There’s hope bros. IGN has certified that it is a blast. Jeff Gerstmann gave it a very very rare perfect score, Eurogamer gave it a 5/5. All the critics have loved it, and the Steam reviews are all amazing. There’s still time to join, it’s only $40, that’s like two pizzas.
How does it already have less players than destiny did in like 2025 lol
Marathon is a good game. It is a great game. It’s a special game. This is something that I’ll remember for a long time, even if it dies like so many other live-service games. In Marathon, every season will end with all of your gear being wiped from your vault. One more example of Marathon being ruthless to its players. And that’s something that lingers in the back of my mind as I fumble through my gear to build a new loadout for one last run on Tau Ceti IV. All of this stuff will be gone in a few months when the season ends. There’s no getting around it, yet that doesn’t change the amazing moments I’ve experienced. It doesn’t make Marathon, in the moment, worse or lesser. Because while live-service economics and seasonal shifts can take all my guns and maybe even take away the game itself, nobody can take away the time I spent with Marathon and all the triumph and suffering I endured. The future might be bleak, but Marathon fucking rules.
>>736016085Its a Designer's Republic™ out there after all.
>>736016085>worth every ounce of hell it puts you through why would i willingly submit to a bungie rape and humiliation ritual? ive already done that with destiny 2
>>736016085>all 9s from both journos and playersOk wtf is going on? /v/ told me this game was woke and gay.
>>736016190The Designer's Republic is pretty cool yea
Are journos all friends with the dev team at Bungie or what?I damn well know casual fag journalists don't like extraction shooters
WHOA SONY PAID THE CORRUPT INSTITUTION TO PROP UP THEIR FAILING TERRIBLE INVESTMENT!WOW!
>>736016587>Are journos all friends with the dev team at Bungie or what?at the big companies yeah for sure. Same with Dragon Age.
>>736016140Because it's shit but Bungie and Sony keep the shills going because the 2 billion ain't gonna recover itself
>>736016085I will always assume positive reviews and awards for Sony games are paid for from now on.
A M A Z I N G
>>736017168Took you all this time? Hell, Astrobot was just yesterday.
>>736016085>another paid reviewhow are they not embarrassed by this?
>>736016085IGN The Raped
>>736016140because it's really only fun when you have a good group and most people don't have that anymore
>>736016085You think if Marathon wasn't from an American studio and IGN buddy-buddy with lots of the devs, they would still give it a 9?There is a clear bias.Game is a solid 7.5 outta 10.
>>736017052$3.6 billion for the studio 'alone.'
>>736016085the review is by the same tranny that gave 6/10 to crimson desert
IGNorance
>>736017560Lmfao, and the same tranny also gave Highguard a 7. He said he had played 110+ hours of CD when his review in progress came out with a 6/10. That would be somewhere around 8 hours a day. Somehow he also had the time to put hundreds of hours in playing Marathon too. Okay buddy. And with so few games coming out why couldn’t IGN just get two different reviewers to play and review them?Surely Bungie didn’t pay for CD to be put down while getting fellated by journos for the turd they put out right? Surely?
>>736017560Tar and feather this fucking faggot in public
>>736017237I forgot Astrobot existed.
They should pay me to shill for it instead.If Sony gave me a million I could have easily made this game popular but they would rather blast alone.
>>736016085Lmao even with a paid reviewers they can't keep the player count up.
>>736016085Wow the prestigious IGN gave marathon a nine! I will now buy your game
>>736017859K E K
>>736016085Critics have decided they love Marathon. There’s nothing you chuds can do to stop it from winning GOTY and best multiplayer GOTY and that makes you seethe. Get fucked, chuds.
What they should have done was go all in on BLAST cringe kino.It would have been so easy to flip but they just shit themselves.
>>736017692>>736017560Looks like a goblin merchant.
>>736017296
i wonder if they would’ve tried this shit with concord if it got 5k players instead of 600. clearly they had the marketing budget at the time too.
>>736018030lube up bungie, the MUCH better game is coming for your ass
>>736018184It's genuinely funny how Sony already bought the GotY award for Concord and had to hastily pivot to giving it to Astrobot.
>>736016085Fuck off IGN no one gives a fuck
>>736018312I would’ve allowed it even if a game like FF7 Rebirth got it but they actually went full fuck you to everyone and gave it to that shitty game. Sony has bought and paid all of the critics going back years. I remember fucking God of War winning over RDR2 too. Now no one gives a fuck about that game.
