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The only difference between this and Overwatch going by those criteria is that OW is not as easy for first time players. You've hit it on the head, the key diff

The only difference between this and Overwatch going by those criteria is that OW is not as easy for first time players. You've hit it on the head, the key difference is that somehow Fortnite crossed the boundary to mainstream.

tudelo 8y ago
I wouldn't even say the game is easy... The aiming system rewards good players heavily and the building system requires a lot more actions for a battle than something like pubg. I personally stay away from it because the instant building aspect is too hard and annoying to be fun. I have a feeling the bigger motivation is that its f2p.
- tialaramex 8y ago
  The Battle Royale format is _fun_ even if you aren't technically very good. I've written about this before but it does seem to escape even some people who play _why_ this is fun. Normally in shooters the best players dominate the game session you're in. Unless you're one of them, your experience is frustrating because mostly they're either killing you, if they're an opponent, or killing the people you were trying to kill, if the dominating player is your ally. But in Battle Royale modes every game you're in will involve you dying only at most once. For the dominant player they often don't die at all, a game lasts say 20 minutes and they might kill a dozen or more other players out of a hundred, then they're victorious. Hooray - they might do that two or even three times in a row. Amazing way to spend an hour. But somebody like me - who isn't very good - doesn't last twenty minutes. They might win one or two fights, hide, get some cool stuff, but soon they're outmatched and... they die and can immediately start a different game. So for them an hour is maybe 15-20 games, each of them exciting and different, maybe they killed a few people, and the deaths, whilst not _fun_ per se, are over very quickly and you're straight into a different game. In terms of why it would attract women. Everybody else being an anonymous enemy plus the "one death and you're gone" dissolves a lot of nasty abusive social stuff. Global chat would be pointless, you can't spawn camp people, you can't even tell if you see the same person twice usually because players don't have name tags.
  - swerveonem 8y ago
    The large map when compared to a CS or OW map provides a large variety of environments in which to battle. How many times can you run Dust_2 before you are bored, battle royale you just land in a different part of the map.
omfgwhat 8y ago
Fortnite is harder than Overwatch, especially when considering characters like Mercy. In Fortnite you must be able to build while playing a hitscan character. It crossed into the mainsteam because of distribution. It's free and available on mobile devices.

tudelo 8y ago

I wouldn't even say the game is easy... The aiming system rewards good players heavily and the building system requires a lot more actions for a battle than something like pubg. I personally stay away from it because the instant building aspect is too hard and annoying to be fun. I have a feeling the bigger motivation is that its f2p.

tialaramex 8y ago
The Battle Royale format is _fun_ even if you aren't technically very good. I've written about this before but it does seem to escape even some people who play _why_ this is fun. Normally in shooters the best players dominate the game session you're in. Unless you're one of them, your experience is frustrating because mostly they're either killing you, if they're an opponent, or killing the people you were trying to kill, if the dominating player is your ally. But in Battle Royale modes every game you're in will involve you dying only at most once. For the dominant player they often don't die at all, a game lasts say 20 minutes and they might kill a dozen or more other players out of a hundred, then they're victorious. Hooray - they might do that two or even three times in a row. Amazing way to spend an hour. But somebody like me - who isn't very good - doesn't last twenty minutes. They might win one or two fights, hide, get some cool stuff, but soon they're outmatched and... they die and can immediately start a different game. So for them an hour is maybe 15-20 games, each of them exciting and different, maybe they killed a few people, and the deaths, whilst not _fun_ per se, are over very quickly and you're straight into a different game. In terms of why it would attract women. Everybody else being an anonymous enemy plus the "one death and you're gone" dissolves a lot of nasty abusive social stuff. Global chat would be pointless, you can't spawn camp people, you can't even tell if you see the same person twice usually because players don't have name tags.
- swerveonem 8y ago
  The large map when compared to a CS or OW map provides a large variety of environments in which to battle. How many times can you run Dust_2 before you are bored, battle royale you just land in a different part of the map.

omfgwhat 8y ago

Fortnite is harder than Overwatch, especially when considering characters like Mercy. In Fortnite you must be able to build while playing a hitscan character. It crossed into the mainsteam because of distribution. It's free and available on mobile devices.