Marathon is unironically the best extraction shooter in the market.If what you're looking for is the extraction shooter experience.If you want fun stories with strangers then yes, ARC Raiders takes it.Otherwise Marathon does everything better than EVERYTHING else!It takes patience and time to learn the game and once you do, it’s amazing.This is actually one of the best shooters you will ever play!
No one cares about this shitty flop dude
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I don't know what an extraction shootter is
Concord 3
>>736129620they arent extracting money from me
>>736129620>it is my FPS rotationthat's because every other shilled game was shut down already.
>>736129863Same, I wonder if they're some sort of gameplay fork from battle royales. Never looked into it.
>>736129620Fundamentally, i agree with this score. But holy fuck it needs more content. Also, they need to stop being cunts and add solo cryo and ranked.
>>736129620Did our guy write the review, too?
>>736129620>for the foreseeable future it is my FPS rotationSo it's FOTM. Got it.
>>736130324it’s like a battle royale but your drops carry over between games if you can survive, and also no one ever wins.
>>736129620-Marathon is unironically the best extraction shooter in the market.its Tarkov>If what you're looking for is the extraction shooter experience.I already have two of them already>If you want fun stories with strangers then yes, ARC Raiders takes it.that's why I play ARC Raiders>Otherwise Marathon does everything better than EVERYTHING else!I already spent it buying ARC Raiders>It takes patience and time to learn the game and once you do, it’s amazing.I don't wanna invest more time because I have a day job>This is actually one of the best shooters you will ever play!like the rest of the other ones out there
>>736130095>I spent 5 hours in this game, and this game is so good that I'm already writing a review for itwhen you get paid to make a positive review but you're not even bothered to finish it
>>736130580I think it's 'Might not survive the next month'
>>736130095jesus, and these are the same niggas saying other people have no taste
>>736129620>Marathon is good>ARC raiders offers more unique experience>but Marathon is goodthanks anon I will try out ARC raiders
>>736129620>the best extraction shooterThis is like being the best nail to step on.
>>736130805It's a great mobile game
>>736130324They are. Except your goal is to run around a map to find loot and then run to the exit so you can keep it instead of fighting to the death over a shrinking circle.
>>736130531Ironically being consistently wrong still makes him a useful gauge on if a game is worth it.
Numbers are dropping faster than my projections, Russians, Asians, and euro-traitors complaining about queue times
>>736129620Western journalists tried their hardest to collectively prop this game up and it still crashed and burned. GamerGate won.
Why did arena shooters die? I never understood battle royales or extraction shooters, what is fun about tons of down time in shooters? Don't you just want constant action? Genuine questions
>>736130694Tarkov is too sweaty, if you spawn in with randoms they can (and do) just team kill you and take your stuff.Arc is for babies, it's boring because everyone gets along and there's no real reason to kill other players, so it's just meh pve.I found Hunt to be a pain because of the forced 15 minute boss battles that alert everyone on the map, there's people that just roll you for the sake of it.I find marathon to be a happy medium, like a streamlined Tarkov, you almost always wanna kill others on sight and the PVE is just there as a distraction.
>>736129620So do journos kiss a dev's ass cause of their constant virtue signaling, or do devs constantly virtue signal to buy favor with journos?
Marathon is ugly so I hope it flops.
>>736131169these kinds of games generate a bunch of tension, if you re-spawn in 5 seconds it doesn't matter if you die.if you lose a bunch of shit you collected over 20 minutes( or multiple runs) suddenly death is scary, and you and the other guy really dont want to lose the fight.so you get more interesting interactions, people run away, people leave a fight halfway through, someone with little to lose is more aggressive etc.it's kinda like laser tag vs paintball, or poker with real money instead of tokens, people are less brave when it gets hurt to be shot.
>>736131169People don't actually like 1v1 style gamesIt was always padded by the huge amount of people who played casual/single player
>>736131321I guess I can understand that, I just don't have that personality. I don't enjoy playing hardcore modes, or real life gambling at all. Maybe I'm just not a risk taker and that's why these don't appeal to me.
>>736129620What is an extraction shooter? I can't keep up with all these new terms.
>>736131557they dont appeal to a lot of people, it's stressful and if you spent all day as a wagie I'd get not wanting to come home and be stressed in a game too.a lot of people are also sore losers who will blame everything but themselves for a loss and that feeling gets buried when they can immediately respawn/next round and shoot someone else.these games are for people who want bigger highs and lows.
>>736131557They don't appeal to me either. I don't care about digital stuff and it never stresses me out to lose at a video game.So it's just less exciting overall because there is less going on.
>Yup! I'm deffo slotting this bad boy into my FPS rotationwho the fuck talks like this?
>Shill shouting that the hate is manufactured >Manstream media reviews (all owned by the same 3 media megacorps) delayed for a week>9/10s across the board>For a mediocre live service extraction shooter that nobody playsIt's fucking hilarious to witness
>>736132073probably total shill streamers
>>736132073Astroturfers
>>736132114Sony paying them big "marketing" bucks to try and salvage this sloppyflop
I've come to the uncomfortable realization that survival FPS peaked and died with the DayZ mod
>>736132114>>736132170these arent actual shillsits trannys anti-shilling cause they have nothing better to do
>>736132583>PC gamer aren't actual shills>they're just tranniesThey are shills but they're probably trannies too. It's literally their job to shill retard, use your brain.
