OH NO NO NO

Here's your next Bungie game, bro

I don't care and neither should you, fuck off with your dogshit AAA dreck.

This whole FPS hacker style could have worked with sexy girls, anime and vaporwave. Instead they made everything ugly and unappealing.

That's just a more pastel destiny

Is this what it's like to watch dementia take your grandfather?

hear me out... sexy robots

wow it looks exactly every shooter game that has come out within the last 5 years

Based

will this even run on a 3060 gpu? let alone run on linux

yikes

Linux no, unless they get desperate
iirc the requirement are pretty low if not the same as destiny 2

Tout vibrant color identity

somehow everything is giga washed out and looks monochromatic

only bungie could drop the ball this hard

first person shooters are for npcs

Here's your last Bungie game, bro

Fixed it for you.

So basically warframe?

another Concord

Sony sure is killing it, their own business I mean lmao.

Bungie is a shell of its former self. Doubt there's anyone there left that even played or developed the original Marathon.

bungie fell off

a decade ago

I'm so ready.

developing a game that's about to flop

getting pounded legally for the removal of destiny 2 content

bungie might actually be in deep shit

whats wrong with that?

It's going to have a bigger cheater problem than Tarkov despite the only monetary incentives being account selling.
Bungie's history with preventing cheating for destiny is really, really bad, and Battleye is the worst on the market.

the map looks like a source engine dev test area

I agree.
We shouldn't care about this game. :)

what if Destiny but neon

.....

Nintendo Labo Marathon

Did Bungie really think this would be a big success?

the devs just wanted to make a neat little game
sony suits are blowing it up to be the next big thing once again

The designs of the initial reveal were a lot better

The game director got fired a few years ago for sexually harassing some fellow employees this game had been in dev hell ever since. Who knows what it was supposed to be like in that original vision.

They pitched something they don't have the talent to bring to life

A lot of the art they've shown off looks great, the style can work, but for whatever reason they haven't done a very good job transferring it into the game world.

Roblox ahh game

fpbp

BIG TEXT
small text
lines
+ +
s
i
d
e
w
a
y
s
text.
dot dot dot.
no color
big color

what the FUCK is this design style called? Is it just random? I hate it.

china needs to hurry up and make FPS games to destroy the remaining western devs

what the fuck

[Sad News] Fans are vocal and NOT happy. They're saying Marathon is a waste of time and they should just focus on Destiny instead

this slop bad focus on other slop

Bungie cucks......

DUDE PLACEHOLDER ART AND PRIMITIVE MESHES: The game

It's over.

The anti-soul gas is palpable.

noooo you can't just laugh at the incoming slop flop!!!

Probably the engine on top of just not being able to pull it off, it's upsetting how much better that cinematic is in comparison to the actual ingame

minecraft looking mf

Risk of Rain 3 looks great

honestly just confused by this. why make it so aggressively unappealing to look at? putting colourful blocks on a humanoid frame doesn't look good

No refunds Sony :)

They have NO IDEA what they should do for an artstyle nor are willing to try so they do this artsy colorful sterile cyber shit.

logisticscore

it is actually incompetence to greenlight a design like this

they gave their cash cow to the b team in order to work on this

The original games had great enemy designs, why couldn't they have just used those? (Hypothetical question, I know these people are ideologically driven to replace everything cool with crap.)

Why does it look like a shitty Unity project made by one guy?

destiny 2 but shit

wow another concord-like!
can't wait

I saw some anon say that it was supposed to be a remake of the original game, but then Tarkov got popular and the suits demanded it be retooled into an extraction shooter. No evidence but IMO it's the most likely explanation.

They show up in the trailer and a datamined achievement mentions killing them, so they're in the game somewhere.

paid console battle royale

It couldn't be me

No, Marathon will be a multiplayer-only experience. Bungie has confirmed there is no dedicated single-player campaign.

What were they thinking?

I can understand saying the gunplay is good because this is Bungie, and the gunplay is what's hard carrying destiny, but I legitimately can't comprehend how anyone can say the artstyle looks good

how do you do fellow zoomer gamers, you do like lol randumb brightly colored shit right?

Embark won.

it looks like Brink
remember Brink?
yeah nobody does

start as stranded nobody ascend to Security Officer-tier being

Marathon-tier environments and MilSpec gear introduced over seasons

contracts deliver lore like M1 terminals which is less strain than cinematic campaign

I won't bet a pre-order on it but I'm pretty sure that's what they're going for and they're banking on this stall/evolution tactic to keep them alive

CEO's fumbling leads to 200+ people laid off

Yeah, I think they know this is a subsistence project but it'll probably work well enough for them to get their bearings

Honestly if the game played more like RoR it'd probably be a better experience

RoR with Marathon foes and variations of them -does- sound like a good time

Disgusting. I'm glad they removed all traces of color and went with single tone.

