In the heavens, a new Marathon is waiting...

june gloom on 24/5/2023 at 21:28

OH MY GOD NEW MARATHON.

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I came back here just to post this because Marathon is one of my favorite series and I need to share my joy.

Nevermind. (https://www.theverge.com/23735830/bungie-marathon-sci-fi-pvp-extraction-shooter) It's a live-service extraction shooter. Can't have shit out here.

That's my post for the quarter, see you in a few months.

Renault on 24/5/2023 at 23:27

Marathon was always kind of overrated anyway.

Yakoob on 25/5/2023 at 00:32

Quote:

That's my post for the quarter, see you in a few months

Should've waited another week, could've brought us June gloom

henke on 25/5/2023 at 05:06

I liked Marathon.

Dunno what an extraction shooter is but I DON'T WANT IT!

Malf on 25/5/2023 at 09:18

Quote Posted by Brethren

Marathon was always kind of overrated anyway.

I adored it, especially Marathon 2. Grenade hopping and rocket jumping before Quake popularised them, a momentum-based melee damage system, the only shotgun to ever rival Doom's, with the best reload animation, a twisty, turny story that didn't insult the intelligence of the player and BOBS!

FROGBLAST THE VENT CORE!

Also, Durandal was a better, more interesting and nuanced AI than Shodan.

*Runs from incoming torrent of rotten vegetables*

On topic, that they're bringing it back, but as a live service shooter, is MASSIVELY disappointing.
It's like that time a new Shadowrun game got announced, only for it to be a generic class-based multiplayer shooter on Xbox 360 :(

nicked on 25/5/2023 at 09:22

By the Shadowrun logic then, you should see a faithful "Marathon Returns" in about 2029.

Sulphur on 25/5/2023 at 09:38

Quote Posted by Malf

Also, Durandal was a better, more interesting and nuanced AI than Shodan.

*Runs from incoming torrent of rotten vegetables*

No, Marathon was pretty good, actually. It had to suffer being relatively unknown due to being only available on Macs at the time, but there was clearly good shit happening in it. It has Bungie's early weirdness and love of sci-fi threaded right through, and while I don't think Marathon's better than SS (skewing as it does more towards a Doom clone), it's definitely pretty dang good, and Durandal's personality is definitely a high point.

Starker on 25/5/2023 at 10:33

Nuance-schmuance... SHODAN beats Durandal in style.

catbarf on 25/5/2023 at 16:05

I like Marathon but it's a product of its time. There's some fantastic story and writing, but you have to look past maze-like level design, text infodump storytelling, and sometimes clunky gunplay. It's the perfect candidate for a modern reboot without the technical limitations and amateur design of 1994, so it's extra baffling that this is what they're doing with the IP.

I can't imagine how a F2P live service extraction shooter can capture anything about what made the Marathon series distinctive. At least the Shadowrun shooter took the core 'cyberpunk with fantasy races and magic' identity and made a decent game based on that concept. What's Marathon without the story?

Next up, Pathways Into Darkness resurrected as a crafting/battle royale shooter.

Starker on 25/5/2023 at 16:39

I mean, clearly they first and foremost wanted to do one of those extraction shooters that seem to be so popular with the kids these days and only then started to look around whether they had any old IPs lying around that they could use for that.