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Marathon - Bungie Extraction Shooter
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Lenas
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"Seasonal updates will introduce new gameplay, including gear, Runner shells, zones, events, and more, which will be free for all players to access or earn–no expansions or DLC required."
Introducing Seasons in Marathon
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Unless seasonal updates turn this into a PVE experience or drastically change the focus of the game, this game will not survive I don't think. I played 6 or so hours this weekend, and honestly, only really enjoyed about half an hour of it. Perhaps it's just me and my preferences, but even if I liked the genre I found it all incredibly boring. 20 minutes running around, 4 second firefights. The flow of the game just felt off and very untested.
They did craft, and clean up the game world and it looks great and after some tweaking, the shooting also felt very close to Destiny. The classes all felt good, too. But even on successful runs with epic/legendary items I didn't really care or feel even the slightest sense of gratification. I guess I don't really understand how the game as it played over the weekend is meant to reward your time in a gratifying way? I won't be buying this, so not sure why I'm even posting this but just curious what the interest here is but it's clearly over my head (other than just enjoying the graphics/gunplay, which I contend are excellent and much better to my eyes than say Arc Raiders).
They did craft, and clean up the game world and it looks great and after some tweaking, the shooting also felt very close to Destiny. The classes all felt good, too. But even on successful runs with epic/legendary items I didn't really care or feel even the slightest sense of gratification. I guess I don't really understand how the game as it played over the weekend is meant to reward your time in a gratifying way? I won't be buying this, so not sure why I'm even posting this but just curious what the interest here is but it's clearly over my head (other than just enjoying the graphics/gunplay, which I contend are excellent and much better to my eyes than say Arc Raiders).
Lenas
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The first 3 maps are a gameplay loop to build up keys for the big extraction event on the final map. You can't get the keys from random drops, they come from PVE events like Lockdown on Dire Marsh where you need to stop the event 3x across the map. You can probably get keys from the Warden boss on Perimeter, etc. The third map Outpost is much more condensed and forces action. The PVE in this is actually unavoidable if you intend to play in the endgame.
If you understand one extraction shooter you understand them all. See what you can get and hold on to it as long as you can.
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Utnayan
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Seeing an odd effect of the Marathon debacle. Which is now helping the sales of the genre with Arc Raiders moving up again and trending up. My thought is that people refunded that garbage and are using the credit for Arc Raiders - considering the timing and genre identity of both the games.
Marathon trailing two free to play games (One of them being Rainbow 6 Siege lol) and a $69.99 single player release, with a launch date in two days, is horrid.
Marathon trailing two free to play games (One of them being Rainbow 6 Siege lol) and a $69.99 single player release, with a launch date in two days, is horrid.
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Adebisi
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Am I crazy when I say just figuring out how to get into a game was confusing?
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Qhue
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I think my single biggest issue with Marathon is that I cannot stand the aesthetic. I am huge fan of cyberpunk as a genre and loved everything about the Destiny art style and Marathon just feels wrong. It's just too much discordant bright colors for no goddamn reason
gauze
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While i'd say its not surprising that RE9 being ahead of a game not even released, ontop of it being two entirely different crowds but w/e doesn't really matter
as far as the R6, I wouldn't be surprised if it rebounds the other direction in a week or two; Snake just got added today(ontop of a new season).
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Bald Brah
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Probably like Hollywood though where it's super inflated to take advantage of tax breaks and not have to pay out royalties. Their break even point is probably cooked books.
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How sis they spend that much when they stole most of the assets? 50 million after production costs to not be sued?
That said, can I just state how sick I am of the neon/bright pink and light blue colors featured prominently in so many games these days. It’s like the 80s decided to vomit up the worst parts of the color palette of that decade into the graphial elements in new games(be it UI or part of spell colors and such). And there is no way it is «for visibility».
Seriously. Next time there is an expo, be it pc/playstation/xbox and they run through several new/upcoming games, take notice of how many games feature them. If you haven’t noticed I apologize, it’s a once you see, you can’t unsee type of thing.
That said, can I just state how sick I am of the neon/bright pink and light blue colors featured prominently in so many games these days. It’s like the 80s decided to vomit up the worst parts of the color palette of that decade into the graphial elements in new games(be it UI or part of spell colors and such). And there is no way it is «for visibility».
Seriously. Next time there is an expo, be it pc/playstation/xbox and they run through several new/upcoming games, take notice of how many games feature them. If you haven’t noticed I apologize, it’s a once you see, you can’t unsee type of thing.
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Loser Nirgon
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Utnayan
F16 - Having fun in Iran
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It's the Zoomer DEI developer take on what they think will help get Gen X to buy more of their games and the way they think the 80's were. Of course, this after they tanked their own companies with DEI bullshit that ruined their games in the first place.
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Utnayan
F16 - Having fun in Iran
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Utnayan
F16 - Having fun in Iran
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I am convinced Sony's live service games are money laundering fronts for the Yakuza.
Concord - Disaster - $400 Million
Bungie Acquisition - Disaster - $3.6 Billion Dollars
Destiny 2 after acquisition - Disaster
Marathon - disaster - $250 Million
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Concord - Disaster - $400 Million
Bungie Acquisition - Disaster - $3.6 Billion Dollars
Destiny 2 after acquisition - Disaster
Marathon - disaster - $250 Million
Prove me wrong
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