I mourn the loss of the old aesthetic that skins used to have. It felt like they belonged in Fortnite’s world, whereas now they feel strictly for entertainment
@@alekcs510 Well the game is still popular and I’m looking around and it seems like the player is impressively high…like fair over a million people,so clearly some people don’t really care and just enjoy the game. I mean I played last season for a bit and honestly I think the game looks amazing, I dunno I’m not really that affected by the change of art style like at all.
I haven't played the new season but have seen pictures and it's very clear like the og seasons map was just the best parts of chapter one they made the cool shark place into a ice spice house or something there's a giant balloon ice spice they already brought that back but worse so many times tho
i do like the idea of being your favourite person or that but its not in the way of fitting the art style they went for in chapter 1 or 2 which just get old, yeah sure the collabs have good detail but yet again the game isn't the show so just add a twist to make it more Fortnite
@zakridewood5719 the only 2 marvel skins I can think of that was actually an original desgin after chapter 2 is hulk and spiderman spiderman was just a basic but very good spiderman desgin and hulk same exept for he's other style and it's kinda crazy there the only ones over how often marvel and fortnite collabe
I really enjoyed the chapter 1 aesthetic of fighting in an abandoned and rugged "post-apocalyptic" map where stores were left empty and tv's turned on with static. Made me feel like people left the place as is and now we are fighting in it. The new seasons just feel like this perfect world but without anyone except random ass NPCs
I’ve been saying since they started shifting away from using STW assets and the art style it lost so much charm and this eeriness that the game used to have
Listening to the OG zone closing sound gives me chills. Brings over such a weird feeling of sadness and reminiscence. The old sounds were just so incredible, the quietness in the map also made the sounds stand out. I miss it so much
that’s a big thing i miss about old fortnite, just the atmosphere while walking around the map was so nice like how when you’d walk through anarchy acres you hear the birds squawking, gotta be my fav sound
i find it crazy how the amount of people on fortnite last year PEAKED when the OG season came. Its an embarrassment that epic gets more players when they revert to an older version of the game. Thats just sad.
The game rn just isnt it the maps suck, guns trynna ne special etc. I just started playing again with the og ch1s1 update and its more fun then the normal br mode
I've been saying this for a while tbh. It wasn't just "graphics", it was an entire design language that defined the game and looked downright amazing. It's not rose-tinted glasses either - when I play reload It looks and feels just like it did all those years ago.
@@Pat12379 its a collab with snoop dogg and ice spice bro... i dont like it either but if u dont like it then dont play it thats my take, idgaf about the collabs as long as the old ch2 map and weapons are back im still hopping on its fun asf
@@ahaha272 the whole BP is original remixes of S2 skins, geez. you guys can't help but complain because you are simply older now, it's freaking nostalgia
I believe this art style change genuinely detracted from my enjoyment of the game as ridiculous as that may sound. Cool to see the changes all thrown into one video, well done!
Im a 3D art student, and when making the art guidlines/standards for our game project with the team, it saddened me a little seeing all the reference material from og fornite (thats the art style we are imitating) and how good it used to be. Also well done on explaning the model style and formfactor for the older assets.
@@Loki-qo2kb the difference between c2 and c1 is outragous, its not even the same game. The difference between c5 and c2 is not that much to be fair with you.
@@andresi126 fax, i left after a short time after c2 relaese now im back to the game but it just doesnt feel right, og fortnite was just way better they even managed to break the store, back then you would wait everyday to see whats in the store and now you pretty much have the same stuff for month long but its not only epic, imo the community also destroyed the game as back then building was actually fun, you would build simple bases and fight people, now what? editing battle of who does is faster and makes less mistakes? cmon, zero build is the only thing that made me come back to this game
I prefer the original default skins because it felt like they were just some random people who were abandoned on an island and just decided to kill each other, you can see them literally using scrap metal as shin guards and that their pants are stitched together. The new default skins feel less like homeless people brutally murdering each other for a victory royal and more like celebrities.
Something about the loot pool is that we barely got variety of items now. One of the things that I loved the most about the OG season was the BIG amount of FUN items you could use.
On top of that, back then people would genuinely be sad a weapon got vaulted and hyped for its return later on, now there’s a new AR and shotgun every season
Right? They give you OP mythics that you have to fight everyone for, instead of stuff like impulses, boogie bombs, bounce pads, launch pads, grapplers, clingers, etc that you can get out of the random chests. Also can we stop with giving out purple in gold only in special chests. Just let a chest be a chest.
and theres always must have mobility. ch5 s1 - hook-shockwaves, s2 - dashes medalion is stupidly op, s3 - gauntlets, without them youre dead, s4 - jetpack...
Id personally say the best artstyle Epic could do is a mix of chapter 2's rslightly more realistic yet still cartoony trees and bushes and stuff with chapter 1's weapon models and general cartoony style with a mix of the realistic mountains and chapter 1's mesh based mountains
@@mpsins right though, i think we all dreamed about driving that pink homer simpson car back in the old seasons lmao, i was seemingly the only person disappointed by golf carts back in season 5, i wanted cars already lol
Thanks for talking about this, I feel like the art style is a big part of what made fortnite fun and different for me because it was like no other game. When that changed it almost felt like it lost some of its old life if that makes any sense. Thanks for the likes lmao.
@@ieath2o dude honestly this is a great video, and even though i never played in the chapter 1 or 2, i really feel that with the OG Season and now Chapter 2 Remix, the game feels so much more fun. Maybe it's cause im older but i think that the new artstyle is just depressing and feeling devoid of life, you know, it just feels kinda sterile.
i feel like nobody talks about this but THIS is why og hit so hard, plus i got way more frames and simple games are so much more fun bc there isn't an overwhelming amount of mechanics and content flooding your brain. it was just to the point. -- great commentary man the whole analysis on the shape techniques was so well thought out, you going places man.
