Now it’s simply about listening to an audio tape and running off to a location to get something or kills someone, better known as a fetch quest.
Gone are the days where players could convince the final boss not to fight by investing in charisma and speech. One of Fallout’s most alluring gameplay mechanics, dialogue choices, has also been eliminated as a result of the choice to get rid of NPCs. Take into account that these apparent story elements in Fallout 76 have all existed in past installments in the series as background info and it becomes more apparent that the game is disguising lore as story. Reading terminals and listening to holotapes isn’t story, it’s extra info that builds the world and setting around players.Ĭalling it anything else is misguided. But the truth is that lore is not the same thing is a story.įallout 76 falls into the same boat. The main campaign was only about six hours at maximum and featured little to no interesting plots points throughout missions.īungie stated that fans simply needed to dig into the Grimoire cards they created - located outside of the game on their personal website - in order to find more engrossing info. Bungie’s title, though it did feature NPCs in its game, was heavily criticized for its lack of story. While Bethesda argues that the holotapes, notes, and terminal logs are actually story, the truth of the matter is eerily similar to Bungie’s mindset when Destiny released in 2014. The personality and charm that NPCs brought to the world is replaced with a books-on-tape mission structure. The decision by Bethesda to distribute quests through robots, terminals and holotapes creates a huge crater where the story should be. While there are a number of different reasons for that anger and confusion, ranging from bugs to gameplay mechanics, a lot of the frustration boils down to the game’s complete lack of NPCs, which makes Fallout 76 feel like a shallow, lifeless, and largely dull environment to explore. So far, though, the latest installment in the series, Fallout 76, has left many fans, loyal and casual alike, angered and confused. Fallout is one of the most revered franchises in gaming, owed to its unique setting, branching narrative, and compelling RPG gameplay.
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