Marathon (Bungie) PS5, Xbox Series X, PC

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art direction is great, but i don't feel the aesthetic from the teasers translated well to gameplay, though they still have time to polish it - it kinda looks like the Clover Bay enviros in D2

also, gameplay looks slower than I thought it'd be - certainly slower than Crucible - but I'm sure the gunplay is snappy
 

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I do wonder how Bungie thought they were in a good enough situation to even attempt at looking at making another game. Destiny 3 should have come out way before you even think about making another game. 6 years completely wasted on a genre that their playerbase isn't even a part of. All aesthetic and no game.
 
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I could be wrong but didn't the division popularize the genre?
I've never heard of The Division referred to as an extraction shooter. Everyone mentions Tarkov when the subject comes up. I could be wrong though.
 
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I could be wrong but didn't the division popularize the genre?

The Division's most popular aspect has always been the PVE looter shooter open world gameplay and mission/raid content. The Survival extraction-esque gamemode was always niche in appeal and playercount comparatively; it was never big enough to have lasting influence on the genre as a whole. Hell it didn't even make it into the second Division game... let alone OTHER extraction games entirely. :dead:

Extraction shooters as a genre basically start and end with Tarkov exclusively. So on paper the decision to try and "break into a relatively open/unexplored genre" with Marathon might make sense. The flipside way of looking at it is... extraction shooters are so hard to nail down and get right... that basically only a single one has managed to achieve any level of lasting success across the entire industry so far. :huhldup:
 

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