeback with its big updates these coming years. Fallout 76 is now literally the 2018 version of the once "No Mans Lie"
Indeed, No Mans Sky is now a relaxing timesink. Will happily sit and potter about for a few hours. Hello got a lot of deserved shit for the initial release, but now, it really isn't bad at all.
@@raremessagefound7138 Yeah! People who liked Fallout because of its fantastic storytelling, NPC's and RPG elements will surely love the same elements in fortnite.
Wow! Fallout Shelter upgraded their 2D style to 3D!? Amazing.
Actually this is worse.
60$ and 3*45GB...
And you can't take it to the toilet to take a literal shit on it....
But I guess the devs did it for us..