Marathon enemy design

Marathon enemy design
bro get that shit outta here

i dont hate it

It looks better than the player characters

in-game looks cheap, they went with this weird high-spec materials aesthetic but you cant do it justice in a toned down for multiplayer slop environment
you need a genuine, meant for super graphics RTX next gen experience like the cinematic

Why would a robot need to stretch?

In real Marathon, those synthetic flesh robots were created by the enemy as suicide bombs meant to infiltrate crowds of humans and then explode.

here is that legendary bungie gunplay bro nothing like it

the poor kid with the mix and match lego guys

Cosmic Break got a sequel?

I'd be fine if characters looked like that in the actual game. The oversized t-shirts that zoomer girls are wearing right now are only good if you have good cloth simulation.
The blocky robot design could be fine but the boxes looks too generic. Blocky boxes and bright colors are fine but need to build better looking shapes out of them.

oh my god it even has ADS

I can't even tell the much difference in gunplay looking at these small screens. You need to play the game to feel it.

I wonder if Marathon looked good in low poly style.

This looks so far removed from the original Marathon trilogy that it feels like one giant gaslighting campaign

What does any of this have to do with fucking Marathon?

It actually did get a rerelease a while back.
There is also that anime girl mecha game that released literally yesterday.

I don't want dei crap

NOOOOOOOOOO DONT MAKE EVERYONE A ROBOT

I don't want TAA and a game that runs at 30 fps

NOOOOOOO DONT MAKE THE GRAPHICS SIMPLIFIED

make up your minds chuds

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shit bait, wont even give you a >(You)

I have to give respawn more credit their ui and guns still have an ounce of visual flair compared to its contemporaries,

maybe they just don't want to lose the IP rights

The game takes place a hundred years after Marathon 1. The Marathon ship didn't have FTL travel so it was also old even in the original trilogy. Lhowon was an abandoned planet full of ruins. It makes sense that everything looks gritty and old in the original trilogy because everything actually was gritty and old.

BTW UESC robots aren't even new to the series. The first game had these blocky drones.

I want cool characters and an artstyle that I dont hate.
Is this some impossible middle ground now

Looks like that character from Overwatch.

I think that looks insanely cool, but then again I like humanoid androids with weird funky robot heads

blocky drones

he says, posting a round drone

industrial
the word you are looking for is industrial

Reminds me of this video
youtube.com/watch?v=YfY1lfFu8j8

I wonder if Bungie genuinely thought they hit a potential goldmine with this idea, or if they knew it was a hard 50/50 / hail mary.
I want to lean toward the latter given the Destiny 2 assets but idk

Marathon lore appears interesting. Too bad I haven't played the original games back in the day I have no desire to dig deep into it now. And the original games are clunky and bad if you compare them to Doom, don't want to play them.

Apparently there is an endgame map on the Marathon with aliens and shit they just haven't shown off yet

Where is this from?

no hablo ingles. Anyways, I don't think the NuMarathon UESC murder bots are that radically different from what was in the OG trilogy.

You can read all of the lore terminals online. You'll only miss some context by skipping the games but not much.

Beta Decay, some game that's never gonna come out. It's fun to think about though.
youtube.com/watch?v=YfG9D8hJVeA

Who the fuck cares? It literally looks and feels nothing like Marathon. You can try to justify it with lore reasons however you want, but it doesn't change the fact that it looks nothing even adjacent to the original games.
It'd be like if Star Wars had a new movie come out the entire thing was a sitcom on modern day earth. You'd be there justifying it going "no no no bros it makes sense, the galaxy is a big place, of course there would be a planet that's just modern day earth with no space ships, aliens, or anything it's just a story that takes place on one of the star wars planets bro it makes sense in universe bro"

its free on steam you honestly dont have anything to lose
i found them quite fun

i didn't understand the analogy. can you make a food one please?

I really don't feel this decal spam they are going for on every fucking surface. They refuse to add any 3d detail to the very simple shapes that make up buidlings and enemies and so instead cover them in these scribbles.
It just looks absurd

I know, I got filtered. I played Dark Forces remaster recently and it was as good as I remember it, and I can enjoy any Doom WAD or some Doom like indie shooter right now, but Marathon is too much. You had to be there at that time to love it. Ironically, I really like Bungie's Myth games, they are my favorite games from them since I'm not a fan of Halo. And there aren't even any games right now that feel like Myth I and II.

Apex Legends is still a good game in many ways, I stopped playing because it's the same thing over and over again. The gameplay gets boring after a while. And yes, the shitty microtransactions is there, but you don't need to pay for shit you don't like.

Who the fuck cares? It literally looks and feels nothing like Marathon.

actually it is like Marathon, but not from Vic's perspective. you're a BOB. your job is to warp down and die.
aesthetically the game sucks sure but as far as the gameplay loop goes it's really not out of context at all. it would just be better as a traditional story-driven shooter a-la halo or the eary modern warfare games where you play different operations as different people.
the dev texture shit is fucking stupid however and i won't defend it. it literally looks like an unfinished gmod gametype.

thinking nu-bungie can make a traditional story-driven shooter after making this fucking abomination

Kek, I'm pretty sure they went with an extraction shooter because Bungie literally cannot be trusted with writing anything whatsoever.

I don't know why the just couldn't make like a new Marathon game or remake this is so fucking dumb

i love marathon's lore and the guns and the gorgreous texture work but the maps are absolutely sandy petersen-levels of bad and lack the architectural detail of doom.
also the save system is incredibly gay.

i completely agree with this assessment
they're playing it safe with the lore because they don't have anyone who actually knows it anymore.
i would probably cringe at the way nu-bungie would write tycho and durandal.

Sony daddy needs a Fortnite money maker.

yeah Sony just wanted that fortnite money, so bungo dust up the only ip they own because making something new would get zero recognition

They've pretty much made a constant joke of themselves in the writing department for 11 years straight but now they've garnered quite the reputation for having "good gunplay" so it makes a lot of sense that they'd focus on a game that's based around pure gameplay. I actually like the way it feels to shoot guns and run/jump around in Destiny so at least they've figured out their strengths and decided to focus on that. I honestly don't ever want to see any writing from Bungie ever again unless they fire their entire department and bring back the people who wrote the halo trilogy, or at least writers who were inspired by halo.