I do like this game but I was hoping it was going to lean towards more pve-looting rather than being basically a straight pvp arena shooter with superfluous looting. Unfortunately I still like Tarkov a lot more but I really did try to give it a chance, maybe made it to lvl 65, the loop is just all fucked up and these games always devolve into a spawn rushing meta.
>>736131557I had a similar mindset to this until I started playing modded SPT. I've been playing that for over a year now and actually have gotten the itch to play one seriously in PVP, but since I'm a linux faggot I can't.Marathon would be right up my alley if it wasn't for the anticheat, since Tarkov still doesn't allow Linux and Marathon is presumably at least slightly less of an unoptimized piece of shit.Any time PVE is brought up in these games people get defensive, but I thoroughly believe if extraction shooters are ever going to be less niche, you have to let people get used to them through a PVE mode.I just like the idea of PVP with risks because it makes people (usually) play less like retards since there's something at stake.
>>736132350since then it has been a long line of people with money asking> make it like that, but with skins and battle pass
why did arc raiders not get threads like these?
>>736133125arc raiders is boring
>>736133125Arc Raiders doesn't have the baggage of being a Bungie game and is much more popular with giga-normies who don't exist online outside of twitter
>>736132073Game journos (they play less games than even /v/ does)
>>736129620the people who review these games aren't even the target audience, they're just tourists who play matches for like a week then move to their next political astroturfing project meanwhile people who are actually dumping massive chunks of their lives into this GAAS shit say it's not worth it
>>736129863Are you familiar with Warframe? That's an extraction shooter.
>>736129620Alight everyone get your predictions in how long before the servers get turned off.
Game journos literally just review stuff in response to what chuds do or don't like. Their last faggy gasps of air before they're finally snuffed out for good
>>736134228infinity years
>>736134312They became adversarial at the same time that all media was instructed to become adversarial toward the public. I was a teen in the 90s and early 00s and subscribed to multiple magazines. The writers and editors seemed affectionate toward gamers and determined to be helpful. That vibe was usually pretty obvious. Some people think it started with Gamergate but I think that was a coincidence, since the real story is what happened behind the scenes at ALL of these media companies simultaneously.
>>736134613Shillathon
>>736129620Still seething, huh?
>>736134312Which is funny because this game had a big controversy about stealing some trannies art or something
>>736134312They'll be replaced by AI slop soon, not soon enough though.
>>736134228August.
>>736134712>Admits they push shit content and fuck the fans up the ass with Destiny 2>Abandon Destiny 2 and tell the players (addicted) to go fuck themselves>Push tranny and fag shit everywhere>Use a legacy IP for nostalgiabaiting>Steal art, from a fucking tranny no less>Delay corporate reviews for a whole fucking month>Everyone deriding the game in a constructive manner is either shut down or given a passive agressive responseTHE HATE IS FORCED YOU JUST WANT THE GAME TO FAIL!!!
>>736134228Q1 2027
hey /v/, i got 3 words for you… SORRY FOR MARATHONING
>>736129620>no story>bad pve>weak pvp>functionally 2 maps because outpost and cryo are for farming not for playing>barely any content at allmaybe in a year it might start looking like somehting worth buying on deep discount but really just not doing enough what the fuck were these devs working on for years?
>>736136724It's not a sprint, it's a MARATHON!
>>736136893>what the fuck were these devs working on for years?Embezzling Sony money for HRT
>>736131065It's so fucking funny to watch vidya journalism hype be a death sentence for games. It's as if the industry doesn't get how much old media is hated by the consumer.
>>736132350Its hilarious how even dayz SA failed to capture the magic of the mod.Now its just a bunch of dayz community modders like playerunknown selling their garbage slop on steam
>>736129863it's a shooter, but it extracts all the fun out
>steal a bit of art from a random tranny>get exposed and be forced to delay your game to remove it from every asset in the game>get beaten to the punch by Arc Raiders>leave D2 fans burned with a shitty dlc and a delayed update>release your beta during RE9 launch>release your game during StS2 launch>release your endgame map during Crimson Desert launch
>>736134613it's funny how shit like this used to work, but they've cried wolf so many times, nobody takes journos seriously anymore. They are F-Class citizens
>>736137076It was completely unique at the timeSure it had some influence from STALKER and Minecraft on ARMA 2s janky engine, but it was something actually new and immersive.A game where fucking eating and getting a cold weren't just boring shit, they were part of the experience in an industry where the idea of "immersion" was by that point, and increasingly becoming, linear narrative games written by pretentious hack s
>>736129620>Steam chart trending downwardAlways a good sign
>>736136724MARATHONERS IN THE HOUSE TONIGHT
>>736137452They made the tranny art even worse and corpo friendly as well.It's like a weird mix of Y2K (which trannies glorify and are all over, maybe because most of them are delusional soilennials who like the surreal and nostalgic vibe of it) and corporate minimalism.Bungie wishes it could look even half as good as Mirrors Edge, it's fucking terrible.
OH NO NO NO AAAAAAHAHAHAHAH
>>736129620Isn't pc gamer owned by sony?
>>736138023Politically Correct Goymer is owned by Future plc, a multimedia company that owns Magazines and Websites and takes money from clients (such as Sony) to advertise their games.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_US#Magazines_and_websites
Future plc also owns GamesRadar+Ziff Davis and Fandom (yes from the shitty wikis) both San Francisco companies, own all of the below:>GameSpot>GameFAQS>Metacritic >IGn>Gameindustry.biz>Humble Bundle>VG247The nepobabies working under these companies will shill for these shit products and bitch about corporate consolidation and "capitalism" by the way.
