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Caribou wrote

I was thinking about this seeing a trailer for Marathon. Imagine if they just made that a Normal Game

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devtesla OP wrote

oh bungie... no company has sacrificed more by refusing to make normal games

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twovests wrote

Wow, it was almost three years since the Marathon trailer dropped.

From the creators of Halo and Destiny comes a new sci-fi PVP extraction shooter: Marathon.

So disappointing. Extractiom shooters were tired in 2023. Bungie hasn't released anything worth playing in 15 years but that still stings.

I was a big Halo fan and got really into Bungie's lore. When I was twelve, it seemed really mysterious and magical how Halo was almost a sequel to Marathon.

I didn't realize at the time that it was very normal for "spiritual successors" to reuse ideas and incorporate scrapped concepts of their preceding works (like Halo did). So, Marathon was this mysterious thing that made Halo seem so rich and mysterious. It was the thing behind the curtain. It was the marrow that nourished the blood of the franchise. It helped that the Halo fanbase being largely Marathon fans with unanswered questions.

With Bungie going all-in on generative AI, it really kills the striking / uncanny / visceral visual identity they're purporting. I can't resonate with something that just reads as unintentional.

Sorry to ramble at your comment, I've been thinking about Marathon after reading it.

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