Finally, a video that really explains such an important aspect of the game, in chapter 1 the game's art style reached, in my opinion, levels almost similar to tf2's uniqueness
Exactly, and its important because no one would still be playing tf2 after all these years if valve took it seriously and made it realistic. The goofyness and cartoonish mechanics is what keeps people playing
yep, they abandone it, not literally but kinda, they could just remake it tbh and make it more in tone with everything else, i mean, the artstyle is fine, like the og fortnite but open world or some sort of, more mission types, a real base that sometimes you might need to defend, not like the usual defense missions, some missions to infiltrate or attack an enemy base (husk) idk, they could make a great game mode and maybe even let the old gamemode, the one that we have since launch be in another section for those who want to play some of it. I would love to build a base but a real base, not using just some wood, stone or metal, but adding shelves, toilets, real door, like, create building like in those in the maps, with props. It could be amazing. Now STW is just a V-bucks farming zone, barely anyone plays it, if you go to the hardest area of the game you will play alone most of the time, the gamemode was made to have tons of players thats why they added so many missions on each difficulty map, they should either rework it to just create or join a mission type and the V-buck of the missions being some sort of quest or something or just delete many missions of the map idk, most of them are empty and doing them alone is almost impossible at least without spending a lot of resources to build some to defend or to capture all the enemies
@@titosusva they quit making it, due to the fact nobody plays it. people play fortnite because it is free. Save the world, is not, so people won't purchase a game that is not battle royale, or free.
@kooner.No, it’s genuinely a good video. You could tell that the TH-camr here is newer, but that didn’t matter. There was some genuinely good research and dialogue included in the video.
@kooner.No, it’s genuinely a good video. You could tell that the TH-camr here is newer, but that didn’t matter. There was some genuinely good research and dialogue included in the video.
Chapter 1 felt like a fun post apocalyptic arena. Chapter 2 felt like a new world to run around and ruin. Chapters after that felt so clean and sanitized, you could never imagine people fighting there. With this season going back to Chapter 2, I think they know that people crave the old days. Nobody'll miss chapter 3 though.
i miss chapter 3. Yall really hate everything just fucking enjoy something for once, chapter 3 season 1 was top 3 gameplay experiences for me in the whole games lifetime
Bro no wonder i felt so depressed playing chapter 5 the style was completely dead and thrown out the window super soulless only thing we had going still was our character skins from the good era
I played it so much trying to get the TV backpack that I realized it just wasn't as fun as it used to be. At the beginning of Chapter 5, most of the locations felt like the same village/mansion designs copied and pasted. Fortnite was my main game up until that point, but now I don't really play it anymore.
@@Wiiplay123 at the beginning of chapter 5 you could become kratos with the blade of chaos (grapple blade) and the coins/medallions. I became a final boss in a squad game.
I think abandoning the cartoony feeling was one of their worst mistakes. Chapter 2 was fine tbh, in my opinion it was the perfect compromise between the old STW style and a proper, stand-alone battle royale. Other mistakes include: - Completely disregarding the storyline, half-assing most of it over and over and OVER again even when it had some nice inspiration, because they feared putting too much effort in a coherent story;. - Giving up on normal festivities, losing A LOT of the spirit of the first seaons when Halloween, Christmas, Easter, and so on would set on their own the real spirit of the season; - Trying way too hard to feel like a "not for kids" game anymore, with the only result of making it look like another game for cringe teens who totally aren't gOiNg ThRoUgH a PhAsE MoOoOmhhh;" - Putting waaay too much focus on collaborations (especially with irl hollywood celebrities who barely abybody actually wants) at the expense of original ideas and skins; - Giving up on silly items and mechanics, because those sweaty streamers only crave for predictable, reliable metas. GOD FORBID you have a little fun with a GAME. THE HORROR! They'd need to find an actual job! 😢
Really started hating streamers and youtubers during the release of mw2019. It made me realize that games can no longer be fun because streamers and youtubers don't want to die unless it's to someone else trying as hard as they are. I remember when 200 pumps were removed because streamers got tired of trying to dive in people's boxes like brain dead monkeys and getting punished for it. I remember when I first started playing on keyboard and mouse I didn't have to sweat trying to figure out binds when I could simply react and out aim everyone. I could set here all night typing out how I remember this and that before some random nerd streaming on his computer all day ruined the fun but I think this is long enough.
I hate how they've done the story since mid Chapter 2. It was never a main focus but it was fun theorycrafting with all of the small map changes and loading screens to figure out what was going on. Now the story is a jumbled mess of a multiverse that feels like it's only there to justify all the collabs.
Ironic how Fortnite started, or accelerated, the battle royale craze and at least had a different style to stand out but now, they're chasing after trends.
@@TacticalBaguette yea i completely agree. another thing i miss is that they dont do cool little teasers for new seasons or chapters anymore. i remember in chapter 1 season 6, towards the end of the season you could see your characters breath (foreshadowing the winter themed season 7) and then of course you could see the iceberg in the distance slowly getting closer every update. nowadays its just a countdown timer to a poorly made collab with a rapper (not talking about travis that was fire) and then everything is normal until downtime and then boom new season with more ridiculous collabs.
Definitely agree, being a Nintendo player for a long time meant it felt so much better playing it for the first time. It certainly enlightened me to the road fortnite went down
Another point you left out was that Fortnite has become a tech demo for Unreal engine. Fortnite makes epic alot of money but their long term goal is to build the most widely used game engine in the world and dominate the market (which they have almost done already). That makes wayy more money and not many people know that Epic is much more of a game engine business than it is a videogame business. They used fortnite to debut the new graphics (Chapter 5), physics (Goo guns, gravity guns ect) and other features that the engine has in order to promote it, which worked very well as fortnite is one of the biggest games in the world. Not even to mention the new creative maps (which are all created in a version of unreal engine). With the studios that make halo and many more switching to unreal epic sees fortnite as more and more of a way to promote their engine rather than a game. They sacrificed the soul and what made the game special to do this
How does this not even have 4k views? The video perfectly explains everything and the editing is nice to look at. I agree with basically every point. This video deserves way more views.
@@Fusion05 I mean it doesn't really matter if old fortnite had nanite or not. Nanite is really good technology and people could have seen huge performance boosts and the art style would of c2 would remain if they integrated it correctly.
