Bethesda is allegedly working on ‘multiple Fallout games’, including Fallout 3 Remastered, teases report

I couldn't stomach it.

AA and indie games are where it’s at these days

What about AAAAA?

I hope you’re right and I hope it isn’t Starfield with magic.

Thank you

With the release of the TV show, the daily player logins are around 400k with 30k-50k concurrent across all platforms. I suspect a decent number of those are logging in for a half hour or less just to do daily or weekly challenges.

I have put about 2,700 hours into FO76, a decent amount was AFK to farm events. I have all the best gear and all of the items available in the game that you don't buy from the shop with an abstraction of real money. I have fully beaten the game until the brahmin was pulp and has become one with the wasteland again, and then I began to dig a deep hole.

Last paragraph is the TL;DR.

It is now a Fallout game with a weak story and other people that may or may not be annoying, and the optional PvP is basically first attacker wins unless you are specifically built for PvP. You don't need to interact with other players and can still put a few hundred hours into the game just playing story stuff. On release, it was a glitchy shit show filled with griefers and no NPCs.

It has bugs and glitches that aren't a problem most of the time unless you really want to grind one activity. Sometimes random glitches, crashes, etc. happen more frequently than is understandable, especially after a content release. I swear they don't actually play test updates and depend on the players to report things.

The building is kneecapped by a budget constraint that keeps you from taking advantage of the build area. In personal cells called "vaults", the budget may be exceeded without the budget bar being filled. Most of the build items are in the store shop or are only obtainable during limited time events that you need to RNG grind to get or buy from another player that likely doesn't know the fair market value. Items available in the store shop cycle randomly, so you may not see an item you want for a year or more. Holiday themed items often show up in the store after the holiday has passed.

More on the subject of arbitrary budgets, you only have storage for 1200 units of weight off your character. That is, unless you have a FO76 subscription which gives you 2 unlimited storage boxes for scrap materials and ammo, soon another one will be added for chems and healing stuff. That isn't a problem if you don't collect weapons, plans, and armor. It is a problem if you do because you won't be able to keep tons of ammo or stims in storage. I traded uncommon and rare plans for caps because that is the fastest and easiest way to get caps, I had around 700 weight units of plans between two characters(each plan has a weight of 0.25). If you want to keep legendary weapon effects just to have or for selling, they each weight 1 unit. The player joke is that FO76 is an inventory management game with an open world action RPG mini-game, which is true for experienced players.

Some of it is a tedious grind to get some of the best armor, like hundreds of runs of a 5 minute activity to get enough of a specific currency or dozens to hundreds of runs of a Raid that requires you have a team of 4 and good gear+build that takes about a half hour but can take over an hour(or be impossible to complete) with inexperienced players at lower levels.

There are 8 different in-game currencies that you can't buy, not including the game store currency. There is no way to exchange currencies except for 3 that are one-way and one of those currencies can only be used to buy another currency. Treasury Notes > Gold Bullion, Caps > Gold Bullion.

One of the currencies is only for seasonal content(4 seasons a year) that requires you to do daily and weekly challenges, that currency does not roll over into the next season and some seasonal rewards require a FO76 subscription. The seasonal currency you can technically buy through buying season ranks, a full season cost about $120 if you don't want to bother with challenges. The daily challenges take a experienced player 10-15 mins to complete, the weeklies take 30-45 mins. The FO76 subscription is really nice for QOL, but I put around 500 hours into the game without one.

The events are mostly under 5 minutes long and aren't fun after like the 6th time.

The big content updates are once a year with smaller content additions between. For instance, they just added fishing and before that they added the ability to become a ghoul. The last big update was in December when they added a 5 stage Raid and the next big one is at the end of the year which is going to be a big map expansion.

If you are a Fallout fan, Fallout 76 is a Fallout game that is fun enough to play for the quests(60% of Fallout humor compared to FO4) and free content, but it is not a Fallout live service game that will be enjoyable for most Fallout fans for as many hours that you can put into the singleplayer games and you will "miss out" on a lot of items if you aren't down for the grind or have cash to burn.

Microsoft gave me a free copy so I checked it out. It sucks.

i feel like theres a lot more people playing 76 than starfield at this point

Maybe Fallout 1 CE https://github.com/alexbatalov/fallout1-ce and Fallout 2 CE
https://github.com/alexbatalov/fallout2-ce could be interesting for you

Morrowind remake should have come before Oblivion. I deeply wish to experience Morrowind again with updated graphics.

I suspect that it is considerably harder to do because of the engine and requires nearly a full remake.

FO3 was my first fallout experience, and I loved it. Currently playing 4, and it's not as engaging. Some elements are cool (building), but the stories seem flat.

Can you expand on the idea that it's not a good fallout game? What does that mean? What makes a good fallout game.

Thanks!

Just because something is popular. Doesn't mean it's good.