I mean, what was that ? Who wants to play that ? Where are the textures and geometry ? It looks like an indie game from a 10 people team. It looks all blocky, bland and just plain weird coming from Bungie ! I really hope that’s a side project.
It feels like we are missing something, some groundbreaking stuff that they are still hiding, but I’m not sure. I was ready to get blown away but not like that…
So concludes Bungie as a studio.
That looks so incredibly uninteresting and derivative that it is actually painful to watch. Particularly considering it is launching as a full priced $70 product.
They are not gonna sell this for 70$. Is it true ?
Edit : Yeah, I remember now that they were targeting 40$.
Looks like it will be $40 even though it should be free to play.
Doesn’t seem so. Still, charging is a huge risk in this day of age, let alone with even more successful live service in the field.
if I’m guessing someone updated the article and their automated system pushed it out to socials again.
I think the art style works but yea, bad presentation and pricing SNAFU. They desperately need a hook.
Yeah, looks like the original article I saw has edited the price. It was originally reported as $70
I like the graphical style but this seems like just another multiplayer-only shooter. It’s not going to fail as badly as Concord because Bungie has name recognition and goodwill but for a paid game this still looks DOA, and the suits are going to be blindsided when it fails like there was no way to predict that gamers didn’t want this. 
Yea, its MP-only for sure. Its possible to survive with a price above free but reallllyyyy risky.
In general the response seems muted from people who played it also.
It’s like the game should have a million weapons, maps and skins at launch with that artstyle.
Extraction shooters are pretty hard to nail. It works for Tarkov because it’s a hardcore gun-porn game. The weapons in Marathon looks the same, there’s like nothing that stands out in that slick but bland artstyle. I don’t get it.
I was genuinely optimistic, even though I wasn’t convinced by their first announcement back in 2023. Here, I’m just appalled by what they went with. It really feels like a student design project… They went from Destiny to this…
I dig the art direction even though it looks nothing like the original Marathon games( Basically proto-Halo) that made me a fan of Bungie in the first place. Wish it wasn’t MP only since if it doesn’t take off it will amount to an expensive paper weight. As much as I wanted to like Destiny it never really grabbed me, and Bungie isn’t the “buy on the strength of their name” dev they once were. At least not for me.
The SkillUp video on Marathon is…pretty scary. No story written yet? Wiping your loot every season? I get how those things could be good, but IDK, not for me I guess.
Yeah I was 
at that part. “The narrative team said that the narrative hasn’t been written yet but will be done over the next six months.” So rushing something out at the last minute after apparently not making progress over the previous 4 years. Super confident that that’s gonna turn out great!
Again, visual style is awesome but other than that, I just don’t see anything that this game has to offer me personally. And I was big into Destiny, I even liked Crucible a lot.
This just seems like something that would be a supplemental mode in a previous Bungie game, not the entire experience. It’s really lacking.
Not sure if I want to play the game yet but I love the art style and general vibes it gives off.
It’s so damn cool. It makes me wish the game had a campaign or co-op strikes or some other gameplay element that made me want to actually play it. 
Ok, so at least that was cool. Woow !!
Crisis averted
https://x.com/WindowsCentral/status/1911068110448218433?t=Q--E6rQ3s8R07VglVKvl6g&s=19
I’m reading in the comments there that this doesn’t go for consoles. So now I don’t know anymore what to believe, lol.
