Makes sense though, everyone immediatly clocked it as tranny art. Troons love multi colored cyberslop with clashing colors
It depends what avenue they wanted to take. They could probably easily achieve a settlement given the evidence and the fact Bungie themselves admitted to stealing the art, so it would really only be a question of if they could crowdfund enough money to pay for legal representation and if the settlement amount would be greater than what they spent to get it.
Even if you can call it "Twitter troonslop", Antireal at the very least still had its own thing going. You can see that very clearly exemplified in videos such as these from Billain (who is not a troon) as a collaborator, even if the first one is itself more of a homage to existing media (Blame).
So this is why the art style, even separated from the game itself, looks like shit. I had this thought that if the game wasn't branded as Marathon the art style would be fine, but after looking at more of the game and thinking about it longer the style still looked like shit and just didn't mesh well. Just look at the environments being hyper-sterile and the shitty overdesigned "punk" characters, they do not match at all.
I appreciate you trying to explain that Antireal is an art collective or whatever and not everything is made by a single tranny, but because the art was stolen by a tranny people here are just gonna blow it off and not care because most of the users on this site are histrionic reactionary retards that can't comprehend that this is a bad thing no matter who it happened to.
Please don't get me wrong here. the reason I spoke about it in that way because the way Marathon used the art by just picking the images off online by itself (as if just picking anything interesting off twitter and pinterest), and therefore it didn't go through the process that you both described - where the artist could designed the whole thing from the ground up like Wipeout, this was the argument that I made, if they wanted to use that style so much, it'd be better if they'd hire him.
I've also been proven right that this literally has nothing to do with Marathon at all besides being a familiar IP that Bungie still owns that they can milk dry using its name. Although I'm not sure how many actual Marathon fans this will convince, if I wanted a new Marathon game, (I don't) I would want it to be a singleplayer FPS with emphasis on large/cryptic level design, and strong storytelling. Not a cut/paste extraction shooter. I don't want to dunk on @ScurvyRat too hard since I think his heart is in the right place when he went through my first post; but it's okay to be a fan of something and still be critical of it. I would say that's a much more healthy way to have a relationship with media. As a Marathon fan, I would love for a new game in the series to be good, but I've been given no evidence so far that this will be anything other than a tirefire that will be forgotten and unlisted from the big game stores within a month of it releasing.
Destiny 1 is actually copying phantasy star online or universe, but as a first person shooter.
When they first announced a new marathon game I was expecting something along the lines of a doom(2016) revival for it, but that takes actually enjoying the game that you're trying to revive and not being a hollowed out husk that exists to only make infinite live service garbage for corporations.
Same, I thought maybe some kind of night dive treatment at the very least. Why is everything so gay colored?
It would just be easier to get the tranny behind the alley and hand him 10k for his assets and put him in the credits, I don't think he'd be against it considering how soft he was on his callout post.
if Destiny Servers completely shut down as a result of this, I may finally be able to go fully single-player games only, Destiny is the only GaaS game i play at the moment, and even I am losing my patience with it
That would actually be effort and they'd need to pay the troon his fair share; something which Bungie seems to be allergic to these days.
Considering some people are still seething(behind a poorly hidden veil of "irony" of course, as you do) now that this game was exposed for the soulless husk that it is(when me and others called it out for what it was the moment we saw it) makes this absolute trashfire all the better. I was spot on when I said this whole thing was just some troon copying it's favorite cyberslop aesthetics aimlessly(and then another troon copied that troon).
At this point, I think modern day Bungie would actually do a worse job than 343i if they had rights to Halo. At least 343i has some sort of an autistic vision for the universe, it's not a good vision mind you but at least someone gives enough of a shit to write all these books and comics nobody reads. Nu-Bungie Halo would just be Maratroon all over again, GaaS POS like Halo Infinite's multiplayer client but somehow worse.
I would describe my creation of this thread and my thoughts among the first few weeks as "Reserved but optimistic"
not really, radical heights was a hail mary from a dying studio, and from some of the feedback back then some people actually enjoyed it - it was just wholly unfinished and the studio died before gaining a sustainable foothold.
tortanic had hype, which made it's implosion the spectacle it was.
