Why Fallout 76 is More Exciting Than Fallout 5

Fallout 76 and its multiplayer is more exciting than a single-player Fallout 5 could ever be. At least, that's what our hot taker argues in this week's Hot Takes Friday.

[smolinsk]

No it's absolutely not, let's just get this pvp crap over with so we can get a real fallout game.

[solidossnakos]

I hope they fail miserably so they don't even think about doing it again.

[Asuka]

That's a pretty horrible thing to say. You can dislike the game all you want, but these are people's jobs and livelihood your talking about. Wishing people to fail is pretty disgusting if you ask me, and if you feel that way about a video game you may need to talk with someone...

[solidossnakos]

@Asuka
I don't wish them to fail in life, but I do wish that this project so called fallout fail and doesn't meet their expectations.
To every developer who follows the trend and lose their IP identity, taking this risk is your fault.
Many sympathized with the Culling 2 devs after their tremendous fail, well I don't.
They run after the trend of BR and lost what made the first Culling enjoyable.

[-T9X-69-]

They "thought" about it because believe it or not, Fallout MP has been HIGHLY requested. It was asked for, they were interested and now they're doing it. Culling 2 is a horrible example. The first game was completely abandoned, then announced a sequel out of no where launching a few days after its reveal. Now they canned that already and announced the original game is going Free to Play. Nothing close to Bethesda Games Studio TRYING a spin off MP game for the first time. You wishing failure on something you've barely seen any gameplay for but upset at the sole fact that it's MP, is just bitterness from your end.

[kevinsheeks]

I don't recall fans asking for a mp themed fallout maybe you mean a single player co-op type fallout where your friends can jump into your singleplayer story and join your adventure and you guys can do the story together or any quest that i would enjoy this is a cash grab they are making to the guy saying we asked for this

[ULTp0ltergeist]

Why? This is amazing and potential innovative gameplay on the horizon. You're just blind.

[ziggurcat]

@t9x:

people didn't ask for this, though - no one asked for PvP, they asked for co-op PvE. they took the worst parts of 4 (the building nonsense), made that one of the focuses of this game, and then made it MP-only. fallout is a single player game, and that should always be the main focus of the series. I don't care whether they add the option to do co-op, but taking away the ability to play the game in a 100% single player mode is a no buy from me (and no... playing "solo" is not the same as a single player game because you're still having to deal with people griefing you).

you give people the opportunity, and they will just go straight to being jerks to each other - this game is going to be a grief fest regardless of how much they assure us it won't, whether it's groups of people going around wrecking other people's stuff for the sake of wrecking people's stuff or people ignoring everything else, and only going for those nuke codes to wreck the entire map, eventually making the game completely unplayable (I've not seen anything about whether a nuked portion of the map returns back to normal over time).

[-T9X-69-]

@kevinsheeks

And in Fallout 76 you can join your friend and do the story or any quest you want.......

This interview goes in depth on a lot of peoples concerns

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[JackBNimble]

What's funny is that everyone that I know who are gamers are actually excited for fallout 76.
The small vocal minority may hate on it, but from what I see, 76 may very well be successful.

[shauzy]

@Asuka i wish todd fails and gets fired before fallout 5, i dont want to play a fallout where the grandson searches for his own son or something like that

[shauzy]

@-T9X-69- you know what else is highly requested? obsidian making a fallout

[naruga]

..because you try to write an article in order to get paid ..that s why

[PhantomS42]

Yup. Give it six months then it'll be "Why Fallout 76 failed" followed by "Why Fallout 5 is better than Fallout 76" in 5-6 years.

[ziggurcat]

followed by articles about how people are being griefed in the game.

[FloydianAndroid]

You have to get quests from robots....... there are no human npcs......... it’s not a fallout game, it’s a multiplayer game using fallout 4’s engine. No one wants this. They made this game because they don’t have starfield or elder scrolls ready because they rested on the profits from reselling Skyrim on a million different platforms.

[Patricko]

I'm glad that not all people are blind...

[lelo2play]

NO!

[Psychotica]

I have ZERO interest in Fallout 76 but would buy Fallout 5 today if it was out.

[solidossnakos]

You and me both.

[Sokol]

Multiplayer focused, no NPC, probably bare bone story.
This isn't the Fallout i know. Not my cup of tea.

[OnliviousWest]

I like the idea. Finnaly to play with friends. I trust Bethesda they never let me down!

[ocelot07]

Pathetic that people "hope" this game fails. I love Fallout and value my single player experience in the Fallout Universe. But I am open for them to do something new with it and if that means doing a open world multiplayer title like Destiny/Division then fine by me as I trust them.

I could understand if this was Fallout 5 but it's not it's a spin off plain and simple. Don't like it? Don't buy it.

[FloydianAndroid]

The point is this isn’t the time for a spinoff. We haven’t had mainline elder scrolls game in
7 years, or a fallout game in 3 years. I have no problem with doing something different and I enjoyed prey, doom, and Wolfenstein, but BGS needs to release a mainline game in the fallout or elder scrolls series, not this half assed cash in on the recent trend of multiplayer focused games.

[Kosic]

I saw the E3 unavailing and was like "oh, more of the same now with multiplayer."

Fallout 5 really needs to reinvent the wheel for the fallout franchise.

[Majinzo]

Fallout the next big first person shooter game.