Lots of good points in the comments, I’d also like to mention the sound design. A lot of the og sounds have been replaced in favor of more minimal or realistic ones which just makes the game feel more dull and less fun.
i remember the crack of the tack and the pump. genuinely just a great style for a game and it even went down to the style, such a shame at what we lost
Fortnite is the only game where i Truly had more fun with the older versions and isn't just nostalgia I loved both Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 Both is where 99% of my playtime came from Chapter 3 was Fun but i left after that when the OG Season arrived i played nearly everyday not for nostalgia but because the game felt like Fortnite Again and im glad im not the only one that realizes this isn't fortnite anymore it's a shitty attempt at a "Metaverse" P.S Great video and hope to see ya grow
As much as I've enjoyed the really early days of Fortnite: BR. What I really hate about Epic is on how easy it is for them to abandon Save the World, it has huge potential to grow big, and also on how the Shop became a Clown fest with ugly skins. No more original OG skins. Anyway, here I am still playin Save the World.
they had the opportunity to make stw free to play at the launch of the metaverse but chose not to. ironically it pulls more players than the other modes do now despite not having any meaningful updates in 4 years
@@rogeliocano9536 if they made it free and gave added story parts to the 4th zone it would 100% be bigger than the lego mode was at it’s peak. The problem with stw is it has too much content to really be able to compare to whatever new modes they throw out there so they try to get players to forget about it
Honestly I feel like the chapter 2 artstyle was pretty peak, nice blend of still being cartoony enough while also having a few of those more realistic elements
Losing it's artstyle is one of those unfortunate fates that all live-service games will have to face eventually. Like overwatch losing all its militarism with the release of 2, or how tf2 kept releasing more and more insane hats for people to buy. The artsyle will always be some of the first on the chopping block in the pursuit of profit, most consumers don't care enought about it and would rather gawk at the recognizable soldier man. I'm gonna be honest i heavily dislike fortnite as a brand and game but seeing how its artstyle has degraded still hit home. It becomes very hard for me to care about any cool art direction in a live-service game because i know it won't last. Great video, you should make more.
@franciscocaiomartins3798 The game is quite literally about the aftermath of an industrial world scale robot war. Just look at bastion in Ow1 compared to OW2 and how they turned his exaggerated, but still gun looking gun into a super soaker looking thing. Also changing his color scheme to be less toned down and making him rounder overall. Bastion is the most obvious example, but a lot of the cast got this treatment.
At this point they should make chapter 1 its own game. Knowing them your items wouldn’t carry over, they should make the battle pass go from level 1-1000 going through each seasons battle pass. They should have a map rotation between each chapter 1 map. It would be a lot more fun and simple just playing the Fortnite we know and love even if they made it an expensive ass standalone game.
As a person who’s played Fortnite from 14-17 years old, I think what made Fortnite so appealing to me was its creativity and overall fun mechanics. I remember season four dropping and everyone being disappointed because they made their own super hero’s but the more the season played out the more you learned about those hero’s and the more attached you became with them or all of their emotes having original sounds to them and how catchy they were. I knew Fortnite was dead when they started re-releasing skins that us kids considered og because they knew it would bump up their sales due to hype. I left after they released red knight and skull trooper and seeing the product now I’m glad I did. I will miss the days where I sat with my friends and speculated about upcoming seasons or features like gifting, trading, and refunding skins or when we would just play all night talking about life but it’s okay I’m just happy I experienced it.
I liked the balance of realistic and cartoony from chapter 2. A big reason Fortnite was successful like Minecraft because you used to be able to play it on ANYTHING now the system requirements keep getting higher and higher due to them constantly upping the graphics. Now it makes lower end PC's struggle a bit.
UE5 games are way over hyped.. They cram all this "realistic detail" in the game then blur over it with forced Anti aliasing. Older games are crisp and clear in comparison.
I was a little skeptical of this video being a bit more, as you said it, only focused on bright and cartoony graphics. But I was pleasantly surprised when I saw you mention the actual specific (I don't know what you would call them, motifs?) in the old props. I appreciate this video a lot, and this video should be the new standard when discussing Fortnite's old art style.
@@caleb2569 compare it to the OG remix season, they remixed the skins to still match the season that it's inspired by with other aspects of Fortnite to pay homage and respect to the chapter. Shoving Snoop Dogg onto one of the most popular POI's doesn't do any of that. I'm just grateful that at least the BP doesn't include any of this trash.
They introduced way to many skins and stuff that nothing feels fresh anymore i remember back in chapter 1 and early chapter 2 where i would buy a skin because i think it looked cool. Now all the skins look the same besides the icon skins
Amazing and entertaining video. I really liked where you mentioned that you won’t talk about the rise of save the world because “nobody cares”. I think it might’ve been interesting, but these parts of videos would usually get me to skip ahead or just close the video. Also really funny cutaways and jokes. Keep doing content, I’m subscribing :)
As a game dev, I can share another angle for this change: less curves = less polygons to render = lighter game. We sacrificed a bit pf personality to gain stability and optimization
As another game dev, with the more realistic art style comes more detailed models which require more polygons. Also, with the improvements to performance in UE5 compared to UE4 (lumen, nanite, etc. disabled) the old art style would probably run significantly smoother than it already did.
First, that facts I stoped playing because of its lost of his artstyle like when they switched to chapter 4 the artstyle was not the same so realistic and not fun, also underrated asf
I actually liked chapter 4´s graphics and art style. For me it was the perfect mix between fortnite´s cartoonism and realism. It is high quality, modern and more realistic textures, but with bright and colorful tones, beatiful skybox and sunsets, made even better by the island being surrounded by space instead of infinite sea with ugly islands in the distance. If they just stayed with that art style, it would be great. But chapter 5 went down the wrong way sadly, being extremely realistic with dull colors and not so pretty biomes. Chapter 6 gives me hope tho, we can pray they listened to feedback, with the leaked new skybox and lighting looking better than ever.
i completely agree, chapter 4's weapons were super fun and it was a lovely balance between old fortnite but also all the new stuff, actually my favorite chapter for the first half, wasnt feeling the jungle that much
Yeah I can’t lie chapter 4 did have some charm to it, at least more than chapter 3 and 5. I really liked how the map looked like different dimensions being smashed into each other which you can see in locations like Faulty Splits.
i heard that one of the reasons as to why fortnite changed their artstyle was so it could be easier to build in general, Like when the map builders wanted to stack boxes they couldn't because they were too crooked. So there could be more examples of how fortnites unique artstyle made it a burden to properly build a map.
