Epic games just announced OG Fortnite will return in 2024 due to popular demand! They said “The OG Season far exceeded our expectations”, I wonder who could have theorized that?🥸
I hope they don't bring it back so often, it won't be so special then. I just hope they acknowledge that we like the old style better and design their game like they used to before. But if it will happen again I want justice for polar peak and happy hamlet
Season 3 Fortnite was so unbelievably peak, no vehicles, and just a handful of weapons that were balanced in a way where just one gold weapon could make or break your game
I belive that if fortnite stayed on the chapter 1 map for all it's lifetime, it would've been dead like 2 or 3 years ago, these updates is what kept fortnite alive. The OG update brought so many players back but it also brought the new players.
Yea, and i like how a lot of people just don't want to understand that. If Fortnite stayed on the og map with no changes and no new gameplay it would have stagnated and died really fast. The new seasons and changes made it to always stay fresh and make you keep on coming back, to discover the new map and learn something new. And the best decision and biggest peak Fortnite has done was integrate the no build game mode into the game, making maps tailored to it. You can really see it in the old map with the zero build mechanics, it just dose not work that good.
I hope that fortnite would be smart enough to still keep the og fortnite map as a separate mode, or at least bring it as a mode that comes and go every once in a while.
true but Fortnite og is just different in better way then any season i never played Fortnite when it began only watched neck eh 30 streaming in youtube cuz had terrible computer now really having fun
I actually really like the fact that fortnite is constantly completely changing the game. Yeah maybe og fortnite was a little bit more fun, and I've been having a great time this season, if they kept the game in the og state forever it would get really boing eventually. I like the idea that every year or so they completely change the game with a new chapter. It keeps the game fresh, almost like you're playing a new game entirely.
I mean the whole point that ppl like the OG map is cuz they always updated it and each season there was something new with it, they should keep it that way it worked well
I think where fortnite went wrong with newer chapters is that in OG fortnite, the first 4 seasons barely had any map changes, allowing us to get used to and love all the locations they did have. In newer chapters things change too quickly and are so varied that I barely end up remembering any of them. That and the horrible npcs and shit story
Yeah I feel like each season should last a bit longer. So that players have a chance to really get to know and enjoy the map and all the changes. It also gives the fn team time to really think out how they want to shape the story.
People didnt leave because the map was complex, but because the building meta got too difficult. When they introduced zero build, a lot of people came back. Now they use OG fortnite as a marketing scheme to promote the next chapter, which will probably have huge plans
EXACTLY, nobody I knew left because "muh og is gone", they left because the game was getting too difficult for them or just because life got in the way
@@shun2232Debatable, why would people come back to og fortnite now if 'life was in the way'(moving on) or 'not good enough'. It's not like the gameplay has changed at all, except for the no builds mode which isn't played by all
for me personally it was how annoying and complicated they were making the lootpool, the pump, tac, and even combat all had a certain role to play and they ended up making like 20 diff types, along with no more patch notes I don't even know what gun is fun or good
I have never played OG, aka Ch1, started in ch2s1 late...so....wheres my nostalgia? Because imo this season is the best Ive experinced since 2019, and I think its better than ch2 too, which is my OG chapter. Its so frickin good rn, so much fun, that I fear Chapter 5 coming next Sunday will actually destroy my love for the game as it is rn. I NEVER play solos, onyl with friends or I just dont play...and..since day 1 OG season, I played maybe 100 solo games! Its THAT good! Ch5 scares me :(
Ch5 does really feel like a looming void on the horizon,I hope epic used this OG season as an opportunity to take feedback rather than tossing it away. Partly excited but also fearing how badly it could be messed up
@@iAmLufa I mean, when my fav streamers win now they genuinely are happy and excited to play and win. Before, they win and it's like 'oh, we win? OK... Whatever.... "
@FunnyTopHatFrog chapter 2 was so good, if we put aside how long season 1 and 2 was it really did feel like epic was passionate about what they were doing I really hope they bring atleast a remixed chapter 2
in my humble opinion, i think that they saw the trends/ player counts dropping and they wanted to test to see if the og map would actually bring players back but they will have to keep updating it to make the game seem fresh and new. This is the beginning of the end if they dont keep the og map as a playable option or make the maps rotational or something idk
Fortnite had a record breaking number of players in there latest chapter of it was really just a pull to get people back they’d keep the map in the game longer than a month
@@Chrisurboithey did not peak, they peaked this season. They had hundreds of millions of people playing all throughout the month. They did not even come close to that last season, I think you’re mistaken on the numbers
I’m gonna have to disagree with this video. It’s under the main fact that Fortnite never died. It may have lost popularity in the mainstream, but Fortnite was actually getting more players than back in 2018 even before the OG season. The new generation of Fortnite players are very different than the OG players. 2:09 For it to have the biggest impact it could possibly have. The longer they waited the bigger the impact would be. This also pushes eyes onto the huge updates that will come in chapter 5 4:57 see, Fortnite only started to pump out these bigger updates when it was slowly leaving the mainstream. Fortnite was at its biggest in the mainstream though seasons 3-5(and a bit of 6), and guess when they started to pump out more drastic updates??? Season 7. There was no “riding out the wave” because the wave was already getting smaller, and if they didn’t do something they would’ve been dead, and left in the dust. Although their new strategy didn’t put them back in the mainstream it set them up well for the generation of players coming to Fortnite. Gen alpha. 5:10 google trends isn’t the best way to gauge something’s popularity, especially if you look at small time frames. 5:45 yes, and this is perfect for gen alpha, as they are now getting old enough to play Fortnite. These new kids have attention spans that are at an all time low. Fortnite saw that, and started updating the game much more frequently, and having much more spectacle to satiate them. 6:21 This would not have been a good time, as gen alpha was just starting to dip their toes into the game; If they got put into this slower Fortnite they have no nostalgia over then they would drop the game. OG Fortnite was only about a year and a half old at that point, so the impact wouldn’t have been as big. If they had went back and kept to their roots Fortnite wouldn’t have been as popular with the new generation. 7:28 This is actually when the new generation of Fortnite truly started. After chapter 2 they put this new strategy of theirs into overdrive. If they just put a slower version with less overall content into the game, then that would mess up the momentum they were accruing. 7:48 exactly! They have a totally different fan base playing the game now that wants different things than what the OGs want. 8:00 it isn’t an average season’s length for 2 reasons. 1. They didn’t want to risk the new generation getting bored of the slower paced and “less exciting” version of Fortnite OG Fortnite was; so they made it 1 month long to let them know what OG Fortnite felt like, while not losing their attention. 2. Since it’s 1 month long people are going to play Fortnite way more, as they want to maximize the amount of fun they can have in the little time period. 8:21 yep, that’s 100% true. 8:35 quite the opposite in fact, Fortnite believes in OG Fortnite so much that they put it randomly out of nowhere before some of their biggest updates to have the largest amount of eyes on the game as possible. Think about it, if they didn’t believe in it, And thought it would do bad they would just go into the new chapter with the huge new content. 8:40 it doesn’t. The only reason why they’re hitting peak player counts is because the new players are mixing with the old players. If Fortnite keeps the game closer to how it is in the OG season the new players would get bored and slowly leave. 8:50 I personally don’t think so for the reasons I stated above. Fortnite also had save the world that they could’ve kept updating if they needed things to do, as save the world never got its story mode finished before they stopped updating it. 9:54 those are the little things that make this game more interactive, and make it more attractive to the new Fortnite audience. Extra things: If Fortnite kept to how it was they would not be able to implement the insane amount of crossovers they have in the game without it being off. ( crossovers are big cash cows for Fortnite, and rhey also bring players from the franchise they cross over with) I’m not a hater or anything, I love your content. I’m just sharing what I think about the topic.
This is actually pretty accurate , the season feels kind off boring for me , feels very empty , I actually kind off miss all the features from the newer chapters , that's why I'm really looking forward to chapter 5
I rejoined Fortnite specifically for the OG update. I liked it, spent money on the battle pass and other skins, finished the battle pass and had fun playing the game I played on my friend's Xbox 360. But then the event happened and that came with a different map, different guns, npcs and vaults and weapon mods. Stuff that is different, but is either the same or worse than what they already had. I _want_ to keep playing Fortnite, but at this point it feels more like I'm playing an knockoff COD with Fortnite building.
One thing I miss was having to find stuff in the loading screens, slowly unlocking cosmetics though scanning loading screens was weirdly rewarding in a way that the current battle passes don't bring anymore
Hit the nail in the head with this video, keeping the game recognisable is essential for a playerbase. Look at minecraft, they only update it once every year or so, and even then it is already alienating some of the playerbase. IMO, Seasons 2 to 4 had the best content stream of all. The game always felt fresh, yet recognisable. I remember I couldn't sleep the night before the season 4 launch, which was at 8am, so I decided to just stay awake the whole night hyping myself up. Hope both EPIC and Kevin Feige and Disney learn that you need to keep your identity recognisable for success, as both Fortnite before OG, and the current MCU are kinda unrecognisable to a lifelong fan like myself
I hate what the Minecraft devs are doing right now. There hasn't been a significant biome update in years. The game feels stale and I rely on Vanilla+ mods to enjoy the game. Not to mention it's horrible performance on even mid tier PCs, a lot of people can't even crack 100fps anymore without installing performance improvement mods.
But the nice thing with Minecraft is, that you can choose which part of the game you want to play, for expample 1.8. or 1.12 or so on. You cant do the same with Fortnite and the problem that comes with it is, that Fortnite now is a couple games in one.
The problem with Minecraft isn’t that the updates are stepping outside of what Fans want it’s because the updates now compared to the older days are seen as so lackluster. Not because of the kind of content but because of the amount. It’d be like if Fortnite did nothing for a year then added in one small location one weapon and one vehicle and called it a day.
ye minecraft is a great example of this because it killed a big chunk of its playerbase with the 1.9 update when they tried to change the game up too much. epic is going in the same direction with fortnite and it seems like every big game does the same thing at some point. they very rarely admit that they were wrong and go back. look at league, look at clash royale, look at valorant etc.
The thing I dislike (not really dislike, but am more slightly annoyed by) is how superficial the OG season feels. None of the weapons, gameplay mechanics, and even visuals are the same as they were in 2018, they are balanced versions from later in the game’s life, and I doubt this season would be gathering as much praise if it was as unpolished as older seasons in Fortnite were. It’s like manually triggering nostalgia for how you remember it being, not how they actually was.