>>736018184It's interesting to think of. With Concord they just did quick arithmetic, did the tax write off and got 210m back on a 400m investment. With Marathon the 3.6b for Bungie is always looming however. A tax-write off on Marathon then means the studio gets shut down (the alternative is Sony waits another 7 years for possible garbage) people get fired and go down in infamy as the people that tanked Sony games. They really have to push this harder and harder.
>>736018849but it’s just not working, the hunt showdown beat its peak player count. like what the fuck. this game is so dead. the reset will legit have like 500 players coming back.
heck yeah
>>736016085The game literally has a single enemy and plays worse than every modern popular shooter. There's no content to speak of. It doesn't offer simple improvements over other extraction games except for the netcode. Marathon has no actual story or narrative it has generic logs to read with less effort put into them than any of the top 100 gacha games. This is the definition of an unfinished mediocre game.
>>736016085Why did game journalists give this game special treatment and delay their reviews until that second mode released?
>>736021005>Why did game journalists give this game special treatment and delay their reviews until that second mode released?Bungie asked.
>>736016085>ruthless and unforgivingLMAO. Is this the new angle the shills are aiming for now? >You don't like the game because it's ruthless and unforgiving, chud.
>>736017560>>736017221Reminds me of last year when AI Limit got a 5/10 while Dustborn got a 8/10.
I wonder what kind of blackmail Sony has on all the game journalist CEO's to have the power to delay reviews a month and then push "this game is almost perfect" articles out on mass afterwards.
>>736017560>he also has an unhealthy relationship with Destiny 2Gee I wonder what’s going on here
finally it can join "dragon age veilguard" on its throne
>>736016085same dumb nigger that gave crimson desert 6/10
>>736021539trannies hand out positive reviews for free if the game is tranny coded
>>736021539Sony didn’t have to pay them or blackmail them, a number of Bungie devs are part of the Resetera network of old millennials anti-gamergaters who always run cover for each other. Jeff Gerstmann is part of that network of course and you can assume most game journos are too.
>>736016085IGN exists purely for shareholders who don't know what the fuck they are doing, that's literally all it is. It's not there for customers.
>>736021539its not blackmail, ever since kane and lynch 2 journos know they have to give good reviews or they dont get early interviews, secret meetings, early copies to review the game with (ign seethed that crimson desert didnt give them an early copy)if a big studio says jump, all journos ask how high
>>73601608510/10 desu
>>736016190>Designer Republic>Unreadable dogshit with random effects and texts spread around.?
>>736017340My mistake
>>736016085>veilguard&matathon: 9>crimsondesert&taintedgrail: 6Should IGN be listened to
>>736016178These people aer out of their fucking minds
>>736016470
>>736021539Sony is currently the only console maker that cares about journos. Nintendo basically shunned them years ago when they started doing directs and Xbox is basically dead. They have to stay in Sony’s good graces.
I kinda like Marathon but its not a 9/10 game, its barely a 7/10 game honestly. Didn't these guys give crimsond deasert a 6?
>>736017271Nyagger
>>736018058A flop winning GOTY would perfectly describe the industry
Anyone else lose their sides for every [X NEWS] kind of threads?
>>736021539it's just access journalism. Devs like Bethesda are notorious for cutting people off from review shit for listing any negatives whatsoever. It's the reason people talk positively about pure dogshit in their reviews.
>>736016085did blocking reviews for the first month backfire for Bungie? Everyones giving Marathon 9/10's and 10/10s now but all people saw was "Bungie is afraid of Marathon getting poor reviews"
>>736016085
>>736023119I think it just goes to show that the emperor has no clothes. When the public isn't fed an opinion, they can see that the slop is just slop.
>>736022691>[Concerning news]
>IMG_>Screenshot_i'm noticing something here
>>736024093>people are posting their own OC instead of images they found in other threads or on XThe horror
>This is a great artstyle according to journos
........LOL
>>736016470>>736016587>2026>still acting surprised about bought reviews
>>736022582Journos are still seething at Nintendo for starting the direct concept.
>>736025563Seems they hired the same artist behind fallout 4
>>736025631Journos really shouldn't have tried to save this piece of shit game because all it's going to do is make them lose a little bit more of their soft power over the general gaming populace.
>This game will put you through hell>It's literally perfectThese people are not human.
>>736017296Did IGN hate CD? I'm not in any of the CD threads so idk much about it
>>736022263It's an invitation for The Designer's Republic's birthday party/book release. I had no problem reading it, either. Maybe you have a learning disability?
>>736028473gave it a 6/10
>>736028835Oh, Pearl Abyss? Don't western reviewers hate foreign games? Or at least show a lot of bias toward US ones?Fuck IGN either way thoughbeit
Why didn’t crimson desert get a month delay for reviews?
