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Marathon Releases March 5 '26 - $39.99
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Guntherlibby
Member
Been playing this game for a while.
This game FUCKS.
This game FUCKS.
Luipadre
Member
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
My threads are not delivering lately. I lost my mojo.I'm happy to letMen_in_Boxes handle that, man lives to create Marathon threads.
CowboyLou
Member
I'm a Destiny hater but this game is making me let all of that go.
Arsic
Loves his juicy stink trail scent
Read my spoiler in there if you didn't.
nikos
Member
I've played the game, and I'm somewhat looking forward to it, but I don't like a lot of what I saw in the Runner Shells video.
It's as if they've taken the most annoying abilities from other games and put them all in one.
Most of those abilities seem to encourage avoiding combat instead of engaging in it, which kind of makes sense because the movement and combat felt very stiff in earlier builds. Hopefully things have improved.
It's as if they've taken the most annoying abilities from other games and put them all in one.
Most of those abilities seem to encourage avoiding combat instead of engaging in it, which kind of makes sense because the movement and combat felt very stiff in earlier builds. Hopefully things have improved.
Casisalive
Banned
I think Marathon will steal more of the COD Battlefield fan base.
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NickFire
Member
They should not be calling themselves the creators of Halo. I doubt they even have many competent people left who helped create the first Destiny.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
Certainly possible. I tend to think Marathon will attract more of the nerd gamers whereas CoD & Battlefield hits more of the casual broski audience. I think they'll pull from ARC a bit but also the Valorant & Siege audience. Those competitive shooters seem a bit more hardcore than CoD and BF. It'll be fun to watch.
MiguelItUp
Member
Much like Back 4 Blood shouldn't have called themselves the creators of Left 4 Dead, lol. It's just good "positive" marketing.
CowboyLou
Member
We'll have to see how things play out in practice but to me the abilities seem to encourage a lot of repositioning and disengagement via mobility and stealth, but given how tight the points of interest are on the maps, I think they'll be constant pressure from players and UESC alike that keeps things dynamic and keep combat encounters frequent. I wasn't in the latest tests but in the earlier ones, movement and gunplay felt like a cross between the typical Bungie style and a stiffer, more tactical feel. It was interesting and I'm not sure I fully got to grips with it, but I did like it. I'm sure people in the more recent tests can speak to it further.
BurningNad
Member
Nah the only real competition at this point is Arc and that was $40. Tarkov and whatever else are in the background.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
Get word to Embark before it's too late. They're charging $40 for ARC Raiders like total idiots.
CowboyLou
Member
The two biggest recent multiplayer shooters were Battlefield 6 ($70 USD) and Arc Raiders ($40 USD). People will pay for quality (if they like what's on offer). Of course there's f2p shooters like Rivals at the other end of the spectrum but they're then designed and marketed around that paradigm instead. There's also the cheater factor, much easier to create new burner accounts with f2p, especially undesirable in an extraction shooter that's leaning hardcore.
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CowboyLou
Member
It's a fair point but last I checked there were still a few old-timers working there, might even be someone who worked on the original Marathon trilogy somewhere (but take with a grain of salt since I can't recall the name or my source). Technically Jason Jones is still there as "chief creative officer" but I have no idea what he's been up to for the last decade or so. He's a tough one to figure out. I think the industry kinda burned him out somewhere around the PS360 gen with increasing costs/expectations/hype but that's a whole separate conversation. But yeah marketing games with "from the creators of something you loved twenty years ago" is dumb 99% of the time, but what can you do.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
When the human brain forms a belief ("Live Service is run by F2P") it is astonishing at how efficiently it throws out evidence to the contrary.
BurningNad
Member
Topic posted! This vid def needs more attention.
Johnny Concrete
Member
Damn.
They are cooking.
They are cooking.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
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Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Why do you think this?
Varteras
Member
Lol that look on the drone's face. "WTF DUDE?!"
BurningNad
Member
For one, I don't think they would have turned it around as they apparently are. It might have been lost with a smaller dev team.
I love it lol
Battlefield is not the same but ARC Raiders & Helldivers are good examples but they're more dark & gritty vs the bright colorful games like this that are mostly targeted at the Free to Play market.
