Did they just ignore that Fallout 4 wasn’t exactly universally praised at launch?
It also wasn’t universally hated. It came out to a pretty decent reception. Mixed with the normal response to Bethesda bugs.
76 was universally panned. Super buggy, to pvp oriented, none of the story that people wanted from fall out, over filled with bad micro transactions. It was a hollow shell, and the shell wasn’t all that good looking.
On the contrary, I think it was by far the most beautiful Fallout game. It wasn’t just green and brown and had gorgeous scenery instead.
It wasn’t hated, but faint praise for a main release of one of your biggest IPs is pretty far from infallible. Alarms should have been going off, but they were ignored.
Stop being so disingenuous. It has an 87 on metacritic. It came out to massive acclaim.
There was a good bit of story in 76, though? I quite liked the storyline where you take up the mantle of a radio drama heroine after finding out what happened to the previous holders of the title and breaking into their secret lair.
Or, I dunno, does it not count as story because most of the important events have already happened? Maybe it’s “lore.” I had a good time with it, anyway.
It wasn’t “universally praised” but it had generally positive reviews when it was released. Fallout 76 was panned.
Generally positive, but the negatives were pretty big things you had to look past.
FO4 got a little flack, but overall it was very well received. You can see the reviews for yourself. Most of them are pretty high.
It was on the lower end of favorable, lots of 8s about 10% of professionals being mixed. That’s not well received. Steam was about 75% positive, that’s not glowing reviews. It’s a good, but not great game. That’s great for a random indie title or a yearly release, but for once a decade franchise title, it’s not good.
- IGN: 9.5
- PC Gamer: 88
- Metacritic: 87 critical, 6.8 User (game was very divisive for the old fans in particular so that’s not unusual IMO. You can see reviews swing wildly there with sub-5’s and 9-10 both all over the place)
- Steam: is not 75%. I am not sure where you’re going that. It’s 83% all time, 89% recent, which I find very interesting actually.
You’re welcome to throw out all of the above if you don’t like the sites for whatever reason, but if you could show 3-4 other examples from sites you’d consider valid if you take with issue the above I’d appreciate it. They were the top hits and all are major-known sites, that’s about it. I just don’t want to get bogged down in a source argument.
There’s a lot of attempts in this thread to make it seem like Fallout 4 wasn’t a massive commercial and critical hit.
“Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.”
They don’t do multiplayer well for one. They need to be as innovative in multiplayer as they are in single player.
ESO still seems to be trucking along.
Eso isn’t made by bethesda
They’re the publisher and I doubt they’re exactly hands off about their iconic IP.
But they don’t make the game. Sure, they’ll have input, but it’s not theirs
I imagine if this were EA we were talking about we’d ascribe a lot more control to the publisher. This is feeling very nitpicky at this point man. Have a good one.
Not nitpicking at all, Bethesda aren’t the devs so they don’t have as much input over the game.