The funny part about it is that this is probably offensive to og MAC users.
Marathon was THE mac exclusive game (until bungie released it to PC).

Honestly the slower pace of some Marathon content makes me think more of the modern GTFO style or the like. BoBs and Security Officer stuff who can't reload early without losing entire magazines, tearing their way through alien forces in cramped space stations or planet-side interiors but liable to die at any given moment rather than be forces of nature, etc.

Here's your AAA game bro.

Honestly it hilarious cause there's so many ways the could have gone about it that are better ideas than "Extraction shooter", they could have made it a much more combat focused Lethal Company playing as Bobs being sent to clear out and recover shit from a derelict Marathon or something

i hope this game kills bungie, fuck gaas, fuck extraction slop

I would forgive them if these guys can do more than just walk around and shoot
just give me a random npc that nuke a sector of the map in one hit

I laugh because you can feel the moment the Valorant guy came in and traded cacs for Heroes, glad Arc Raiders didn't make this mistake

This is good. Not as great as the designs for OG Marathon, but I could believe this was set in the Marathon universe to some extent.

AYYYYYYYYYYY LMAOOOOO

dios mio

I genuinely cannot wait for this shit to flop and Sony shutdown Bungie.

Graphics are mobile-tier garbage and the artstyle is pure diarrhea. WTF are they thinking

This looks identical to Halo ODST. If you were willing to slurp up that slop you should be fine with this slop.

I like how Marathon looks already but the gameplay loop is really fucking boring, they seem to understand what makes a xtrac good/special and decided to cut out all of it…

You now remember that Sony bought Bungie for $3.6 billion

If you look at this cross eyed for 2 & 1/2 minutes you can see the next valorant hero

Damn, new Splatoon looking great!

I unironically jack off to pictures of apex legend's pathfinder and of the mg ray and I approve this message.

What went wrong?

the chars are ugly but the aesthetics are great

You can really tell that the game was repurposed several times over the years.
Inside areas look really good, but the outdoor spaces look like they were thrown together less than 6 months ago. I doubt this game is going to be the hit bungie needs it to be.
Destiny died for this, sony is retarded for buying them for billions.

I don't like the idea of heroes but they all play okay (except for Void, who is AIDS to play against). A Dark and Darker style class system would have been better but you have to keep in mind that everyone who played pre-alpha Marathon hated it before they reworked it.

This shit better be able to run on steam deck if it is this Xbox 360 looking

Halo Infinite forge maps look better than Marathon. It's over....

Lego Halo

lol

She's like the only remotely bangable one in the game

They're robots, they're not supposed to be sexy. Anyways, the full game has another female character.

I'm sick of this fucking argument people use to justify ugly designs for a VIDEO GAME

wtf it looks like lego

what a fag

They're robots, they're not supposed to be sexy.

Why would you go out of your way to design something that is ugly, instead of attractive?

To an extent, design appeal matters to keep the game alive out of game, and the easiest design appeal is sex.
I'm kind of surprised nuMarathon has gotten any fanart, but it trickles out every few days, so the characters aren't like... completely devoid of that appeal at least.

They're robots, they're not supposed to be sexy.

Pic related but unironically.

good. Last thing I heard about them a few years ago they were suing someone for "racism" for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

It looks like a higher resolution version of Risk of Rain 2

they just copied die antwoord's style

cyberzef

I'm not sure I like that.

"Aggressively unappealing" or ugly as sin character designs define the Concord-like genre

It's a straight by the book corprate designed soulless mimmick of better games.

Might be able to fit more buzzwords in there.

Posting semi official concept artwork.

Context: This was commissioned by Bungie around ~2011 for the 20th anniversary of the studio. I think the blocky designs of the art probably influenced the reboot to some degree.

ADS

Dropped
Please advance past the 21st century with your military tech for your far future sci-fi shooter
I beg of you

i think unreal tourment 4 has more textures

Marathon 1-3

proto-Halo games where you play as a security officer, gradually revealed to be a covertly inserted military cyborg, fighting aliens on behalf of rampant AIs

Marathon

concord-lite corporate slop art style extraction shooter where the main aesthetic appears to be "default dev room assets"

ok dude

KEK

youtube.com/watch?v=Wi8gfetK1og
say that again

The minimalist style is very good for shooters as it provides visual clarity to see other players, but the lack of contrast and the only bright color being neon yellow is atrocious.