This looks more like the free to play games that's all I was saying.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
ARC Raiders feels like they have a really strong foundation but they didn't develope the top yet.
The end game is weak (will get better)
The loot is generic (will get better)
The proxy chat is undercooked (will get better)
Not sure if it was Patrick Soderland or not, but someone at Embark said they didn't have an extensive roadmap lined up because they wanted to see what people liked about the game before they built the rest. That does show. They left a lot of threads open.
Marathon looks a lot more intricate and finished. Designing and balancing the game around those Runners looks like it took a ton of work. They have 24 weapons with 400 mods. They have a legit end game. The production values are starting to pop.
ARC Raiders will eventually get there, but I suspect it's going to take a year or two to match Marathon in terms of features.
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Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
Luipadre
Member
I mean even concord devs said the same thing so its a nothingburger
They making a GaaS game here, ofc they planning to support it for years as of now
ChorizoPicozo
Member
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
Even
ChorizoPicozo
is on board!
ChorizoPicozo
is on board!
ChorizoPicozo
Member
Uh?Even
I just posted a video from that dude for the people interested (I don't even know what the video says).
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
That's the most positive Marathon post I've ever seen from you.Uh?
I just posted a video from that dude for the people interested (I don't even know what the video says).
MiguelItUp
Member
Yeah, but hey, providing one is still a good sign these days, especially if it's before release. Now, the quality of that roadmap....I mean even concord devs said the same thing so its a nothingburger
They making a GaaS game here, ofc they planning to support it for years as of now
clarky
Gold Member
Bright and colourful games should be free, dark gritty games its ok to charge money for. Gotcha.
Lol no but it looks like it's trying to get the attention of the kids that play these bright colorful free to play games
clarky
Gold Member
The market leaders in this sub genre all charge money.
Price of entry is important, making a ftp extraction shooter is just asking for trouble.
Not saying it solves the issue of cheating but its a least another hurdle for the cunts.
This is also as hardcore as console shooters can get, Its not aimed at kids, teenagers and up.
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clarky
Gold Member
Think I might go with:
Marathon |OT| Gamings next Halo moment (tm)
Seriously, will probably go with Escape will make me god unless
Men_in_Boxes
provides me with another gem before launch.
Arsic
Loves his juicy stink trail scent
Dread It, Run From it, Marathon Still ArrivesThink I might go with:
Marathon |OT| Gamings next Halo moment (tm)
Seriously, will probably go with Escape will make me god unless
Play on words since the original quote is "Destiny still arrives."
clarky
Gold Member
I have the OT almost ready, I like it lol. Had to pass the time in some way whilst stuck where I am atm.
Marathon OT : DOA? You will be.
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ViciousAgenda
Member
Watched the latest dev vid. Feels like people are hating on it because they feel like they should.
clarky
Gold Member
The original reveal was handled in the worst possible manner. Should have been a closed alpha with no fanfare. It was clearly nowhere near ready for prime time.
On the other hand was probably also the best thing that could have happened to the game ironically.
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StreetsofBeige
Member
I think the reason they opened it up (from what I remember people saying) is that if the purely did a closed alpha with streamers or select gamers they'd eventually would leak out it's crap.
But if they open it up to the general public who'd be less critical, they were betting masses of people trying it out and talking about it might get enough positive vibes spread on the net to counter closed alpha gamers.
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clarky
Gold Member
It was closed (I didn't get in) but they lifted the NDA. Which I never got in the first place. Why have this big reveal then NDA the playtest shortly afterwards? Made zero sense.
Think they where under huge pressure from Sony and internally to get something out of the door. Only because it was such a disaster did it get the much needed delay.
Also without the NDA being lifted maybe Antireel wouldn't have noticed her decals and they could have ended up in the final product, then the shit would have really hit the fan.
Like I said, best thing that happened to the game.
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EDMIX
Writes a lot, says very little
Sure but, that dev isn't Bungie either...I mean even concord devs said the same thing so its a nothingburger
They making a GaaS game here, ofc they planning to support it for years as of now
