Comment on Fallout 5 officially in pre-production, being built on Elder Scrolls VI engine

• buran@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, the difference being Fallout 3 was well received and the studio had some pedigree. While Fallout 76 and Starfield were actively disliked.

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  • BlueOysterCultist@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m not sure what happened with 76 since I lost interest upon finding out it was multiplayer, but it’s really well received now when looking at Steam reviews

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    • buran@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, the game is in a better place now. The problem being they shouldn’t have released as it was.

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    • edible_funk@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It got a lot better. Then they changed the seasons and it started getting worse. Around the time they added becoming a ghoul for player characters it was more or less necessary to have their subscription service if you didn’t want to deal with a lot of arbitrary bullshit that was designed to force you to buy the subscription. You basically couldn’t get all the season rewards without it. All that aside it was surprisingly fun and adds a lot of good lore. You can play it more or less like a single player game and when I still played old timer high level characters would often drop gear and resources for new players, it was the most genuinely pleasant online community I’ve ever experienced.

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    • shani66@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The steam reviews aren’t accurate. The review timeline of steam shows suspiciously low negative reviews during release, a disastrous release with game breaking bugs and a strong backlash against the horrible monetization systems, to say nothing of the shitstorm that bethesda caused outside of the game itself. Iirc that was also a point in time that steam made a big deal out of hiding negative reviews for corpos under the guise of fighting review bombing.

      Also it’s still at 50 on metacritic.

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