Marathon 2025 - Bungie's new AAAA Extraction shooter

[Pod 042]

You arent wrong, but Marathon isn't living up as an extraction shooter.

There are also only 4 maps, so the game is neither deep nor wide in terms of progression.

Not about (you) but I thought you would appreciate it.

Marathon was so bad it killed destiny lmao, I wonder what the next fag cope will be?

The next cope has already started, it just depends on the camp you are in
Marathon camp:
"Now that Bungie has killed destiny, they can put all their focus on Marathon and making it the game it should have always been!".

Destiny camp:
"Now that we have 80,000 petition signatures, Bungie and Sony will have to save D2 and work on D3. Let's do a save destiny day on June 6th where we all log in and play the game!"
Reality is neither side is going to get what they want. Destiny 2 going into MM was just another finger on the monkey's paw curling.

 

[big pauper]

Something I learned from playing lots of MMORPGs when I was younger (D2 and WOW especially) is that people just don't know how to play cooperative video games anymore. They don't pay attention, they don't read guides, they don't watch video walkthroughs, they don't read raid chat. They will stand in the fire and then get mad at you for telling them not to.

It was not this bad even ten years ago and I don't know WTF happened. There's a whole new generation of normie gamers playing MMOs whose ideal game is one where you pay no attention and watch TikTok in the background but can just press some buttons and still win. The problem is they're in your raid group getting pissy because that's not how any remotely team-focused game works and they want you to rewrite reality for them.

nah, this was totally normal back when i played wow in like 2010. When it was at it's peak popularity i would probably wager like 50% of the players legitimately did not want to and never intended to do raids, they just wanted to dungeons and quests forever, but that was the end game so people were pushed into it. they kept lowering the bar for what a raid was during TBC and WOTLK because people weren't able to reach the bar. It kind of made sense that it took too much effort to gather 40 competant players to do a raid which is why they switched to 10/25 man raids and gave out raid gear doing dungeons. They basically just pandered to people who had no intention of actually engaging with the game beyond the dopamine treadmill.

you would pretty regularly run into people who were like level 60+ that really did not know how their class worked. hunters with spirit/int gear, spellpower shamans, people who literally never respecced their character from their initial "oh that looks cool" leveling talent tree into a specific character build and have no concept of such a thing, who get pissy with you when you ask them why they're doing less dps than the healer.

 

[Tanner Glass]

4 billion dollars for 2 different franchises that are all going to have their service cut possibly within weeks if not months of each other. I cant think of anything similar to this.

Even though Destiny 2 is a played out dead game, at least it had a proven audience. I would of killed Marathon for Destiny and tried to do something to lure back those players, but they are taking the gamble on Marathon, I don't think it's going to pay out.

Blizzard being bought by Activision, ABK being bought by MS, Bethesda, and Rareware were all huge studios that were bought and then just completely turned to dogshit. Which it to say nothing of smaller studios on the same track.

It's really common by now so it's not surprising that Bungie is awful, considering they were last good ~15-20 years ago.