Not long ago I was looking at my favorite games of decades past. Unreal Tournament figured very prominently, made of course by Epic. So I wondered: why did they stop making Unreal games? I looked at their game chronology. On one hand, they made Gears of War, an Xbox exclusive that never interested me. And the other one? Oh, right: Fortnite. That's where Unreal Tournament went. They made tons of money for sure. But no company, including Epic, has made a competitive FPS + CTF game as solid as UT, UT2003, or UT2004 since that era

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hapticmonkey 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They had Unreal Tournament 4 in development around 2018 but it never gained much traction in the pre-alpha phase. Once Fortnite blew up they seemed to just focus on that and their app store.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3botRkqnwk

	▲	cma 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think the Unreal Tournament 4 team was moved to Fortnite after the success of PUBG to rapidly turn it into a battle royale.

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roncinephile 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Halo Infinite is the closest I've gotten to the UT feeling nowadays. Simple arena, equal playing field, drop in drop out, tools-not-loadouts design. It's a shame how a variable and strong design gets put off into the corner to wither.

	▲	archagon 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Splitgate 1 felt a lot like UT2k4 combined with Halo to me. Really fast, really fun.

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danpalmer 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I wanted to play UT2004 for some nostalgia recently. Turns out even though I own it on the Epic game store, I can't play it because Epic removed it from the Epic game store.

	▲	Narishma 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Didn't they make the game free? Or was that just UT99?

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justinhj 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think the problem is also that there are many FPS multiplayer CTF games even if they are not all great, they all compete for attention in a crowded market. Destiny, Call of Duty and all their variants.