Recent reviews by SgtP3pp3r

It took a long time for me to cave in and get Fallout 76. I jumped on the Fallout bandwagon with Fallout 3, I loved NV, I enjoyed Fallout 4, but when I heard about Fallout 76, I simply didn't agree with the concept and the philosophy behind it. All other games had one thing in common: Compelling story telling. Fallout 76 sounded like it had done away with the series greatest asset. It literally sounded like they gutted the core of Fallout, and just kept the grindy parts. I happily ignored this game for the past 3 years.
Then on friday, as i'm installing steam on my new laptop I see that 76 has a free weekend and I have some spare time, so I figured what the heck.
20 gameplay hours later i'm sold. It's still a lot of fun, and now, with the updates this has basically become a Fallout 4 mod with multiplayer. The amount of interaction ive had with other people is minimal thus far, but really it's because I really want to get a feel for the game before diving into multiplayer.
I've had bad experiences on other MMO games where I get on a team and then basically get rushed thru important missions to get to an objective. Completely missing out on all the beautiful little details that make these games unique is not something im excited for. So i've just been soloing it, and waiting to see when to jump on the multiplayer train.
Anyway, long story short, if it hadnt been offered for free trial, I would never have given this game a second thought. But it's not bad at all. It still feels barren for me in comparison with Fallout 4 (but I think that has a lot to do with how big the map is by comparison).
Its a fun game. I'm enjoying it

This is a game that I loved. I loved it. I was enamoured by everything that it promised, and I played and played and played back when it had been recently released into early access. Everything they promised sounded so cool, and everything the game already had was awesome. I played a very early version of it (which was still awesome) and had to deal with a few wipes, and it was reasonable. They were improving it all the time, but a lot of things were still broken, or didnt work. crashes happened, things got deleted, files were lost, but it was perfectly alright. After all, it was an early access game. So I decided, alright, I love this game. So let's wait for it to be released. And I waited... and waited... and waited...
Almost three years later, it still hasnt been released.
Now I am looking at what is being said of the changes that have been made in the time I have been away, and quite frankly I dont think I even want to bother with it anymore.
I stop and wonder if this would have happened this way if this game hadnt been so successful on early access... and honestly I dont think it would have gone down this way. And that is the real problem.

Early access allows small developers with good ideas to get the financial backing to complete their awesome and creative projects.

or

It allows small developers to earn money, procrastinate, and prolong deadlines until they forget what the hell they were originally paid for.

This was a ripoff. They sold me the promise of a game, and four years later it still hasnt been delivered. In fact the product that is now being offered is quite different to the original game that was sold to me. So, really, do yourself a favor and stay away from this and any early access game.