revealed to no applause
gameplay reveal stream laughed at
alpha playtest dead within a day
mogged by arc raiders
now everyone knows they stole their art
this is going to be a concord-tier flop
Revealed to no applause
Sony is going to close bungie lolol.
Sony going to demand mass seppuku from Bungie lmafo
This is very Hyenas-coded
if they don't fucking delay this game it's dead on arrival. no shot they have any chance with the reception it has rn
i hope it kills bungie
It's shame because bungie makes really satisfying shooting mechanics but they've just gone full retard
They will delay it for at least a year
The artstyle is bad and now even stolen, will they have to change it?
The gameplay loop and gunplay is painfully average
Engine seems to be flawed and limit/slow down the action/number of players anyway
Alpha testing failed to generate interest and retain players
What a dumpster fire
It honestly looks like that might actually happen. I think Destiny's days are also numbered and once that stops making money they're done.
What would delaying it even accomplish? They'd have to completely change the direction of what the game even is and market it as that. And they definitely don't have the money for that. I think it's just fucked.
Like, who was this made for? All three old farts who remember Marathon would've preferred a single-player game.
delay the game
spend more time in development hell
which means more money thrown into the burning trash bin
bungie releases the game, it sells <50k units, studio immediately folds
sony announces immediate closure of all 1st and 2nd party developer studios
dsp outlives another
The funniest thing about the Sony situation is how retarded they are, imagine if they just put that money into a new Socom game.
they totally are, no joke. bungie can't make anything good anymore, all they make is pure fucking dog shit.
nostalgiafags gonna nostalgiafag
they don't have any direction that's the problem, current game is just apex legends with hoarding shit. they can at least try to give the game a hook but yeah at this point with bungie's pace it's trying to iceskate uphill
It wasn't even that popular to begin with, and it looks and plays nothing like the original game. How are you supposed to be nostalgic?
whenever i see sony games flopping hard like this i cant imagine how much better things could be on hardware side of things
nostalgiafag gonna nostalgiafag. don't worry about the ligic of it all.
Sony's Response: "ALL RIGHT YOU FAGGOTS, WE'RE SELLING PS6 GAMES AT $120 A POP"
logic
It's actually Concordcore.
they can at least try to give the game a hook
Like what? It's an extraction shooter. I think they said they were gonna do seasonal story progression stuff like in Destiny and that the maps were going to expand as time goes on. But that was before they changed it to a hero extraction shooter so I have no idea what their plan is now.
PS6
Games
Marathon was a game about killing aliens and dealing with rampant ai outcomes. Where are the fucking aliens?? Instead we just get blasted with this trooncore artstyle
At first, I thought people saying that were being hyperbolic. It was always going to be shit and rated negatively after all. But these recent events may make this Concord 2.0 and it will close Bungie for good. Some aspects of this cursed timeline are actually quite great.
need to have a dedicated 3 player group that is willing to buy the game, like extraction shooters and like the ugly ass artstyle of this game
0 solo options
playing with randoms is pure suffering
not f2p
It was clear this was gonna giga flop the second they gave us details
They chased a trend but refused to understand why it was popular, then took feedback from consultants rather than doing something creative or giving the fans what they wanted.
why the fuck did they buy bungie in the first place?
billion dollar corpos do things your pea brain couldn't understand. They literally could've just bought bungie so MS couldn't buy them back and get them to make a good halo
The Last of Us Online was a surefire hit
thrown away so Bungie could make this shit
Maybe the plagiarism thing is just an excuse to rework the artstyle without having to admit that they fucked up.
They could still bring elements from the old Marathon games. Bring back boomer shooter mechanics, make a more realistic look, and make the maps larger.
Probably to gain control of the IPs they have. I seriously doubt marathon was a selling point
nobody who worked on halo is still employed at bungie
Sure, but that's an entirely new game. And that takes a lot of time and money, which I don't think Sony is willing to spend at this point.
bungie extracts 4 billion from sony, gives nothing in return and kills itself in the process
um.... based?
Because they used to make Halo. Surely they can replicate that success again with completely original IPs?
marathon
completely original IP
Don't care. Haven't been a Bungie fan since they produced something trash as Destiny 1. Kinda weird how im the single person on earth with this opinion.
doesn't look like it
I'm here with you fren.
This. How did Sony let this happen? Stop paying people for nothing
Sony wants to release a ton of live service games and Bungie is the dev with the most experience in that realm. It's not Marathon, it's not Pathways, it's not Destiny, it's their experience making Destiny.
Bungie hasn't been Bungie for a lot of years.
They're not going to close down a studio they bought for $4 Billion USD only a few years ago. At least they're not going to be able to do that without shareholders getting a say in the matter.
yes
i wanted a new sp marathon that was similar in quality to halo 1-3 (just some new graphics attached)
Well they were already raising the prices on hardware even before Trump's second term began, the whole tariffs thing is just going to allow them to justify an even higher price tag for whatever PS6 is going to be.
its gonna be worse
Forbes article indicates that executives pushed for marathon and the devs didn't want to touch it
the devs begged for a pure pve mode, but this was rejected
morale in Bungie is cratering
This might actually be the end for them.
Concord is invincible: this flop will be *almost* Concord-tier.
I guess that Concord has already lost them the money with Helldivers 2. Not Marathon is not going to be promising. They are too retarded. It must be the California influence.
I hope Bungie gets destroyed. It won't be missed.
Another thing I hate of them is that they don't respect the player at all. Always adding yet another goddamn DLC to make everything obtained before worthless, and even making old content unaccessible. Fuck them for real.
How did Sony let this happen?
They bought Bungie because they wanted their GaaS experience from Destiny 2 and apply it to all of those multiplayer projects they had going on like the Horizon GaaS, God of War GaaS, Spider-verse Gaas, TLOU2 Factions, Concord, Fairgames, Project Gummy Bear, etc. Almost all of those I listed were cancelled with rumors saying it's because Bungie didn't think they were up to their standard of nickel and diming players. Concord had its plug pulled a week after launching for some reason that was never stated. Nobody remembers Fairgames. Helldivers 2 had a good launch, then Sony implemented PSN requirements which blocked off about half the playerbase.
Now we have this Marathon, and people are now thinking there was a conflict of interest going on where Bungie killed all those games off because they didn't want anything to compete with their own title, made even worse given what Marathon is currently looking like.
hire valorant devs
game has stolen assets
once a Riot employee always a Riot employee
But why not just hire the actual talent for like 150.000 bonus per person? None of these people have strict contracts. I still don‘t understand why publishers spend billions of dollars on what amounts to a spread sheet of at will employment contracts
Enemies and equipment are literally a bunch of squares and flat matt textures
Install size is still going to be like 100gb
Utter hacks
At least the stealing accusations explain why the trailer was so good but all the original in game art looks so dogshit
Sony is fucking retarded and kept upping their budgets on their moviegames to an unsustainable degree, so instead of scaling back and making smarter investments and trimming the fat on their studios, Jim decided to do a 180 pivot to live service games as the future of Playstation. When it became immediately apparent how retarded this decision was, he fucked off and now we're dealing with the years of consequences. Sony buying a gutted studio of hasbeens with only one dying game on the market for multiple billions of dollars shows just how desperate they were, and will probably go down as the worst video game acquisition in history after Marathon flops and the Bungie is shut down. And remember, Sony spent even more money on employee retention after the deal, before Bungie themselves later laid off a fuckton of people.
Holy shit is that unturned?
the rich absolutely staunchly refuse to even communicate with the working class. that's basically the whole reason middle management exists
What is that, a fucking Lego character?