Marathon has been:>raped >tortured>set on fire>decapitatedYet it’s still alive. How did Bungie do it? It’s genuinely impressive that they managed to keep it up this long
Blast bros… I’m sick of this..
>>746559709How did this happening to us… I’m sick of this… please God… why is it so hard to be blaster…
>>746559709>>746559830Marathon's public image is fascinating. I know of everything that went wrong with its development, and yet all of that together doesn't account for the sheer amount of negativity around it.
I played it during the free weekend Took more time to download than to realize it’s dogshit and uninstall
>>746560339They stole art from a tranny lmao the shameful display has never been as shameful. They went from top of the world with halo to a cascade of fucking over their players and everyone else they touched. The vitriol and seethe is warranted. I hope they all get purged from bungie
Its temu apex legends with an evac modifier and maps about 5 times smaller than kings canyon. Its actually garbage
>>746560339You have to take into account of what they did during the destiny daysWhile that series lived for over a decade, Bungie absolutely took advantage of their halo goodwill and addicted fansOnce D2 was announced to have no meaningful updates for the sake of Marathon they immediately created the Marathon hatedom
>>746560419What actually happened is that Antireal's art was used as reference, and a lower ranking art person used it as a texture by mistake. Should have done better quality control, but after looking at the state of almost every patch and Destiny player testimonies, Bungie don't seem to be capable of that.
sony cant execute their failure
>>746559830>he probably plays codNow that's a crisp insult if ever I saw one
>>746563075>and a lower ranking art person used it as a texture by mistake.Sounds like scapegoating considering a whole bunch of lead artists followed the tranny on social media so they obviously knew what his stuff looked like.
>>746559601I can only assume it's still online as a face-saving measure.
>>746560339Because Marathon doesn't exist in a vacuum. It's part of a greater push of Karen-friendly, mediocre western AAA titles that were shilled by game journos. They've decided that this is the future of our hobby. We're saying "no".>The backlash is due to the fact that it's live-service.And yet, there's plenty of positivity and success around gacha, Marvel Rivals, etc.. That's the cope from wokoids and cowards who don't want to talk about the fact that the left wing political cabal that controls the industry is the problem.
>>746563274Pretty much, it's only alive because another Concord from Sony would get memed to death.
>>746560339You cannot regain izzat after ripping off a troon in today's economy.If they hadn't done that I can assure you no one at all would be talking out it. Troons are that deranged and unstable. Why do you think they kill themselves? LAMO
>>746563392I can only assume it's also due to the money sony spent on bungie.
>>746563235Do you propose that Bungie just decided to steal someone's art for textures thinking that no one would bet an eye? Not even making something similar with their art team (like they've actually done in other cases), but just taking JPEGs from Twitter and pasting them into the game? That's extremely implausible.
>>746563531They have history.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bungie#Unlicensed_art_use
Marathon is Good... Y'all Are Just Being Weird
just uninstalled it after finding out they made Vault breaker timed exclusive. the fuck?
When are the devs gonna wheel out the ole "death threats" excuse? Or has that already happened
>>746559830>>746560339I don't care for destiny but i sure as hell would be miffed if a game series i liked was getting canned and replaced with some concordlike game
>>746563461People transfixed on the plagiarism because they had already decided that they hated Marathon and saw an opportunity to rip on it. When did they decide that they hated it? When they saw the character designs.If everyone were excited for the game, the plagiarism incident would have been like 1% of the discussion.
>>746564053>Putting all the trannies and foids in the backYou can't make this shit up
>>746559830Normals dont even know what that game is.
>>746563926It was a test game mode, as temporary as every previous test game mode. This was explicitly outlined everywhere it was mentioned. How the fuck did you "find out" about it?
>AAA budget game by AAA studio>absolute dogshit that refuses to die yet somehow gets propped up because AAA studio money behind ittruly a mystery
>>746564053I wonder how women feel about men infiltrating womens-only spaces and if they speak up about it they are labelled as monsters
>>746564223These people are collecting pretty high paychecks so they probably are okay with being weirded out
>>746564223Women support the double standard. If you're waiting for their permission to fix this, it's never going to come.
