THEY MADE MARATHON INTO A FRICKING TARKOV CLONE!?
https://www.marathonthegame.com/y3vmGPNRxH3RNTqLkq5PFXZy
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THEY MADE MARATHON INTO A FRICKING TARKOV CLONE!?
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It's fricking over. It has literally never been more over than this. I have given up.
>MetaDoom
>No MetaMarathon
ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS RIP OFF DOOM ETERNAL AND ULTRAKILL
>RIP OFF DOOM ETERNAL
Please commit sudoku in a hurry
Who is this even fricking for? Marathon is a cult classic, it's not a huge brand. The very few people who remember the Marathon trilogy (e.g. me) don't want this, and to the normies and especially the zoomers to whom they're going to have to sell this it might as well be a brand new IP. So why not just make it a brand new IP???
I am actually so fricking mad about this. Greg Kirkpatrick must be spinning in his grave right now (well, except for the fact that he's still alive).
>Who is this even fricking for
Its not about who its for, its about who it makes angry. You are being mocked and insulted and thats the point.
>Who is this even fricking for?
If it gets big enough people who will play it for 500000 hours and not even check out the original game. This is absolutely IP rape.
>not even check out the original game.
Why would anyone want to check out some 90s crap? You grew up playing 2d trash so you're conditioned to like it, but for zoomers who started with much more modern titles this dinosaur shit holds zero appeal.
All valid. None of it is my problem though and I have no immediate comparison other than Apex (which isn't entirely accurate since Titanfall was still relatively close to it).
you don't understand, to the vast, vast majority people this is a new IP, this is not some 90s crap got them, this is a new game called Marathon, not Marathon 3, which is a very smart decision by marketers the last few years, they just want to reuse a name they already have the rights to so they don't gotta go through all that process again
>it's not a huge brand
It's for many years safer to make a "reboot" than launch a new IP
This has to be the reason, but is the industry really this fricking stale that it's impossible to release new AAA games without digging up some dead brand to latch it onto?
People see Marathon and they can get fake gamer cred for remembering it. What the game is like doesn't matter. 90% of the anons ITT pretending they care about the Marathon franchise are fake fans.
the gameplay sucks dick but i find the setting and writing of marathon interesting.
in fact, its what even the fans find interesting. nobody plays marathon for its cutting edge, slick gameplay. they play doom for that.
so to take a game really only well known for its story and writing and then make it into the worse modern subgenre of game...well, even just a casual fan like myself can get triggered by that.
The gameplay isn't nearly Doom-level (and really, only Doom is Doom-level) but I wouldn't say it sucks, either.
>Beat all three games except infinity that shit is isoteric and was made to sell walkthroughs
>apparently a 'fake fan' because I don't want some gay MTX live service bullshit
didn't you do marketing for Diablo Immortal, too?
>except infinity that shit is isoteric and was made to sell walkthroughs
???
The only level from Infinity that is confusing is so confusing you might need a guide is Thing What Kicks.
Are we going to pretend that the whole electric sheep bullshit with killing specific enemies and stepping on random, sometimes invisible, platforms and linedefs to actually progress doesn't exist?
Every Electric Sheep Level can be beaten in less than a minute. Also there is no level where you need to kill specific enemies, the engine literally doesn't support that kind of objective.
>Every Electric Sheep Level can be beaten in less than a minute
-If you know what you're doing, that's not the problem man
The problem is that you're being shot at by invincible enemies while looking for SOMETHING, you're never told what, in an open level where a tiny detail changes every time that you would never notice unless you were told what it was. Who the frick would notice that the 4th or 5th time you played, a tiny platform in the corner of the map in the lava rose?
Oh unless you
>Bought a guide because that was the expectation back in the times before Gamefaqs
Its for people who want an alternative to Tarkov but with more fun gunplay.
>fun gunplay
>homosexual that never played halo or destiny
lmao
Destiny is only fun in theory because of the solid gunplay mechanics
The execution makes it excruciating because of literally everything else that surrounds it.
to generate noise so that the bots can reply to you with actually it looks really good and is a breath of fresh air cant wait to pre-order it right now.
me. i want to play an extraction game that doesn't suck dick but i want to play something other than hunt showdown.
I think this is just another Prey situation. The only reason Arkane's Prey used the Prey title was because Bethesda forced them to use it to protect their intellectual property or something of that sort.
I guess since Marathon is ancient at this point Bungie just was to use the title in whichever way possible so they can deepen their claws on the name.
normalgays are so dumb they will literally think this is how the original game played if they make it like this
This is IP rape. You guys now know what C&Cgays feel.
Do C&C gays fight the urge to nuke the Bungie (or in your case EA) HQ from the face of the earth too?
Ion cannons are more appropriate, but yes.
The announcement of Rivals made everyone want to behead and skullfrick Andrew Wilson (Satan incarnate)
Bungie is cringe. They have never had a single original thought in their heads.
To be fair most people that rep Marathon just larp similarly to mecha fans. They don't actually know the subject matter very well because if they did they lively wouldn't be repping Marathon (or in the case of mecha Armored Core).
>Who is this even fricking for? Marathon is a cult classic, it's not a huge brand
It seems you've forgotten what happened with Titanfall and Apex Legends. Now you will feel the horrible pain I felt years ago.
Do not remind me of this trauma. I will never forgive them. Never.
>So why not just make it a brand new IP???
Because you wouldn't be talking about that. But here you are.
Zoomers are obsessed with anything that has hype attached to it, and there's no better way to generate hype than dangling something from their childhood/teens in front of millennials and boomers.
It's for normalgays who think like this
>New AAA game for old series
>I want to be part of popular thing
>"I've always been a fan of thing I can't wait"
Marketing centers around trying to enrapture people into believing they're part of something bigger by buying a product. Old names that had any success whatsoever are a goldmine for this because people will just believe that this is some prestigious series they want to be part of. No they won't ever play or watch the old things that they actually don't care about. Bungie has to be one of the most dishonest companies it's kind of amazing how their ability to maintain a AAA pipeline just keeps getting them business regardless of the game quality or management
What's wrong with these people? Can't they put the Marathon logo anywhere?
the QR code at 0:07 in the trailer leads to a asiatic website if anyone wants to bother translating it: https://sekiguchigenetics dot jp
put the link in google translate and it auto-translates the whole site
looks cool
>think we're finally going to get a Bungie SP game in a long time
>it's a tarkov clone
You know what, I'm not even mad anymore. No, I'm completely hopeless.
You're own faults for not keeping up with current news. It's been known it's gonna be a Tarkov clone since last year or so. And honestly? That's fine. The story ended pretty conclusively so unless they were gonna reboot or tell some other story then there's nowhere else it could go.
Then don't call it Marathon unless you want people to complain. I'm not even mad at the tau logo being used just the fricking name reused alongside Doom, Prey, Tomb Raider and fricking God of War.
yes im sure you're very mad about a series you never knew existed until the mandaloregaming videos went up.
Shut your fricking mouth, child.
I've named every computer I've owned since High School after one of the three AIs, Leela Durandal and Tycho.
Why do people think bungie wants to create single-player games again? For such companies, sp is for losers, see Blizzard
>oh no not an IP absolutely fricking nobody remembers
good, maybe ppl will actually play it
Marathon was the biggest shit for Mac owners in the 90's. Oh wait you weren't even born yet.
>Marathon was the biggest shit for Mac owners in the 90's
*blocks you're path*
Ambrosia and Spiderweb where my childhood
>Escape Velocity
Holy shit, you just unlocked a faint memory from the deepest reaches of my childhood. I remember playing that shit on my father's old Macintosh.
>90s
>mac
literally nobody cares
>moron thinks because he's too young to have played the original no one has touched it before.
This is fricking Prey all over again.
Dude aren't people who're weirdly into Marathon pushing like 50? It's weird.
The games been free for a while, it had a slight resurgence when it got a source port.
Same, but Prey 2017 was a rare anomaly where the game surpassed the original in different ways.
I felt the same way, wish they had called it something else just on the off chance they decided to do something with the original prey/prey 2 storyline.
I get the feeling this isn't the original people behind the old marathon titles pushing this (think they must've all fricked off by now) but the middle managers who inherited the IP and thought it'd be good to drag it out for a quick buck. Hope I'm wrong.
Don't disagree, wish they had called it something else just so the old series at least had a possible chance in the future.
Well both Prey games were kino in spite of how different they were and the outrage about the name. I hope it's a similar situation.
Prey's situation just made me sad because losing out on Prey 2 AND people bashing Arkane's Prey because of the name despite it being an excellent game made me quite mad for some time.
This one is even worse because this time it isn't a publisher forcing a name onto a developer, it is the developer themselves doing it.
Can you even classify this 'extraction shooter live service' as a fricking GAME? Feels more like 'online expense processing interactive platform'.
