While waiting for Starfield and giving that a try with my Gamepass up and going, i’ve decided to play a few games in the meantime to add to my ever growing video game collection, or simply wishlist until a sale comes about.
Not to bore you with too much details, i’ve checked out Watch Dogs 2 and Legos Star Wars Skywalker Saga, and… the first game didn’t really click with me for a ubisoft game, and the second game is pretty great and interesting for a lego game. Been a while since i’ve played one of those.
Ahh, but i didn’t stop there, didn’t i? …tsk… No.
let’s talk about the thrid game i’ve checked out.
Fallout 76.
I had a morbid curiosity ever since i’ve seen the positive rating on Steam, being it was years after it’s spectacularly bad launch that gives Skyrim a run for it’s money. But seeing this does give me sort of … feeling, that it improved significantly. And that being i’m a fan of Fallout 4, so i figured, “…When the heck i’m ever going to try this out? Might as well be now.”
So i’ve played it… And you can see why i’ve titled the thread like this.
Not only i sort of liked it, despite still being objectively broken and kind of bad for a fallout game (Not that i would know what makes a good fallout game anyways, but i can tell you that it’s still missing a lot of the RPG elements that Skyrim even had.) or a subpar bethesda open world RPG, but… it kind of sucked me in still.
It’s like Fallout 4 but kind of better and worse in some ways.
- Yes, the Gunplay is 10 flavors of awful since Fallout 4, (Still better then 3 thou)
- Yes, the graphics still look bad, even back then,
- Yes, the holotapes suck,
- Yes, the intro was kind of boring,
- Yes, other players exist,
- Yes, load times are bad, even on an M2 SSD.
- And yes, VATS is still neutered. Though tbh, i never really cared for this feature anyways.
But…
- The world is much more interesting to explore and see then Boston just on visuals alone, (Rip Boston. )
- The addition of hunger/thrist meters does make it seem like there’s a bit more urgency and makes it a … Survival game without going hardcore,
- The perk cards is kind of a neat idea, though i can do without lootbox styled park card packs,
- The core gameplay loop of Fallout 4 is still there and still as addicting as ever with the looting, scraping and improving your weapons and etc, imo,
- The building is back,
- There’s NPC’s. No, not the players. Actual NPC’s. Even if their bad, their still miles better then listening to a holotape.
- And honestly, it’s has a feeling of being dangerous. Like a few times, there was a scotched dragon flying overhead and i was “Oh crap!” and there was a nuke going off in the distance. Yet. it’s also oddly relaxing.
I honest to god don’t know if i want to recommend it, despite my decent time with it. Let alone buy it. Because my experience more or less came from a place where i didn’t expect anything, and got something kind of worth my time. Maybe it could be the fact that i have Gamepass, or maybe it’s something i already expected from vanilla Fallout 4. Either way…
Fallout 76. It’s surprisingly fine. Take that for what you will.