In Fortnite: Battle Royale there are tons of skins and outfits. They are often pretty cool. MeinMMO author Jürgen Horn hasn’t played Fortnite in a long time, but since he knows what’s currently in the shop due to a silly coincidence, he’s struggling with throwing a bunch of money on a game he doesn’t even play!
What’s the deal with Jürgen and the skins? Fortnite never really appealed to me due to its gameplay mechanics. I didn’t appreciate the building aspects in either the PvE or Battle Royale versions. However, I love the comic-style graphics reminiscent of Pixar movies.
That’s why I eagerly awaited the new skins in the shop every week, and a new Battle Pass was always a special highlight for me. To snag the coolest skins, I slogged through a game that I didn’t really enjoy.
I actually don’t like Fortnite: Since I deeply hate building, I’ve hardly made any significant progress. A few good kills at the start of the game was usually the best I could hope for. My only win in Fortnite happened just because I somehow didn’t encounter any enemies, and my last opponent perished due to stupidity and loot greed in the storm.
Nonetheless, I played Fortnite almost daily until my parental leave to showcase my latest skins. The time before the match, where the large crowd showcased the coolest emotes in an epic dance battle, admiring or laughing at each other, that was the true essence of the game for me!
The temporary end: This went on until September 2019. Then my parental leave began, and I hardly had any time to play for several months. Since my gaming time was incredibly tight, and I didn’t need to play more games for work, I increasingly played single-player games that I could pause at any time or games with very short rounds. So no Battle Royale games that can last 30 minutes or more.
That also did good for my wallet, as I certainly spent way too much money on skins. But then the temptation returned…
The skin list ruins my good intentions
How Jürgen nearly relapsed: Except for a small play session at the start of Season 4, Chapter 2, I had stayed away from Fortnite for over a year. But then, suddenly, boss Schuhmann appeared and said, “Hey, the list of skins, you haven’t updated that in ages, get on it!” And indeed, the list was really outdated, and I spent several hours gathering and categorizing all the recent skins.
And what I saw there made me cheer with joy multiple times, so much so that my wife in the other room was wondering what was happening.
Here’s everything: Because the skins were partially really cool. There were tons of new Marvel skins, Star Wars skins, skins from known streamers, and just original, stylish, and bizarre outfits like Fishstick as a killer commando, a hot dog, zombie football skins, a nasty fox, Baba Yaga, or a Japanese Oni demon.
The selection was just huge, and had I been active in the last months, I surely would have spent hundreds of euros. And even now, while writing these lines and looking at the skins, I am itching to reinstall the game and go shopping.
Who knows what cool skins are currently available in the shop? It’s almost Christmas, and surely something cool and original will hit the market!
That’s why I probably won’t buy anything: But no, that’s it! I really don’t feel like playing Fortnite again, and it’s pointless to have the skins and not use them because I’m not interested in the game. Reluctantly, I close the skin list again and keep my hands off the Fortnite installer. That was a close call.
And luckily I have a kind of substitute drug: Apex Legends also has cool skins, is much more fun for me than Fortnite, and doesn’t release skins at such rapid intervals. That saves my wallet and still satisfies my joy for a virtual Battle Royale fashion show! And sometimes I even win in Apex Legends, because you don’t build there, but shoot more!