Bungie put a lot of time and money into this game for it to flop. They are currently astroturfing everywhere with shills echoing the same sentiments.“Having a blast” is used unironically.“Hooked” and talk of the game being “addictive.“I can’t stop thinking about this game” or “I dream about it” “Skill issue” or talk of players “not being good enough” to play it.“No life” and talk of players having nothing better to do than hate on the game. Invariably most of the shills use one of these talking points from a Bungie approved list of talking points. If you spent a good time reading the steam forum, IG comments and the threads on here, the pattern is unmistakable and it’s obvious and undeniable that this game is in a desperate PR battle with paid shills trying to force a narrative. On this board Marathon threads that are frequently deleted, and this same OP is posted regularly word for word with very little variation. Overall, people who dislike the game seem genuine with organic low effort posts and the defenders of the game mostly have very prepared responses. On IG they are downright fanatical in paragraph long responses and trying to always get the last word. I’m not exaggerating when I say there is probably more people shilling for the game online to gain control of the narrative around marathon then actually playing the game. I hope Bungie fails with the manipulation of the narrative around their shitty game.
>>736133125It actually did and retards stopped spamming when they realized the game was actually doing well
>>736138803>there is probably more people shilling for the game online to gain control of the narrative around marathon then actually playing the game.Absolutely, the astroturfing is unreal, reminds me of Evolve and Veilguard.It's old media shills trying to crack consensus, except they don't even hold 1/10th of the influence they used to.
>>736138803skill issue
>>736133125It cost a fraction of Maratroon
>>736129620I don't respect a suhuman loser that has a "fps rotation" in its existence. simple as.
>>736138803you could have just condensed your post to >any positive sentiment is fake, source: my anuspeople like you have parroted this for every single game release in the last decade+, it shits up threads and makes it harder to talk about any games you like here.
>>736129620>my boyfriend appreciated the bipoc+++ representation - 9/10!>What the heck, this game doesn't have any niggerino's in the first 5minutes - 3/10.
>>736139409>you could h-AAACCCCCCKKKK
>>736129620nigga this game was so not worth looking at that the time in the spotlight lasted LESS then a fucking week and nobody else is talking about it apart from these gay ass falseflag shill threads.
>>736138932I’m hungry for the bait.I’m so triggered that I’m going to solve some a annoying captcha to rave about playing FPS in the 90s and being in a quake 3 clan and loving PVP lolHonestly I just hated Bungie since destiny and the attempt to control perception is interesting to me. And, I enjoy the steam chart threads. Watching line go down and chatting with real people who recognize the shilling is comforting. It’s demoralizing to think of everyone being manipulated to like slop because of bot posts and paid reviews. From what I have experienced Marathon doesn’t require very much gamer skill, it’s designed to be addictive and to manipulate you out of money.
>>736139580>I finally played Marathon and I'm addictedThey tell on themselves constantly
>>736129620My biggest beef with nu-Marathon is pretending the original was some sort of groundbreaking classic. Reality is only Mac dorks cared about Marathon 1994 and only then it was cope about getting a late Doom II port. It was already forgotten about by 2001 and even then most of the great Mac games were the indies of that system.
cant wait to sony pull the plug
>>736139719holy shit fellow anonymous poster these aesthetics are peak!Bungie cooked!Truly the best extraction shooter I have ever played (also the only one)
>>736139580>I enjoy the steam chart threadswhat drives you people? this has always been insane to me, if I dont like a game I dont keep track of it.it's like following all a celebrities socials because you dont like them, why waste your time?
>>736139580it separates the wheat from the chaff
>>736139751Marathon was remembered for it's schizo story and not much more.>>736139834>what drives you people? your tears, I hate everything you represent
>>736140025>I hate everything you representI forget about you the moment I leave this thread.
>>736129620lol the concordian timeline proceeds as predicted
>>736139409You are willfully ignorant. Or you lack pattern recognition. Maybe you’re one of the paid shills. I considered making a more detailed analysis of the shilling and making a chart with comparisons of screen shots from across different threads at different times. It’s very easy to see when the exact same talking point is regurgitated with only slight variations across multiple platforms. It’s completely obvious they are given exact guidelines of what to say and just told to word it differently. This is obviously nothing new, and, Bungie is a multibillion dollar investment from Sony one of the largest mega corporations, it’s not hard to grasp they would use bots. Even small time YouTubers bot streams for clout, it’s very stupid to think Bungie wouldn’t try to “consensus crack” to get the game to sell. The desperation of shills gaslighting and posting canned talking points is kind of satisfying because I know these assholes are shitting bricks the game is sinking.
>>736140095I live rent free in your head!>>736140117>Maybe you’re one of the paid shills>Maybelol
>>736130694YouAreARedittorGo back
>>736138258PC Gamer is what Nintendo Power would've turned into had Future kept its corpse alive, and was fast turning into.
hate?buddy, all i feel is apathy
>>736139834I enjoy my fellow nooticers and I appreciate their postings. the opinions they share are hecking cute and valid.
