Let’s start with the worst one, because I’m still recovering. Riot Games (yes, again) posted an AI-generated trailer on the Chinese Wild Rift account to celebrate the game’s third anniversary. What should’ve been a fun milestone turned into an uncanny valley fever dream that looked like a bootleg K-Pop Demon Hunters video from the basements of TEMU. It was up for about five minutes before being banished to the Shadow Realm. Honestly, I've seen AI-generated content before, but this one felt like a threat. It had big “we used Midjourney and didn’t even check the results” energy.
Now on the flip side, we have… Fortnite. I don't much care for Fortnite but let's give credit when it's due - this trailer absolutely slaps. It’s a full-on Power Rangers crossover with 90s vibes, kaiju-sized bug battles, and the Dino Megazord stomping into battle like it’s 1994 and your cereal just turned into a Saturday morning cartoon. It’s corny. It’s glorious. It’s everything I wanted and didn’t know I needed. Fortnite may be a meme at this point, but whoever directed this trailer deserves a medal and maybe a little crown made of plastic bug legs.
So here we are - two trailers. One made me question the future of art and society in general. The other made me want to morph into a pink spandex suit and save the world. I’ll let you decide which one is which (though I feel like it’s obvious).
Watch both. Laugh. Cry. Scroll down and tell me what you think: Is Riot’s AI trailer really that bad or am I just allergic to laziness? Is Fortnite secretly the most creative IP in gaming right now? Or are we just so starved for joy we’ll take a Megazord win wherever we can?
