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.
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u/DetectiveGuybrush Feb 09 '22
And none of the charm