Fortnite killed unreal tournament. I have a lot of contempt for Epic Games for abandoning the series that put them on the map for a shitty battle royal game.

I think it's high time we get a remastered Unreal gold in the unreal engine 5

The creative mind behind Unreal Series was CliffyB (Cliff Blezinski), who left Unreal (at UT2003/4 stage of development) project and created BulletStorm, then Gears of War. Epic never could recover Unreal or Unreal Tournament without Cliff's help. Otherwise, Gears was a tremendous success. UT3 had good ideas, but the maps were so polluted, the plot was so poor that it doesn't leave any doubt that it was a showcase for the Unreal Engine possitilities, nothing more. In that moment they killed UT series. Unreal III wouldn't become the eSports game they said they wanted to create. After a considerable period of time, drinking in Gears of War success, came the lie: Epic were wanting to bring UT to its glory, redeem themselves for UT3 bad performance and get back to the e-Sports scenery. The fans (me included) were so hyped, many good talents started to join the efforts for free and created amazing things. In that moment, Bluehole launched PUBG, a Battle Royale game under Unreal Engine licensing and, with its success, Epic decided to abandon UT4 and its hyped fans to transform Fortnite in a Battle Royale game. Simply like that. Good for Epic games finances, they are happy. But us, who were loyal fans... thrash can was the destiny, with their most important jewel in their history. They don't care, they're rich now. They have lots of money and a true marvelous engine at their service for the present and future. "F*ck the past" is what I 'read' in their attitude.

I miss the ut2k4 Trial jump puzzle maps. If you never experienced those, I am happy for you. You will never know the loss of something amazing. Rip Unreal Tournament

I' 55 YS OLD and play UT 2004 on line on one fantastic suvived server... MIA (Warfare and Freon). There's still a huge worldwide community playing. Emotions, adrenaline, tricks, teamwork, humour... a reign where skill, tactic and ability is other death. In UT Tournament you'll never really die: death doesn't exist at all.

I'd love to see a new unreal tournament, I'm sick and tired of the more mainstream fps games right now, I wanna fast paced game where I can Gib my foes.

I can tell, if Unreal Tournament ever comes back, its not gonna be the same. Probably gonna be littered by 8 billion different microtransactions and overcomplicated movements, while the good ol' weapons gonna be nerfed to oblivion with preset loadouts, and will only have 1 or 2 maps each gamemode (which is probably gonna be limited to TDM (not free for all), CTF and if we are lucky, either form of DOM. Ah of course, BR too. And no, I ain't talking about Bombing Run there.

Loved the video! I still play a bit of UT99, UT2004, UT3, UT4 Alpha, and I swear, the communities on all of those together would be enough to warrant a sequel. Quake always felt more stale in multiplayer. Just releasing that remastered Unreal Championship II on PC would be a great idea.

Omg the music for the UT facing worlds map even today is absolutely beautiful and brings back so many memories of my youth..

I'd love to see the original Unreal return. They've made too many UTs to be able to 'remake' it.

There are some UT-like indie titles worth mentioning too. Toxikk was great, but sadly was never able to hold on to an active community. Master Arena is in on-going development, but seems to undergo massive redesigns with every major update. There are still pretty active PUG communities for UT99, UT2k4, and UT4, but its nothing like back in the day

I find myself wondering why a channel with such good taste, narration, and editing is getting such low views. Life's so unfair. Welp definite sub regardless.

Man I miss Unreal Tournament...fuck Fortnite

UT99 Still have servers, and players there... they need to remastered that amazing game... all the people in 30's and 40's you like first shoters play UT99, and after go to C.S., and vallorant... if they remaster that game, maybe a lot of players return, with open tournament's, pro teams, and a god backround story line, it's possible to emerge again.

Man I miss UT. Used to play it at college after we easily defeated the college's crap firewalls lol

Thanks for the recommentation to Open Tournament. Nice Video

A unreal gold remake would be amazing

The future of UT may be uncertain but if one thing is for sure is that its past is SOLID. The classic UT still has a strong and active fan base and it's first versions are always great to play. My personal favorite is the UT Game of the Year Edition. Hats off and hands down to the its creators and to the fans who still create maps, mods and maintain the servers. Any first person shooter gamer cannot honestly feel the true experience without trying this classic game. I invite them to try this quintessential classic.

What happened to UT was it was too hard for newbs to pick and play with practicing. Games with short skill curves were suddenly selling like hot cakes because they took no real practice to get god at. I want another Unreal Tournament based in congested castles and labs. Not Unreal 2003, or Unreal Championship, or any of the rest. No special skills or powerups, etc. The original UT improved perfectly on Unreal, and was the most fast paced, skill based fragathon ever.

