Sounds like EA/Nintendo pricing has taken hold.
Shows up 10 years late to the Battle Royale trend
”Hey kids check out our cool generic extraction shooter with a battle pass”
2 weeks after release, only 900 active players remain
Cancel season pass and layoff half the company.
Can’t wait!
The price of the game will be announced this Summer
Bungie is probably waiting to see if Nintendo is able to get away with $80 for “premium” titles.
Lmao premium? My ass. That doesnt mean anything. BG3 was “premium” because of the soul put into it. Is this game anywhere near that? Does it at least tell me I’m pretty for the “premium” price?
So… is there any relation to the Marathon that came out in 1994 by Bungie?
Because… the art style genuinely looks awesome but I don’t see anything that reminds me of the original. Not in enemies, or gameplay, or plot, it also seems entirely online multi-player, I see no rogue AI.
Honestly I would be intrigued by the art style alone but… the shameless name grab makes me think it’s gonna flop.
I’ve seen a few of the famous quotes, but the Marathon itself is too spherical to be the old flying Space Spud. Bungie has often referred back to Old Marathon but this feels off. It’s like someone is doing this only reading Wikiquote and a few summaries. I did see hints of Tau Ceti’s spaceport being nuked, and the involvement of MIDA as a contractor, so there’s a few hints of the deep lore.
They’re cagey about the story as well, suggesting they don’t have a written one yet. I’ll bet they were starting towards a proper story and an author keen on the original Marathon left with the pieces sat idle in the meantime as the game grew.
It also feels incomplete, lots of pve features despite pvp extraction as the stated goal. I think this was intended to have multiple game modes, several factions trying to find something left behind, Tycho making a move on the ruins controlled by fragments of Leela. Throw in a bonus UESC force Sent by a hint from Durandal who is still off having his own brand of fun elsewhere. Perhaps Straus’s plans with the Colony long term come up.
A dream perhaps. On an Idea for a new Aleph One Scenario.
Maybe they fed some Marathon assets into Claude and asked it to build a generic cooperative loot shooter, or whatever they think is cool this year.
Possibly, Bungee is working with Sony right now. They went hard on this sort of thing, Concord and Helldivers 2 being other examples of the push, Concord famously failed, Helldivers worked. Methinks this may actually have been built from older LLM summaries of the deep lore in a few ways, there’s surface knowledge, but things that should have been obvious have been missed.
Sony fired a scattershot of games into the market into trendy genres, many will fail, but they may be expecting it.
yeah this is a lil fucked up way to even try to announce pricing, or avoid announcing it in this matter
Premium in this context means it’ll cost money. Not full priced means it won’t be £70.