It's so fucking bad, and the terrain makes my fucking eyes bleed.. it reminds me of my own fun project game in UE4 before I compiled the shadows youtu.be/sCCSIPo0oTI?t=1363 just look at this shit, look at the trees almost completely blending into the background

It's been said before but I think this game could've been HUGE if it was PvE only. Think of Helldivers 2 except with more carefully constructed and tight knit maps with Destiny style raid mechanics and old school Marathon lore. It could've been amazing and a good way to play homage to the OG trilogy.

when your unique art style is just grey boxing but sometimes with neon

you can play M1 with modern controls with the Resurrection mod for UT99
it's actually pretty good with some UT99 mods like 2k4 movement and smartstockbots

Ok cool me crazy but I don’t hate it. Seems like a corporate drone made of plastic and nano fibres. Cheap and disposable and perfect for logo placements on every limb.

roblox ahh game

Fuck me I thought all of these were marathon, what the fuck happened, why is every game the same shit now

yeah, that would be sick. i knida hope the pvp fizzles out and they're forced to just copy helldivers. won't bother me at all seeing as it just plays like destiny/halo and i love that shit as much as i love quake and ut movement.

I think shifting focus to PvE this late in development is not realistic but a good bandaid fix is to have PvE only maps. It wouldn't be a terrible gameplay either IMO.

I wouldn't mind pvp, but it would have to be more like Halo 3/Reach's MP with variety modes and such. Don't know what the fuck they were thinking going with an extraction mode since Halo boomers don't care about that whatsoever, and I doubt Destiny players care either. It's actually amazing how much Bungie shifted from their old mentality of "MP should be fun" into "MP needs to be as sweaty as possible yet also non-toxic".

If all of that came with a pve mode like you said, it'd be a massive game and Bungie could actually have a chance at redeeming themselves. Also I really hate the idea that a pvpve shooter HAS to be an extraction mode nowadays, it's like devs don't give a shit about experimenting and creativity. Even titanfall 1 sorta figured that out even if the pve AI were mostly useless. Everything has to be as safe as possible. It's so lame.

The removal of recoil pattern/trends (and even worse, the inclusion of autoaim) as a mechanic opens up the game to everyone with sub-100iq for mindless success.
Both Cawwadoody and Gaypex were huge financial successes because they captured the entire third-world console audience.
You'll notice positioning matters far less than it should. Apex players are the worst with this, simply bumrushing as a team at the highest movespeed they can together instinctively. All that really matters is that you're shooting first.

bungiefags be like YOOOOOOOO THESE GRAPHICS ARE FIRE

Game is good

Always a bunch of people in its thread trying to shit on it

Game is bad

Always a bunch of people in its thread trying to defend it

This games art direction is crazy waiting in anticipation for this one

Ok cool me crazy but I don’t hate it. Seems like a corporate room made of plastic and nano fibres. Cheap and disposable and perfect for logo placements on every wall.

Bungie is neither going after Halo boomers nor Destiny fans. Both sides are entrenched in their respective games. Halo boomers are going to play MCC/play 343 jank until they die and Destiny fans are emotionally attached to the weapons in their vaults that they never use so they will literally never switch games. Bungie has this idea in their mind that there is this untapped audience of hardcore console gamers and Steam fanboys that want to play an arcade version of Escape from Tarkov but that audience just isn't as big as Bungie thinks it is.

i kinda think they went pvp specifically because they couldn't make the pfhor work, probably lost the ai programmers.
so it's dev texture cyborg human on cyborg human

Bungie employee can you please buff shiny adept heretical weapons already? Thanks

we're contrarians over here

because they couldn't make the pfhor work, probably lost the ai programmers.

I don't buy that. I'm not in the alpha but supposedly the AI is actually somewhat intelligent and deadly in this game. IIRC Bungie wanted to divest and have Destiny as their "PvE" game and Marathon as their "PvP" game but they simply can't support both at the same time. It's not going to be possible because Bungie requires too much money to stay afloat.

Looks like the kind of game that kid who publicly "came out" in high school would play

The absolute state of multiplayer FPS games.

youtube.com/watch?v=zl5m-0MJ0s0

I wish they'd just made destiny but dark ages for an extraction shooter instead of marathon, and it makes sense too. World in ruins, everyone is awakening as some weird thing that has powers, people are looting and shooting each other. They have shit tons of material to work with regarding Destiny.

Despite the utter dogshit state the IP is in they could always go back to historical parts of the lore. Why marathon?

the sound I make when I'm fucking a clown

Even the zoomer "paid to play the game" streamer horde could barely endure one sponsored session of this shite game, it's a complete disaster.

i can already see everyone crying about strand and stasis and prismatic not being there

Then whyd they throw 7 fortnites worth of profit into a hole and set it on fire, are they stupid

ou need to play the game to feel it.

save yourself the time, they all have the same floaty and weightless shooting.

WHAT ARE THOOOOOOOOSE

The game looks so fucking ugly in-game. I can't believe anyone likes this faggy aesthetic.

glad im not the only on who feels like its inspired by neotokyo

Shooters took a hard dive after console babs caused the awful prevalence of ADS
They just feel so much better when you aim from the hip and I hoped nu-doom would have corrected the timeline, alas

That shit played a part in ruining the game imo. Besides, the risen were a lot more creative in their usage of their powers than the in-game guardians so they could easily just make shit tons of solar/arc/void skills that sorta mimic the newer burns and let players mix and match them. Oh well, one can only dream of more dark age destiny material. It's the last part of the lore that hasn't been pozzed anyway, at least as of shadowkeep which was the last time I played.

a combat robot

paint it in bright colors to make it more visible for enemies

place large red light on the head to make sure that the enemy won't miss it

Neotokyo and GitS design is more grounded.

1. Marathon lore is better than Destiny. Every cool lore aspect of Destiny is a shallow attempt at matching Marathon. The OG trilogy is decades old and STILL has lore discussions going on because it's just that good.

