10 Video Games That Tried To Change The Industry Forever (And Failed)

3. Fallout 76

Believe me when I say I take no pleasure in s*****g on Fallout 76. I was one of the few people who actually believed Bethesda could deliver a multiplayer game set in this universe back when it first launched, giving them the benefit of the doubt on the basis of their stellar track record. How foolish I continue to feel, then, in the wake of this never-ending trainwreck.

The thing is, the disappointment was felt so much because the idea at the heart of the game was genuinely promising: explore the world of Fallout without your friends, without sacrificing any of the core components you loved from Bethesda's other role-playing titles.

This should have been the game that proved you can have the quality storytelling and free-form exploration of a regular single-player RPG in a multiplayer environment, with the added secret sauce of dynamic PVP encounters. All it proved in the end, though, was that this compromised vision was better left to MMOs like The Elder Scrolls online.