DaRmaZat Miraculously, Fallout 76, the most maligned installment of Bethesda’s Fallout franchise so far, seems to have survived the nuclear war which it had brought onto itself. Its leftover wasteland is slowly beginning to recover, and I have to admit that it doesn’t look so bare anymore as once before.
I really love games which can be played in many different ways, triggering the feeling of infinite length and depth, in favor of creativity and replayability. Accidentally, all mentioned things are virtues which Bethesda and their underlying game studios master so well nowadays in their games.
Surely, I could give you tons of cons, upload numerous compiled footage proving that a lot of bugs and glitches can still be found in 76, but would that bring any justice here as this is still a worthy Fallout game?
That’s exactly why I decided to focus instead on the good things of 76. I did not like Fallout 4 that much (being a small understatement), but this game is totally different and luckily for me, in a good fashion. The new story content and vivid NPC’s that came with the Wastelanders update have really saved the soul and future of the Fallout series.
Even the online functionality lifts the game upwards, as it converts 76 into a more dynamic, varied and rewarding (e.g. double XP events!) experience, while maintaining the single player exploration-driven core that real Fallout fans like so much about it. And yes, often you are sent into very grindy quests but when you don’t like that, Fallout was never meant to be something for you.
76 is fun, despite its terrible, rocky start and despite the current glitches. And I see the excessive grinding in the game just as a golden lesson to never give up!
I still remember when I met my first Mothman and tried to kill it with a missile launcher. That did not go quite as intended but I loved it!
My single player campaign ended after 86 hours by launching a nuke after a 6-hour-long and very tough final quest. Let’s hope Wastelanders is not the only free expansion we receive for this game…
One important sidenote before running this game, is to certainly NEVER disable your page file in Windows, as Fallout76.exe always makes use of it and when doing so, this could cause crashes.