Other areas are different colors. Algae Ponds is basically the least colorful point of interest there is with the cyan primary. Speaking of visual clarity though, this is 2 frames before I died on a run, can you spot the threat? Hint: There are three people with snipers scoped at me in this frame

She looks ugly as fuck now

Arc Raiders is received much better by players, but the threads on this website have 0 traction while the Marathon ones are reaching hundreds of posts. who knows.

I have seen this video 50 times and I still have no idea what is wrong with it

I defended that guy till I heard he would call woman employees after work and talk to them for hours and bitch about his wife and yea there is no way you can defend a loser like that

Will this be another sunken cost fallacy for Sony? will they cord pull like Concord?

who knows

Anon Babbletards are obsessed with manifesting the next tortanic/concord and do not actually talk about games that they like (with the exception of gacha games lmao)

now

Doesn't look any different to me.

Why does the vegetation and rocks look like absolute shit? i can't get over it. It looks so crap. Unacceptably bad for the budget they were given.

Weirdly these threads are the only places I can talk about Marathon because people who are aggressively negative just ignore anything attempting to engage with the game, but keep the thread bumped enough that clearly 1-3 people who actually have access to the alpha post sometimes.
As an example, I just learned the TAD devices apparently don't ping players, only NPC enemies. Just got my crew of randos slaughtered by giving them a false sense of security to loot a supply drop while another team was just hanging around, waiting for everyone to be busy looting. The game is real bad at teaching you how its mechanics work.

It looks nothing like odst the fuck are you talking about

why can't you insecure faggots make a single post without "lol" or "lmao"

it's just Destiny again which is just Halo again.
except with terrible art.

Gacha fags are pathetic and deserve to be laughed at. Imagine gambling for PNGs. That's fucking hilarious.

The design looks the same, the lifeless in-game model just makes it look worse.

You say lmao because you are an insecure faggot afraid of confrontation so you have to end your confrontational post with some level of levity you pathetic faggot.

It literally looks like a Roblox game

I'm pretty sure I wore a cosplay like this a long time ago but it was made of cardboard.

nta but faggot lol

faggot

That's a woman.

dumb gachafag mad cuz got called out lmao

ps2 graphics

You could tell what I said got to you because now you are forcing it

Yea the simple/clean models and textures are good, but the fog and lack of contrast is terrible.

2000s shooters did it best. Just enough detail to make interesting environments and distinguish objects but not so much that you can't see the enemies amongst all the other bullshit.

Why do the weapons look like they were 3D printed?

Bungie has never made a good game.

The style is bad, not the graphics. You don't want super high detail environments and dark shadows in a fast paced shooter.

in-universe, they were.

After 25 hours of playing I have found my first shotgun. I have still not found any gold-tier loot.

Is there anything in this game you permanently unlock?

The game is based on seasonal wipes, so besides future cosmetics, no. That said, you can unlock seasonal upgrades through factions that are not lost on death. They are incremental but they do add up and become pretty useful.

The silver lining to all this is that it may lead to more people downloading the (freeware) trilogy. This was a great opportunity to deliver another Halo-style campaign while keeping Destiny around for the live service direction, but fuck me I guess.

This is literally just Destiny but uglier and sterile.

This is more better then destiny

define permanent.
there's unlocks, but it's a seasonal game.

Why because it's the same exact thing without magic? The pretty environments really elevated it, this just looks generic.

Is there anything in this game you permanently unlock?

From the outset, the only truly permanent things are cosmetics they're planning. Seemingly some unlocks, but mostly purchases. Otherwise, everything else will have to be gathered/lost every single season.
Which, y'know, trying to make that sorta shit immediately after Destiny as an item hoarding looter is just fucking hilarious.

You know how a rogue like will have stat boosts and gear you can unlock? Like that

Destiny outside of raiding and dungeons is boring as shit because the enemies are the least intelligent and threatening in vidya history. Seriously, stand still and wait to see how long it takes for a group of enemies to kill you, it's pathetic. The moment to moment gameplay of Marathon feels a lot better. If there is any kind of dungeon/more PvE oriented content then Marathon would beat Destiny by a longshot.

what if we just shit on the screen

great art style whoever did it needs to be hired for blizzards next game

Why choose lego guns?

Holy fuck this game looks ugly

yes you can level your character and your vendors. I'm not sure what the unlocks entail, but there are a few videos that play like advertisements that mention these systems.

What is the end game goal of a game like this? To find the best gun in the game and never use it because you are afraid you can lose it?

Because just like The Finals it's a good game and Anon Babble doesn't care about good games.

