Marathon 2025 - Bungie's new AAAA Extraction shooter

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I still think the visuals wouldve made a lot more sense if everything already on the planet were industrial and functional and everything arriving on the abandoned planet looked like it does now. Because there’s three human factions we are seeing: the UESC, the Corporations (the players), and the abandoned outposts. Currently all three are visually indistinguishable from each other.
 
Soggy Floppa said:
The original trailers were full of trannies in your face, post stolen art debacle and reboot they have purposely not put any of that in the trailers. That's not to say it isn't there, they just know it won't sell.
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I still wonder if stolen art debacle is mainly the result of outsourcing to third world shitholes. I've seen plenty of examples where some jeet cuts corners and outright steals shit "I maded it" style. They had over a 1000 employees at some point, which is fucking insane. And I don't think that even counts outsourcing contracts.
This is one of the reasons AAA deserves to die, the bloat is unsustainable. Even after firing a bunch of people there's likely still a ton of dead weight.
Frightened Rabbit said:
Nigga, this is the Doom 2016 treatment.
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In what world, nigga?
While Doom'16 is different from its pixelated predecessor, it follows its spirit and does something cool with the IP. It's a fun, unapologetically masculine shooter. While Marathon is some tranny shit.
 

I already posted this earlier, but Rook looks like he isn't inherently friendly with NPCs. He has an ability that makes them temporarily friendly
 
Astro Galactic Megalul said:
I still wonder if stolen art debacle is mainly the result of outsourcing to third world shitholes. I've seen plenty of examples where some jeet cuts corners and outright steals shit "I maded it" style. They had over a 1000 employees at some point, which is fucking insane. And I don't think that even counts outsourcing contracts.
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If you know even a bit about the pop culture or art that Bungie likes so much you will see that them stealing art is a very common occurrence across Destiny 2. There were the times that fanart was stolen and used directly that they blamed on outsourcing, but a lot of their art is ripped wholesale. Look at this for example:
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(this one could be "inspired" by this guy, or it could be them re-using the old Destiny 1 concept art, but given the example above, you decide)

I also have a hunch they were inspired by Jean-Pierre Ugarte's art for a lot of the Vex and Black Garden stuff though its not extremely blatant.

This is where they got Hawkmoon from, I'm unfamiliar with these fantasy books but they sound like Bungie was quite inspired by them.

Most of their story ideas are just direct concepts like this, which sure that's inspiration, but it hints towards the way they work and why wholesale stealing art seems to happen a lot with them.
 
Rodeo Roadrunner said:
Meaningless. Why should I trust Bungie when the disastrous state of pvp in Destiny has been apparent for years? Cheating is completely rampant in the game in both pve and pvp, so much so that what I would consider 'soft' cheating is completely normalized in raiding circles (network manipulation, weapon swap glitches and exploits). Bungie could have fixed these issues for years, but never did. Now I am supposed to believe that they magically are fixing them for their new game? Destiny players asked for dedicated servers for pvp for ten years and never got them, not Marathon magically gets them? Incredible slap in the face from Bungie. Even worse, I have no faith that they will actually push good updates and evolving content in the game, since they haven't done that for years with Destiny. Again, look at their track record. Why would Bungie magically turn it around and make good decisions here, when they haven't made good decisions for many years?
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I hope with everything that they deliver on every promise with Marathon just so Destiny players can seethe for all eternity.
 
Burgundy Brandy said:
I love cross but he really needs to shut his mouth and let his brain think before saying shit like this. Last time someone said something like this the game failed to meet sales expectations. Oh and guess who said that, None other than Patrick Söderlund. Current CEO of Embark and now Executive Chairman of Nexon.
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Cross is fun but he's very much a "I need this game to succeed to make money" guy
 
I described the artstyle to my friend recently who liked it as 'transhumanist cyberpunk Suicide Girl-core' and now he hates it, lol.
 
Toxic BRAAAAP Mask said:
I described the artstyle to my friend recently who liked it as 'transhumanist cyberpunk Suicide Girl-core' and now he hates it, lol.
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The runners themselves resemble consumer products. The more human parts of them look like some kind of gender-fluid mutt, and I think that’s part of the horror.

You’re a person without a body, inhabiting a mass-produced, soulless nightmare built for someone else’s profit.