>>736016085even fucking streamer sweats like shroud and aztec dropped it, who exactly is this game for?
>>736016085>blast
Has there ever been a game as blatantly astroturfed as Marathon? It's literally dying in the crib, with players leaving it in droves, yet the journalists are choking on its cock like they owe it money.
>>736016085I genuinely don’t understand why major developers make games like this in 2025/2026 Most gamers don’t have a group of 3 friends willing and able to play a game that completely destroys your progress routinely with every failed run. The whole fucking point of most games these days is to make progress, build characters and improve skill wise. While you can do the latter, most players won’t as the prior 2 factors are more or less inaccessible for 99% of players who aren’t streamers or have skilled players to back them up on demand. It’s a game for an incredibly small niche of hyper competitive niggers that ruined trials of Osiris in Destiny 2. That in its self was a generally very unpopular mode that most hated yet Bungie basically made an entire game out of it and expected it to sell millions upon millions. It’s a niche product based on hated mode, dead franchise and a fading genre aiming for mass appeal. Lunacy
wouldn't these reviews help more at launch? if you're buying off the reviews anyway why wait a month
>>736028473>>736028835>>736029335The same journalist, Travis North, gave Marathon a 9. He also gave Tarkov a 6, Highguard and Concord 7s. He said on his personal Twitter that CD was a crappy garbage game that lucked into success while Marathon was a well made game that was just unlucky. And the reason why is because gamers just have bad taste. Given his scoring patterns, I think he has very good taste and should be the sole decider of who gets GOTY every year, but that’s just me. Multiple other journalists have also said that Marathon is the clear front runner for not only GOTY but since there’s tough competition there, multiplayer GOTY is definitely theirs to lose. It’s a clear front runner and I don’t see any game coming out that will beat it. Face it chuds, you lost.
>>736029436It's baffling to me how anyone can play these games for any extended amount of time. Everything you have is borrowed power and can be erased in the blink of an eye, meaning you spent your time getting all that stuff for absolutely nothing.The usual explanation is that that is where the appeal comes from, but I genuinely think you have to be some form of sadomasochistic sociopath to derive enjoyment from receiving or inflicting what can only be described as digital CBT.
>>736016085>GerstmannA filthy jew rated tranny slop high. What a surprise
>>736029506>you don't have taste>I have taste>works at IGNThis is like someone who works in Walmart's clothing aisle trying to give you fashion tips.
>>736021309And risk losing all those free gibs?
>>736027092It got even worse when Nintendo launched their own news app
>>736018030>literally dying faster than highguardlol
is Delta Force any good?
>>736016470Halo got perfect scores back in 2001 and that game was a 5 or 6 at best. The astroturfing for the franchise finally caught up to itself and now Halo is putting out mediocre games over and over. Bungie was never good and neither was Halo or 343i I know that Bungie doesn't make Halo anymore.
>>736029908Probably P2W to some extent
>>736029506You joke, but I honestly pray that Marathon wins GOTY on the Geoff Awards.I don't think it would do a massive difference to the player count and would be extremely funny winning GOTY 2026 and closing doors on 2027.
>>736029908has a fuck ton of chinese cheaters. makes battlefield look like legit heaven.
>>736029632I’ll never understand it either. Most people don’t seem to either consider arc raiders is shifting towards PVE and the genre has slowed down considerably.
>>736017296normies like open world slop more than kino. who knew.
>>736018030>marathon have less players each day>somehow this piece of garbage is still ongoing after a yearhow the fck did they do it? everytime i feel helldivers 2 will die, it bounces back somehow.
>>736030153The only thing kino about Marathon was the fancy movie/short trailer that got made. The game itself is just a generic extraction shooter.>>736030215Easy, HD2 is fun, doesn't take itself seriously, and you can play it solo PVE or with friends.
Unfortunately the game is just too hard for most people. I give Bungie credit for trying but the hardcore audience just isn't that big.
>>736030254>kill retarded npcs with the same accuracy as storm troopers>funsure m8, say it until you finally believe it
>>736030215the core gameplay loop of helldivers of shooting lots of stuff can be fun even if the devs fucking hate the playerbase
>>736016085>Food analogy
>>736030254>The game itself is just a generic extraction shooter.t. hasnt played it past dire marsh
>>736030386>same accuracy as storm troopersskill issue
>>736030215the game is fun, you can jump in every now and then shoot some bugs, progress towards new weapons, drop it for few weeks and can continue whenever you feel like it, then a blast-haver comes in and: it needs wipes and you should roguelike start over from scratch every time you die, that's what games need!!! Kys
>>736030386>the same accuracy as storm troopers
>>736030386>Stormtrooper accuracyIf you play only on difficulty 4 or below, I guess. >>736030509The maps don't have novel gameplay between them, with the minor exception of Cryo since it has that unique PVE boss. It's the same core gameplay on every map. Even Highguard had destructible walls, ffs.
