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Yeah, the idea that Fortnite is somehow "designed by committee" or less legitimate when Epic has spent the last 20 years iterating Unreal Tournament and Gears o

Yeah, the idea that Fortnite is somehow "designed by committee" or less legitimate when Epic has spent the last 20 years iterating Unreal Tournament and Gears of War is ridiculous. Epic knows how to make a hit game. Their games are almost always extremely well made and fun. Gears of War pretty much invented the cover mechanic in most modern shooters. To denigrate them just sounds out of touch, frankly. I played Fortnite for a few hours because, hey, it's free, and it definitely has Unreal's genes with some building and last-man-standing techniques piled on top. The difference in skill between me and the players who won was outstanding, just like it was back when I used to play UT after school. It's a solid game.

Impossible 7y ago
Like with most things in games, Gears of War popularized the cover mechanic but did not invent it. The cover system was inspired by KillSwitch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Switch_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Switch_(video_game)), and there are earlier titles like Win Back that feature cover systems. From the Wikipedia article... In the design of Gears of War, lead developer Cliff Bleszinski of Epic Games credits Kill Switch's cover system as one of the influences they put into the game's design, as Kill Switch's lead designer Chris Esaki was employed by Epic Games and was involved in the development of Gears of War.
nitely 7y ago
Fortnite started as a cooperative tower defence kind of game, it's still out there with a name I can't remember, but it was not a good game. AFAIK, the battle royale mode was someone's side project, thanks to PUBG being all the rage back then. The fact that fortnite even exists seems like dumb luck to me.