10 Video Games That Put Fans In Denial

The cult of fandom surrounding Bethesda has famously been very forgiving: any time there are discussions about the abundance of glitches and general jank in either The Elder Scrolls or Fallout games, a chorus of acolytes will descend to ask, "It's Bethesda - what did you expect?"

A vocal consensus seems to be that these games are immersive enough that the technical sloppiness doesn't matter that much, and some even consider the jankiness "charming."

But only the most Olympics-worthy mental gymnastics could possibly dare to hand-wave Fallout 76, a game hyped up as the first-ever multiplayer Fallout game, allowing players to trawl the Wasteland with fellow Vault residents.

It was a killer hook, no question, albeit one which the blatantly rushed mess of a game failed to deliver upon.

Beyond the expected glut of bugs and performance issues, Fallout 76 simply wasn't fun to play: the world was barren, the quests were lazy and generic, and upon launch there weren't even human NPCs to interact with.

Pile on top of this several controversies related to special edition goodies which failed to deliver on their promises, and only the most self-flagellating Fallout fan could dare give Bethesda a pass for this.

But of course, many of them did, insisting that the game could pull a No Man's Sky post-launch. Though the recent Wastelanders update did receive broad praise for improving the game, it's still very much a case of slapping a band-aid on a bloody stump.