I’ve been writing about video games, television and movies for Forbes for over 10 years, and you may have seen my reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. I cover all manner of console and PC games, but if it’s about looting or shooting, I’m definitely there. If I’m watching something, it’s usually science fiction, horror or superheroic.
this Saturday, 44.7 million players, for 102 million hours of play. That includes the “glory days” that Fortnite is trying to emulate back in Chapter 1, as now the game has not just brought back its nostalgic players, but added on the ones that have joined up since.
Now, the idea that Fortnite pulled this off by going back to its origins has seeped into Call of Duty fandom. That has resulted in a call for a return to classic BR maps, though most people seem split between Verdansk and Blackout, the two maps from Call of Duty’s original push into the battle royale market.
Verdansk was the original Call of Duty: Warzone map, and fans are split between whether it really would be worthwhile to bring it back, or if it was overrated just because it was the original map, and it’s not actually all that good. Still, there is a contingent who always seems to want it back whenever the issue comes up, and there are certainly renewed calls for it now.Blackout is something that would feel a bit more interesting.
That’s the other thing here, time. Verdansk is from three years ago compared to Fortnite is going back five years, so it’s a bit easier to pull the nostalgia card. I’m not sure that’s as effective with something like Verdansk, and in general, I just don’t see something like “Military Base” drawing the same nostalgia as a location like Tilted Towers in Fortnite. So if anything, going back to 2018 for Blackout probably makes more sense, even if that was COD BR in its infancy.
There has also been adjacent talk over at Apex Legends about bringing the original King’s Canyon map back. It does feel like at least a few of these battle royales are going to try to chase Fortnite down this rabbit hole because I mean, it skyrocketed the game’s playercount and what game wouldn’t want to see that? It’s worth a try, at the very least, even if I doubt it will be as effective.
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