Upgrades are usually things like extra stamina, extra agility, better purchases available in the in-game market, etc. They don't feel great to unlock as one upgrade alone does not do much but they add up.

alberto mielgo is starting to feel like a one-trick pony

made NFTs

lol

The most fun I ever had in Destiny was playing the campaign missions on hard mode, cause it's the closest thing to Halo campaign, which is the pinnacle of Bungie gameplay. Been enjoying custom modded campaigns for MCC more than any of that repetitive busywork crap anyway. Long behind me are the days of bullshit chores for stats and drops, fuck all that I just want fun set pieces with dynamic AI. So glad I stopped pouring hours into it once they started the seasonal nonsense. It's all just digital chores.

If you're a huge pussy, yes. Otherwise the game progression goes something like

start as timmy

build up decent loot pool over many raids

take on stronger PvE content/do PvP for even better loot

take on endgame bosses for god-tier loot

use god-loot to farm more god-tier loot and kill lesser equipped players for their good but-not-as-great tier loot

Basically these games are about building a huge trove of rare and powerful gear. If you get one good weapon it doesn't matter if you're not using it to farm. This will appeal to people who like to chase rare drops and min-max but if you're looking for some ultimate goal to it all there isn't one.

t. played too much Dark and Darker

My only gold drop so far has been from an Intercept. Implant that increases loot speed massively and every time you open a box it pings another unopened box nearby. And it went right into my vault where I'll never use it, as all the most exciting rewards should.

mg ray

Excellent taste. Rex is cute too.

Ever since all of the higher-ups at 343 got fired, Infinite has been getting so much better. Too bad it's far too late for most players. It's the main reason I don't care if Halo goes Multiplat anymore. I'd rather Halo on PS than Halo dead.

use god-loot to get killed by the abundance of cheaters that plague every game of this type*

The moment to moment gameplay of Marathon feels a lot better.

I dropped that shit so fast cause when it released you could get shot through walls and sometimes shots and melees wouldn't even register. Those utter geniuses couldn't even get the BULLETS DO DAMAGE part of shooting down, a truly unparalleled level of incompetence.

Hot take but Infinite was always good, it just had 0 content on launch and took waaaay too long to add anything new. If they just kept their heads down, worked hard, and relaunched the game it could've been huge still. I have no idea why they gave up on Infinite's development in such a short time.

use the property of one of the big competitors to Doom where it was floaty, kinda weird but could be some fast balls to the walls carnage

make everyone in your new game move and fight like a CoD clone with the speed of a GMOD tactical realism mod setup

This is literally just the same exact shit as Destiny if you squint, just a different coat of paint.

I appreciate how easy it is to spot these paid shills now, they're not even trying anymore

The movement style reminds me of Halo 1, except without jumping. It's really bad.

extraction shooters are not pve games.
go play Warframe, Destiny, Helldivers...

Is there any connection to the old games apart from the name?

ARC Raiders looked more fast-paced than Marathon. Plus that game has more movement options too. It really shows how shitty Marathon is because ARC is more polished, has more content and its going to release next year. Marathon is supposed to release in 6 months.

After 25 hours of playing I have found my first shotgun.

You gotta hit up the caches in the buildings with red flairs mayne. I've only had time to put in ~11 hours but I've found four or five of em. That's also where I usually find repeaters and twintaps, other than off of players I've killed.

What is the end game goal of a game like this?

There's rumored to be raid-like maps and more pvp focused maps, so you would play the other maps to unlock faction upgrades to boost your base stats and collect loot, then use the fancy loot to do the raids and pvp maps.

this tbqh

Destinyfags have a mental breakdown at people criticizing their second job.

extraction slop is so fucking boring

It's like 70-90 years after the original game apparently, the Pfhor still exist but to unknown ends, the UESC are finally investigating Tau Ceti after the distress signal was sent out in the original game but that would've taken close to a century to get that far, and you're mercenary runners being guided by an AI system named ONI into looting shit, finding clues for what happened to the settlers so long ago, evading UESC and fighting with other runners over what's left of the abandoned colony. And for some reason the UESC Marathon itself is in orbit of the planet somehow.

They basically took a bunch of shit from the original for a mystery box of how it's following up those events, but doing it in ways that don't quite line up with the events of how things played out unless Durandal is on some real shit fucking with Tau Ceti.

You have really bad taste man it's clear you're still stuck on what you thought was cool in high school

Why does this shit look like a source engine orange map?

One maybe S'pht. No Pfhor or any of the others.

Arc Raiders is exceptional

I don't have access to the Arc Raiders test, what movement options does it have? The little bit I saw was just 'slide into crouch'

it also has diving and clamboring over walls. its a lot more smooth than marathon which feels like every other ADS shooter on the market.