>>736129620TRUE im just waiting for it to go free to play
>>736133013>you have to let people get used to them through a PVE mode. This is totally true, and Why Arc Raiders is the perfecr inbetween, and also so hottly debated.It's genuinely a great game. The recent update fully cements that (and it runs great on linux), but I AM NOT A RISK TAKER! so this genre appealing to me at all with a game like Arc surprised me. It all comes down to careful balance, and deeply engaging enemy AI. Arc enemies, esp. The flying ones are so scary in how smartly they move and track you, and the Vaporizer is the perfect testament to it. Few games these days have AI as good or fun to fight- they don't all have to be super complex in their behavior either, it's enough clever ai with careful complimentary enemy design that makes it right.
>>736140334PC Gamer during the 90s and early 2000s was one of the best.It got worse and worse over the years as the 2007 financial crisis hit and the internet overtook magazines, but the website was okThe merger of Politically Correct Goymer and PC Gamer UK in 2010 did unmitigated damage to it and by 2012 the website was a completely worthless piece of shit.Now it's just a clickbait farm with AI writing.https://archive.org/details/pc-gamer-issue-081-february-2001/page/n1/mode/2up
I wonder if anyone in the gaming industry ponders how they turned the market into this? Video games used to be fun, happy, good-times but decades of browbeating your audience with predatory tactics verbal lashings on public platforms and cheap penny-pinching strategies through remakes/remasters/rereleases has soured the consumer.I'm sure everyone that works in the industry thinks that it wasn't their fault, but enough weird degradation tactics over time has turned their once-easy audience into bitter cynics.Even the average normalfag is sceptic to AAA games these days.
>>736140017Go play the game then wheat queer. What are you doing shitting up our comfy thread, you got a comfy Instagram post you can go lurk in where every robot will echo your sentiments and validate your feelings, why come in here echoing shill talking points unless your another fucking shill or worse than a shill a fucking slop consoomer who thinks playing marathon is for highly skilled gamers. you relish status of being a “skilled player” in maratroon. I hope your ragebaiting or paid to shill because if not your pathetic.
>>736141854No, I'm sure not a single one of the thousands and thousands of people have ever pondered the state of the industry they work in every day
>>736141941You think it's common? The few people I've met that work in this industry (usually low-level testers or programmers) seem shocked and confused that people aren't as enthusiastic as they were "back in the day". Although my experience doesn't represent the whole I'm sure most (if not all) top execs are as weirded out as they are.
>>736141925I will haunt your dreams
>>736141854Decision makers in the industry have never played video games and don't understand them. They only see it in terms of "product X made Y money, so we need something like X"
I'm so glaad this game is going to kill bungie.
>>736142115>glaadI bet you are
>>736129620Two times I've busted my ass to open the 3 red card key on Pinwheel, two times my team steals the prestige loot first.Should I play solo or Rook? I'm done carrying gypsies.
>>736142219We gave fags too many rights. We need to start taking them away again, let them know where they belong.
>>736142271Solo and solo ranked
daily marathon seethe thread
>>736142091Maybe that's one of the core issues, but it's not like it's universal. Even well-known faces in gaming, people who have been with the industry for decades, are quick to take to Twitter to defend some truly awful games and berate their potential customers openly for disagreeing with them. Official corporate accounts will often take out the pitchfork and strike out at "haters" who have anything negative to say, seemingly not understanding they're actively biting the hand that feeds them.It strikes me as odd that this behavior has been allowed to fester for so long it's started almost corrupting their own audience to the point where you're either a complete gray-brained cattle who will buy anything if it has the right logo or you're a die-hard cynic who won't even consider modern games.It just feels unnecessary and if the situation was handled with a bit more tact they could have kept their audience happier and thus more enthusiastic.
>>736141941Journos have never pondered about anything but their bottom line and their cliques politics.
>>736133125It's wholesome PvE chungus LARP material so /v/iggers feel good and powerful. Same reason Helldivers doesn't get a fraction of the flak it deserves.
>>736142337They made their choice Anon. They threw off their mask and declared war on their audience years ago.
>>736142337Vidya publishers pay the bills, they don't give a shit about anything else long term.
>>736142472Journos are not the gaming industry.
>>736142536What. Developers pay publishers, to you know, publish. Consumers pay bills because they're the ones who buy your games.
>>736142489Neither cost an arm and leg to develop and market unlike Maratroon, cope
>>736142551Many of them get jobs there and push their friends into it.They're as much of a problem as publishing executives and retarded investors.
>>736142641I don't give a fuck about your goal post moving
>>736142580>Developers pay publishers, to you know, publishNo they don't publishers fund the developers games with money they get from investors, who in turn get a share of your money.You don't know how any of this works
>>736129620>Marathon is unironically the best extraction shooter in the market.That's Hunt Showdown though.
>>736142580Bro this isn't the book industry. Game publishers employ devs, fund game development from the earliest stages, and have the final say in what is being worked on.
>>736142675I didn't move the goalpost, journos are a part of the vidya industry.On the marketing side
>>736142686That's not right. Developing studios appeal to investors, who then fund games, and they hire publishers to publish.>>736142718Do you have any proof of this? Considering you're the second guy to call me out, I might be wrong, but I'd love to see a source.
>>736142740And the original comment was if "anyone" in the industry has considered it, not if the marketing shills have considered it
>i cant stop playing marathon
>it only got good reviews from critics because le bungie nepotism>even though Destiny 2 expansions like Lightfall and Shadowkeep have gotten bad reviews from the same outlets because they're shit>all the positive player reviews are botted actually the acrobatics to which you will contort yourself because a game you didn't play and decide was bad got good reviews is astounding
>>736142817>That's not It's how it works on the AAA spaceDo a simple search engine search and find out.>>736142824lolFair enough>>736142829It's a return to form for Bungie
>>736142895Don't really need acrobatics when you have numbers.