2. Destiny is poison as a brand. When I think of the word 'Destiny' I think of losing access to paid content, microtransactions up the ass, bad balancing, bad seasonal models, bad writing, etc. It's smart for Bungie to have a different IP to lean on instead of having only Destiny games.

mfw bungiefags start yapping about "marathon lore"

you retards have the worst case of stockholm syndrome in the entire industry

The only people who are going to enjoy this game are the lorefags, let them have it at least before it goes EoS.

Sure, but I like the idea and theme of "dead humans suddenly come back alive but have weird magical powers in an apocalyptic world with a fusion of semi-futuristic guns and old world guns", so I like the destiny dark ages era of the lore.

I still don't understand it, what fucking games are people playing? Bungie games have abominable gunplay, they're made for controllers are have terrible autoaim, sponges, and the floatiest animations and weakest sounds in the industry
Borderlands, even the new ones, have better feeling guns than destiny

"Bungiefags" don't exist. The people who like Destiny hate this game because it's the antithesis of Destiny. Destiny is a powerlevel autism sim where you hoard skinnerboxes to increase your Light Level™ against the dumbest AI in video games and Destiny fans are mad that Marathon is a game where you have to play against competent AI/other players and loot can be lost.

Neotokyo design would've been waaaaay better.
It's very futuristic but plausible.

Stockholm syndrome isnt real you dumbass

It has its high points. I actually really enjoy playing by myself indoors - if you just stand still you can hear everything around you distinctly to the point that absolutely don't need radar, can tell if it's other players, if it's NPCs, if they're above/below, what gun they're using if they fire it at NPCs, and the indoor areas are generally boxed in but with a few paths so you can escape or set up traps at chokepoints.

But then you have to leave those interiors to reach the next one. And you can't hear people coming, and the outdoor design on Perimeter is basically made to funnel you through small highly visible areas, and every NPC will insta-aggro if they're looking even slightly your direction from a hundred meters out. It's a complete fucking shift from enjoyable and tense to dull and also frustrating.

even though bungie as a studio is the "potential man" of the games industry it does not and will not stop me from enjoying the things that DO make their games great aside from the plethora of negatives

bungi makes an FPS that looks so shit it looks like its right out of Roblox and can be played on the Wii

It's basically all related to visual feedback and audio kinetics when shooting and hitting enemies, bullet and reticle magnetism, responsiveness etc.

I still don't understand it, what fucking games are people playing?

Up until destiny released? Mostly cod, halo, gears, battlefield, since destiny is a console IP.

Yes, it's an FPS made for consoles so it's not going to be impressive if you're a PC player who's used to actually having to hit your shots. When you actually have to be accurate on controller it feels like shit, since controller is shit without all of the crutches modern FPS games give them. Destiny was one of the first console FPS games that actually felt really good to play on controller, both in movement and aiming/shooting, so it's not surprising that it's known for "good gunplay" considering it was initially a console exclusive game and console FPS were on the rise around 2009-2014. To give you some perspective since I used to play a lot of console FPS around that time, many older FPS games were somewhat acceptable on controller but still felt like shit compared to m&k. If you were also a PC player at the time you'd rather just be using a mouse. The old bungie devs made up some weird sauce mix of crutches that made controller gameplay satisfying as fuck, in a way other console FPS didn't do.

Borderlands on controller feels like shit compared to destiny but on mouse and keyboard it's not even a contest that BL is superior. I don't really have a problem with any of it but I hate that PC shooters have gravitated towards copying that sauce bungie whipped up since it was never necessary on PC since we're not using thumbsticks to aim precisely.

actually actually actually actually

Holy fuck I'm autistic.

Fuck you.

Goth synths owe me sex

This looks like garbage

Looks like a Tau

Bungie gunplay is dogshit

Halo

Destiny

Both awful. Even without the weird art design which I actually don't mind, I'd still have no interest simply due to bungie shooters feeling awful to play.

it's literally impossible to be more trannycore than this holy shit

Someone draw CHADcurity Officer ripping her head off

I'm reading the words you write but they don't make sense. Destiny, halo, and other bungie games have objectively bad animations, sound, and responses. The animations are slow and floaty, the sounds are weak, and enemies bounce around when hit in ways that make them feel like inflatable dummies. The magnetisim and autoaim are bad too, because they add to the sluggish, treacle feeling of aiming on a controller by taking even more control away from you. I don't know if I just have different standards to people, it feels insane to read the shit people say when my experience playing destiny was so abominable.

same

It's because you're not a console player lol. It's a console game made for people who play on controllers. Most console shooter games that came before Destiny were far worse in those aspects and most actions had little to no feedback whatsoever. You have to realize that a lot of people who went to Destiny in 2014 were previously playing shooters where all of the guns felt even more like pea-shooters than the one in destiny do. You might be finally realizing that console shooters appeal to the lowest common denominator and that has directly affected PC shooters.

I have no idea what the fuck you're trying to say, I only played console games from 96-18. Most console games that came before destiny were better, and most console games than came before halo were better. Halo and Destiny already came in long after console shooters dumbed down, and they facilitated a great leap even further. Many games before and after halo and destiny have better gunplay, animations, sounds, and responses. I don't know how or why you're conflating "became worse and simpler" with "feels good".
Again, just to reiterate my point, bungie games have awful animations, sounds, responses, and aiming. They are different from other console games in that they are worse than any made at the AAA level and are worse than many AA games. I don't believe you've actually played these games.

ah, again with the squeaky shoes

You asked for why so many console players like destiny and I explained it to you. Not sure why you're getting aggressive lol.

right out of Roblox

youtube.com/watch?v=k1_bR_qbwAU
nuh uh

Because the reason is wrong! It's the sort of thing you could only say if you've never played a shooter other than halo or destiny, because if you've played anything else you'll instantly notice your controls aren't slow as shit and you don't feel like you're playing with nerf guns. Like, read this back:

Mostly cod, halo, gears, battlefield, since destiny is a console IP.

Most console shooter games that came before Destiny were far worse in those aspects and most actions had little to no feedback whatsoever.