>>746563736>Y'all Are Just Being Weird
>>746564217>This was explicitly outlined everywhere it was mentionedyeah when it came out.
>>746564053Nooooo you can't fire the women! Who will come up with genius ideas like drinkable burgers?!
Still running for GOTY, I'm the authority on that.
It's the best shooter you can play right now alongside Fortnite Zero Build.
>>746564223women are hating on straight men going to pilates and yoga classes, also dancing classes.
Outpost is the best multiplayer shooter map I've ever played. Up there with Blood Gulch and Gridlock from Gears of War.
>>746565259This would just make the game industry look nepotistic and signal that if you're waiting for them to change course before reentering their customer pool, you're going to keep waiting.If they're smart, the only time that they'll talk about the Concords is when they're ready to actually discuss what went wrong. We all know, including those who pretend like they don't.
>>746565585>This would just make the game industry look nepotistic and signal that if you're waiting for them to change course before reentering their customer pool, you're going to keep waiting.Please proof read your sentences.
>>746565431Honestly, it is an amazing FPS map, too bad the loot is so concentrated in the pinwheel, the game would be much more fun if the devs knew how to distribute loot.
>>746564412is that a fucking dmg 'jak?
>>746564223They're oftentimes validated, there is a gender double-standard as far as social media treats things.>>746565390It's seen as creepy to go into girls spaces as a guy
Everyone that shit talks the game are either upset at bungie, don't like the graphics or get initially churned out by the extraction elements early on.I don't play the game anymore, but the ACTUAL problems in the game and genre are much deeper than the shallow "this fucking sucks lmao" that gets thrown at the game.
This video has more views than people who played maraflop
i had fun
>>746566282>posting youtube countsPeople like this need to leave the board. They're wrapped up in their own autistic melodrama and all the discussion fades out to their samefagging.
>>746566282>This video has more views than people who played maraflop [CITATION NEEDED]Marathon sold 1,5 million copies in season 1 alone
>>746563283>It's part of a greater push of Karen-friendly, mediocre western AAA titlesHow is Marathon "Karen-friendly" ?
>>746567240>How is Marathon "Karen-friendly" ?It literally uses AI to chat police you from saying any no-no words or harassing people.
>>746559601On life support with an IV that is pure sony money.
>>746559709This retard can barely type, thats the kind of mouth breather playing marathon.
>>746567240Ugly female characters.Unthreatening male characters.A general lack of grit and edge.The reason why they didn't just create a high fidelity version of Marathon's aesthetic is because women wouldn't like it.
>>7465670261,5 million
>>746567026I like how you say this as if Marathon had legs.
>>746567879It did...back when Chris was leading the project.
>>746567026>no proof>the only numbers we got from bungie was discord users
>>746568545We sort of have a proxy from the Sony investors reports and from the launch charts. Notice that it's potentially off by 30 percent.
>>746568545Oh yeah, the 400k discord server members is the closest thing to an official player count/sales number.
Marathon needed a fully-fledged single-player/co-operative narrative campaign to further flesh out the Marathon IP universe in order to attract more players, teach them the game's systems and mechanics, give players the freedom to experiment, and advance the IP as a whole. Give it a soul. Instead of putting in any effort at all, they thought a bog-standard extraction game was enough to evolve not just their studio, but the genre itself forward. Bungie is defeated by its own hubris.
>>746568545Didn't we get something from Paul Tassi? The reason why he's trustworthy when he's reporting on bad news for Marathon is because he's a Hollywood shill with insider info who would prefer to be saying that Marathon sold 10M copies and that mediocre troon shit is the future of gaming.
>>746568823The first thing that it needed was a completely different art direction. Most people aren't stupid and vapid enough to view modern art as anything more than a bad joke, and this is particularly ugly.
>>746568545that also means no proof for the rumored $250M budget. thank you for your contribution.
>>746569029You can just do the math. 300-400 employees * $100k average annual salary (reasonable assumption given where their offices are and the fact that this is a major game studio) * 7 years of development350 * 100,000 * 7 = $245M
>>746559601Imagine being Sony and wasting money on the empty husk that once developed Halo lmfao. The five people still left working on Marathon are probably googling Nitrogen suicide.