Sigh. The balanced versions you refer to are actually less fun than what we had in Ch1. Your post actually does the opposite of what you want it to. Despite Epic giving us the much crappier versions of planes, ballers, quads, etc with none of the map changes or anything else, the game is STILL setting records. Btw, you aren't the only "genius" who has noticed that many things didn't return. Most of us figured that out and we don't think Fortnite OG is better for not having them. People just love this map and the loot pool enough to slightly overlook all of the lazy shortcomings of this season. 👍
I started in around season 5-7. I didn't play much, but I had the season 7 battlepass. Coming back to this map is possibly the most fun I've ever had in this game in a long time.
I will always think Fortnite went downhill due to an increase in vertical mobility. It used to be very boots on the ground with the occasional vertical movement through launchpads, bounces pad, or quad crasher. The increase of vertical movement options through stuff like mantling, quad balls, Spider-Man gloves etc caused the game to become less challenging.
i think adding skill based match making and adding ai player bots are 2 bigger contributors to the downfall of the game and the reason its never felt the same since it used to be like rolling a dice you never knew what type of game you would be loaded in 2 some games would be difficult and others would be easy it was exciting now you know every ones gonna be a complete sweat unless you run into a ai bot pickaxing a wall is EXTREAMLY PREDICTABLE
@@GhOsTShOTLDNNah the "downfall" (the toxics left to go play Minecraft) was season X Tho from my POV the game got better after the "downfall" and for me, as a beta player, chapter 2 was prime fortnite in terms of fun, plus I could swim
That’s what I liked about the old seasons. They had a much slower pace (which I preferred). you had to actually strategically find high ground and actually build a fort in FORTnite. You’d shoot and snipe other players across forts and when you’d get a knock, you and your whole team would jump pad into their fort for some close range fighting, which was a harder item to find back then and one of the only quick mobility items in the game. It made third partying much harder, No vehicles, no crazy movement mechanics, no rifts, spider man grapples or any other ridiculous movement items. The game now is full of stuff like that and everyone’s flying around the map at will. I’m sure plenty of people love it and prefer that quicker pace, but that’s not the kind of fortnite I enjoyed playing.
I can understand Epic's thinking. If we were just on the same map for years. It wouldnt go well. We need something new but Epic hasnt really been executing that well. Chapter 2 is the best theyve done with alot of the fanbase saying C2S2 is the best season ever. They dont want to just rely on their old content
Yeah, right at season 5 things were already getting very boring, people don't remember that they were the ones that wanted something different, everyone was tired of the old map
@@voltonator7991yeah, at around that point the public perception of the game dropped consistently over the next seasons and people didn’t like it because of the mass of “cringe” and children heralding it.
As a Season 1 Veteran, I 100 percent agree with your entire statement. Fortnite back in the days was loved, when the game was simple. And yet hard to master.
I'll tell you why OG Fortnite is better than modern fortnite, the focus on fun over balance. Fortnite nowadays is so bland and balanced but OG was pure unbridled chaos
I still feel strongly that Zero Build becoming a permanent game mode was the best thing to ever happen in recent fortnite times (other than the OG map). I only started picking up again slowly with my friends since then.
This is the best thing for the company but not for the game. Fortnite without building isnt fortnite… Its call of duty warzone or pubg with cartoony graphics. Zero build is a gamemode built out of cope.
I really don't agree with this, to me, Fortnite has a distinctive flare that makes me prefer it over the likes of PUBG, Warzone, Apex and so forth. Even in Zero Build, Fortnite still feels like Fortnite, not in the same way of course, but the identity it built really differentiates it from the rest of the competition. Another reason why I strongly prefer Zero Build over the default BR, is that your average player got exponentially sweatier than your average sweat in the OG seasons. Nowadays you shot once to a guy, and he either builds the entire Taj Mahal, or he hard camps in a cube, which can be problematic depending on the loot pool, if only the Stinking Gas (that was brought back in OG Royale) was present, I wouldn't be complaining about that one, but oh well.
@@heyitzblaster9262 Yeah defo, if it wasn't cuz of Zero Build, I probably wouldn't be playing Fortnite as much as I do nowadays. I was rather responding to the other comment.
@@SeeFlow-bo1dl What you on about haha. Started playing fortnite three months ago. For me the version with builds got pretty boring (gameplay wise) after a week but the zero build is always a good time.
To be fair, some changes they made were actually nice. Swimming was cool and fishing was also funny. Cars were also nice. The best thing they could have done is just use multiple maps instead of forcing a new map each time. I think OG Fortnite kind of has an oppertunity for that idea since the whole time travelling story line is apparently changing the past fortnite events. So maybe Epic can create something like a multiverse where there are multiple parallel timelines, all with their own version of the Fortnite Island (including the OG one).
Tbh cars were a huge mistake because there were way more fun ways to travel. They used to have ballers, golf carts and hoverboards but they replaced all that with cars. Which is much more boring
i stopped playing fortnite in 2019 and sometimes played for an hour at a time when board. when OG fortnite returned i was back to playing almost 24/7. ive tried to get used to this new chapter 5 but it just feels like how later versions of the game have felt. complicated and full of sweats
Something that is often forgotten is how polluted the game is with sound effects. I still remember when I played season 2 how quiet it was. No birds chirping. No flies buzzing. No old house noises. No wind. No radios. Just.. silence... It was eerie and gave a sense of mystery without being annoying. It set the tone and let the players focus on each other. Now it feels like they try too much to make the game sound fresh that it just sounds terrible. I wish they would realize this and cut back on all the unneeded noise.
I think the reason this season is so short is because they think that if the season is too long then all the people coming back to the game will still want to play fortnite by the end of the 1 month period and then will at least try to play the next chapter rather than getting burnt out in the og season then not playing after its over.
Fortnite lost me when they started focusing more heavily on outside tie-ins for their skins and their “story”. I thought it was much better when it was mostly original content because it felt like its own thing. Now most of their seasons are rolled out with some celebrity skin, half of the emotes are just boring TikTok dances with random rap songs playing over them, and overall those collectables don’t seem nearly as cool or valuable as they did back in the day. The game feels like it’s gotten too complex with almost too much content coming at us way too fast. That being said OG Fortnite brought me and my crew back together who hadn’t played since some time early in chapter 2, and now that it’s gone we’ve left again until it returns.
I think they should keep it simple. You don't need the OG map, you just need the classic aesthetics, the simple gameplay and a good story. If Chapter 5 opens with a new map that's based on the Chapter 1 aesthetic, instead of them using new maps to showcase their new tech like they did with Chapter 4, and they manage to keep it simple until the Chapter ends, thats a guaranteed home run. But they're never going to do that.
2:30 this is exactly what happened to me. Hadn’t played for 5 years with them- logged on to see og and saw all of them on. It was so nice to be reunited, they are all much older now and have lives but playing fn with all of them this month has been some of the best days ever.
They brought back a similar feeling of a slow content drip rather than a flood around Chapter 2 Season 1-2. Few new skins, few new weapons. I remember the excitement when the flare gun came out as one of the first new weapons of the season.
A lot of people hate on Chapter 2 Season 1's length and lack of meaningful updates but I found it refreshing during that time. After the breakneck pace they maintained during the final 4 seasons of Chapter 1 it was good being back to the simpler way of doing things. You also got familiarized with the map and learned to love the new locations.
I’d beg to differ. CSGO was the most played game on steam and virtually nothing changed in its entire lifespan. The same three meta guns for 13 years. You could leave CS in 2018 and come back to find the same thing waiting for you in 2023
As an OG who quit the game in chapter 2 because of the drastic, unnecessarily complex additions: I love OG Fortnite. It's not nostalgia. I played throughout the entire month and liked it the more I played. The OG game was better in so many ways. Better loot, more balanced loot, the pacing was good, no vehicles, no NPCs, no attachments, no bloat. Then Chapter -5 dropped. I hated it. Fast-paced, no time to think, just loot, run, and shoot. Bullet speed and drop is slower than Chris Christie on a good day. Weapon balance is completely ruined by attachments. NPCs everywhere. Cars everywhere. Just bloat everywhere. Chapter (negative) 5 is a different game entirely. It doesn't come close to OG.
It's really not that hard, easy enough to get a win without any attachments. The things you've listed on the OG section are not positives to most people, makes the game sound boring asf (and the loot definitely was not balanced lmao). Can't fathom why you would want to play in the OG world for more than a month. The OG pass was good but a month is the perfect length for it before it starts getting boring pretty quickly.
Really enjoying Fortnite OG and don’t really want it to go. That said me and my mates are going to stick around for chapter 5 after this and continue to play if it’s good, it definitely brought us all back
Something I think that Epic NEEDS to do with this newest chapter and this use of time travel usage is to make the next chapter something lengthy, simple, and less of a sort of grand spectacle. While I do love the lore and story they’re trying to show the world, the fact is that the act of running a game to be simple and fun, whilst also having it be rich with a story for many to be pulled into is a balancing act. While it may be hard to determine what moves will pitter the next chapter to be more fun or more complex, it’s something that they gotta figure out. Soon.
You also cannot neglect the "storyline" that they have been building ever since season 4. the problem is they add superfluous characters to drive the story when honestly there have only been a handful of characters relevant since the beginning (Jonesy, the Visitor, The Paradigm)
I feel the same. I never knew where the story was going. The seven were really cool characters, but I felt like Epic didn't know what to do with them after the chrome, and killed everybody offscreen. I've been waiting for The Foundation and Agent Jones to finish whatever they were doing and return back. But we still never got any conclusion to that whole thing.
My problem isn't the addition of new content but the fact that not enough is removed, so the lingering additions slowly pile up into a bloated, overcomplicated mess. Having NPCs, heists, half a dozen different vehicles, guaranteed orange weapons (with orange not even being the best), and the godforsaken augments all at once turns the focus away from the beuatiful core of the game, which I see as equal parts scavenging and skill-based gun pvp. OG only proved that to me, and hearing about so many new features without any news of removals next season has me fearing another headache.
I don’t think it turns the focus away at all. It’s all just different paths to get to that end goal. Cause at the end of the day it’s about getting the best weapons and killing. And all of this serves to do just that
The only new feature I enjoyed in later chapters of Fortnite was Zero Build. Never liked the idea of building a giant tower to win a gunfight. I always saw the building feature as a way to make a small base or bunker to fortify yourself in combat. But I'm happy OG Fortnite is back. I've grinded my pass and enjoyed so many victories with the crazy fun loot pool.
