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The Worst Part Of Fortnite’s Popularity Is The PUBG Snobs<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Six months after gritty survival shooter PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds\u2019 debut, the cartoony, lighthearted survival shooter Fortnite Battle Royale came along. If Battlegrounds is the pitbull of this genre, Fortnite is the golden retriever. One of its weapons is the \u201cboogie bomb.\u201d There\u2019s a gingerbread man skin and a \u201cbear force one\u201d glider. Lots of kids play, sometimes during school hours. It\u2019s a fast, popcorn-y experience with a bright, fun color palette and alliterative locations like \u201cTomato Town\u201d and \u201cHaunted Hills.\u201d So mainstream that baffled cable newscasters are talking about it, Fortnite is a survival shooter for the everymen. Yes, it offers a similar play experience as Battlegrounds, but its vibe is more welcoming in its candy sweetness. And some who cling to the supposedly more hardcore Battlegrounds look down on Fortnite players.<\/span><\/p>\n

Battlegrounds snobbery is a thing now, and it\u2019s worth asking why. What is it that makes Battlegrounds a serious survival shooter and Fortnite, which is by no means an easy game to win, a game for casuals and kids?<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the most visible Battlegrounds snobs is Guy \u201cDr. Disrespect\u201d Beahm, the most recognizablebiggest Battlegrounds streamer, who in a stern police-officer mustache and a mullet, plays Battlegrounds with the ethos of a pro wrestler. ESPN called him a \u201ca hyper-caricature of how the stereotypical male gamer views himself.\u201d His fans, the \u201cSlick Daddy Club\u201d (Update\u20145:00 p.m. ET: Now the \u201cChampions Club\u201d) cheer him on as he performs as a serious dude gamer (he often uses the word \u201cdominance\u201d) for thousands at a time on Twitch. Dr. Disrespect came from the world of H1Z1 and Call of Duty, which, along with his machismo song-and-dance, rocketed him into Twitch fame.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Battlegrounds\u2019 hype began to wane, Dr. Disrespect began taking shots at Fortnite Battle Royale, referring to it as \u201cDucktails treehouse building playground tag you\u2019re it duck duck goose tether ball\u201d and its streams as \u201cChuck E Cheese ball pit experiences.\u201d Pretty harsh, Doc.<\/span><\/p>\n

YouTuber Felix \u201cPewDiePie\u201d Kjellberg also jumped on the Fortnite-hating bandwagon. Last year, he documented his redemption arc from helpless Battlegrounds mincemeat to winner, winner, chicken dinner for millions of fans. Then came Fortnite Battle Royale. In a video last week titled \u201cFORTNITE CRINGE,\u201d PewDiePie mocked the game\u2019s record-setting playerbase and related video content.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYouTube gaming\u2014it\u2019s all Fortnite!\u201d he complained. In his PewDiePie way, his dripping sarcasm betrays small pieces of what feel like his actual opinion. Once, when he names Fortnite, he airs a picture of a Lego-style game, half-jokingly referring to Fortnite players as \u201cpathetic beta males.\u201d \u201cAt least I don\u2019t play Fortnite,\u201d he says, a little more seriously. \u201cThat\u2019s pretty much the only thing I have going for me. It\u2019s my biggest pride and demise at the same time.\u201d In another video, in lieu of playing Fortnite, PewDiePie opts to play a Fortnite knock-off on the kids\u2019 gaming platform Roblox.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not everyone who prefers Battlegrounds to Fortnite is a Battlegrounds snob. Kotaku weekend editor Cameron Kunzelman wrote persuasively last week about how Battlegrounds\u2019 slowness fosters a more deliberate playstyle that he prefers. He also doesn\u2019t like Fortnite Battle Royale\u2019s building mechanics. That\u2019s real. Other criticisms, I\u2019m not so sure of. I\u2019m sick of hearing about Battlegrounds\u2019 infinitely superior \u201cgunfeel.\u201d I\u2019m bored of people referring to Fortnite Battle Royale as a kids\u2019 game because it has cutesy graphics. I\u2019m especially going to roll my eyes at anyone who calls it a rip-off when, well, in a way, so is Battlegrounds.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a former Battlegrounds player who moved onto Fortnite Battle Royale, I get both sides. I get that attaching yourself to one game other other \u201csays something\u201d about you as a gamer. Sometimes, it comes across as machismo.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve had an equally hard time winning a game of Battlegrounds as I\u2019ve had winning a game of Fortnite. It\u2019s just different kinds of \u201chard.\u201d To me, Battlegrounds demands more in inventory management, patience, situational awareness and, in my opinion, gun know-how. I have to play with extreme intentionality to make any progress (those with precise shooting skills honed through, say, Call of Duty, might say differently). Fortnite is faster. I have to think on my toes and build structures that meet my ever-changing defensive needs. I have to mine the landscape and modulate it with stairways and platforms to get where I need. Fortnite has jump pads, bush camouflage, guided missiles, and other weapons that add tactical complexity. And, of course, I need to have good aim. Fortnite\u2019s skill cap is high, but it\u2019s not the sort of depth that is immediately recognizable to PC shooter aficionados.<\/span><\/p>\n

