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Bungie won’t say how much Marathon will cost, but it will be a ‘premium title’
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Can’t wait!
lol yeah, is this going to be Concord all over again?
I gotta say, first time I heard of Concord, was two days after release. The headline which introduced me to Concord was "Concord only has X active players". At least I'm hearing about Marathon before it comes out.
No. Marathon has strong marketing.
I’ve never heard of Marathon before today. I generally keep up to date with gaming news.
It was a fps on the mac. I only know about it because my friend is a mac-lunatic who made me play it.. you can try it out for free since there is a open source version called 'Aleph One' to get an idea.. It's not the greatest game by today's or yesterday's standards.
This new version looks like a blatant IP flip that noone asked for. The five mac gaming people on this planet will be full of joy, I'm sure.
edit: watched the trailer now. This already looks like a fucking copy of CCPs last sorry excuse of making a extraction shooter.. already forgot the name. I played the free trial on steam and it looked embarrassingly bad
Off topic but I genuinely can't understand why people like to throw battle royales and extraction shooters into the same pot. The fact that battle royales have been immensely successful (PUBG, Fortnite, Apex) while the only extraction shooter with relative success is Escape From Tarkov (I won't get into the details but pretty much everyone hates to play) should be indication that any similarities between the two genres are entirely superficial.
They cater to very different audiences.
It's wild indeed. The worst part about this comparison is that people say it'll fail because of the competition, but there's literally 0 competition in the genre from big studios. The only three somewhat successful games are Delta Force, Hunt Showdown and Escape from Tarkov, two of those are premium games, one where people are willing to pay 250$ for it. It's even a genre where people mostly want it to be paid to reduce cheating.
To a layman like me the gameplay looks the same. Groups of 2-3 people exploring a large map for resources. Encountering other groups and looting on the way. Extraction shooter to me just means more money on micro-transactions like bank slots.
It looks the same because you are more or less doing the same thing (looting and shooting) but the core motivation to do those things are very different. Battle royales are all about combat, everyone goes in with the sole purpose of winning (with some exceptions) and you win by beating the other teams. Extraction shooters "in theory" are about survival. You take your crap with you into a raid so you could find better crap to increase your chances of surviving a raid. But if you die you lose the crap you took in. Because the goal is survival extraction shooters don't have a sole focus on combat, but rather combat is a means to an end.
Don't forget that they spent 150 million on getting Alberto Mielgo to make a cool cinematic trailer for the game.