>>736030729A lack of any kind of risk (or even reward too be honest) is what I don't like about HD2. I got about 30hrs out of it before I dropped it and never played again. But that's okay, you can play the games you enjoy and I'll play the ones I enjoy. I'm a masochistic schizo who enjoys risking all my loot and stealing other people's.
>>736017221fucking GRITTY and EDGY review full of mild SWEAR words that make sure YOU equate EVERY mundane EXPERIENCE with oversatured WORDS that actually make you ARTICULATE your thoughts LESS. HELL FUCK PAIN.
>>736030775this pic needs an update with Cyborgs and Vox Engines
I really love how the 'ranked' idea is in this game, usually ranke means being paired with same skilled ppl, so you win 50%, with a loss streak it means in an extraction shooter you will go in with a disadvantage, so to play ranked you need to farm rook games in order to go on 'par' most of the time? Imagine if in lol you had to farm casual pvp games to go into 'ranked' without disadvantage wtf
>>736030960>Highguard had destructible wallsBut destiny 2 doesn't, so neither will marathon. That could be said about a lot of things.
Sony's core issue right now is everyone already caught onto their shit. We know this review is fake, so we don't care.
>>736030215Reminder that the Sony account linking shit was most likely Bungies idea given that Sony brought them in to "improve" multiple live service games. Helldivers account linking was May 2024 and Destiny 2 Final Shape was releasing beginning to June 2024
>>736030973yeah, muh risk in playing, you should try kalshi or some online casino, or maybe they add a pay 5$ to try our newest map option once it goes f2p, this should get your dopamine receptors going
>>736030973>I'm a masochistic schizo who enjoys risking all my loot and stealing other people's.If you only see risk as losing your stuff, you're not a masochist, you're just a gambling addict.
>>736031298>>736031340>risk = gamblingwhat's it like being 5 years old
>>736030215This is the advantage of a game blowing up. Even if only 10% of the players end up sticking with you, it's enough to keep things going long term, which will open opportunities for you to try different things to try and bring people back. Same thing happened with Palworld, Arc Raiders, Marvel Rivals, etc.
>>736016085>IGN
>>736031396it literally is, take ranked for example, you need loot to compete on even footing, so you literally have to grind ez map/npcs to gear up to start being competitive, loser streak, oops, you can't compete time to regrind shit from noobs, time is money, surely they will add pay few bucks for standard gear in competitive, this will save the game
>>736016085>sony is paying for reviews>again>over this dead worthless vomitenjoy your marathon tax snoys.
We don’t even need a GamerGate 2. People already discount these clowns and watch Streamers and Youtubers now. They (and the companies that pay them) have failed to realize that apparently.
>>736016085Noooooo!!!! Xisters, how can this be? You told me the based AND redpilled game journos would shit on it???
>>736032064The fuck are you on about nigger?
>>736030973The risk is wasting 15 minutes of your life for 0 reward, I guess your time has no value and need to also lose your progress from previous runs to actually feel something? Try real roguelikes without meta progression, you die there you start from scratch, should feel at home
>>736032206That was the /v/igger narrative the other week
>>736022582It's funny people say Nintendo buys reviews yet we have a long history of urinalists saying they barely give out favors, even back in the NES and SNES days
>>736032525???? Marathon is a Sony troon game that everyone knew would get paid reviews from critics
>>736016085do normgroids trust "official" reviews or are they capable of actual thought
>>736032525What the hell are you talking about? It was obvious from the moment those journo sites willingly agreed to Bungie's 'request' to delay reviews that they weren't going to give it anything but an 8 or higher. Stop being retarded.
>>736016085Has site lost tanked their credibility harder than IGN?
>>73603281999% of normalfags don't even go to gaming news sites, let alone /v/ or reddit or resetera. They simply buy whatever slop is in the digital storefront they frequent.
>>736029506ironically being antiwhite is still being antiwhite.
>>736032819normalfags don't read reviews, will look at marathon on PSN and say "this looks gay" then buy crimson desert because they saw clips while doomscrolling social media
>>736030775helldivers 2 i find so interesting because it feels like a game were the devs actively hate the players and want to ruin any fun they are having and that is what motivates them for every update.