Nu-bungie is infected with gaas brain and they unironically think that the product they put onto shelves doesn't matter as much as the amount of updates they pour into it. It makes sense they would make putrid garbage like this with their standards being so abysmally low.

Everything i have seen about this game looks like it was made in a negative universe where all things are made of antithesis and nothing's right.

This game is very unpleasant to look at.

there are also ziplines you can place freely
you can also ride the flying robots

The AI usually says some little briefing when you load in, and in one of the more rare voice lines, it gets hacked and says "you should not have come here" in a spooky tone, so perhaps that has something to do with durandal

A developers make stuff like hollow knight, cuphead and hades

AA developers make stuff like astro bot, expedition and lies of P

AAA developers make...this

can someone explain this to me?

I looked up Greisemer "30 seconds of fun". Don't know what he does now but apparently he's at Suckerpunch. Which tracks.
I feel bad for Marcus Lehto. The guy has tried repeatedly and just keeps getting fucked over or not quite hitting the mark.

Pic related + going public. IPO is the death knell of quality and soul.

It has prone and a dive into it? And elaborate on clamboring over walls a bit - Marathon has mantling, so you can climb over/up stuff, but is it actually a climb in Arc Raiders?
Like prone is a big sell to me and I haven't seen anyone do it

The cinematic voice that narrates Ozymandias is credited to Durandal. There's definitely something going on with the OG Marathon AIs.

If they had brought something akin to lazer tag but extraction shooter to life they may have had something going for them. What a waste.

linux is almost certainly a no go because they'll want rootkit anticheat

Leela fragments and Durandal timeline shenanigans, yada yada. I'd be worried even if this were a SP game due to staff changes, but given the genre of game I don't have hope. I'm more sad that my boy Durandal isn't going to ever get the glory of a newer videogame.

It's actually hysterical to me how Bungie's doing this whole idea of "Well when you buy into the game and play, the faction traders and stuff will be giving you lore as you go, and the story will develop with our seasons." Which is kind of silly for a PvPvE game for one, but also CONCORD DID THIS SHIT. They had this whole thing about trying to hype people up with weekly videos and snippets of the extra character lore and depth to try to add more story to a solely-PvP title, and it was just gonna be boring ass shit because nothing could ever hope to deliver.

This shit is an absolute fucking waste. There's nothing meaningful to derive from this, it'll be dead before they even actually answer the questions the game's poising as its driving narrative "hook".

it will sell fine because Destiny and Halo players are the same target audience as Blizzard, EA, 2K.
but it won't sell enough to keep Bungie from feeling the pain and having massive layoffs at a minimum.

She looks less "alive"

That what I was hoping it was going ala Destiny, set classes but the characters are customizable

I don't know, there is so much competition and the aesthetics are borderline tranny coded at times. The short film was good and showed the potential but we've all seen how the game itself doesn't deliver on that.

Bungie's name doesn't mean shit anymore. Destiny 2 killed most good will people had for them. Like, straight up. Concord having some ex-Bungie devs sure as hell didn't earn it brownie points.

Oh right, I completely forgot about that.

lol Steve looks a bit different

It's wild to me the outdoors look so bad when Destiny doesn't have this problem

Removing content was unforgivable. Shows a total lack of respect or even the pretence of it for the audience.

timesplitters pillar alien

plays like a Bungie game

I mean it's being handled by ex DICE devs and it feels a lot tighter

ok i kinda have to correct my post, i was a bit dishonest because just remembering my favorite game of last year... yeah there are still aaa companies and games that really put their all into it and my fav game of last year was FF7 Rebirth, so yeah i had a bit of an overreaction.. because this one aaa game marathon just looks so bland.

R107

Tarkov can't be dethroned lol.

no prone

I wouldn't even call it a throne. More like a profit cave. Most of the industry at large don't actually care about Tarkov, the casuals sure as fuck don't, but they think they can copy the formula and mainstream it for some sort of success. So people keep trying to plunder the cave and have no idea how to actually sell it. Tarkov keeps making money off of its saps, and no one else can hit the tap.

yet those shit eating retards that cry about every destiny patch come back for every DLC.
they're addicts, like wow players.

General implication is the "final map" has them on it... honestly they're should be way more enemies variety than just the robots and aliens on the ship

it will sell fine because Destiny and Halo players are the same target audience as Blizzard, EA, 2K.

i doubt it will. most reviews of the game has been negative.

somebody can polish up the edges without removing all of the autism that people like about EFT, but nothing on the horizon seems to be doing it yet.

