Fallout 76 - Review Thread
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It is shitty though. It feeds into the narrative that any delayed or remotely positive reviews of a game with poor general reception are paid for by Bethesda and aren't valid. It's disgusting.
Eurogamer put out their review today, six days after the game released.
But seven days?
Waiting for check to clear.
What silence? Both IGN and GS have published a review in progress.
What. They didn't like the game they got and reviewed/rated it accordingly. Isn't that like the main point of writing a review?
Fallout 76: Return of the Human NPCs
Its funny because when critics praise too much a game the defence is usually "he likes it, he's allowed to say that!!!"
But for some reason the same logic doesnt work when critics dislike a game? Weird
Its funny because when critics praise too much a game the defence is usually "he likes it, he's allowed to say that!!!"
But for some reason the same logic doesnt work when critics dislike a game? Weird
Hey, if they gotta take it offline for a long while to patch things up, so be it. Especially if they have the same turn around the XIV did.... 76 could turn out to be amazing.
Nice try, not even close. I don't think anything will top the amount of hype ME:A this gen, mostly because of the level of expectation.
They've had the same amount of time as everyone else to come to a conclusion. It feels like they are waiting for the patch.
Did I take a time machine back to 1998? What the fuck is this shit? How can you spend any significant amount of time participating in discussions on a forum like this and still post shit like this?
People complain reviewers don't play a game thoroughly before giving a review.
People complain reviewers are taking too long to review a game thoroughly.
Can't win these days, lol.
I think they are just waiting for everyone else and to gauge gamer sentiment before they put a score to it. The big review sites are just followers usually. They pretend it's because they are making sure they play all the game but I've seen plenty of games get day one reviews that should have been given more time. These days sites like IGN are so big they don't want to embarrass themselves by giving a good review to a game everyone hates so they wait for everyone else first. It lacks integrity but this is IGN we are talking about.
This game needs a FFXIV level remake. At this stage Bethesda can't make money off this game. FFXIV went from mega failure to second most popular MMO in the world right now.
"IGN is delaying their review because they want to maximize sales of Fallout 76" is right up there in the annals of stupid gamer logic with "I'm going to attack Jason Schreier for delaying No Man's Sky" and "burn down the GameStop because the game I bought there sucks"
I agree with him. In Fallout 76 the game has devolved into a survival shooter. That isn't what Fallout was known for.
From a lot of us Fallout fans, the shallow gameplay in 76 isn't what we ask for either.
Jesus, the amount of conspiracies as to why IGN hasn't put up a score yet make it feel like 2008 in here. Why do you need it so bad anyway? Just to have another reason to say "woof, I didn't think it would be THAT bad!"? Surely no one in this thread is actually waiting on an ign score to make a purchasing decision.
Just chill out, I'm sure you won't need to wait long to make more snide remarks about a game you were never going to play.
Just chill out, I'm sure you won't need to wait long to make more snide remarks about a game you were never going to play.
Okay this thread was fun until we had child like conspiracy theories about game journalist reviews. It's a attempt at an mmo, I could see ign wanting to see what the high level content looks like
I assume you're mocking the ridiculous people saying that nonsense and not actually saying it yourself?
It's fucking weird because this is a huge multiplayer game, and tbh a week is probably the minimum to make a review.
IGN can take a week and a half if they want. They can even give this game a 10 for all I care.
The only reason why people are claiming conspiracies is because they can't wait to see how negative it is.
IGN can take a week and a half if they want. They can even give this game a 10 for all I care.
The only reason why people are claiming conspiracies is because they can't wait to see how negative it is.
Yeah. People just want to see a low number. Most of them won't care to read the review.
Heh, you had me going there. Seriously, though, stop trolling.
Love the positivity in your comments! Seriously.
Until the whole - "the glitches will be ironed out, what makes this any different to Skyrim which is a game people love?" rhetoric... which is why developers feel that they can get away with it now. Did Skyrim get better? Yep. Does that mean its OK to give professionals a pass on quality control? Not in my opinion.
I wonder if Fallout 76's live service will survive this. I guess it will depend of the active playerbase.
There pretty much is no story. Just a bunch of fetch quests and a endless grind. Oh, and Skyrim Dragons reskinned as a big bat.
Because they don't agree with that and think it's a bad game... period.
The fact that the end-game is a skyrim dragon is just the final nail in this game's coffin. These types of online games live and die by their end-game, and this is the least compelling example of that I've ever seen.
IGN has put out two review in progress updates, one yesterday when the patch hit as well.
They are not happy with it in the slightest, so even without actual reviews the impressions are not good.
They are not happy with it in the slightest, so even without actual reviews the impressions are not good.
76 feels like the logical end point for the direction Bethesda's quest design and game design in general has been taking in Skyrim and Fallout. Namely, stripping out interesting elements one by one until all that's left is systems. Unfortunately, they didn't realise that it's not the few core systems that make the games fun, it's the content built around them.
Bethesda have spent the good part of 10 years releasing broken shit and media sites have spent almost as long patting them on their backs saying "good 'ol Bethesda hehe, 10 out of 10"
Karma is a bitch.
Is it any wonder I'm having my suspicions/tinfoil hat moment?
So they escaped from a zoo that happened to have a breeding population of sloths?
Except you know, most of them are fun despite being broken.
I have fond memories of Fallout 3 and Skyrim. Broken as fuck in some parts, but the content makes up for it.
Oh, I found it quite interesting solving the puzzle of the scorched, I only got to the airport though.
Yes. Because you have an agenda.
You "applauded" Eurogamer for their review because it was negative but because IGN is still working on theirs, despite Eurogamer taking six days, you're creating baseless conspiracy theories.
This is exactly how large online games like this should be reviewed -- just as Destiny games should not have a score until a couple weeks after it releases. IGN is updating people on the review progress.
This is how I feel AAA "RPGs" "Evolved" in general. BioWare and Ubisoft games. Granted Assassin's Creed wasn't really an RPG but basically it seems in 2018 an RPG can be called an RPG as long as it has an open world and crafting. It's fucking lame. Give me branching dialogue trees that matter and stats to micromanage and not streamlined bullshit and not fetch-quests as the only means of doing optional things.
I guess, all we know is they mutated from regular Sloths.
I believe a mega sloth fossil was found in West Virginia, which is probably why Bethesda made them.
They put out a review in progress containing words along the lines of "the more I play it the less I like it".
I hope you're not being for real.
They gave Pokemon ORAS a lower than usual score and one of the negatives was 'too much water'. Fans jumped on it and it's been a meme ever since, even being referenced in Pokemon Sun and Moon by Nintendo themselves.
I dont think any major outlet wants to put out a scathing review and get singled out for it. As soon as one gets posted, they will avalanche in
The people spouting review conspiracy theories are probably the same people that get upset if a reviewer doesn't beat a game or plays the end game. The IGN reviewer said he just got to the end game which he wanted to try out. If this was a good game, people would be happy that the reviewer would be this thorough. But since it's a game you want to shit on on the internet, it's now a conspiracy.