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Basically, yes.

Ready player one; but worse in almost every conceivable way. (No explaining its own references in the margins is a rare plus for Fortnite)

Yeah like what’s the game even about? Oh yeah, same game that collaborated with two transphobes who were exposed in the files and laid off 1000 employees including one who’s suffering from terminal brain cancer btw.

Companies have been obsessed for years with the idea of one big live-service game that can be their movie tie-in game without them actually having to make one Lego thought they had one with Dimensions. Marvel is trying to do it with Rivals Fortnite is just the tie-in dumping ground for *everyone*

Pretty much. Honestly id be okay with that if it wasn’t for pretty much everything wrong with Epic

I wouldn't put it past Epic to have just automated the skins now. Once an IP reaches a certain box office / cultural zeitgeist, an AI poops out a model from it into the game

Guess I'm in the minority but jumping out of a bus as the ninja turtles with 3 of my friends to take down the likes of Peter Griffin and Bugs Bunny is fun to me. This collab is in bad taste though

For all intents and purposes, Fortnite's basically fulfilling the same role for IP owners that LJN did in the 90s...

My best guess is, it's the most mid shooter ever but it's a thing that gave children and teens a shared experience to interact in now that most of the outside world has banned them from congregating without being harassed. Also Epic games sucks ass.

Yeah pretty much.

It’s meant to attract people who wish they could unironically live in the world of Ready Player One (well, that and it’s for companies who want to advertise their IP’s and brands)

Money

fortnite was a zombie survival shooter that flopped that they managed to parlay into a ridiculously successful PvP battle royale. many games do crossover marketing, so they added licensed characters. that eventually turned it into a platform for any media and crosspromotional stunt, no matter what

The point is to have something from every IP and genre so that everyone will buy something from the shop.

I've been calling it "Funko Pop: The Video Game" for a while now, since that's all it's become. Who cares the context, so long as we shove as many brands in there as possible? It's content slop, which is pretty accurate seeing how this is Epic "All Al, all the time" Games we're talking about.

It's just a free shooter game, with other mechanics and minigames sometimes, with loads of other ip skins you can buy that boil down to, "look, it's the guy from _____!" There's no point for the consumer other than to play with friends, and for the publisher to continuously make money.

Yea

I think @foldablehuman.bsky.social said it best youtu.be/dPHPNgIihR0?...

I watched a twitch streamer play Fortnite once; he was playing Optimus Prime with a new voice mod and was having fun. Then came a bunch of other people also playing Optimus and using the voice mod to record themselves bellowing slurs in Peter Cullen's voice. First time I saw a streamer's soul die.

At some point, Fortnite just became an SNL sketch played straight... www.nbc.com/saturday-nig...

I feel like controling her in a video game interacts weirdly with the entire point the movie was making about womens' bodily autonomy?

I mean, both the book and the movie, kinda already were doing that. Certainly they never struck me as a sincere critique of dystopic capitalism infecting beloved entertainment properties and characters.

I blame Ready Player One regardless of the Thermian Argument.

I whaled for the LittleBigPlanet franchise, (which was DLC genre mixed) and I genuinely enjoy FunkoPops. I don't remember Sackboy or a plastic golden Cthulhu ever having to use "I don't consent" as a battle cry.

I mean, this is a kids game that added the paedophile and child murder, Freddy Krueger as a skin.

I mean I think that at least is kinda funny because it crosses the line twice.

Including the Droogs while leaving out Pepe Le Pew. :/

Having the Iron Giant fighting in Ready Player One. Just seeing that in a commercial guaranteed I would never see it.

Look, it's a cavalcade of famous movie monster - haemovoric Wallachian aristocrat, dog guy, cannibal psychologist, Texan (with chainsaw), woman who pouts weird after local dipshit curses her

It used to be about buying & trading exclusive skins at a certain point it became about just smashing random action figures together, yes. I mean I get this tied to a Halloween event but if they really wanted a spooky skin from Obsession it should be Bear with a One wish willow...

There was a certain charm to how Nintendo smashed all the video game icons together. When EVERYONE started doing it, it lost all that charm... and I got sick of it entirely. I really don't want to see Jason fighting Bugs Bunny, or all this random stuff in a game that used to have an identity.

Fortnight is a money laundering scheme

I really would like to see a timeline of these crossovers/promotional tie-ins.

Fortnite isn’t terribly creative, but it does know that having the current trendy thing/character/meme on its game store equals money. It literally could be anything, if it’s popular enough to be sold, Fortnite will get in on it. That’s it, that’s the point.

I call it the Toy Box of Gaming. Thank goodness I'm not into Fortnite in the first place.

If you don't cackle at equipping a regular ass goblin with Mjolnir I don't know what to tell you re: fun and where to find it

Yeah, Fortnite will NEVER let me do a 'stop hitting yourself' this way:

Me sincerely hoping that Fortnite's reliance on AI slop will push kids back into trick-or-treating again.

It is basically "Jangling Keys In Front Of Your Ten Year Old: The Game", with all the respect for the participants that implies

The entire concept of Fortnite is a distasteful, shallow cash-grab, but this takes the distasteful aspect of it to a whole new level.

FINALLY! A video game I can understand! 😃

I remember people made fun of Endgame for predicting that this game would still be around in 2023 when the movie was released in 2019. Ironically, the writers seem to have sold themselves short on that one...for better or worse.

It´s exactly that. The guy in charge of the game named Ready Player One as the aspirational model. Also it helps that crossovers allow everything to be an ad for everything else.

Yeah its the modern version of a kid with a robocop toy and a spongebob toy playing with them fighting their sister's barbies and care bears to save the world or whatever.

No no no no no meme

People like smashing their virtual action figures together until they are reminded these were once characters with meaning, then the next popular character from a "lesser" thing is added again and all is right in the world.

Yes. They abandoned any semblance of a 'story' long ago, when the 'dancing' became a viral thing. I watched 2 things. That black hole thing at chapter 2, and the end of chapter 6 big battle. I can not make heads or tails of the game or gameplay. (Knorr want to)