Man, I loved your video, really, but I'm "new" to fortnite (I started playing late 2021) so when the OG season came out, I kinda hated it. Almost no vehicles, an ugly map, a full heal item that takes 15 SECONDS to use... I wasn't having it. I just farmed the whole battle pass, bc Lil' Split and Renegade Lynx are gorgeous skins, and then left it. I'm glad that a new chapter is out, with tons of new content, more lore, more movement items and vehicles, and finally crossovers with other games coming up. I see your point: OG season brought back all the nostalgic players back, including YOU (probably), and the old map and loot made you remember the good old days with the boys and all, but it was just that, nostalgia and an effort to bring back the lost high dopamine days. Now, I won't say that filling the game with so much content that no one can keep up is the way to go, but I think that all games should keep going forward, adding new stuff and SOMETIMES bringing back the old stuff to make you go "wow, I remember THAT!". There needs to be a balance between new content/gameplay changes and revival of old content.
This is aging so well seeing as chapter 5 is basically just pubg and warzone but with building. It's complete dogshit and a completely different game. They'll have to revert the game to keep it alive.. or let it die.
Stoped playing Fortnite back in 2019 my freshmen year of highschool. I am now a sophomore in college having the time of my life playing Fortnite which at the time I praised to be the most enjoyable video game I have ever played. I can see where middle school me was coming from!
thing is, when you have to resort to nostalgia to bring back players it's like admitting defeat, it means that you cannot come up with new ways to attract players
2 solutions for that: 1. Make new, simplistic maps in the style of C1 without gold, augments, etc. 2. Make C1 a permanent mode that rotates through the seasons
I fail to believe chapter 4 fortnite had more players than chapter 2 s1 or ch1 s5… Absolutely no one I know has talked about fortnite for the past 2 years since chapter 2… we were all reluctant to come back to fortnite and I am only 17. I was 13 when the original game came out.
As someone who’s stuck with the game throughout every season until now, I can say that there definitely was a lot about OG fortnite that was just better, but I also think that it’s important that some changes need to be made eventually. You can’t just keep it at season 5 forever and expect no one to get a little tired of it after a while. Change makes games feel alive and the changes that they’ve made are actually incredibly fun to me. The perk system especially was such a fun mechanic and I already want it back. I hope they keep OG fortnite as a secondary mode, but I also hope people will stay to at least try out what epic wants to do with their game. They have genuinely amazing ideas. If they didn’t I’d have stopped playing loooong ago.
I really hate the "Oh you don't actually miss (blank) you just miss how you felt back then" and my response to that is no, I don't because I literally wanted to hop off this mortal coil like 6 years ago, what tf u mean "I miss how I felt." Fortnite was just good back then and that's why so many people are enjoying the original content again. That's not to say the newer content is bad, because it isn't but even the og season, while not completely faithful to how fortnite was back then is just a bit more fun to me.
The reason it “took too long” was because this was planned out since like 2021. Fortnite has brought the OG chapter back so that everyone’s eyes are on chapter 5 because something big is happening which just happens to be the Lego collab, the Rocket League racing mode, and the music rhythm game. Fortnite has been working on the Lego collab since 2021 so I can only assume they planned for season OG or something like it since 2021 because they knew it would bring the most people back to see the new things Fortnite has to offer in chapter 5. EVERYTHING was most like meticulously planned down to the very minute detail so that chapter 5 will succeed.
As a zero build player. OG was the most annoying, unfun experience ever. So many qol stuff was gone. More broken unfun mechanics popped up. How people play now compared to back that drastically changed how the game flowed on those shittier maps. It was a failure to me and many people i play with. It became the "Not playing this for 3 weeks" game. The peak didn't last. A lot of people came to the same conclusions i did. That it was fine for the time. Fortnite was still new and finding itself. But it's still nostalgia. If they want to bring it back properly they need to go above and beyond. Instead of half assing it.
if they didn't believe in it they wouldn't use it to boost their players before their "biggest event" and "biggest update yet" they know it'll be successful, they aren't idiots. they're using it to boost their players and whilst everyone is here, promote their upcoming new chapter, new skin releases, new lego mode, new racing mode, new guitar hero mode, new event, new guns, new first person mode. they know what they're doing, if they released this next chapter like usual the playerbase will continue to spiral downwards. they're good at promo, hence why I think they waited so long on purpose. if GTA 6 was released in 2015 it wouldn't have had anywhere near as much hype as it does right now, Jake Vs Ksi has been building for years and that has a ton of hype. if you make consumers wait for an already hype product in the right way, it can snowball. leaving epic games with 40+ million players in a day to advertise to. they didn't think this would flop at all.
1. They can know that Ch1 will bring attention for 1 month while also not believing in it's long term viability. 2. I agree things need to stew, but not for 5 years. GTA 6 didn't need to stew for over 10 years. I'm 42 and remember how much hype there was around Vice City and San Andreas, and those games released only 2 years apart. GTA 6 took 10 years because GTA online was an unexpected smashing success, and Rockstar milked it for all it was worth. With Fortnite OG, there would've been massive hype for this 3 years ago. People were calling for the Ch1 map the minute we moved to Ch2. With Epic, I just think they feared stagnation. They probably feel the game always has to be doing something entirely different or people will leave. I think they're right to an extent. That said, I see no good reason to not have Fortnite OG as a mode, aside from maybe Epic worrying that no one will play Ch5 or their precious Creative if Fortnite OG is taking so many players. Fortnite OG is obviously quite popular.
I hadn't played Fortnite consistently in years but when og came out I played every day of the season cause it was not only nostalgia it was pure fun enjoyment, and as soon as it was over I immediately lost that motivation and have only played Ch5 a few times.
I started during Chapter 3 Season 1 and had a ball of a time with OG. The odd thing was that a few of my friends who started at the same time I did seemed to hate it. Once Chapter 5 came out, they praised it and such. Admittedly I felt oddly refreshed when I played my first few matches last night. My theory is that we’ve entered a point where now there’s a split where people like me have become “nostalgic” for these newer chapters. It’s the same kind of thing you described with older players returning for OG. This new chapter has felt the most like the one I started on and I’ve seriously gravitated towards it. Very hyped for OG to come back though, it was great enjoying that piece of gaming history firsthand.
Loads of people here saying that the game needed drastic changes every year or so to keep popularity i think miss the point a little. Fortnite in its first 4 seasons was at its peak because it had a completely unique mechanic like building, it was simple, the guns were balanced well enough and the game had a steady flow of content updates which kept it fresh. As soon as Epic started to really ramp up updates and to try make some retrospective storyline for the map the game started to die, which would be around seasons 5-7. Its telling that even at that stage people were already asking for the game to revert back to the original versions. The magic of fortnite was its simplicity and also its complexity in the building mechanics. As the inital seasons progressed so did the players and their abilities with the building. What really started the drop off was adding creative, that then made the skill balance of the game completely different and if you didn't spend hours in creative practicing you basically got slaughtered every game you played. So to say that the OG fortnite players are blinded by nostalgia i think is wrong, we just liked the simplicity and balance the game used to have. Its similar to GTA Online in that way i guess, once the weird additions like doomsday and oppressors were added the game started to drop off. People like simplicity with updates that feel natural and arent too radical
OG Fortnite was actually so fun but they already ruined it with this chapter 5 trash. I miss the game for how simples and balanced it was. Now it’s just a battle Royale with too many features.
Y'all stucked in the past, just move on. I really hated OG season it was so slow paced and bad. Yes i'm a zero build player i really don't like minecraft or people build mansions after they get shot once. I started at CH3 S3 and THE REASON i loved the game they keep adding new mechanics and stuffs! BR gets really boring after a while but when the gameplay changes it really feels refreshing. Now we have Rocket Racing , Lego minecraft , Rock band i don't even need to play br anymore! I love racing and rhythm games. Y'all can leave the game and play something else the game feels better than ever now.
Holy shit, season 8 was actually my jumping off point. I got all the umbrellas, season 1-10, but only went through the motions on those final two, and then just dipped.
I actually think that Epic was still doing good when they dropped Chapter 2. The end of the original Fortnite felt chaotic, so many weapons and vehicles and all that stuff was added to the game by then, people wanted a return to something simple. I feel like Chapter 2 Season 1 really delivered that. It was like a calm, a break in the storm, while offering an incredible new map to explore with neat new features. The skins were simple, the weapon pool was simple, it was just so fun. I will say though that I stopped playing after Season 2, and I think Chapters 3 and 4 were really bad. I just will always respect Chapter 2 Season 1 as an incredible season.
yeah, yeah. i left in season 8 (too much for me) came back in chapter 2 season 4ish for the creative gamemodes, then left again. og forkknife brought me back playing everyday losing sleep, aaaand i played the new season for like an hour before i swore to never play again
I have player s3-s6 (early s6), and then a very small ampunt of s7, a bit more of s8 cause it was the only free game on switch. A bit more of s9… a very small portion of s10. and it was early on so i didj tknow about the black hole, and then a bit of ch2 s1 and ch2 s2. Thats it
As an OG player (from ch1 s4) I have no problem with the new updates because if the game stops updating and adding new features it will get stale and will end up like Call of Duty. They rarely update the game with new features and it gets boring as hell. For me Fortnite should be a ever evolving game that adds tons of new and interesting fratures.
Talking about how long it's taken for them to get here brings an interesting thought, the fortnite played in avengers endgame was og fortnite, and it was played in 2023, it's entirely possible they didn't want this at all but it was in a deal with marvel they made all those years ago
Sometimes the best thing for a game is for the OG’s to have their time to shine, and pass the game onto newer players. You can call yourself an OG, but there are different stages of OG. Unfortunately, nothing great can last forever.
Maybe a hot take but i really liked the flow and feel of the modern chapters. Im really happy too see the old map again and see the game spike in popularity, but its gonna get old. With the amount of hours I’ve put in the game im happy too see new things. The modern weapon and item pool was good, the map was clean, i just dont like the infinite mobility tools (like the cloud, hammer, and sword, etc). Vehicles were annoying too. But we”ll see where they take it. Worst case scenario, i can just keep making creative maps for me and my friends :)
having new seasons arent bad, they just add stupid features. NPCs, op spray guns, op mobility, mobility that breaks builds, mantling, healoff meta, desync, bad tournaments, op snipers, etc just ruin the game. Especially the mobility and mantling, which undermines the value of what makes fortnite unique - building. Skillfully taking highground used to be an advantage, but now people can just mantle and grapple up with no cool down and get a free pump shot.
