FALLOUT 76
From the moment it was first revealed, though Fallout 76 looked conceptually interesting in a few ways, there were a number of people who were skeptical about what it was going for. This is a series that has historically resonated with people because of its characters, quests, stories, and choice-based gameplay, so a Fallout game that focused instead entirely on online gameplay could have easily gone wrong. And it did. And not just for those reasons. Bethesda’s woefully outdated engine led to a game that was riddled with bugs and glitches and terrible optimization no matter which platform you played it on. Credit where credit is due though- Bethesda have legitimately turned things around for this game. Where many other developers would have cut their losses and dropped post-launch plans after such a disastrous launch (looking at you, Anthem), Bethesda stuck with Fallout 76, delivering improvements, tweaks, and fixes being doled out on a constant basis, in addition to major content drops like Wastelanders and Steel Dawn that are more in line with what people expect from a Fallout game. No, Fallout 76 still isn’t a great game, but it’s at least a significantly better one.