>>736142583Why should I give a shit? Corporations aren't my friends. Gachabrain has done terrible damage.
>>736142895Sony wasn't paying them to shill their next live service scam then and delaying reviews by a whole fucking month after launch.kys
>>736129620No
>>736142923Huh, I'll read up on it some more then.
>>736142718EA is a publisher. They pay development studios to develop games for them and take a (huge) cut of the profits (or losses). Development is extremely expensive and dev studios can't just magic up the millions they need to make a game, the publishers give them money but also have control over the development of the product.Some companies such as Nintendo act as both developers and publishers; but yeah in short, publishers finance and distribute games.
>>736142940Except I'm talking about reviews.
[Buy a fucking ad snoy]
>>736143052Who cares what (You) are talking about? My opinion is not formed by the masses.
>>736142956I don't give a shit about your goalposting moving and 5 year old tantrum over another shit game that didn't have a fraction of the shills.
>>736133125because it's a good game.
>>736143086They did, it's called gaming reviews
>>736143141Not really, it's not just being shilled as the next underrated overlooked masterpiece because Sony and Bungie are desperately paying up the ass to get their own live service success.
>>736129620Game looks great, but it‘s >hardcore multiplayerand I am 32 years old. With no friends
I'm hooked on having blasts see you on Cryo Archives this game got legs !
>>736129620the game has been ruined by sweats. cryo archive & ranked were supposed to funnel them all into one place and let everyone else play dire marsh without being MLG 360 noscoped by a pro team from the other side of the map, but ranked is completely dead because there's no point in playing it and cryo is too punishing to run over and over again. the game is bleeding players because nobody is having fun getting shit on every single match.Arc noticed most players didn't enjoy this and pivoted to cater to them, that's why it's still getting >100k players today. I think it's nice hardcore players have something like Marathon but the game is going to die if it stays this sweaty.
>>736143295It does have legs, and they are broken!
>>736143329The game is going to die soon no matter what they do.
>>736142551Ubisoft's CEO cited Metacritif review scores as a method of proving the quality of his games:>Importantly, the quality of our games continues to improve, with Metacritic review scores rising from around 75 to 80–85, reflecting the ongoing focus and investments we are making to deliver exceptional player experiences. We remain fully committed to developing and expanding our popular franchises to attract more players, increase engagement, and grow these communities over time.https://variety.com/2026/gaming/news/ubisoft-ceo-interview-yves-guillemot-layoffs-creative-house-1236667500/They sniff their own farts. They pay for journo reviews and then believe the reviews.
>>736143234>Hey you know that game you played and enjoyed with your friends? Well it's lé BAD!!!
To think that vidya journos used to have such an easy time trading away their integrity for industry access and free shit. Having to shill DOA live-service games really fucked them up.
>>736143425The CEO of ubisoft is every single person in the video game industry?
>>736143425they say that in hopes that potential players believe those reviews, its just another part of marketing for them, this is why their seethe over steam reviews and player counts is never ending, no reliable way to fake it
>>736143425See>>736138778The amount of cronyism is hilarious>>736143435YesI played a lot of Call of Duty MW2 as a kid with friends and while I enjoyed it with friends, it's a shit game and pales in comparison to what came before.
>>736143407I don't think so, I genuinely think it's a great game with satisfying gameplay (especially the guns god damn they're nice) but it s entire shtick is "you're going to lose everything and have a bad time" and that just isn't appealing to most people. It needs more casual options like a PvE mode, which would actually be nice since the bots are fun to fight. People say this would split the player base too much but buddy there isnt much to split.
>>736143553He's every person in the AAA industry>>736143435They'll be replaced by AI soon, i'll enjoy those layoffs as well.
>>736130580It'll probably hang on at least until the Sony investors call maybe
>get the game because I always found the aesthetics incredible and I'm bored of Tarkov>there are like five different types of schizophrenics obsessed with ruining all discussion because Bungie or Sony or because they ended Destiny or because there's nothing else to do in Chile I should have just known somehow, I guess.
>>736143590>there isnt much to split.The precise reason on why it will die soon>>736143676YWNBAW
>>736137076Yeah the mod was something truly special.
>>736142829Paul faggi should eat shit
Marathon Lost.April Fool's! It won.
>>736143570Just out of curiosity, since fun games are bad by your own admission, what game would you consider to be good?
>>736129620No, I think I will continue the performative hate.
>>736143590>you're going to lose everything and it's hardcore and shitThat sounds like every other extraction shooters.Extraction trend is already bore and outdated, it's sad that even shills can't sell people on how the game is unique.Even if I take everything about what they say at face value I can only imagine Marathon being a run of the mill extraction shooter, and that's like being an average spoiled milk
>>736143883Based hater. Never stop hating.
>>736143871Helo Kitty Island Adventure
>>736129620but i genuinely hate it? it's incredibly ugly
>>736144019Incredibly filtered
>>736143895Extraction shooters are just instanced multiplayer STALKER.Play STALKER instead of wasting your life playing shit games.
>>736144070Incredibly trans
>>736143895you clearly havent played it because marathon is so much more punishing than arc.