I am not an OG to fortnite, but what I will say is that they are re-releasing OG skins and it has to stop. If they could just give the OG players a back bling or a new skin to show they are a true OG it would make many people happy.
I think a big part of what made many people move away (including myself) was that epic started focusing more on the technical side of the game promoting E-sports, So a goofy game with creative and fun but unbalanced ideas turned into polish filtered out version of itself that is great for professional play but awful for causal weekend play with friends. Nowdays you wont find a single lobby without a 0 ping bob the builder kid with a football skin, i think the fact we now have bots in lobbies only proves my point.
As much as I love OG fortnite, I do admit some new things were cool. That whole alien season, brought some nice weapons, a UFO, and you would get abducted for some reason. I liked the idea of being able to ride boars and wolves in chapter 2 season 6, and swinging around the daily bugle was awesome. Plus, you couldn't really go wrong with those sharks and npcs. Also that whole roller coaster with the ballers was awesome and so were the marvel mythics. And that indiana jones temple was pretty cool too. (I remember attempting to destroy it with goku's mythic with my friends in battle lab) Basically, what I'm trying to say is that not everything about the newer seasons are horrible. (except chapter 4 that just simply sucks. (besides season 4 chapter 4, of course))
I was playing a lot at the start of this event but they ruined it again by advising season X stuff and the old item shop, I used to wait all night for the new item shop when there wasn’t a million skins and a massive shop
While the map isn’t designed for it, it definitely feels so much better to have c3 movement and a few of the newer items instead of the slow and clunky building-only movement
The thing i really liked about the OG season is that they made it a part of fortnite story, it wasnt randomly thrown in like an event or smt, instead they made it connected to lore and a big part of the story.
To be fair they did just basically invent new lore to make it work. Nothing they've done before really mattered to this. Chapter 4 sesson 4 they throw in a random time traveling vampire to the lore so they can do this.
@@its_4lifeisn’t season x part of chapter 1? And anyway, the choice to do the first “The End” event was made before the launch of season x. At the time, people wanted changes, Bea cause the map was getting stale after so much time spent on it. Same thing happened for Chapter 2, the map was getting stale and so they changed it.
I like this channel's experimentation and variety, it's like some sort of magazine where I would flip to the gaming section, another flips to videos about music, and so on.
I have to to disagree, they knew this was going to be a success, the whole point of season OG is to catch people's attention on how big the next chapter will be, adding not only chapter 5 of Battle Royale, but also a racing mode, a Rock band mode and the lego Minecraft like mode. The whole point is to make those successful. They do it a month long for FOMO, throw an event/concert on the last day to catch even more attention and all the new stuff releases around Christmas time, you have a perfect formula for money making here. They know that OG will probably always be more popular, but I think they rather to keep evolving the game, wether or not thats in a good direction, well, we'll see
Personally I do believe nostalgia plays a big factor in how people view OG fortnite, remember in the actual OG fortnite we couldn’t even sprint, slide, or mantel, things that would make the game feel unplayable now if they took them out, but thankfully they kept them in
I actually wish they took it out because I only played early ch2 and none of ch3 or ch4 and for this reason, I would personally enjoy no sprint and mantling. We have buiilding for going up and also I was pissed when they brought back og and you couldnt double pump
1 day into the new chapter, how did you get everything right its crazy •Epic shocked at OG seasons massive success •Many players quitting/off put by new complicated mechanics
getting back into modern Fortnite today after OG was really depressing and overwhelming for me For me it's not just nostalgia, it's the charming cartoony art style and most importantly, the simplicity of the gameplay
@@CombustixPresents agreed I don’t understand why they can’t keep og as a game mode all the new players can play chapter 5 and ogs can play og. They would get the best of both worlds without alienating anyone and to keep og interesting they could do like every couple of weeks or month or so they can cycle through seasons of chapter 1 and then when they get to the end of chapter 1 just revert back to chapter 1 season 1 and cycle through all over again. I played Fortnite before chapter 1 even started and quit early in chapter 2 when they started making all these changes and just returned after all these years for OG
As someone who only played Fortnite BR on release and only just started playing again for OG month, it really has been the over-complexity that has always kept me away. I stopped playing originally because there wasn't a no-build mode and being moderately good at building eventually became a requirement to ever win lobbies, after that even after they added no build I was put off by how much was just in the game and how complex it looked watching other people play it where nothing is as intuitive as it's original concepts.
2 days for the OG season to end, and I'm already in grief. I really think you've had a point with this video. The Fortnite analitcs spiked when the OG season started, but there's something wrong here. If there game is doing weel in this situation, why don´t just leave it. You've explained that workers need something other then fixing bugs or other problems. But I have another theary. The problem is the money. While they keep lauching new seasons and making new collabs they will still profit more, then just leave the game as it is. So as long as they keep adding stuf to the game, they will continue to profit more and more. But, when is this going to stop. Season 3 Chapter 10?? To proof that leaving the game as it is, you have the exemples of Pubgy. Great video from you Lufa, really think if you get people whatching this, something could change in their plans. Subed allready😀!
Another bit of proof that this season wasn't expected to succeed was the lack of general polish on the little things The Meteor trail doesn't act as a smoke bomb, theres a giant invisible barrier under loot lake's island, the cube doesn't bounce you anymore, the cube island doesn't cause things like thrown items to rise anymore, etc.
I feel like you’re making a bit to much of an exaggeration when talking about chapter 2. I mean, it was mismanaged, but by the start of season X I felt like so many people were clamouring for a new map. By the time “The End” happened we knew we weren’t coming back, as the season was a celebration of the past. Still, chapter 2 was mismanaged and ended up having the same problem of the map getting stale with time.
my little sister and i played fortnite late middle school (bit of early high school for me) together. she’s still in high school and i just started college, so we rarely see eachother. but when the og was announced her and i made plans to get a few games in. the nostalgia and bonding with my sister over this game one more time was actually amazing! i hope this becomes a reoccurring thing.
I’ve been playing fortnite since season 2 and I’ve tried to ride this game out for awhile, but stopped playing around 2 years ago. The game just became unrecognizable, it didn’t even seem or feel like fortnite anymore. This OG season brought me back and it actually feels like the game I knew and loved. If they don’t keep the OG map and the simplicity of the game, then I doubt I’ll be playing fortnite when the new season comes out.
As a seanson 4-5 veteran, I agree. They don’t care about working on what they already have, because if that statement was false, then Save The World would be much more polished than how it is now, had have updates again, (e.g. like fixing the wild life) and most probably they would make it free, *a promise that they made for more than 7 years, and still, they decided to turn it into a “premium experience” rather than work in it and fulfill the original promise.*
i love the original map cause its honestly where the artstyle was at its best and not a weirdly realistic lookin ugly mess and the map just felt like it was made for building,
None of my friends wanted to get on, but i did like this season but i still liked ch 3 and ch 4. When og fn started out all my friends hated it but we got through it hopefully ch5 brings it back. I love complexity have you ever seen those painting that people can create that look like a normal boy with his dog but you zoom out and theres so much more details and buildings. A simple life is a boring life, have some fun, you only have one life.
Epic games just announced OG Fortnite will return in 2024 due to popular demand! They said “The OG Season far exceeded our expectations”, I wonder who could have theorized that?🥸
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I hope they don't bring it back so often, it won't be so special then. I just hope they acknowledge that we like the old style better and design their game like they used to before.
But if it will happen again I want justice for polar peak and happy hamlet
@@Can-ew4xrI feel like every year it would work. Maybe on fortnite's birthday?
You actually tricked me with the Switch themes
LETS GO
Season 3 Fortnite was so unbelievably peak, no vehicles, and just a handful of weapons that were balanced in a way where just one gold weapon could make or break your game
So no mobility means good?
@@achochI'd take limited S3 mobility over the ridiculous mobility of C3, C4 and potentially C5
@@Austen54 there IS no mobility in season 3
@@achochturbo building was made and at one point that was like the most mobility and everyone and there mother played compared to now so
@@achochC = Chapter, he said chapter 3, Chapter 4, and potentially Chapter 5
I belive that if fortnite stayed on the chapter 1 map for all it's lifetime, it would've been dead like 2 or 3 years ago, these updates is what kept fortnite alive. The OG update brought so many players back but it also brought the new players.
Yea, and i like how a lot of people just don't want to understand that. If Fortnite stayed on the og map with no changes and no new gameplay it would have stagnated and died really fast. The new seasons and changes made it to always stay fresh and make you keep on coming back, to discover the new map and learn something new. And the best decision and biggest peak Fortnite has done was integrate the no build game mode into the game, making maps tailored to it. You can really see it in the old map with the zero build mechanics, it just dose not work that good.
I hope that fortnite would be smart enough to still keep the og fortnite map as a separate mode, or at least bring it as a mode that comes and go every once in a while.
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true but Fortnite og is just different in better way then any season i never played Fortnite when it began only watched neck eh 30 streaming in youtube
cuz had terrible computer
now really having fun
That's true, I just wish it was kept for longer.
jeez take it to a publisher
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I actually really like the fact that fortnite is constantly completely changing the game. Yeah maybe og fortnite was a little bit more fun, and I've been having a great time this season, if they kept the game in the og state forever it would get really boing eventually. I like the idea that every year or so they completely change the game with a new chapter. It keeps the game fresh, almost like you're playing a new game entirely.
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doesnt mean they have to remove it
Have it as a different mode ion care 😂
I mean the whole point that ppl like the OG map is cuz they always updated it and each season there was something new with it, they should keep it that way it worked well
@@sergeantrubber552yes they do. An og mode is gonna take the magic away from it
I think where fortnite went wrong with newer chapters is that in OG fortnite, the first 4 seasons barely had any map changes, allowing us to get used to and love all the locations they did have. In newer chapters things change too quickly and are so varied that I barely end up remembering any of them. That and the horrible npcs and shit story
Yeah I feel like each season should last a bit longer. So that players have a chance to really get to know and enjoy the map and all the changes. It also gives the fn team time to really think out how they want to shape the story.
Killing off the 7 was their biggest mistake
@@naruke9373 chap 2 season 1 is a prime example of if seasons took a bit longer
@@obamagameing8394 meaning?
