Submitted 9 months ago by ampersandrew@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/marathon_update
No new release date yet. The next update from Bungie will be in the Fall. Quite frankly, I thought the game would just come out and die to cut their losses.
Original Marathon was really great. While you’re waiting for BUNGIE to drop this turd you should play the open source remake Aleph One.
It’s available on Steam for free as Classic Marathon.
That’s really cool. I had no idea that the original games were remade:
Classic Marathon: store.steampowered.com/app/…/Classic_Marathon/
Classic Marathon 2: store.steampowered.com/app/…/Classic_Marathon_2/
Classic Marathon Infinity: …steampowered.com/…/Classic_Marathon_Infinity/
Not so much “remade” but the engine was open-sourced and it’s been kept up-to-date for modern computers. Exact same levels, graphics, sound effects as it ever was, but obviously the resolution now is much higher than it was in the early nineties. Think my graphics card can push it at 4K 144Hz while still being in power-saving mode; it does more work rendering desktop fonts nicely.
There’s also a port of Pathways Into Darkness onto the engine, if you want to play it? It’s a real bitch to emulate a classic Mac to get it running, but this is basically drag-and-drop. It was brutally unfair even at the time, and contains a lot of features which have not aged well and are distinctly un-fun - it is not a game that’s afraid to waste your time, put it like that. I do love the idea of it - the atmosphere of it is probably the best bit, and I’d love a modern remake of it.
And whatever this new Marathon is it bears exactly zero relation to the original. Innovative, original, single player experience vs derivitave, cut and paste multiplayer “live service” grift.
I am not optimistic in the slightest.
But the Marathon trilogy was really a bog standard FPS of the era that was mostly tied together with a completely out there story that was told almost exclusively via text logs.
So, a bog standard whatever buzz word genre it is at this point tied together with blog posts and youtube videos would actually be keeping with tradition.
Having to replace or pay for all the stolen art assets will do that…
The art isn't even the biggest issue, the playtest was already reviewing poorly before everybody discovered the art was stolen.
The stolen art is a much bigger problem for Bungie in a legal sense. They (and other studios) put out mediocre shit all the time and promise to fix it. I’m sure the poor play test contributed but the stolen art is likely the cause for this delay.
They now have to scan every single asset in the game to make sure the stolen art is no longer there and that’s just the stolen art they know about. There might be more stolen art in there, who knows.
Now that the controversy is public the original artist could easily find a lawyer to go against Bungie if more stolen art is found in the final release. If Bungie gets sued they might have to pull the game from storefronts.
Could it be that people just don’t want yet another fairly generic live service PvP extraction shooter? No, can’t be.
What is that?
An extraction shooter from Bungie, wearing the skin of a game that company made 30 years ago, that didn’t test well.
What? That’s surprising honestly that they aren’t doing destiny 3 or something. I know the final shape just came out but like damn. Extraction shooter is a risk because every single one fails within months. Arc Raiders will also most likely bomb a few weeks after release. (I got to test it, was MEH at best, hopefully they add some stuff to do)
hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Remember then Bungie made good games?
truxnell@aussie.zone 9 months ago
Becoming a dim, distant memory sadly…