Bungie has publicly responded to accusations surrounding plagiarism of artwork featured in its upcoming extraction shooter, Marathon.
Bungie: "We immediately investigated a concern regarding unauthorized use of artist decals in Marathon and confirmed that a former Bungie artist included these in a texture sheet that was ultimately used in-game.
This issue was unknown by our existing art team, and we are still reviewing how this oversight occurred.
We take matters like this very seriously. We have reached out to @4nt1r34l to discuss this issue and are committed to do right by the artist."
"However, one thing Marathon’s been almost universally praised for is its art style."
Eh, I've heard a lot of dislike for the bleak art style. "Universally praised" would mean that hardly anyone dislikes it. This is a pretty dishonest article. I'm personally not a big fan of it either.
https://gamerant.com/marath...
I don't mind the art style so to speak but watching footage, the world looked really bland and lacked detail, reminded me of a mid budget VR game.
They said it was universal so you might just unaware just how much you do in fact praise its art style.
I have a hard time finding anyone who is praising the art style. All I see are complaints.
Probably because the boo boys are more vocal. I mean most of us haven’t really played it and its still in development, so how can we praise it? Meanwhile the boo boys don’t need objectivity to criticize a game that has not launched yet.
The art style, I personally like it. But I also need at least a good lore to get into games as I am usually not a multiplayer only kind of gamer.
I have never seen anyone praise Marathon for its art style, in fact, I think it's one of the things that is universally hated about this game.
Since the early days of destiny, Bungie has cemented itself as the undisputed King of being dishonest while technically not lying. They simply don't hype things up or make statements without some kind of bs. Their dishonest marketing speak bs has become their entire brand for me.
You have to look at politics to find worse.
At least they’re trying to do right and admitted quickly that it was stolen. I give credit when credit is due.
I also dig the new art style, I know most people are mixed.
"I give credit when credit is due."
No you don't and this is an absolute lie. You aren't giving credit to the artist they stole from you're giving credit to the thief. You're a disgusting liar if anything.
I knew it was DOA from the trailer, yeah, there's no recovering from this, it's Concord 2.0. I dread to see how many more of these Playstation had in production before they changed direction and cancelled the ones that were in the early stages.
In the end, how did the Marathon Closed Alpha go? There are two components to this, how the game felt and how it was received more generally.
It’s an unproven trend at this point, but the new race toward live multiplayer games appear to be the genre of extraction shooters, and this week brought an unusual situation with two upcoming 2025 extraction games both running Closed Alphas and so far, eliciting different reactions.
The reaction to the Marathon Alpha has mostly been mixed to underwhelming. The initial reaction to the ARC Raiders Alpha has visibly skewed more positive.
I see those Microsoft owned sites posting bad articles about marathon like they feel it’s going to beat CoD and all other FPS 🤣
Edit: I don’t play FPS so I don’t care enough to click on the link 🤷🏿just a observation from this article and the windows central article
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“fund good games unlike Sony”
Too little too late. 💀 Now they’re multiplat only. 💀 Buying studios was a desperate measure. 💀 Turned out great for PS5 owners though. 🥳
Most ARC Raiders preview articles/player reception's seems to be same? Even in Bungie fan threads?
Do you guys even venture sites outside of N4G?
Really? Seems to me like both are snoozers and people just aren't interested in these games.
Arc Raiders I had heavy interest in when they spoke of it being a Looter Shooter, with the aesthetic of the game it seemed like it was worth it, but personally I've now lost all interest in it since it's become a Extraction Shooter. I don't mind the genre, but here we go again with the oversaturation of one particular genre because they've decided to chase the new extraction trend and just make the game Streamer Bait. I wish they would just go back to designing these games for people who actually play them again rather than for an audience who just watches.
As for Marathon I don't even know what to say about it really other than, it doesn't look exciting or fun to engage with at all. Perhaps picking up and playing is different, but I doubt it.
For some reason this reminds me of issues artist have brought up regarding AI 'art'. Where literally everything is sourced from other artists. Invluding AI art in games seems like a legal nightmare.
Shut up and finish the game off. Hopefully it doesn't suck.