@@naruke9373 people hated it and thought that epic abandoned them
People didnt leave because the map was complex, but because the building meta got too difficult. When they introduced zero build, a lot of people came back. Now they use OG fortnite as a marketing scheme to promote the next chapter, which will probably have huge plans
EXACTLY, nobody I knew left because "muh og is gone", they left because the game was getting too difficult for them or just because life got in the way
@@shun2232Bait it was getting cringe
@@shun2232Debatable, why would people come back to og fortnite now if 'life was in the way'(moving on) or 'not good enough'. It's not like the gameplay has changed at all, except for the no builds mode which isn't played by all
for me personally it was how annoying and complicated they were making the lootpool, the pump, tac, and even combat all had a certain role to play and they ended up making like 20 diff types, along with no more patch notes I don't even know what gun is fun or good
I agree as a OG from season 0 after season 4 I couldn't keep up with building it was to complex. Zero build makes me happy.
I have never played OG, aka Ch1, started in ch2s1 late...so....wheres my nostalgia? Because imo this season is the best Ive experinced since 2019, and I think its better than ch2 too, which is my OG chapter. Its so frickin good rn, so much fun, that I fear Chapter 5 coming next Sunday will actually destroy my love for the game as it is rn. I NEVER play solos, onyl with friends or I just dont play...and..since day 1 OG season, I played maybe 100 solo games! Its THAT good! Ch5 scares me :(
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Ch5 does really feel like a looming void on the horizon,I hope epic used this OG season as an opportunity to take feedback rather than tossing it away. Partly excited but also fearing how badly it could be messed up
@@iAmLufa I mean, when my fav streamers win now they genuinely are happy and excited to play and win. Before, they win and it's like 'oh, we win? OK... Whatever.... "
I want chapter 2 to come back, but only the early seasons. It was amazing. I would love an OG for chapter 2. I started in c1 s5 too.
@FunnyTopHatFrog chapter 2 was so good, if we put aside how long season 1 and 2 was it really did feel like epic was passionate about what they were doing I really hope they bring atleast a remixed chapter 2
in my humble opinion, i think that they saw the trends/ player counts dropping and they wanted to test to see if the og map would actually bring players back but they will have to keep updating it to make the game seem fresh and new. This is the beginning of the end if they dont keep the og map as a playable option or make the maps rotational or something idk
Fortnite had a record breaking number of players in there latest chapter of it was really just a pull to get people back they’d keep the map in the game longer than a month
@@Chrisurboithey did not peak, they peaked this season. They had hundreds of millions of people playing all throughout the month. They did not even come close to that last season, I think you’re mistaken on the numbers
I’m gonna have to disagree with this video. It’s under the main fact that Fortnite never died. It may have lost popularity in the mainstream, but Fortnite was actually getting more players than back in 2018 even before the OG season. The new generation of Fortnite players are very different than the OG players.
2:09 For it to have the biggest impact it could possibly have. The longer they waited the bigger the impact would be. This also pushes eyes onto the huge updates that will come in chapter 5
4:57 see, Fortnite only started to pump out these bigger updates when it was slowly leaving the mainstream. Fortnite was at its biggest in the mainstream though seasons 3-5(and a bit of 6), and guess when they started to pump out more drastic updates??? Season 7. There was no “riding out the wave” because the wave was already getting smaller, and if they didn’t do something they would’ve been dead, and left in the dust. Although their new strategy didn’t put them back in the mainstream it set them up well for the generation of players coming to Fortnite. Gen alpha.
5:10 google trends isn’t the best way to gauge something’s popularity, especially if you look at small time frames.
5:45 yes, and this is perfect for gen alpha, as they are now getting old enough to play Fortnite. These new kids have attention spans that are at an all time low. Fortnite saw that, and started updating the game much more frequently, and having much more spectacle to satiate them.
6:21 This would not have been a good time, as gen alpha was just starting to dip their toes into the game; If they got put into this slower Fortnite they have no nostalgia over then they would drop the game. OG Fortnite was only about a year and a half old at that point, so the impact wouldn’t have been as big. If they had went back and kept to their roots Fortnite wouldn’t have been as popular with the new generation.
7:28 This is actually when the new generation of Fortnite truly started. After chapter 2 they put this new strategy of theirs into overdrive. If they just put a slower version with less overall content into the game, then that would mess up the momentum they were accruing.
7:48 exactly! They have a totally different fan base playing the game now that wants different things than what the OGs want.
8:00 it isn’t an average season’s length for 2 reasons. 1. They didn’t want to risk the new generation getting bored of the slower paced and “less exciting” version of Fortnite OG Fortnite was; so they made it 1 month long to let them know what OG Fortnite felt like, while not losing their attention. 2. Since it’s 1 month long people are going to play Fortnite way more, as they want to maximize the amount of fun they can have in the little time period.
8:21 yep, that’s 100% true.
8:35 quite the opposite in fact, Fortnite believes in OG Fortnite so much that they put it randomly out of nowhere before some of their biggest updates to have the largest amount of eyes on the game as possible. Think about it, if they didn’t believe in it, And thought it would do bad they would just go into the new chapter with the huge new content.
8:40 it doesn’t. The only reason why they’re hitting peak player counts is because the new players are mixing with the old players. If Fortnite keeps the game closer to how it is in the OG season the new players would get bored and slowly leave.
8:50 I personally don’t think so for the reasons I stated above. Fortnite also had save the world that they could’ve kept updating if they needed things to do, as save the world never got its story mode finished before they stopped updating it.
9:54 those are the little things that make this game more interactive, and make it more attractive to the new Fortnite audience.
Extra things: If Fortnite kept to how it was they would not be able to implement the insane amount of crossovers they have in the game without it being off. ( crossovers are big cash cows for Fortnite, and rhey also bring players from the franchise they cross over with) I’m not a hater or anything, I love your content. I’m just sharing what I think about the topic.
Ooooh you ripped the video apart! Mad respect👊
This is actually pretty accurate , the season feels kind off boring for me , feels very empty , I actually kind off miss all the features from the newer chapters , that's why I'm really looking forward to chapter 5
@@BobikZaCat agreed
I agree with you
yeah tbh I think that fornite was peak during chapter 4 season 1
I rejoined Fortnite specifically for the OG update. I liked it, spent money on the battle pass and other skins, finished the battle pass and had fun playing the game I played on my friend's Xbox 360. But then the event happened and that came with a different map, different guns, npcs and vaults and weapon mods. Stuff that is different, but is either the same or worse than what they already had. I _want_ to keep playing Fortnite, but at this point it feels more like I'm playing an knockoff COD with Fortnite building.
One thing I miss was having to find stuff in the loading screens, slowly unlocking cosmetics though scanning loading screens was weirdly rewarding in a way that the current battle passes don't bring anymore
Same. I miss the hidden battle stats
Hit the nail in the head with this video, keeping the game recognisable is essential for a playerbase. Look at minecraft, they only update it once every year or so, and even then it is already alienating some of the playerbase. IMO, Seasons 2 to 4 had the best content stream of all. The game always felt fresh, yet recognisable. I remember I couldn't sleep the night before the season 4 launch, which was at 8am, so I decided to just stay awake the whole night hyping myself up. Hope both EPIC and Kevin Feige and Disney learn that you need to keep your identity recognisable for success, as both Fortnite before OG, and the current MCU are kinda unrecognisable to a lifelong fan like myself
Minecraft has a very similar problem with Fortnite they keep adding new stuff no one wants and people are starting to hate the devs for it
I hate what the Minecraft devs are doing right now. There hasn't been a significant biome update in years. The game feels stale and I rely on Vanilla+ mods to enjoy the game. Not to mention it's horrible performance on even mid tier PCs, a lot of people can't even crack 100fps anymore without installing performance improvement mods.
But the nice thing with Minecraft is, that you can choose which part of the game you want to play, for expample 1.8. or 1.12 or so on. You cant do the same with Fortnite and the problem that comes with it is, that Fortnite now is a couple games in one.
The problem with Minecraft isn’t that the updates are stepping outside of what Fans want it’s because the updates now compared to the older days are seen as so lackluster. Not because of the kind of content but because of the amount.
It’d be like if Fortnite did nothing for a year then added in one small location one weapon and one vehicle and called it a day.
ye minecraft is a great example of this because it killed a big chunk of its playerbase with the 1.9 update when they tried to change the game up too much. epic is going in the same direction with fortnite and it seems like every big game does the same thing at some point. they very rarely admit that they were wrong and go back. look at league, look at clash royale, look at valorant etc.
The thing I dislike (not really dislike, but am more slightly annoyed by) is how superficial the OG season feels. None of the weapons, gameplay mechanics, and even visuals are the same as they were in 2018, they are balanced versions from later in the game’s life, and I doubt this season would be gathering as much praise if it was as unpolished as older seasons in Fortnite were. It’s like manually triggering nostalgia for how you remember it being, not how they actually was.
Yeah I agree, I enjoyed the old cartoony graphics.
@@komedi69. word brother
Remasters have been doing this for years. Epic isn't exactly the first to do this. Crash is a big example of this.
Sigh. The balanced versions you refer to are actually less fun than what we had in Ch1. Your post actually does the opposite of what you want it to.
Despite Epic giving us the much crappier versions of planes, ballers, quads, etc with none of the map changes or anything else, the game is STILL setting records.
Btw, you aren't the only "genius" who has noticed that many things didn't return. Most of us figured that out and we don't think Fortnite OG is better for not having them.
People just love this map and the loot pool enough to slightly overlook all of the lazy shortcomings of this season. 👍
And why didn’t they buff the heavy shot gun or bring back the burst smg instead of the drum shot gun
I started in around season 5-7. I didn't play much, but I had the season 7 battlepass. Coming back to this map is possibly the most fun I've ever had in this game in a long time.
I will always think Fortnite went downhill due to an increase in vertical mobility. It used to be very boots on the ground with the occasional vertical movement through launchpads, bounces pad, or quad crasher.