Tbh I like the new realism art style as an OG player the game looked kinda stupid as all 90s cartoony I like the direction they’re taking it, I just wish they’d update the older STW/Og Objects to be more realistic
8:37 I agree on all of the things you said, except bullet drop. It is way more fun playing without fcking bloom(I‘m dogshit at using weapons with bloom)
I mourn the loss of the old aesthetic that skins used to have. It felt like they belonged in Fortnite’s world, whereas now they feel strictly for entertainment
I mean hey it works!
speaking facts right here, fortnite skins dont feel the same anymore.
@@justsomeguyontheinternet5898not really they’ve kind destroyed the image of what the old game was
@@alekcs510 Well the game is still popular and I’m looking around and it seems like the player is impressively high…like fair over a million people,so clearly some people don’t really care and just enjoy the game.
I mean I played last season for a bit and honestly I think the game looks amazing, I dunno I’m not really that affected by the change of art style like at all.
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"Made in the image of its collabs" spot on.
I haven't played the new season but have seen pictures and it's very clear like the og seasons map was just the best parts of chapter one they made the cool shark place into a ice spice house or something there's a giant balloon ice spice they already brought that back but worse so many times tho
i do like the idea of being your favourite person or that but its not in the way of fitting the art style they went for in chapter 1 or 2 which just get old, yeah sure the collabs have good detail but yet again the game isn't the show so just add a twist to make it more Fortnite
@zakridewood5719 the only 2 marvel skins I can think of that was actually an original desgin after chapter 2 is hulk and spiderman spiderman was just a basic but very good spiderman desgin and hulk same exept for he's other style and it's kinda crazy there the only ones over how often marvel and fortnite collabe
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@@AlexReznov1913 what
I really enjoyed the chapter 1 aesthetic of fighting in an abandoned and rugged "post-apocalyptic" map where stores were left empty and tv's turned on with static. Made me feel like people left the place as is and now we are fighting in it. The new seasons just feel like this perfect world but without anyone except random ass NPCs
Fr it was super cool dropping at an abandoned club and stuff
Idk i think like
Theres a vibe to it thats just gone
Fortnite honestly feels soulless now
I’ve been saying since they started shifting away from using STW assets and the art style it lost so much charm and this eeriness that the game used to have
This. (Also it’s because of save the world)
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Listening to the OG zone closing sound gives me chills. Brings over such a weird feeling of sadness and reminiscence. The old sounds were just so incredible, the quietness in the map also made the sounds stand out. I miss it so much
Couldn't agree more
very well said
Well if you don’t know yet they are bringing back og season with graphics and everything
@@IdontknowwhattonamemychannelI can’t wait
that’s a big thing i miss about old fortnite, just the atmosphere while walking around the map was so nice like how when you’d walk through anarchy acres you hear the birds squawking, gotta be my fav sound
i find it crazy how the amount of people on fortnite last year PEAKED when the OG season came. Its an embarrassment that epic gets more players when they revert to an older version of the game. Thats just sad.
Newgen players will swear on their lives that it was just nostalgia.
@@andraw4002 The new players weren't even born when chapter 1 was out, they have no clue what they missed.
@@1oxindude my nephew who plays wasn’t even born when the fucking meteor hit dusty depot
It's more sad that people only play games if they are older versions, for the sake of the versions being old.
Example: WaW zombies vs BO4 zombies
The game rn just isnt it the maps suck, guns trynna ne special etc. I just started playing again with the og ch1s1 update and its more fun then the normal br mode
I've been saying this for a while tbh. It wasn't just "graphics", it was an entire design language that defined the game and looked downright amazing. It's not rose-tinted glasses either - when I play reload It looks and feels just like it did all those years ago.
Fr I played Fortnite so much when the OG season came, it just feels like the Fortnite I remember
Is the new season good everything I've seen looks so bad why is snoop dog and ice spice there
@@Pat12379 its a collab with snoop dogg and ice spice bro... i dont like it either but if u dont like it then dont play it thats my take, idgaf about the collabs as long as the old ch2 map and weapons are back im still hopping on its fun asf
@@Pat12379 It's fun, the collabs are forced, but it's still pretty fun since it's mostly chapter 2 things on there
@CoffeeRobin-cs1nf I'll download it now then
Don't forget that the OG Fortnite still exists in save the world. They threw it under the battle bus but now it's a relic of what it originally was.
im glad that they dont update save the world and still give it seasonal events
there are now so many colabs and reused skin concepts that epic have forgotten how to make an original battle pass or item
True
And the skins on this season are ugly
Don't disrespect the 1-ball skin with the street art version. The other ones are very very bad. @@Idontknowwhattonamemychannel
Yeah like this current season was meant to be about chapter 2 but they had to make it all about rappers instead 💀
@@ahaha272 the whole BP is original remixes of S2 skins, geez. you guys can't help but complain because you are simply older now, it's freaking nostalgia
I believe this art style change genuinely detracted from my enjoyment of the game as ridiculous as that may sound. Cool to see the changes all thrown into one video, well done!
“Rome didn’t fall in a day, but neither did Fortnite’s art style…” bro was cooking 🔥
I could've lived my entire life without knowing that the tac shotgun is just a nightclaw with a case on it
Same 😂
It’s two shotguns put on top of each other
Basically a pump with a thing on it to make it semi-auto
Im a 3D art student, and when making the art guidlines/standards for our game project with the team, it saddened me a little seeing all the reference material from og fornite (thats the art style we are imitating) and how good it used to be. Also well done on explaning the model style and formfactor for the older assets.
honestly i see too many games that just look like fortnite clones now
i wanna know about the game project :O sounds interesting if y'all are imitating the OG FN art style
season og proved that it wasnt just nostalgia, the game actually was just way better back then, i dont think i had that much fun in chapter one
chapter2 remix proved the opposite lol. Its rust without basebuilding
@@Loki-qo2kb yea but nobody liked c2 anyways lol, so its not suprising. Thats when most people quit fortnite.
@@Loki-qo2kb the difference between c2 and c1 is outragous, its not even the same game. The difference between c5 and c2 is not that much to be fair with you.
