How OG Fortnite Proved Epic Games Wrong 

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?🥸

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

jeez take it to a publisher

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.

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 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

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

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

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 :(

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

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.

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’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.

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.

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

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.

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 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 get your point but i dont believe epic is that stupid, the game would have already died without constant updates

Why tf everyone typing paragraphs in the comments 😭

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

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bro said season 2 was mid like wtf

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.

Man nostalgia is a drug😂

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.

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.

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

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.

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)

Bro I’ve been wanting simplicity for so long thanks for speaking out for the community

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

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.

50v50 was supervisor underrated, such a fun mode

if the OG comes back for good, i’ll play forever.

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

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.

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.

Bro said chapter 2 is mid…

Very well done man! You'll definitely see more subs in the coming months! While I agree with you about the game being in the best state in Chapter 1, I am a pretty big fan of variety and new stuff. Mainly because I'm a CoD RU-vidr, and trust me, having a franchise that just recycles everything over and over again for nostalgia's sake can just get pretty insufferable. That being said though, I think them adding a TON of weapons, new maps, and new gameplay mechanics and expanding what the game and engine is capable of doing isn't hurting the game as much as it's helping it. I think the real problem lies in the skill ceiling. It's just so ridiculously high. Casuals basically can't compete. Even if there's ONE guy in a lobby that is super sweaty and good at building and editing, 99 more casual players don't stand a chance unless somehow RNG gets the better of this good player. And take that from me--cause I'm a pretty fast and sweaty Fortnite player as well (been playing since Season 0 with a break in Chapters 3 and 4), but it's not hard to see that the skill ceiling and daunting grind to get better is really what's scaring a lot of people away from the game (hence Zero Builds) and ZB in combination with OG Fortnite definitely was the best way to bring everyone back. Zero Builds had like a million players when the OG map came back, which is what I guess can explain my point the most. So basically, it's a combo of your point (new content can blemish a perfect work of art) and mine (the skill ceiling is way too high to support basic casual play).

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

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.

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 :)

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😀!

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.

This was a great video, I always remember looking forward to reading the weekly patch notes during the earlier seasons of Chapter 1

this OG season could be even better if we had old gameplay, without these climbing stuff

Crazy how people forget that the old map was removed because of how many people hated how it was

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.

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!

Community nostalgia just hit

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.

The T-bone recurring bit reminds me of a dougdoug video. I love it!

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.

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.

i feel like also the new mechanics with the old map seems just so refreshing

Lol, I remember Tim Sweeney saying that it's never coming back.

Started C1S2, have been playing consistently since. This is most fun I’ve had since mid Chapter 2, and the most I’ve played modes other than team rumble in years. So glad they finally listened and brought it back, but sad to see it go so soon

Still wish they started with Season 3 though, It was my favourite Season. Especially when the meteor fragments started raining down towards the end.

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

the idea that this might not have worked shows how disconnected from reality being a software engineer can make you

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 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.

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

I am excited for Ch5 unlike when Ch3 and Ch4 were out, because I realized that middle school me loved this game. I feel like I'm reliving the times I first started playing Fortnite and started waiting for the new events along with a whole bunch of other content I missed. I'm reliving how satisfying it is to buy and use V-Bucks, how alive my friend group is, and how charming Fortnite as a game is to me. High school me missed out on Ch3 and Ch4, because school was my focus, and now that I have all the time in the world even with a job, I find myself smiling when I launch the game ready to jump in with my friends like we all used to do years ago.

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.

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))

1:25 foreshadowing with "starting off with a BIG BANG"

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

broo pleasant, greasy, salty, and retail should never leave the map..

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.

Nice video man! I love the editing, the pace, the quality and the commentary!

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.

Watching this video after the new seasons dog shot movement rework no one asked for completely proves his point.

These videos are great, but it would be nice if you could do some streaming. I do miss playing don't starve with y'all.

first time seeing your channel and i have to agree your take is fantastic

OG demonstrated how Epic progressively de-emphasized build based mobility. It wasnt just a defensive tool back then, it was how you got around the map.

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.

Wait what?? The OG store is back? I never saw it...

I hadn’t played Fortnite since I was a freshman in highschool. OG Dropped and me and all the homies got on, bought skins and battle passes ect. I specifically said if they remove OG I’m uninstalling immediately. Guess who don’t have Fortnite anymore😭

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.

bro you were %1000 percent accurate

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,

a have a group of online friends id play fortnite with every day back then we eventually stopped talking and i hadnt talked to them for close to 2 years but when OG came out we saw eachother online and all played together.

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.

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.

One thing I hate is the new battle passes the chapter Og one is alright but all the other battle passes from most of chapter 2 and all of chapters after they aren't good at all. The old battle passes in chapter 1 felt a lot more new and exiciting and made you feel you had to go play and buy the battlepass now every couple of months when it changes you don't feel any need to buy the battle pass or even play the season.

“What are you doing in my house??!” “Yes”

Fortnite OG brought me back after 3+ years of not playing this game (and even towards the end of that period I didn't like it that much anymore, so more like 5+ years ago for when I actually played it religiously), and it was so much fun. I started playing with one of my old friends again. They gave us magic, but it only lasted for a month, it passed like the blink of an eye. I know it's just a game, but I am actually kind of in despair that it was snatched away from us so quickly. Hopefully when it returns in 2024, it returns as a *permanent* mode!

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

I think a great idea for keeping both the old and new maps would be to have the of map as a sort of DLC. That way epic would make tons of money and still be able to fund new seasons.

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.

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.

If it only was true Og, not to be ungratefull but the movement alone took me out of it and the weapons didn´t feel the same and the Map wasn´t quite right? The Graphics were fine though no need to get the old ones xD

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.