The increase of vertical movement options through stuff like mantling, quad balls, Spider-Man gloves etc caused the game to become less challenging.
i think adding skill based match making and adding ai player bots are 2 bigger contributors to the downfall of the game and the reason its never felt the same since
it used to be like rolling a dice you never knew what type of game you would be loaded in 2 some games would be difficult and others would be easy it was exciting now you know every ones gonna be a complete sweat unless you run into a ai bot pickaxing a wall is EXTREAMLY PREDICTABLE
@@GhOsTShOTLDNNah the "downfall" (the toxics left to go play Minecraft) was season X
Tho from my POV the game got better after the "downfall" and for me, as a beta player, chapter 2 was prime fortnite in terms of fun, plus I could swim
Exactly. In season 0 you basically just ran and jumped, now it’s like Ninja Gaiden in terms of movement.
That’s what I liked about the old seasons. They had a much slower pace (which I preferred). you had to actually strategically find high ground and
actually build a fort in FORTnite. You’d shoot and snipe other players across forts and when you’d get a knock, you and your whole team would jump pad into their fort for some close range fighting, which was a harder item to find back then and one of the only quick mobility items in the game. It made third partying much harder, No vehicles, no crazy movement mechanics, no rifts, spider man grapples or any other ridiculous movement items.
The game now is full of stuff like that and everyone’s flying around the map at will. I’m sure plenty of people love it and prefer that quicker pace, but that’s not the kind of fortnite I enjoyed playing.
@@jarlbalgruuf7701 Agreed. Everybody is some kind of superhero on speed now. It used to be much more strategic.
I can understand Epic's thinking. If we were just on the same map for years. It wouldnt go well. We need something new but Epic hasnt really been executing that well. Chapter 2 is the best theyve done with alot of the fanbase saying C2S2 is the best season ever. They dont want to just rely on their old content
Yeah, right at season 5 things were already getting very boring, people don't remember that they were the ones that wanted something different, everyone was tired of the old map
@@pudimyno one was tired of the map in season 5 I remember clearly people just got over the game. That’s all
If you look at games like PUBG, the maps haven’t changed at all and it’s a very large reason the game is so stale
@@voltonator7991yeah, at around that point the public perception of the game dropped consistently over the next seasons and people didn’t like it because of the mass of “cringe” and children heralding it.
The people that say c2s2 is the best didn’t play in c1
As a Season 1 Veteran, I 100 percent agree with your entire statement. Fortnite back in the days was loved, when the game was simple. And yet hard to master.
Chapter 4 season 1 veteran?
@@bosssnurp5912 Chapter 1 Season 1.
i like the new chapters
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I'll tell you why OG Fortnite is better than modern fortnite, the focus on fun over balance. Fortnite nowadays is so bland and balanced but OG was pure unbridled chaos
Remember rocket riding and the double pump glitch?
I still feel strongly that Zero Build becoming a permanent game mode was the best thing to ever happen in recent fortnite times (other than the OG map). I only started picking up again slowly with my friends since then.
This is the best thing for the company but not for the game. Fortnite without building isnt fortnite… Its call of duty warzone or pubg with cartoony graphics. Zero build is a gamemode built out of cope.
I really don't agree with this, to me, Fortnite has a distinctive flare that makes me prefer it over the likes of PUBG, Warzone, Apex and so forth.
Even in Zero Build, Fortnite still feels like Fortnite, not in the same way of course, but the identity it built really differentiates it from the rest of the competition.
Another reason why I strongly prefer Zero Build over the default BR, is that your average player got exponentially sweatier than your average sweat in the OG seasons.
Nowadays you shot once to a guy, and he either builds the entire Taj Mahal, or he hard camps in a cube, which can be problematic depending on the loot pool, if only the Stinking Gas (that was brought back in OG Royale) was present, I wouldn't be complaining about that one, but oh well.
@@briomerkury729 so you’re agreeing with me?
@@heyitzblaster9262 Yeah defo, if it wasn't cuz of Zero Build, I probably wouldn't be playing Fortnite as much as I do nowadays.
I was rather responding to the other comment.
@@SeeFlow-bo1dl What you on about haha. Started playing fortnite three months ago. For me the version with builds got pretty boring (gameplay wise) after a week but the zero build is always a good time.
To be fair, some changes they made were actually nice. Swimming was cool and fishing was also funny. Cars were also nice. The best thing they could have done is just use multiple maps instead of forcing a new map each time. I think OG Fortnite kind of has an oppertunity for that idea since the whole time travelling story line is apparently changing the past fortnite events. So maybe Epic can create something like a multiverse where there are multiple parallel timelines, all with their own version of the Fortnite Island (including the OG one).
The cars spawned to frequently, and they spawned everywhere making is so that you don’t really care for them
no the point of cars is not having to walk everywhere and if you have to walk halfway accross the map for a car there is no point@@assassinunknown6664
Tbh cars were a huge mistake because there were way more fun ways to travel. They used to have ballers, golf carts and hoverboards but they replaced all that with cars. Which is much more boring
i stopped playing fortnite in 2019 and sometimes played for an hour at a time when board. when OG fortnite returned i was back to playing almost 24/7. ive tried to get used to this new chapter 5 but it just feels like how later versions of the game have felt. complicated and full of sweats
Something that is often forgotten is how polluted the game is with sound effects. I still remember when I played season 2 how quiet it was. No birds chirping. No flies buzzing. No old house noises. No wind. No radios. Just.. silence... It was eerie and gave a sense of mystery without being annoying. It set the tone and let the players focus on each other. Now it feels like they try too much to make the game sound fresh that it just sounds terrible. I wish they would realize this and cut back on all the unneeded noise.
I think the reason this season is so short is because they think that if the season is too long then all the people coming back to the game will still want to play fortnite by the end of the 1 month period and then will at least try to play the next chapter rather than getting burnt out in the og season then not playing after its over.
Fortnite lost me when they started focusing more heavily on outside tie-ins for their skins and their “story”. I thought it was much better when it was mostly original content because it felt like its own thing. Now most of their seasons are rolled out with some celebrity skin, half of the emotes are just boring TikTok dances with random rap songs playing over them, and overall those collectables don’t seem nearly as cool or valuable as they did back in the day. The game feels like it’s gotten too complex with almost too much content coming at us way too fast.
That being said OG Fortnite brought me and my crew back together who hadn’t played since some time early in chapter 2, and now that it’s gone we’ve left again until it returns.
I think they should keep it simple. You don't need the OG map, you just need the classic aesthetics, the simple gameplay and a good story. If Chapter 5 opens with a new map that's based on the Chapter 1 aesthetic, instead of them using new maps to showcase their new tech like they did with Chapter 4, and they manage to keep it simple until the Chapter ends, thats a guaranteed home run. But they're never going to do that.
2:30 this is exactly what happened to me. Hadn’t played for 5 years with them- logged on to see og and saw all of them on. It was so nice to be reunited, they are all much older now and have lives but playing fn with all of them this month has been some of the best days ever.
They brought back a similar feeling of a slow content drip rather than a flood around Chapter 2 Season 1-2. Few new skins, few new weapons. I remember the excitement when the flare gun came out as one of the first new weapons of the season.
A lot of people hate on Chapter 2 Season 1's length and lack of meaningful updates but I found it refreshing during that time. After the breakneck pace they maintained during the final 4 seasons of Chapter 1 it was good being back to the simpler way of doing things. You also got familiarized with the map and learned to love the new locations.
@@thebroschannel I think it might have been a little too slow, but I think it was a healthy bit of calm
i get your point but i dont believe epic is that stupid, the game would have already died without constant updates
Simplicity leads to irrelevance change is needed for growth
@@Terrible_Content people don’t understand this and it pisses me off
I’d beg to differ. CSGO was the most played game on steam and virtually nothing changed in its entire lifespan. The same three meta guns for 13 years. You could leave CS in 2018 and come back to find the same thing waiting for you in 2023
tell that to csgo or cs2 which is almost the same as csgo.
The funniest part is I quit fortnite for csgo in 2019-2020 and I will still come back to cs2 feeling happy, when fortnite makes me angry.
As an OG who quit the game in chapter 2 because of the drastic, unnecessarily complex additions: I love OG Fortnite. It's not nostalgia. I played throughout the entire month and liked it the more I played. The OG game was better in so many ways. Better loot, more balanced loot, the pacing was good, no vehicles, no NPCs, no attachments, no bloat.
Then Chapter -5 dropped. I hated it. Fast-paced, no time to think, just loot, run, and shoot. Bullet speed and drop is slower than Chris Christie on a good day. Weapon balance is completely ruined by attachments. NPCs everywhere. Cars everywhere. Just bloat everywhere.
Chapter (negative) 5 is a different game entirely. It doesn't come close to OG.
It's really not that hard, easy enough to get a win without any attachments. The things you've listed on the OG section are not positives to most people, makes the game sound boring asf (and the loot definitely was not balanced lmao). Can't fathom why you would want to play in the OG world for more than a month. The OG pass was good but a month is the perfect length for it before it starts getting boring pretty quickly.
Really enjoying Fortnite OG and don’t really want it to go. That said me and my mates are going to stick around for chapter 5 after this and continue to play if it’s good, it definitely brought us all back
Something I think that Epic NEEDS to do with this newest chapter and this use of time travel usage is to make the next chapter something lengthy, simple, and less of a sort of grand spectacle. While I do love the lore and story they’re trying to show the world, the fact is that the act of running a game to be simple and fun, whilst also having it be rich with a story for many to be pulled into is a balancing act. While it may be hard to determine what moves will pitter the next chapter to be more fun or more complex, it’s something that they gotta figure out. Soon.
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You also cannot neglect the "storyline" that they have been building ever since season 4. the problem is they add superfluous characters to drive the story when honestly there have only been a handful of characters relevant since the beginning (Jonesy, the Visitor, The Paradigm)
I feel the same. I never knew where the story was going. The seven were really cool characters, but I felt like Epic didn't know what to do with them after the chrome, and killed everybody offscreen. I've been waiting for The Foundation and Agent Jones to finish whatever they were doing and return back. But we still never got any conclusion to that whole thing.
as soon as the new season dropped my life got shitty again. those season 5 items and the map were perfectly balanced as all things should be.
it was so perfectly simple and enjoyable back then
the idea that this might not have worked shows how disconnected from reality being a software engineer can make you
My problem isn't the addition of new content but the fact that not enough is removed, so the lingering additions slowly pile up into a bloated, overcomplicated mess. Having NPCs, heists, half a dozen different vehicles, guaranteed orange weapons (with orange not even being the best), and the godforsaken augments all at once turns the focus away from the beuatiful core of the game, which I see as equal parts scavenging and skill-based gun pvp. OG only proved that to me, and hearing about so many new features without any news of removals next season has me fearing another headache.
