
You completed the challenge and you will get the XP and progress with your Battle Pass for doing so. If you are set upon and eliminated by your rivals as soon as your feet hit the floor, it doesn't matter. That's kind of the point, right? Well, yes, but does it make us feel as if we are better at those games than we actually are? Some of Fortnite's challenges require nothing more than to land at a certain location. As we complete challenges in Fortnite, Apex Legends, Smash Ultimate, or Crash Team Racing, our rank increases. Therein lies the problem that we have with a gamer's online rank. RELATED: Nintendo Online Subscribes Can Grab A Smash Bros. We buy Fortnite's battle pass every season and thoroughly enjoy trying to complete the game's weekly challenges. We don't want to sound like old people yelling at clouds, longing for simpler times and two-dimensional side scrollers.

It may sound as if we are slamming this way of gaming, but instead, it's quite the contrary. Some games require you to play online, and rather than having any sort of story to follow, your entire focus is on completing challenges and ranking up. Your friend could be sitting on the other side of the world as long as they have the game and a good internet connection, you can play together as if they were in the room with you. There was a multiplayer option on most titles, but that second player had to be sitting right beside you in order to play. Games used to be as simple as turning on your console, putting in a disc or a cartridge, and playing that game from beginning to end.

Over the course of the past decade or so, the video game industry's focus has shifted online.
