Marathon 2025 - Bungie's new AAAA Extraction shooter

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Pod 042 said:
Bungie isn't massive, it's bloated to the gills with adult day care jobs and nepotism. They are going to be getting gutted one way or another, either out of necessity or by Sony's hand. And honestly it's been a long time coming.

That's why's I think Marathon will get dropped. Bungie needs to tighten their belt financially and focus on a product that makes money now while also preparing for the future. D2 getting an AoT will keep them afloat, D3 in 2.5 years will print money. Double and tripling down on marathon will kill the studio, and Sony is too invested to let that happen now.
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The main issue with this train of thought is who is still around at Bungie that could possibly run an actual studio that produces actual good games in an actual good timeline? If no one (which is correct, because the whole studio has been brain drained like 4 times over) - where do you possibly find someone who can?

Are any of the current Bungie devs worth keeping on with a new studio if they find someone that can manage it (and that's a gigantic if)? Are Bungie's IPs - in this case Destiny - still worth anything to the normal video game consumer (who likely already bounced off Destiny 1 or Destiny 2, plus all the negative PR around Destiny 2) that would possibly justify the cost?

I think the answer to every question is a real big "No fucking way" but Sony has to try and wring something out of it - but sometimes you have to cut your losses.
 
ScurvyRat said:
I just want to know what the fuck the item does. I don't need to know that the lord of shit shoved it up his ass 2000 years ago and now he has anal prolapsing after its removal.
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You can have both, pic related.

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Lammy said:
They already set this up
Destiny 1's big bad was vaguely the force called "The Darkness" and then they made it into a crazy alien guy using it in Destiny 2 with a character named "The Witness" who used the power of The Darkness (and was masquerading as a personification of The Darkness itself in Destiny 1) to try to cause the heat death of the universe, who got killed super ultra dead by the player character and other protagonists
But now there's this bigger badder guy called "The Winnower" that created The Darkness in the first place (or maybe even just is The Darkness)
The Winnower was known about in the game's lore before The Witness even was concepted as part of the story, but it was intentionally ambiguous as to whether The Winnower even existed, or if the idea of him was just a loose concept to explain and personify The Darkness; but they immediately established him as an existent and definitely real thing in a lore sidenote shortly after killing off The Witness
The story has also teased leaving the solar system and going to other places like the homeworlds of the enemy alien factions, but since Bungie can't just copy-paste existing assets to make those it hasn't happened

I think Destiny 3 is probably still Bungie/Sony's best play to salvage Bungie as a studio, but I'm doubtful that they have the talent, competency, or humility to do that instead of tripling and quadrupling down on Concord 3 Marathon
Shutting down the studio for a 4 billion tax write-off is probably the most logistically sound play though lol
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I saw someone on a discord claim to be using cheats and seeing lobbies with only 1 or 2 3-man teams. Some lobbies with 4-5 solo players only.
 
creaturestorm said:
At some point, a story teller has to explain their world some how, you cant realistically communicate every single detail purely through diegetic means with out pissing off and boring your audience to death.
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"I don't have time to explain why I don't have time to explain"

the absolute worst
 
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