Fortnite Teases LEGO, Rocket Racing And Festival Games, Launching Next Week

It hurts seeing what Harmonix has been reduced to.
Every game they made, from Amplitude to Fuser, and all the Rock Bands in between, were made with the utmost care for music and creativity.
I know being bought out by Epic Games was the only way to keep them existing. But damn. They used to make their own games. Great games. And now it's... this.

This pretty cool honestly!

Celebrating the salt mines where they send all the devs they gobble up.

They quadrupled the content and - from Experience - they also quadrupled the bugs and also the time to "fix" bugs.

It sometimes was harder to win against the game, than against the enemies due to bugs.

In OG you could drive with a golf cart into a resurrection truck and you lost because you were stuck under the map. Using shopping carts once made them a potential trap. Everyone touching them got a collision hit. And so on. All this brought memories back where you mount a hover board and it exploded randomly or you entered a car and you and the car respawned at the location the car was at game start. Usually both killed you.

Looking forward to get killed by the game in many new ways.

As someone who played a bit of Snake in Smash, it's cool to see him in another big crossover game. Funny how companies that aren't Konami treat Metal Gear better than Konami itself.

While Lego has featured weapons in the past, such as blasters, rifles, revolvers (etc), this is the first time I've seen them promote an actual shooter game.

Lego used to have a policy of no depiction of real life guns or military sets, except when they can silently monetize it.

Poor Harmonix. I’d kill for a new Rock Band, been playing the series loads over the last year now I’ve worked out custom tracks in 3.

Rocket Racing looks like absolute trash. Cookie-cutter gameplay with actual Rocket League physics and boosting being MIA. I barely did any trading in the 2+ years of playing RL, but I'll take a trade a year if it means Rocket Racing doesn't exist.

Fortnite should never been exist.
Other games are way much better than fortnite.

The event was pretty monumental. I hope the destruction seen in the LEGO teaser is how it'll actually work in-game. Looked pretty impressive.

Hello Peter. Welcome to Fortnite.

Pretty cool stuff! I may jump in at some point this season though I am pretty busy playing other games at the moment.

I have a few thoughts on this.

I think Epic is going about this in the best way they possibly could have. The brand synergy they're establishing is impressive (new car parts unlocked in Fortnite are usable in Battle Royale, Rocket Racing, and vanilla Rocket League; the majority of Fortnite outfits already owned by users will have LEGO variants; etc.), the idea of a free-to-play LEGO game integrated into a game I already play is appealing, and the new additions to Battle Royale this season - while overwhelming when compared to the simplicity of Fortnite OG - have been a very fun change. I also think that getting Psyonix on Rocket Racing and Harmonix on FN Festival is promising.

However, one has to wonder how necessary this all is. This feels like Epic's big push to make their idea of the "metaverse" a reality (for example, the idea of cosmetics transferring over from game to game, context to context, reminds me a lot of the elevator pitch for NFTs), but couldn't that have been restricted to the confines of Battle Royale for a much more interesting experience (after all, limitations breed creativity)?

Also, I hope they have more developers working on this. Didn't Epic just have some layoffs? That's worrying from a bugs / game quality perspective and a developer crunch perspective.

Another change I've noticed is that Epic's social media teams for Fortnite accounts have gotten a lot less formal and a lot more transparent in the past few days. That feels like a good change overall.

I suppose all I can do now is watch and wait to see if this idea is as revolutionary as Epic wants it to be. Epic actively supporting four live service titles all under the banner of Fortnite (technically five, rest in peace Save the World) will either be the death of Fortnite or its new beginning - and in some ways, it can be argued that it is both simultaneously.

C'mon man, you can't put Lego and Rocket Racing so close together like that, while I've been going on a nostalgia trip for Lego Racers and been trying to make my own Rocket Racer. They never made an official set based on the game.

@Anti-Matter why not? You're not forced to play it and it's not hurting anyone. I play with mates on custom games because it's a lot of fun. It's easy to pick up and play with no learning curve so it's easily accessible. I understand people not liking it but saying "there's better games" means you're limited to one game... There are much better games, obviously, but some of us play more than one game.

@Anti-Matter You can't be serious.
Do you really think Cocomelon: Play With JJ is a better game then Fortnite?

@Anti-Matter Yet another thoughtless comment by Anti-matter!

@SurprisedRobinChu I was thinking the exact same thing. I believe the inclusion of guns in the Lego world, besides zapper/star wars type guns, ended with pirates and the western sets many many years ago. I didn't believe my son when he showed me Lego was doing Fortnite. I thought it was fake. I'm still very surprised.

While I've never been into Fortnite, I find the hatred this game garners to be totally ridiculous. It's not my style, but it is not a terrible game. I feel that the best part about it, is it's uniqueness and the fact that Epic keeps it fresh.

@Groovz
I mean of course.
I thought games like Bluey, Peppa Pig, Cooking Mama, Barbie, etc are better games to play than fortnite.

@Anti-Matter Well, i guess it's your opinion

It makes me so sad that epic games is removing trading from rocket league for this piece of garbage. We all know the reason why they are removing trading is not for this disgrace. It is so epic can make more money. I absolutely hate epic games.

@Anti-Matter enjoy Paw patrol world while everyone else is playing Lego mode in Fortnite.