Tarkov players are milsim autists and cheaters who would play any other game if you paid them too. They're alot like World of Tanks players; middle aged men with shitloads of disposable income and probably don't even know other games even exist. It's a fruitless endeavor trying to court them.

the reception by the terminally online is negative, for the beer bellied dads with 3 jobs 6 wives and 18 kids, they're sold.

The PVE shit not only looks just as boring as Destiny, but my eyes might be mistaken for a direct clone.

Same developers that gave you this btw

the reception by the terminally online is negative,

right right right. when concord was shit on by everone, im sure there were just a secret legion of players just waiting until release to play.

those beer-belly dads are playing CoD Warzone Fortnite Fifa Madden. Theyre not going to play roblox glitch punk extraction shooter.

if you would have told me 20 years ago this was gaming in 2025 i would be very disappointed

not anymore honestly. people more defensive of bungie keep telling me "but they retained a lot of people from the Halo days", yet it seems like all the actual competent people in charge and creative spirit is long gone. mostly because bungie quite literally backstabbed themselves repeatedly once activision gave them the opportunity

LOL

??? If you play the game like milsim you're a shitter.

youtube.com/watch?v=k3tD1D9TS-U

OHNONONONONNONO

fuck, so the 'dive' was just that little dark souls dodge roll? That's disappointing.

the modern audience boycotts yet another game

idk what to tell you bro. concord had 0 interest and 0 defenders except the terminally online twitter users that don't play games.
I think this game will sell enough to not go offline, it's an established studio with a track record that football dads recognize. that's enough for them to at least give it a try. but it won't sell enough to avoid Bungie significantly downsizing their studio.
you can see positive talk about it from streamers and twitch chatters. you can make the argument they're just not being negative for a chance at being sponsored on release, but there's a lot of chatters that are interested, along with all the destiny players.

everything about this is baffling.

someone HAD to be getting great pussy from an art intern who used that pussy pass to get into the design team.

What are those guns!? The guns in that minecraft battlefield looking game were better than this shit

pussy that gets passed around

great pussy

do beta simps rly?

Those have to be placeholder textures for the weapons, right? Right!?

Is this shit just a reskinned concord?

you can see positive talk about it from streamers and twitch chatters.

all the twitch chat i saw were shitting on it. the streamers dropped it in a day as evidenced by them not playing it and more evidenced by the player numbers flopping. compare that to arc raiders where the chatters are hyping it up. the streamers are playing it for more than one day. this has flop written all over it.

guys like that never even get to smell pussy so yes its "great pussy" to them, Pussy is like everything else, its relative.

meant for

no, lol.

Concord's level designs were at least.. coherent

it's very mixed reception on twitch, yes.
destiny doesn't pull good viewership on twitch either, and never did.
either way I still stand by my opinion that the game will sell well, but not well enough to avoid massive layoffs.

I wasn't here for the buildup to concord, were their threads also reaching 300+ posts?

Yes, but to make fun of it.

looks good

Do virgins really think vaginas get stretched out by sex to the point you’d notice

well then maybe I'm just out of touch. still not changing my opinion.
I'm passing on this game btw unless they reveal something crazy in the next few months. if that matters. I'd be more willing to give Dune or Arc Raiders a try.

Pictures of Baz were guaranteed 300+ threads

uhh... yeah... they do...
but if she starts having less sex she can tighten back up within a week.
don't forget to wear a condom. bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks.

were their threads also reaching 300+ posts?

Yes but to shit on it relentlessly. A game doesn't have to be popular to be actively discussed here. Dustborn and Vali-date never went over 100 players peak on steam but you could find dozens of threads at the post limit around the time people discovered them (which also thoroughly crushed the stupid "NO YOU'RE ADVERTISING THE GAME BY POSTING!!!" nonsense)

God that's such a cool fucking picture
imagine if more than one artist had actually played marathon and cared about it

Seasons

SEASON ONE

Not even f2p

What the fuck?

whatsup with the transexual color pallete?

take a look at destiny's monetization.

seasonal battle passes

dlc

cosmetics

pay for dyes

Porque no los dos?

cortex command!?

that fucking muzzle flash

i hate ADS so much

why would i devote a second of my existence to someone who can't possibly do anything long term?
who lacks even the desire?

Sony is so cooked. Arent they slso releasing Fairgame$ this year?

It looked good before the Valorant guy came in.

Is this a switch game?

yeah
you play it for ten minutes then you switch it off

The color style reminds me of Halo 3 maps
Man why cant Bungie just make single player games again...

nigger are you fucking blind AND retarded? go sit your ass down in the dumb shit corner until youre ready to stop being a faggot

Reach still seems quite divisive for many people, but as I replayed it few months ago I finally understood how competently they managed to execute their vision on how the game should be and how it should be different from previous Halo games. The art direction is great as well as the atmosphere of the game, most levels are full of small and unique details that drive it home that you're losing badly.