You see how these two are completely incompatible, right? cod and battlefield have very good animations and sounds, even if battlefield has the same wobbly enemies problem, and even gow has press X to awesome and loud noises to keep you entertained even if the controls are just as bad as halo.
Okay, here's some gameplay from halo: youtu.be/kyZM67cnl_w (I had forgotten about the vfov that makes you feel like your head is being crushed, jesus)
And some gameplay from battlefield: youtu.be/ZKmLW7EvSSY
Both console, but one has an extra layer of sludge in the aiming, has anemic sounds that don't propagate(okay, it's four years older, but the sounds themselves are still poor), there's no impotent feeling of shooting someone and having them just tank it without response, the guns actually move instead of being basically static in your hands. I can't make you play the games, but even just footage of the games makes it obvious that anyone saying the "gunplay" is better is just talking out their as - yet people keep fucking saying it. It's like if I said I enjoy playing with a controller because it has more buttons than a keyboard, it's just objectively false.

yikes
imagine your second $400m project being btfo by a tablet

Hmm

glad im not the only on who feels like its inspired by neotokyo

God damn you're one stupid cunt with a stupid remark
I missed Anon Babble anyways

Because the reason is wrong!

Then what is the true reason that so many people give credit to Destiny for having good gunplay? Why are you even asking that question if you already know? It seems like you just aren't satisfied with the answer I'm giving you, which is fine but what else do you want me to say? That destiny actually did have truly dogshit gunplay for a console FPS and that its success as an IP had absolutely nothing to do with that? That people just say it has good controller gunplay for no reason whatsoever? Do you want me to just lie to you about what console FPS players liked back then?

You seem to think I'm arguing that Destiny gunplay is high quality, instead I'm telling you why so many people liked it. If I explained to you why people like hitmarkers, for example, in FPS games so much, you'd proceed tell me I'm wrong and continue to be confused on why people like hitmarkers so much.

Exactly what kind of answer are you looking for when you ask these kinds of questions?

Then I apologise, because I thought you were giving these arguments as your own and not what other people think.

no proximity mic

robo scavs

What's next? Everything you bought/looted is insured?

I wasn't, but I don't think Destiny's gameplay was truly horrible and it's not confusing to me to see why so many like it compared to the other games I listed. Even in the BF clip you posted, there's literally zero feedback from shooting someone except for a canned death animation. You don't get a big list of points popping up on the screen patting you on the back with sfx to go with it and hitmarkers and all the other stimulating shiny shit that comes with a modern FPS game.
youtu.be/ZKmLW7EvSSY?t=233

Console FPS players like moment to moment flashy stuff, and punchy sound effects from shooting enemies. Handcannons in Destiny are regarded as one of the most satisfying guns in a console FPS to use, precisely because you just point in the general direction of the enemy and get a dopamine rush of critical hits. Funnily enough people also like golden numbers floating above the enemy's head and a unique sound effect when you're getting headshots. People like it when they hit someone with a shotgun and they get layered sound effects of the shield popping, the enemy dying, the audio of gaining points+medals and the shot itself all at the same time. The ridiculous amount of aim assist and bullet magnetism make things like flicking with golden gun on controller easy, which makes people feel really good.

Say what you want about the IP and while I don't really give a shit about it anymore, but they did a really good job at audio and visual stimulation, that's pretty much where the good gunplay thing comes from. The shooting aspect was designed specifically to give the average dick and jane a huge dopamine rush and make them feel good every time they shoot something. Like you said earlier, gears has the press x to awesome and crunchy squishy sound effects when you pop a skull, destiny has that aspect but it does it every time the player pulls the trigger on an enemy.

Oh christ, that's what they meant? I didn't even register the numbers and flashing lights, my brain just filters them out when I watch footage. Yeah, I suppose that makes sense, even if I fucking despise it. I can't really say there's any reason other than frothing hatred for this, but I don't want to include shit like hitmarkers and crit announcements in "gunplay". Such matters are kept on the "UI" side of things, in my head, and the gunplay is what you get when you turn the UI off.

Halo was always overrated and only got popular because it was baby's first FPS for a lot of literal children who had Xbox and no exposure to real FPS games like Doom, Quake, Half Life, Unreal, etc. It was not revolutionary in the slightest, FPS veterans rolled their eyes when Halo came out.

20 year old hot take

nah, halo took what was good about fps at the time and melded it all into one solid video game
it was the last of the arena shooters with several gametypes available for play. now all shooters are single-gametype and if you want to play DM or TDM or CTF or Onslaught or Race or whatever you have to buy 3 completely different games. Halo did it all like Quake and UT before it. An absolute masterpiece of game design.
You are a scrub. Don't ever opine on Anon Babble again.

You need to understand the brain of the average FPS player to understand why Destiny ever got a reputation for good gunplay in the first place. Imagine every time you go to the casino, you pull a big lever, hit a jackpot and your brain is flooded with tons of audio/visual stimulation saying you did a good job. That's what Bungie went for in destiny every time a player shoots and kills an enemy with something like Ace of Spades where you get a headshot that makes the enemy explode then burn up, then you get a really fast and flashy reload animation then your gun is buffed and has a glow with it, along with all of the audio/visual keys that come from simply defeating an enemy jingling in your face.

I was hoping the hacks in nuBungie's writing team would know to not touch Durandal - someone who I found to be way more memorable than any modern character bungie has written, but after seeing one of his quotes in one of the trailers I'm not sure anymore.
Why even use that quote about escaping death? The runner's aren't 'escaping' anything, the live service module demands that they don't 'escape' their 3d-printed plastic shells. It's just strikes me as a shallow and vain attempt to link this game to the trilogy

its Troonslop, the fact they took away resources from Destiny to work on this shit is a disgrace, fuck Pete Parsons
fuck you

tfw no synthetic flesh gf filled with explosive gel and horny to detonate

In retrospect it's crazy that you could do all kinds of pvp in halo and make custom pvp types and custom maps and now Bungie's shipping nuMarathon as a only-one-type-of-pvp, three map, no-singleplayer-campaign game.

buy our lootboxes

why tho

Why is a franchise known for its weird cool alien enemy designs only making blocky robots your enemies?

uuummm, the aliens will come in the seasons as they explore the narrative via terminals & data slates chud

that was my immediate thought too

Honestly that one's have to be the least offensive compared to the others
The color scheme is still fucking atrocious though so its still firmly in the 'not good' wheelhouse, to say nothing about still doesn't look like anything Marathon related.