@@andresi126 honestly real, fortnite just became an ad with some gun play and building
@@andresi126 fax, i left after a short time after c2 relaese
now im back to the game but it just doesnt feel right, og fortnite was just way better
they even managed to break the store, back then you would wait everyday to see whats in the store and now you pretty much have the same stuff for month long
but its not only epic, imo the community also destroyed the game as back then building was actually fun, you would build simple bases and fight people, now what? editing battle of who does is faster and makes less mistakes? cmon, zero build is the only thing that made me come back to this game
“Now the cars are real life cars, so might as well be real life prices”
You are brilliant, kid
I prefer the original default skins because it felt like they were just some random people who were abandoned on an island and just decided to kill each other, you can see them literally using scrap metal as shin guards and that their pants are stitched together. The new default skins feel less like homeless people brutally murdering each other for a victory royal and more like celebrities.
Something about the loot pool is that we barely got variety of items now. One of the things that I loved the most about the OG season was the BIG amount of FUN items you could use.
On top of that, back then people would genuinely be sad a weapon got vaulted and hyped for its return later on, now there’s a new AR and shotgun every season
Right? They give you OP mythics that you have to fight everyone for, instead of stuff like impulses, boogie bombs, bounce pads, launch pads, grapplers, clingers, etc that you can get out of the random chests. Also can we stop with giving out purple in gold only in special chests. Just let a chest be a chest.
Yeah all those new items given their own trailers (storm flip, airstrikes etc.) Just to not even be obtainable anymore (except in creative)
and theres always must have mobility. ch5 s1 - hook-shockwaves, s2 - dashes medalion is stupidly op, s3 - gauntlets, without them youre dead, s4 - jetpack...
options for playstyles really feel lacking, there are hardly items that let you counter or outsmart other players in the pool anymore
Id personally say the best artstyle Epic could do is a mix of chapter 2's rslightly more realistic yet still cartoony trees and bushes and stuff with chapter 1's weapon models and general cartoony style with a mix of the realistic mountains and chapter 1's mesh based mountains
so like reload
@@NahReq yeah but with Chapter 1's weapon models
@@AnyaStuPot wdym waith chapter 1s weapon models. chapter 2 didnt have chapter 1 weapon models. unless you were talking about something else
@@Strike_Next talking about mixing the styles. The way the guns, skins, builds, hell even the cars looked better in chapter 1.
@@mpsins right though, i think we all dreamed about driving that pink homer simpson car back in the old seasons lmao, i was seemingly the only person disappointed by golf carts back in season 5, i wanted cars already lol
Thanks for talking about this, I feel like the art style is a big part of what made fortnite fun and different for me because it was like no other game. When that changed it almost felt like it lost some of its old life if that makes any sense. Thanks for the likes lmao.
Yeah I get what you're saying and totally agree
lost part of it’s soul
@@ieath2o dude honestly this is a great video, and even though i never played in the chapter 1 or 2, i really feel that with the OG Season and now Chapter 2 Remix, the game feels so much more fun. Maybe it's cause im older but i think that the new artstyle is just depressing and feeling devoid of life, you know, it just feels kinda sterile.
What's worse, is fortnite is supposed to be even more "realistic" in chapter 6
Cus they want to get rid of the cartoon styles
Collabs ruined the game... its so sad, i dont have any words that could discribe my feelings
FACTS! When they actually had to be creative and make their own skins and story lines the game was better.
Yeah all the collabs made fortnite lose its originality with their own skins. Literally this game is trying to become roblox
Absolutely correct
Idk why but you calling it "Trump Tower" brought so many memories back
i feel like nobody talks about this but THIS is why og hit so hard, plus i got way more frames and simple games are so much more fun bc there isn't an overwhelming amount of mechanics and content flooding your brain. it was just to the point. -- great commentary man the whole analysis on the shape techniques was so well thought out, you going places man.
if it just stayed the way it was people would have gotten tired os the same old game and move on. So the game would have died
On my hardware the game went from a smooth as shit experience, to a slide show. 40 FPS max, when i used to get 200. its just not the same.
Cringe don’t care
@@Animegirllover837 Animeboy827
@@Animegirllover837 happy 12th birthday
Finally, a video that really explains such an important aspect of the game, in chapter 1 the game's art style reached, in my opinion, levels almost similar to tf2's uniqueness
Exactly, and its important because no one would still be playing tf2 after all these years if valve took it seriously and made it realistic. The goofyness and cartoonish mechanics is what keeps people playing
I agree, a big draw in for Fortnite to me was that it felt almost in harmony with TF2 in terms of art style
Fortnite STW was so underrated, it’s a shame that the devs neglected it. There was never anything like it.
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yep, they abandone it, not literally but kinda, they could just remake it tbh and make it more in tone with everything else, i mean, the artstyle is fine, like the og fortnite but open world or some sort of, more mission types, a real base that sometimes you might need to defend, not like the usual defense missions, some missions to infiltrate or attack an enemy base (husk) idk, they could make a great game mode and maybe even let the old gamemode, the one that we have since launch be in another section for those who want to play some of it. I would love to build a base but a real base, not using just some wood, stone or metal, but adding shelves, toilets, real door, like, create building like in those in the maps, with props. It could be amazing.
Now STW is just a V-bucks farming zone, barely anyone plays it, if you go to the hardest area of the game you will play alone most of the time, the gamemode was made to have tons of players thats why they added so many missions on each difficulty map, they should either rework it to just create or join a mission type and the V-buck of the missions being some sort of quest or something or just delete many missions of the map idk, most of them are empty and doing them alone is almost impossible at least without spending a lot of resources to build some to defend or to capture all the enemies
No one ever thinks that you can literally get “free” v-bucks from playing it. Way back when I literally made $20 worth just from doing missions!!
@@titosusva they quit making it, due to the fact nobody plays it. people play fortnite because it is free. Save the world, is not, so people won't purchase a game that is not battle royale, or free.
Sunset Overdrive
9:09 wow. First video and you hit 400k views. Good job
Luck based
@kooner.No, it’s genuinely a good video. You could tell that the TH-camr here is newer, but that didn’t matter. There was some genuinely good research and dialogue included in the video.
@kooner.No, it’s genuinely a good video. You could tell that the TH-camr here is newer, but that didn’t matter. There was some genuinely good research and dialogue included in the video.