I honestly Marathon's cinematic teaser, I thought that the colorful art direction looked fresh and interesting, but looking at gameplay the game is obviously going to be a flop and another Concord moment. Bungie is dead, I'd like to see a list of people who worked on Reach and were also included in the latest Destiny's credits.

no real pre-aiming, gamesense-based tracking of potential player locations

complete retard autistic movements and swinging around at extremely high sensitivity

somehow accurate tracking of heads despite that high sensitivity

That's one of them cheaters you got there, faggot. Is that your own video, nigger?

Bait used to be believeable

why does this look like gmod

how it should be different from previous Halo games

It should be more like CoD and less like Halo, that was the vision

Halo 5 Breakout ahh graphics

Why does BC2 and now Arc have such better sound quality than practically all other vidya? Sorry I just don't care to talk about this game anymore

Honestly I don't hate the designs, they definitely stand out, but the fact that it's an extraction shooter makes the whole thing a non-starter. If the designs were mindblowingly sexy and breathtaking, it still wouldn't matter because it's inside a trash genre that I would never play.

Anyone with an alpha key wanna party up

i really don't understand the the astroturfed hate for this game? Looks like ludo halo

this really reminds me of the years when mmos were super popular and 10 wow clones came out each year just to fail hard because they just chased the money, but now they are extraction shooters

They're robots, they're not supposed to be sexy.

OK so since they're robots made for a practical purpose and not any sort of human appeal, why make them look like humans at all? I'm sure there are far more practical configurations for a combat machine than a human body.

Turns out leveraging old IP can attract negative attention too
But hey any press is good press amirite

I don't understand putting in this aesthetic of mass produced cybernetic bodies into Marathon where the cyborgs that were made were really expensive war machines that were hunted down and decommed.
I guess maybe this is one of the timelines security officer passed through, but it still doesn't feel right. This could've been its' own thing and... ok it probably wouldn't even get any attention but at least we wouldn't be comparing it to old Marathon. It's kinda sad how ambitious old Bungie was to what we have now.

Nexon poached a bunch of DICE guys to basically remake Frostbyte engine in UE5 and somehow it worked.

No release date yet. But with GTA6 delay they must be sweating bullets.

This is some lifeless shit right here. This game is DOA

Engine is full of limitations and people that worked on it fucked off long ago

Instead of switching engines and taking some time to iron stuff they reused same crap engine and then complain about limitations

Thinking about a modern Marathon single player game made me realize it just couldn't be made nowadays. Not only because "shooter but with story" isn't as innovative as it was 30 years ago, but because it would not be made by the currently industry.
The whole schizo marathon lore was a metanarrative about the player. The whole thing about timelines and alternative universes was an analogue for a player playing different games. It celebrated creativity and urged you to create as well.
Nowadays the average developer has nothing but utter contempt for the player. Which is why everything is subversive and depressing. No one this hateful could ever recreate something like marathon.
Anyways I'm being a schizo, this game probably only exists because some retard CEO was memed into thinking extraction shooters were the next big thing

this bungie canceled tlou online due to 'quality' problems

modern devs sucks to dick

is there some sort of generic FPS solution these slop factories use to push out these turds? ADS, XP bullshit for everything, same sprint animation, they all look identical under the graphical veneer. Just swap out the assets and call it a new game.

It should be concerning that BL4 has more refined gameplay than a PvP FPS

this bungie canceled tlou online due to 'quality' problems

they should have launched it only for tloutranny's eternal death

Brink was the last physical game I bought.

GDC is where they all go to learn how to be more homogenous (and gay)

SHE OWES ME SEX!

oh no no no

,bro

Forced meme

time to admit bungie was never good

Halo 1 is great, I've always defended it even though it meant being attacked by my PC grognard kindred
Everything else was mid to terrible including Marathon

Arc Raiders is going to give it a run for it's money. The tacticool fags will obviously stick with Tarkov but I bet they'll end up losing a lot of players to Arc. Marathon will be DOA, don't worry about it.

Arc Raiders peaked at 21.5 today.

Bungie died with Luke Smith leaving. They didn't start going bad until they fired Marty in like 2014.

is this a ps3 game.

Over 20 times more players than Marathon

kek this game is fucked

That's not fair, some PS3 games actually looked good.