>Total>Bungie>Annihilation
>>746569304Bellevue WA tech salaries are in the region of 50% more than that.
>>746568930Modern art was a CIA psy op. Nobody ever truly thought it looked good. It was pushed by paid circles of artists and gallery owners.
what extraction game do you guys recommend?i want something to larp as a soldier on a mission, so a tacticool vibe eould be nice
>>746568838Indirectly, as usual. He just knocked down some other consultoid estmates.
>>746569029Correct. We have an estimate from financial reports and also hints from Tassi. It could easily be off by 30 percent. Based on Sony's other moves, I'd bet on being off low rather than high though.
>>746569620I don't. not until we get a new Planetside sort of game. Least fucked are obviously tartoff. Grey zone might be good in a decade ,but I wouldn't bet on it.
>>746568838we did get Tassi's confirmation on 1.2m copies and later the same analytics talked about 1.5m but anons are busy ragebaiting
>>746569620its a shame CoD DMZ got ruined, then shut down, it was a lot of fun.
>>746564053The fact they grouped in women and non-binary says a lot
>>746559601Being alive is the worst thing for Sony, but the situation they are forced to be in. If you wish the worst on your opponents, the best thing isn't a swift death, but a futile existence. Marathon isn't living based on the merits of its game or audience, but for the potential trust for an audience to play Sony's five other live service games they still have in the pipeline. If every live service game Sony made gets shitcanned for being bad it just ensures every subsequent game gets shitcanned too. Sony can tank one Concord, they can't tank 7 in a row, so they're trying their best to ensure that they scavange something from the other 5, even if Marathon is a loss.I, for one, am very happy with this pitiful existance Marathon is in. They are going to keep the servers live even when only 8 people play the game on a discord.
>>746564053I can see why Deej left
>>746564217He obviously learned about it after the fact despite wanting to try it. This is why FOMO shit backfires.
>>746570102Relax bro you’re not sephiroth
>>746569620Don’t, they’re too addictive and stressful. >haha not me broSure. I warned you.
>>746569620Fortnite, cause you can just flat out ignore the new extraction shit they put in.
>>746570253They should totally have a one winged angel shell with a big ass sword and low heat double jump.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNms5rOaGlk
>>746559601>daily marathon hate threads for monthsThe only one here who is raped is you, I think.
>>746569620stalzone
>>746569406Shit up you’ve been making these threads for how many months nowSay it. Tell the thread how many monthsTell them how many months you’ve been sitting here
>>746570405you say this, but I bet your fucking ass that there won't be a season 5! take that tranny!
>>746570405Laughing at Marathon is fun.
>>746570601Laughing at good games is fun? Wrong. Laughing at player counts is fun? Wrong. Laughing at you? Laughing at Destiny 2 losers? Now that’s fun. That game couldn’t figure out how to do a tutorial for 12 fucking years, and you want to laugh?Now no ones laughing.
>>746559601I actually liked the gunplay but the PvE elements were awful
Uh oh marasissy meltie.
>>746570753I don't care about Destiny. I care about chasing the propagators of ugly videogames out of my hobby.Honestly, if I were a Destiny fan, I'd be a former Destiny fan given how little respect and concern they have for their players.
>>746570253what's it like being this dumb? is it as nice as people say? are you really content guzzling shit and talking like Caillou? kinda jelly desu retard-kun
>>746570546i go into these threads like once or twice a week to have a quick laugh at the billion dollar company burning. Me and the lads are having a blast, meanwhile you're getting really mad. maybe time to jump ship?
>>746570410I don't recommend stalzone to anyone.There is no endgame, the developers designed it around credit card swiping (until the latest season they sold lootboxes with gear for real money; it takes 5 fucking weeks of dailies to get ONE master weapon or armor and the game will be matching you with people who have them dealing 30-40% more damage with 2-3x your lifepool) but conveniently you can buy things from the store to sell on the AH to buy lootbox alternatives.If you don't have a group you're locked out of half the content at the "endgame" despite 80% of the playerbase being solos, and the game is balanced around the RMT whales.I could write up a paragraph about it's bad design, you just need to know it's a Russian mmo inspired by world of tanks.t. have played it extensively and experienced everything in the game.>>746570601>circlejerking with my bros is funyeah, take it to discord or something. Obsessing over a videogame that sucks daily for months indicates severe mental issues - like how an actual raped person mentally returns to it repeatedly.