Prey (2017) is a good game
30 years and Bungie Software Products Corporation (now Bungie Studios), still can't make a good FPS.
>thinking bungie in 2023 could possibly make anything worthwhile
>Got the chance to give nu-DOOM some competition
>Nope, we Apex now
>TARKOV CLONE
Jesus Christ, that's just cruel, the worst kind of malice.
As long as it's fun and coherent (unlike Destiny), I'm cool with this.
What the frick.
>TARKOV CLONE
It's fricking true
maximum lmao
God I didn't even know I could still get mad about a video game like this. I thought I'd outgrown that shit by the time I turned like 20. But here I am pushing 30 and my day was genuinely fricking ruined by Bungie taking the entrails of their best games and turning them into a fricking Escape from Tarkov clone. Jesus Christ.
I should be mad but I'm laughing
Like holy shit it's so far past satire
STOP IT!
STOP IT NOW!!!!
One can say that the Red in the "Blue" is symbolic of Blue's blood spilled. It's all artsy, you see?
Lmao it's sad that this shit hasn't aged.
Bungie was a fluke they got lucky with Halo, just another hack
By the time they made Halo they were already past their best years and I say this as someone who really likes all the Bungie Halo games
No it wasn't. Bungie Era halo was the text book example of nerds that played games that wanted to make fun games. Destiny had some of that magic taht carried it but numarathon definitely will not, this game will stand on its own heels. So if its shit it most certainly will be on them
X was a fluke is a logic too easy to apply to anything. Too much despair.
>they got lucky with Destiny
Ftfy
Current day bungie is not the same that did Halo
Bungie doesn't even exist anymore. No one is there from the old days. It's just being worn as a skin suit for millenial developers.
You're saying
wasn't part of the original bungie team?
Current day Bungie is a literal skinwalker company. Only Jason Jones is left in there and he's barely present.
They didn't get lucky 3 times in a row. I think it's just been too much staff change or maybe the suits they answer to don't give them much freedom.
Soon...
Take Two owns that one. Sorry.
>now starring that googly eyed black woman that's in everything
Please don't. I actually like Oni and I don't want to see it transformed into another live service schlock. Even if PvP game with Oni mechanics would be pretty rad.
I've been hoping Genshin/valorant shitters will push for the next wave of anime inspired FPS and RPGs. And also hoping they'll have a touch of soul as well even though I'm less optimistic about that part.
>Shogo
take me back..
>PvP Battle Royale
You don't want an Oni reboot.
I fricking hope not. I will not accept anything besides a remaster or a port to Steam.
battle royales and extraction shooters have fricked up gaming so fricking bad
frick the people who hype this shit up
>be faithful Marathon fan for the past 11 months
>103% the game on youtube
>now get a sick remaster
MARATHONBROS WE'RE EATING GOOD
*wiggles*
>they call it Marathon because you play a Runner
Is that really why the old games were called Marathon?
No, it was called Marathon because it takes place on a ship called the Marathon.
No, they were named for the Battle of Marathon (which is also where we get the name for the race from).
The funniest part about all of this is that they will probably make a profit off of the Destiny players alone. Those people are clinically insane. Note even the lowest common denominator but something even lower than that
Things have gone terribly awry. This new chaos is entirely terrible, mindless, obeying rules that I don't comprehend.
You know, Durandal, maybe I'd like the fricking candles to hurry up and burn out so I don't have to live in a world with this kind of shit in it anymore.
is it actually over
You weren't even alive when this series was relevant, why the frick would you care?
The saddest part about this isn't the desecration of Marathon.
It's that no matter how many times this happens, you'll still get morons who beg for other dead franchises to be brought back from the grave, as if anything good could ever come from it.
>sci-fi PvP extraction shooter
nothing is sacred. they will ruin their perfect legacy game series.
whats weird is this genre isnt even popular. its design is inherently flawed and people just straight up dont like it. it appeals to a super small base.
i feel like im missing something. this cant possibly be what they had in mind. if this realy is, what it seems to be, we truely are in the worst timeline imagineable.
https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/slrecap
>Marathon is designed from the start as a PVP-focused game and won’t have a single-player campaign
>won't have single-player
OH NO NO NO
>>won't have single-player
They'd actually need to put in some effort and that's a no-no
What’s even the point of calling it Marathon?
Is it just because they lost the rights to the Halo IP?
Probably just because it fits whatever they're going for better than a new name and because lore.
We been over this already. It really is a good name.
nostalgia grab also this
plus there's always a licking boots moron saying "wow how kind of them from bringing an old game IP¨back!"
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
YES MARATHON homosexualS FEEL THE PAIN US DESTINY FANS HAVE FELT THE LAST 10 YEARS REVEL IN IT
No, not after the Halo fans were left for the carrion and the deviants.
I'm just going to pretend its a different IP, because thats essentially what reboots always are anyway.
So a sci fi cyborg kill bot simulator, ill take it over pretending to be epic russian. I just wish it wasnt yet another game thats terminally online
bungie really only has 3 IPs all the same games too
>Bungie still absolutely refusing to make a narrative focused shooter after Halo
I don't fricking understand. Halo got as popular as it did because the campaigns complimented the multiplayer so well. If it was a multiplayer only game, I truly believe it would not have been nearly as influential as it was. I remember being so hyped for Destiny, and then it just turned out to be a borderlands clone where most of the "story" was divulged through text descriptions on items and shit. I was super excited to see a Marathon trailer today, didn't even know their was a PS showcase. Trailer looked great and then I find out it's extraction PvP shooter only. Why can't these frickers make a campaign to go with that? They've been trying to make a new Marathon ever since leaving Microsoft, part of their agreement when Activision owned them was that they'd be able to make a new Marathon after the Destiny games. All these fricking years and we get a fricking PvP game for one of the more interesting FPS settings? Insane.
The soul that Bungie used to have--exemplified by little things like Greg Kirkpatrick's Usenet post about how "Games tell stories. That's what they're for."--is gone.
Yea... It's just a hard pill for me to swallow. Laugh at baby's first shooter all you want, but Halo 2 was the first M game I convinced my parents to get me when I was like 11-12, I unironically wrote an essay explaining how the content was barely above a T game. I adored everyone of the Bungie Halo campaigns. Spent a lot of time playing the multiplayer too, but the story and characters is what truly made Halo special to me. When I was going through my "I wanna be a vidya developer" phase, I always dreamed of working at Bungie. I should have known they were dead and truly gone after how they fricked over Marty O'Donnell. Oh well at least they'll NEVER be as bad as 343. Frick those morons.
You people don't understand Bungie is arguably worse than Bobby Kottick and EA when it comes to microtransactions and raping their IPs but for some reason they get a break probably because Zoomers give them infinite cred because of Halo 2 and 3 release nights.
The oldest zoomers would be literal zygotes around the time Halo 2 launched, but u might not be wrong - in a practical sense.
the oldest zoomers were born between 96 and 97
Stop being a salty homosexual and admit that halo is a millenial series. I don't care if you're some assblasted "pc fps only" player or arena shooter gay.
>Marathon was the only reason to buy a Mac in the 90's
>M$ made a deal with Bungie to turn Halo into the Xbox's killer app
>Sony buys Bungie
>they turn Marathon into just another generic extraction shooter, with no attempt to pay homage to the original
THIS IS BEYOND PARODY
Oh, neat. Marathon remake. never did play that.
>it's not Marathon
... why?
Why is everyone saying it's a Tarkov clone, if anything from the trailer it looks more to be an Apex/Fortnite clone.
Because they outright called it a Tarkov clone in interviews.
Didn't watch interviews
Ah I see it now in the description. Whelp maybe it will fill the extraction shooter niche since Tarkov went to shit like 4 years ago.
"extraction shooter"
It's an extraction shooter AKA Tarkov clone.
The trailer shows practically nothing. We only know because the interview on the website specifically says "extraction shooter " which only Tarkov and its clones use.
>from the trailer
would you like to explain which trailer you watched? because everyone else watched a prerendered nothing trailer
>New marathon game
>it's a fricking multiplayer shooter
>a tarkov clone at that
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
I FRICKING HATE BUNGIE
That trailer has some fricking style, holy shit. I hope the game doesn't suck dick and they figure out how to make a good casual tarkov clone.
>ooh, bright colours!
go to bed, zoom zoom
give me links to play the old marathons on w10
https://alephone.lhowon.org
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https://alephone.lhowon.org/
gotcha fampai
>You will never frog blast the vent core
>lets take a franchise famous for its cryptic storytelling and make it a no story pvp game
reminder none of the people that made bungie still work there
Jason Jones (the second member of Bungie) still does.
You mean Jason "put him back into the cage" Jones?
What the frick is an extraction shooter?
