We finally are just a couple of weeks away (roughly) from Starfield’s release date. It’s been a long wait, and many longtime fans of Bethesda Game Studios’ unique brand of open-world have been replaying – or simply throwing more mods into – Skyrim and the fourth Fallout installment. That sounds like the perfect pre-Starfield plan… if you can somehow manage to squeeze both titles into your 2023 gaming schedule (help us). I’d like to underline “sounds”, as maybe we got it all wrong. Bear with me.
Following the purchase of a new gaming PC, I set off to reinstall Fallout 76 (among other games) just so I could finally see it working smoothly at high FPS. It does run wonderfully well on a 4070 Ti plus 7800X3D combo, unsurprisingly. But something else caught my attention shortly after I booted it up: maybe we’ve been wrong about Starfield’s creative nucleus all along.
Almost five years after its problematic release, Fallout 76 still is a hard sell. The game has been in a perfectly fine state since mid-2020, yet its launch went so terribly wrong that it’s hard to persuade even the biggest Bethesda fanatics into trying out the studio’s sole “live service” online game. Yes, quotation marks are needed, mostly because it’s a way more chill and player-friendly type of always-evolving multiplayer title.