Bungie's New 'Marathon' Is An Extraction Shooter Coming To Xbox Series X And S

This franchise is from a time even before Bungie made Halo - when they were making games exclusively for Apple Macs. How times have changed.

Just like the PS showcase, this is extremely disappointing

@Rmg0731 Metal Gear Solid 3 remake and remaster collection where the highlights of the show for me but you're right it was disappointing.

Oh well hopefully the Xbox event in June 11 is good.

@Solidchief well the remake is coming to Xbox but idk about the collection

@Solidchief if the highlights are rereleases of 20 year old game you know something’s not adding up.

Xbox has 100% opportunity for a home run next week. Wonder how they gon fudge it up

The art-style of this game is so odd and out of place to me. But on the positive note I can't say I have seen something like it before. On a positive note I am having a lot of fun with CoD's DMZ and the concept of extraction shooter from Bungie is far more appealing than that money-spinner treadmill called Destiny.

@Carck Phil seemed very confident about it in that podcast where he talked about Redfall, since he is generally a little more honest than the average corporate face I think they are good enough.

Not quite sure what an ‘extraction’ shooter is, but it looks very ‘Let’s do these colors so people won’t mistake it for Destiny’.

@Carck I'll play Spider-Man 2 but the gameplay shown was heavily scripted.

Bunjie are one of the best at making shooters and great gameplay, so im actually quite hyped for this.

@Solidchief if its not i worry for the state of the industry. It would be a big change if everything came out at summer games fest.

Loved the originals. Wonder how this will play though?

Oof, was pretty interested until the multiplayer extraction bit. I like the campaign of the originals, so I'll give this one a pass.

Honestly surprised that they are indeed allowing Bungie to make their games entirely multi-plat, or at least this one.

Then again, also surprised that MS allowed Bungie to keep the rights to Marathon when they let them buy themselves away.

Leave it to Bungie to drag a classic, like Marathon, through the mud like this.

The original Marathon and Marathon 2 were superb, with great single-player modes, and genuinely exciting co-op and deathmatch modes. This looks to be everything they weren't.

@Tharsman I don't think that was surprising at all. The day the Bungie acquisition was announced they said that Bungie will be an independent subsidiary and remain a multiplatform studio following the acquisition. No broken promises or 10-year deals, just clear communication right off the bat.

@themightyant @NorthwestEagle @AndroidBango If you were a Mac user in the 90s, Bungie and Marathon were big names.

Despite it being commendable that they are bringing this game to Xbox, post Sony acquisition, it feels a bit of a shame that they didn't commit to a Mac version too. I know macs are not known for gaming, but still. Even Microsoft decided to play nice with the first Halo, allowing a third party (MacSoft) to port it to Mac back in the day.

@themightyant I was a huge Macadddict back then (even subscribed to the magazine by that name) and yes, the mac user base was extremely angry, but MS didn’t acquire Bungie to undermine mac, this was at the time MS had already invested on Mac to make sure they stuck around since without Mac, Windows was a monopoly.

The version of Bungie revealed by Jobs was very different than what we got at the end, it was not even an FPS. Anyways, MS wanted a console exclusive title. The game hit both, Windows and Mac the same year (2003). At that time MS was playing by console game norms, that meant exclusives also excluded PC, even MS own Windows.

@themightyant don’t forget that truth is Jobs and Gates were a bit of frienemies. They annoyed each other but also got along.

Honestly, even as a big Mac lover back in the day, I never took seriously any of Apples gaming initiatives. Even to this day, Apple Arcade makes money but I don’t see it as seriously into gaming, more as simply seriously about monetizing the App Store, if that makes any sense.

Anyways, Jobs was famously not interested in gaming at all. He did have a few token showings of games, because he started to see big games sold platforms, but they never put any real weight on developer tools or hardware to support them the way Windows did with Direct X. Even their Pro towers would be sold with cards and drivers meant for profesional work and scientific research, not gaming focused.

They never even tried making it easy for third parties to sell video cards, the most basic needed thing to make PC gaming what it was, because Apple demanded then (and even still toddy) to control all the driver development in their OS.

It was very frustrating to be a computer science student focused on gaming and fan of Macs in a time that it felt Apple basically didn’t want us around.