Fallout 4

I've been considering restarting this. Maybe I'll wait for the update then.

I don't think the DLCs are great, imo not worth it except for completionism and/or if the base game isn't enough content. I wouldn't say they're terrible (except for an excruciatingly tedious puzzle section in Far Harbor), but I definitely had less fun with them than with the base game. Not as worthwhile as Skyrim's DLCs.

Personally loved the DLC, both Far Harbour & Nuka World.

Nuka World from memory is a bit more challenging so I would save that until later in the game.

I played through 76 vanilla and 76 again up to the update before the most recent and it really is night and day in difference. I think I'd agree now that it is the better game.

Though playing Fallout 3 now made me realise they are both pretty shit compared to it for atmosphere alone.

Well blow me down I restarted this on the PS4 about 4 days ago. I am on the edge.

Can you just play Fallout 76 as a single player game then?

I.e, ignore the multiplayer, wander the land and pick up side quests in the same way you would in previous titles?

I was like, finally! It must have been coming, but good to have it confirmed. Hopefully the update actually works and isn’t just a shitshow of new bugs that never get addressed.

Depends what you are after I think. There is nothing else in the series like FO3 I don't think, it is the only one that maintains that sense of a genuine apocalyptic wasteland, at least for a time. NV, 4 and 76 are all more like adventures in a wasteland rather than just surviving it. In all though, once you reach a certain point you're a living avatar of death with 6 ways to kill everything, and a locker with 500 more guns and 8 million grenades in it, just in case, and largely invulnerable.

76 is the only multiplayer, so if you like the idea of for instance taking a team to run a mission to launch a nuke, which then triggers a boss battle which 15 other wanderers come and assist with in a psychedelic lightshow of lasers and explosions, that would be the one for you.

NV is 3 with arguably better story but less atmosphere. 4 and 76 are very similar, just SP v MP. Both have base building, you can get very inventive in 76, build anywhere.

76 does continue to have new content added. Of customary Bethesda unevenness. Joy and pain

No probs

They fixed a bug recently, which had been in 76 for years, whereby a specific holotape got stuck in inventory. Similar seen in all the other games. You can finally drop this tape, well done Bethesda. However, when you log in next time, it's back and needs dropping again. So even though MS paid all those billions, Bethesda haven't changed atall

Dammit this thread has got me looking at Fallout 3 on youtube now, Gah I might have to dust off the old PS3 and fire it up.

3 and 76 are the clear extremes. 3 has that stunning eerie reveal when you first leave the vault, and retains at least some sense of danger (until you get all the best gear), where even a single enemy can be a threat.

In 76, there is a mission called Radiation Rumble (amongst many similar), where for 10 minutes a dozen players fire non stop into wave after wave of glowing ghouls, deathclaws and other gribblies, it is brilliant fun and unlike anything in the other games, but the very far end of the scale from the original.

I don't get the New Vegas hype either. Didn't do anything for me the few times I've tried to get it going. But no Obsidian game has really done so.

I like how 1 and 2 seemingly just don’t exist in anyone’s minds anymore.

Its free on Epic games and could probably run on a potato if you dont feel like digging the old george foreman out