Marathon

game is fun but i just dont understand why make it a extraction shooter they're already so niche. also replay ability sucks

67

Bonjour, Personnellement, j'aime bien le jeu, l'ambiance est top, le système de faction mélangé avec l'histoire rend le jeu intéressant. Les combats et les sensations de shoot sont excellentes. De plus avec une équipe, on peut prendre un malin plaisir à chasser les autres joueurs. La gestion et la maitrise du bruit est primordial. Etre discret est vitale pour passer inaperçu. Le couteau devient très vite votre meilleur ami. Par contre, Bungie ruine son propre jeu (une fois de plus) par une approche aussi déconcertante qu'idiote.... Chaque saison tout reset et c'est débile. On perd absolument tout... Tout son stuff, toutes ses armes, tous ses up-grade alors qu'on les a extrait... Les perdre au combat est une chose mais tout perdre tous les 4 mois est simplement stupide. Pourquoi jouer dans ce cas ? Mais ce n'est pas le pire, toutes les factions reset... Dans ce jeu on se spécialise via le farm de réputation. Chaque faction a un "arbre de talent" et pour aller plus loin dans l'arbre il faut augmenter le niveau de la faction (via des missions à réaliser sur le terrain, certaines missions sont monstrueusement compliquées à faire et demandera des dizaines de try). C'est long à faire, très long même. C'est comme cela qu'on va construire sa façon de jouer (en fonction des bonus qu'on va débloquer en fonction de nos priorités). Cela demande du temps et de l'investissement. Mais non, il faut cracher sur les joueurs qui s'investissent et qui font vivre le jeu. Car tout reset mêmes les factions... Personnellement, cela m'a dégouté d'y jouer. Je n'y retournerai pas.

Get woke. Go broke.

Marathon has all the ingredients for a great extraction shooter, but it never comes together into something worth sticking with. The gunplay is solid, and the visuals are excellent, but that's where most of the praise ends. Matches quickly start to feel repetitive, progression is slow, and the risk-versus-reward balance rarely feels satisfying. Too often it feels like you're spending 20 minutes gathering gear just to lose everything in an encounter that wasn't fun or fair. The biggest issue is that the game lacks its own identity. It borrows ideas from other extraction shooters but doesn't improve on them, leaving it feeling like a watered-down version of games that already do the genre better. Team balance, matchmaking, and the overall pacing all need serious work. I wanted to like it, but after dozens of hours I realized I was playing out of hope that the next update would fix things instead of actually having fun. Maybe it'll be worth revisiting after major changes, but in its current state, I'd save your money and your time.

Junk game

When you get to engage with the maps and the world at your own pace, Marathon is incredible. But Marathon is also frustrating in how its systems, as currently designed and implemented, don't really survive the hardcore audiences that the extraction and PVP shooter genres normally attract. The incentive structures and design choices that essentially force you to kill every runner you come across on sight are overwhelming. This runs directly counter to the emergent and player driven gameplay at the heart of extraction games. The game was marketed and branded as an extraction shooter. You can see why someone would be frustrated or not have fun with Marathon when most raids play out like Apex rather than Tarkov. Marathon is like a movie that had tons of production issues, including last minute rewrites. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but the most important thing is the stitching on whatever comes out at the end of production can't be visible. Unfortunately, you can see and feel the friction of the arena BR elements that were stitched on top of the extraction base. A permanent PVE mode in the style of Tarkov PVE add-on seems like a no-brainer, including being playable top to bottom solo. To conclude: I'm frustrated. I want to explore Tau Ceti and dig through crates. I want to smack some UESC around and maybe see an alien or two. I'm a sicko. I want to love Marathon. The technical pieces and art direction that make up the foundation of a great game are there. But the harsh reality is that pushing towards a greater BR arena style in the extraction shooter mix was an interesting but flawed idea to get Marathon out of production hell and across the finish line; it just doesn't work overall. 6/10, a tentative hold recommendation. Will revisit my review when whatever the PVE thing that's being cooked up for S3 is out.

Dead game lol