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Marathon
Wow, this game is great and the gameplay is tight!
I'm so excited to play marathon
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All three of you will keep saying you have fun until it shuts down.
Nobody is playing this shit. It has less than 800 players right now which is worse than the concord beta. The game is going to be Concord 2.
The artstyle is really cutting edge!
First I was skeptical but its fresh approach the genre really changed my mind. Bungie is back with another banger that Im going to play for years on years. Cant wait for more Marathon!
I'm having a blast. It's a true return to form for Bungie
I agree! The game is huge fresh breathe and Im of the opinion that Sony spends their money well. Its a huge investement that will keep giving more and more content!
I finished the game and Im itching for another round! Bungie is simply the masterclass
this is GOTY material i have never had so much fun with a video game
I watched my friend play it for 20 minutes and it just looked so mediocre, unoriginal, and bland. Who the fuck is gonna play this?
Totally!
yeah that joint is bussin fr for real
your friend
I mean he quit after 20 minutes
All accordion to plan. All the CoD dudebro streamers leave, and I'm left with a top-tier online shooter with 25,000 players.
I win. Again.
want to talk about stupid game
youtubers engagement farming off of it
Billy Anon parrots their videos /here/
does anyone actually care about this game?
No. It will unironically kill Bungie as a studio
I guess the anon above you
I was going to laugh at the game having 3,300 viewers on Twitch but then I realised all the games have that and that streaming is dying.
it sure is a return to form for the developer
They have to delay it another year, there's absolutely no way 5 months is enough time to improve the lack of content and the overall lack of content it's going to ship with
I'm having a blast.
this shit is gonna be no different from how concord turned out
I don't outright "care", but I'm somewhat interested. I applied for the closed alpha to see if I like the game or not since it was hard to tell from currently available footage. Most of it features some 3rd rate YouTuber talking inanely over the gameplay.
Guys, I think I'm at the objective!
Is that true? Doesn't seem like it to me. You probably just checked at a weird hour
Hes going to get back, games its really good
A return to form for Bungie™!
Great! Jump in Discord real quick. Mic on.
It's a true return to form!
I just know that when this game releases, everyone is going to stick with their trio and stick together!
Where are you going man
Why are you downed on the other side of the map
*disconnects*
Where is my invite? I've played Marathon for more than a decade and I don't even get a pity invite code, fuck you Bungie.
old fans aren't their target demographic
Seriously, it just looks like your generic loot shooter. Whats the gimmick this time?
Replay Marathon 2 like a good consumer in preparation.
Same gimmick as all the other pozzed studios. You don't pay anything and are entertained by the colossal failure for a week or two.
Lore terminals that people will make 40 minute videos about.
I'm having a blast™!
I just don't get it.
Where does this game even sit in the Marathon story?
Furthermore, this art style doesn't resemble the one used in the original marathon games either!
Why did they pick an IP far removed from current memory, bastardize it, and turn it into an extraction shooter of all things?
It seems that it would have been easier just to invent a new IP at that point.
It's either desecration of a corpse or a fever dream of an unrealized vision.
Stop pretending you care about original Marathon
I have played the Closed Alpha Test non-stop since I received my e-mail invite, and I just have to say, WOW!
It is SO refreshing to play an Extraction-type shooter game with such a high level of "Soul" as we anons like to say!
I am so excited to purchase the game from [object Object] as soon as it releases!
Concord 2 looks TIGHT, I'm having a blast as they say. It's a true RETURN TO FORM for Bungie.
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whats this games hook?
made by the studio who made halo minus the people who made halo?
Most people do not care enough about how video games are made to realize that made by Bungie =/= made by the people who made Halo.
My very normal friend who loves Halo to death is pretty excited for this game because "it's a new Bungie game."
I'm having a blast. A true return to form
I hate the french!
There's a few things we learned through the ARG, namely that MIDA's still trying to fight the UESC, Durandal is probably /somewhere/ and the Marathon itself went missing, and based on leaks, seems to have been destroyed in this timeline. Wherever this is in the timeline, it's far flung enough that it seems humanity's just kind of given up, preferring to upload themselves into robotic frames and fight over 3D printed slop cubes. I can only guess that was the plan B for if the Marathon was taken down. I wonder if any of these plot threads they set up will ever actually be followed up on but I don't have faith considering this is a live service.