>>736129620Marathon would have been a decent game if bungie wasn't infested with trannies
>>736129620
>>736144296lamo
>pc gamer thread
Do we really need this same fucking thread several times a day?Are you really going to keep screeching "IT'S DEAD IT'S DEAD!"Untill sony pulls the plug?
>>736131169>Why did arena shooters die?Laser guns went out of fashion.What remains without laser guns? Realistic guns. Instant projectile travel time. Rocket launcher projectiles aren't dodgeable in real life either. This informs gameplay and slows things down to a more cautious style. You can't remain in view of an opponent without being hit.At that point you've got realism so you may as well make other parts realistic too.
>>736144510YesCry about it
>>736144296>Weekend at Bungie's
>>736131169halo is still a thing
>>736144510the steamchart threads will continue until you stop complaining about them
>>736142940How can a game sell 1.2 million copies but have a peak player count of 88k.
>>736129620What the fuck is "FPS rotation"
>>736143329For me the main problem is the fucking bots. I kind of don't mind getting into sweat fights with other players, but the bots are too numerous and they are eating through my resources, so when I finally face a team it's pretty much over for me. Yeah, skill issue. Will still leave if they don't don't do something and for now every player counts.
>>736146317A set of like 5 games that someone alternates between playing, as opposed to playing one game to completion and then moving to another game. These modern FPS games tend to be heavy in live service, so people do their dailies in game 1 on Monday, game 2 on Tuesday, and so on.
>>736146237They're probably including sales that later got refunded to pad the numbers. The real laugh is that if we took them at their word for sales, just to break even with a $40 price tag marathon would have had to have had a budget under 50 million dollars. That's including marketing, and without accounting for valve/sony/xbox's cut of the sale. To escape the concordian timeline they have to somehow find another 4 million sales roughly
>>736146237CDkey resellers
>>736143590>the bots are fun to fightThey don't look fun to fight at all. Every bit of gameplay just has people mag dumbing into their face as they stand still or slowly strafe in one direction.
>>736140306You first.
>>736129620still not playing
>>736143819You lost, Crimson Desert won.
>>736129620>fps rotationholy fuck that's grim
>>736147098>hasn't had a commander do a rocket slide strafe with a shield on like an AC gundam while spamming grenadesI wish Destroyer could do that But yeah some bigger mech enemies for the open outdoor maps could be nice
>>736129620What the fuck is an fps rotation
>>736146317It's your personal content consumption pipeline of "first person shooter" interactive media.
>>736147696consoom product-speak
>>736147696>On Mondays my girlfriends and I get tapas at this cute restaurant downtown, then on Tuesday's I get a smoothie after my workout at Orange Theory Fitness, then on Wednesday I go on a free Tinder date for a meal, then on Thursday I get Cava, then on Friday we go bar hoppingit's like that but for normie npc guys
>day "games I play regularly" with a different term>immediate meltywhat causes this
>>736148146I get actually angry when people change their casual everyday language into something resembling boardroom powerpoint. I genuinely believe it's dehumanizing.
>>736148146rotation is not just "regularly" it's a schedule for slaves.
>>736140306>retard in charge of context cues
Can i get a ccu check?
>>736129620If this game is so bad and such a flop why does it have 5 threads daily
>>736129620now we watch bungie slowly bleed to death as the players leave
>>736147353what the fuck is grim about playing different videogames at different times
Probably no sub 10K kino until tomorrow
>>736149993oh no no no
>>736149993What was it yesterday? We might have stabilized now
>>736150113About the same. Stabilization confirmed.
>>736150113Around the same but the server maintenance might have caused people to logoff early, tomorrow will be a better comparation
>>736148327Not really. People say they add music to the rotation, it just means putting it on a playlist, there isn't some god ordained demand to listen to it daily.
>>736129620All I did was not buy the game, lay off man
>>736129620>stop the hateNo. The beatings will continue until morale improves.
>>736150170>10k minimum>35k-45k peaksSo this is where Marathon is at. Do we think it's good?
Blasthavers, Formreturners, Lightningbottlers, is it finally our time?
>FPS rotation
>>736150451Sure
Is the Ares railgun a meme? It's rare, takes shotgun ammo and is worth 3k credits so you'd assume it's good but even when fully charged I feel like it does no damage.
>>736150451LMAO
>>736150573It originates from meatspin sprays in TF2.
The fans will open their eyes and bungie will be raped
>>736150306>People say they add music to the rotationno, people don't say that/ "people" from your consooming slave dischord will, I have no doubt, but not people.
>>736129620>rotationThese are the drones this game was made for.
>>736129620>extraction shooterthat is what we are mad about. It's not performative, Bungie should only make halo and THATS IT.
Mogged by crimson desert lmao
>>736151674>current nubungie>haloAnon the bungie you once knew is dead and filled with niggas who think STAR WARS is what destiny was always about
>good game gets good reviews>melty
>>736151568>out of touch>obsessed with boogeymen he created in his head from years of being terminally online>retarded>phonefagI rest my case.
>bas game gets criticism>melty
>>736129620I'm not playing another shitty battle royale, fuck off
>>736129620>Marathon is unironically the brownest turd in the bowl!Good for it.
Rise of iron wonSiva wonMarathon lost
>>736152010>say stupid shit>get raped>O WELL FR I WON OKgo trumpspost somewhere else, subhuman.
>>736129620>the best extraction shooterThe best pile of shit is still shit
>Marathon will be dead within a year
>>736129620NIGGER!
>>736153449>muh sales is qualityCome play Genshin with me bwo
so it's not dead yetit's still 2:0 for chuds, so when does horizon troons come out again?
