Explain fortnite to me in terms of things I get. Who's the Goku of fortnite?
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in reply to @bcj's post:
Non-Joke Answer: The main character of Fortnite is a guy named Jonesy ("Agent Jones.") He's been the face of Fortnite for a long time but they didn't really make him in to an actual character until somewhat recently (2021-ish).
It's not really worth getting in to what Jonesy does because Fortnite's "story" is incredibly clumsy, disjointed, and only really seems to make sense after they patch holes in it retroactively. They seem to make it up as they go and figure out how it fits together after the fact. Often via (legitimately terrible) crossover comics with Marvel or DC.
Somebody once said to me that it's there to appeal to the kind of kids who love to speculate on FNAF lore, and that's probably fair. To me, Fortnite feels like a game based on a movie or TV license, where it has that vibe of those Dragon Ball Z games that don't make any sense unless you've already seen the show and understand what parts they're skipping for the game.
Except, y'know, there is no Fortnite TV show or movie, so you're just getting the cliffnotes and have to speculate on whatever they aren't telling us.
In the broadest, most simplistic sense, Jonesy used to work for a millenniums old agency called The Imagined Order who are vying for control of something called "the Zero Point" -- a (possibly living) beacon of exotic energy that exists as the source of the Big Bang and a gateway to the entire multiverse located at the center of all reality. The Imagined Order are often painted as one of the villains of Fortnite, because their methods are cold and deeply calculating. Jones himself is apparently thousands of years old, a side-effect of working for The IO, and over the centuries eventually developed a distaste for their methods. He eventually quit, joining the side of The Seven, a mysterious band of rebels trying to prevent The IO from capturing and controlling the Zero Point.
Chapter 3 more or less launched with a war between The Seven and the Imagined Order, which saw The Seven defeating The IO and killing one of their major generals, Agent Slone. Chapter 3 ended with a new villain known as "The Nothing" emerging, who seems to have killed The Seven and destroyed the previous island. Its theorized The Nothing is allied with another of Fortnite's villain groups, The Last Reality, a race of aliens also looking to capture and control the Zero Point.
Getting in to too much more detail than this is where it all starts to fall apart, so it's best not to think about it too hard (or at all).
Right now it's totally up in the air as to what Fortnite is doing next story-wise, since Chapter 4 seems to have been a big reset for a lot of the ongoing story threads.
Also offering my formal apology for being way too deep in to Fortnite that I, a rando to you, answered this earnestly
no need to apologize, I genuinely appreciate this detailed and sincere response. Could not even have begun to guess this just seeing the game from the outside. Did Jonesy exist from the "save the world" (I think that was the name) side or was he an invention for the battle royale?
Save the World is a confusing thing because it seems to move in and out of the canon. I think, officially, it's just treated as another alternate universe, which is why it sometimes crosses over with Battle Royale but is otherwise treated as its own thing. Jonesy does exist in Save the World, but only in one or two questlines as a minor character, and he isn't voiced by Troy Baker (because STW Jonesy existed years and years before Troy Baker came in to the picture).
Interesting. I guess if your story is built around multiverse stuff it's real easy to be flexible on stuff like this and even have things like "this character sounds different" be perfectly fine
in reply to @jkap's post:
To offer a rebuttal to the obvious conclusion, the Goku of Fortnite is whoever you want it to be. Character, setting, narrative - such well defined and localized concepts are totally irrelevant to the game's appeal. No, what draws people to this game is the opportunity to inhabit their favorite character from anywhere in mainstream pop culture and just do whatever with them, even if it's unrelated to what that character is.
Fortnite is the Ready Player One of video games, for as horrifying as that sentence is.
That actually explains a hell of a lot. Also really cements my decision to not bother with Fortnite.