Marathon 2025 - Bungie's new AAAA Extraction shooter

[Lord Denning]

Elden Ring, Halo, Marathon failing or catfighting and anything but Marathon content like the braindead retarded decision to make a basic S'pht compiler fodder enemy from the OG games a boss in Cryo Archive

Is this actually true lmao. I assume no one is talking about the content of the game cause no one is playing it. I'm sure as shit not. I haven't been following the thread super closely, so forgive me if this has already been talked about, but I wasn't able to find anything when I searched the thread. I'm wondering what exactly carries over from the original games to the new one? I heard that there's no Pfhor, but apparently there are S'pht. Ok, great. Is there anything about the Jjaro? Do Durandal, Leela or Tycho show up? What about the W'rkncacnter? Did Bungie try to explain what Hangar 96 actually was? What about the presumably Illuminati-esque group that was (probably) manipulating MIDA and the UESC to get the Marathon built and sent to Tau Ceti? Bungie is digging up an old IP that no one except me actually cares about, did they use any of it? What the fuck was the point if the only connection to the original games is one boss and a title?

As a side note, I tried to answer these questions myself by checking Marathon's Story Page, but unfortunately, it hasn't been updated since March 5 when the new game launched so there's no new information. The last time it didn't get a monthly update was back in 2023. Now to be clear, I don't know the reason why there haven't been any updates. However, the fact that there's a new Marathon game for the first time in 30 years and Hamish Sinclair, the original Marathon superfan (to the point where there's a map named after him in Marathon Infinity, and Bungie was sending him cryptic emails as part of a promotion for Halo: Combat Evolved before they even revealed the game to the public) seemingly isn't participating in dissecting its lore is somewhat disconcerting to me.

EDIT: Never mind, right after I posted I found this page with the new logo so he's cooking up something I guess, it's just not done yet.

 

[namelesstacotruck]

At least a dozen other players need to have their hopes dashed and dreams shattered for 3 other people to experience the game at it's best. This is not a sustainable practice or a daily reality for most players. I'm 100% certain that Bungie does not realize that this is the core issue of the game, every match ends with clear winners and clear losers. The winners stay winning and the losers stay quitting

So they took "Trials of Osiris" one of the worst and most toxic game modes known to gaming ever. A model that only streamers liked and they have struggled to keep people playing.

They took that model and based the whole game loop around it. Lmao.

Edit:
I am late and others have made the Trials comparision. Just remember kids this is the talent that could have worked on D2 pvp instead. Zero lessons learned.