Whatever they're making now isn't even Marathon. Some random game with the same name and a few references, but its a crappy live service looter shooter like Tarkov or whatever. I love Marathon, but this imposter deserves a fat L.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Imagine having that entire lore to work with and you make a shitty “The Finals” with it.

Bungie lost their way the moment Microsoft pulled gaming away from Mac.

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Nah, the Bungie developed Halo games were great. Literally ruled the world. Bungie lost their way when they started mistreating their own major employees (the reason the number 7 is so prevalent in Bungie stuff). Poisoned the watering hole.

Joe Staten wrote out this whole world and plan for Destiny 1 and then Jason Jones scrapped it and Frankensteined it with his friends fantasy thing. And he locked Joe Staten out of the conversations about Destiny 1 after that. Joe Staten had written the Dreadnaught (which ended up in the Taken King expansion) as the end game area of the base game. That and what they did to Marty, you don't do that without some serious internal problems.

[–] braindefragger@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And that all happened under Microsoft?

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

No, that happened under Activision, once Destiny moved beyond just simple story beats and started getting into a more detailed development cycle.

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