Fortnite

[FreeOnes_Adam]

Someone explain this one to me. It totally sucks. Why is it so popular?


Convince me. GO!

 

[~~whimsy~~]

At 2pm ET on April 11th, servers for the popular online shooter Fortnite went down, and remained offline until 2pm the following day. The team at PCGamesN asked if this downtime might have affected searches and traffic to Pornhub.


Pornhub’s statisticians found that searches for “Fortnite” increased by as much as 60% during the 24 hour period, as hardcore players headed to Pornhub for their Fortnite fix. Shortly after access to the server resumed, searches for “Fortnite” returned to normal levels.

https://www.pornhub.com/insights/fortnite-server-outage

That's what I found out today. Apparently it is porno people loving games. I mean who does that anyways? :dunno:

 

[D-rock]

I don't see the appeal to it at all. The structure building aspect has no appeal to me in a battle royale first person shooter. I don't like the cartoony nature of it, and the mechanics and shooting look way too dumb down and tailored for casual players. Maybe that last part is why it's popular though. It just plain doesn't seem like a good game.

Also while PUBG definitely has it's problems, the developer who makes it can be douchebags, they don't know how to optimize or patch the game well, they don't listen to their players, it's obvious they weren't ready for primetime and the unexpected success they had, and they have pretty much totally squandered the whole catching lightning in the bottle with the battle royale concept and let themselves be overtaken by Fortnite I have to grudgingly admit it's both better than Fortnite and Fortnite just very shamelessly ripped them off.

The battle royale FPS concept might appeal to me more, but first some other studio that has a lot more resources and can do it right will have to make a game without the flaws of the other two have.

 

[FreeOnes_Adam]

I don't see the appeal to it at all. The structure building aspect has no appeal to me in a battle royale first person shooter. I don't like the cartoony nature of it, and the mechanics and shooting look way too dumb down and tailored for casual players. Maybe that last part is why it's popular though. It just plain doesn't seem like a good game.

Also while PUBG definitely has it's problems, the developer who makes it can be douchebags, they don't know how to optimize or patch the game well, they don't listen to their players, it's obvious they weren't ready for primetime and the unexpected success they had, and they have pretty much totally squandered the whole catching lightning in the bottle with the battle royale concept and let themselves be overtaken by Fortnite I have to grudgingly admit it's both better than Fortnite and Fortnite just very shamelessly ripped them off.

The battle royale FPS concept might appeal to me more, but first some other studio that has a lot more resources and can do it right will have to make a game without the flaws of the other two have.

Yeah, it sucks. My theory is that some youtube person must be making it popular. Kids a pretty impressionable with it comes to youtube personalities.

 

[Legzman]

battleroyal is trash in general. It's boring as fuck for several minutes. Then you get into a nice little gunfight. If you win, continue with the boredom for a few more minutes. If you lose, it's game over. Stupid pointless waste of fucking time. And fortnight is over the top cheesy.

 

[Torre82]

The previous meta was ABSOLUTE GARBAGE. They did this mad max thing where the cars were the most powerful thing you could have. The final 3 always just drove around in circles in their mega-vehicles.

I always play zero-build, cuz srsly .. those insta-build people that just go up a mile and 'camp'? Straight bullshit.