This is the most critically acclaimed game of 2026Why is /v/ so against it
>>737648126>unforgivingWell, they got that right
The game looks good if I found that genre fun
I have marathon hate fatigue
>>737648126lollmao even
Online shit should never win goty over a single player game.
I just don't like extraction shooter. If it was a classic game with a campaign, I would have been all for it. I can't lie I like the plastic manufactured square box aesthetic, but I can't get over the gameplay.
It's still the damndest thing that they chose Marathon. Is the IP name really that worth bringing up again only to change the "aesthetic" and gameplay for?
>>737648126I saw another thread claiming some other game to be goty. does that actually matter to anyone? like are you going to get a replica of the award for your house or something?
>>737649215Kek, even
>>737650607>chinks angry cause their exploits got patched in an early access gamenow filter reviews by race
>>737650752Sure, let me get that started
>>737650821good girl
>>737648126>it's good because it's difficultwhere were these takes when reviewers and journos played silksong or the souls series and constantly bitched and moaned about how they were unnecessarily difficult and it ruined their experience not being able to play casually? do they all think we're so fucking stupid that we'll forget all their coverage of any given game the moment a new game comes out?
>Take a few scrapped maps from the version of destiny 3 where clovis bray was the villain they canned back in 2019>Bootstrap Gambit 3.0 over the top>Insert the Red War Cabal with a reskin and no other changes>Treat it like trials of osiris battle royale>The gamerdads with 19 kids and 3.4 attoseconds to play each week are having a blastThis is the most obvious failed industry plant i have ever seen. Clearly sony wanted an assett flip to normalise the playstation diehards to a sony owned extraction idea and its fallen flat on its face. A real emperors new clothes moment for them.
>>737649215>45k playersthose were the good ol "just wait for the weekend" days
Are game "journalists" contrarian faggots or simply paid by the publishers?
>>737652601It’s all about owning the chuds
>>737648126Probably not, but if things get better (not a guarantee), it'll probably get a few nominations.
Chud Tassi, king of the chuds, has fallen.
>>737648126game's doing a sale and absolutely nobody noticed
>>737649215what the fuck do they mean "small indie passion project"are they genuinely calling marathon that in comparison to STS2? because they live in bizarro land where everything is backwards?
>>737651096>it ruined their experience not being able to play casuallyI don't get that. Every singleplayer game can be played casually. Just launch it whenever and play it for however much you want/can (unless it has real time tracking, I guess). Hell, you can play many multiplayer games casually as well, which includes Marathon. But if you do, you won't get to the end of the faction trees, which I think is part of the reason why Marathon struggles with player retention. Getting faction upgrades feels sisyphean because you only have 3 months to both unlock and use them, and then you have to do it again. And upgrades cost a LOT of salvage. Especially NuCaloric.
>>737653965The Marathon account tweeted that when StS2 came out, then MegaCrit tweeted it back at them with the names swapped
>>737653965it was supposed to be tongue in cheek because the dev didn't think they'd actually BTFO Marathon like that
>>737653965Yeah it doesn't even make sense if you try to make indie look mean only "They don't have a publisher" because they literally have Sony money.
>>737654194>>737654195Of course I hit post before the refresh...Still, that's hilarious
>>737648126Kurppahosk are a bunch of losers and have actively hurt sales of this game. >>737654156Casuals will miss out on about a third of the content. They won't even get to play the most important map.
>>737654494Casuals can still play Cryo Archive. It's not that difficult to get into. But they'll seriously struggle with it.
>>737654679Steam achivements say otherwise. A huge percentage of players will not ever come close.
>>737648126>our award show will look retarded and out of touchOh no, please stop. This would totally own me.
>>737652601Yeah, very mysterious if a platform that is funded by ads from big gaming publishers and access to advance knowledge is shilling or if they're just dumb. Probably both.
Goeff already embarrassed himself with highguard do you think he would really do that with marathon?
>>737658441yes
>>737658441Lets rephrase this. How many sony dollars would it take.
It seems like the reddit and discord communities are doing their best to drive away the remaining ~20% of players that weren't driven away by the game itself. I said something about the player count on discord and was told "one day you'll be hanging from a ceiling fan and the world will be a better place". I've never seen such a hyper-reactive, rabidly-defensive fanbase in my entire life. I'm not just talking about video games, I'm including all my other hobbies. I've never seen a company or product so totally immune to any negative thoughts or criticism among the community. Imagine if you made fun of Porsche 996 headlights or Rolex having a bunch of display models they refuse to sell you, and were told to hang yourself. The Bungie stans have some kind of parasocial relationship with the company where any criticism is perceived as a personal attack on them and their tastes.
