This isn’t marathon, this is Bungie trying to make something new and hoping people buy it because of an established intellectual property.
I don’t think the Marathon ip is big enough to ride on the name. The trailers don’t give a Marathon vibe anyway.
Which begs the question, why use the IP in the first place?
It’s especially weird because they just recently gave the green light for the Aleph One developers to release the originals on Steam, so it’s probably more well-known now than ever before. Even though it’s still relatively obscure, why do that now? It just doesn’t make sense.
because “hurr durr it’s an IP we own.”
Same reason as why Bethesda slapped Prey on Arcane’s spooky space station imsim. It doesn’t need to make sense, the games don’t need to be connected, the IP doesn’t have to be popular, companies are just so adverse to a new IP that they would rather change everything about an old one.
Pvp extraction shooter? What does that have to do with the Marathon franchise?
I smell a cash grab.
It’s made by the company that made the original Marathon. Or what’s left of that company at least…
I’m going to introduce it to the miracle of orbital bombardment.
Bungie? Pls make this a one time payment and not the fuckery that is the destiny 2 pricing model.
I haven’t so far. For me to spend money on this game, it has to be
a. Good
b. Linux compatible
c. Not have any non-cosmetic transactions other than an up front purchase price
With bungie, all three of these have a low chance of happening. There’s a reason why my autocorrect keeps trying to write bungle.
They can barely maintain a single game and now after firing almost half their employees they expect to maintain 3 games? Well, I’m grabbing my popcorn…
