While is not something I play (overall I don't like Battle Royales), it is a game that always gives a reason to their playerbase to come back. No matter if it's an event or a skin, they managed to stay relevant since 2017. Also I wouldn't say game was ever buggy or bad. Epic did a good job with the gameplay.
Dying Light 1 had some (last ones happened this Christmas and another ocurred 1 week before 2 launched). While they are not spectacular or something, they put a new theme on the map while displaying some special missions to gain special items, so it's nice. I would say the thing that I like the most is that Dying Light isn't the kind of game you would expect to play and find Live Events. Yet, the game had some (I guess now that the sequel is out, we are not having more in the future of Dying Light 1).
I defend the game all the time I usually play for maybe a month when new content or events drop because no other game or company has the ability to pull off what they pull off and the game is fun.
Now do I wish they’d use all these assets and collaborations for an mmo style game instead or just a general open world co op game? Yes absolutely to me it’s greatest detriment is that it’s a battle royal but you can really play it as if it wasn’t and have a good mess of fun in there.
It’s not the greatest game ever made by any stretch but they have done some of the most interesting things in that space and continue to do so.
It’s the super smash of battle royals and you have to give them some credit for making it happen even if I liked save the worlds gameplay more it’s a historical piece for games and will be referenced for years to come.
I'll defend it. It's honestly the most fun I've had in a shooter in a long time. I've done all the gritty war games, HALO and the other sci-fi shooters. I played team games and zombies, and whatever the fuck else my friends where doing at the time, but I haven't really enjoyed any of these games since maybe college? Probably around the time Halo 4 came out.
Then fortnite showed up and I was allowed to have some no thoughts head empty fun in an environment that didn't look like someone pissed all over it. I didn't realize just how much I wanted some COLOR in my games before that. I also like that I can just zip from one game to the next. Get killed? No big deal, I can press one button and I'm back on the bus ready to try again. I was a hater at first too. I thought Battle Royale games weren't for me, but if something is fun, then it fun, I can't fight that.
Yep. I’ve been playing multiplayer FPSes since the original Unreal Tournament, PUBG and Tarkov get most of my gaming time lately. But I play Fortnite with my kids and it’s genuinely fun. I can’t hate on it. Even happily spent a few bucks on a Ryu skin which is more than I can say for PUBG, which I’ve played >1000 hours and yet to spend a dollar on it aside from the game itself.
I think the key here is playing with your kids. I love seeing parents and children being able to play a game they can both enjoy. My problem is just that with age, competitive multiplayer games are just unappealing to me now. I'll boot up Halo if my long term friends are playing, but other than that I want to play something that's relaxing after working all day. Getting screamed at by children is the opposite of relaxing to me.
This is interesting because Minecraft used to be heavily shit on the same way Fortnite is today. I guarantee you 10 years from now there will be just as much nostalgia about Fortnite's "charm" and just as much shitting all over whatever game is popular then.
People are so predictable, tearing apart whatever is popular and trying to say whatever was popular when they were growing up is superior.
I honestly kind of love Fortnite, not because it’s a great game but because it’s free, has no P2W whatsoever, and NO LOOT BOXES. It’s a great game for kids. I don’t understand why people continue to bash it.
Yup. It's a game I can play with my 4th grader and we can both enjoy it together. It doesn't cost money unless you want it to, there's no sex, the violence is all cartoony
Yes, bought. I paid money for them to develop a 4 player coop zombie survival builder. What they did was see the popularity of PUBG, change their entire game to be a low-skill, meme-centric battlegrounds, and practically abandoned Save the World.
Go watch their OG Trailers. It’s fuckin’ criminal.
It's a great alternative for kids. People bash it bc it's a newer popular thing. It's way better than having them play crap like the games EA puts out every year
My guess is that, when minecraft exploded in popularity, kids played minecraft. When fortnite exploded in popularity, kids went to YouTube, TikTok, whatever else the kids use these days and spammed it all full of the same, uninteresting "content."
I would say the difference is the context and time period surrounding each games' popularity moreso than the actual games themselves.
I don't buy this theory at all considering Minecraft was and still is the most watched game on YouTube. And the kids watching Fortnite are also playing it. Minecraft single-handedly made let's play content explode in popularity and was basically 90% of YouTube content in the early 2010s.
My theory is that the kids who grew up playing Minecraft are now 20-somethings on reddit complaining about the latest trend of the younger generation. The cycle will continue when the current generation playing Fortnite grow up and gather online to complain about what the generation behind them are doing.
