MARATHON (Bungie)

Wow! Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long long time.

Used to play Marathon on the Macs we had in high school class.
 
KazeoHin said:
This looks VERY different to the Marathon I played...
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You're right, it's now a MP only PvP extraction shooter, like Tarkov or The Division's Dark Zone. There's a ton of those coming out.

A few from google:
  • Escape from Tarkov
  • Hyenas
  • Dark and Darker
  • Hunt: Showdown
  • ARC Raiders
  • Marathon
  • MWII DMZ
  • Marauders
  • Starsiege: Deadzone
  • HAWKED
  • The Cycle: Frontier
  • The Division Heartland
Even experienced devs like Bungie will have a real tough time outside launch hype, as imo extraction shooters (without SP/campaign) is a fairly niche market.
 
Krenum said:
Wow! Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long long time.

Used to play Marathon on the Macs we had in high school class.
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The only computer I ever purchased, other than laptops, was a Power Mac clone (Umax) with the Motorola 604e chip. It was like 2 grand all in with a Sony Trinitron CRT and extras. My buddy and I would play Marathon using Apple Talk and directly connection our Macs wth what I think was like a serial or printer cable? Anyway I’ve built every PC since but man that was such a fun game.

This one looks like something I won’t be interested in sadly.
 
TheHig said:
The only computer I ever purchased, other than laptops, was a Power Mac clone (Umax) with the Motorola 604e chip. It was like 2 grand all in with a Sony Trinitron CRT and extras. My buddy and I would play Marathon using Apple Talk and directly connection our Macs wth what I think was like a serial or printer cable? Anyway I’ve built every PC since but man that was such a fun game.

This one looks like something I won’t be interested in sadly.
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Nice, yep fond memories of the original too.

I agree, had they not mentioned what the game was I would have had no idea what I was seeing.
 
Drexion said:
You're right, it's now a MP only PvP extraction shooter, like Tarkov or The Division's Dark Zone. There's a ton of those coming out.

A few from google:
  • Escape from Tarkov
  • Hyenas
  • Dark and Darker
  • Hunt: Showdown
  • ARC Raiders
  • Marathon
  • MWII DMZ
  • Marauders
  • Starsiege: Deadzone
  • HAWKED
  • The Cycle: Frontier
  • The Division Heartland
Even experienced devs like Bungie will have a real tough time outside launch hype, as imo extraction shooters (without SP/campaign) is a fairly niche market.
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Welp, that kills any interest I had in this game.
 
Q-BZ said:
Throwing a bunch of these PVP GAAS games at the wall and seeing what sticks? Forget it. No thanks. PVP only? No thanks.
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Have to remember that this is the type of thing Sony acquired Bungie for.
 
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