I don’t think it turns the focus away at all. It’s all just different paths to get to that end goal. Cause at the end of the day it’s about getting the best weapons and killing. And all of this serves to do just that
@@captainswagger2838exactly 😭 all these people making it look like it’s so complicated it’s not even that hard to understand
Bro I’ve been wanting simplicity for so long thanks for speaking out for the community
The only new feature I enjoyed in later chapters of Fortnite was Zero Build. Never liked the idea of building a giant tower to win a gunfight. I always saw the building feature as a way to make a small base or bunker to fortify yourself in combat. But I'm happy OG Fortnite is back. I've grinded my pass and enjoyed so many victories with the crazy fun loot pool.
Man, I loved your video, really, but I'm "new" to fortnite (I started playing late 2021) so when the OG season came out, I kinda hated it. Almost no vehicles, an ugly map, a full heal item that takes 15 SECONDS to use... I wasn't having it. I just farmed the whole battle pass, bc Lil' Split and Renegade Lynx are gorgeous skins, and then left it. I'm glad that a new chapter is out, with tons of new content, more lore, more movement items and vehicles, and finally crossovers with other games coming up. I see your point: OG season brought back all the nostalgic players back, including YOU (probably), and the old map and loot made you remember the good old days with the boys and all, but it was just that, nostalgia and an effort to bring back the lost high dopamine days. Now, I won't say that filling the game with so much content that no one can keep up is the way to go, but I think that all games should keep going forward, adding new stuff and SOMETIMES bringing back the old stuff to make you go "wow, I remember THAT!". There needs to be a balance between new content/gameplay changes and revival of old content.
This is aging so well seeing as chapter 5 is basically just pubg and warzone but with building. It's complete dogshit and a completely different game. They'll have to revert the game to keep it alive.. or let it die.
yep
Stoped playing Fortnite back in 2019 my freshmen year of highschool. I am now a sophomore in college having the time of my life playing Fortnite which at the time I praised to be the most enjoyable video game I have ever played. I can see where middle school me was coming from!
thing is, when you have to resort to nostalgia to bring back players it's like admitting defeat, it means that you cannot come up with new ways to attract players
not really. fortnite was still at an all time high player count before season OG
2 solutions for that:
1. Make new, simplistic maps in the style of C1 without gold, augments, etc.
2. Make C1 a permanent mode that rotates through the seasons
I fail to believe chapter 4 fortnite had more players than chapter 2 s1 or ch1 s5… Absolutely no one I know has talked about fortnite for the past 2 years since chapter 2… we were all reluctant to come back to fortnite and I am only 17. I was 13 when the original game came out.
As someone who’s stuck with the game throughout every season until now, I can say that there definitely was a lot about OG fortnite that was just better, but I also think that it’s important that some changes need to be made eventually. You can’t just keep it at season 5 forever and expect no one to get a little tired of it after a while. Change makes games feel alive and the changes that they’ve made are actually incredibly fun to me. The perk system especially was such a fun mechanic and I already want it back. I hope they keep OG fortnite as a secondary mode, but I also hope people will stay to at least try out what epic wants to do with their game. They have genuinely amazing ideas. If they didn’t I’d have stopped playing loooong ago.
Ok and chapter 5 is ass again and I want to leave like I did with the past 3 chapters
if the OG comes back for good, i’ll play forever.
You know that's not true.
I really hate the "Oh you don't actually miss (blank) you just miss how you felt back then" and my response to that is no, I don't because I literally wanted to hop off this mortal coil like 6 years ago, what tf u mean "I miss how I felt." Fortnite was just good back then and that's why so many people are enjoying the original content again.
That's not to say the newer content is bad, because it isn't but even the og season, while not completely faithful to how fortnite was back then is just a bit more fun to me.
The reason it “took too long” was because this was planned out since like 2021. Fortnite has brought the OG chapter back so that everyone’s eyes are on chapter 5 because something big is happening which just happens to be the Lego collab, the Rocket League racing mode, and the music rhythm game. Fortnite has been working on the Lego collab since 2021 so I can only assume they planned for season OG or something like it since 2021 because they knew it would bring the most people back to see the new things Fortnite has to offer in chapter 5. EVERYTHING was most like meticulously planned down to the very minute detail so that chapter 5 will succeed.
As a zero build player. OG was the most annoying, unfun experience ever. So many qol stuff was gone. More broken unfun mechanics popped up. How people play now compared to back that drastically changed how the game flowed on those shittier maps. It was a failure to me and many people i play with. It became the "Not playing this for 3 weeks" game. The peak didn't last. A lot of people came to the same conclusions i did. That it was fine for the time. Fortnite was still new and finding itself. But it's still nostalgia. If they want to bring it back properly they need to go above and beyond. Instead of half assing it.
if they didn't believe in it they wouldn't use it to boost their players before their "biggest event" and "biggest update yet" they know it'll be successful, they aren't idiots. they're using it to boost their players and whilst everyone is here, promote their upcoming new chapter, new skin releases, new lego mode, new racing mode, new guitar hero mode, new event, new guns, new first person mode. they know what they're doing, if they released this next chapter like usual the playerbase will continue to spiral downwards. they're good at promo, hence why I think they waited so long on purpose. if GTA 6 was released in 2015 it wouldn't have had anywhere near as much hype as it does right now, Jake Vs Ksi has been building for years and that has a ton of hype. if you make consumers wait for an already hype product in the right way, it can snowball. leaving epic games with 40+ million players in a day to advertise to. they didn't think this would flop at all.
1. They can know that Ch1 will bring attention for 1 month while also not believing in it's long term viability.
2. I agree things need to stew, but not for 5 years. GTA 6 didn't need to stew for over 10 years.
I'm 42 and remember how much hype there was around Vice City and San Andreas, and those games released only 2 years apart.
GTA 6 took 10 years because GTA online was an unexpected smashing success, and Rockstar milked it for all it was worth.
With Fortnite OG, there would've been massive hype for this 3 years ago. People were calling for the Ch1 map the minute we moved to Ch2.
With Epic, I just think they feared stagnation. They probably feel the game always has to be doing something entirely different or people will leave.
I think they're right to an extent.
That said, I see no good reason to not have Fortnite OG as a mode, aside from maybe Epic worrying that no one will play Ch5 or their precious Creative if Fortnite OG is taking so many players.
Fortnite OG is obviously quite popular.
I hadn't played Fortnite consistently in years but when og came out I played every day of the season cause it was not only nostalgia it was pure fun enjoyment, and as soon as it was over I immediately lost that motivation and have only played Ch5 a few times.
I started during Chapter 3 Season 1 and had a ball of a time with OG.
The odd thing was that a few of my friends who started at the same time I did seemed to hate it. Once Chapter 5 came out, they praised it and such. Admittedly I felt oddly refreshed when I played my first few matches last night.
My theory is that we’ve entered a point where now there’s a split where people like me have become “nostalgic” for these newer chapters.
It’s the same kind of thing you described with older players returning for OG. This new chapter has felt the most like the one I started on and I’ve seriously gravitated towards it.
Very hyped for OG to come back though, it was great enjoying that piece of gaming history firsthand.
Loads of people here saying that the game needed drastic changes every year or so to keep popularity i think miss the point a little. Fortnite in its first 4 seasons was at its peak because it had a completely unique mechanic like building, it was simple, the guns were balanced well enough and the game had a steady flow of content updates which kept it fresh. As soon as Epic started to really ramp up updates and to try make some retrospective storyline for the map the game started to die, which would be around seasons 5-7. Its telling that even at that stage people were already asking for the game to revert back to the original versions. The magic of fortnite was its simplicity and also its complexity in the building mechanics. As the inital seasons progressed so did the players and their abilities with the building. What really started the drop off was adding creative, that then made the skill balance of the game completely different and if you didn't spend hours in creative practicing you basically got slaughtered every game you played. So to say that the OG fortnite players are blinded by nostalgia i think is wrong, we just liked the simplicity and balance the game used to have. Its similar to GTA Online in that way i guess, once the weird additions like doomsday and oppressors were added the game started to drop off. People like simplicity with updates that feel natural and arent too radical
OG Fortnite was actually so fun but they already ruined it with this chapter 5 trash. I miss the game for how simples and balanced it was. Now it’s just a battle Royale with too many features.
“What are you doing in my house??!”
“Yes”
Wait what?? The OG store is back? I never saw it...
My entire old friend group got reunited for fortnite og. Im not even kidding lmao
Man nostalgia is a drug😂
Y'all stucked in the past, just move on.
I really hated OG season it was so slow paced and bad. Yes i'm a zero build player i really don't like minecraft or people build mansions after they get shot once.
I started at CH3 S3 and THE REASON i loved the game they keep adding new mechanics and stuffs!
BR gets really boring after a while but when the gameplay changes it really feels refreshing.
Now we have Rocket Racing , Lego minecraft , Rock band i don't even need to play br anymore! I love racing and rhythm games.
Y'all can leave the game and play something else the game feels better than ever now.
50v50 was supervisor underrated, such a fun mode
50v50 was never underrated, it was and still is considered one of the best ltms ever made, the problem is thag it hasnt returned in like 6 years
Holy shit, season 8 was actually my jumping off point. I got all the umbrellas, season 1-10, but only went through the motions on those final two, and then just dipped.
Watching this video after the new seasons dog shot movement rework no one asked for completely proves his point.
yup
Deadass if they remove the og map I’m deleting the game again just like I did all those years ago.
i did the same thing at season x but i think i’ll give chapter 5 a chance
I actually think that Epic was still doing good when they dropped Chapter 2. The end of the original Fortnite felt chaotic, so many weapons and vehicles and all that stuff was added to the game by then, people wanted a return to something simple. I feel like Chapter 2 Season 1 really delivered that. It was like a calm, a break in the storm, while offering an incredible new map to explore with neat new features. The skins were simple, the weapon pool was simple, it was just so fun. I will say though that I stopped playing after Season 2, and I think Chapters 3 and 4 were really bad. I just will always respect Chapter 2 Season 1 as an incredible season.
yeah, yeah. i left in season 8 (too much for me) came back in chapter 2 season 4ish for the creative gamemodes, then left again. og forkknife brought me back playing everyday losing sleep, aaaand i played the new season for like an hour before i swore to never play again
I have player s3-s6 (early s6), and then a very small ampunt of s7, a bit more of s8 cause it was the only free game on switch. A bit more of s9… a very small portion of s10. and it was early on so i didj tknow about the black hole, and then a bit of ch2 s1 and ch2 s2. Thats it
As an OG player (from ch1 s4) I have no problem with the new updates because if the game stops updating and adding new features it will get stale and will end up like Call of Duty. They rarely update the game with new features and it gets boring as hell. For me Fortnite should be a ever evolving game that adds tons of new and interesting fratures.
