To me, Fortnite is a cash grab for epic games, designed to be colorful, bright and fun. As I get into my 30's, I find myself less & less interested in playing newer video games. They're getting way too complicated to follow along with anymore. A vast majority of games being made now are what I like to call "Interactive movies" where players can follow a storyline and not actually play a game. Back in the 1970s & 1980s, those were games, there were no storylines or if there were, they didn't really matter. I have grown tired of playing interactive movies at this point.
And this leads me to admit that I have been playing Fortnite since 2019 now and I still like it. The game is simple enough for me to play, and anyone can pick it up and play it. The storylines don't really matter, they're there in case you feel like going along with them. The original characters are colorful and cute, and the well-known heroes & heroines are there to draw in the older crowd. While a Gen Z might be content with the colorful characters introduced every season, older players like myself often choose to run around the island gunning down bots as Kratos from God of War, Master Chief from Halo, Ripley from the Alien films or the Predator from the 1987 film.
However, I'm a grown man so I don't get to practice this game much compared to some of the other players, many of whom are in another stratusphere of talented at this game. Fire one shot at them, and they're building a fort that looks like those old lego commercials where the smiling kid is putting together the set, but the footage is sped up ridiculously fast. Compare that to the numerous bots included to fill out the island to make 100 players. Picking off a bot feels rewarding when you first play but after a few weeks of playing, the bots are a joke. Picking off a human opponent, it's either a challenge or ridiculous, but picking off a player with a username that advertises a Gaming channel on youtube? Satisfying.
However, I see how Fortnite is part of the modern era of gaming - it's free to play, but it's full of content that you need to pay about 10$ every 3 months to enjoy. That's how we've gone from paying $50-$60 once for a game, and it was ours, forever if we wanted to keep it. The game's creators made a big chunk of money once from the game, and that was that. Now, They make the game "free to play" but nickel & dime the player. In some ways, that's fair, because piracy has often eaten into a gaming company's profits. In other ways, some players have paid hundred for battle passes every 3 months and V-bucks for the endless special content that is advertised. Yeah, it's cool to play as your favorite superheroes and TV & movie characters, Some you can unlock for free, but others can cost well over $10.
I get the hate for this game too. Everyone has a right to hate Fortnite for what it is, and how some "sweaty" players can ruin the game for someone just trying to have fun. If you don't take it too seriously, and you're content with the battle passes, which are loaded with added content, you can still have fun. I'm not a "hotel with WiFi builder" like some players are, but if I can make it to the last 10 players on the map and score a few eliminations before getting picked off by a sweaty player, i'm not mad. Once in a while, I can win matches, sometimes against sweaty players.
Fortnite is not for everyone. If you hate it, maybe colorful online shooters are just not your thing. Let the people who enjoy them, enjoy them.
And this leads me to admit that I have been playing Fortnite since 2019 now and I still like it. The game is simple enough for me to play, and anyone can pick it up and play it. The storylines don't really matter, they're there in case you feel like going along with them. The original characters are colorful and cute, and the well-known heroes & heroines are there to draw in the older crowd. While a Gen Z might be content with the colorful characters introduced every season, older players like myself often choose to run around the island gunning down bots as Kratos from God of War, Master Chief from Halo, Ripley from the Alien films or the Predator from the 1987 film.
However, I'm a grown man so I don't get to practice this game much compared to some of the other players, many of whom are in another stratusphere of talented at this game. Fire one shot at them, and they're building a fort that looks like those old lego commercials where the smiling kid is putting together the set, but the footage is sped up ridiculously fast. Compare that to the numerous bots included to fill out the island to make 100 players. Picking off a bot feels rewarding when you first play but after a few weeks of playing, the bots are a joke. Picking off a human opponent, it's either a challenge or ridiculous, but picking off a player with a username that advertises a Gaming channel on youtube? Satisfying.
However, I see how Fortnite is part of the modern era of gaming - it's free to play, but it's full of content that you need to pay about 10$ every 3 months to enjoy. That's how we've gone from paying $50-$60 once for a game, and it was ours, forever if we wanted to keep it. The game's creators made a big chunk of money once from the game, and that was that. Now, They make the game "free to play" but nickel & dime the player. In some ways, that's fair, because piracy has often eaten into a gaming company's profits. In other ways, some players have paid hundred for battle passes every 3 months and V-bucks for the endless special content that is advertised. Yeah, it's cool to play as your favorite superheroes and TV & movie characters, Some you can unlock for free, but others can cost well over $10.
I get the hate for this game too. Everyone has a right to hate Fortnite for what it is, and how some "sweaty" players can ruin the game for someone just trying to have fun. If you don't take it too seriously, and you're content with the battle passes, which are loaded with added content, you can still have fun. I'm not a "hotel with WiFi builder" like some players are, but if I can make it to the last 10 players on the map and score a few eliminations before getting picked off by a sweaty player, i'm not mad. Once in a while, I can win matches, sometimes against sweaty players.
Fortnite is not for everyone. If you hate it, maybe colorful online shooters are just not your thing. Let the people who enjoy them, enjoy them.