It's funny how nostalgia bait like this can be so good. The premise is very simple: it's the original season 5 map, with all the weapons and items from that seasons. The map will change with every week, adding on something from the season after. There are some minor differences, Tomato Town is now Tomato Temple, and the weapon loadout is slightly different, but yeah, it's season 5. This was one of my favorite seasons of fortnite overall, so I was obviously ecstatic to find out they were bringing it back. But this is where nostalgia gets tricky. When looking back on old things, like a video game, you need to consider if you actually miss the game itself for it's quality, or if you miss how it made you feel. It would've been horrendous if everyone clamored "bring back old fortnite!" only for them to bring it back followed by a simultaneous realization that old fortnite was not good. Thankfully, this is far from the case and old fortnite was actually very good.

Chapter 4 has been pretty rough. I haven't really been enjoying almost any of the weapons and the map is just terrible. I pray the jungle biome never comes back. Sharp Tooth shotgun is maybe the worst shotgun ever present in the history of this game. The best things about certain seasons were removed by the next one, like the kinetic blade and the heisted weapons. It was overall a miserable experience that I slogged through because anything can be fun with the right friends. The OG season completely resets everything and makes the game fun again.

The weapon loadout is solid. Not too bloated, but there's enough variety that makes you consider trade-offs with other weapons. Suppressed AR can have my firstborn child. The grapple gun is back, one of the most fun movement options to mess with because of how versatile it is. The old map is back, and while it is pretty big considering the size of the previous few maps, ATK's are placed EVERYWHERE. You will never be stuck in a far off area for too long because you can simply pick up a golf cart and get anywhere you need to go in a flash. Shopping carts are the best thing to ever grace this game and their initial removal shall be looked on in the history books as one of the cardinal sins of the human race.

This season proves that nostalgia bait isn't always a bad thing if done correctly. This old season of fortnite was simply good. Now, it's arguably even better. I don't have to worry about building (I suck at it) because no build exists. I don't have to worry about mobility because of the great mobility items and vehicles, plus they kept sprinting and mantling in. This may seem like a simple way to attract old players back to the game (when the season started they reached an all time player peak by a mile) but... yeah, it works. We shouldn't feel bad for enjoying old things when there was never anything wrong with them to begin with. The only thing wrong with this season I would say are the players themselves. None of them know how to have fun, they're all sweats. I'll approach them with a bush on and emote and they'll just shoot me. Fuck off. Can't really say that's the fault of the game much but it is annoying. Other than that, this season is fun and I'm glad to be with it the whole way through.

This season was pretty good. I never knew how much I missed the old Fortnite map until now, and I had fun going back to the locations from 2017 and saying "Oh, yeah! I remember this!" We didn't have augments, rails, sports cars, or anything else, it was just back to square one with weapons we hadn't seen in a long time, and I felt right at home.

This season was so fun that I played with builds on for once, because it would be sacrilege not to. I got my booty pounded by tryhards, but that's only part of the experience.

The battle pass was mediocre and had bland fusion skins, but at least it was short. The best things to come out of this besides the fanservice were Raven Team Leader, the best fusion skin, and Eminem. If Epic made the OG Battle Royale a limited time event, I'd happily play it whenever it's available.

lol. lmao.

I seem to be in the minority here but this actually really sucks lol. Stupidly self-indulgent and nostalgia-pandering, like Look At All This Cool Old Stuff!!! But all it really does is showcase how far Fortnite's come in the many years since Chapter 1.

The most obvious change is the approach to balancing:
1. Zero Build is given pretty much zero consideration, and items range from borderline useless in it (the Jetpack and lower level grenade launchers) to comically and insanely overpowered (the hoverboard + a shotgun + decent tracking skills is hilariously broken and allows you to third party basically any fight with almost no effort). The map is also deeply unsuited for it, with tons of sheer cliffs and environments that would be trivial with building but stupid and frustrating without it. Also it's empty as fuck, there are a stupid amount of empty fields here even with the myriad of locations from different seasons of Chapter 1.

(addendum: I am not playing build mode. People have had too many years to get good at it and I'm not interested in going up against someone who's spent thousands of hours training it. During the chapter this season's trying to imitate, people weren't quite as cracked yet and you could get by fine if you could build a quick 1x1, but that's definitely no longer the case. And I just can't really be arsed to put so much time into getting good at something so specific to just one video game)

2. You're expected to play so much more conservatively. Which is usually just boring. Who ever thought "bringing back Fortnite to when it was trying to ape PUBG the hardest" was a good idea? No one talks about PUBG anymore, and for good reason--it was overlong, boring, and fights ended way too quickly. Bringing Fortnite right back to this by limiting movement options and making healing take so much longer than it has for years, just to indulge the nostalgia-blind teenagers playing this game who played the early seasons as pre-teens is lame, and the shorter season length makes me think they knew it sucked as well.

Anyways, in all honesty I am glad this is only half the length of a normal season! Fortnite's biggest strength has been its frequent updates and constantly shifting meta, which makes a season like this, where they just Play The Hits with no understanding that the hits were in a pretty much entirely different game, feel really odd. Hope they never do this again!

Ngl, unpopular opinion. I liked the previous season more. Now before people come here with their pitchforks. Just vision yourself season 1-3 of fortnite , the golden age. what you think was fun is a lie, let me speak.