The Era of Unreal Tournament when the custom maps hit online were unbelievable. Playing in the bathroom or bar was great. People forget about Tac ops too. That should have dethroned Counter Strike. What a great Era in pc gaming!

I loved UT3 and its expanded vehicle insanity in Warfare mode

Spent like half day searching for UT, couldn't remember the name but I played it so much from early teens and right before I went to college. Such an amazing game

Only 200 likes? that's is crazy.. 5k views and 200 like.. so underrated. Great content.

Its was a good narration. Thank you. I guess the main problem with this is that the game development become a corpare thing, which may makes high quality content but also become very greedy. Anything which wont make the developer increadibly rich is not considered succes. Makeing games which have souls, but only brings back 2 times the invested money is not a goal anymore. Its a big shame.

You missed several UT games in the history section, the ones people actually played too.. Bigger issue is no mention about how the current UT that's been in alpha for 3Gens, because the agreement for modders says Epic can steal your stuff, no payment or sited credit for work. It died because Epic are thieves, and you definitely should have mentioned this!

Epic cares more about FARTnite, that's what happened

Never heard of Open Tournament and I'm so glad it exists. Most projects like that aim to do something like Quake, finally there's something like UT

This game and Diablo 2 were the first PC games i played, spent so many hours on here, the RoseBum servers were the pinnicale of 2001 lol

I would *LOVE* a new Unreal Tournament! My fav FPS!

GOTY is still my favourite game

What happened to the Unreal tournament games? Fortnite. That's what happened... 🙄

Unreal Tournament was iconic

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As much as I enjoyed that kind of game when i was a kid, it's just not for me anymore. I was in the closed alpha for quake champions and it was a blast, but I can only play games like that for short bursts, and eventually I just didn't wanna que up anymore. I won quite frequently, but my heart can't handle it. It would be pounding out of my chest at the end of each match. I kinda remember everyone dropping that style of game for Counter Strike when it got popular. It's just easier to watch I think.

The closest thing to the original "Unreal feel" i got in recent time was with Lawbreakers. I think epic games should bring Cliff Bleszinski back on board and give him their blessing to reimagine Unreal Tournament.

Worth mentioning: Unreal Tournament 4 Unofficial Update (UT4UU) project. ;3

Like you pointed out with Open Tournament, it will be a new indie developer that eventually becomes the spiritual successor to UT. Epic as a company is not the Epic that created the original UT. Same as Blizzard, not the same company that created Diablo. But you can see new indie games and companies popping up that are taking on the mantle of the original games. Heck even Blizzard just re-released Diablo 2 Resurrected because they know the original is still a thousand times better than Diablo 3 and probably Diablo 4.

I still can't understand how Fortnite is such a success.

UT2k4 or UT99 on the Nintendo Switch. All I'm asking for.

the likes of halo, cod, and well yeah I'll give you that one. . .

What I'd give for UT2004 getting a remaster and how little I give a single shit about Fortnite.

I miss ut2k4. Had a lot of fun playing Instagib and Invasion (with RPG mods).

I noticed that Epic Games has delisted the entire Unreal Series from all digital storefronts

I still own 2 Windows 98SE PCs to play Unreal Tournament 1 on 1 with a friend

UT Alpha is my game of choice for FPS these days. Tried playing earlier versions to compare, and I found the graphics dated and the speed lacking. I have played BF and CoD and they're too slow moving and too wide open for them to be my style of FPS fun. They did an update to the game recently, so it's not 100% dead.

Unreal vr for pcvr, psvr2, maybe a future meta headset (or quest 2?), crossplay.... That's the answer.

i just tried halo infinit on pc and holy shit does it suck compared to unreal tournament... :( i hope we soon get a new one.

The last hope for UT would be another dev team taking up the core series and making something exceptional out of it, ala Doom 2016.

The letter J is silent in Skaarj pronunciation :)

Amazing content and narrative. Instant subscription

I am waiting for new Unreal game like a dog for it's master... Not just Unreal Tournament, new singleplayer open world exploratory reboot of original Unreal would be freaking epic.

Needs putting on the quest 2 VR

ok so are they working on some type of MCC style Unreal Tournament experience? all the games just miraculously dissapeared from every single launcher i can think of. stumped fellas. somebodies gotta have some info for me.

Would have been great if they devoted a small about of fortnite and engine licensing to fund a small team to continue the legacy of UT.

I'm pissed off that we don't have any more Unreal Tournament games and that fortnite replaced it.

I want to play and unreal tournament on Ps5. I know its a Pc game firstly. but im hoping

Just polish and tweak UT2004 with the new engine into UT202* and i would buy a new gaming rig 😍

To me UT99 is the onlybone ive ever liked. I'd be satisfied if they rereleased it on modern consoles like id did with Quake 1 & 2

Cool video but what is going on with the horrible interlacing in the video footage? Holy mommy in the heavens! :D

You've exported the video with interlace, try to avoid that :D

I absolutely loved Unreal Championship 2 on Xbox. First game I 100% completed and I still own an original Xbox for the soul purpose of playing it. Criminal that it never got a PC port.

