Let's Sperg Marathon 2025 - Bungie's new AAAA Extraction shooter

[Caddo Cobgang]

If Marathon has to exist at all it should have been a $20 expansion for Destiny 2 at most. Charging (estimated) $40 for one game mode and a handful of maps is insane.

I agree, I think charging for it will make it end up like Concord, people could already play Overwatch and other GaaS slop for free, charging money for anything thats multiplayer-only is retarded

 

[Snekposter]

I'm not saying it is, but it's the example people always give to justify charging money for a live service game while conveniently ignoring all the other games that did the same and flopped completely.

If Marathon has to exist at all it should have been a $20 expansion for Destiny 2 at most. Charging (estimated) $40 for one game mode and a handful of maps is insane.

Yeah, but Helldivers is actually fun.

After all, the only baddies are those who hate liberty, so bugs and communist robots.

REMEMBER MALEVELON!

I thought Concord was in development for much longer than Marathon was, which would make sense why so much money fell into it.

I've long since given up any hopes of a realistic budget for a triple-A game, or something trying to be.

 

[Oliver Onions]

Yeah, but Helldivers is actually fun.

I want to play it but there's simply no way I'm paying that much for something I know I won't stick with. If they ever add a proper single player campaign I'll pick it up.

 

[Snekposter]

I want to play it but there's simply no way I'm paying that much for something I know I won't stick with. If they ever add a proper single player campaign I'll pick it up.

For me its the nProtect GameGuard they're rocking as an anti-cheat. Kernel-level, all but impossible to remove, and completely useless in the Maple Story days and is probably even more useless now.

 

[Oliver Onions]

For me its the nProtect GameGuard they're rocking as an anti-cheat. Kernel-level, all but impossible to remove

I assume this only affects PC? I'd be on console like the swine I am.

 

[Jace on ice]

It's crazy how Korean and Japanese coom games have like a billion dollars in revenue and Sony and Microsoft still don't understand that in order to sell skins they have to be nice to look at.

 

[Croaking Spider]

You miss Lost Planet too, huh?

So much. I'm a sucker for glowing weak points and giant bugs, and even though I thought 2 mostly sucked the boss fights were incredible.

I'm still mad about Lost Planet. I will forever remain mad about Lost Planet. As my years advance and I enter the sunset of my life, I will bitterly look back and curse Capcom for what they did to Lost Planet. On my deathbed, surrounded by my loved ones in my final throes of life, I will cry out "You deserved better Lost Planet", as I shuffle out of my mortal coil and into the eternal ether. As I stand before Saint Peter and the pearly gates, he will ask, "Spider, are you still mad about Lost Planet?", to which I shall admit, "Yes Peter, I am". Even upon the heat death of the universe and the collapsing of everything into a single point of nothing, my hatred of Capcom for what they did to Lost Planet will permeate eternally. At the end of time, a stone tablet carved in a universal language by the hands of the cosmos itself will be suspended in the center of the galaxy, forever decrying Capcom as niggers for what they did to Lost Planet.

Let em rip boys, give em to me.


One might say I'm a bit salty about Lost Planet. LP2 was one of the best co-op experiences I've had with the boys. The visual quality still holds up surprisingly well and it's a game from a time when Capcom games still had their signature charm. Helldivers recaptures some of that magic for me, but it's not the same as sucking down Tang and turning your support items into massive laser cannons powered by friendship. Capcom miraculously hasn't managed to fuck up Monster Hunter (yet), but I'm just waiting for it.

As for Marathon, I don't really have much interest in another extraction shooter. I don't care much for the color pallet and I don't really know who it's supposed to appeal to. The original Marathon games were neat shooters for the time that were chock-full of autistic lore. It's a shame that the series never really got traction, and Halo being as big as it was kind of made continuing Marathon as a series a moot point. I don't see this game grabbing the interest of the original fans, seeing as how the people who played Marathon on their Mac when it first came out are in their prostate check phase of their lives, and extraction shooters seem to be primarily more popular among the younger crowd. Some of us can't compete with zoomers with a bottomless adderall prescription at FPS games anymore, sadly.