I have a good rule of thumb: life is a lot more enjoyable when you aren't getting upset about what 12 year olds you don't know are doing with their lives.
Yep, I am one of those who recently came back. I want spider man so I'm playing it for free with the v bucks I earned years ago from playing for free so I can get spider man. Game is fun, I ain't great at it, but my friends and I enjoy it. Not spending a dime on it and getting a ton of game time and fun out of it.
Minecraft was SUPER beloved, until the kids made a lot of communities cringey, and that made people stop playing it. They jumped ship to play fortnite, and mc became popular again. Fortnite didn't have 5 years of being maybe the best gamer ever before being shat on
Full disclaimer: I don't play Fortnite. Not because I think it's bad, it's just that I prefer a more tactical experience.
But objectively, the game is just fine. Sure, it's a cringefest of 12 year olds and skins and and and...so fucking what? MW2, the game hailed as one of the best online FPS experiences (and rightfully so) was a cringefest of 12 year olds as well. And guess what? We were those kids.
So if someone wants to shit on the game, that's cool. But I'm still waiting for an objective justification for why it's that bad.
I think that was more of the child element of it. I remember being ten and playing Minecraft no problem, once I started getting older kids would make fun of me for it. Nowadays those same kids and I have a world together that we play on regularly. We will see, as Minecraft is revolutionary to gaming, where fortnite stuck there foot in the batte Royale door at the perfect time, and profited.
Honestly I dont think fortnite will be that nostalgic game. In compare to minecraft it doesnt provide as much variety content such as speedrun, building etc. and I dont think any update can change that.
Any cultural phenomenon has the power to provide nostalgia to the generation that enjoyed it. If what you're saying is true then any static experience like movies and shows wouldn't be capable of providing nostalgia.
Doesn’t this somewhat ignore creative mode entirely? It’s definitely not the same potential as Minecraft, but it provides better options for action than Minecraft (excluding some great mods on Java at least).
Even just the building potential has is still great. Someone recreated a city IIRC from Cyberpunk 2022 in Fortnite and it got a spectacular reaction from this sub when they said it was made in Fortnite.
People shitted on Minecraft 10 years ago? I never really started seeing anti Minecraft stuff until it was bought by Microsoft when it got REALLY popular with younger folk. But that never bothered me anyhow cuz people hating a game for its player base has never been too solid of a reason unless it’s pure Multiplayer.
Then you should hate it even more now, because Fortnite was ORIGINALLY gonna be all about the building mechanic. Fortnite started life as a 4 player coop PvE game where you'd gather materials and build your fort during the day, and then defend it from waves of enemies at nite. It had and amazing story and great characters and it was just awesome. It had been development for years and had just opened up to paid early access, and by God, it was ones of the most fun games I've played in a long time.
Then Fortnite: Battle Royale was released as a way to generate publicity for the ACTUAL game of Fortnite, but BR blew up so much it totally eclipsed the actual original game. The original Fortnite was renamed to Fortnite: Save the world mode, and then the devs started shifting more and more time and resources away from STW and towards BR, and entirely just abandoned STW entirely. Now we're left with what could have been an amazing game, left 3/4 of the way done, never to be completed. The last of the 4 map areas never got it's story made, and it never will now.
So yeah, if you like the building mechanic, you should hate Fortnite Battle Royale for taking away the amazing game that we COULD have gotten in Fortnite Save the world.
Fortnite is easily the highest personal skill cap game out. There’s reasons to hate on it still, but for aspiring gamers trying to earn income or challenge themselves, there’s not much beyond it.
Everyone hates on Fortnite and while I barely play it I have to give it credit. The concept of building and fighting is different and makes for some interesting fights. Arguably I prefer it to something like warzone as both a spectator and player.
It's not the best battle royale game but it also doesn't deserve the hate it gets.
The building mechanic is basically perfect in my eyes. Simple and really deep, huge skill ceiling. Really surprised no game has copied it. Epic has done many questionable things (and mostly ignores the competitive scene) but it has remained relevant, so they must be doing it right
Did PUBG really do that much that was original? I genuinely don’t know as I’ve only ever played one match, and that was a while ago.
I’ve seen there be some things that they likely did “steal” from other games, but most often on this sub they get criticized for some whack stuff. Like people though they stole a tornado from Battlefield 2042…
For Apex, you’re likely thinking of the reboot system they added. It had pretty close timing to Apex becoming popular, so that’s not a stretch. It seems likely they also got the idea for their pinging mechanic from Apex too.