Vraiment top for 1999 👀👏❗

Quite honestly from what I learned over the internet about Unreal Tournament 4 in just only a couple of hours, with the developers whom jumped ship for a possible bigger payout and that is very imaginable in this point of time. I do however truly believe it was the modern generation of young gamers that killed the Unreal Tournament franchise and thus is why Fortnite was able to prosper in the end. if you really think about it, the younger generation was just not familiar with ANY Unreal Tournament product of series of games in general. So what Epic did was a fresh new product and they choose to cater to only one audience (the modern gen of gamers) with that being said - They simply wanted to make a product that was a sure thing in the modern era of arena FPS and so they took a gamble with Fortnite and of course it paid off big time. Unreal Tournament is not worse than Fortnite - not by even a hair, infact in the early years of PC and console gaming for the older gen FPS arena shooters UT was on the top of the list and only sooner or later mostly every successor that ever compared to Unreal Tournament (The Quake series) was now sadly in the same boat of drowning out to something more relevant in this day and age. Epic did the obvious, they went with something that made them more money and they knew what they did but of course they would never tell you that personally how they really felt about jumping bandwagons to work on another product that screamed for more attention in the long run. Are they still proud of the Pre Alpha with what they did up to this point with Unreal Tournament? Sure They Are! Also why they left and abandoned a much more legit product and more known title in UT that had been around for years and years and in the best of circles with the genre of PC and console FPS arena shooter classic gaming with gamers young and old and past and future generations to come. Now the UT community along with gamers/fans of Unreal Tournament are left with this in their hands to finish the product to mold and perhaps create more then what we see in the state it was left in. The terrible part about gaming is the current state that it is in now a days its all about money money money and nothing else. Unreal Tournament was NEVER a failed product, it was just in the wrong hands of developers who turned to the modern era of gaming - more less, the younger generation of gamers that we live with today. There will be successor to the Fortnite franchise sooner or later, its only a matter of time - but it won't go down by any new Unreal Tournament game any time soon. Fortnite has to be one of the most brainwashing fasacnations for a young gamers fantasy that ever had existed, Example: you take the Fortnite merchandise that god knows you know forsure Epic is making a killing off that alone and that is just one thing surely Epic is quite proud that Fortnite exists. The kids (MOSTLY ages 10-15) will play this game and love everything it has to offer (even if some of the in game content gets removed for more WORSE content) its simply a huge payoff to them in the end as long as the kids whom play this are kept in interest only because its SO streamlined towards their direction, the merchandise of figures and dolls and such is AIMED at an audience of a young age, the toys are AIMED for an audience of a young age, the memobelia is AIMED for an audience of a young age. Epic basically took something away from one generation to give to another, is ALL they did for greed and NOT for the love gaming. Blame Epic (mainly for catering towards ONLY the young generation) for Unreal Tournaments fail NOT Unreal Tournament as a standalone product in the industry of FPS arena style games.

i loved call of duty advanced warfare cuz it most resembled unreal tournament.

Normies killed good games like UT

Is it just me or did he totally skip over Unreal 2004?

I have all Unreal Tournament Games - on CD and DVD - and after UT 3 i thought the next UT 4 comes also 3 - 4 years later... 😥 no it is the same waiting like Half Life 1 to 2 and than 3 etc. But that was also not real...

09:40, hello, I am here to say, that epic delisted all unreal games from gog and steam, so the whole franchise can no longer be purchased and the official servers were shutdown. Sooo, future of unreal, yeah, press f. (however, i've heard they will release unreal tournament 3 for free as, unreal tournament x, take that rumour with a grain of salt though)

as a retro arena shooter fan i hate fortnite because sadly the mainstream crowd is more profitable. buried quake like arena shooters

Unreal games will make a comeback but not any time soon unfortunately

i mean, at this point, since of most of the old UT devs has been moved to that game to make future content... what stops epic from simply branching a part of the dev team to create a new season adding UT content into fortnite as a crossover to be brought over? wouldn't that be the best of both worlds like this ? I mean, atleast like that, they could feature a new ut gamemode & content integrated into Fortnite like they kept doing in the pasr eatch season and keep flexing Unreal Engine this way no !?

Basically, the only reason UT development is dead can be summarised to parentless children playing the soulless trash that is Fortshite. No wonder newer generations are on such a sharp decline lol

And it's gone

Game preservation is a joke my god..........

