Marathon 2025 - Bungie's new AAAA Extraction shooter

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Zenos Yae Viator said:
all this is very high production, then you pop into your Runner which has the most garish shit imaginable and giant dick sucking lips doing Blue Steel at all times.
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they even went through the trouble of trying to tie-in to the old marathon lore.
FOR A FUCKING EXTRACTION SHOOTERSLOP GAME.

i feel for the old marathon players that cared about the lore, then again some might be cucks and enjoy seeing it being raped in front of them so there's that...
 
StacticShock said:
they even went through the trouble of trying to tie-in to the old marathon lore.
FOR A FUCKING EXTRACTION SHOOTERSLOP GAME.

i feel for the old marathon players that cared about the lore, then again some might be cucks and enjoy seeing it being raped in front of them so there's that...
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The OG Marathon games could be described as a DOOM clone or in your own words boomer shooterslop. The Marathon story so far has been told entirely through printed text, no cutscenes, no voice acting, no environmental story telling, You either stopped playing the game and read paragraphs of disjointed story or you missed it entirely.

Yet people are still discussing the lore 30 years after he fact. How people think extraction shooter cant possible improve upon this is beyond me. I think a lot of people trash talking this shit never played Colony ship for sale, cheap! They've come a long way.

I'm hopeful this game wont suck cock, but Bungie is making it after all. We will see in a couple more hours. I'm really hoping this shit is "Escape from Halo: Combat Evovled" despite the racially ambiguous and queer looking designs.
 
creaturestorm said:
Yet people are still discussing the lore 30 years after he fact. How people think extraction shooter cant possible improve upon this is beyond me. I think a lot of people trash talking this shit never played Colony ship for sale, cheap! They've come a long way.
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Yeah Bungie could literally copy the grimoire/lore tab system from Destiny and be able to tell the story, but it seems like they're going to do a little more than that from what's been explained but again, it's Bungie so we'll see.

Even Tarkov tells its story through tabs and shit, so does Arc Raiders with events as well.

Hunt Showdown had the bestiary to tell stories as well so it's not impossible for an extraction shooter to explain shit.

FROMSOFT doesn't explain shit in their games and people automatically love looking for lore on random bumfuck items
 
Professor Donger said:
FROMSOFT doesn't explain shit in their games and people automatically love looking for lore on random bumfuck items
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Yes they do, this notion needs to die.
You are told explicitly the backstory the present events the dynasty and the goals for you and others
To say nothing of Elden Ring where it's even more fleshed out
 
Zenos Yae Viator said:
Yes they do, this notion needs to die.
You are told explicitly the backstory the present events the dynasty and the goals for you and others
To say nothing of Elden Ring where it's even more fleshed out
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What I mean by it is the basic story is laid out for you.

Fire created life, Gwyn didn't want the age of fire to end, you're the chosen one to continue the age of fire.

But other than that and things tied to it, you have to go searching for the overall history of the world as you play.

There is nothing wrong with that, it's why I fell in love with dark souls. But the game doesn't spell every single thing out for you, you have to search and read yourself sometimes. Piece things together and so on.

Elden Ring definitely is more clear on shit than other FROMSOFT games though

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Marathon is currently sitting at 37k for it's server slam so far

Edit: it's jumped to 60k
 
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ScurvyRat said:
90%
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I think again it depends on the gameplay.

Arc Raiders had its play test peak with 180k players and then it dropped to about 100k by the time it ended.

If my math isn't wrong that's a 44 percent reduction over the weekend.

So if the beta is actually fun and doesn't run like dog shit I can see it hitting similar numbers
 
Reading the steam forums, looks like the Russian playerbase is having a delightful time figuring out how to bypass a region block. And the general sentiment seems to be "lackluster"
 
Zenos Yae Viator said:
Yes they do, this notion needs to die.
You are told explicitly the backstory the present events the dynasty and the goals for you and others
To say nothing of Elden Ring where it's even more fleshed out
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FROM gives you just enough exposition and back story to create more questions than answers, which is why there is a small industry on youtube that deals with explaining the plot to people.

Cornlord88 said:
Reading the steam forums, looks like the Russian playerbase is having a delightful time figuring out how to bypass a region block. And the general sentiment seems to be "lackluster"
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So far I’m not having a good time.

The AI are time wasting bullet sponges that offer no loot. It’s hard to make sense of what I’m looting, the sci-fi aesthetic is not intuitive, and there are a million things to pick up, but I lack bag space. To make matters worse Ammo and Meds have been scarce in the few matchs I played, forcing me to drag that stuff into the match with me further limiting what I can potentially haul out.

No one’s in comms, no one’s working as a team, except for the people I keep bumping into. The TTK is way too quick, but maybe I’m just getting team shot. The first person to throw the punch wins the fight, so it seems. Objectives are not clear enough either.

Maybe these are just new solo player problems, but it’s not as accessible as I was hoping it would be. I'm going to play it through out th e weekend and see if my mind changes. One thing is for sure, the menu's are fucking trash.
 
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creaturestorm said:
So far I’m not having a good time.

The AI are time wasting bullet sponges that offer no loot. It’s hard to make sense of what I’m looting, the sci-fi aesthetic is not intuitive, and there are a million things to pick up, but I lack bag space. To make matters worse Ammo and Meds have been scarce in the few matchs I played, forcing me to drag that stuff into the match with me further limiting what I can potentially haul out.

No one’s in comms, no one’s working as a team, except for the people I keep bumping into. The TTK is way too quick, but maybe I’m just getting team shot. The first person to throw the punch wins the fight, so it seems. Objectives are not clear enough either.

Maybe these are just new solo player problems, but it’s not as accessible as I was hoping it would be. I'm going to play it through out th e weekend and see if my mind changes. One thing is for sure, the menu's are fucking trash.
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You can play solo and get matched with other solos, but its not balanced very well around it.
 
creaturestorm said:
The OG Marathon games could be described as a DOOM clone or in your own words boomer shooterslop. The Marathon story so far has been told entirely through printed text, no cutscenes, no voice acting, no environmental story telling, You either stopped playing the game and read paragraphs of disjointed story or you missed it entirely.

Yet people are still discussing the lore 30 years after he fact. How people think extraction shooter cant possible improve upon this is beyond me. I think a lot of people trash talking this shit never played Colony ship for sale, cheap! They've come a long way.

I'm hopeful this game wont suck cock, but Bungie is making it after all. We will see in a couple more hours. I'm really hoping this shit is "Escape from Halo: Combat Evovled" despite the racially ambiguous and queer looking designs.
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I wonder is Mandalore to blame for revival of dead franchise? I honestly never heard about it before his videos. Did they look at his couple mil view videos and thought we gotta cash in since our other products are dead?

And then they decided to make a fucking extraction shooter :story:
 
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