Comment on Insomniac's Wolverine hits 1.9 million sales despite controversy, becomes Sony's top first-party game of 2026

• JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Marathon. The best gamenmost people will never play.

  It really is very good.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They’re reworking it into something else now in an attempt to salvage it, but for me personally, unless that involves being able to host the server myself, I’m not giving it the time of day.

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    • jontree255@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t know what Bungie was thinking putting all their effort into Marathon. People heard “extraction shooter PVP only” and checked the fuck out. Didnt help they delayed it and had the art theft debacle.

      That game was going to struggle no matter how good it was at launch. THEN they stopped work on Destiny 2 right as Marathon came out despite Bungie promising the two games would co-exist and just pissed everyone off.

      Masterclass in running a studio into the ground.

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Destiny was running the studio into the ground regardless of Marathon. Behind the scenes reporting says it had been a while since Destiny turned a profit, and by the time The Final Shape came out, the damage was already done. The reason they’re not continuing with it is that it just burns through money.

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      • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        People heard “extraction shooter PVP only” and checked the fuck out

        Way to fuck with classic IP too. I didn’t play back in the day because I didn’t have a Mac, but they were praised highly at the time.

        Can you imagine if the id guys came back after 20 years and announced Doom was gonna be a hero shooter because those seem to be popular?

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    • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Eh. It was never meant to be a big game. Trying to turn it into a flagship after launch isn’t gonna work. I’m just glad I experienced it at launch and season 2 before they really start to tinker. I think that will have to be enough for me.

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  • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Marathon. The best game most people will never play.

    I would, but they don’t support my platform. Does that make me one of the “most people”? I am a “Linux Gamer”, therefore I am part of “most people”. We are not a niche platform after all it seems. :D

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• Desischnix@fedinsfw.app ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Marathon is not an exclusive.

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  • zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    True, forgot that abomination was worth getting a PC release too.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And Xbox.

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