someone post the pink furrybait cat bot

Putting probably more thought into this than the writers, the consciousness in the shells is clearly deteriorating as they go through the repeated cycles of death and rebirth - the final scene is the implication that their little tokens that 'ground' them are fake, or the system doesn't even know which person they belong to. Their shit's all melting together and they exist in some form outside the physical.

are they going through death and rebirth? It's not like they're "remoted in" to their shells (1 little jammer and it's all over). They can clearly come back from death so it would need to be a copy of them in the shell and maybe they 'sync' their brain back up if they extract

Probably a fair point, so more like repeated births with no death, where they're losing a sense of self since it's inherently obvious that their shell isn't their first. In all, I think there's something there to work with comparing the runner's fucked up state of being to Durandal's strong self-identity and progression through rampancy - and while I loathe the idea of the 'seasonal storytelling' and 'you had to be there' narratives, it's not exactly inconsistent with original Marathon's storytelling to have this stuff delivered to you piecemeal with cryptic terminal messages.

They’re most likely not real. The AI feeds them a fake past life narrative. So all the runners would be AI as well.

may have been real at one point, uploaded to something and the AI found the harddrive with colonist brains on it and is now using them for its own gains

They're real and they're being brought back with Jjaro/Whirly cracker fuckery.

Anon Babble was dunking on halo before you were BORN kiddo

No, fuck you. Nigger. God, I missed this site.

looks cool honestly anybody hating on the visuals outside of the playable character & gun models is a worthless eater with worthless opinions

These threads are made by a Discord who are trying to teach Bungie a lesson for cancelling project Payback.

looks cool honestly anybody hating on the visuals outside of the playable character & gun models is a worthless eater with worthless opinions

a worthless eater with worthless opinions

so the average Destiny player?

Rooms with 4 actors and static baked everything $700 phablet $80 retail rent-a-cartridge still using fake frames

vs

An 18+ player battle royale with dozens of actors, event spawn system, live networking, item algo, anticheat, weather cycle, using 6GB of space, runs on 2014 hardware

Unironic xitter posters are too desperate for a tortanic

Why would I want to fight the UESC anyway? They're the closest that universe has to good guys anyway. We could've had the Security Officer in modern form instead of this slop.

It'd have been so cool to see the P'fhor in a modern SP game.

They’re just drones protecting the colony. Or are they…

They’re just The Fallen in Destiny.

People have to keep that in mind with Marathon. If Bungie made a more tradition sequel here, everyone would just say this looks like Destiny/Halo, disregarding that both those games built up from Marathon originally.

The setting overall is intriguing. But a fucking. hero. shooter.
Absolutely not. Especially since modern Bungie is known for gating content. I wanted Craig Mullins' concept art brought to life.

Mullens art is too close to nu-Doom. You can’t get Marathon’s original horror tone by replicating it.

Marathon is more of a System Shock, it’s not as much Doom.

t. owns a nicki minaj skin and 50 fortnite rizzler egirl loadouts

Nah. You can have both. Look over all his art for the games, much of it had that 70s-80s action/horror aesthetic.
It's annoying that they'll drip feed story content baiting old fans. Oooh, it's all an experiment by Leela! or something like that. In a hero shooter, pay to play the next 4 chapters for 30 USD! If they wanted something like this they should've just acquired the Forever War team and set it during or after the Martian Revolt.

I want to play the Chappie robot, not the weird agender aliens

they somehow managed to make DEI robots, they look like ugly chink asians

It could be cool though

PC release

Full of cheaters and RMT on day 1

Why are PC players so insufferable

everything instantly datamined

twitch and steam chart threads

All these Marathon previews have got me wanting to play through Destiny 2 again. I dropped it about 5 hours in months ago, did the game get better?

The game is in “Alpha” so I wonder how much better it will look on release. Are there any cases of a game looking kinda bad in prerelease gameplay and then seeing a massive improvement when it launched?

this type of stuff lead me to the conclusion that the consumers of video games are just as guilty for the state of them as the devs are. people absolutely deserve this utter slop that is being presented to them

Outdoor lighting is most likely missing a baked lighting pass or something, or maybe the weather system stops them from doing that.

I actually like the flat look of the outdoors because stuff like Tarkov outside is way too dense in colour.
I wouldn’t expect it to look much different though.

You don’t like softaim? You’re stupid!

I wanted Bungie to create alien kino to jerk off to... What the fuck is this?

Still don't understand how Halo CE looks better than Bungie's newest project.
Imagine making an artstyle so grotesque that a game that lacks walking-while-throwing-grenades animations looks better.

Oh no, not the jelqers. Now what will they do

Alien Kino

If you're one of the gooners jerking off to Eramis and Savathun then yeah but otherwise they haven't produced hot aliens at all

it's alpha but the game releases in 5 months, the last time something like this was on the market I think it was Anthem or some battlefield game, and even then there was no noticeable change from the alpha to the release

Looking at feedback for any game is depressing but even moreso for something like this where the biggest retards on the planet are emboldened to regurgitate eceleb takes. We are weighed down by retards and gullible doormats.

Everyone needs the steamchart numbers, the reddit breakdowns, the youtube essays. It's so fucking tiresome holy fuck I miss the old internet so much. There's no integrity left in anything related to the internet anymore.

I'm having fun

Anon Babble is mad

it's win win

The fuck is this

They almost seem to be rubbing it in our faces

We don't have singleplayer

Yep this is multiplayer only

Did I mention that you can't play this game alone?

Don't you fucking dare compare that MCUified garbage to Craig

No the cool thing about halo was it's co-op campaign and large scale locations with focus on NPC vs NPC battlefields and vehicle traversal. This extended to multiplayer and what made maps like Blood Gulch so iconic. It was something boomer shooters couldn't offer at the time due to Halo originally being an RTS at first

bungie fan

doesnt exist bro, niggers own the building but none of the people that made the games people like work there anymore.

been watching gameplay videos and i'm kinda warming up to it. also Infinity is raping my ass with the vacuum levels

mouse aim assist

I refuse to even look at this game until this is removed.

It’s nice that the game is making people play through the originals. Helps that they’re free too. With Doom, everyone already knew and played the originals.