>>736153648You lost.
>>736129620>PC Gaymer
>>736129863>>736130324>start with basic gear>drop into a raid to find better gear>escape the raid and bring your new loot home to then bring into the next raid>repeat until OPEveryone in the raid has their own goals in mind and doesn't want to lose their stuff so it's a great genre for creating tense gameplay and interesting interactions with other players.^ At least that is the idea with games like Arc Raiders that actually nail the atmosphere, movement speed, effective weapon ranges, potential for truces etc. Marathon is more like CoD where people just bhop slide around corners and laser you to death in 1 second and make you wish you were playing team deathmatch instead of wasting your time with all the additional extraction BS
>>736133125didn't need it
loole
>>736152805It's okay to not have heard of something, just don't be a retard about it. I don't get why you're mad.
this is so fucking funny. what a complete failure.
>>736155492Now do it during primetime
>>736155604>33kworse than tf2.
>>736129620Sorry I’m busy playing crimson desert which you can tell is the better game because legacy dogshit media doesnt glaze it and actively hates it.
>>736155604>a 4 billion dollar game needs prime time
>it is my FPS rotationIs Marathon offically a hobbygrade game?
>>736155680same. the many patches and improvements are great, now you can really explore with the lower stamina costs on flying.
>>736131792You join a twenty minutes long game where you're free to go to an "extraction point" at any time and leave. If you don't leave before the timer ends, you lose everything you have.While you're there you might or might not find gear or supplies to make your next run better, or something or someone might kill you, causing you to lose everything you have.
>>736156095This is how tarkov was because it had big mapsMarathon is fucking retarded because they designed the maps to funnel players into each other or encouraged kill on sight encounters or worse encouraged people to clean up the map first so they can loot easier
>>736155492i know, how could this have happened to phasmophobia?
>>736156187You joke but Phasmo sold 25 MILLION copies lol
>>736156184>they designed the maps to funnel players into each otherThis will naturally happen because certain points are natural hotspots for loot or events, like the Hauler, Pinwheel, the lockdown on Dire Marsh etc.>or encouraged kill on sight encountersThis will always be here because TTK is too low, you can't risk not shooting on sight>or worse encouraged people to clean up the map firstIt takes effort, if you're on Cryo and another team can clear UESC and get clearance up faster than you, they get rewarded with the opportunity to open more doors and flank you at your wing.
>>736129620>fps rotationWhat kind of gay shit is this?
>>736129620>FPS rotationwho the fuck came up with this pretentious faggot/troon/nigger babble
Arc Raider simply existing did more damage to Marathon OP lol
>>736129620Fuck this troonslop.
>>736157663Maratroons seething that their mediocre game is selling way worse than another mediocre game is hilarious.
>>736129620>the best extraction shooterSynonymous to >the least smelly turd
Everyone ITT (all three people) are getting farted on
>>736158587unfortunately this is a truth nukecan you really say there was ever a good extraction shooter?
>>736131072I mean it’s basically guaranteed. The lower numbers become and the more people have to wait for matches, the more people won’t play it.
>>736130961That is what it looks like.Have fun regardless.Just don't look at the characters.
>>736140894Now that looks like a real magazine to keep. The modern one looks like a news magazine.
>>736141854>I wonder if anyone in the gaming industry ponders how they turned the market into this? >Video games used to be fun, happy, good-times but decades of browbeating your audience with predatory tactics verbal lashings on public platforms and cheap penny-pinching strategies through remakes/remasters/rereleases has soured the consumer.the AAA knowingly turned their market segment into thisits all about sucking and vacuuming people dry for moneyall while people are thinking theyre the same old companies they used to admire and cherish in the early days>>736143425the gall on these AAA execs is astoundingthey try manipulate everything around their games : consumer and public perception through underhanded astroturfing as well as holding a leash on the information and gaming media streamthen they wave it around like its definitive proof of them doing well while keeping others and their competition downthe reason they cant trashtalk publicly like they used to do back in the day is because they know it would be bad for their image and word would spread like wildfire on the internet>>736143648this is rightall AAA c-suite execs are like thisthey have no ethics at all
>>736129620>good game gets good reviewsI'm not surprised. I just wonder what Bungie will do with it.
>>736142337>Official corporate accounts will often take out the pitchfork and strike out at "haters" who have anything negative to say, seemingly not understanding they're actively biting the hand that feeds them.I've never understood why the video game industry lets developers/social media managers strike out at customers the way they do. This is why they have rules about social media at big companies because those actions are a liability.
>>736140117you think op is sincere with this thread? fucking retard
>>736129620>my FPS rotationBall and gun gamers I swear
bros shroud is playing Crimson Desert it's so over...
>>736129620Literally the only thing stopping me from playing ti is it begin a fucking hero shooter.
>>736129620I feel contempt for it, not hate. They wish I cared enough to hate it.