PvP shooter where you find your gear on the map and only get to keep it if you escape the map through designated areas
Escape from Tarkov
You go into a map, try to get as much loot as you can, and get out. If you die, all the stuff you had (including the equipment that you brought with you when you start a game) is gone. You usually encounter other players that you can kill to get their loot.
In essence, it's escape from tarkov.
It's a "live service" genre of "games" that mostly shut down after 6 months.
fortnite but you keep your gear when you survive and there's no need to be the last one on the map
I ran in a marathon AMA
So who's going to voice Durandal?
No matter who they choose, it will be the wrong choice.
GetGianni of course
His voice in those Mandalore videos was so bad that I couldn't watch them. Completely off-base for how I always imagined Durandal to sound.
That other guy he got for Tycho fits a lot more.
Nobody. Durandal is canonically nowhere near Tau Ceti IV by the time this game takes place. Leela might be alive in this timeline, but that'd be it from the original AIs of the Marathon.
Can you appreciate that only 0.4% of the playerbase will give a frick about any of the lore?
Are you ready for the washed up Destiny youtubers to make lore vids on this game? Maybe I should do that, I already have an autistic knowledge of the lore. I'd be perfect at it.
If the game gets popular you could get some nice change off of doing it so why not?
Probably can't be worse than the limey but you'll get just as big a head
And you would need to make up a lot of headcanon to succed
I want these people to die. I will wish for horrible ends to meet them in retribution for this. Leave my fricking childhood alone, it's not a big enough IP to exploit, quit puppeting its fricking corpse.
You've gotta be fricking kidding me.
"Extraction Shooter"
Yeah frick off immediately.
Is this one of the 5 Gaas games Sony wanted?
How did they shit this out so fast?
>The game devs are literal trannies with Onlyfans accounts
This game is fricked from the outset.
>employed people are prostitutes by choice
this is worse than weimar. please nuke us
I only know about Marathon from that eceleb videos but It doesn't really look very similar to old games.
Just saying
why are you homosexuals so suprised though? bungie is a business company first and a video game company second. the entirety of the destiny duology should've clued you into that by now. after they sold halo like some cheap prostitute, good bungie died and was buried. no linear game or single player games. no sexy waifus protags or companions. no SOVL. just pure multiplayer only garbage and you're going to enjoy every moronic second of it
>bungie is a business company
>expecting Destiny dev not to do another GAAS
It's joever let it go
This is one of the devs for the game, a troony homosexual with an onlyfans I hope you homosexuals didn't have hope for this
https://twitter.com/ninehydras
Bro he's senior world artist
https://www.artstation.com/ninehydras
You homosexuals still don't understand how games have been brought down from the inside having trannies work for them. How many games with troony flags everywhere is it going to take?
moron
Dilate
i care more about games than i do about idpol. if they did good art they did good art
>who cares if the game will be a woke boring PC nightmare the art is ok
fricking useless. You will get it after the entire game is shit
their job is art, the art looks good.
Yes anon and in Destiny there are people whose job was to manage the esports division of the game that ruined the entire game. Maybe you should pay attention to nu-BNungie games.
are you telling me that the esports division just called the shots and both of the combat designers, all 11 design leads and the development manager just said yeah ok?
>It's like having a habitual meth user as a Lead Designer.
if the meth helps them produce high quality product fast they should be given more meth
>all 11 design leads and the development manager just said yeah ok?
Yes. ME Chung google her. It's bungie's design philosophy to allow this stupid shit.
Gotta give it to him, the art direction was the best part of Destiny. Knowing he sells videos of deepthroating troonywiener docks a couple points however.
Seeing this artist does explains some things about the Witness, now that I think about it. Like something clicked in the head.
The art direction looks good though
It looks outstanding, for sure, it's just the fact that it's not a game but one of those live service schemes.
I mean that is what Destiny has been for 10 years. I generally like the core gunplay of Destiny, especially handcannons, so transferring that to a PvPvE game isn't inherently bad for me personally. I like the look/vibe, but Bungie's monetization is really disgusting and based on Destiny's seasons you will have to pay the frick up to compete
Fricking hated the Destiny games, felt so shallow and shit to play. Think I spent like 5 hours on the franchise.
Hey anon, read:
How do you feel about it now?
Also it is just generic Blade Runner Cyberpunk except with white instead of black and bright green instead of cyan and some 90's like VHS effects. It is not that special.
>t with white instead of black and bright green instead of cyan
So nothing alike? Why not say its like Mirror's Edge minimalism contrasting with popping colors like the vibrant green
would
Lol @ those prices
You visited a troony's onlyfans?
He's out of his mind and a schizoid, ignore him.
These people are not gamers
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my kweennnnnnn
Thank you for pointing this out. I will now not be playing this game.
I expected nothing and somehow I'm still disappointed. That's impressive at least.
I feel the same pain, again.
>Buys Bungie
>still release their games on Xbox
Sony are a bunch of cucks.
>pvp extraction shooter
Isn't it hilariously tragic that they fricked it all up from the get-go?
What fricking music did they use for the trailer was that dancw with the dead?
Why not just make a Destiny extraction shooter since that money hog managed to carry them to a second game?
Fricking gamble with an old IP like Nosgoth did and more than likely fail because the target audience will just play the Tarkov instead?
>target audience
Anon their target audience is barely sober mongoloids but yeah I don't see this shit going far, it's too hard sci-fi for the dumbest motherfrickers in the audience, which seems to be who they gun for.
>destiny audience
>taking away their gear upon death
lol the mode would die in a month
I mean it would sort of work with the whole immortal guardians thing and they could even set it in the past where things were bad and everyone was stabbing each other in the back but it's also one of the only moderately untouched parts of the fluff so I'd rather they didn't. Not like this is any better really
>read Marathon
>instant happiness
>see the comment from OP
>instant Anger
Thanks OP for the wildest emotional rollercoaster ride i had in ages
AWW fffffffrick.
Here I thought we are getting a badass non-boomerShooter atmospheric FPS with cool music and aliens and guns.
It's another fricking Twitch bait shitshow.... motherfrickers...
I feel genuine anger and hate for Bungie. This could have been an absolute revival of glory but now its just a punch in the face. As usual for gaming in 2023
I swear man!!!
Frick, how can they frick uo this bad? It feels like lizard people control these
companies.
This is your Senior World Artist. Enjoy!
https://twitter.com/ninehydras_nsfw/status/1659864456275587072
>become a runner in bungie’s new sci-fi pvp extraction shooter. compete for survival, riches, and renown in a world of evolving, persistent zones, where any run can lead to greatness.
>extraction shooter
Never heard of that term before, apparently it is like what Ubisoft was doing with the divison but even gayer.
Is there anyone with a soul working at Bungie anymore? or is it a shell the founders sold to Sony as they fill for retirement like Arkane?
Back in 2013 when Destiny was interesting idea before the company got greedy
Now even all the idea guys are gone
This is going to go in the history books as one of the most bizarre IP revivals of all time. If it’s good I’m still willing to give it a chance cause Bungie knows how to make MP games and the visuals and character designs in the trailer really appealed to me. Also they need to release a Marathon HD collection at some point.
>cant make halo because copyright
>well what else do we got?
>well we have marathon
>perfect, now make it tarkov
i appreciate some parts of the trailer and the cool website but thats not it man.
>Tarkov copy made my actual good devs with no Russian jank
Sign me up
have a nice day
>made my actual good devs
>my actual
>my
literally moronic.
and even if you had typed *by you would still be a fricking moron, Destiny is shitting its own intestines right now.
Anyhow I knew Bugnie had turned into crap the moment they laid off Martin O'Donnell.
>giving a single frick about a product with the Bungie name on it when it's not even remotely the same team anymore.
If you didn't see Marathon and instantly think it was going to be trash then I don't know what to tell you.
What the frick is an extraction shooter?
They're basically the worst parts of the Bible.
You load into a map usually with X amount of other players and you do missions and pick up loot. When you want to leave the game you have to run to an area where you can exfil/extract and you bring whatever you found back home with you. You can kill other players and sometimes you can even befriend them mid-match and work together (this varies from game to game) If you die however you lose everything you started the match with (guns, items, sometimes even your character themselves) and everything you found during that match and you get sent back to the lobby and have to use a different character or set of weapons and items assuming you have any left in your home storage. Hope this helped you understand.
The music and art in the trailer was amazing
Yeah about that artist
https://twitter.com/ninehydras/status/1659024666340769793
Nuke this planet. Deliver it from sin and let it be reborn in the ashes of the holy fire of nuclear war
and afterwards can someone FRICKING develop a good reboot of this franchise jesus frick
Blowing things up after forces of evil had a fun time ruining things may end the situation temporarily, but it's (not) curing symptoms, not the cause.
Why the frick would I care if they’re a troony? How would that change the art being good?
Because the troony literally puts their OF on their main page like a degenerate and this game will be used to fuel his degen fantasies?
