Fortnite - A New Game by Epic

  • These maps are a goddamn delight to explore. Whatever they did to make procedurally generated maps fun and interesting, it worked. When I’m having so much fun harvesting bullshit elements to make stuff, I have to stop and reflect.

  • The in-game building interface is also top notch, borderline a joy to use.

  • The whole thing reminds me of a building toolkit used to make games, which was also seamlessly used to make the game itself, and the game becomes inherently destruct… ible as well as construct… ible. It’s all very valve-esque and ouroboros.

One valid criticism: they indeed went a bit nuts with the progression systems, which are in a word, overwhelming. Yo dawg I herd you liek progression, so we put progression in your progression…