I was playing yesterday and yes i had fun, but i was expecting more fun. I realised why that was, see back then everyone was younger and had less struggles , plus nobody was a sweaty tryhard. As soon as people were sweating their ass off , fortnite started to decline, it was just not fun playing against somebody who could build so fast.

So no, it's not the simple map or the simple loot pool that you miss, it's pure nostalgia. Epic games actually improved the game, so much fun weapons, the map was dynamic, interactive. The game had lot's of content in it's map. Now all you have is a simple map with a very basic loot pool.

So yes fortnite og is fun but fortnite chapter 4 all seasons > fortnite og

I did eventually have fun with this when the later season weapons and vehicles started getting added in, but frankly as a whole I'm glad it's over with. If this was as long as a regular season was I would have been a lot more upset but as a one-off single month special I guess it's nice for the incessantly loud crowd of those nostalgic for the original map? The problem is I never had nostalgia for Fortnite back then and while an element of that at the time was because Fortnite was the fun thing to kinda hate on, actually re-experiencing it again with more actual playtime as well as knowing how the modern current version of the game is compared to back then also definitively confirms to me that I wasn't wrong to dislike the game back then.

The OG map is just far too empty and overly spacious with next to nothing to distract or entice you with. The initial two weeks when the game was stuck with the original item spawns also meant that matches would filter out players incredibly quickly not only if you didn't land at a landmark location, but also finding gear and actually surviving that first minute. Being a Zero Build main was thoroughly punished at the start of this season because nothing about the OG map was rebalanced for that particular mode, and while that issue got fixed over time with the addition of later seasonal weapons and the inclusion of more vehicles to get around, the issue for Zero Build was then endgame fights turning into whoever could out-snipe the last players in wide open spaces, or whoever had a vehicle to survive more hits longer. I gave Build mode a try initially just to see how it fared considering the OG map was entirely made around it and while it was kind of fun initially with the people I was matched up with early on, the sweatfest began to show itself pretty quickly afterwards and that was the point I just stopped caring.

I don't care how much that nostalgic group of players seem to keep crying about how things aren't the same as back then and how this was apparently "just the way things should be!", because I stopped finding this season fun very quickly and I don't think I'm alone in that sentiment. If you joined into Fortnite's fray with the more recent seasons and grew used to a gameplay loop that at least gave you multiple goals to go after and a more expansive map that worked for more playstyles, the OG season took away the game you were having fun with for a month. Playercounts were absurdly high at the start of the season but those numbers very quickly dwindled down after the first two weeks, alongside yet another mediocre battle pass and a bafflingly limited item shop that was only fixed towards the end of the season.

I'm not even going to talk about the asinine age restrictions that Epic threw in before very quickly undoing after they realized what a massive shitstorm they were about to unleash when people rightfully called them out on taking away cosmetics that costed real world money to use in a game that might as well be designed around its cosmetics market. Actual brain damage going on over there.

There's very clear design lessons that Epic learned from over the years that the game has been active for and I just thoroughly do not understand what nostalgic fans see in this experience that's so compelling after how many hours of playing the same thing over and over again. I didn't fully hate this season and unlike the last two I did at least complete the pass this time around, but playing the game at this time just kinda felt like mindless brainfood more than usual.

Yeah, this is blatant fanservice and nostalgia but it’s also genuinely really fun. It’s honestly really surprising how well the Chapter 1 map works with all of the movement features introduced after it was retired - it’s more fun than it was originally, in fact! Even Zero Build works way better than it has any right to, despite the map being obviously the least designed for it. While I do miss a lot of other new features that would have been cool to see translated to CH1’s context (NPCs and Augments) this is so far an extremely fun trip down memory lane worth playing for both old and new Fortnite players.

Reviewing this in 2 halves, the first two weeks were a blast and had a great nostalgic feeling to them. Playing together with all my friends again felt great. Coming to the end of it now it doesnt have the same feeling for me as it did to start. Dont get me wrong i still love it but i much more enjoy fortnite when its more barebones. Universally the loot pool is great despite the abundance of rocket weapons. I loved the battle pass and having the OG map back is fantastic.

This season is obviously nostalgia bait but seeing how this broke fortnites highest player count proves that it was something that everyone wanted. Will be sad to see it go

The transition from C4:S4 to OG was very notorious to say the least in terms of gameplay. The season 5 stuff made the game a little too monotonous since the chapter 1 map felt too empty between POIs, and the fact that it was built for Build mode in mind while I only play Zero Build didn't do it justice either.
Chapter 6 and 7 came in and made things more interesting, with more vehicles, a new set of weapons unvaulted and B A L L O O N S.
Chapter 9 - X came last but made things far more fun and diverse with the Baller and yet another round of unvaulted weapons (the drum shotgun is so funny LOL).

It's a neat revision on the beginnings of Fortnite and how far the game has come since 2017, but I prefer the shenanigans we have nowadays, personally.

would’ve gave this a 5/5 if it weren’t for that end event 💀💀💀 way too short and was essentially just a giant ad with no substance, eminem should’ve had like 10 minutes of time in the event at least imo. server issues that epic can never seem to fix for some reason made it even worse.

anyways this season was really great. it’s no surprise that i didn’t like chapter 4 that much at all so getting to go back to the map that i made some of the best memories on during late elementary/middle school was awesome. think this was the most fortnite i’ve played in years. og pass was really great, just wish it was cheaper instead of normal price since it was like half the size of a regular pass. og loot pool still the best in the whole game i think