When I asked Battlegrounds-preferers about their reasoning, most of them agreed with Kunzelman\u2019s assessment of the game\u2019s slower pace and building mechanics. All of this can read as very \u201cGamers Prefer One Game Over Another Similar Game.\u201d That\u2019s not what makes a snob. Describing Fortnite, even half-jokingly, as a game for \u201cpathetic beta males\u201d does. Being unable to talk about Fortnite without people starting to debate PUBG\u2019s superiority is also snobbery.<\/span><\/p>\n

For gamers who grew up in this PC gaming tradition\u2014Quake, Counter-Strike\u2014Battlegrounds\u2019 military grit and gunplay attention-to-detail immediately positions it as a serious game for serious PC shooter fans. Despite its high skill ceiling, Fortnite\u2019s bubblegum vibe, building mechanics and apathy toward realistic gunplay doesn\u2019t make the same bid for these type of gamers. Joshua Trevett, who has 350 hours on Battlegrounds, says that \u201cPUBG retains more of that Arma mil-sim feel,\u201d referring to the hyper-realistic military shooter Arma, which lots of real soldiers play.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPUBG\u2019s direct descendence from Arma and its target for realism in the weapon handling are aspects which are definitely gonna attract people with military fascinations.\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Players I interviewed did cite Battlegrounds\u2019 snug place in the tradition of hardcore PC shooters. Decades\u2019 worth of military-style shooters helps inform the way lots of people approach Battlegrounds, the way they relate to the game and its systems. Do the bullets feel like they\u2019re moving through space? Do they sound like that, too? In a game where, say, driving and opening doors doesn\u2019t feel as clean to me as shooting, it\u2019s clear where developers put their attention. Battlegrounds has realistic gun mechanics with true-to-form recoil and bullet physics. With its scopes, magazines and tactical add-ons, it\u2019s got pretty intricate gun-focused inventory management demands.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because of its emphasis on gunplay, teacher and battle royale gamer Joe Brichetto told me, PUBG \u201cis as unapproachable as any other twitch shooter is to the non-gamer.\u201d As a teacher, he\u2019s watched his young students who haven\u2019t had the same attachment to PC shooters fall in love with the more approachable, less war-sim-like Fortnite. He especially loves to hear his female students, who had never played a shooter, brag about their Fortnite Battle Royale squad victories. A lot of these kids don\u2019t care about PUBG\u2019s place in the PC gaming lineage.<\/span><\/p>\n

Taylor Hidalgo, who prefers Battlegrounds, said \u201cit\u2019s closer to how I\u2019d be in a kill-or-be-killed scenario than something that has rocket launchers, cartoon physics, and the ability to carry crates of wood,\u201d adding that Battlegrounds more accurately represents \u201chow an island (or valley) full of 98 other people trying to kill me would feel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

When people talk about Battlegrounds\u2019 strengths against Fortnite\u2019s weaknesses, it sometimes feels like they\u2019re talking about the superiority of a more masculine game. Its realistic gun physics, dark, military feel, and similar virtues to other PC shooters can make Fortnite\u2019s sparkle gliders and \u201cPleasant Park\u201d zone feel a little feminine by comparison. When I followed up with the same sources whether they considered Battlegrounds to be more \u201cmasculine,\u201d everyone who got back said yes. The response that, to me, really captured this sentiment was Battlegrounds-liker Pieter Hoekstra\u2019s:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think it uses things that are already coded as masculine in games, i.e. \u2018realistic guns,\u2019 manual controls, etc. One thing that does actually occur to me is that PUBG being more of a \u2018military shooter\u2019 automatically links it to a primarily masculine enterprise in a way that isn\u2019t as clearly the case with Fortnite. On that count I\u2019d say it is more masculine, but that has a lot more to do with attitudes toward masculinity and warfare outside the game itself then anything PUBG says about those things.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

To me, it\u2019s like this: Battlegrounds immediately appeals to gamers who played the other PC shooters and enjoy military realism\u2014slow tactics and everything\u2014while Fortnite\u2019s welcoming aesthetic and less toy-soldier feel invites in all types of players. Fortnite is considered by some as a lesser game because it is more approachable, not because it is actually mechanically inferior. Fortnite just poses a different sort of challenge.<\/span><\/p>\n

Only a small minority of gamers who prefer Battlegrounds are snobs about it. My advice for those gamers is to consider where their snobbery comes from. Is it their personal preference for longer, slower survival shooters with an emphasis on \u201csurvival\u201d? That\u2019s great. You do you. For others, the inability to understand Fortnite\u2019s appeal while hardheartedly proselytizing Battlegrounds\u2019 \u201cgunplay\u201d and \u201ctactics\u201d comes off a little differently. It seems like cultural pressures are steering some toward a traditionally-coded \u201chardcore\u201d shooter and away from another game that\u2019s comfortable with its lightheartedness.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-https:\/\/kotaku.com\/the-worst-part-of-fortnites-popularity-are-the-pubg-sno-1825054670<\/span><\/p>\n

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