Become a Runner in Bungie’s upcoming sci-fi PvP extraction shooter, Marathon. You are a cybernetic mercenary venturing into the unknown in a fight for survival and fortune where any run can lead to greatness.
Which begs the question, why use the IP in the first place?
It's especially weird because they just recently gave the green light for the Aleph One developers to release the originals on Steam, so it's probably more well-known now than ever before. Even though it's still relatively obscure, why do that now? It just doesn't make sense.
Seeing the initial new Marathon trailer might have been the most excited and then disappointed I've ever been with a game announcement. So excited for them to bring that franchise to the modern era, but so disappointed that it was just an extraction shooter. Ugh.
They can barely maintain a single game and now after firing almost half their employees they expect to maintain 3 games? Well, I’m grabbing my popcorn…
If Bungie is behind it I have zero interest without even knowing what it is. Destiny 2 was an OK game, but its god awful anticheat bans Linux users. That is a sure-fire way to make me pretend your game doesn't exist. Client side anticheat is a plague. Do it properly on the server side.
Hope it turns out well, the announcement trailer was a wicked vision of a wild artistic and sonic direction, but it seems like the actual development process has been quite troubled.