It's the /pol/ merimutt dying for israel meme in space.
 
4090 Chad said:
Have the Bungie devs said anything pro-woke and gay during this lead up to launch or tried to champion DEI and say how it was a positive influence in their game? Is there a Sweet Baby connection?
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Bungie is the most leftist political game developer around. You may be interested in my post here in this thread about some of their biggest disasters with regards to politics and virtue signaling. Doesn't even cover a tenth of it.
Soggy Floppa said:
This is where they got Hawkmoon from, I'm unfamiliar with these fantasy books but they sound like Bungie was quite inspired by them.
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Elric of Melnibone is one of the more influential fantasy characters/series ever written. Endlessly ripped off and copied, none as good as the original. A sort of dark version of Conan.
Professor Donger said:
Cross is fun but he's very much a "I need this game to succeed to make money" guy
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Nah, he is already a variety streamer. He plays Warframe on stream a bunch, plays other random games, and has been mostly playing Deadlock as far as I am aware.
 
Burgundy Brandy said:
Destiny isn't even F2P, it's free to taste because 90% of the cool shit is locked behind paid dlcs
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That genuinely fucked with me when I tried out Destiny 2. As a preface, I don't play MMOs and modern games with battlepasses and stuff like that so this was an entirely new experience on every level.

First day, came in knowing literally nothing. Did the tutorial, was very bored. Got into the free roam world and only found one NPC with what looked like randomly generated generic objectives. Traveled to the main Hub area and failed to understand LITERALLY ANYTHING, because Destiny 2's menus were just overload for me and I couldn't really absorb what I was looking at. Logged off with a really bad first impression, especially disappointed with the gunplay which I had been told is the best part of Destiny.

Gave it another go: On the second day I logged in and was dropped without warning onto an ice planet. I thought for a minute my first session must have bugged out and randomly started me halfway through the story, and so  THIS must be the story starting from the beginning - but no, it was a fucking bait and switch that hit me with a full-screen advertisement to pay for this expansion. The same advert popped up again every time I tried to speak to an NPC at what I'm assuming is that ice planet's hub area.

That immediately ejected me from wanting to go any further. I talked to a friend who's a huge Destiny Stan about the weird-ass experiences I had, the "story bug", and how it seemed like most of the game is missing. Shocked when told that's how the game is. I just went back to playing boomyshoots tbh.
 
Rodeo Roadrunner said:
Bungie is the most leftist political game developer around. You may be interested in my post here in this thread about some of their biggest disasters with regards to politics and virtue signaling. Doesn't even cover a tenth of it.

Elric of Melnibone is one of the more influential fantasy characters/series ever written. Endlessly ripped off and copied, none as good as the original. A sort of dark version of Conan.

Nah, he is already a variety streamer. He plays Warframe on stream a bunch, plays other random games, and has been mostly playing Deadlock as far as I am aware.
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If I could give you a Semper Fidelis I would.
Holy shit that was enlightening.
 
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They should just go with it. You are 3d printed corporate property crack heads sent to loot copper from detroit and fight inner city gangs. Now that sounds fun to play.
 
xXEddie.DurellXx said:
They should just go with it. You are 3d printed corporate property crack heads sent to loot copper from detroit and fight inner city gangs. Now that sounds fun to play.
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That's pretty much what the story is, your on a colony that fell apart because of AI shenanigans, and you're embodying a shell that holds your brain as you do work for different corpos.
 
I guess we will see how well the game and its themes are laid out tommarow. I am looking foward to seeing it giving id used to like the pvp in destiny but gave up on it due to bungos shenanigans.
 
xXEddie.DurellXx said:
I guess we will see how well the game and its themes are laid out tommarow. I am looking foward to seeing it giving id used to like the pvp in destiny but gave up on it due to bungos shenanigans.
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Yeah that's one of two reasons I think the game will at least be a tentative success. Bungie's gunplay is really good and Sony is literally breathing down their neck so Bungie is probably a bit panicked
 
Astro Galactic Megalul said:
I still wonder if stolen art debacle is mainly the result of outsourcing to third world shitholes.
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Given Bungie's history of plagiarism (as well as the general arrogance of AAA studios) I think it was a simple case of easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

Especially since it was confirmed some of the Destiny staff were following the art collective they stole from before they got caught.
 
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