Marathon

destiny 2 died so marathon could struggle to keep 3k players lol

Marathon is an incredibly saddening game, originally promised as a persistent extraction shooter with in depth character customization, was turned into a hero shooter with 25 minute match timers. The game is devoid of any ambition and plays it incredibly safe, with a budget reaching over 400 million you’d expect it to be grander than even the original vision entailed, but no, you got a hero shooter with a skin shop, and bland maps with some interesting mechanics, I enjoyed a really good run on pinwheel, and cryo was fun, but theres not really much else besides that, I dont think 30 hours is reasonable to leave a review, but all 30 of those hours were full of desperately trying to love this game, I enjoyed when I got into a gun fight, sometimes, talking to people in the wilds happened to be the most fun, meeting random people who also desperately try to love this game. Overall I dont recommend this game, I wish the version of the game I could recommend was the one we got.

Game is made like Valorant but with large maps, 3rd parties, grenade spam. I do not recommend if you have a life outside of gaming.

Honestly love the game. It's one of the most aethestically cool games, with the dopest vibes (each faction oozes with style and mystery for example). But also a game I can't even play. Many other reviewers have already mentioned so I won't repeat, but the general consensus of "1% of pro sweats destroy your chance of really just enjoying the game" (for someone like me) rings true to me. I don't have a problem with PvP, I don't have a problem with extraction games. Both are genres I enjoy and love. But where I'm at in life now, I can't become a sweat player. I can only casually enjoy games. So being unable to take fights because I don't have the ability to consistently bring back any loot (because I'd simply die from sweats) keeps me in a state of losing more, or having only free kits to enter a match. I agree with the game needing a PvE mode. It'd allow folks to enjoy the awesome world that is Marathon. They and enjoy the tight and fun gunplay, which feels so good. Have better chances of bringing home loot and feeling good to have a stash with some nice guns and gear in the 20-40 min that they may have to play the game. Etc. I get the "git gud" sentiment, but realistically, not everyone has the time to develop the skills to enjoy their games at that level. That's why a PvE mode, where you can actually still get gear, and enjoy an epic story, would help a lot of folks jump on Marathon, and simply enjoy themselves. I find it was kind of tone-deaf that the only PvE event they released (Vault Breakers) did not even let you leave with the stuff you picked up! Like...it's not easy to make it out alive. No, instead you get some new form of currency, to buy things that you can only bring into the PvPvE lobbies, where again...you likely will lose. Though you can't just run VB once and get out with enough currency for a full kit that could maybe survive some fights; no, you have to run it multiple times. Though Cryo is a dope map and event...not everyone has the time. Especially when you'll likely lose it all. Let folks keep what they picked up and extracted with. Let them bring those in to whatever match they want to. Another joke to me is the Battle Pass. First, this is a paid game, so why are the passes the same price as free games? Not only that...there's 1 unique skin. One. The rest are recolors. And then there's schemas. You have to buy the guns with currency that you hopefully extracted enough times to afford buying. 10 years of development from a AAA team. I know this comparison is not apples-to-apples but look at Marvel Rivals: It's a free game, yet their Battle Pass has numerous unique skins. This is a paid game with not a lot of incentive for folks to BUY the BP and then to keep playing to at least get all BP items. I hope the game survives. It hurts to see all the "Marathon killed 2 games...Destiny and itself" memes and comments, because it feels very true. I hope Bungie figures out a way (or if they already have, that it's some secret they're holding close to chest and will reveal very soon) to keep game alive, and more importantly...bring in more/back people who will actually love the game, and be able to convince all their friends to jump in

This game has no cohesive identity and has no idea what it wants to be. The gameplay itself is fine and gunplay feels satisfying but it is not fun, extremely confusing, and UI that is so stupid that it honestly should be required coursework for game developers on what not to do. I literally quit mid-match and refunded it realizing that it is just not fun and it is wasting my time.

Only fun in a team and playing the game a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. All casual players will not have fun and leave, the game ends up a being a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ deathmatch game but with 20 minutes downtime between fights since queue times are so long

A great game that only appeal for player who have high tolerance for failure/who excel at PvP. This is a game that will not be fun for any average gamer as your progression in this game will be hampered by how good you at in PvP. I cannot recommend this game to anyone who cannot handle high skilled PvP fight at all. This is not an extraction shooter game shown by the marketing but a high stakes Battle Royale game with extra steps.

It feels like it plays amazing, but then you try it and realize what this really was. A big, corporate powered failure. Ziegler came in and turned the beautiful vision of what this game couldve been and turned it into a hero shooter within an extraction shooter. No one asked for this, no one wanted it but its what we got