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Fortnite is the new version of Unreal Tournament.
Fortnite is to UT, like a Dacia is to a porsche.
Cool. Now I just need another analogy to explain the comparison between a Dacia to a Porsche.
Errr ... fine. I have a bias. I didnt like fortnite. I grew up playing twitch shooters like quake and UT. The most important things that mattered back then was movement, positioning and ofcourse, aim.
Aim was a huge huge part, back then the input was as analog as it got. Nowadays I feel like raw aim has taken a step back, while still being important, It is not THE diferentiating factor any longer, especially in games like fortnite.
I'm bitter about that because my mechanical skill is still up there even as an older dude, but in todays games everyone runs circles around me, especially in games like fortnite.
I miss the arena shooters, the raw input feel of 1:1 of the analog days. But I guess I'm just another older guy screaming at a cloud.
I played Q2, Q3A and UT when I was in my 20s, and I was in a clan, all that stuff. I wasn't amazing but I was good enough to not embarrass myself.
Still play Fortnite from time to time, and it's the best of the modern arena shooters. When it came out, it was extremely playable even on my PC which ran PUBG at 1-2 FPS. Apex and Valiant and that lot feel really clunky and slow by comparison for just running around, while Fortnite hits a good balance between those and things like the original UT which were fun but felt like you were running at 50mph which was weird.
I like finishing my day job and relaxing by kicking the butt of the new crop of gamers.
Closer to a paraded corpse than a new version