CELLS
CELLS
DOES THIS GAME MAKE YOU FEEL LIKE A TRILLION BUCKS WHEN YOU'RE PLAYING IT?
INTERLINKED
INTERLINKED

Imagine trying to catch some sleep after being exposed to this much blue light for hours. Happy mondays sucker lmao.

bungie has long been hated for their destiny years, no surprise that people would be celebrating a blunder on their part unless you've been living under a rock

This artstyle would have been more appropriate for the System Shock remake

you know what this game needs is to be darker and foggier and have the cool effect on the last level removed

It could have been a lot worse...almost was

They've always been the biggest overachievers in the industry. MARATHON is a doom clone with schizo lore, Myth is a mediocre rts, Halo is just a worse Tribes 2 dumbed down for console casuals, Destiny is a worse looter shooter than Borderlands and Warframe. yet SOMEHOW all of their games sell well.

Whoever thought it would be a good idea to use this particular slice of the game as a demo might've just about fucked them the launch of some hundred million dollar project. This is such a shit way to introduce your game

NA only

Invitation only with keys being sent in waves

One shitty map (if you're only going to show one map, at least show a decent one, not some horizontal, single-layered slop)

They spend minutes introducing you to different types of corpos, explaining shit only for it to go absolutely nowhere. What are you doing it for? Leave it all out. The majority won't care anyway and the ones who do give a shit will have to wait for the full release anyway.

In other words, someone fucked up.

Destiny years that aren't over yet, mind you. People are acting like Marathon killed Destiny, but Destiny still fuckin exists and continues making them incredibly worthy of hatred.

I feel like overachiever was the wrong word choice here.

Brink was actually fun unlike this

I don't understand why Bungie doesn't abandon or redesign the Tiger engine.
I understand it's a heavily modified BLAM Halo engine, but it seems to have given them problems since Destiny 1.
I don't know what happened in development, but before in Halo, the engine could handle large amounts of AI, physics, vehicles, and a ton of other things without any problems on the Xbox 360.
Now, Bungie, aside from the incompetence of its developers, is also falling behind because of this shit.

above all else, it's just ugly aesthetically. I don't play multiplayer slop anymore anyways and haven't for many years, I only play single player games now thank god.

It looks like one of those orange community maps from CS:S and TF2, except blue and green. I can see what they were going for, at least in the prerendered trailers, but that doesn't look good at all. It literally looks like someone forgot to add textures.

did they forget to bake out AO?

why the fuck didn't they use unreal 5?
its basically custom built for this sort of vibrant large game

It's probably like bethesda where it's less gamedev studio more adult daycare constantly bleeding all the competent workers who were keeping the whole thing afloat and replacing them with literal idiots

a Wii U game has better textures

I wish I liked this art direction because I think it has truly some potential, and yet I don't know why it doesn't click.
Some old games have nailed cool robot designs like pic related, in ultra industrial themed levels.
There is some potential in this agressively fluo art direction but I don't think they land it. Taking itself to seriously and making it ultra realistic makes it goofy.
Something like the surge but fluo would work I think

make it a pve coop shooter and you got yourself a deal anon

They’re in too deep with Tiger at this point. It’s a classic sunk cost problem—years of tools, scripting, asset pipelines, backend systems, and dev familiarity built around the engine. Starting over with Unreal or another engine would mean a total workflow overhaul for a team that’s already been struggling with direction and staffing. That said, sticking to Tiger is definitely a double-edged sword. It was barely keeping up during D2’s peak and now it’s clearly holding them back from scaling or innovating, especially with how limited their world design and AI systems feel. It’s baffling they didn’t start transitioning years ago.

the absolute state of gachafags lmao

me when i forget to install cs:s when i load into gmod

ODST coop was fun tho

I wish. Zef is fucking creepy and interesting. They made corporate future-zef which is the most retarded shit ever

That is a bunch of placeholder assets, right?

just copy synthetik enemies holy fuck

That screenshot isn't from the final game

I have a surface level understanding of marathon's story and it seems like a damn shame, can't imagine how the people who really dug into it and are big fans are feeling.

No it wouldnt. The genre is shit and only works for the masochists that want to put 1k hours into learning maps and loot

The spiritual successor to Marathon already exists.

I might as well post it

lmao that's TRUE
Up until Halo 5, 343i used BLAM, and Halo Infinite is just a heavily modified version.
Imagine being more incompetent than 343i tranies.

Hi kita

I like the game. I am not excited about it being a hero shooter (read: hero shooters are shit) or that the story is seasonal, but I do think it's fun to play. A coop PvE experience with the same high stakes mechanics would have been much better IMO for what Bungie is trying to do. Imagine exploring Tau Ceti and the Marathon with your friends and uncovering deeply hidden secrets and bosses. Instead it's Apex lite. Still fun but not great.

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