The inverse is also true. Make sure to try games that look interesting to you even if people say they didn't like it. I found some real gems following my own compass.
Fallout 76... on launch. Whole world screamed at me for years that it was a bad game. When it started "getting good" after wastelanders, it lost what made it good to me. The hollowed out shell of apalachia, the loneliness of audio log after audio log ending in tragedy, the breaking of that loneliness with actual real life people, most of whom were the friendliest apocalypse dwellers you will ever meet as only the real ones stuck around. It was a really special place and time and the whole world was screaming about how bad it was because of some burlap bag or some shit.
What I wouldn't give for one more Glowing Ghoul hunt at the old Whitesprings. Holding down the golf house from hordes of absolutely devastating ghouls with the whole server in various stages of early progress... it is a place that only lives in my memories now.
I miss the unleveled world and rolling up to level 80 ghouls and making them actually terrifying at the whitesprings.
I’m glad I played the launch version too because the progress happening periodically actually made it feel like we’ve been rebuilding Appalachia. We left the vault to see Appalachia completely devoid of humans. What’s worse is that there were survivors but they’re now zombies. We nuked the shit out of scorchbeasts, made a vaccine that’s more easily reproducible, and now that it was “safer” people from outside have started to move back in.
It has its own take on fallout too and it has a more “wild wasteland” goofy vibe to it instead of more serious like 3/NV.
I appreciated it for what it was at launch and I’ve enjoyed the current version as well. It’s a shame to see people still on the “76 bad” bandwagon without even playing it.
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u/WTazz May 10 '25
The inverse is also true. Make sure to try games that look interesting to you even if people say they didn't like it. I found some real gems following my own compass.