@@garrettpater6557 I didn't say it's not a good video, but it's a fact that he was lucky to get this many views. TH-cam is always luck based
0:19 i like how everyone ignored the "bro can you pull out this time"???😭😭
Wym ts normal
Is it funny cause it makes no sense? I don’t get it
Chapter 1 felt like a fun post apocalyptic arena.
Chapter 2 felt like a new world to run around and ruin.
Chapters after that felt so clean and sanitized, you could never imagine people fighting there.
With this season going back to Chapter 2, I think they know that people crave the old days.
Nobody'll miss chapter 3 though.
chapter 3 was not that bad if you just take a slight look at chapter 5
i miss chapter 3. Yall really hate everything just fucking enjoy something for once, chapter 3 season 1 was top 3 gameplay experiences for me in the whole games lifetime
everything after chapter 3 season 2 fell off
@@bhxld chapter 3 had huge performance issues on pc tho and the weapons where quite mid
@@snctgdme personally I reckon ch5 was really good mainly the first half the hut the second was still rlly good
we need cartoony fortnite back
That’s why I love reload.
@@Legend-mg2ry it will never be the same
@@Legend-mg2ry I hate the respawn thing tho not talking about the reboot van I just wanna play chapter 1 fortnite battle royal normally.
@@Legend-mg2ry But reload feels more like the Ch2 cartoony look, not the really original one. Still way better than what we have rn tho.
Just play TF2 then
Bro no wonder i felt so depressed playing chapter 5 the style was completely dead and thrown out the window super soulless only thing we had going still was our character skins from the good era
It's still been goofy and fun
I played it so much trying to get the TV backpack that I realized it just wasn't as fun as it used to be. At the beginning of Chapter 5, most of the locations felt like the same village/mansion designs copied and pasted. Fortnite was my main game up until that point, but now I don't really play it anymore.
If you think that was soulless you have yet to play a soulless game.
@@Wiiplay123 at the beginning of chapter 5 you could become kratos with the blade of chaos (grapple blade) and the coins/medallions. I became a final boss in a squad game.
@@CasualCat64 like what lol
Great job, regardless of it being your first video lol. I think we’re all glad we have OG Fortnite back now
0:57 I’ll never look at it the same ever again, thanks.
I think abandoning the cartoony feeling was one of their worst mistakes. Chapter 2 was fine tbh, in my opinion it was the perfect compromise between the old STW style and a proper, stand-alone battle royale. Other mistakes include:
- Completely disregarding the storyline, half-assing most of it over and over and OVER again even when it had some nice inspiration, because they feared putting too much effort in a coherent story;.
- Giving up on normal festivities, losing A LOT of the spirit of the first seaons when Halloween, Christmas, Easter, and so on would set on their own the real spirit of the season;
- Trying way too hard to feel like a "not for kids" game anymore, with the only result of making it look like another game for cringe teens who totally aren't gOiNg ThRoUgH a PhAsE MoOoOmhhh;"
- Putting waaay too much focus on collaborations (especially with irl hollywood celebrities who barely abybody actually wants) at the expense of original ideas and skins;
- Giving up on silly items and mechanics, because those sweaty streamers only crave for predictable, reliable metas. GOD FORBID you have a little fun with a GAME. THE HORROR! They'd need to find an actual job! 😢
Really started hating streamers and youtubers during the release of mw2019. It made me realize that games can no longer be fun because streamers and youtubers don't want to die unless it's to someone else trying as hard as they are. I remember when 200 pumps were removed because streamers got tired of trying to dive in people's boxes like brain dead monkeys and getting punished for it. I remember when I first started playing on keyboard and mouse I didn't have to sweat trying to figure out binds when I could simply react and out aim everyone. I could set here all night typing out how I remember this and that before some random nerd streaming on his computer all day ruined the fun but I think this is long enough.
I hate how they've done the story since mid Chapter 2. It was never a main focus but it was fun theorycrafting with all of the small map changes and loading screens to figure out what was going on. Now the story is a jumbled mess of a multiverse that feels like it's only there to justify all the collabs.
Completely agree!
Ironic how Fortnite started, or accelerated, the battle royale craze and at least had a different style to stand out but now, they're chasing after trends.
@@TacticalBaguette yea i completely agree. another thing i miss is that they dont do cool little teasers for new seasons or chapters anymore. i remember in chapter 1 season 6, towards the end of the season you could see your characters breath (foreshadowing the winter themed season 7) and then of course you could see the iceberg in the distance slowly getting closer every update. nowadays its just a countdown timer to a poorly made collab with a rapper (not talking about travis that was fire) and then everything is normal until downtime and then boom new season with more ridiculous collabs.
1:36 save the world was so slept on
extremely, its a good mode.
epic just saw the money cow and threw away the barn
Definitely agree, being a Nintendo player for a long time meant it felt so much better playing it for the first time. It certainly enlightened me to the road fortnite went down
fr the mode is quite fun just a shame they never updated it with more maps
@@edu7979the money cow was the battle royale, they threw away the thing nobody was paying for
Can you still play it? I don't see anything about it anymore.
Another point you left out was that Fortnite has become a tech demo for Unreal engine. Fortnite makes epic alot of money but their long term goal is to build the most widely used game engine in the world and dominate the market (which they have almost done already). That makes wayy more money and not many people know that Epic is much more of a game engine business than it is a videogame business. They used fortnite to debut the new graphics (Chapter 5), physics (Goo guns, gravity guns ect) and other features that the engine has in order to promote it, which worked very well as fortnite is one of the biggest games in the world. Not even to mention the new creative maps (which are all created in a version of unreal engine). With the studios that make halo and many more switching to unreal epic sees fortnite as more and more of a way to promote their engine rather than a game. They sacrificed the soul and what made the game special to do this
Your editing style is straight out of 2016 I love it man you earned a sub
why does this feel like a school project
How does this not even have 4k views? The video perfectly explains everything and the editing is nice to look at. I agree with basically every point. This video deserves way more views.
314k
@@ERK_hanna Wooow, no freaking way. Thanks for telling me, I'm glad this video got the recognition it deserves.
543k views as of now. Pretty impressive
it´s the cartoony style I fell in love with, and I miss so f***ing much. Thank god for introduction of Season 2 remix
sadly the weapon models are all newer and not the OG ones
@@tankadarnot a bad thing from my pov
it looks so bad tbh, S2R is just a huge letdown, we had nanite, now we can count the polygons
@@Loki-qo2kbold Fortnite didn't have nanite so I'd say that's a good thing. Mobile also actually performs well now with the more simplistic graphics.
