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[Men_in_Boxes]

Good news: Game of the decade, Fortnite Battle Royale, finally has what looks to be a competitor in the pipeline.

Bad new: "The call is coming from inside your house!"

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"Epic Games is looking for a smart, creative UI Programmer Intern to join who will participate in working on parts of the Fortnite Universe. This team is responsible for building a new experience in the Fortnite ecosystem," it continues. "This experience will involve working on an open world survival crafting game within a physics sandbox. There is much opportunity to build something either in the frontend or in-game."

Epic are hiring for a Fortnite open world survival game

Every now and then I think back to my first experience of Fortnite, back in the dingy early-mid 2010s - a clever but la…

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I think we can safely say the next big genre may not be extraction shooters, but instead, is likely the survival genre. All you NeoGAFians are going to be playing Fortnite in your nursing homes.

 

[Skifi28]

And I thought the Marvel universe was bad. Can't wait.

 

[Guilty_AI]

ew

 

[Elder Legend]

Stoked. Can't wait too see what this is.

 

[Generic]

Is this a brand new game or is it a Creative 2.0 project?

 

[Elder Legend]

Is this a brand new game or is it a Creative 2.0 project?

Sounds like a new game.

 

[MagnesD3]

Id rather just leave it with fortnight

 

[Robb]

This is bound to be another free-to-play/microtransaction game, so it’s very difficult to get excited for me.

But I’d be happy if they prove me wrong.

 

[AJUMP23]

When do we get Fortnite the movie?

 

[JimboJones]

Tears of the Minecraft

 

[Nankatsu]

So the Fortnite killer is a Fornite open world survival game?

 

[kirby007]

why would you kill a fun game

 

[Skifi28]

why would you kill a fun game

All good things must eventually end, just look at Halo.

 

[iorek21]

Fortnite has been flirting with the idea of a single player experience/GTAO experience for some time now. Seasons get more and more thematic, but it doesn’t really translate well into the BR genre, so we get some weird mixes like the current season: spy themed but if literal wars into what should be a stealth location.

A open world survival RPG will work wonders for this kind of themes.

 

[nightmare-slain]

They done Save The World dirty but I'd be up for them making a single player/PvE/co-op kinda game.

 

[Puscifer]

Can't wait to twerk as Kratos after running away from the monster

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

This is bound to be another free-to-play/microtransaction game, so it’s very difficult to get excited for me.

But I’d be happy if they prove me wrong.

What if you looked at games via gameplay design rather than payment model?

 

[Robb]

What if you looked at games via gameplay design rather than payment model?

What does it matter if the payment models makes me not want to play the game anyway?

The gameplay in Fortnite, and many free-to-play games, isn’t necessarily bad. The MTX, predatory systems, season passes etc. etc. etc. are - I’m not interested in that.

 

[Sleepwalker]

Ew you can keep it

 

[Mr.ODST]

People shit on Fortnite because Kids play it but its fun for all ages to play

 

[Miyazaki’s Slave]

Fortnite was already a survival game…that’s LITERALLY how it started out.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

What does it matter if the payment models makes me not want to play the game anyway?

The gameplay in Fortnite, and many free-to-play games, isn’t necessarily bad. The MTX, predatory systems, season passes etc. etc. etc. are - I’m not interested in that.

It's just strange because I don't interact with any of the MTX, predatory systems, or Battle Passes in Fortnite. I play it due to the gameplay alone. I just don't understand gamers who aren't gameplay oriented. To each their own I suppose.

 

[StueyDuck]

It's just a predatory menu designed to make kids buy dances and famous rapper skins. The ultimate fortnite experience

 

[Heisenberg007]

 

[8BiTw0LF]

The next CoD will feature an open world zombie mode and it's rumored they will remove DMZ.

I think it will be DMZ combined with zombies. Survival Extraction Shooter.

 

[Bartski]

 

[Spukc]

This sheit killed unreal tournament

Fml

 

[Salmon]

Either way, it's crap games for kids who loves cringy dances in games! Pull the plug!

 

[dotnotbot]

Can't wait to twerk as Kratos after running away from the monster

 

[Hudo]

No Unreal, no Unreal Tournament. Instead another fucking Fortnite game. And a shitty survival game at that. Great.

I hope that at least some people gonna have fun with this shit.

 

[Robb]

It's just strange because I don't interact with any of the MTX, predatory systems, or Battle Passes in Fortnite. I play it due to the gameplay alone. I just don't understand gamers who aren't gameplay oriented. To each their own I suppose.

Oh I’m definitely gameplay oriented. Nintendo games are my jam and those are certainly gameplay first.

There’s a big difference between having your game being designed from the ground up around making money over time than not though. If Zelda: TotK had 100 Links running around Hyrule in different costumes, rupees were turned into a digital currency, shops were selling Zonai devices, costumes, dance moves etc. for said currency and season passes were introduced I would not be interested - despite the gameplay being just as great as it is in the actual game.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Oh I’m definitely gameplay oriented. Nintendo games are my jam and those are certainly gameplay first.

There’s a big difference between having your game being designed from the ground up around making money over time than not though. If Zelda: TotK had 100 Links running around Hyrule in different costumes, rupees were turned into a digital currency, shops were selling Zonai devices, costumes, dance moves etc. for said currency and season passes were introduced I would not be interested - despite the gameplay being just as great as it is in the actual game.

Would you play Zelda: TotK if it was exactly the same as it is today, only they added a MTX shop tab that was optional?

 

[Bernkastel]

Why you are you so obsessed with killers?

 

[Robb]

Would you play Zelda: TotK if it was exactly the same as it is today, only they added a MTX shop tab that was optional?

I would, but I wouldn’t like that inclusion. And who knows, maybe I wouldn’t like it to the degree that if the next game had that as well I wouldn’t be interested at all. It’s an easy way to ruin an entire franchise.

Kind of depends on if it affect the gameplay loop or not. It’s not like I don’t play games that contain this stuff at all. They’re practically unavoidable. If it’s not MTX, it’s season passes or something else that’s similar.

 

[splattered]

Saw this at the bottom of the page, so... This ended up being the Lego fortnite variant?