Marathon on Steam
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Become a Runner in Bungie’s upcoming sci-fi PvP extraction shooter, Marathon. You are a cybernetic mercenary venturing into the unknown in a fight for survival and fortune where any run can lead to greatness.
  • Defaced@lemmy.world
    19·
    2 months ago

    This isn’t marathon, this is Bungie trying to make something new and hoping people buy it because of an established intellectual property.

    • TheDorkfromYork@lemm.ee
      9·
      2 months ago

      I don’t think the Marathon ip is big enough to ride on the name. The trailers don’t give a Marathon vibe anyway.

      • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
        13·
        2 months ago

        Which begs the question, why use the IP in the first place?

        It’s especially weird because they just recently gave the green light for the Aleph One developers to release the originals on Steam, so it’s probably more well-known now than ever before. Even though it’s still relatively obscure, why do that now? It just doesn’t make sense.

        • djsoren19@yiffit.net
          12·
          2 months ago

          because “hurr durr it’s an IP we own.”

          Same reason as why Bethesda slapped Prey on Arcane’s spooky space station imsim. It doesn’t need to make sense, the games don’t need to be connected, the IP doesn’t have to be popular, companies are just so adverse to a new IP that they would rather change everything about an old one.

          • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
            10·
            2 months ago

            Same reason as why Bethesda slapped Prey on Arcane’s spooky space station imsim

            This was the weirdest choice. I actually dismissed the new Prey entirely for a very long time because I didn’t enjoy the old one, when the new one was actually a very different, very good game.

            • Renacles@lemmy.world
              2·
              2 months ago

              It was forced on Arkane by Zenimax, the game was supposed to be called NeuroShock or something like that.

  • heavy
    122·
    2 months ago

    Pvp extraction shooter? What does that have to do with the Marathon franchise?

    I smell a cash grab.

    • theboomr@lemmy.world
      71·
      2 months ago

      Seeing the initial new Marathon trailer might have been the most excited and then disappointed I’ve ever been with a game announcement. So excited for them to bring that franchise to the modern era, but so disappointed that it was just an extraction shooter. Ugh.

    • WolfLink
      2·
      2 months ago

      It’s made by the company that made the original Marathon. Or what’s left of that company at least…

  • odium@programming.dev
    72·
    2 months ago

    Bungie? Pls make this a one time payment and not the fuckery that is the destiny 2 pricing model.

      • odium@programming.dev
        51·
        2 months ago

        I haven’t so far. For me to spend money on this game, it has to be

        a. Good

        b. Linux compatible

        c. Not have any non-cosmetic transactions other than an up front purchase price

        With bungie, all three of these have a low chance of happening. There’s a reason why my autocorrect keeps trying to write bungle.

  • mrfriki@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 months ago

    They can barely maintain a single game and now after firing almost half their employees they expect to maintain 3 games? Well, I’m grabbing my popcorn…

  • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml
    41·
    2 months ago

    If Bungie is behind it I have zero interest without even knowing what it is. Destiny 2 was an OK game, but its god awful anticheat bans Linux users. That is a sure-fire way to make me pretend your game doesn’t exist. Client side anticheat is a plague. Do it properly on the server side.

  • RiQuY@lemm.ee
    2·
    2 months ago

    Where can I see the game? Clearly the Steam page is not the right place.

    • alphabethunter@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

      Nowhere so far. We have 0 gameplay for it yet. Maybe soon we’ll get to see something as they stated that the game will come in 2025.

  • Riley@lemmy.ml
    31·
    2 months ago

    Hope it turns out well, the announcement trailer was a wicked vision of a wild artistic and sonic direction, but it seems like the actual development process has been quite troubled.