It's like having a habitual meth user as a Lead Designer.
Get a fricking life Ahmed let people marry their own toasters if they want to it doesn't hurt you. You should care about the end-product (Which is this case is soulless fricking garbage.)
The "live and let live" apologetism is cheap, tasteless and can't be adhered to as an ideal without being a hypocrite or insane. Don't do this.
And when they start shoving this shit into my media and I am forced to lose things I love or accept a shittier product?
Trans requires active acceptance and a group delusion to work ,its not like homosexuals who can do all the anal sex they want out of sight out of mind.
Senior is only the third rank in the bidya industry. it goes:
Junior > World Artist > Senior > Lead > Principal
and then all the heads of design are above that, it's not even a decision making position, it's a mid weight technical specialist. not much to lose your cool about
It's probably true that everyone at the top of anything is on meth. You really don't get to certain places by being normal.
Rates of psychopathy among CEO's is comparable to that of male prison populations.
What irks me is that all this talent is wasted on live service slop, this shit is rapidly turning into the NFT of gaming.
And Destiny fricking sucked.
These people with their social hangups control parts of the game unrelated to what they do. For example the person who was in charge of esports is the reason why Destiny has no opt out voice chat. She was "bullied" as a kid playing Halo 2 and championed to get that removed. Now Destiny which is a pseudo MMO is silent every where you go. Keep playing stupid fricking morons that these social rejects won't abuse their power to get agendas passed.
>be highly successful with high paying job at top-end game company
>openly do shitty OF porn on the side anyway for the whole world to see
yeeeeah TOTALLY not a fetish guys!
Video game and high end software companies are fricking weird. I am a dev for a financial company if I so much as say something dumb on social media HR with can me but this troon can do this
probably a commission or contractor job that some gay at bungie arranged after jerking off to the troon's OF pics.
I have never seen so many people pretending to be fans of the original Marathon games than in the last few hours.
It's true that there are many fake-fans popping up, especially after the Mandalore videos, but there are also a few of us Marathon autists that really do exist.
What scenario is this? I've been enjoying Apotheosis X.
It's Spatial Outpouring. It's a very janky TC with levels of confusing that would make some Infinity levels blush, but it makes up for its faults with amazing atmosphere. It's worth a try if you can find a link for it, as simplici7y is down at the moment.
Compiler is my favorite enemy, but it's not a Pfhor, so I'm gonna say Enforcer. I always liked the robed look.
https://www.lochnits.com/marathon/
here you go
The Marathon trilogy was sort of shit from a gameplay standpoint. It really was an issue that sort of went on to plague everything Bungie did afterward. The issue of the game being barely passable and carried by music or story. Slow, plodding, barely reactive. No dynamism. No feel of being in the action. But that's the case with most FPS games. Most games, really.
The lack of dynamism is something addressed by certain games like Far Cry 3+ and Dying Light, but they always sort of gate the fun shit behind skill trees where you need to play 75% of the game to get the fun shit or they have it where you either land the fancy shit or simply die.
The entire games industry is about to experience a generation that desperately wants to live and has no patience for digital entertainment. It's going to be catastrophic and hilarious as most of those affected aren't even going to realize what's happening or how it could happen. It'll be very, very sudden. Their lack of tact shows here. You had Mandalore spark renewed interest in Marathon. So what do they do? They announce an anti-Marathon game. It's exactly, exactly like the Nosgoth PvP game that flopped. They had a potential audience in spite of everything and they fricked it up.
>You had Mandalore spark renewed interest in Marathon. So what do they do? They announce an anti-Marathon game.
room temperature IQ post
It's genuinely likely the only reason that this announcement happened. Marathon has no reason or purpose in the modern day. Prior to those videos it was /vr/ 'Memberberries fodder.
Ah. See you had me for a moment there. But you got too obvious. Either way well baited. 9/10.
I’ve been aware of it for years, spent some time spoiling myself on the marathonstory website but I’m ashamed to say I’ve never made it more than halfway through Marathon 1 way back when Aleph One included some weird Pathways into Darkness shit in the first level. With this trailer and after hearing that Aleph One finally received support for higher framerates I might revisit it, unless the Mandalore fanboys forced some additional inaccurate changes into the source port.
I'm no fan of marathon but I can empathize considering reboots of franchise I love completely shat them up.
Welcome to years ago
Reminder this is a bungie idea. Snoy will shove their bullshit in it but they probably won't have to do much, bungie will do it all on their own.
Reminder that the current devs are not the old ones, that it doesn't matter anyway and that a brand name means nothing
Reminder you didn't even play Marathon
Lol. Remember when they did that Legacy of Kain online PvP shooter, Nosgoth? Feels like that.
Personally I think Marathon felt like shit to play and the BOB missions were obnoxious, but this is bizarre, don't know who it's for.
It's literally Bungie saying
>we want the tarkov audience
Which I think can work. Tarkov is a good idea executed terribly. Bungie shooting mechanics are quite good.
It's too late Activision beat them to the punch with DMZ and extractions are not like BRs where you can have multiple AAA games on top.
Call of Duty Extraction is a nothing burger. There are no stakes. Warzone and standard pvp are the real draws for call of duty multiplayer.
>Activision beat them to the punch
Why do stupid motherfrickers think they can outmanoeuvre Bobby fricking Kottick? The live service corpses just keep piling up around Activision.
>Tarkov is a good idea executed terribly.
I'm surprised it's taken this long for anyone to really challenge them. Everyone and their mother jumped on the battle royale bandwagon and that wasn't nearly as an interesting concept.
But Tarkov is for gun and survival nerds, Marathon is slightly goofy clean sci-fi. Space blasters just don't have the same autism attraction.
It'd be as weird as making an Oni Left 4 Dead clone. Just not what the setting is for.
*slightly goofy clean sci-fi with cosmic horror elements that are a little bit too meta at times
Nothing stops them from having stats autism and weird guns with attachments. Destiny being sadly still alive means this has a very real niche
Tarkov is very good what's the problem?
CNC Generals 2 was an interesting looking game, too...
according to the people who played it, it was a starcraft clone with a c&c look
Welp. Tanks looked cool, at least.
I don't think this is as big of a problem think it is, might be good even. All 'extraction shooters' are actually pretty different, i.e. Hunt/EFT/DMZ/Cycle.
Maybe it will be a fairly competent shooter on a fairly large map with objectives?
They aren't different they all have the same mission structures factions etc. The template Tarkov set is what everyone follows
Counterpoint: All extraction shooters are shit.
I'm so fricking sick of PvP focused slop, what the frick happened to a meticulously designed single player campaign? Scratch that, I know exactly what happened to them, they can't squeeze any extra money out of gaytards that buy games for a campaign. Not every game needs to be a competitive event and slapping an IP based completely around single player is just insult to injury.
people don't want a pvp game you moron
Marathon fans never wanted anything so it doesn't really matter also its nu-Bungie you wouldn't have liked what they pooped out regardless even if it was a singleplayer game
Wrong I want a tightly designed single player game with not moronic mechanics and fun pvp modes. Not necessarily the same game and functionally disconnected even if it is.
99% of people that play this genre of game have probably never heard of Marathon before, so why slap the IP on it? The problem people have isn't that they are worried bungie won't "innovate" their tarkov clone, it's that this game existing shits on any chance that they will actually remake Marathon à la Doom or Prey.
Why make it sci-fi? Normies who play this shit will think it looks gay and go back to their COD DMZ and Tarkov.
The boring as frick Destiny players (any left?) will be too moronic or anxious to even play it.
There are way too many destiny players
Hell a new season just came out so numbers must be high
I knew a guy who played Destiny, good dude, very chill, total stoner, high 90% of the day. I can't imagine anyone enjoying the fricking slog Destiny is without being completely stoned.
It's kinda funny because they showed some "behind the scenes" things which apparently include real time tracking of opinions regarding the game on various platforms. Mind you they did that when everyone was shitting on them harder than normal and the tracker was showing an upward trend. And those trackers are everywhere in their office.
Point being, you might be right.
Copium because launch destiny was somehow a 5/10 that felt like it *should* have been a 10/10 but filled with bizarre design and story choices that took away from the gameplay, and eventually they just settled on endless grind
You could really feel the compromised vision while playing d1 but destiny 2 is outright marvel goyslop and undefendable
Yeah just like Destiny and just like this I really dig the artstyle etc but the game is probably going to be rotten dogshit, for me anyway.
Looks like they are going for that ultra stylized asian futurism look that zoomers will now think is cool thanks to cyberpunk
I don't want to live in this timeline anymore.
Bungie PvP is pretty great for the most part. I'm excited to see what they do with the Marathon universe with this game.
>Bungie PvP is pretty great for the most part
You mean was anon. Was. Destiny is very bad
>Destiny is very bad
I mean overall, but yeah Destiny is a pretty big dip in quality.