Infinity is ass rape: the game. It doesn't really end.

It's pretty fun in a way. Definitely tests your skills you built up from playing 1 and 2. I cant help but feel like I forgot a ton of secrets after beating each level.

this upcoming Crash Test Dummy Simulator game looks fire!

Chat I’m not gonna lie this game looks absolutely fire. Day 1 purchase for me. Day 1.

Chat listen, you’ve got Apex, Fortnite and Tarkov. All three are for casuals. Moms play Fortnite, teens play Apex and old men play Tarkov.

Chat there’s literally no shooters for cool kids. And here’s what they did: chat they took Marathon, and made it into a beast of a game. Day 1 buy. Easy.

I just don't like this style

the more I see it the more I don't like it
It's like cyberpunk's neokitsch but even uglier

90% of the heavy lifting is being done by the animations, not the style

Bad Company and Planetside 2 were 15 years ahead of their time

Sadly I don't want more of either of those, I want more of Halo's slow paced tactics shooter and nobody does that anymore. Halo was like a one and done in that style and you can't even say the game sold bad or wasn't fun to play.

Why would you associate all those bad things with destiny and not the company implementing them

You can tell that the top screenshot is a bullshot though. Are you a 15 year old zoomer who doesn't know what being lied to looks like?

Halo was always a good game

Halo is slow, it isn’t slow paced. Marathon is slow paced, while being fast.

Thread isn't even about Halo

Still seething over Halo because it's tangentially related to bungie

Quakefags are fucking hilarious. Fast twitch shooters are becoming more common again and you lot still obsess over Halo.

Are her shoes suppose to give her a couple inches in height? Kind of reminds me of those platform shoes that Japanese women wear, especially in that Harujuku place.

its a goth chick you fucking moron

ipad

Forcing 3-man squads with wallhacks being essentially mandatory was such a death-knell that I don't know how no one internally caught it.

what is a cyberpunk slut

yes anon. Is there a problem?

Solo game modes are shit, in all shooter games.
Free for all Halo is shit. Tarkov solo is shit.

are you having a blast though?

Solo Tarkov is fine because you don't have retards blundering around you and none of them really have more info than you do. Considering this game has spotting and wallhacks, suddenly that's out the window.

have you played the game retard not every team runs a blackbird, shes good yes but her wall hack ping thing has a massive cooldown, the other runners are strong in their own right to balance it out

Case in point Very organic. Not a singular Bungie/Destony/Sony retard spamming threads. No sir.

can you explain whats inorganic about that post, schizo?

You're a fucking retard if you misunderstand. In Tarkov, a squad is clearly in an advantage because they can share info and work as a team vs. a solo. But in Marathon, not only are they better coordinated vs. randos, but now they also have wallhacks. It's fucking slaughter and horrible game design.

Isn’t this guy busted?

shield

Halo reach sprint

double jump

gundam missiles

thats funny bc i've wiped plenty of full squads with blackbirds as a solo, glad to know you've never played the game though and are talking out of your ass!

hes strong but not busted, honestly the balance feels pretty good right now. locus just really delivers on that super solider marine vibe with the super sprint and rocket jump, i 1v3 team wiped with him yesterday and it felt so badass

also to add to this there are consumables you can use that literally make her wallhacks + little robot drone not affect you for like 3 minutes at a time

Hmmm, I wonder which poster is organic?

This game looks awful. I’m not engaging in conversation about this game.

Or

DO NOT REDEEM SAAR HOW COULD YOU CANCEL DESTINY 3 YOU BLOODY BITCH GAME ROBLOX

rtx

only jeets think this dogshit looks good

that grammar

ResetEra spotted. Possibly also a woman.

I downed a whole team with him

he not busted thiugh

i just outplayed them, you can do it with any runner and i barely pulled it off

Dude the Marathon lore is SO GOOD!

Dude the Halo lore is SO GOOD!

Dude the Destiny lore is SO GOOD!

Bungiefags have been coping since the 90s.

That's really the only design I don't hate

Doesn't look like a retard

Actually looks like he's geared for firefights

Not cluttered with dumb shit like 'high-fashion' sneakers

And even then bungie couldn't help but put weird text over the visor and logos on the armour. Clean up the visor, cover up the mouth and then I can be convinced that he's an remotely controlled android made for combat, rather than some zoomer's sci-fi OC

tarkov also has wall hackers

I know this sounds like bandwagoning but my god does this game look so bad.

i like the art direction overall and enjoy that its not just the same scifi schlock we've gotten for 30+ years, also i think void and blackbird look good too, thief looks good too but she hasnt been fully shown yet

this game should be a destiny-like
fuck u bungo
dumb retarded cunt
all these assets wasted when your destiny fanbase is begging you for a new enemy faction
RETARDS

this garbage looks fucking retarded

Halo 1-3/odst is good
Oni os good
the only thing I know about marathon is durandel which I did like
I never touched destiny because nu-bungie, looked gay though.

Sci-fi powered armor and 1980s firearms is cringe

spoogy

That's where you and I disagree.
Whatever that opened up lego thing is supposed to be looks stupid

t. milsim slop eater mad that a studio is doing something different

glad you aren't on the dev team!

ITS GONNA HAVE RAIDS ON THE MARATHON SHIP
YOULL See

,>we have Death Stranding at home

Top is real retard, keep coping

thats my favorite part of blackbirds design personally

I want to agree with this post, but the I realise I’m just putting my ODST love into Marathon.

