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I've been trying to distill my thoughts and feelings about playing Marathon into something easily communicable and I keep coming back to Season 6, Episode 13 of The Simpsons. In the episode, titled "And Maggie Makes Three," Homer learns that he's become a father for the third time and, in response, reacts with a despondent thumbs up that simultaneously acknowledges that something good has happened but that it also creates the potential for stress, hardship, and maybe even disappointment. I hate to reduce playing an alpha version of the next game from the team behind Halo and Destiny to a reaction meme deployed by millennials in group chats, but the accuracy of what homersadthumbsup.jpg conveys is undeniable.
One former Concord dev defends Marathon and discusses the "vitriol" people have toward games in a statement shared with MP1st.
Plenty of people are excited for Marathon- nobody was excited for Concord. That's the difference.
Not really. It's quite rare to see excitement for Marathon in comment sections. The only place where I've seen positive rhetoric for Marathon is the game's subreddit.
The marathon discord jumped up around 300k on reveal. Which is like what, triple of what concord sold lmao
Hold on! He may have been on the same team, but that wasn't this developer's words. The guy who made the "talentless freaks" comment was Xavier Farrell. I don't know if Stephan Williams shared the same attitude, but I think it's fair to not hold that over his head.
He's not wrong. There are talented, great devs who made games then quit because of online vitriol from a tiny group of shitstirrers.
Wow, you hate a game you couldn't possibly have played yet. Or you hate a game that you couldn't possibly have played. How original.
Normal people (because you never hear from them) when they don't like a game, don't care and move on. They don't waste their time talking shit about it.
And the people who do just search for people they want to agree with their bias.
"There are talented, great devs who made games then quit because of online vitriol from a tiny group of shitstirrers."
I dunno about Tiny group of ppl. Hell ppl online made it collectively known they didn't want Concord.
If you were speaking as early as last gen. Yeah you could say it was a handful of small ppl online that talk down on certain games but ultimately had no impact on the games sales. Look at Destiny IP. Ppl Talk so much crap about that game post launch and the game still sold like crazy. Same with 2. These days there's a collective whole of ppl who are trying to tear down games by using platforms and followers to do it. Grummz is a perfect example of someone who has been terrorizing the game industry with his rhetoric of "anti-wokeness" and he's been doing this most of this gen along with his retarded followers. Doesn't matter the game he'll go after it if it doesn't fit his agenda and world. he's hurt this industry with fake outrage that spreads like a disease. It's definitely not a tiny amount of ppl anymore it's annoying movement that's hurting this industry. If a game doesn't get announced perfectly 10 outta 10 the with no "agendas" then "fans" will destroy said game.
Grummz is a scam artist and part of his thing is using anti-workness as a sheild to block out the criticism he has rightfully earned.
What does compassion have to do with this? This person needs to realize he’s not living in some fantasy world. This is the real world, and he was involved in a massive failure. No one is obligated to offer compassion for failure just to make others feel better about themselves. The so-called vitriol comes from deeply frustrated people who are tired of the industry producing low-quality content and then blaming gamers instead of the creators. It’s ridiculous.
If the reveal of Marathon has left you a bit perplexed about its setting, the cinematic released today may help explain it in simpler terms.
I still don't understand whose decision it was to make a F2P game that is not F2P. The Streamers will farm it for content after this the game will have way below average numbers.
I dont think the game inherently should be free to play, but maybe would suit it better. Lots of extraction shooters aren't. I know it's not the norm in terms of mutiplayer games anymore with Fortnite, Warzone, Apex, overwatch, etc.
When Sony bought Bungie, I was secretly hoping that they would produce something magical like Halo for the PS consoles. an LS extraction shooter was not I had in mind
That was my exact expectation of Bungie. Disappointed is an understatement.
The game has been in production since 2018 and almost tanked Bungie financially before Sony stepped in…
They were not going to scrap the game and Sony did not dictate the game to bungie.
TNS: Bungie hosted a gameplay reveal for Marathon, and it looks like this might be the extraction shooter that takes the genre mainstream.
The alt accounts disagree with me but seems they can’t tell me why.
N4G is a pathetic cesspool of neck beards. They barely represent but a tiny fraction of the gaming community.
Do you actually believe that, like truly believe that? Lol
Do you remember Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction? I don't think even Ubisoft remembers it.
I feel like your joking about rainbow six extraction, cause that WAS NOT an extraction shooter
Remember Dead Space Extraction on Wii?
Well still not extraction shooter. Do you even know what you are writing?
About Ubisoft not remembering about Rainbow Six…
I don’t know… there is a possibility that they are secretly working on something to make it their latest endeavour for DEI
Man it just looks so generic. Graphics look like Breath of the Wild mixed with Cyberpunk. Textures are flat af right now, perhaps that will change.
I have the same feeling o had with destiny. Both of them.
Not really feeling it at first until I played it and till this day I still hope on destiny.
So we will see. No fully convinced yet but like I said, I was the same way with destiny
I don't see myself playing this longterm. Does that mean it will be a failure 🤔 GTA 6 is supposed to come out a few months after this as well. I believe Sony made a mistake acquiring Bungie for 3.6 Billion dollars
With Destiny, Bungie kinda helped start the trend of console shared world shooters by taking what RPG elements World of Warcraft had inspired and merging them with the loot FPS collecting of Borderlands.
This feels like they're opening the door to a trend that has already started.