Submitted 6 hours ago by ampersandrew@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/marathon_update
No new release date yet. The next update from Bungie will be in the Fall. Quite frankly, I thought the game would just come out and die to cut their losses.
Original Marathon was really great. While you’re waiting for BUNGIE to drop this turd you should play the open source remake Aleph One.
It’s available on Steam for free as Classic Marathon.
And whatever this new Marathon is it bears exactly zero relation to the original. Innovative, original, single player experience vs derivitave, cut and paste multiplayer “live service” grift.
I am not optimistic in the slightest.
But the Marathon trilogy was really a bog standard FPS of the era that was mostly tied together with a completely out there story that was told almost exclusively via text logs.
So, a bog standard whatever buzz word genre it is at this point tied together with blog posts and youtube videos would actually be keeping with tradition.
That’s really cool. I had no idea that the original games were remade:
Classic Marathon: store.steampowered.com/app/…/Classic_Marathon/
Classic Marathon 2: store.steampowered.com/app/…/Classic_Marathon_2/
Classic Marathon Infinity: …steampowered.com/…/Classic_Marathon_Infinity/
Having to replace or pay for all the stolen art assets will do that…
The art isn't even the biggest issue, the playtest was already reviewing poorly before everybody discovered the art was stolen.
Could it be that people just don’t want yet another fairly generic live service PvP extraction shooter? No, can’t be.
The stolen art is a much bigger problem for Bungie in a legal sense. They (and other studios) put out mediocre shit all the time and promise to fix it. I’m sure the poor play test contributed but the stolen art is likely the cause for this delay.
They now have to scan every single asset in the game to make sure the stolen art is no longer there and that’s just the stolen art they know about. There might be more stolen art in there, who knows.
Now that the controversy is public the original artist could easily find a lawyer to go against Bungie if more stolen art is found in the final release. If Bungie gets sued they might have to pull the game from storefronts.
What is that?
An extraction shooter from Bungie, wearing the skin of a game that company made 30 years ago, that didn’t test well.
What? That’s surprising honestly that they aren’t doing destiny 3 or something. I know the final shape just came out but like damn. Extraction shooter is a risk because every single one fails within months. Arc Raiders will also most likely bomb a few weeks after release. (I got to test it, was MEH at best, hopefully they add some stuff to do)
hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 18 minutes ago
Remember then Bungie made good games?