>>746571023Have you checked out 4chan.com bro? They’re effing crazy and don’t take shit from no one. Shit is so cool you’ll fit right inMarathon Won. Just like the battle of Marathon was won by 300 people, so too will be won by 3000 players.
>>746570753bro what the fuck are you on about, laughing at marathon and it's player count is an ABSOLUTE BLAST, its crazy fun, too bad you can't enjoy it buddy.
>>746571015Ah yes the game with the best art direction is Le bad because muhbstreamer grift said so. 100% you’re vaxxed.
>>746571227Hell yeah Marathon sisters lets gooo! Bungie must keep the game running and updated for the next decades! 2 more billion! spend 10 million a year per active player! It's what the fans want!
>>746571263Unlike you fools, I actually play and support video games. While you sit here and F5 the catalog and post in futa threads. I’m shooting niggas and you’re sucking niggas. Big difference and frankly very sad. Admit that Marathon is good and begone with your faggotry.
>>746569620Quasimorph. Also read the book it's based on.
>>746571439Unlike you fools I don't waste my time with videogames, i study the sword, i'm slicing niggas on the mean streets of tokyo everyday while you jerk off to your male coded modern art coombait "girls".
>>746571554>Also read the book it's based on.>its russianhm gee i wonder what its gonna be about
>>746571661I don't know. What do YOU think it's going to be about?
>>746571661schizo dante's inferno plus lovecraft with an overall positive spin, it was written by guy who spent most of the soviet union in prison.
>>746563075>lower art person did it>the lead art director and others in the art department at bungie all followed antireal on twitter>somehow gets put in the game and is the basis for the whole visual stylethey fucking stole it because they had no idea how to make marathon again
>blasthad>formreturned to>lightningbottled>chudsowned>marathonthriving>comebackstudied
>>746563531>Do you propose that Bungie just decided to steal someone's art for textures thinking that no one would bet an eye?Why do you bother trying to comment on the situation when you clearly have no clue that Bungie is infamous for doing this?
>>746571308Have you considered that people watch those streamers because people like to have their opinions repeated back to them? That's why they're not choosing the outlets that every major western institution wants them to follow; they have minds of their own and they don't like what Polygon and IGN want to push.>griftDo you think that everybody who gets paid to stream and is negative on pozzed games (a very common position, which is why the western entertainment industry is imploding) actually secretly likes pozzed games and is just lying? Because that's what you're saying when you call them grifters. Words are just manipulation in the hands of leftists.
>>746572298It’s more about baiting viewers, Bungie hate and Sony hate. If everyone can prove the AAA is crumbling, what will they get in the end for it? So far all they have gotten is Chinese games. Nothing in Marathon itself is “woke”. That’s the reality of it. It functionally can’t be woke because of how horrific the game is.
>>746571956>the lead art director and others in the art department at bungie all followed antireal on twitterI'm not denying that the art direction is inspired by Antireal. That's obvious. But just fucking stealing art for textures and expecting to get away with it so transcendentally retarded that not even Bungie could (intentionally) do it.>they had no idea how to make marathon againNever mind the fact that all those textures were replaced with original ones. Whatever fits your rhetoric.
>>746570546After 2 decades I have never made a thread on this shithole. I'm just here to laugh at the maratroons
Sometimes I get the itch but season 2 was such a dumpster fire I stopped playing completely after 2 weeks.
>>746573278I've never even fought the boss in upper complex. Might still try to claim the Cryo keys I got from Vault Breaker, but I don't have hopes because I'm not good at this game and pretty much only the most sweaty players are left. I've also tried to do the story limited contracts, but I can't be bothered to reach them. Grinding the regular limited contracts isn't fun.
