Marathon still has a long way to go (Hands-On Impressions)
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Marathon shows promise, but it's still missing something at the very core of its extraction gameplay loop, making it difficult to predict how Marathon will launch or where it might one day end up.
#Preview #Marathon #Bungie
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you are clicking this video you probably
have a hundred questions about Marathon
but you probably have one big one Is it
enough Is it enough to deliver Bungie
from their prolonged period of
disruption and uncertainty a period
marked by layoffs and restructure and a
complete upending of Destiny's future
development and business model Is it
enough to succeed Destiny as Bungie's
next big game One that will spirit the
studio into a new decade of game making
the same way that Halo and Destiny did
when those games launched Is it enough
for Sony who bought Bungie for $3.8
billion a price that now seems
astronomical given how the studio has
fared since then Sony are not only
nursing Bungie on their balance sheet
they're also nursing a very black eye
after the failure of Concord and the
cancellation of a number of other live
service titles With that track record
behind them Sony really needs Marathon
to be a big big win They desperately
need Marathon to be enough Setting aside
all those very loaded questions about
the legacy of the studio the commercials
and the crushing weight of expectations
there's a more fundamental is this
enough question and it's this: is this
game enough for us the people who might
want to play it And hell who even are
those people Since an extraction shooter
is hardly the sort of experience that's
looking to recruit diehard Destiny fans