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The Guardian: Fortnite – changing video game storytelling for good
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I didn't know fortnite even had a story, I thought that original concept was ditched when it turned into BR.
Also lol at this changing anything for the players not able to play during the event, or who could but couldn't log in.
Also lol at this changing anything for the players not able to play during the event, or who could but couldn't log in.
I also thought this. Like i knew they had these events for changing the map up, but story? Like, an actual bonafide story? How come I've never heard of this, even from my nephew who never stops playing the game.
Title is hyperbolic, but we're talking about a unique storytelling method in an online competitive MP game. Your examples are strictly single-player with the exception of Journey. It's taking what MMOs have already done but it's applying it in a genre that's mostly never had this much environmental lore background. Blizzard has tried for years to do this with Overwatch but that's a game with constant map rotations. People are not gonna notice the clues compared to playing on the same map for hundreds of hours.
One was them killing a game that was already dead in order to make a brand new game from its ashes.
The other is doing a live event (emphasis on LIVE, not a FMV to sign off things until next time) where people are experiencing a shutdown for a game that is at its current peak.
FFXIV was ballsy as hell, but Fortnite is doing something crazy in their own right. They pulled the plug for a full day of operation now as a marketing strategy in what is essentially a maintenance for the next season.
You could see the end of the world from the lobby and as you played the game too, which is absolutely wack. It isn't even remotely similar to FFXIV making the satellite descend through the sky gradually through patches and then tell GMs to spawn as much monsters as they could in player cities
There is no story with BR. Let's be honest.
Cool events? Hell yeah.
But nothing is coherent and could be regarded as lore or even story telling.
Just great parts in a mindlessly fun game.
Cool events? Hell yeah.
But nothing is coherent and could be regarded as lore or even story telling.
Just great parts in a mindlessly fun game.
Short answer: yes.
Slightly less short answer: There is an incredibly subtle story told through events and map changes. They'll likely expand on it more and more, and it's definitely tied to it's sister game mode, Save the World. The story isn't that detailed or thorough but it's got some cool concepts that tie a bunch of random crap together. Interdimensional/time warp stuff. The game just had it's first "dialogue" recently, in the form of Bioshock audio tapes.
Now this was a monumental event that actually had story relevance.
People are ignoring that Fortnite tells it's story to swathes of gamers with live events, which is different from pretty much anything out there.
Yes, FFXIV had the 1.0 ending event, and it was a massively cool and memorable moment, but it didn't unfold in front of people in the sense that you were taking part in it. The server shut down while everyone watched a cutscene at the same time.
Yes, FFXIV had the 1.0 ending event, and it was a massively cool and memorable moment, but it didn't unfold in front of people in the sense that you were taking part in it. The server shut down while everyone watched a cutscene at the same time.
Yeah, pretty sure Planetside did almost the exact same thing. Maybe even twice?
More recently. I know they destroyed the world with a meteor shower when the servers were scheduled to go down permanently, but I am pretty sure there was also some kind of in-game cataclysmic event before the Core Combat expansion as well.
More recently. I know they destroyed the world with a meteor shower when the servers were scheduled to go down permanently, but I am pretty sure there was also some kind of in-game cataclysmic event before the Core Combat expansion as well.
