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It's been almost two months since Marathon came out. Anyone who says Marathon has nothing to do with the og games is either ignorant or lying right to your face, because if you read the game's lore especially the Cryo Archive you'll see that it's all connected to the og games

Bro Masai is President of Dallas Mavs 😮‍💨 Oh boy let me put my eyes on Dallas again

Wet Anderson’s ISLE OF PAWGS

Now people saying PS isn’t pushing Marathon enough? PS isn’t giving them any marketing? 1. They are. The game is all over the PS Store and there are pages promoting it 2. Even if Sony PS did decide to put this huge marketing plan behind Bungie, YOU MFS WOILD STILL COMPLAIN.

People have become so obsessed with the failures of Concord/Highguard that they’ve convinced themselves to hate games they’d love. This era of hive mentality will kill games and make devs not take risks. Good games dying because bad games died and Twitter calls everything “woke”.

Brah Brah

A few too many of y’all OK with losing today because of vibes lol we winning this fuck that

cryo is just a word they use so you dont feel bad about dying in a fridge

Fuck it I’ll cover it. I don’t got the credentials but I’ll be fair and speak common sense 😭

“But it’s universal” this is why some of y’all should’ve been held back a grade

Marathon is a game with some of the coolest and fun build crafting potential and it’s sadly been frequently reduced to the most boring meta imaginable. Any high level clips I see of the game I don’t even need to finish because you know how it’s gonna end. Copycat loadouts on every team, 5 bubbles, hop around them and shoot a guy with your shotgun of the week, throw/receive 10 nades thrown through a doorway, rinse and repeat. There might still be a gold bully in use acting as a makeshift turret down a hallway. An unfortunate side effect is this is most of what people on the outside of the game see which doesn’t really pull them in, but it’s so much more than that. Bungie is at the top of their game as always with gunplay and it is a shooter lover’s dream. Amazing team synergy with different shells, a lot of fun abilities tied to implants, cores and weapon mods with a genuinely great spread of weapons but good luck seeing someone use anything other than their Misriah rn 🤣 It’s one of the main reasons I’d be so excited for a PvP arena mode because I think you’d start to see more fun anti-meta builds and experimentation either with prebuilt or limited loadouts instead of the do or die extraction environment where if you don’t bring that thing everyone is using you’ll lose all your stuff. Still think this is what ranked mode should be to be honest, climbing through the ranks of Arachne’s skinning arena. (this is a pipe dream I know it’ll still be meta spam but there would be ROOM for people to relax more and be creative instead of meta) That’s why I think Sponsored Dire Marsh works so well as a similar concept because people love this game but sometimes want a warm up, or a cool down type of playlist before it gets to the sweaty stressful stuff. A lot of people play games for different reasons and it’s part of why Marathon can take its toll being a mostly high octane run experience. I find myself wanting to play the game everyday but also not having the energy to commit because I can’t turn my brain off and chill. More of a random scattered thoughts vent post idk what can really be done about it as meta will always meta in a competitive space I just also think it’s boring and doesn’t look fun to play in a game that’s so fucking fun!!

Upcoming single player games I can’t wait to play

It’s the playoffs.

Paul Tassi putting out back to back "Marathon is dying actually" articles, before admitting its out of frustration for the game not being exactly what he wants it to be is kind of so genuinely anti-art and a really poor use of the kind of platform he has. embarrassing

@kore_virus It’s just a weird mentality to have. Most humans look up to the ones who break through adversity. If I fail, I don’t blame life, I look inwards and find what can I do better to succeed but you’re right. It’s a small minority.

@thesuperwave If players dont feel like they dont well they dislike the game l, or nitpick it. Others enjoy the challenge and find ways to improve and adapt but those are the minority

All you mfs do is complain smh

@kore_virus They don’t even play or they play for an hour and decide the game is dead. Feel sorry for those people

@thesuperwave They forgot to play

@Mapocolops They want the high loot without having to actually work for it

People asking for Perimeter and Dire Marsh to have much better loot don’t seem to get “higher threat level = better loot” If you want loot you go to Pinwheel in Outpost or lose everything factory in Cryo If you want to play Perimeter or Marsh you are doing so with the express knowledge that you’re going to those maps more for specific activities and you enjoy the map, not for exfilling with mass riches outside of a key run. Even then just because you didn’t get something doesn’t mean the map didn’t have it, someone got to it first and exfilled. If you decided to do every single activity and POIs on Perimeter and don’t feel that you got rewards that reflect that effort, you actually did. You’re not supposed to clear out a whole entire map and yeah like you can of course but the game isn’t going to analyse your activity, give you a gold star and tell you that you’re enough. You got Perimeter loot on the Perimeter map. There’s plenty of Marathon players under level 50 hell under 30 even, working through these first two maps for contracts and loot relevant to them while you’re looking at your 400/400 vault space with golds asking Perimeter to give you more. Please be so fr and have proper perspective, the maps are balanced and scaled for their threat level to reward ratio 😭

Obviously newly on the train but I have been enjoying Marathon a ton over the last week The gun play feels incredible and the gameplay is so hard to put down, game really is a hit if you dont got a bitch in your ear telling you it sucks, please give it a try when you can