>>737660868>one day you'll be hanging from a ceiling fan and the world will be a better placesounds like a post you'd see on /v/
It’s peak Saturday, game under 20k. What gives?
meme genrememe tranny studiodeath to snoy
>>737648126I kinda want it to get at least GOTY nomination in some categories because it'll get more eyes on bungo for another round of humiliation ritual
>>737649215they'll never fucking recover after this humilliation. RIP Bungie, rest in piss
>>737661382It just went on sale, be patient while the 100k newcomers download it.
>>737648126If any of these reviews were genuine and not bought out, then Tarkov would be a 10 from their sudden desires and praise for hardcore games.
>>737648126kys
>>737661243Thats a repost from another site. /v/ is actually full of bots reposting comments from other websites now.
>It's the most critically acclaimed, so it's gonna win!Worked out so well for Hades II last year lol.
>>737649215i wonder what it must be like working at Bungie now. they gotta be absolutely freaking out about how shit this game is doing.
>>737648126Pokopia is literally the most acclaimed game of the year you disgusting shill
>>737655731I only played cryo the first time last night after 60 hours, finally got a team of regulars together.
>What happened.... to our passionate players...>*BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP*
>>737648126>game touted to be hardcore PvP>has aim bot on controllers>PC players cannot disable cross play while console players can>PC players use controllers to benefit from aim bot>uses old anti-cheat that is so decrepid that it has been fucked sideways by cheaters and hardware hackers>crams too many players onto maps with spawnpoints being 30 seconds away from each other on a certain mapYeah, its fucking fucked, mate.
>>737652601Simply paid by the publishers.
>>737665374>PC players use controllers to benefit from aim botthis is fucking retarded, no one is doing this. it's not like console players are somehow dominating with this crutch of theirs, you will out-shoot them with a mouse any day.
>>737664463>It doesn't matter if you're actually playing with other people as long as it feels like you areNice.
>>737661761Only if it loses against From’s extraction shooter
>>737664463So...what if you manipulate the map to have zero other players and loot the instance at your leisure, won't that make gear even more bullshit?
>>737648126Yeah it's fire.I don't get why people play the generic Arc Raiders still. Marathon does almost everything better than Arc.
Arc raiders wonNot because I played it though its because I want total bungie death
>>737648126>yfw Marathon is awarded GOTY posthumously
>>737651198>barely cracking 20k on weekends nowIt's not getting any better in season 2, is it?
>>737671032Season 2 is just a reskinned map + gear reset so probably not
>>737648126>unapproachablelmao travis is such a fucking faggot.
>>737671096So Bungie is basically money laundering. Because there is no way such a low effort game cost this much to develop.
>>737648126FLOP of the Year
>>737648126>that pic promptwriting skills of a high schooler kek
Sell me on this game. Looks really cool and interesting but afraid I’m wasting money on something that is dead on arrival.
>>737648126dawg the game is hideous and turns off most people on that fact alone
>>737671676>Because there is no way such a low effort game cost this much to develop.Marathon was in development for roughly 5 years. 2ish years were prototyping before Zeigler took over and redesigned the game (no persistent zones, no custrom characters, more emphasis on PvP rather than PvE). Roughly another half year in dev time when people didn't like the alpha and it was delayed. Bungie is headquartered in Seattle where devs are getting paid +120k each so yes the game did cost that much because they fucked around getting it out of the door for so many years.
>>737648126It's going to get a sub-20k weekend right before its two month anniversary in a little over two weeks!
>>737674156You're a troon so you'll love it.
>>737671676Learn your financial crimes. Money laundering requires a source of dirty money to clean. This is more a combination of embezzlement and incompetence..
>>737671032As a solo-only player, if they make Cryo available and rescale PvE for solos then I might bother to join back in. I will not LFG in a 3rd party Peter Thiel app just to have the "designed experience".
>>737674156I got 80 hours out of it before getting tired, so it was worth the purchase. I like the style, sounds, gunplay and maps, but if you don't have a premade team like I didn't, your endgame experience will be subpar.
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