Both were skinwalking a beloved franchise, but at least the idea of a KOTOR MMO was something that people could potentially get excited about. Absolutely no fan of Marathon asked for this troonslop extraction shooter, so it's even worse than a tortanic. At least Concord had the excuse of being a nothing-IP that was a stillborn, Marathon has some expectations set up behind it right away.
I think this feels the most like Anthem imo.
like?
When I saw that they hollowed out the UESC Marathon's logo, I knew it was going to be dogshit.
The conditions for a new TORtanic just aren't there anymore. When TOR came out, the AAA industry still routinely made good games and like you said, Bioware had a rock solid reputation at the time. People were a hell of a lot less cynical back then and the hype was real every time a major studio announced a new game.
Vectorheart (and by extent Acid Design which this game abuses as well) is basically only serviceable for posters, box covers (Autechre has some really cool ones, and it works because the music sort of fits the art) and very select pieces of animation (think the intro credits to Ghost in the Shell which i believe inspired at least half of all the kewl 1337 h4x0r wireframe bullshit you see going on today), trying to fashion a game out of overstylized busy art work will quickly lead to your game looking like busy clown vomit.
IMO it's the predecessor to Microsoft's Metro design language, i.e. the best "flat design" ever thought up. The Windows 8 Start page was a huge mistake though, and I think it's because that's the place it was unexpected and therefore illegible.
Not even TORtanic was what 4chan thought it was.
the executives unironically think its ok to do this because they see the success of slop like Fortnite and think they can just make another boring game like that and it will be automatically successful, they don't care about older gamers who want singleplayer games
I do agree.
The problem is that the industry is run by visionless midwits that are all busy chasing the current trend, and this has been the norm for more than a decade now.
The great irony is these very same trannies could probably make a better multiplayer FPS by themselves in their basement while jacking off with one hand with a thousandth of the budget that went into this travesty. Hell, I'm willing to go even further; I bet if you went on itch.io there's probably a lowpoly PS1-aesthetic trooncore Quake knockoff game that mogs this Marathon skinwalker seven days of the week.
depends when. 20 years ago would've been pretty rad, these days you'd probably end up with pronouns and neurodiverse.
to be fair swg was killed when tor came out (or a bit earlier, too lazy to check). NGE didn't help, but considering even fucking everyquest is still going somehow, who knows what the numbers would be today. probably shit considering what happens with star wars overall...
No, not really, I just think it's bullshit a massive corporation can steal someone's work and use it in their alpha with zero credit and then all they have to do is say 'sowee uWu' when they get called out, meanwhile something like the Bloodborne PS1 demake gets DMCA'd by Sony because 'MUH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY'.
If I applied 20 years ago i wouldve ended up like marty odonnel and the other OGs and wouldve gotten canned right before i could cash out my company shares lol
Maybe the Bungie devs actually went to some old folks homes to ask the Marathon fanbase what they would want in a sequel, but they just couldn't decipher the toothless demented ramblings they got in response.
