10 Awesome Recent Video Games That Didn’t Deserve To Bomb
1. Fallout 76
The idea of an online Fallout game is the stuff that dreams are made of.
Upon release, Fallout 76 had far too many issues to be coming from such a beloved studio and franchise that had, at the time, a pretty good track record. Bugs and technical problems were the big contributing factor to its downfall but many lamented how empty its open world felt.
As such, it became the lowest scoring entry in the series. Whilst some stayed to review bomb the poor thing, most gamers moved on.
The fans that stuck with Fallout 76 however have since experienced a different game. Updates, and most prominently the free 2016 Wastelanders expansion, fixed a lot of the game’s initial complaints.
The world is now populated with NPCs and the quest system has been reworked entirely. The expansion even added a new tutorial quest to help onboard new players better.
As with the main game, Wastelanders was similarly review-bombed which belays that fact that many players thought it was the turning point the game needed.
Despite being a four year old title, thousands of gamers still concurrently play Fallout 76; building together, completing quests together and having a wonderful time despite the hate that the game gets.
With apparently five more years left on its roadmap, Fallout 76 is going to be around a lot longer than most people thought.