Lol, now I'm genuinely curious what exactly made you feel like that in Fallout 3. It sounds like something seriously grinded your gears and I need to know what.

Just the general state of Bethesda games. At least as I experienced them. Some people were more fortunate. I can deal with amusing bugs, but consistent game crashing, and the subsequent loss of progress that comes with it, was much too frequent for my liking in both Oblivion ( X360 ), and Fallout 3 ( PS3 ). Aside from crashes and freezing, I lost all my save data in Oblivion, and encountered an insane, close to game ruining ( it really did ruin it for me though ) bug in Fallout 3 in the mission "Head Of State". I could go into more detail, really I could, but the problem is there's TOO much to talk about as far as the ways those games screwed me. Just detailing the Head Of State experience alone is a paragraphs long post. It's something I wrote about, in a profanity laced meltdown at the site I was at before VGC. I could probably find it.

Care to elaborate on how it's "subpar nonsense" ?

Actually, this game is shaping up to be nothing like either Ark or ESO... I'm not sure where you're getting that vibe from.

Is there an open beta?

No, and the B.E.T.A. that will release at the end of the month for the people who pre-ordered is not exactly a beta in the traditional sense of the word. It's a form of early access of sorts, hence the name Break-it Early Test Application.

i tried getting into Fallout 4 and that was a big mistake, although it was probably on me for picking it as my first entry into the series. out of nowhere a few hours into the game it just felt like there was a huge difficulty spike. Enemies were one-shotting me left and right, i would drain through my entire supply of ammo within minutes, there was no clear direction as to what i was supposed to be doing even. and from what Ive seen, Fallout 76 is just an expansion on the Fallout 4 formula but built for online. so not only would i suck at Fallout 76 even more than i do Fallout 4, i would have have my ass beat by every real world player i came across. no thank you

No. Finishing spiderman, then dragon quest 11, then read dead redemption 2. This fallout doesn( seem interesting, will wait out for the next elder scrolls/fallout 5. Hopefully a proper graphics engine and not these lame old gen character models.

Not me. I haven't played 4, yet. I also cannot commit the time to an online game such as thsi one.

Waiting for reviews and more gameplay. If people can join my session who are over-powered just to kill me, I am done with it.