Well you see there’s um…a battle royal hero shooter extraction…and um….its $40…and…it has seasonal story…
I'm pretty interested. I'm gonna play the beta with a friend once it's open.
I've never played any of these extraction shooter games before, so the game doesn't really look very played out to me.
I'm also going to give the old games a try in the meantime. Never played those before.
No, it's gonna be flavor of the month but not even with a lot of players and then immediately forgotten about it
apparently its big hook is that it's also a hero shooter
I'm a Marathon lore autist who got my monkey paw wish for more Marathon lore so I'm cautiously optimistic. I don't expect great things though, Destiny 1 had a cool premise too and just devolved to Marvel quips and THA DARKNESS.
Legitimately blown away at how much worse the ACTUAL game looks in comparison to it's advertising like it looks like a hangover from the Xbone/PS4 gen, while I try to avoid being a fag it seems like more and more games are starting to stagnate visually
The insides look decent and colorful. The outside looks worse than BOTW
I'm glad the fidelity is low, actually. Too many FPS games have visual vomit where everything blends into each other. In a game where I can lose all of my hard earned loot in a couple of seconds I better be able to see my enemies easily.
Nothing will ever be as bad as Concord, stop trying so hard. And while Marathon is shit and will be a failure, the concord beta was open to everyone. 400k trannies joined the Marathon discord for alpha access and they only gave out a few thousand. So not even close to the same scenario.
I guarantee that the game is getting delayed. The game NEEDS an actual hook and some real content to get the masses to actually buy it
2 huge tax write offs for sony back to back
you only get one first impression and they chose to go straight into the garbage can
after the Marathon left Sol Traxus replaced the Martian CRISTs with their own loaders, basically taking over Mars
MIDA has broken up into an old guard of collaborators who appear to have made peace with the UESC (and Traxus) in exchange for resources
a radical new wing of MIDA wants to continue the fight and is leaking data on megacorps and the UESC
Traxus is literally run by the rampant AI that destroyed the Martian internet 600 years ago that is trying to use a corporation to escape and become a god
a Japanese genetics firm is responsible for creating the 'biomata' Runner bodies but the proprietary code is being leaked
soon every organisation under the sun will be producing its own S class cyborg bodies
battleroids are seemingly obsolete due to being essentially WMDs and there is no longer the Jjaro tech to make them
the UESC is torn between rival factions unsure of what to do with Tau Ceti but they seem to some extent aware alien life was related to the colony's destruction
Robert Blake and the Marathon 2 marines don't seem to have ever made it home
the UESC is sending a warship disguised as a rescue ship to Tau Ceti under 'Project Goliath' and it is filled with 'P' class cyborgs which are supposedly devastatingly powerful
UESC has broken away from its longstanding subservience to Traxus and other corporate interests to investigate Tau Ceti alone
this has set up essentially set up a giant gold rush as the megacorps try to loot Tau Ceti first
Traxus supposedly has (or is in the process of building) a manufacturing site above Tau Ceti
it is basically suggested (but not in the ARG) that Tau Ceti was a Jjaro site, hence the 'JJARO WERE AT TAU CETI' message left in Marathon 1 which is partly why everyone is so desperate to get there
human civilisation is on the brink of another massive AI jump
the best thing that will come out of this IP is the 8 minute cinematic trailer
will come out of this
already released
Easy with the timeline jumps Moljnerd.
exactly my point. Everything good has already been released.
Nothing will ever be as bad as Concord
Oh, you wish. The only direction that the american vg industry is going in is DOWN.
See this would all be quite interesting if it were a mostly single player story focused game. Like give me Dark Souls but in FPS form.
Why did they chose such vibrants colors then wash it all out with a desaturated look and why did they use a cel shading type shader for the character models when they trailers have realistic shading?
If you'd suggested that during pre-production brainstorming, I'm certain the whole room would have regarded you like you were an alien.
yes