Yeah, the Marathon IP/story was long since wrapped up ("Oh shit, its all a game. lmao." - Durandal/Thoth). The only one from that original team that I'm aware is in that office is Jason Jones.
Between the various art pieces, in-game sprites, and the armor references in Halo, I dig the new look. The music from the trailer feels like a nice callback to the BGM from M1.
This is my attitude also. Destiny pvp has been duct taped to their pve looter game so it's been trash until they straight up stopped making it. Since their approach from the get go with marathon is pvp I think they could do something good. Their shooting mechanics are on point. Sure the Marathon IP was sacrificed but it was already dead so I'm not sure what the big deal is there. Maybe it's because AAA studios have already killed all my favorite IPs and I'm numb to it?
>Their shooting mechanics are on point.
More like their aim assist is out of control
Correct. And it makes shooting feel good.
>but muh skill muh comphomosexualry
Cope.
Now I didn't say anything about comphomosexualry you can't even play destiny pvp for fun it's full of morons and bad game modes. As well as deliberately overpowered weapons
Word I'm just arguing in bad faith because I'm an butthole. Either way I agree on that front. I called destiny pvp trash here
in the original post only praising the shooting mechanics because I feel they are wasted in destiny. Like a lot of things in destiny.
the skill part matters in this context because its an extraction shooter and not TDM, CTF, Infection, etc
>the skill part matters here but not in other modes
why
>Sure the Marathon IP was sacrificed but it was already dead so I'm not sure what the big deal is there.
Read
>The very few people who remember the Marathon trilogy (e.g. me) don't want this, and to the normies and especially the zoomers to whom they're going to have to sell this it might as well be a brand new IP. So why not just make it a brand new IP???
Chances are this is both a poor attempt at nostalgia marketing and a Disney-like scheme to refresh their hold on the IP.
This game isn't for marathongays. It's for Tarkovgays and casuals. They literally only used the name because they liked the sound of Marathon for their extraction shooter. I'd wager nostalgiabait is low on the list of reasoning when the game was niche to begin with and a separate subgenre of FPS entirely. I don't see it as a big deal. Sacrificing a small niche community from the 90s is not important. Not only that. OG marathongays already know the series was dead. It concluded. This isn't Marathon. We all agree. I just don't see it as significant. Reboots are a dime a dozen in the current year.
To be fair.
It is a really good name
>art direction looks fricking fantastic
>hopping on a new trendy genre isn't a bad idea market wise
>dude let's use a 27 year old IP that hasn't been touched since
Said 27 year old IP also looked exactly the opposite of the new art direction
Craig Mullins' art looks nothing like the game either, as much as people keep posting it.
The idea of a marathon extraction shooter isn't even the worst.
Like, spooky moon-sized derelict colony ship crawling with weird tech and alien scavengers? The mood fits.
But no, it's on frickin Apex Legends Planet instead.
>OG Marathon happens
>Instead of nuking the colony and the Marathon as payback the Pfhor just leaves with everyone enslaved
>The Marathon is now a moon with a long as ship crashed into it instead of Deimos hollowed out.
>Leela's message about the Pfhor attack reaches earth
>Megacorps or something something cyberpunkish government decides to checkout the colony
>It still takes a lot of time to reach Tau Ceti IV so they send AIs and human consciousness uploaded into computers
>You are mercenary consciousness that can be inserted into cyborg bodies over and over again
>You get paid to explore the deserted colony and extract thingys before other corps and governments do
>The colony isn't really deserted and there are still Pfhor and S'pht running around
>Leela, Tycho and Durandal will be back in subsequents DLCs
Source my dad is bungie
I liked it the most when the entire game came much like any other proper software piece, in one complete package and without any further subscription or payments to play it. That was nice.
And huge expansion packs (cut content or not), of course. Good times.
While personally I probably wouldn't buy it, art direction is pretty nice.
nailed that specific Y2K aesthetic that's reminiscent of Chris Cunningham's work, IDM artist designs and that specific futurism present before things went to shit
yh. definitely cant disagree on that one. its just that it wouldve been better if they just made a completely different IP instead perverting an old one
Sony literally mentioned at their recent investors meeting that they want to focus on live service games as it brings more revenue, I'm not even shocked they botched Marathon, its going to get a lot worse.
Stop accusing Snoy of being behind every bad decisions made by bungie
This is like Sonic going under hiatus for 10 years only to come back as a realistic Mexican running away from ICE agents at high speeds in blue clothes.
So Sonic Adventure 2?
bungie needed a reputable name for the next game because otherwise nobody would give a frick about another survivalslop extraction fps
NeoTokyo 2 looks nice.
>77.77 for a glow in the dark shirt
oh lord
But member 7??? Old Bungie LOOOOOOVED 7!!!! Member??? See, we're still the same, we are using their old in-jokes!!!!
This hurts. Physically, I feel pain. I can't believe they'd announce Marathon and then reveal it's a fricking extraction shooter. It's vile. It's fricking abominable. Words cannot express my genuine rage and anguish at seeing this.
America, please for the love of God, accelerate the economic crisis coming in 2024 to NOW SO THE VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY DIES. PLEASE. PLEASE FRICKING DO IT.
>They could make the game actually look like the intermission illustrations but they decide not.
That's the Jjaro, right?
that's clearly a compiler
Someone explain to me, how this hardcore sci-fi shit is going to steal players from Warzone DMZ.
The art style isn't even bad, but this just isn't Marathon it doesn't resemble it at all. If this was a new IP and wasn't an extraction shooter I would be interested and consider it a highlight of the show since we haven't had a game with this art style since Neo Tokyo.
It looks like it would be a great FPS/RPG like Systemshock, going up against Warzone and DMZ is just suicide.
>DMZ
Actually DOA though, the loop is just using insured weapons and people b***h and moan when you kill them. The amount of people in DMZ who are not only bad at the game, but actively get made if you kill them is hilarious to me. They treat DMZ like is co-op vs bots mode or something.
Do you think those people will migrate to this Marathon thing?
DMZgays? Nah, Call of Duty people are a different breed entirely mental-wise. Especially if they get turned off on Bungie's twist on stash, or gear progress. In DMZ you can just come in with insured shit and its cooldown isn't a big deal
Anon you are making me sad about a game that will never exist
Anon in 10 years from now we'll ask an AI to rip out all the assets and make a badass RPG/FPS game and it'll compile all that shit while you have a coffee, just hang on. Always darkest before the dawn.
Can I kill people with doors?
just play Rubicon X
>THEY MADE MARATHON INTO A FRICKING TARKOV CLONE!?
Makes sense Marathon was a shitty doom clone maybe it will be successful this time around since Tarkov is made by Russians who can't stop people from cheating in their game.
I don't see the dudebros who are into extraction shooters going apeshit over this high as frick sci-fi shit.
well at least the trailer was pretty cool
I think the artstyle is the thing bothering me the most. Marathon always had a slightly grimy aesthetic, this looks way too clean and cyberpunkish.
Marathon is meant to be Halo but far more dark. Battleroids are Spartans but instead of children they are reanimated combination of frankenstein dead bodies. A single one of these wiped out an entire human colony.
The Pfhor is the Covenant but a slave trafficking space empire willing to release Chaos Gods in case they lose. They even do hardcore shit like taking human bodies, replicate them as someone you know, strapping them with bombs, and then cruelly kill people by blasting them with said suicide bomb artificial humans.
MIDA is a terrorist party that gained control of Mars and staged a genocide that makes Misc Pot blush.
Halo is no less dark, it's just less overt. Flood isn't exactly a cute fluffy thing, and the complaints the Gravemind proclaims implicate all sorts of things, as does its existence. Trace the line back far enough, and more horrors shall be.
For me, the Grave Mind was a more tangible and understandable version of the W'rkncacnter (despite the Flood also being a scrapped Marathon concept). A shame most of the times Bungie tried to have Halo be more dark in an interesting way had to be cut such scenes due to dev time constraints, like Chief originally melting Captain Keyes' face off with a flamethrower and carrying his skull in Gravemind.
I really wish that Bungie went full schizo mode when making Halo and actually linking it to Marathon.
That was the plan when it used to be a PC FPS. Kirkpatrick said it went from Marathon 4, to Marathon Spinoff, to new universe, to Marathon reincarnation.
Not counting 343 lore, Gravemind is basically a complex living non-living information entity that exists in some general overarching position to reality, and occasionally gets released into it, morally questionable, malicious and, interestingly enough, grumpy. It's closer to normal life.
Wr'kncacnter is appears to be far closer to Cthulhu Mythos in a more direct fashion.
It's an out of bounds entity that doesn't belong in the orderly universe, yet exists in it, which makes it either a property that grew in it or existed in it since it's beginning, or a direct supernatural property, a protrusion of primordial chaos turned to evil or some demonic force.
