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Fallout 76 - Garrett Fuller - Thoughts on E3 2018 So Far - MMORPG.com
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Fallout 76 - Garrett Fuller - Thoughts on E3 2018 So Far - MMORPG.com
Over the past two years E3 has come and gone with some big announcements, still it never shook gaming to its core. In 2018 everyone had predicted an E3 of battle royale clones. No one thought we would see story driven games again, but we got it wrong. Companies are betting on games fueled with narrative titles like: The Last of Us 2, Ghost of Tsushima, and Cyberpunk 2077. The best news of all, the major announcement from E3, is an MMO set in Fallout.
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I wanted to give a wide benefit of the doubt on this topic, but I'm starting to agree with @Nilden that this is starting to feel like a narrative being pushed here, not an objective assessment of the game's features.
I'll hold response until FO76 wins this site's Game of the Year award. But it is certainly looking like there is an agenda here.
Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
Overall more things actually got me worried. Still no clue what Anthem is supposed to be (seems to set itself apart more for what it doesn't have than for what it actually does have). Fallout 76 needs more clarification about its systems before I can decide whether it's a good move for Fallout. Cyberpunk looks more colorful than expected (GTA and Watch Dogs comes to mind). The design looked ok but was expecting more creativity from them, especially in regard to the freedom the genre offers (and yes, I know it's based on an IP). The rest was mostly about announcements or trailers and after so many flat out lies from various companies, CG trailers simply don't get me excited anymore.
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I am not going to get much excited or down on anything from an E3 advertising expo,i'll wait instead to see the actual full released games and real game play,not game play setup to look good for E3.
Cyberpunk does at least look interesting but yeah i'll wait and not o out and start buying anything and everything.
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Oh wait My Friend Pedro actually looks kinda fun too.
Oh wait My Friend Pedro actually looks kinda fun too.
EDIT: Oki so he doesn't call it megaservers, but he does say your character progression is server-agnostic which is more or less the function of megaservers (seamless transition of character data across servers for population and load distribution). Found that part of the video which I think I missed previously.
Not sure how they are meshing that with the player operated and modded servers later though, guess that's just going to be a hard division where megaserver player progression is not shared with player-run and modded servers, so they act standalone.
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Ghosts of Tshushima looks amazing though!
I was already hype for Beyond Good & Evil 2, Assassins Creed Odyssey and Anthem but what still got me excited is Satisfactory, Rapture Rejects (YES! Cyanide and Happiness!) SPIDER MAN and I am just so happy I own a Switch!
Maybe unpopular opinion but something else that needs to go is the pre-shows. Just get it all out in a couple of days, quit dragging it out. LETS GO!
Edit: So my phone left out the Fallout 76 part in the title so I was thinking this was an overall pov piece lmao sorry! Um FO76 looks great!.....
Triple fps treat with metro, doom and wolfenstein
Capcom returning to devil may cry hopefully ignoring the dmc title.
Ori and the will of the wisps looking gorgeous.
Cyberpunk 2077, eh, i dont know, waiting for so long and not much shown. Bit of a disappointment.
Fuck GaaS with anthem, division 2 and fallout 76.
Yeah, but they are going to stick that label on it no matter what. Every single hype article shouts "It's an MMO!" It's not. It's a gankbox survival, low-pop server game.
Personally, I think mislabeling the game like this is never a good idea. It attracts players who expect an MMO, even a PvP oriented MMO, and that's not what they're getting. Which may boost their initial sales, but will raise the ire of those who were janked off. And that leads to an unhappy, pissed off player base, which they've already got, but only with SP fans and now they're going for a double-play.
It frankly reminds me of what Blizzard did with Diablo 3. Take a loved, successful single player IP, mix it with a long-term development cycle, add in FotM, and deliver something nobody wanted.
Same here, I couldn't stand FO 4. I felt like they removed all RPG elements from the previous games, and that UI was just horrid. I think I played it about 5 hours and I was done. I know that puts me in the minority (apparently) but when this "new" FO is being hyped and FO 4 is the reason, it doesn't exactly get me excited.
I almost forgot, The Amazing Adventures of Captain Spirit which releases for free in a couple weeks looked good as well. I like Dontnod games and it's set in the Life is Strange universe and I loved that game, so I'm looking forward to it.
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