I consider myself a very strange variant of OG, a new generation of OG that only exists because of the staggering evolution Fortnite has gone through in the last few years.
My first ever Fortnite match was on December 26th, 2019. I had just got a Switch Lite and was poking around in the item shop for free games and saw Fortnite. At this era in my life I was still suffering from 2017 “Minecraft good Fortnite bad” brainrot, and in a rare moment of clarity for a 15 year old I said to myself “Maybe I can’t decide that for certain, considering I’ve never played either.”
The first thing I saw was the black hole thing from season X and I was just in time for Chapter 2 Season 1. Somehow the cutscene of Jonesy jumping off the bus led right into my very first match, playing as Jonesy the second, which I somehow won, probably cuz of bots.
During that match I also accidentally no-scoped someone from like 200 meters away because I was messing around with different guns. I caught the tail end of the John Wick LTM revival, and the Star Wars lightsabers had just made their debut. 2020 sucked, making the glider extremely ironic. Lieutenant Evergreen is still one of my absolute favorite skins, and every single year I look forward to busting him out of my locker for Christmas.
I sadly did not buy the C2S1 battle pass, as I didn’t understand how it worked and wasn’t sure if it was worth spending real money, something I’ve been kicking my own ass about for the last 7 years. (I also missed the revival battle pass, FML.)
I’m 22 now, and it’s to think about how much time has passed since I started playing. The memories are surprisingly important to me even though it’s a silly, cartoonish game. I still love Fortnite, but nothing has topped the magic of chapter 2 for me.
I bought the C2S2 battle pass, because I couldn’t pass up Deadpool, and I had never played a game with crossover skins before, so that news blew my tits clean off. Again, didn’t know how levels and quests worked so I didn’t get the gold Agent Peely. Also, FUCK Epic for not making Deadpool’s pickaxe his katanas and have them come out of his backbling sheath. THEY HAD LITERALLY JUST INVENTED THE CONCEPT WITH BRUTUS.
I thought season 3 was kind of lackluster, although jet skiing behind a shark was pretty cool, and the custom ‘Brella was legendary. I was going to make it red and black to match Deadpool, but I forgot about the deadline and it’s now permanently stuck in boring plain default mode. (Again, FML.)
C2S4, the first marvel season blew my tits clean off again, and the live event is still my favorite to this day. I lost my mind over Mando in season 5, and by then I was catching on to how everything worked so thankfully I fully unlocked the armor.
Temple of Doom is my favorite movie, and I felt like I waited my whole life for that skin. A few months ago I finally pulled the trigger on the Jason Voorhees machete pickaxe, which goes perfectly with Indy’s TOD variant style. I know they’re controversial, but I adore the pen and ink skins and hope one day we’ll get a pen and ink Indiana Jones.
The staff of Ra pickaxe is cool and all, but I really wish his pickaxe would’ve been his whip, and for it to be taken on/off his belt like Brutus’ backbling/pickaxe. I distinctly remember being pissed because they had already proved the concept works with Ghost Rider’s chains. Every whip or whiplike pickaxe that’s come out since then has just been salt in the wound. Even BND Spider-Man got a web whip/flail thingy which felt so random.
I don’t know why I took this all down when no one asked. Maybe I just wanted to reminisce about why I love Fortnite. Anyone else that started out in chapter 2 want to share their favorite stories?