@@Fusion05 I mean it doesn't really matter if old fortnite had nanite or not. Nanite is really good technology and people could have seen huge performance boosts and the art style would of c2 would remain if they integrated it correctly.
Lots of good points in the comments, I’d also like to mention the sound design. A lot of the og sounds have been replaced in favor of more minimal or realistic ones which just makes the game feel more dull and less fun.
i remember the crack of the tack and the pump. genuinely just a great style for a game and it even went down to the style, such a shame at what we lost
it looks the same to me. playing since OG s2. same game, same feelings, same gameplay (except the fact that i change from battleroyal to zero build)
“First actual youtube video” caught me so off guard this is so well done
Fortnite is the only game where i Truly had more fun with the older versions and isn't just nostalgia I loved both Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 Both is where 99% of my playtime came from Chapter 3 was Fun but i left after that when the OG Season arrived i played nearly everyday not for nostalgia but because the game felt like Fortnite Again and im glad im not the only one that realizes this isn't fortnite anymore it's a shitty attempt at a "Metaverse"
P.S Great video and hope to see ya grow
Yeah Fortnite OG really proved how good simple Fortnite was and that it wasn't just nostalgia
Yeah, the same thing here, its not that special anymore.
Still is special for me, I've had plenty of fun this chapter
Same, except I started backing away from it in Chapter 2.
@eddyteddy5138 around mid chapter 2 it got iffy but It was for sure my most played Chapter or at least VERY close second First place being Chapter 1
That one line hit me bro 8:13
yea bro
As much as I've enjoyed the really early days of Fortnite: BR. What I really hate about Epic is on how easy it is for them to abandon Save the World, it has huge potential to grow big, and also on how the Shop became a Clown fest with ugly skins. No more original OG skins.
Anyway, here I am still playin Save the World.
Wish i could play save the world but its expensive as hell here
they had the opportunity to make stw free to play at the launch of the metaverse but chose not to. ironically it pulls more players than the other modes do now despite not having any meaningful updates in 4 years
@@GeekmunksI remember epic promising to make it free in chapter one and they never did
@@rogeliocano9536 if they made it free and gave added story parts to the 4th zone it would 100% be bigger than the lego mode was at it’s peak. The problem with stw is it has too much content to really be able to compare to whatever new modes they throw out there so they try to get players to forget about it
Honestly I feel like the chapter 2 artstyle was pretty peak, nice blend of still being cartoony enough while also having a few of those more realistic elements
Good video, good arguments, very nice for a first TH-cam video, you get my follow
Losing it's artstyle is one of those unfortunate fates that all live-service games will have to face eventually. Like overwatch losing all its militarism with the release of 2, or how tf2 kept releasing more and more insane hats for people to buy. The artsyle will always be some of the first on the chopping block in the pursuit of profit, most consumers don't care enought about it and would rather gawk at the recognizable soldier man. I'm gonna be honest i heavily dislike fortnite as a brand and game but seeing how its artstyle has degraded still hit home. It becomes very hard for me to care about any cool art direction in a live-service game because i know it won't last. Great video, you should make more.
Well said. I feel the same
OW? Militarism? HAHAHAHA
@franciscocaiomartins3798 The game is quite literally about the aftermath of an industrial world scale robot war. Just look at bastion in Ow1 compared to OW2 and how they turned his exaggerated, but still gun looking gun into a super soaker looking thing. Also changing his color scheme to be less toned down and making him rounder overall. Bastion is the most obvious example, but a lot of the cast got this treatment.
It’s always the TH-camrs with 500-8000 subs that make the best videos. You earned a sub🎉
Old art style was so iconic and amazing looking in my opinion.. What a shame they scrapped it
firsrt vid???
That shi was straight up fire!
continue like this, bro
amazing first video bro. Had to subscribe
THAT WAS YOUR FIRST VIDEO HOLY SHIT BRO. THIS IS SOO WELL MADE
Your channel is underrated ASF
At this point they should make chapter 1 its own game. Knowing them your items wouldn’t carry over, they should make the battle pass go from level 1-1000 going through each seasons battle pass. They should have a map rotation between each chapter 1 map. It would be a lot more fun and simple just playing the Fortnite we know and love even if they made it an expensive ass standalone game.
As a person who’s played Fortnite from 14-17 years old, I think what made Fortnite so appealing to me was its creativity and overall fun mechanics. I remember season four dropping and everyone being disappointed because they made their own super hero’s but the more the season played out the more you learned about those hero’s and the more attached you became with them or all of their emotes having original sounds to them and how catchy they were. I knew Fortnite was dead when they started re-releasing skins that us kids considered og because they knew it would bump up their sales due to hype. I left after they released red knight and skull trooper and seeing the product now I’m glad I did. I will miss the days where I sat with my friends and speculated about upcoming seasons or features like gifting, trading, and refunding skins or when we would just play all night talking about life but it’s okay I’m just happy I experienced it.
Fortnite is nowhere near dead “I knew Fortnite was dead” aka “I didn’t enjoy the game anymore” gtfo pal 😂
Dude i can't believe it's your first video. Very well made
the attention to detail in this video is really good. Overall the video is very well made, bravo.
Didn’t realise this was your first video until you said it, rly high quality video keep it up
I liked the balance of realistic and cartoony from chapter 2.
A big reason Fortnite was successful like Minecraft because you used to be able to play it on ANYTHING now the system requirements keep getting higher and higher due to them constantly upping the graphics.
Now it makes lower end PC's struggle a bit.
UE5 games are way over hyped.. They cram all this "realistic detail" in the game then blur over it with forced Anti aliasing. Older games are crisp and clear in comparison.
@@user-ne9sd4ow1odo you know what anti aliasing is?? And it’s never forced
@@PotateosHe means TAA specifically, which does blur the image more than other methods, and is forced in alot of modern games.
I think the detail from Chapter 2 mixed with the tapered/exaggerated proportions of Chapter 1 would be the perfect artstyle for the game.
