Pman17 said:
The art style looks cool and I'm all for more extraction shooters, but I'm gonna wait and see. This is just all around bad timing with Arc Raiders. I was disappointed with how Destiny went.
I think it's actually pretty good timing since Arc Raiders released last fall. There will be some fans of that game that were introduced to the extraction shooter genre and may want to play something different now that Arc has been out for a while.
Definitely very different games, Marathon is more of a hardcore/intense PvP game with also some challenging PvE elements, whereas Arc is more of a collaborate PvE game with light PvP. Also, the obvious differences are that Marathon is first person and Arc is third person. So I think there's plenty of room for both to be successful.
I loved Destiny but fell off of it because it's mostly a PvE game and the grind got too much for my tastes and they did a very poor job of onboarding players into all the various expansions. I will likely come back to Destiny again but will need a major revamp.
What's cool about Marathon is that it allows Bungie to focus on a PvP title again where you don't have all the baggage that Destiny has. A fresh slate. They will also do seasonable wipes to level the playing field again and keep the ecosystem balanced. Should allow Bungie to be able to release content on a more regular cadence (maps, runner shells) without having to spend an enormous amount of resources on an expansion like Destiny, and it keeps the playerbase coming back to something that's familiar rather than daunting and confusing.