 

[Oliver Onions]

LP2 was one of the best co-op experiences I've had with the boys.

I made the mistake of playing it solo and ended up breaking my PS3 controller over the train boss. My favourite co-op experience of that generation is still Resistance 2, but if I had a team to play Lost Planet 2 with I think it would have been great. I yearn to cool the engines and send artillery shells topside.

 

[Snekposter]

I assume this only affects PC? I'd be on console like the swine I am.

Yeah, you'd be lucky there.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Come on man, that's what Concord was, and you really don't think Bungie is capable of blowing at least that?

I imagine it's possible, but like the claim about the lack of content, I've never seen it sourced anywhere, and seems to be "I just made it up".

I don't really know who it's supposed to appeal to.

The modern audience. Same as Suicide Squad, Concord, etc.

 

[dltzk]

Helldivers is nothing like an Extraction shooter, Marathon will probably be more akin to Tarkov or CoD DMZ, what upsets me the most is that they basically dumped Destiny for a fucking Extraction Shooter of all things, if it were just a normal FPS everyone would have been happy but no these faggot developers insist on this weird one-life shit like with Battle Royale games, you could have easily made a Halo and CoD competitor and if you played your cards right you would still have a happy playerbase in Marathon and Destiny 2, I don't see why Bungie thinks its going to make them money

I think what they are trying to do is popularize the extraction shooter genre with console players, kinda like how destiny was supposed to popularize the MMO genre with them. So it could work. But realistically I don't think that’s gonna work, as this is the company that’s made 2 notoriously predatory video games in the last decade. Bungie doesn’t have the trust that they did back in 2014, they might as well just be a joke now. If this game didn’t cost 40 bucks with a 10 dollar battle pass, it might be ok. But since it has all of these things going for it, no one wants to support it!

 

[WULULULULU]

Resistance 2

Resistance 2 would have been a good game, if it kept the ring menu weapon system instead of the gay ass 2-weapon slot system.

 

[TerranTony98]

I'm willing to try Marathon. I think that alone puts it above Concord, but this is how low the bar has dropped for AAA gaming.

 

[Meat Lord]

Concord 2 baybee let's go!

Someone has to ask, just what is their plan when it does become concord 2?
Does sony shutter the studio, or sell it off for pennies?
With the video is saw from shillup, i could see firsthand that it's not even going to last a couple of years.

The old logo had some problems with copyright, I know it was ALL over the old halo games, but that has mostly been scrubbed.

What's the story behind the copyright anyway?

 

[Asian tech support]

Someone has to ask, just what is their plan when it does become concord 2?
Does sony shutter the studio, or sell it off for pennies?

Just like how most of Firewalk was absorbed into other SIE subsidiaries, they'll shuffle the existing Bungo employees into other inflated and crippled studios. Sony is a daycare for these freaks.

 

[cybertoaster]

This explains so much, because my favourite robot design reminds me of that one robot geisha that appears right at the start then nothing as cool happens ever again.

The design was a ripoff from the 2nd GITS movie but made more "oriental".

 

[Spaced Outside Cargo]

I'm willing to try Marathon. I think that alone puts it above Concord, but this is how low the bar has dropped for AAA gaming.

But are you willing to spend $40 to try it?
That's like two(2) burgers from Five Guys Burgers and Fries or like 30 beers.
Are you really that confident that Marathon 2025 will be more enjoyable than a burger from Five Guys and a large quantity of beers?

 

[RandomGibberish]

It‘s called Marathon because the second you see the game you do a marathon to get away from it as far as possible.

 

[TerranTony98]

But are you willing to spend $40 to try it?
That's like two(2) burgers from Five Guys Burgers and Fries or like 30 beers.
Are you really that confident that Marathon 2025 will be more enjoyable than a burger from Five Guys and a large quantity of beers?

I've signed up for the alpha so maybe I'll try it for free

 

[Snekposter]

I imagine it's possible, but like the claim about the lack of content, I've never seen it sourced anywhere, and seems to be "I just made it up".

Right, because a game like Concord with an hour-long credits video and half a decade in development time was cheap to make. Don't forget Forspoken, AssCreed SHEEEIT, etc.