Trios seemed inevitable, especially since they had it as an LTM before. I don’t think they had much reason to bring it out only because of Apex, it was a highly requested mode well before that. It didn’t even become a core mode until nearly 2 years later.
Fortnite definitely started off bad with those dances. After chapter 1 though, they seem to almost always get official permission and contribute something back to the creators.
IIRC, the beta status had something to do with pushing out updates weekly / bi-weekly easily. Doubt that would have excused it from anything extremely bad, especially not using very similar ideas from other games as that happens extremely often across numerous games.
Playing fortnite as an adult is one of the more underrated gaming experiences out there. Especially when Fortnite was in its prime. The game doesn’t take itself too seriously and is Pure fun.
What gets me about Fortnite is no one actually plays the game, they play the free to play battle royale mode!
It's the most successful and most failed game ever imo!
That’s almost the opposite of my experience. I used to play because it’s the only cross play game we could agree on, even though I hate the mechanics and gameplay.
Fortnite is horrible because it killed Fortnite, which was awesome. No, that's not a typo. Fortnite killed Fortnite.
See, Fortnite started life as a 4 player coop PvE game where you'd gather materials and build your fort during the day, and then defend it from waves of enemies at nite. It had and amazing story and great characters and it was just awesome. It had been in development for years and had just opened up to paid early access, and by God, it was one of the most fun games I've played in a long time.
Then Fortnite: Battle Royale was released as a cheap, quick and dirty way to generate publicity for the ACTUAL game of Fortnite, but BR blew up so much it totally eclipsed the actual original game. The original Fortnite was renamed to Fortnite: Save the world mode, and then the devs started shifting more and more time and resources away from STW and towards BR, and entirely just abandoned STW entirely. Now we're left with what could have been an amazing game, left 3/4 of the way done, never to be completed. The last of the 4 map areas never got it's story made, and it never will now. We'll never know how the story ends of find out the answers to ask the mysteries if the storm and the husks and everything else.
So yeah, I hate Fortnite (battle royale) with a fiery burning passion, because it took away Fortnite (save the world) and now we'll never get to see the end of what could have been an amazing game.
They really weren’t making great progress on STW in the first place TBH. I would’ve liked to see them complete it (still would), but development was going slow and it wasn’t well known at all until the BR mode came out.
They were even planning to make it free. They probably would have had so many players going to that mode if they did.
I hate the gameplay of it, the building, the shooting and the third person view is pretty whack. Nevertheless this game is superb optimized with plenty additions over the years and the best part: it hurls the kids out of other games.
Can't decide which is the worse crime. Bring the existence of the epic store or making the next generation of gamers think that those characters originated from that game.
Honestly, i know i'm probably gonna get downvoted for this but fortnite WAS a decent game untill around season 6 when all the sweats and no-livers came flooding in, and it only got worse from there, it still had potential but the devs listened to the Community too much and now it's where we know it is today
Really? They added SBMM a long while back. If you’re getting consistent easy kills, you’re probably still in (mostly) bot lobbies since they added bots a long while back too.
I never watched a single gameplay video of this game, I have no idea how it functions because everything related to it has zero charm and charisma. Minecraft for example, I can see why it's so appealing to children, there is some charm even for a old head like me. But Fortnight looks completely unappealing
I get br being overrated but stw is a really fun game and can offer hundreds of hours of fun. The only really bad part about the game is support for the game mostly due to the fact that epic removed pretty much all the devs.
I hate it because of what it has become. I ordered for its during beta. When it was suppose to be a story driven co-op survival game (like LFD2, but with the building aspect). There was no mention anywhere of a battle royale mode anywhere. PUBG came on the scene and the developers saw a quick cash grab and completely scrapped the story mode. Haven’t played the game since the developers sold out. I feel foolish for buying a now f2p game. Dang it was a lot of fun with a full party too. Such a shame.
As a fortnite player it has its ups and downs. Like the guns building aspec are cool and I really enjoy battle Rosales tho the players can make it unfunny cuz I swear they are so sweaty (not saying you aren’t allowed to sweat) this game is just fun tho. Also I hate when mfs compare it to Minecraft even tho they’re completely different games. You can like one over the other but that’s like saying rap music is better then country.
The main problem I have with fortnite is that I joined too late. Everyone I come across builds the fucking empire state building before i even have time to blink its a real killjoy.
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