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mrfriki@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I’m not interested either way, but my money says it’ll do okay

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• rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Marathon is probably life or death for Bungie. Sony can’t exactly afford to put out a mid game after spending so much on the studio… and “mid” is exactly what Marathon felt like. Just like so many copycats during the battle royale boom.

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  • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Idk I played the play test and it was easily one of the better extraction shooters. Bungie has gun play locked in. But they shot themselves in the foot with BattlEye linux support and my new linux build is literally being put together this week. So regardless, I won’t be buying it when it launches cause it wont run on linux.

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    • baines@lemmy.cafe ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      post build specs please

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      • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Case: O11 Compact Board: MSI 870e Edge TI Wifi
        CPU: Ryzen 9 9950 x3D
        GPU: XFX RX 9070 xt
        PSU: Lian Li EG1000G
        Cooler: Lian Li Hydroshift 2 LCD

        It took me over a year to get it all together and all of the expensive components were gifts

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  • dellish@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    To be honest at this point toppling Embark Studios is pretty tough in my book. The games they make have the same feeling of passion that Bungie used to have. Great gun play, fantastic audio design and interesting ideas. I really hope for the best for Marathon, if for no other reason than competition drives creativity, but Bungie has had the soul sucked out of them unfortunately.

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  • ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Mid is exactly how I have seen Marathon described by the server slam feedback. People vasalating between whether or not they like it immediately after starting to play it is not a great look.

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  • doublah@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Marathon seems pretty good imo, it’s problem is it’s trying to be a more hardcore extraction shooter than the ones that already exist which is gonna make it too niche to sustain a large US-based studio like Bungie.

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  • silver@das-eck.haus ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I heard the most recent playtest brought some hype back. Did you play it?

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    • very_well_lost@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      People who enjoy hardcore pvp and extraction shooters are hyped… but the important question is whether or not those people represent a large enough niche to sustain a game with such a massive budget.

      I’m guessing it won’t be, but who knows.

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    • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not a lot, just enough to get the feel of the game, but also to realize that I’m not the target audience. In some ways, it’s similar to Counter-Strike 1.6 twenty years ago: if I have a group of friends and an hour of free time, then sure, I might hop on. But I won’t be investing the time and long-term effort that an extraction shooter expects of me.

      The moment to moment experience is good. Bungie haven’t forgotten how to create a tight FPS experience. But the game needs longevity and that’s what concerns me.

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• SalamenceFury@piefed.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Marathon is the complete opposite of ARC Raiders in the fact that it essentially forces/encourages you to fight. I give it like 2 months before all the casuals go back to ARC because of spawn rushers (they were already doing that during the server slam).

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• THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  DOA is my guess but they’ll probably prop it up for a month or so.

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• red_tomato@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Given how boring it is to watch others play it, I don’t think it will see any huge success. It will probably find a loyal fanbase, but probably not enough to sustain it long term.

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