>>736016085these fucks got paid for this review, Jesus Christ. this game is barely a 7/10 for someone who loves the genre, has thousands of hours in tarkov and hundreds in arc raiders. its mid.
>>736029506So he's just the IGN version of this troon?
My feelings about Marathon is exactly the same as how i feel about Forever Winter.It feels like an art/movie/comic and not a videogame.Everything about it is great, the story/music/art style/characters/atmosphere/etc EXCEPT the actual gameplay.It's like a bunch of art students fucking around and someone said "hey, this looks amazing, you think perhaps we can expand upon this into a game? Dunno, let's give it the ol' college try."
>>736032525Well, for one IGN would not be considered based or redpilled by any standard. Secondly, anyone who delayed their review after the cryo archive update to please bungie should be ignored entirely regardless of score given. So I can only assume that you pulled that it was a "/v/ narrative the other week" from your ass because logically, any based and redpilled reviewer would have already given the game a score.
Rare W from IGN!The hate is actually so performative and emotional
>>736032819if people were capable of actual thought the Michael Bay Transformers movies would've died after the second movie.
>>736033101marathons issue is that it feels like it should have came out after tarkov, but coming out so late right now it feels like a massive step back from something that is way more fun like arc raiders.
why do people still give obvious ragebait sites like ign attention?
>>736017340Probably over 4 billion sunken into this stupidity already with barely any return on investment from destiny.
>>736033067>troonWatch it, anon. Morgan Park has the Vidya Death Note. Don't piss him off.
>>736017560hmm
>>736033154>He dislikes kinoformersGetting drunk with the boys and watching transformers movies on your 100" home theater is almost the best experience in movies.The objective best experience in movies is watching Lord of the Rings with your bros completely sober and bonding over friendship kino.
>>736029506>>736033067>>736033281Travis North has very good taste in video games. He thinks Bloodborne is bad, which is based. And that Avowed, Highguard and Concord are all better than Crimson Desert, which is objectively true.
>>736033153marathon hate insists upon itself
>>736033381>weasely looking little faggot>wants to make sure you know he wears a tie>absolute dogshit taste in vidyaI bet he also wears socks with sandals and lives in San Fran.
>>736033381they won’t like this but i agree with you xister
Extraction shooters are a fucking meme and companies are going to be disappointed if they expect them to make bank.Also, only good extraction shooter is Sea of Thieves, I'm not kidding.Even Arc Raiders pales in comparison to Sea of Thieves.
>>736016085if it's so good why did bungie/sony force reviewers to wait a few weeks to release the review?
>>736033381>which is objectively trueMake your case or kill yourself. If it is objective truth as you claim, you shouldn't have an issue listing arguments for why it is.
>>736029506
>>736016085What kind of Pizzas do you eat, man? I live above a Pizzeria and one's, like, 11€.
>>736033647kill yourself faggot, Arc Raiders has the best gunplay/pvp seen in generations.
>>736031502At least they're consistently shit and wrong. Being hated by journos is a badge of honor.
marathon derangement syndrome
>>736033647please explain how sot is in anyway a extraction shooter
>>736016085Slopathon sisters(male)... It's ogre for us
>>736033913dysgenic
>>736016085ign scores dont mean shit when they gave pmd bad reviews. literal kikes demanding money or else they will give a bad review
>>736034068..t-tell me, what.. what did we get from.. IGN?..they gave you a 9/10, Marathon...ahh. I knew they wouldn't let.. me.. ...BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
>>736033341Holy shit this guy is just insane
>>736034653The more likely explanation is:>he's a woke retard that supports anything so long as it aligns with his personal beliefs>the bosses at IGN know this and give him these articles to generate clickbait to drive traffic to their dying site
>>736033341IGN gave Star Wars Outlaws a 7 also
>>736016085still not gonna play it
>>736033341how can one man be so wrong?
>>736035130I can actually respect a person who has a found a way to monetize their own stupidity.
>>736033341I didn't even realize that Avowed was released already, was it any good?
>>736035575its just more proof that obsidian is dead
>>736035575it was a blast
>>736016085I will not be playing extraction slop.
>>736035575Anon that was over a year ago, they already shat out another game months ago
>>736030973Ranked online mahjong is the same shit, but filters brainlets that like shit games like maratroon.
>>736035575No, and it was listed as underperforming whenever Microsoft did their last financial report on Obsidian. But oddly enough, another Avowed game might be coming, since Outer Worlds 2 also underperformed, but Obsidian killed that franchise while leaving Avowed alone.
