Marathon

в игру просто не интересно играть. да, bungie определенно умеет делать приятную стрельбу, но когда все зависит от того, насколько хорошо твой противник задрочил свои способности, то шутер механика становится абсолютно бесполезной. мувмент ощущается просто как-то идеально. то есть персонаж не перемещается, а словно плавает. в других шутерах я такого не замечал. ну и к этому надо накинуть дерьмовость самого экстракшн жанра и командной игры. кароче кал сдох и пох

I hope these devs get replaced by ai

Me and my friend keep playing and don't know what's happening, but its the most fun we've had on a game in half a decade. Way too scary to play alone.

RIP Destiny....

Truely excellent high-intensity gunplay

The game is pretty fun, but it lacks long-term content and doesn't really know what it is. Everything feels like a mouse wheel with no real point unless you're in Ranked, but I also don't really know what business an extraction shooter has having a Ranked mode. The main highlights are the maps and faction quests. The maps have good vertical design and the quests are varied and interesting to complete. It's just the uhh... other players. Sometimes, Marathon really feels like it wasn't built with other players in mind. Some quest objectives can be annoying because they're targeted or camped by players that aren't even doing the same quest. Map mechanics have zero tutorials and can be difficult to figure out on your own, but having to be stealthy or get shot in the back pretty heavily hinders learning the map mechanics without outside help. Fighting the UESC robots allows a greater degree of freedom of strategies because they don't instantly kill you from full health and shields, so they are arguably more fun to fight than the players. I think the best example of what I mean is the Rocket Drone. It was introduced, premade teams shot it down for free loot, and then nobody else even [i]tried[/i]. In Solo mode, you're practically guaranteed to get killed by another player before it goes down, and in Trio mode, your random teammates will never want to approach it because it's too risky (unless all other teams are dead AND you have nothing better to do). So the devs introduced a brand new enemy that managed to add absolutely nothing to the gameplay because nobody ever wants to fight it because it attracts too much attention from [i]other players[/i]. And other players have sniper rifles. The result is a game that feels like it's centered completely around CoD-style PvP, NOT looting or extraction. Sure, it has all these other mechanics thrown in, but much of it only really works if you're alone, which greatly promotes this strategy: wiping the lobby early. This minimizes pain; you either die early and can move on to your next match, or you kill everybody and can enjoy guaranteed loot for the remainder of the match timer. Waiting means possibly dying at the end of the match, at extraction, when you have a full loot bag, which is enough to make people uninstall. People want to have fun, so they have fun, and [b]having fun with Marathon relies on everybody else being dead[/b]. Other mechanics are also a little shaky. The recent Cradle system, which allows increasing your character's stats by sacrificing loot... means there isn't really a reason to USE any of the loot you pick up. It's better to just throw all those rare relics directly into the blender because if you bring it into a game, another player will probably just kill you and take it. They call that "gear fear", but I don't know what to call it when the devs introduce a system that directly promotes gear fear. Now, you're not just losing a rare gun, you're losing the rare gun and the skill exp it would have given you. So screw it, just blend everything. Where does that leave us? It leaves us playing a Battle Royale but with CoD's TTK. That wasn't on the store page! Basically, it's a game with a fine skeleton, but every other organ, like the heart and brain and muscles, is placed in some slightly-weird spot that [i]technically[/i] works, but everyone looking at it goes "wait, what is that? No seriously, what IS that?" That's Marathon, and it's $40.

very good first person shooter, wish the player count was more though.

after 65 hours on console and 2 hours on pc i can say while this game says it's marathon it's a "marathon themed" version of dmz for destiny players, however just like dmz the game itself is lacking a lot of content, and a proper version of an endgame. I think while pve would absolutely be a step in the right direction, they need a proper endgame. and no! cryo does not count. if anything gameplay wise that should be the midgame, not the endgame section. make it so there is probably like an ascendance system or some way to get away from tau ceti iv. as a way to reward players for their hard work like escaping from tarkov. if you cant do that then as an "emergency fix" add a flea market to trade gear. but this should be last resort for endgame content. which is what kills this game like dmz cause it feels like they had a cool idea and didnt know where to take it. other than that if this game does survive and they do fix certain aspects of the loop and goals in the game to have an "actual" endgame then this review will change to positive. i would like to note i think what is here is a fun game. but it is not the og marathon. and it is not as in depth or filled with content as tarkov or devs previous work destiny 1 and 2 and that is what is actually killing this game