You do have to bite the marketing bullet sometimes though and realise that for a shooter, your playerbase is 18-24 year old men.

void looks a lot better in game than in the trailer imo, the opposite problem that glitch has

go choke on your own shit bungie employee

SOMEONE NO AGREE WITH CHUD CIRCLE JERK!!!!???? MUST BE BUNGO EMPLOYEE!!!!

how are you breathing?

see picture in top? AWESOME SPACESHIP EPIC SKY....!!! TOTALLY NOT PRE RENDERED PIC!!!!!!

see pic in bottom? BORING NORMAL SKY?????!!! WTF????? MARATHON = CONCORD 2 RETURN OF THE DEI!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I cant with you retarded niggas

why would I pay for extraction shooter slop when there are tons of free FPS games which are better?

also, it has no miku.

too bad for you
im playing through it off and on and i want to see what this new game is based off of
so far the gameplay is par for the course for fps for that era and not an issue for me
story wise i like seeing things unfold as i play through the game

0.0002 bungie credits™ have been deposhitted on your bungie account™

the new lore is honestly pretty cool, seeing what happened on the surface of tau ceti is interesting as well, also durandal seems to be making a return based of some teasers, the fourth map is going to be on the marathon as well so that will be cool
youtube.com/watch?v=N4Jv5H3_yAo

Official Vocaloid event MTX coming soon, Glitch even has the two dangling sleeves that would just be replaced with twintails and maintain the silhouette.

youtu.be/iyVDZmBjVmk

tarkovniggas...this troon shit might kill OUR game...

they are trying to do color contrast like mirrors edge except it's much worse.

way better actually

but wait i love walking 1 mph in tarkov and dying to 1 shot from a hacker 1 mile away and then spending 5 year sorting my inventory just to do it all again

literal eces designed for feces consumers(destiny niggers)
not even CLOSE to neotokyo or any good futuristic shooter

duuuur my face is covered with Playstation logos on them

indian shill post

sorry this just looks like 10000 other scifi shooters

Arrival in Marathon 1 still scares me in the vents with the S’phts. I can’t do a 2025 remake of it with that horror lighting.

Bruh you posted the same image last thread

im in the alpha and believe me the game is genuinely very eerie,atmospheric and tense, and this is just on the first two levels, on the marathon it'll be super spooky im sure, picrel is our only look currently at compilers currently and i cant wait to see them in game

t. obvious bungie marketer

Don't you have more slop collabs to put in the Eververse for no effort?

everyone that disagrees with me is a shill or a marketer posted at 2am on Anon Babble

meds

ad hominem

Bring up a real issue or fuck off Seatttletard.

Can't wait to laugh at Bungie fanboys when the servers get shutdown in a couple of months after release

doing something different

They just copied Ghost in the Shell and not even the good version of GitS but the shitty live action version with ScarJo.

Fuck, this is awful, I didn't even really think about that. Add onto this the communication issues and rudimentary map/ping system, and any person who isn't running a 3 man friend squad with VC is at a huge disadvantage. How many of you are in the alpha? I've played and the difference between coordinated squads and randoms is literally like the difference between bots and players. I guess this is true for a lot of shooters, but here match made squads don't even have a chance. I don't know why they did all of this BS and then didn't give out friend codes (except for 'priority' access codes for streamers to giveaway LOL) or make a solos/duos mode.

please point me to the aesthetic in GiTS that looks like this

nta but the game literally has bootleg plastic tachikomas or whatever everywhere you dumb nigger

can't even do his own research to prove anon wrong

as expected of a marketer

there is not a single spider mech or anything that looks like this in the game, im in the alpha dumbretard

those cyberized twins who conduct the major's cyber body maintenance

The game is desperate to force the designer's very rigid and narrow definition of how it should be played. You must have 3 people in a squad that was premade and are actively communicating. You must engage in combat with other players, everything is in service of trying to make those conflicts happen.
You cannot stealth, you cannot solo, trying to escape a pvp situation is made unfeasible. You either find and kill other players, or are found and killed.
It's fuckin baffling that the investment systems are almost completely at odds with this, you don't progress unless you exfil, but to exfil you almost always need to take one or more squads out - it's a net negative of progression.

How have you not seen the little tripod niggas literally everywhere
One of my main complaints about the art style is that it's all unintelligible noise with very little of it serving any easily determinable purpose so I guess I can't blame you for not seeing them when I've been going around staring at cabinets like an autist

I like it so far. Will most likely get it, especially since I only play on console and aiming in Hunt, only extraction shooter there, feels, as if I play an alcoholic on cold turkey. Also prefer auto weapons and sci fi setting.

Anon the devs have already admitted that old anime like Akira and GitS has been their inspiration. What?

theres not a single tripod nigga in the entire alpha
youtube.com/watch?v=ya1u2Ho4Auk

They need to make sure they keep the human spirit element from Ghost in the Shell. It’s not enough to replicate the art.

youtube.com/watch?v=EIVgSuuUTwQ

how new are you? it's pretty established that normalfags buy all this slop allowing the devs to try to maximize the profit with as little work as possible
prime example:

teehee I'm having fun, give me attention incels!

this redditor is going to play a bit and drop this shit once another fotm drops

You're like probably stupid and I think you were lying about being in the alpha

NPC's literally tentacle rape you to death when you get downed

what did bungie mean by this?

this doesnt look like neotokyo (or ghost in the shell), this looks like something made by someone who was high on drugs and decided to trace over neotokyo

watch the video retard ive been killing the enemies for 3 fucking days there is no tripod enemy, there are little red alien ticks but they look nothing like the gits mech

When did I ever mention the tripod niggas being enemies stupididiotretardniggerfaggot

Yeah, according to playtesters and even the devs themselves.
They might nerf him soon.

Aesthetic design wise the GITS mechs seem pretty in line with what's in the game, but I have no idea what 'tripod' things you're talking about. Like do you have a screenshot? This is what a tripod is by the way.

Okay but like. Why does the game look shitty then when the things it's taking inspiration from, don't?

eerie,atmospheric and tense

I'm in the alpha. It is not. The sound of everything outside literally shuts off the moment you enter a building and vice versa. That is the opposite of atmospheric

I'm like in the bath posting but if the thread is still up in like an hour or two I'll post a screenie

How have you not seen the little tripod niggas literally everywhere

When did I ever mention the tripod niggas being enemies stupididiotretardniggerfaggot

retard kun....

what? walking through dire marsh is filled with weird creature sounds and the crazy ass ships landing, play solo to really soak it in

The sound of everything outside literally shuts off the moment you enter a building and vice versa

What the fuck does this even mean? Do you want to hear the birds instead of the computer fans while inside?

half of the closed beta testers were immediately out

Not looking good
steamdb.info/app/3547690/charts/

bro get that shit outta here

genius marketing, make the "hater" sounds like a zoomer-nigger-faggot so that normal humans take the opposing stance

Holy shit you're right. The OP even downloaded the video from YouTube (Marathon Intel) to be able to get a high red screen for marketing purposes.