>marathon subreddit is already filled with bot posts
welp, there goes the ONLY subreddit worth reading
What type of bot posts, shill bots?
Yes.
Very artificial "omg can't wait!!!" posts and people defending it.
Dude subreddits are product pages, there frickall organic going on there.
Not when it's for a dead game series. I had it in my RSS reader so I'd know when new scenarios would come out and shit.
Yeah well it's a product page again.
Yeah, I guess. It's just insane that it happened so quickly.
Have they started calling people toxic and entitled for any criticism?
It's still interesting to me that out of the "classic" fps groups, only id software has a good reputation still. I mean, there is 3d realms publishing boom shoots but that isn't the actual 3d realms.
Well apparently someone likes Bungie's new shit because they're still in business. I just have no fricking idea how people can play that shit longer than two hours without going into a coma, it's aggressively bland to play.
I can guarantee 95% of people outrage here never finished the marathon trilogy. Almost bot behavior to be faux mad lol.
Ok, but what about the 5%, should their anger be dismissed as well?
Yes.
Idk it doesn’t matter. The series concluded more than 20 years ago. Oh no a new game using the same name. the fricking horror. I better pretend im super mad about it 24/7 for a week than forgot about it until its out and be mad again. If you want to be the homosexual everyone ignores going “um did you know there were games before this in the series” before being told “yeah we know” go ahead
Yeah look hate it break it to you but this game has frickall to do with the shit you're trying your little grey nuts off to be a hipster about.
I'm just here to shit on Bungie I couldn't care less about Marathon
Sounds like something a gaslighting viral marketer would say.
Are you new to Ganker? Most people here don’t play anything that isn’t the most popular video games and just pretend to be in crowds. Marathon is an obscure 20+ year old shooter on a dead platform. Its not some massive sacred franchise. We never discuss it unless an eceleb pulls it from the depths than suddenly all the marathon lore heads come out of the wetworks to be obnoxious before disappearing again. I can assure you 99/100 of them read wikis and never even completed a single marathon game. Thats how this board works. Its funny that all of these fricking super hardcore marathon homies that materialized out of thin air that are super into marathon and everything about it also just happen to not know that a new game being a extraction shooter wasn’t leaked a fricking year ago. Or how despite suddenly half of Ganker is super INTO MARATHON AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN I NEVER ONCE IN THE 9 YEARS I BEEN HERE SEEN A SINGLE MARATHON GAME IN ANYONES 3x3 OR TOP 5 OR WHATEVER homosexual SHIT YOU Black folk COME UP WITH NEXT.
YOU homosexualS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN POSERS.
>Your outrage is fake because you never finished the original
You act like these games are fricking obscure and no one here could've finished it when it's been well known and played by Macgays and eventually Halogays when it got that source port
>bot behavior
Yeah Ganker homies really be a hivemind and not know it.
I'm not outraged because i give a shit about your boomer series, I'm pissed because its the only new game with a cool aesthetic I've seen in years and its going to be wasted on this shitty twitch streamer gaas genre.
So stop making the conversation about muh marathon and instead muh extraction shooters bad.
But you can’t because thats not what hivemind Ganker said.they said were powers and this is what were mad about bleep bloop
This shit looks nothing like marathon, people just want the old bungie and the old industry that made cool looking shit with substance, games that weren't just a wrapper for whatever the flavour of the month money maker trend was when they started development.
>moronic anon can't comprehend that anyone could've played the previous games before because he's never touched the series
Nah i know for a fact most people in this thread never finished a single marathon game
Neever seen it in a top 10s, 3x3, old shooter discussions. Until now or an eceleb makes a video than suddenly most of Ganker are diahard marathon fans.
Suuuuuuuure Sorry newbie i been here long enough, you homies are just lying.
>If it's not discussed to my standard on Ganker no one must've played
What kind of weak cope is this? Just because it doesn't get as many threads on this shit hole as your fotm title that doesn't mean it doesn't have people who played it and enjoyed it in the past. The games been fricking free for anyone to play for decades and anyone with a cursory attitude to old shooters outside of Doom/Quake and who has heard of Halo has at least booted it up at some point.
>muh eceleb
Ah so that's it, some homosexual with a YouTube channel who you don't like talks about a game you had never heard of until then so you assume anyone else who has played the title must only know because of him.
It doesn’t GET ANY DISCUSSION. I can count the amount of threads i seen non eceleb related on one hand in YEARS. You want me to believe that there is this many hardcore marathon fans just lurking. Give me a fricking break anon doom/quake/build games have zero problems being relevant.
I never once seen a marathon game in 1000s of 3x3 or even in a single top 10 or even brought up when someone asks shooter suggestions.
The games just almost doesn’t exist unless an eceleb discusses it or this thread.
Almost like most “marathon fans” played a few levels of one of them, dropped it, heard how cool the story is and read up on it like most people do because the actual gameplay of these games especially 1 are fricking annoying, and not really special outside the shotgun in 2/physics shit.
Stop being naive and actually fall for Ganker larp holy shit. This board has always been for homies wanting to be part of every “elite” gaming community for credit.
2 is one of my favorites but it doesn't warrant a spot on 3x3. It's fun and very punchy in terms of gameplay but I don't remember it more than say, Quake.
As an ackshual Marathon fan, I gave up on talking about the game on Ganker because people just call you a psued for liking a game with weird lore.
Marathon 2 is very fricking good but I agree that it's not HL1 good. I'd put it in my personal 3x3, though.
Dude the game sold like a 100,000 units and is recently getting a new entry. I don't find it so unbelievable that people who played the game are coming out of the woodwork when something new for it was announced and doesn't exactly match the type of games the originals unless you want to point the specific anons out of some hundred right that who are larps
I’m not saying theres not genuine fans, i know fan sites have been around since the start and it wouldn’t have gotten source ports if no one cared. what im saying is that its very obvious theres a lot of larpers here, and i think you’re a fricking idiot if you can’t see it.
Well then please do point them out to me then
Point them out then gay, all I see is other homosexuals discussing the game and you crying they can't be real fans
Everyone just posting no no no No especially near the start of the thread like this is news when it was leaked fricking forever ago. Right around when the quake reboot with a fem protag was leaked too.
Yeah really into marathon dude, can’t kepe up with news. Idk you can keep pretending theres near 200 posters of hardcore marathon gays despite zero discussion of any of the games pre this thread right now super upset or you can just come to the conclusion that yeah.
Ganker homies larp, they larp about everything. Why are you believing strangers on the internet dipshit, half of this garbage reads like reddit.
It was uh childhood game damn i remember investing hundreds of hours looking for terminals blah blah blah heard it a million times.
>Because you didn't believe a week rumour at the time you can't be a real fan
You're really reaching with this cope. Holy shit, lmao.
>Idk you can keep pretending theres near 200 posters of hardcore marathon gays despite zero discussion of any of the games pre this thread right now super upset or you can just come to the conclusion that yeah.
Just because the homosexuals here aren't ADHD addled zoomers like you whos only worth is how much it's posted on Ganker to look cool doesn't mean people haven't played it in the past and enjoyed. That one fact is something you can't even refute.
>Ganker homies larp, they larp about everything. Why are you believing strangers on the internet dipshit, half of this garbage reads like reddit
I believe them just as much as I believe you, the one homosexual who thinks he's always above this shithole yet continues to post and has to shit up threads for games he's never fricking played. Old Ganker always discussed below days. Black folk like you can't comprehend that and pash out over ecelebs.
>It was uh childhood game damn i remember investing hundreds of hours looking for terminals blah blah blah heard it a million times.
>REEEE OTHERS COULDN'T HAVE HAD A DIFFERENT LIFE EXPERIENCE TO ME
Lmao, you talk like a low iq moron
Im not reading your essay. I didn’t read the last one either btw. Just the first sentence if you noticed its the only thing i commented on. Im sorry you’re a new gay and you don’t know how this board works.
Don't care, I doubt you can comprehend more than one sentence regardless due to that low iq of yours. Keep obsessing over ecelebs you're the cancer that's kill Ganker you fricking newbie.
Lol are you upset I didn’t read your fricking essay, especially when it starts with buzzwords.
Hivemind site
>Black person with low iq can't read
>h-hivemind
>Can only talk about a game if it's talked about on Ganker enough
Lmao
>uhhhh please say cope seethe zoomer etc some more
>nooooo dude i’m a mega fan i just never discuss it literally ever unless theres (you)s to be had hurr durr this is normal despite never being a problem for anything else hurr durr.
The only time we ever discuss marathon that is not directly in response to an eceleb talking about it is homosexual trying to one up other shooter protags with the loading screen image.
You know which image im talking about and than someone comments hes le schizo haha and thats it.
