I would call 76 trash, but that's insulting to trash.

It's weird that the gameplay is pretty much what I was doing in destiny with better loot, better perks and some actual backstory.

This guy sums up Fallout 76 pretty nicely. LOL. The greatest game EVERRRRR.........

Dont mind it all. Nice change of pace and something different to play.

I really enjoy the atmosphere. The lack of human NPC's really hits the mark that we're in a post apocalyptic world, struggling to survive. When you're exploring, you'll come across holotapes and hear people as their own story plays out. The troubles that they face, and their ultimate demise. You'll see the remains eventually. Imagine a game where you're the chosen one, and you have to prepare for the upcoming battle. You'll travel the land, saving people and befriending them so they'll assist you in the final act. You'll all come together to finally push back the evil threat and save the day. Yet, no chosen one comes forward. Nobody stops the scorch from killing off the Responders. Nobody saves the Brotherhood from its fate. The people in their own bunkers... They eventually die because no one was around to save them. We arrived too late.

I listen to the holotapes and it makes me sad too, but don’t worry young one, there’s now people you can kill to cheer yourself up!

From the sounds of it all, this game may have been better off as a book... or a tell-tale series. I sincerely hope that this game isn't set at the current full-price and is sitting at most around the $40 (CN) mark.

I agree, i've been enjoying playing some of it so far exploring and following the story at my own pace, it is a bit depressing seeing all these terminal entries and things from survivors before finding their corpses. I've still barely engaged with any other players at this point though and still feel it would've been better as a Borderlands style co-op rather than multiplayer only with no npcs.

Im enjoying it. Lvl 14 currently.

I got it on a whim and rather enjoying it so far.

I've probably got about 10 hours into it (lvl 10). I know I assumed no NPCs would = lifeless world but I was open to see how they'd do it. So far I actually think my assumption is right. There's just baddies that are around and even other players can be rare to see unless they're too doing the same stuff as you. As for no dialogue: I'm not bothered by it. If someone's more into old school rpgs, this really shouldn't be a big turn off to them, that said with how mainstream everything is these days I'm not surprised to see no dialogue bother people. I myself would've liked to at least get text dialogue in place, but I can handle silence from the protagonist. I've been having fun with the game, the only issues I have is the lifeless world, the bugs (but this is Bethesda after all, at least 76 shares the biggest similarity among all their games) and the inventory management can be so bad at times. Unfortunately I haven't been trying to read the notes cause I've been having issues reading smaller text in games for a while even with glasses. I can still read the terminals but I've had to just open notes and close them to trigger quests, I'd imagine I'm missing out on a lot of stories/lore told through them as a result. That right there is what I've always considered as Bethesda strength and I bet 76 is no different, I'd even bets it's probably even better because of them not having to split some of that work into npcs and such, so I'm probably missing out on the best part of the game. The crafting seems to be at it's best yet, the combat can be wonky but should be engaging enough, and there's a lot to explore. I'll also say I've had absolutely no server troubles AT ALL day one or day 2, which I give credit for how they ran the beta even if how they did it annoyed people. You get much better results imitating the release by timing the betas at certain hours of a day over running it nonstop for a week. It's probably the most effective beta I've seen in a while. Now that it's out, I'd assume it can only get better. I'm not surprised to see it getting review bombed, that asanine approach won't go away till they get people to delete it. It's dumb cause much of those 0s don't even give an explanation and people do it over the smallest things. Recently RTW2 got bombed over female generals, is that one aspect alone enough to give a 0? Well here in 76 you have people saying "not fallout" which is so vague it can't be taken seriously. Furthermore one element of a game shouldn't drag the entire thing down, I can get docking a point or 2 for it, but the entire thing? I'm sorry but that's not an honest review and that's why even the user base can be just as bad as the professional reviewers.