Amazing video! Brings the nostalgia and really well analysed structure of Fortnite's old Artstyle
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For you’re first video this a banger AND I KNOW BANGERS
I was a little skeptical of this video being a bit more, as you said it, only focused on bright and cartoony graphics. But I was pleasantly surprised when I saw you mention the actual specific (I don't know what you would call them, motifs?) in the old props. I appreciate this video a lot, and this video should be the new standard when discussing Fortnite's old art style.
omg the most underrated channel ever?
2:26 Is that a low taper fade reference?! 🤯
You know what’s crazy is that like that ninjas low taper fade meme is still MASSIVE
No
Congratulations on 700k+ views! That's amazing
this video is so well made!
Great video you killed it, showed and articulated every point really well, good stuff man I subbed
Is 8:00 actually what this game looks like now?!
No
It's a creative map
I thought it was bodycam for a sec before i saw fortnite inventory
This latest"remix" where they've slaughtered the old map for Collabs really shows this too
Waiting for that comment saying "it's called remix for a reason"
@@A.Peacockwell... is it not?
@@caleb2569 compare it to the OG remix season, they remixed the skins to still match the season that it's inspired by with other aspects of Fortnite to pay homage and respect to the chapter. Shoving Snoop Dogg onto one of the most popular POI's doesn't do any of that. I'm just grateful that at least the BP doesn't include any of this trash.
@@PotholetI’m looking for upgrade benches in map cant find
@@Potholetsnoop is fine being there, though I never cared for Midas so take my opinion with a grain of sand
This is so well put together, bro. Collabs were truly the downfall
They introduced way to many skins and stuff that nothing feels fresh anymore i remember back in chapter 1 and early chapter 2 where i would buy a skin because i think it looked cool. Now all the skins look the same besides the icon skins
7:17 and there’s nothing scarier than Europe
God forbid fr*nce
@paperverp
Being a pregnant black woman in America and the police approach you. Look it up.
6:03 hey that’s me
Amazing and entertaining video. I really liked where you mentioned that you won’t talk about the rise of save the world because “nobody cares”. I think it might’ve been interesting, but these parts of videos would usually get me to skip ahead or just close the video. Also really funny cutaways and jokes. Keep doing content, I’m subscribing :)
Great video! You make a lot of great points and it's pretty much exactly how I've been feeling about these changes too
If this is your first video then youre going places man
Nice vid, keep it up!
Never actually thought about it but now that I am thinking about it... The artstyle was so nice compared to what its now
4:14 she sneeze we all dead is WILD
I was so surprised when u said this was ur first video. It was really good and funny
Keep it up man , I enjoyed this very much , great info
As a game dev, I can share another angle for this change: less curves = less polygons to render = lighter game. We sacrificed a bit pf personality to gain stability and optimization
So why was the game light when the og chapter came out and then got way heavier when chapter 4 started💀
As another game dev, with the more realistic art style comes more detailed models which require more polygons. Also, with the improvements to performance in UE5 compared to UE4 (lumen, nanite, etc. disabled) the old art style would probably run significantly smoother than it already did.
Bro had to put George and Lenny from mice and men when he said, put it down 2:04 😂
Nah fr it hurt to see 😢
💀 💀 NAH THATS A VIOLATION
It's a nice reference
First, that facts I stoped playing because of its lost of his artstyle like when they switched to chapter 4 the artstyle was not the same so realistic and not fun, also underrated asf
Great topic for this video!!! This needs to be talked about for sure!!! 😎
Good vid bro, I thought you already had 500,000 subscribers or sumn like that
I actually liked chapter 4´s graphics and art style. For me it was the perfect mix between fortnite´s cartoonism and realism. It is high quality, modern and more realistic textures, but with bright and colorful tones, beatiful skybox and sunsets, made even better by the island being surrounded by space instead of infinite sea with ugly islands in the distance. If they just stayed with that art style, it would be great. But chapter 5 went down the wrong way sadly, being extremely realistic with dull colors and not so pretty biomes.
Chapter 6 gives me hope tho, we can pray they listened to feedback, with the leaked new skybox and lighting looking better than ever.
i completely agree, chapter 4's weapons were super fun and it was a lovely balance between old fortnite but also all the new stuff, actually my favorite chapter for the first half, wasnt feeling the jungle that much
yeah chapter 4 felt hella goofy, especially with rideable dinosaurs and such. Raytracing was amazing too
I disagree.
@@andraw4002 ok🫠
Everyone has their opinion
Yeah I can’t lie chapter 4 did have some charm to it, at least more than chapter 3 and 5. I really liked how the map looked like different dimensions being smashed into each other which you can see in locations like Faulty Splits.
0:40 the animals are leaving 😩
You spelled genesis wrong 1:32
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@@GOATFEVER hes correcting him whic is proper critisim 😢
Fantastic first TH-cam video bro
Banger video for the first one you've made bro. Good stuff!
yeah i agree of everything you said here
i heard that one of the reasons as to why fortnite changed their artstyle was so it could be easier to build in general, Like when the map builders wanted to stack boxes they couldn't because they were too crooked. So there could be more examples of how fortnites unique artstyle made it a burden to properly build a map.
The new creative lets you import assets so it doesn't matter regardless
@@coldshock5181 it still matters for people who can't use uefn
yeah chapter 2 not all buildigns are on the proper grid
@@Loki-qo2kb They mean the OG Chapter 1 art style. Chapter 2 one is pretty different and not as iconic.
6:45 this made me realize how badly they neutered the art style
Chapter 1 looked one dimensional and bland as hell, it’s all the same color scheme of some washed out white and a mix of browns.
Tbh I like the new realism art style as an OG player the game looked kinda stupid as all 90s cartoony
I like the direction they’re taking it, I just wish they’d update the older STW/Og Objects to be more realistic
Amazing video high quality too keep up the great work 💯💯
Damn I miss flying the plane in chapter 1 when it was first introduced
8:37 I agree on all of the things you said, except bullet drop. It is way more fun playing without fcking bloom(I‘m dogshit at using weapons with bloom)
1:18 dude how the hell is that "reALiSTiC"?
It's more realistic than it was before, the tapered/exaggerated proportions are gone.
Very good video I won't lie. Good topic good explanation good funny, well edited
This is insane that this is your first actual video. Amazing job! I look forward to more content from you 🎉