It’s becsuse Sony refused crossplay.

Good. I'm a fan of the original two Fallout games as well as NV and this game is an insult to that legacy. I'm reminded of when Bethesda tied some bonus payments to Obsidian based on NV's metacritic score and they missed it by 5 points or less I think?. To think that a supposedly AAA game they produced themselves crashed and burned feels freaking great.

Well even if the game is a disaster at launch, I think they will fix it over time and give it a new title.

I haven't even play Fallout 4 yet, I'll do that before I consider touching this.

Ofcourse people have always overlooked bugs when the game has a wide gameplay-variety like most of Bethesda's game's but the bugs aren't the main problem for most consumers on fallout 76,this time it has been stripped down in gameplay itself in favor of a multiplayer add on that just does not interest a lot of their playerbase and in my opinion 60 euro for a sole multiplayer in an empty world without much effort put into lore and interaction that will prob get microtransactions later on is way overpriced.

There will still be people playing it and i do hope they enjoy it to the fullest cause enjoyment is a personal thing but what they have done with this installment is cater to a smaller userbase and people outside of the existing userbase.

Huh? Fallout 3 is one of my favorite games of all time (without mods).

OT: I've never had any interest in Fallout 76. NPC's are a huge part of what makes Bethesda games good.

No it’s because Trump became president /s

Ok hold on a second, you may be speaking for yourself, but not for everyone that enjoys Bethesda games even despite their plentiful shortcomings. I for one love the worlds Bethesda creates (and this is where the studio excels) and can get lost in them for many hours. However, the unpolished nature and technically lower standards in parts of their games have still always annoyed me. And especially since Skyrim I think it's fair to say that the technical quality of Bethesda's games has been further declining.

For example Skyrim, it has been ported over to so many platforms, yet Bethesda never fixed many of the multitude of bugs that the game has, despite having awareness over them and plenty of years and opportunity at hand. It is quite baffling that the Switch version, coming out in 2017 (six years after initial release) still has many of the initial bugs. PC users (and to some extent Xbox and PS users) have the chance to get the unofficial Skyrim patch by the modding community, which fixed hundreds of bugs Bethesda never cared to fix. Switch users in this example are missing out. Fallout 4 is the same story, an unofficial patch exist that similarly fixes hundreds of issues of the vanilla game. Bethesda just doesnt care to make these fixes, and they know they have the largest modding communities behind their games to fix the issues and their games have sold well enough anyway. That doesnt mean though that everyone that enjoys the game wouldnt wish for a smoother and technically better version of their games. Fallout 4 for instance I can only play with a lot of mods, then I can enjoy it. Vanilla for me is not much fun.

And now we have Fallout 76, which trumps all of this even by Bethesda's low quality standards. What I have experienced myself in the 10 hours I played, what I saw from streamers, what I read in the initial reviews, this all paint a clear picture of a new low, technically speaking. A product that seemingly needed at least another half a year or more to polish. This is now all not even considering the gameplay changes and that many people find the game boring after a while and not giving real motivation and incentives to go back for more, me included.

Bethesda's stubbornness in sticking with outdated technologies and tools to create their games, their unwillingness to release their games in a more polished state, their reliance on modders to fix many issues present in their games: this all has been lazy and arrogant and is now coming to bite them in their behind as we live in an ago of Breath of the Wild, Red Dead Redemption 2, AC: Odyseey etc. - all open world games that prove to everyone how these kind of games can look, play and function in 2018. Bethesda has a lot of work ahead.

Great to see so few reviews. It means the outlets are taking their time to review it and an online game like this definitely needs time.

Lol this is golden.

Its been 4days right? how much longer do they need.
Plus there was the beta too....

I think alot outlets are just scared to reivew and give it a honest score.