why do people like fortnite?

[Ashleyyyy]

as the title says.

 

i've never played fortnite... i've never understood the appeal of it or why people like that kind of game... 

[dizmo]

Why do people like pineapple on pizza?
Because everyone has different tastes.

 

You probably shouldn't judge something you've never played.

[Canada EH]

4 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

as the title says.

 

i've never played fortnite... i've never understood the appeal of it or why people like that kind of game... 

People have varying tastes in time wasting adventures.

[PopsicleHustler]

4 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

as the title says.

 

i've never played fortnite... i've never understood the appeal of it or why people like that kind of game... 

Because its the new "hot" thing. Fortnite is primarily played by kids, and kids don't have much of their own opinion, they just follow the crowd.   

[Ashleyyyy]

1 minute ago, dizmo said:

Why do people like pineapple on pizza?
Because everyone has different tastes.

 

You probably shouldn't judge something you've never played.

i know that, but i'm just trying to see other perspectives.

 

what i've seen of it is enough for me not to play it. 

[Crunchy Dragon]

I find it fun(at times, Season 5 was literal hell).

 

The fights are a little more mentally engaging than PUBG. In PUBG, if you can shoot and handle recoil and bullet drop, you're golden. In Fortnite, there's building, other players, bullet drop(on snipers), bloom, and so forth. There's more to keep track of in Fortnite's fights.

 

In my opinion, the game gets a lot better when you put in the time and effort to get better at it.

[Ashleyyyy]

Just now, PopsicleHustler said:

Because its the new "hot" thing. Fortnite is primarily played by kids, and kids don't have much of their own opinion, they just follow the crowd.   

which is good because then they stay away from the older games i play 

[Slottr]

It's free and a genuine good multiplayer game.

 

I don't play it or ever have the appeal to but I totally get why its doing so well.

[Ashleyyyy]

Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

I find it fun(at times, Season 5 was literal hell).

 

The fights are a little more mentally engaging than PUBG. In PUBG, if you can shoot and handle recoil and bullet drop, you're golden. In Fortnite, there's building, other players, bullet drop(on snipers), bloom, and so forth. There's more to keep track of in Fortnite's fights.

 

In my opinion, the game gets a lot better when you put in the time and effort to get better at it.

interesting. i didn't know there were so many different things to keep in mind while playing. 

[NumLock21]

All I heard is fornite this, fortnite that. Just fortnite, fortnite, fortnite. It's starting to get annoying.

[Crunchy Dragon]

Just now, firelighter487 said:

interesting. i didn't know there were so many different things to keep in mind while playing. 

If you want to do well at least, you have to keep that in mind and be aware of all that.

Just now, NumLock21 said:

All I heard is fornite this, fortnite that. Just fortnite, fortnite, fortnite. It's starting to get annoying.

I enjoy the game, but still find a lot of that stuff annoying.

[Ashleyyyy]

3 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

All I heard is fornite this, fortnite that. Just fortnite, fortnite, fortnite. It's starting to get annoying.

same. which is why i never wanted to play it. 

 

2 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

If you want to do well at least, you have to keep that in mind and be aware of all that.

that's with most games to be honest... liek i play Overwatch a LOT, and in that game you need to be aware of what each character can to so you can kinda predict what your enemies are going to do. 

[lmeneses]

8 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

The fights are a little more mentally engaging than PUBG. In PUBG, if you can shoot and handle recoil and bullet drop, you're golden. In Fortnite, there's building, other players, bullet drop(on snipers), bloom, and so forth. There's more to keep track of in Fortnite's fights.

I agree, at first, I did not find it appealing, but once i started utilizing the building features and such, I found it to be quite fun but only with friends

[Crunchy Dragon]

2 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

that's with most games to be honest... liek i play Overwatch a LOT, and in that game you need to be aware of what each character can to so you can kinda predict what your enemies are going to do. 

That's true. And a lot of Fortnite fights(or any PvP game in general) is predicting what your enemy will do. Which also factors in the gunplay, the building, the editing, etc.

 

And there's also an increased risk of getting 3rd or even 4th partied in fights now, so you'll want to be finishing your fights faster than usual.

2 minutes ago, lmeneses said:

I agree, at first, I did not find it appealing, but once i started utilizing the building features and such, I found it to be quite fun but only with friends

Agreed, it is a lot more fun with friends. I play PUBG exclusively with friends.

[NumLock21]

24 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I enjoy the game, but still find a lot of that stuff annoying.

I don't mind others playing Fortnite or other games they like. But to keep talking about it to the point, where it's being shoved down on people faces, it needs to stop. Overwatch and PUBG are also popular games, and yet we don't hear about them every damn second.

[dcgreen2k]

For a couple months, I thought it was just a complete PUBG ripoff with a typical cancerous community, but once I started playing, I realized that you really don't encounter those people very often. Besides that, there's a good selection of things to do and the daily/weekly/event challenges have a good amount of variety. As with any multiplayer game, playing with your own friends instead of randoms in your team is definitely recommended, although the solo gamemode is still really fun. If anybody were to start playing Fortnite, the first thing they should do is turn the voice chat off because nobody wants to hear a 12 year old Russian kid singing while you're concentrating in a game. 

[Paul Rudd]

16 hours ago, firelighter487 said:

i've never played fortnite... i've never understood the appeal of it or why people like that kind of game...

Because they either suck at multiplayer games that let you respawn after you die or they are tired of multiplayer games that let you respawn after you die.

 

I personally hate the battle royale genre because I don't suck at multiplayer games that let you respawn after you die and I never get tired of multiplayer games that let you respawn after you die.

 

As you can tell, not being able to respawn after I die is a deal breaker for my taste of games. I gotta be able to avenge my death. I just do. It's tough to understand how people tolerate being thrown back into a main menu seconds after dying and then having to start all over again. I suppose when people have friends to pick them up and/or protect them, battle royale games might be fun to them.

 

Battle royale games are also pretty fresh and new if you've never played them. Anything new and/or fresh attracts a gamer because it's different than the same old thing. Fortnite also just so happens to be pretty polished so that kind of ties into why it's chosen by most battle royale gamers over other clunky/unpolished battle royale games. Plus it will run on a potato and... it's FREE. That's pretty much why so many people play it right there.