Talking about how long it's taken for them to get here brings an interesting thought, the fortnite played in avengers endgame was og fortnite, and it was played in 2023, it's entirely possible they didn't want this at all but it was in a deal with marvel they made all those years ago
nahhhhh they just want all eyes on their game rn for the new chapter
Era played in endgame confirmed!?
(Era is a revival server for actual OG Fortnite)
Sometimes the best thing for a game is for the OG’s to have their time to shine, and pass the game onto newer players. You can call yourself an OG, but there are different stages of OG. Unfortunately, nothing great can last forever.
Maybe a hot take but i really liked the flow and feel of the modern chapters. Im really happy too see the old map again and see the game spike in popularity, but its gonna get old. With the amount of hours I’ve put in the game im happy too see new things.
The modern weapon and item pool was good, the map was clean, i just dont like the infinite mobility tools (like the cloud, hammer, and sword, etc). Vehicles were annoying too.
But we”ll see where they take it. Worst case scenario, i can just keep making creative maps for me and my friends :)
having new seasons arent bad, they just add stupid features. NPCs, op spray guns, op mobility, mobility that breaks builds, mantling, healoff meta, desync, bad tournaments, op snipers, etc just ruin the game. Especially the mobility and mantling, which undermines the value of what makes fortnite unique - building. Skillfully taking highground used to be an advantage, but now people can just mantle and grapple up with no cool down and get a free pump shot.
I am not an OG to fortnite, but what I will say is that they are re-releasing OG skins and it has to stop. If they could just give the OG players a back bling or a new skin to show they are a true OG it would make many people happy.
I think a big part of what made many people move away (including myself) was that epic started focusing more on the technical side of the game promoting E-sports, So a goofy game with creative and fun but unbalanced ideas turned into polish filtered out version of itself that is great for professional play but awful for causal weekend play with friends. Nowdays you wont find a single lobby without a 0 ping bob the builder kid with a football skin, i think the fact we now have bots in lobbies only proves my point.
I know a "Fortnite Classic" would just dilute the playerbase even further, but I can't deny how much excitement it would bring to the table.
As much as I love OG fortnite, I do admit some new things were cool. That whole alien season, brought some nice weapons, a UFO, and you would get abducted for some reason. I liked the idea of being able to ride boars and wolves in chapter 2 season 6, and swinging around the daily bugle was awesome. Plus, you couldn't really go wrong with those sharks and npcs. Also that whole roller coaster with the ballers was awesome and so were the marvel mythics. And that indiana jones temple was pretty cool too. (I remember attempting to destroy it with goku's mythic with my friends in battle lab) Basically, what I'm trying to say is that not everything about the newer seasons are horrible. (except chapter 4 that just simply sucks. (besides season 4 chapter 4, of course))
I was playing a lot at the start of this event but they ruined it again by advising season X stuff and the old item shop, I used to wait all night for the new item shop when there wasn’t a million skins and a massive shop
i feel like also the new mechanics with the old map seems just so refreshing
While the map isn’t designed for it, it definitely feels so much better to have c3 movement and a few of the newer items instead of the slow and clunky building-only movement
The thing i really liked about the OG season is that they made it a part of fortnite story, it wasnt randomly thrown in like an event or smt, instead they made it connected to lore and a big part of the story.
To be fair they did just basically invent new lore to make it work. Nothing they've done before really mattered to this. Chapter 4 sesson 4 they throw in a random time traveling vampire to the lore so they can do this.
broo pleasant, greasy, salty, and retail should never leave the map..
I wish
Bro predicted Peter Griffin coming to Fortnite
Crazy how people forget that the old map was removed because of how many people hated how it was
i think that was just season x, not the entirety of chapter 1
@@its_4lifeisn’t season x part of chapter 1? And anyway, the choice to do the first “The End” event was made before the launch of season x. At the time, people wanted changes, Bea cause the map was getting stale after so much time spent on it. Same thing happened for Chapter 2, the map was getting stale and so they changed it.
I like this channel's experimentation and variety, it's like some sort of magazine where I would flip to the gaming section, another flips to videos about music, and so on.
this OG season could be even better if we had old gameplay, without these climbing stuff
But then zero build would be even more unplayable
i think mantling and sprinting made the og season more enjoyable
My problem with current Fortnite is that there is too much content. I loved the simplicity of Og Fn
I have to to disagree, they knew this was going to be a success, the whole point of season OG is to catch people's attention on how big the next chapter will be, adding not only chapter 5 of Battle Royale, but also a racing mode, a Rock band mode and the lego Minecraft like mode.
The whole point is to make those successful. They do it a month long for FOMO, throw an event/concert on the last day to catch even more attention and all the new stuff releases around Christmas time, you have a perfect formula for money making here.
They know that OG will probably always be more popular, but I think they rather to keep evolving the game, wether or not thats in a good direction, well, we'll see
Personally I do believe nostalgia plays a big factor in how people view OG fortnite, remember in the actual OG fortnite we couldn’t even sprint, slide, or mantel, things that would make the game feel unplayable now if they took them out, but thankfully they kept them in
I actually wish they took it out because I only played early ch2 and none of ch3 or ch4 and for this reason, I would personally enjoy no sprint and mantling. We have buiilding for going up and also I was pissed when they brought back og and you couldnt double pump
bro you were %1000 percent accurate
Please just add back og fortnite as a gamemode or something.. I could literally play it for years and be happy.
1 day into the new chapter, how did you get everything right its crazy
•Epic shocked at OG seasons massive success
•Many players quitting/off put by new complicated mechanics
getting back into modern Fortnite today after OG was really depressing and overwhelming for me
For me it's not just nostalgia, it's the charming cartoony art style and most importantly, the simplicity of the gameplay
@@CombustixPresents agreed I don’t understand why they can’t keep og as a game mode all the new players can play chapter 5 and ogs can play og. They would get the best of both worlds without alienating anyone and to keep og interesting they could do like every couple of weeks or month or so they can cycle through seasons of chapter 1 and then when they get to the end of chapter 1 just revert back to chapter 1 season 1 and cycle through all over again. I played Fortnite before chapter 1 even started and quit early in chapter 2 when they started making all these changes and just returned after all these years for OG
@@CombustixPresentshow does it not get boring after a while
then the predictions all went wrong and fortnite achieved it's all time concurrent player peak because of LEGO
@@n1tro72 lol ur right
As someone who only played Fortnite BR on release and only just started playing again for OG month, it really has been the over-complexity that has always kept me away. I stopped playing originally because there wasn't a no-build mode and being moderately good at building eventually became a requirement to ever win lobbies, after that even after they added no build I was put off by how much was just in the game and how complex it looked watching other people play it where nothing is as intuitive as it's original concepts.
2 days for the OG season to end, and I'm already in grief. I really think you've had a point with this video. The Fortnite analitcs spiked when the OG season started, but there's something wrong here. If there game is doing weel in this situation, why don´t just leave it. You've explained that workers need something other then fixing bugs or other problems. But I have another theary. The problem is the money. While they keep lauching new seasons and making new collabs they will still profit more, then just leave the game as it is. So as long as they keep adding stuf to the game, they will continue to profit more and more. But, when is this going to stop. Season 3 Chapter 10?? To proof that leaving the game as it is, you have the exemples of Pubgy.
Great video from you Lufa, really think if you get people whatching this, something could change in their plans. Subed allready😀!
Another bit of proof that this season wasn't expected to succeed was the lack of general polish on the little things
The Meteor trail doesn't act as a smoke bomb, theres a giant invisible barrier under loot lake's island, the cube doesn't bounce you anymore, the cube island doesn't cause things like thrown items to rise anymore, etc.
I feel like you’re making a bit to much of an exaggeration when talking about chapter 2. I mean, it was mismanaged, but by the start of season X I felt like so many people were clamouring for a new map. By the time “The End” happened we knew we weren’t coming back, as the season was a celebration of the past. Still, chapter 2 was mismanaged and ended up having the same problem of the map getting stale with time.
my little sister and i played fortnite late middle school (bit of early high school for me) together. she’s still in high school and i just started college, so we rarely see eachother. but when the og was announced her and i made plans to get a few games in. the nostalgia and bonding with my sister over this game one more time was actually amazing! i hope this becomes a reoccurring thing.
Bro said season 2 was mid like wtf
Is he stupid?
Sorry I just had to! 😂
Easy fix, Epic Games….. make OG a game mode in the same way that Zero Build is a game mode
I’ve been playing fortnite since season 2 and I’ve tried to ride this game out for awhile, but stopped playing around 2 years ago. The game just became unrecognizable, it didn’t even seem or feel like fortnite anymore. This OG season brought me back and it actually feels like the game I knew and loved. If they don’t keep the OG map and the simplicity of the game, then I doubt I’ll be playing fortnite when the new season comes out.
As a seanson 4-5 veteran, I agree. They don’t care about working on what they already have, because if that statement was false, then Save The World would be much more polished than how it is now, had have updates again, (e.g. like fixing the wild life) and most probably they would make it free, *a promise that they made for more than 7 years, and still, they decided to turn it into a “premium experience” rather than work in it and fulfill the original promise.*
i love the original map cause its honestly where the artstyle was at its best and not a weirdly realistic lookin ugly mess and the map just felt like it was made for building,
Fortnite is just a production ready tech demo for the Unreal Engine since chapter 2
None of my friends wanted to get on, but i did like this season but i still liked ch 3 and ch 4. When og fn started out all my friends hated it but we got through it hopefully ch5 brings it back.
I love complexity have you ever seen those painting that people can create that look like a normal boy with his dog but you zoom out and theres so much more details and buildings.
A simple life is a boring life, have some fun, you only have one life.
the one fucking month I cant play the game due to broken hardware and the best event its ever had goes live
my man you just have cooked for a bunch of people in less than 12 minutes
It’s an honor
It’s truly crazy how long it’s been since the good old days of fort. Hard to believe I was a middle schooler back then