Steve Troughton-SmithFeb 26

Now Marathon is open to everybody, so I'm going to talk about it.

I played 17 hours solo, and it was a miserable, sweaty experience, with a very low time-to-kill with excruciating respawn/matchmaking times when player count is low. The art direction is beautiful in theory, but the bland flat map design and inscrutable UI does it no justice.

I don't think I went a single round where something worth recording happened. It is just not at all geared for the kind of social dynamics in ARC Raiders

Show threadBenRiceMFeb 27

@stroughtonsmith I played a few rounds with @siracusa yesterday and I felt similarly. ARC Raiders has been the rare multiplayer game where I’ve felt like I’ve had actually agency. You (usually) have time to react and regroup if things go south. I didn’t get that at all in Marathon.

That said, the worldbuilding and story stuff feels much richer and that’s intriguing at the very least

Show threadJordan Morgan
@BenRiceM @stroughtonsmith @siracusa Is it worth playing if you usually play online solo? That's been only reservation.
Feb 27 at 1:56pmWeb
Show threadSteve Troughton-SmithFeb 27
@jordanmorgan @BenRiceM @siracusa the solo experience is miserable, IMO
Show threadJordan MorganFeb 27
@stroughtonsmith @BenRiceM @siracusa Welp, back to redsec then.
Show threadJohn SiracusaFeb 27
@stroughtonsmith @jordanmorgan @BenRiceM I mostly play solo, and I really like it! (I enjoy PvP in Destiny, too.)
Show threadLoialFeb 27
@jordanmorgan @BenRiceM @stroughtonsmith @siracusa played a few games yesterday evening and I really disliked the solo experience and as mentioned above the UI and readability of loot is just horrendous. Seems much more PvP focused than Arc Raiders. First person view is also not for me really, so I’ll be skipping it