Fallout: 76 - Take Me Home, Country Roads

I understand the hesitance, but It's not like you only have his word to go on. The guy makes sure to have tangible evidence, like screenshots of Oxhorn's misdeeds.

Edited by VeryMelon on May 4th 2019 at 6:58:47 AM

Uh... question. Who's Oxhorn?

A You Tuber known for his fallout lore and theory videos, he was recently given a Shout-Out in 76, around the same time some evidence of his misogyny and homophobia came to light.

I've generally found that if one set of information is telling you what you want to believe and another set of information is telling you what you don't want to believe...you should give the latter more consideration.

I see... I'll just quote M84's signature and leave it at that.

Total random thought:

Anyone else think that the next Fallout game (whenever it gets made) ought to use Edwin Starr's "War" in a trailer or something?

...Or has that already been done for a Fallout game?

Isn't it IF it gets made, at this point?

What can I say, I'm an optimist.

Why wouldn't it? Fallout is second only to Elder Scrolls for Bethesda isn't it?

People fear that 76 might be a Franchise Killer, especially since we know that Beth is working on two other big games before the next Fallout.

I doubt it. 76 is a side game reverse engineered from the previous installment's assets. I'd say the bulk of Fallout players haven't even played it. In another six years we'll probably get a new proper installment

I'm holding onto the vain hope that Bethesda will allow another developer to make the next game to get the heat off them.

The bulk of Fallout players haven't played it, but the bulk of the industry has heard of it, continuously, for months, and none of what they heard was good. Maybe those two big titles between 76 and the next Fallout game will serve as a cooling off period, but I wouldn't be surprised to hear that this game tanked, or at least greatly damaged, the franchise.

Fallout New Vegas and 4 greatly eclipsed 76. 76 may be infamous, but is only infamous as a single member of a larger trend of poor business practice in the gaming industry. After some time, Fallout's legacy will outlive 76's infamy I think

I have little doubt that the damage has already been done. This game was a disaster on the level of Sim City, and that series has not recovered from it.

This is an online multiplayer spinoff. Not a main series game.

I'm sure Bethesda doesn't want to do that, they know New Vegas is generally considered a much better game than 4.

Edited by PhiSat on May 8th 2019 at 3:48:28 AM

I've heard that Fallout 76 has done much better (at least financially) than the Internet Backlash the game has received would imply. This makes sense to me as I suspect a lot of the criticism of the game comes from what is actually a Periphery Hatedom alienated by the idea of a multiplayer-only Fallout game. In other words, what its critics hate about it are what others might consider a selling point.

Also worth noting is that many of the games actual failings are due to it being a multiplayer-only game. The next Fallout game won't be a multiplayer-only game like Fallout 76 was, meaning that even if F76 is considered an abject failure, it'd for reasons completely unrelated to the Fallout series as a whole.

It would be like cancelling all Mario Games because Luigi's Mansion failed, it just makes no sense.

Edited by Protagonist506 on May 8th 2019 at 2:57:21 AM

Defending Fallout 76? That's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off.

What happened is that it managed to gain a large base initially but it is struggling to get new people and more and more of its base is not playing anymore.

When the business model relies on people buying micro transactions that is a problem.

I'm hoping they realize that and decide to use it to cover their asses.

Edited by Kaiseror on May 8th 2019 at 8:22:43 AM

@FGHIK Who's Cotton?

The terrible PR is half the reason people shit on 76. If the next Fallout game avoids every last mistake made for this game's post launch reception it'll be fine.

Yeah, while there might be a group of fans who were just dead set on hating it, it's a simple fact that Fallout 76 has been a string of failures from the company. The initial sales figures show people were willing to give it a try.

Hell, there was a fan willing to play the game for 900 hours. And Bethesda caned his account over it. You can't make this stuff up, a huge part of the game's backlash was on them.