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<\/picture><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n Play it on: PC, Xbox, PlayStation, Switch<\/strong><\/p>\n Current goal: <\/strong>Face Godzilla, and survive!<\/p>\n I have a complicated relationship with Fortnite <\/em>these days. I feel it\u2019s fallen very far from the game it was in its spectacular first year when there were no bots, when each match flung skilled and unskilled players alike into a clusterfuck of contingency and comedy and loss<\/a><\/span>. Now, that bracing experience is gone, replaced by a lukewarm bath in which most opponents you encounter are bots doing a half-hearted performance of attack while actually serving themselves up to you for execution on a silver platter. Gone, too, is the game\u2019s ethereal, mysterious hint of a story, largely left open to interpretation. Now, it\u2019s all MMORPG-style quests and chatty characters spelling out standard video-game lore, all while more and more characters from popular \u201cIPs\u201d (blech) hit the shop each week, eradicating whatever distinctive identity of its own Fortnite <\/em>might have once had and turning it into a corporate dystopia a la Ready Player One<\/em>.<\/p>\n And yet, I\u2019m not immune to Fortnite<\/em>\u2019s pull. It\u2019s still a game in which I can really feel <\/em>the terrain under me; I love the ease with which I can run, slide, leap, and mantle across its map. On a hard day, I still have a habit of logging on and quickly busting out three daily quests to earn some easy XP, an activity I can get lost in for a bit. And I\u2019m definitely not immune to Fortnite<\/em>\u2019s spectacle, especially in those moments when it does something wild at a scale that few other games could match. Right now is just such a time as Godzilla, king of the monsters, has a chance of spawning in each match. I saw a video online of what it\u2019s like to play as the big guy and it looks incredible, the sense of scale and his destructive power all seeming just right. This weekend, I suspect I\u2019m gonna play way more Fortnite <\/em>than usual, hoping to experience the sheer size of all that destructive power from the viewpoint of a puny human and running for my life from something that actually feels incredibly dangerous. So hey, if you happen to be playing Fortnite <\/em>this weekend and you turn into Godzilla and then see me as a tiny speck running around way down below, please don\u2019t hurt me. I mean you no harm! \u2014 Carolyn Petit<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n