I wish when you are alone at a location that the enemies didn't come right back (or even change) like they do. Bethesda has put some real creative thinking into this game. The sleep recovery system is a nice tweak. I love the over encumbered using action points. I also buy into the premise of Vault 76 and the timeline. I like the extra pressure to keep moving and not just pause with my Pipboy open until I make a deliberate decision.

It is the most compelling world yet with great visuals and wonderful sound and music. This may be based on Fallout 4 in terms of graphics, but it looks so much better. And there are some things that are a step forward from the other Bethesda titles. So, why am I enjoying it? I am enjoying it because it is still Fallout and feels like it should. And there are other compromises to the multiplayer platform that are all foreign to me and an anathema to my style of play. You die 'differently,' you have these weird 'events,' enemies respawn way quick, VATS is not the same.I could go on. It makes you go faster.not necessarily fast.but faster than the previous Bethesda titles. With all of that said, I should not like Fallout 76. I have no goal of just finishing a game like Fallout 4. I am never in a hurry and like to explore. I am a plodder when it comes to open world single player games. My time with Skyrim, Fallout 3, and Fallout New Vegas is similar. Contrast that with Fallout 4 where, as of today, I have played 820 hours (per Steam) of that one title. I have tried multiplayer games in the past, but have probably logged no more than a dozen hours (mainly Call of Duty) total in 20+ years of gameplay. I have been playing single player first person games for years. Those questions are different than Fallout 3 and Fallout 4, but they are no less interesting. Fallout 76 captures leaving the vault and walking out into a desolate world with questions waiting to be answered. It's a beautiful and lonely world out there in Appalachia. My 8 may be a bit charitable given the current glitches, but I have confidence it will be an 8 one day. It's far from perfect, but it's far from terrible, too. No matter what the opinion, anyone giving it either of these extremes is just wrong. Looking at the other user reviews on Gamespot, the majority are either 1 or 10. By wfletchb | Review Date: November 15, 2018

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