>>736129620Marathon :Day 1: 88,337 (Thursday)Day 2: 78,498 (-9,839) (-11.14%) (Friday)Day 3: 75,133 (-3,365) (-4.29%) (Saturday)Day 4: 77,371 (+2,238) (+2.98%) (Sunday)Day 5: 66,593 (-10,778) (-13.93%) (Monday)Day 6: 62,495 (-4,098) (-6.15%) (Tuesday)Day 7: 60,649 (-1,846) (-2.95%) (Wednesday)Day 8: 57,246 (-3,403) (-5.61%) (Thursday)Day 9: 59,357 (+2,111) (+3.69%) (Friday)Day 10: 58,729 (-628) (-1.06%) (Saturday)Day 11: 62,830 (+4,101) (+6.98%) (Sunday)Day 12: 53,846 (-10,830) (-14.30%) (Monday)Day 13: 54,414 (+568) (+1.05%) (Tuesday)Day 14: 51,731 (-2,683) (-4.93%) (Wednesday)Day 15: 47,959 (-3,772) (-7.29%) (Thursday)Day 16: 56,683 (+8,724) (+18.19%) (Friday) [Cryo Archives]Day 17: 53,569 (-3,114) (-5.49%) (Saturday)Day 18: 53,678 (+109) (+0.20%) (Sunday)Day 19: 44,371 (-9,307) (-17.34%) (Monday)Day 20: 42,091 (-2,280) (-5.14%) (Tuesday)Day 21: 39,796 (-2,295) (-5.45%) (Wednesday)Day 22: 40,834 (+1,038) (+2.61%) (Thursday)Day 23: 43,927 (+3,093) (+7.57%) (Friday)Day 24: 41,975 (-1,952) (-4.44%) (Saturday)Day 25: 39,852 (-2,123) (-5.06%) (Sunday)Day 26: 34,185 (-5,667) (-14.21%) (Monday)Day 27: 33,820 (-365) (-1.07%) (Tuesday)Trend vs Day 1: -54,517 (-61.71%)
LOL
>>736161346>Lost 62% of players in less than a month Stable playerbase status?
>>736129620Anyone who has a "FPS rotation" is the gayest motherfucker on the planet.
>>736131169BRs and extraction games have enough variance with the number of people in the map and gear that you don't have to totally own your losses as a skill issue. If people have a way to shift their failures to something outside of their control, it'll make the game and genre more approachable. Extraction games do that then pull it back by making failure punishing, so I don't think they'll ever truly stick as a PvP genre in the mainstream.
>>736129620the most fun i had with the game was in the first 5-10 hours before it got repetitive. that's about how long most of these journos will play the game so i get why they love it
>>736161346Should add previous week vs current week numbers too.
>>736137438Honestly I kekkedHappy day anon
>>736162803The game is supposed to remain relevant for many years to come. If your experience, like that of most people, shows that the game becomes repetitive in less than 10 hours, that means the game is an absolute failure, especially considering that, once again, as with Helldivers 2, it sold far better on PC than on PS5, so there are far fewer players and sales on Sony’s flagship console than on PC
>>736159819>>736142337They are frequently in toxic positivity bubbles where that kind of behavior is encouraged and enforced. And it got worse because they get feedback filtered through the press and their PR people and in JP's case the localizers and translators. It's why so many companies took the wrong lessons from gg and concord.Even on this game, the company line is that a small, dedicated group of haters got ahead of the GOTY, that should rightfully be a top 3 seller for the year and a monster at the awards from reaching it's audience, and just excluding those people from the public sphere will make them a winner.They see Wendys on twitter and think they can pull off the same shit.Saw the same shit with SW outlaws, Veilguard, AC shadows. It took highguard for people to even think there might be a problem with their approach.
>>736129620Why do people want this game to fail? Never played it.
>>736154158>interesting interactions with other playersYou mean shooting them in the head
>>736164083because it's made by literal gay niggers
>>736161346>The player base is stable>We're having a blast>We don't care that the casuals are leaving
>>736134228Some time next year at the earliest. I don't think they can afford not to keep it on life support for a while longer.
>>736142489What flak does helldivers deserve? They sell it for $40, you can find the currency to buy the battle pass in-game, they release new content faster than most people can play it, and the only time they really pissed off their community was Sony's fault and not the developers. What the fuck does it take to satisfy your dumb ass?
>>736164508>Check Marathon reddit out of morbid curiosity>Full of doomers and people telling casuals to leave
Kiss my BWC ass
>>736161346
>the shills new narrative is to compare themselves with Hunt which is a decade old game >It actually got more players after Maraflop
>>736164819>fully of doomersThat's funny, because I just saw a Steam thread for Marathon lamenting how the Marathon reddit is entirely gatekept by mods who don't allow negativity, and bot accounts all astroturf the fuck out of any criticisms anyone posts.
>>736129620sorry, i'm a white guy, i don't play these types of games
>>736164917I sorted by new topics so maybe they just hadn’t been deleted yet.
glad it flopped
>>736163940>They see Wendys on twitter and think they can pull off the same shit.Wasn't that Wendy's account mostly engaging in playful banter with it's customers and only really shanking rival competitors though?I don't remember many of the posts but most I saw seemed to be taking mean-spirited jabs at Burger King or McDonald's or the other fast food chains.
>>736129620way too many butthurt Destiny players here.also the only GOOD extraction shooter is Sea of Thieves.
>>736130694YouAreCorrectTell the retarded mutts to fuck off and keep playing better games
Wasn't Marathon some old boomer shooter? Why did they take that and turn into doa live service garbage with visual diarrhea quirk chungus milenial art style?No wonder it flopped
>>736130694>>736168001>not leaving room for>thought under>the quote numbers fakers
>>736168224>quirk chungus milenial art styleIt's fascinating how much you can say about shit you know nothing about.
>>736168272>>736140306
>>736167598You've a better grasp of the nuance than those social media manager. Congrats.
