I can safely say that this latest Marathon reboot has the potential to be among the best of the genre.
Windows Central: “Embark Studios' ARC Raiders is the extraction shooter I've been waiting for. Here's why it's better than Bungie's upcoming Marathon.”
This is silly. I think both games are amazing. Both games can be very successful at the same time and I hope they are.
I hate articles like this. “My opinion is all that matters. Click my stuff”. Both games will have their audiences. Some ppl like rock. Some ppl like rap. Not everyone is the same.
So we can we can see into the future now? I’m sure ARC is fine, me personally? Far more interested in Marathon. Between known Bungie’s solid gameplay and world building to the aesthetics and concept, I’m all in on Marathon.
Yeah but unfortunately marathon are both in the hands of gamers and one has been recommend for delay.
I played the Technical Test 2 earlier today and had a blast. I got thrown in an instance, saw a guy walking up some stairs, started shooting at him and watched him run for his life. It was funny until I got killed by some random drones. They're both different games and will have their space. Only the gameplay loop will tell.
Why do gamers/gamejournalist do this? We need to stop with all this doom article game shit.
windowscentral wouldn't have wrote this "piece" if Bungie was still owned by Microsoft.
And yes, I'm implying exactly what anyone reading this comment thinks.
Marathon playercounts don't matter at this point, but we can see a few things about short-term interest in the game that are a little concerning.
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.
So.... what's the over / under on this game also getting pulled shortly after release?
Arc Raiders is already getting better reception in the preview sessions than Marathon, anyways.