Fallout 76 Players Host Shakespeare Festival
Contrary to the belief that some might have gathered about Fallout 76 from watching scathing reviews of the game or vocal ex-fans online, Bethesda's Fallout-themed MMO continues to have a thriving online community. In fact, thanks to Bethesda continuing to support Fallout 76 this far along, players have been able to meet up online and fill the Appalachian wasteland with events of their own.
A recent event, hosted by player Northern Harvest and live-streamed to Twitch by player FalloutFive0, brought several players together across several consoles to celebrate not only Fallout 76, but also William Shakespeare. Considering the franchise's reverence of classical music and theater, an afternoon of Shakespeare in The Park isn't too out of place for Fallout, even if it isn't from the specific turn-of-the-century style the series is famous for.
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For this event, players gathered together in the Swan Theater in New Gad in order to read through a collection of some of the more well known of Shakespeare's Sonnets. These players read a total of 14 Sonnets, giving small introductions to each one as each new reader came to present the classical works. While many of these players joined the session live for the stream on PS4, the player run Fallout 76 event also included recordings from other participants who performed their readings on Xbox and PC.
Even with some of the event being pre-recorded, much of it was acted out like many other role-playing sessions in an MMO, with some players watching the readings peacefully and others standing guard to hold off any of Fallout 76's various threats. According to host Northern Harvest in comments made to PCGamesn, who first covered the event, it felt like a
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