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Contrary to Fortnite, though, Overwatch's narrative lacks a focal point. If you request any given Overwatch player what is occurring right now in the game's present day deadline, I am prepared to bet that they'd shrug and fortnite items , at best, be able to provide up the backstories of a couple of their favourite heroes. In-game story events, meanwhile, have been focused on creating out backstory more, but in a largely disconnected fashion that's hard to tie into a larger arc unless you are a dyed-in-the-wool lore nerd.
Earlier this season, for instance, the Retribution event followed Reaper, McCree, Moira, and Genji through an ordeal in Overwatch's past that we've been informed --not shown--is pivotal. Then we jumped back into the present and got a brand new hero entirely unrelated to this event, Hammond. I've talked to friends who took a break in the game for just a month or two, which was sufficient to put their heads spinning. Blizzard promises that Overwatch's narrative will start cohering and moving ahead soon, but it's already been two years.
The above reams of fan fiction and fan art, while surely a indication of Overwatch's success, also strike me as an attempt at making sense of everything, deriving order out of chaos. Overwatch's world and story are not even that complicated: there's just a bunch happening, and in-game events ping-pong between timelines, which makes it hard for the match's entire player base to get invested in any 1 thing.
Fortnite's narrative, on the other hand, is all focal point. Events like last season's meteor and this season's rift-a-palooza are steeped in mystery. That might lead to a similar confusion if that's all that has been occurring, but in Fortnite they're tied into a concrete result: map changes. Fortnite has just 1 map, and over the course of thousands of conflicts royale (the correct plural; do not @ me), players have become intimately familiar with buy fortnite weapons . The rift event, particularly, has taken advantage of that, sucking signs, mascots, and other beloved landmarks by one to the stage that gamers happen to be holding in-game ceremonies to mourn them.
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