Hello, I come from the future with dire news, all UT servers will be shut down by epic on Jan 24rth 2023 *jumps back to the portal*

The original Unreal T was epic with the kaos mods and then unreal T 2004, unreal T 3 and then crickets WTF ??? Quake 3 was also awesome !

If a new unreal tournament is ever made it'll have nothing of the grittiness that the others had. Definitely forget about spamming 'die bitch' taunts or anything remotely like that. It'll be pc. Whatever it will be, they're more than likely never making another ut due to current culture. It's a miracle already that something like warhammer still exists. If they make another UT, it'll be watered down as fuck as to not offend anyone. In other words, fortnite is more lucrative.

Kinda doubt we will ever get another UT. They might make Fortnite 2 on UE 5 and screw UT fans for good, not that they did not do that by canceling UT 4.

So why did they stop the new unreal game that was out on beta for years on epic and now you cant even buy the game anymore or play it online it's all been taken down. personally i think that was a bad idea fortnight is now over and done with now so bring it back

why your video is so interlaced? hurts to watch

really nice video i was surpised by how well research it is the fact that u know about opentournament came as a surprise since barely anyone who still play ut it self seem to know about it tho sadly as far as i can tell opentournamet is pretty dead i think it is being worked on but last i heard it was around 2 ppl working on it only when they had time only time will tell what ends up happening to that

Before fortnite, unreal tournament 3 really killed the whole thing. It wasn’t bad, but it lost its personality, and looked too much like gears of war. It was just disappointing.

Unreal and Unreal Tournament is dead. They recently delisted all the games cause they didn't want to keep the server browser online.

What the hell is a V buck?

The narrator lost all credibility at 7:02 when he called UT3 a success, which makes me wonder if he actually experienced the games or just read articles and watched videos in preparation for making a video containing little insightful content. UT3 on the PC proved to be a huge failure and may not have had even 0.1% (one one thousandth) of the online multiplayer activity that UT99 or even UT 2004 achieved in terms of online-player-hours. I purchased UT3 a few days after release, played UT3 Warfare online for a few months, and I can testify that UT3 had extremely low PC online player counts and its PC online multiplayer scene was almost completely dead a few months after release. UT3 on the PC felt like a half-finished console port and IMHO was the final nail in the coffin for the series.

we should at least get more UT content for Fortnite, if this game is dead af. All we got so far is just 1 song. Lame.

Gears of War happened and they made unreal Tournament 3 .. and the franchise died since it was way demanding - Whoever did chose like voice packs and made sound in tht game should have been fired.. for kids younger than minus 3 -like amobea

it will but there change it too much like micro-transactions skins weapons !! 1999 ut rocks polish map leave well alone forget wallwalk too,, capture the flag rocked

Fucking Fortnite :(

One reason to hate fortnite even more. They should just sell the IP so we can have a great unreal again

If not for Unreal Tournament, there would be no Halo

Great. now i hate fortnite even more

Just imagine what Epic Games can create as Unreal single player game

Nah, there is no future for unreal, sadly. AFPS is just no in favour of newer generations of players spoiled by arcady cod gameplay, skill-based matchmaking and flashy colourfull skins. Quake tried to mimick that bs by adding "heroes" with "abilities" (defying genre basic rules: all are equal on spawn) and adding microtransactional bs to milk it - failed miserably. If ut tries something like that - it will fail too.

UT 2004 and Soldier of Fortune: Gold are my favorite FPS of all time. IMO UT put FPS on the map.

Fuck fortnite lol

Fortnite for kids, Unreal Tournament for "life" i.e. real gamers. Where are your "Epic" priorities?

Epic destroyed Unreal Tournament by milking it until it was bleeding, then kept milking it until it died.

Fortnite needs to die!

Sweeney, dude, not rich enough yet? 8 billions, right? I really looked up to you since the Future Crew days. You gave talented people like Brussee and Bleszinski a chance who made your company big and your wealth even bigger. You created awesome MEGAgames in the 90s based on knowledge and skills you(r) guys learnt from the demoscene, smooth parallax scrolling and awesome tracker music (Epic Pinball, Jazz, Zone66 etc.) - and eventually UNREAL (even the name you got from FC I just realized, lol) and its engine. Your games were cool, you were kings and your engine was and still is gold ...but when you stepped back from UT and Bleszinski left, Epic started lacking a lot(!) and it's a shame how you treat UT and its fans (aka the ppl who put Epic on the big screen). This is bullshit. What happens when nobody plays Fortnite anymore? Don't you think the younger audience may hop to something more serious like UT after being done with Fortnite? IF UT4 was finished finally, and get a RTX pass even etc. I mean you got/had the foundation and many years of experience. How hard can it be... Release the sourcecode at least. Or still pissed you didn't get FC's Pinball sourcecode? ;) Anyway. RIP best arena shooter ever. Still dreaming of Deck 16...