![]() ![]() Incident #2: On the evening of the BETA launch, many PC players, myself included, suddenly found themselves without a license for this game they had purchased. I’d be surprised if they got to play the BETA at all. Oh yeah, and the BETA is only running in 6 hour sessions on random days of the week that are horribly inconvenient for Europeans (1AM - 7 AM). The problem is that you have to play this game through the Bethesda launcher on PC, and while I am OK with installing new launchers to play new games, this one DOES NOT WORK. Fast forward to early October, the game is a month away. This was widely regarded with some disdain, however a good number of people, myself included, bought it immediately in June. Incident #1: Bethesda opened up a closed BETA to only those who pre ordered the game. No one else has ever or likely will ever make a “Bethesda RPG.” I am going to break up these launch problems into “Incidents.” There’s no other sandbox world you can mod to your heart’s content and use as a base for your own role-playing adventure in the same way. Sure, Bethesda kept putting out buggy messes of games, but they were wonderful. Director of Fallout 3, Skyrim, Fallout 4, and now 76, he had a lot of clout to his name until this launch. Todd Howard, pictured here, is a rather well known figure in gaming circles. But Fallout 76 was made by one of the most celebrated studios in the world, published by one of the 5 biggest publishers in the industry, and, well, yikes. They’ve fixed it now, and people love NMS in 2019. Yes, Hello Games directly lied about what was in it. Some say it’s a tough competition for 76 and No Man’s Sky for “Worst Launch in Gaming History.” NMS was a small indie company making their first game. ![]() 16 times the detail! Distant weather systems! 4x the size of Fallout 4! Surely it’s too good to be true. ![]() Fallout is back, but it’s entirely online. Todd’s up on stage, making beautiful promises once again. If you don’t care about the context surrounding the game, skip this next section. I’ll get into the game play later down, but a bit of history first. This is one of those games you can’t talk about without mentioning the industry and online community surrounding it. The theme song for 76, Country Roads, is probably the best part of the game. ![]()
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