That will be the only marathon discussion for months. Yes people larp a frick ton on this site, did you also only play a few levels and dropped it? Is that why you’re so upset with me calling you out?
You brought up the eceleb you dumb Black person b***h. It was discussed before then. The only thing you've proven is you're dumb as shit and terminally obsessed with ecelebs and Ganker. Take your ADHD meds
Dude quit sperging and point the larp going on here
You've just repeated the exact the few points you've claiming throughout your rants without backing it up beyond not being able to comprehend a new trailer for a game just inspired more discussion again especially over a leak
> Idk you can keep pretending theres near 200 posters of hardcore marathon gays despite zero discussion of any of the games pre this thread
The game pops up time to time on both Ganker and /vr/ and, no, I don't see it being impossible that 200/100,000 = 0.2% of people who played might be here.
He's a homosexual who can't comprehend why anyone would discuss a game unless it's posted 24/7 here.
To be fair with him I booted the first game once years ago, dicked around a bit and never bothered again
But I don't pretend to be a fan of it either
100% larpers are here.
>It doesn’t GET ANY DISCUSSION
It got discussed all the time in relation to Halo you fricking moron. It didn't have Dooms level of popularity doesn't mean it hasn't been played before by anons here. You can read this fricking thread with people discussing the games.
>You want me to believe that there is this many hardcore marathon fans just lurking
Are you such a fricking ADHD addled zoomer that if you're not talking about a game every five fricking minutes it must mean you've never touched the fricking thing?
>doom/quake/build games have zero problems being relevant.
And neither did marathon thanks to the popularity of Halo. It never got as popular as those games but it's still had a fansbase.
>I never once seen a marathon game in 1000s of 3x3 or even in a single top 10 or even brought up when someone asks shooter suggestions.
>HURR DURR IF IT'S NOT IN MY Ganker BROS FAVOURITE GAMETHREADS NO ONE MUST'VE PLAYED IT
fricking hell this shithole has done a number on you.
>Unless an eceleb discusses it
The fricking celeb you're sperging about has barely been mentioned in this fricking thread. Halo has been mentioned more fricking times, which is how most old gays know about marathon. Just because you're an eceleb obsessed homosexual doesn't mean every one else who's played it is.
>They only played it a little
Got to make up a strawman in your head simply because you're buck broken over some homosexual eceleb. Holy shit.
>Stop being naive and actually fall for Ganker larp holy shit.
How about you stop being an eceleb obsessed homosexual and try to understand not everyone is a zoomer homosexual like you who gets all their knowledge on Vidya from homosexuals who couldn't make it at fricking McDonald's.
>This board has always been for homies wanting to be part of every “elite” gaming community for credit.
And homosexuals like you who sperg out at the mention of any slightly obscure game because no one could've possibly heard of it if it wasn't for some YouTube shit you obsess over.
god i fricking hate this industry. One game in 1000 shows up with a cool aesthetic and its a fricking multiplayer gaas trend chasing piece of shit. It's actually just fricking over, we cant have cool shit anymore.
Wonder if they'll ban old loregays because it makes the zoomers uncomfortable.
Which is the best pfhor?
I like these homies
Why even use the name Marathon
do you even save any money due to not having to call it a new IP?
Brand recognition, not letting the IP lapse, old lore to ruin I mean use as backdrop, a lot of content creators advertising the game for free by talking about their favorite game of all time
They couldn't use Destiny?
I have a dead game theory, I think Destiny is maybe 1k players, and everything else is automated, discussion, hype, everything is fabricated.
They have been funnelling people away from destiny from various parts of the game towards other projects so no, they really were not going to use destiny
And sadly no, making it f2p actually breathed a good amount of life into the game.
I live in a small community, a networking "island", we're far away from the rest of the world in terms of latency, I remember a few years ago, I tried Destiny, I saw one of the locals, who is a friend of mine, in-game, he was offline at the time. Made me freak the frick out.
You sure they're not pulling some Forza "Drivetar" frickery to make the games seem more alive than they really are?
>I saw one of the locals, who is a friend of mine, in-game, he was offline at the time.
maybe he was just too ashamed to admit he was playing destiny.
It's a good name for an extraction shooter.
because based on teased info and stuff seen in trailer it's literally Marathon?
The only thing about it that looks like Marathon is the ship made from a moon and the Spht compiler. The question is why use Marathon for this setting? Why not just reuse Destiny which is more popular and recognizable?
moron
good argument sister
Because they wanted to? I don't understand how Ganker works, as if designers never just go "this sounds cool" and just do it
I mean for fricks sake they're even referencing the 20 year old fricking games.
how the frick is this marathon related at all? the one shot of the compiler?
>tarkov clone
jesus christ bungie really did go down the shitter
cool trailer, looks like they got alexander calum watt to do the character designs, also I have no interest in ever playing this tarkov shit. Its kind of crazy how basic and lacking vision their game design is compared to their aesthetic team. Feels like im seeing Mozart working at McDonalds.
While the whine about outrage has merit, to presume that most or everyone who talks here didn't play the games, or that one needs to be a fan or even play anything to be disturbed by seeing aesthetically appealing or otherwise tickling one's fancy things degrade into improperness is wrong.
Can't wait!
People managed to unlock some stream with the ARG
it says it needs 7777 people to watch.
Why only 2k people watching? I thought Destiny had millions of concurrent players.
I think it was a unlisted stream only unlocked by the ARG
just got found as the next step of the arg like 19 mins ago
>"by the creators of Halo and Destiny"
Dude they all left or got fired by now
Dumbass studio
Nah, who am I kidding, that'd be major corporate fraud, these guys aren't that stupid.
I remember marathon from centuries ago, the visual design looks nice feels like Mirrors edge with bold primary colours,whites and fluros.
what is an extraction shooter? team Vs team to simply escape a place within a time limit?
pure cancer. hackers, griefers, RMT bots and e-peen streamers wet dream.
>pure cancer. hackers, griefers, RMT bots and e-peen streamers wet dream.
great , sounds like a day1buy...
Oh this will 100% be free to pay.
Nah, it'll have a price tag on it but the microtransactions of a f2p title like every other extraction shooter.
No listen to me you have to release this f2p you won't sell much by charging upfront. You'll also have to pay a frickton of influencers to like the game.
They'll charge for the first year then eventually go f2p. Best of both worlds.
>normie reactions
kek
>A new fps finally
I hope that poor bastard isn't specifically talking about a singleplayer fps
>chills
i thought this was just a meme
"people" actually talk like this?
Mocking has to come from somewhere anon
The fact that they chose "Marathon" as the name is nothing short of malice. They are trying to destroy and soil everything that is good. Thanks to this, there cannot be a proper reboot or continuation of the story.
>there cannot be a proper reboot
Well now my approval of this game has gone up somewhat
there was never gonna be a sequel or proper reboot anyway, they're using the same sorely because they have the rights to the ip and that's it. There's no sanctity or sacred thing about a game for a videogame or movie, you guys are actually mad that this makes you think very directly about a beloved niche franchise being dead for good 100% confirmed and the current industry. Also some weird hate for early-mid 2000's y2k aesthetics
>using an old ip and world to tie back into your multi-universe decade spanning narrative
>complaining they can't continue a narrative that was so finished it literally ended by turning into another game
the people on this board do not know anything about Bungie, I'm convinced
>decade spanning narrative
You are giving bungie a lot of credit when destiny was basically rewritten 6 months before launch and they are currently recycling stuff that was previously on the cutting room floor because they don't know where to go
Hey, you know what, maybe it's good, then everyone wins.
Not a chance of that
this was foreseen
we should have listened
>called Infinity because it came with the modding tools
fricking GENIUS
Marathon trilogy is the absolute gold standard when it comes to gameplay/story interaction and meta elements.
Wwwat in what decade and what platform
>pretty stoked after playstation annouced/trailered a lot of games im intersted in or am excited for
>see this thread
One thing is for sure, Marathon's crazy level design will never come back.
I'm not even going to give the trailer the time of day, not gonna waste my time watching the corpse of my childhood paraded around in pursuit of trends.
>Marathov.vidoc
This shit better have in-game stuff
Just like the one who did art for it
kek how are people like this even real.
Because it the law to have sick people working on something because ((they)) plan to kill the world and let the ones ((they) want to live
I really hate how occult imagery has been taken over by these frickers.
its because they unironically serve demons, most knowingly
Because they are possessed by demons, the devil lurks in the shadow of our society and preys on the weak and demented. It is the duty of God's children to weed out evil where ever it may fester or we will fall to ruin.
They couldn't exist in this state without an equally sick society enabling them.
they werent lying about hrt devastating nerd communities like crack does to blacks.
also general mood for this move: https://youtu.be/8nkArdZIKX0
And both was done by the one in power
What happened to professionalism? This fricker is posting wienerbulge pics under the same username they post the art they made for Destiny while also linking directly to their porn account on it.
