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King Kong and a robot lizard fight for royalties.

Picture: Epic games

Play it on: PC, Xbox, PlayStation, Switch

Current goal: Face Godzilla and survive!

I have a complicated relationship with Fortnite nowadays. I feel like it's come a long way from the game it was in its spectacular first year, when there were no bots, when every game threw both skilled and unskilled players alike into a group fuck Contingency and comedy and loss. Now that refreshing experience is gone, replaced by a lukewarm bath where most of the enemies you encounter are bots that throw out half-hearted attacks while they're actually handed to you on a silver platter for execution. The ethereal, mysterious hint of a story in the game has also disappeared, leaving much room for interpretation. Now it's just MMORPG-style quests and chatty characters formulating standard video game stories, while more and more characters from popular “IPs” (blech) come onto the market every week, erasing their own distinctive identities Fortnite could have once had and turned it into a corporate dystopia a la Ready, player one.

And yet I am not immune to it Fortnite's train. It's still a game I can really do feel the terrain below me; I love the ease with which I can run, slide, jump and climb across the map. On a busy day, I still have the habit of logging in and quickly completing three daily quests to earn some easy XP, an activity I can lose myself in for a while. And I'm definitely not immune to it Fortniteis a spectacle, especially in the moments where it does something wild on a scale that few other games can match. At the moment, Godzilla, the king of the monsters, has a chance to appear in every game. I saw a video online about what it's like to play the big guy and it looks incredible, the sense of size and his destructive power seem just right. I suspect I'll be playing a lot more this weekend Fortnite than usual, hoping to experience the sheer magnitude of all this destructive power from the perspective of a puny human and running for my life from something that actually feels incredibly dangerous. So hey, if you happen to play Fortnite This weekend you turn into Godzilla and then see me as a tiny speck walking way down below, please don't hurt me. I don't want to do you any harm! – Carolyn Petit

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