Christ, the mere Idea of the Lyons Outcasts supporting/giving Money to the Natick Raiders is ridiculous. The canonical Version of Sarah and Owen Lyons would be spinning in their Graves if they saw that loyal Lyon Soldiers giving Money to Raiders! They'd rather loose a couple Soldiers and Pieces of Power Armor than cooperate with Raiders since... thats exactly what they did in the Pit. Because, you know, they'd rather protect the Innocents and get wounded than just ignore the suffering Raiders and let them continue their Reign of pure Terror!

Oh my Lord, it gets even worse. Which seems impossible, but... they even butcher the whole Character of Preston Garvey. Christ, I'm certain they made him the "Secret Enclave Spy" simply because of their dislike of Radiant Quests.

We really don't. He has already said he hates F76 and I'm not sadist enough to encourage subjecting someone to a game they completely dislike. Mike's comparably more neutral takes are sufficient.

Not to mention Mike's finally at the point where he's done playing 76.

It's even better written and more compelling, I'd say. But the delivery through terminals and holotapes just knocks all the wind out of its sails.

Look at the covers of the unstoppables. They’re literally on the same team. It’s a disappointment you can’t play hero again tho

Thanks, I did enjoy some parts of it. Perhaps if I had been playing with others, the bad parts wouldn't have been so insufferable.

@@mikeburnfire2 Mike, are you playing on console or PC with a controller? You might be able to play with viewers, if you are cool with doing that

Sorry, I really didn't have a good time with it, to the point where I wasn't even going to upload the footage.

@@mikeburnfire2 wow really? The majority of people love that quest so that's really surprising! What didnt you like about it specifically?

​@@dr.rockso2703 I can understand why people like it, the intrigue and novelty of infiltrating a secret society. But the tedium of fallout 76's combat combined with the vanilla gameplay of sifting through dozens of notes ruined the experience.

Mike has the phrase "Hell is other people", and given the game is pretty social-based, I doubt he's gonna willingly partake in the better parts.

I mean the dude gave as fair a shake at it as he could I think. I love Fallout 76 but I recognize I'm a very specific type of Fallout fan. I actually love reading the notes and terminal entries, learning about the greater Fallout universe, I enjoy hearing Fallout's commentaries on the ills of Society(tm), its critiques of capitalism, jingoism, paranoia, and humanity as a whole. Fallout 76 has all of this in spades, even when Bethesda's A team shies away from even encroaching on controversial territory, but drops the ball in a *great* many other areas. Oddly enough I feel like the quality of the game's writing has gotten weaker since the introduction of NPC's. The stories the player takes an active role in just aren't as interesting and in some cases actually annoying as is the case with the Atlantic City family. Meanwhile the vanilla game's story of tracking your Overseer while piecing together the wreckage of Appalachia was honestly a really uniquely captivating experience for Fallout, again only for a specific subset of the fandom though. I wouldn't dare compare it to 'Return of the Obra Dinn' but it very much is in that same vein of the player showing up after the party and being left to sort through history, though to reiterate, that kind of story telling format is only going to appeal to a specific demographic. Then there's all the pitfalls of it being an online multiplayer service. Latency, gear 'balancing', grinding, etc. all serve to erect barriers between players and enjoyment Fallout 76 is a good game _for some people_ . It's not because they didn't try hard enough that some Fallout fans won't like it, it simply won't click for everyone and that's totally fine.

I was honestly hoping that I'd be able to enjoy the good parts of this game, despite my previous misgiving with it. I was expected the new, story-driven content to be more enjoyable. But at the end of the day, Fallout 76 still has a lot of glaring issues that are impossible for me to ignore. And as much as I enjoy the Fallout 76 community, I'm getting pretty damn tired of being told that if I don't like the game, it's *my* fault because I'm playing it wrong.

@@mikeburnfire2 fair enough, and ya Fallout 76 has some severe issues. I think some of the criticisms you've gotten is out of defensiveness because of how crapped on 76 and its fanbase gets from other fallout fans, even I'm guilty of being defensive. I mean there's people out there that stonchly denounce Fallout 3, 4, 76, and the TV Series as canonical simply because of anger twords Bethesda, and call people who don't 'Todd's boot-lickers'.

​@@forsaken_king27I really enjoy 4, but I enjoy it the same way Zach and Mike do. Mod the hell out of it, and then pretend I never had a wife and kid cuz that story line does nothing for me. I can acknowledge the writing is weak and still like the game. 🤷‍♂️