vr4300:

>pay $60 for Fallout 76

>launch game

>download 54GB day one patch

>finally get into game

>no NPCs to interact with

>only lore and story is through long boring audio tapes that can be interrupted but not resumed

>everything is a fetch quest

>constantly disconnected from servers

>constantly encounter hackers

>game encourages me to buy Atoms™ with real money

>drawl through this for 60 hours

>finally get to the end game

>launch nuke

>it explodes

>mushroom cloud

>leave the landscape awash in hellfire

>radioactive ash blocks out the sun

>eventually only a snowy nuclear landscape is left

>black screen

>can’t hear anything

>vision slowly fades in

>….

>“Hey, you, you’re finally awake. You were trying to cross the border, right?”

biff-donderglutes:

Thinking about that fallout 76 ad where like 9 people stand around and watch a ground burst nuke go off like it’s a pretty firework is like. Genuinely upsetting. Not only can I not think of any worse way to reflect the themes of the series, with the opening of Fallout specifying that WWIII only lasted an hour and with it destroyed almost all life on the planet at the hands of nuclear weapons, but it’s also just an irreverent and frankly dangerous way to discuss the most horrible weapons mankind has ever made. It would be different if it were actually some kind of satire, some kind of distinct point being made, but it’s literally just LOOK NUKES COOL and it’s more a re-invigoration of the cold war’s nuclear obsession than it is an indictment of it.