I actually remember Bungie developers talking about this with Destiny, on how user engagement and fanaticism was more important than anything else.

if you unironically believe this you have latent schizophrenia

god you're such a stupid retard
for you every new game discussion = shill
just fuck off to Anon Babble then you absolute fucking cancer

Then answer why the OP would download the video and take a high res screenshot through VLC instead of just snipping it from YouTube directly.

Heh. Checkmate.

Because that's not a robot, it's a simulacrum that's been remade over and over again. Her stretching could be vestigial and she may not even realize it doesn't do anything for her anymore. It's just muscle memory whenever she takes the test. She even sits the same way and fixes her left boot again and again.

Yeah, I wasn't sure this is a marketing shill thread but now I am 100% convinced

ya blew it, study 4channel more before next try

Then answer why the OP would download the video and take a high res screenshot through VLC instead of just snipping it from YouTube directly.

I TOOK IT FROM YOUTUBE BECAUSE I HAVE A FUCKING ADD ON FOR SS YOU RETARD. YOU QUADRUPLE NIGGER HOLY SHIT YOU ARE ALL SO FUCKING RETARDED

I miss Blacklight so fucking much.

A lady doth protest too much, methinks

Generic robots but with 12 billion cosmetic options so you can make it look however you want. Marathon characters will just be different flavors of humans with weird makeup.

Looks neat until you see it from another angle and realize it has a retarded exposed lower face portion. 0/10

LMAO Y YOU NEED A SPEEDOMETER FOR YOUTUBE

How come no one is secret/easter egg hunting in the alpha?

addon to take screenshots

you can simply double right click the video to take a screenshot

That's what I meant. The retards in their art department couldn't commit to showing his face or covering it up, so instead 90% of the head is a helmet except for the fucking mouth. It's worse than the dumb branding over the visor
'Lack of commitment' really describes how the game looks in general. They couldn't decide whether they wanted humanoid players or robots, and ended up with people-android things wearing t-shirts and ugly designer brand clothing. They couldn't decide if they wanted the hyper stylised, colourful artstyle like in their reveal trailer, or something more atmospheric and 'realistic', and made a compromise that just looks unfinished and shitty

there's also web capture as another redundant feature

Retribution even had their own boxhead robo,

The fuck kind of glory hole design is that for the helmet?

Tripod niggers in their maintenance bay thing

Also the NT level this place made me think of

People are getting really caught up on the exposed mouth but I think it looks perfectly fine It's just the rest of him that looks like shit plus the instinctive revulsion toward hero shooters and therefore any sort of character identity that's turning people off

There was some guy also running around right outside before I took this screenshot and I just snuck up behind him shot em and stole his shit before scurrying away like a rat. Game isn't very good but being evil is always nice

Matchmaking

MYSTERY NIGGAS

I can't fucking stand britbongs pronouncing Marathon as "Marathen"

ah, I remember the early days

call down the mech

nobody knows how to counter it

farm the entire lobby

marathun*

posting pictures of the game instead of pictures of the bath

tsk tsk

What is this, the demiurge?

Are the people who made marathon even working for modern bungie?

all japanese women are midgets so a lot wear shoes like this

they haven't even written the story yet. there's just a narrative framework without a narrative in a half assed extraction shooter.

Why does everyone try to copy tarkov but never realises that it's popular because of how autistic it is.

game for p*ople that want to fuck their microwave

I think one of the writers is here.

they haven't even written the story yet

They're bullshitting people on that. They've got the story written out. You don't make a cinematic short and a Marathon sequel with no story planned.

If only the game looked like this. It's shit

I just realised that players are going to kill you while you do story quests.

I'm not playing anymore.
Captcha: joova

I want a modern remake of Marathon

Just play the first Halo.

Another win for Russia's magnum opus, Escape from Tarkov.

bungie

do you even hear yourself

I'll make it clearer: They've got everything written out. They will use none of it.

Sounds of distant gushots is always a nice addition to atmoshphere.

what the fuck. this shit looks like a chinese mobile game.

THIS IS THE SAME COMPANY THAT MADE HALO BTW

You had to be there at that time to love it.

no you literally did not, the controls sucked ass and it had mouse smoothing, you're just another zoomer that pretends to know shit because he watches youtubers, kys

and can be played on the Wii

i wish
it runs like ass. shroud has a 4000$ pc and he had to lower everything to low to run it at 100fps

i actually liked how the art style in the cinematic short but in game it looks really bad. like they tried to mix the cel shaded look of tf2 with mirrors edge and failed miserably. its baffling that this took like 6 years to make.

Is Shroud one of your streamer friends? Do you donate to him and pray he reads your dono message?

THIS IS THE SAME COMPANY THAT MADE HALO BTW

90% of the halo devs are long gone

This looks a lot like the T'au symbol from Warhammer 40K.

I didn't know about this, thank you.

Even here I can tell Marathon feels the best of those.

Bungie shills on full damage control

Mr Trannydev seething rn

This game looks like a cross between a toyota assemby factory and an amazon warehouse.

Tau symbol came after

Mewing.

OH NO NO NO

what I said is public knowledge, cope and seethe
nice try shill but your game will bomb

There is also that anime girl mecha game that released literally yesterday.

Name? Unless its Doll's Nest, but that released on the 23rd.

the fuckin neon colors and roblox weapons make me feel nauseous. I dunno man this game is fuckin ugly as hell.

You’re the one making daily threads. Good job doing Bungie’s advertising for free.

You’re the one making daily threads.

lol obsessed tard I'm not even OP, seethe for eternity in your piss desu!

DING DING DING
I would like to make an announcement
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Why would a robot wear a T-shirt?

Just shut the fuck up you stupid retard.

Reddit mods are WAY worse

i think it's neat

maybe ads actually is retarded, honestly the only game where i actually like it is tarkov but that game is highly autistic about guns.

After looking at the alpha gameplay, I think that playing as a set heroes might not be the best idea. Having the player character be generic but highly customizable (somewhat like what Helldivers 2 does) would be better.