Third spruce tree on the left

I played the #Marathon "server slam" for exactly twenty five minutes. i.e. as long as it took to finish the tutorial mission. I never tried loading into a real mission. Why?

I couldn't figure out what the fuck I was supposed to be doing nearly all the time; and I couldn't READ THE TEXT; icons were too similar; the color choices, while aesthetically pleasing, made some shit really hard to discern details.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/bungie-asks-marathon-critics-to-delay-full-reviews-till-the-release-of-an-endgame-zone-and-i-am-wistfully-reminded-of-vault-of-glass

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Bungie ask Marathon critics to delay "full reviews" till the release of an endgame zone, and I am wistfully reminded of Vault of Glass

Bungie suggest that Marathon reviewers "hold your full review and impressions until you play Cryo Archive, Marathon's pinnacle endgame zone and experience".

Rock Paper Shotgun
Mar 6 at 2:54pmWeb
Show threadThird spruce tree on the leftMar 6

I love the art style; as though Mirrors Edge and CP2077 had a baby and Im all here for neon cyber future color palettes. While perhaps not as fluid as I've grown used to in #arcraiders or #titanfall / #apexlegends , the gameplay seemed to be alright.

Again, I just couldn't read anything on the screen. :(

And telling reviewers "wait wait wait, we're not quite done".. hey, I get it. "Agile" and all, but if you're saying that your game isn't complete without <Killer Feature> and

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Show threadThird spruce tree on the leftMar 6

you launch WITHOUT <Killer Feature> anyway, well that's just saying to customers "here, take our half assed unfinished shit and like it. Give us money because we're #Bungie!" - that doesn't sit well with me.

I see #Marathon rocking its own junk on a bollard and dissappearing in a month or two just like #highguard or #concord.

Meanwhile I have six hundred hours in #ArcRaiders after its launch 4 months ago and its still fresh.

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Show threadPatrickMar 6

@tezoatlipoca I meanwhile have never played Marathon because:

1. I am salty at Bungie for doing Myth dirty.
2. I don't want a multiplayer extractions shooter, I want Marathon.

Show threadThird spruce tree on the leftMar 6
@PatrickoftheG well, yes, that too, the original Marathons had nothing to do with extraction shooters.
Show threadPatrickMar 6

@tezoatlipoca It felt like such a monkey paw curse to get Marathon back after all this time, only for it to be this instead of Marathon.

Sometimes dead is better.