Because if you're a troony professionalism is meaningless because you can do nothing wrong
these are oversocialized, oversexualised costal fricks, anon, professionalism was never a word for them
The original video game makers talked about porn and had booth babes, the frick do you mean "professionalism"
Were they also selling videos of them being fricked up the ass while handing out their resume?
Yeah, probably. Coding in the 90s was like sucking dick and shaking hands.
Bungie earned that credit by in their current Destiny DLC literally incorporating storytelling from the Marathon days but fricking you don't care like why are some of you even complaining, it's just b***hing for the sake of this at this point.
The current destiny dlc is them reusing trash lying on the floor. There is no coherent narrative of any kind.
But then again you are the kind of homosexual who looks at the unveiling and believe it's good
these are the people making games now. I think I'm done with this hobby now lol.
at least the music was pretty good
trannies make ya seethe
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im not following your marketing tracking link anon.
I like this idea better than a straight remake. Retro shooters belong in the past
Trailer looked kind of cool, what's everyone b***hing about again?
>inb4 IT'S NOT EXACTLY LIKE IT WAS IN 1994
I mean, you set yourself up for believing it would be.
Who even is the main character of Marathon?
John Marathon
John Maratosh, big frickoff dude in a combat suit.
The security officer of the Marathon (If you don't know, Marathon is the name of the ship that is made from the moon Deimos). He's one of the ten cyborgs living among Tau Ceti IV, where this game takes place.
Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh.
Should they show gameplay? I don't think they should show gameplay.
They should show something concrete, even if its just screenshots. Likely it'll have no ingame shit
They should keep it mysterious, I think that'll help.
For shits and giggles I went to the Marathon leddit and saw there was some sort of ARG that was already cracked, except the Youtube link there wants me to sign in. Anything there of value lore or gameplay-wise?
Its a vidoc that is premiering now. They are just talking about the game.
This game will bomb, hard.
>Ganker thinks anyone even gives a single frick about the original Marathon games
>the trailer and ARG website already nods to those original games anyway
>they decide to go in a weird direction instead of just making a rote single player fps (seriously are you shocked?)
This board is just moronic, like, nobody here even thinks for like a minute.
Yeah, cause Hunt Showdown is a failure, or something, I guess.
Dude I like Hunt as much as the next person with 2200 hours but lets be honest, it's a niche hit. Crytek RENTS their dogshit servers for fricks sake.
and just like that, the missing piece falls into place and suddenly the lack of a BR Mode in Halo Infinite makes perfect sense.
what does infinite have to do with bungie?
for me, it's when you return to the pfhor ship
What are the chances that we explore some environments that aren't just the Marathon proper? Pfhor ships? Lhowon? I think I can handle some PvP bullshit if I can just see Marathon's world realized in proper 3D. I dislike a lot about Destiny but it has great art direction.
Probably reasonably high for the sake of the visuals
But you are kidding yourself if you believe it will be anything more than a skybox and a series of corridors with a handful of open areas
I unironically, seriously think Marathon is 1000x better than Durandal. The only parts of Durandal I enjoyed were the more claustrophobic space ship levels, otherwise I thought it was awkward and boring. I even love the shitty puzzles in Marathon, I even love the shitty claustrophobic hallways, I even love that absolute fricking moron level where Durandal makes you embrace his suffering in door/elevator opening service, it all adds to the feeling of the game. Marathon is a genuine 8/10 game, Durandal is 6/10 slop.
What about 3?
Too abrasive even for me, couldn't muster the strength to pass the literal one-enemy wide hallway suffocation level, which you start right after a brief wide open suffocation level (which you of course share air supply between) just to really frick you for giggles. The schizo story doesn't appeal to me either, whereas 1's story perfectly matched my personal power fantasies.
Acme Station on TC filtered me. I got through it eventually but I think it's the angriest I ever got at a FPS.
That's fair, but I still prefer 2 since it feels like it wants you to actually have fun.
>I even love that absolute fricking moron level where Durandal makes you embrace his suffering in door/elevator opening service
Oh shit, is that what Colony Ship For Sale was meant to be?
The build-up of going around the Marathon to being alone on the Pfhor ship was very well done and nothing like that exists in the later two games, but I still like Durandal and Infinity more. You are legitimately coping if you think Colony Ship For Sale is anything more than an awful attempt to pad out the game's playtime.
Some doors/elevators outside that level take an egregiously long time to activate too, to the point where I thought the game was broken on my first playthrough. I enjoyed it but damn.
>hit switch
>door right next to it doesn't open until 10 seconds later
evil opinion.
i bet you liked colony ship for sale and pushing grannies into traffic too homosexual
>spend 30 minutes setting up the meme staircase
>run up the stairway to heaven, killed the few remaining enemies and moved on to the next level
>see a bob
>walk by it and immediately fricking die because it was the first suicide bob in the game
>have to remake the staircase all over again
Absolutely brilliant. I don't give a shit what anyone says, this is the kind of evil that makes me cackle at my own suffering. Colony Ship for Sale was one of the best levels in the series, purely because of the setup and punchline.
Oh no Marathonbros
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he's not even trying to mask his voice
dude sounds like ben shapiro trying to imitate john carmack
I am surprised no big company has tried making a Tarkov like game before now.
both CoD and Battlefield have done it
I looked it up and it seems you are right. Havent played either series since the PS3 days.
I have never ever seen a gameplay webm of marathon. I've never seen an organic discussion on this board about marathon. It has always been 'that game bungie made before halo' with no other identity whatsoever. this is just Ganker being mad for the sake of being mad apart from maybe 10 genuine autists.
>I'm fricking ignorant about a subject so nobody else cares about it.
Frick off kid, Marathon and Myth were the biggest Mac games in the 90s. I know you weren't alive then, but that doesn't mean nobody else was.
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Lmao, what's the point in using the marathon IP then? What purpose does it serve? This would be like if halo wars was the first halo game released in 3 decades.
Fluff. It gives them a backdrop, makes it easy for streamers to provide endless marketing via bullshit lore videos and guides and references and so forth without the poison that is destiny, god forbid halo
>gives them a backdrop, makes it easy for streamers to provide endless marketing via bullshit lore videos and guides and references
Fair point.
>This would be like if halo wars was the first halo game released in 3 decades.
At least that would make sense in a roundabout but justifiable way, who the frick played Marathon 30 years ago and thought "you know what, this is great but it would be so much better if it was centered around competitive PvP as a looter shooter"?
>This would be like if halo wars was the first halo game released in 3 decades.
Wasn't halo at one point an RTS? Even beyond that though, Halo is a sci-mil wet dream of a setting so that wouldn't be as shocking.
So, predictions what "Runners" are going to be? If they are just repurposed battleroids I will be slightly more disappointed
They're not battleroids. That tech was banned and battleroids were implied to not even know they were battleroids. You also don't play as a BOB, as everyone aboard the Marathon is gone.
Probably the case honestly with how artificial they look and as an explanation for stat-upgrades when you get carbon fiber legs or something
Come on give me a (you)
if they actually distance themselves from what tarkov does the concept has the potential to be fun.
>bungie
nevermind
I think they should go the opposite direction and just copy Tarkov 1 for 1 but with a sci fi skin
there's a reason Tarkov is the most popular in its genre
as a Halogay, I'm so sad to see fellow Marathongays bear with this painful reveal, we were destroyed for years but no one else deserved this
How old are you guys to remember the original game holy shit.
I’m in my mid 20s and never heard of this
I don't remember it as much as I heard of it but being in my mid 30s has little to do with it
I'm 25 and I love Marathon. I got into the trilogy thanks to the XBL arcade port of Durandal and fell in love with the series. If you've been around retro FPS circles, you've definitely heard of Marathon
30-ish. Macs weren't big, let alone games on mac, so I only played the second game with no mouse-aim, but it left an impression.
I'm in my early 20s and played through the Marathon games back when Reach came out.
25 and I played them in high school when I was looking for free games and one of my steam friends recommended it.
I'm 24, I remember coming across this game a few times and hearing people talk about it like 3 times in my life.
So I'm surprised to see so many people on Ganker give a shit about it.
>So I'm surprised to see so many people on Ganker give a shit about it.
they don't, they're just pretending to be mad
I just hate Bungie
Same age, but I have seen people talk about it on the same level as Powerslave most of the time when talking about retro FPS games. So really, I see it as a cult game that is sort of a gatekeeper test to see if you actually give a shit about FPS games or you only care about Wolf, Doom, Quake and the build trilogy
Do you only play new titles?
The only consolidation is that it will crash and die, letting marathon go back to sleep.
I know this will never happen, but imagine one of the areas consisting of the puzzle from colony ship for sale.
ARC Raiders is also going to become an extraction shooter, I backed out of the test bwcause of the massive genre change from Objective based Co-op