Nateblum7

I understand that you, as someone looking at a Battlefield 1 review in 2021, a whole 5 years after this game came out, probably see this game in a positive light. Maybe, like myself, you've played this game from quite some time. God knows I've sunk countless hours into conquest mode, rushing into objectives, instantly getting sniped and watching haplessly as a medic runs by without the thought of reviving even entering their head, but that's not what I'm here to talk about. I'm here to talk about the game in its entirety, and why, holistically, it is genuinely boring experience that grows stale in record time. First, let's tackle the god-awful story mode. Or should I say modes. There are five different campaigns, all of which range from mediocre to gimmick-y at best, with the only exception being the intro to the game, which is not its own story but a few minute long total into to the game and atmosphere. After that you can choose from "Through the mud and blood", a hand-fisted story of brotherhood that plays decently but comes off as a diet, WWI version of Band of Brothers, "Friends in High Places," the shoe-horned in dogfighting story with very minimal story, meant exclusively as a drawn out tutorial on how to fly in a Battlefield game, something anyone who has played a game with flying in it can master in minutes, "Avanti Savoia!", the forced emotional storyline about an Italian soldier looking for his twin brother, "The Runner," the usual odd couple story about two Australian snipers, and finally "Nothing is Written", the worst story and the one that **** the suspension of disbelief the most. My grief with Nothing has nothing to do with Zara, the female soldier you play as, but with the forced inclusion of Lawrence of Arabia and the **** train that plagues this entire story, as well as the lack of recognition you, as the central character, are given for the work you do in Nothing. You almost singlehandedly bring down the armored train, and are hailed as Lawrence's sidekick throughout, despite him doing almost nothing through the entire story. The overall atmosphere of the game is fun, and the map design and look is breath-taking, but with such awful writing and some of the blandest characters I've ever seen, it is hard to play through all five campaigns in this game. Moving on to multiplayer. There isn't really all that much to say here that I haven't already said above. The map design is beautiful, from the mountain tops to the desert valleys, and you are forgiven for thinking that this would lead to dynamic and fun game play. Because it does not. To start every match, you spawn in to find that every single vehicle on your side has already been filled to the rafters with people, ranging from guys in tanks rushing the furthest objective and instantly getting destroyed, **** in airplanes flying figure eights around the map until they inevitable kamikaze, to even your teammates going for a leisurely spin around war-torn France, completely ducking all objectives. You can run at objectives and get sniped from some ex-pro Call Of Duty player 400 meters out, or hop into one of the few motorcycles around and get instantly decimated by a tank. When it comes to tanks, there's about two things that can stop them: someone with dynamite, or a slightly better tank. The sandbox they give you is amazing, but they weapons in it are mediocre and repetitive. I hope you enjoy extremely long distance sniping, semi-auto rifles or close-quarters shotguns and SMGs, because that is all this game has to offer you. The weapons are all too similar, and without buy the individual DLCs or the season pass, the classes are fairly indifferent besides the equipment you have. Nobody likes pay walling a game, especially when it blocks something that could potentially shift the tides of an overall boring experience that offers some shining moments, that are generally outshined by everything else being dull and forgettable. TL;DR: A boring game with a poor story and even worse character development with a predictable and mediocre multiplayer, only really remembered for being the first mainstream WWI game.

"Is the game fun?" asks the people. "No," says the man at IGN, "it is an unplayable nightmare". "Are the graphics good?" ask the people. "No," says the man at GameSpot, "Red Dead Redemption 2 makes Fallout 76 look like Minecraft". "Are there changes or updates coming in the future?" the people ask. "No," says the man at Kotaku, "Bethesda just took the money and ran, they don't care about the people". From this, I chose the impossible. I chose to play Fallout 76 and see it for its real value. Initially, I was hesitant to write this review. People who are somewhere between having played for two hours and never having played this game love to come here and just endlessly dress this game down. I felt that my genuine opinion, and my insatiable love for this game would just be drowned out, among the incessant waves of "why was this made", "Bethesda was just looking for a quick check", and "the graphics are bad". But I remembered a powerful lesson that I learned as a youth, that shaped me into the strong, God-fearing man I am today: A man chooses. A slave obeys. A man chooses to play this game, and see it for what it truly is, and to understand the deeper meaning behind it. A sheep is told to come here, slap a "0 out of 10" and whine about the controls and occasional glitches. Yes, there are some minor flaws. A couple bugs here, some glitches there, but what games never had any flaws. Even Grand Theft Auto V, a game hailed as some kind of magnum opus, had a myriad of issues upon its initial release. But look past these minor issues, and all you will see is a modern masterpiece before you. People love to pound the pavement about the graphics. Red Dead 2, the game that most philistines love to compare Fallout 76 to, came out ten (10!) years after the original Red Dead. That is ten, long years all set aside for the RDR team to work on the new game and improve everything. Bethesda's Fallout team got to work on 76 the second Fallout 4 wrapped up. The release of 76 was just three (3!) short years after Fallout 4 released. I hardly see how that is a fair comparison. I urge anyone who comes across this review to boot up 76 and look past your biases, and unwarranted hatred for this game, and revel in the wonderland that is Fallout 76.