Pre-Release Marathon by Bungie (PS5, XBOX Series S/X, PC) [TBA Release Date]

[EvilChameleon]

Marathon is being developed by Bungie for the PS5, XBOX Series S/X, and the PC, and it's being described as...

Become a runner in Bungie’s new sci-fi pvp extraction shooter. compete for survival, riches, and renown in a world of evolving, persistent zones, where any run can lead to greatness.

It will have cross play and cross save.


Bungie bringing back an old classic on new platforms, this time as an extraction shooter. No date has been even teased yet, and there's currently a ViDoc premiering on the game's YouTube channel, which I will add to this post when it is done.

 

[Xaltmas]

Love the style in the trailer. I could never get into Destiny/Destiny 2 because those types of games demand so much time but a PVP game might be more my speed.

 

[EvilChameleon]

ViDoc is up!

 

[ILikeFeet]

wonder if it will tie into their old games

 

[paranoodle]

I have to admit I'm a little confused about this one - I have a handful of friends who absolutely love the original trilogy... and not a single one of them has any interest in PvP shooters. And of my friends who like PvP shooters, I'm not sure if any/many have even heard of the original Marathon games.

I'm sure a lot of people will enjoy it because Bungie have a good track record overall, but it seems weirdly like drawing a Venn diagram of two completely separate circles and then only aiming for one of the two.

 

[robertman2]

Learning this is a pvp extraction shooter got me going full Gamer™️ tbh!

 

[EvilChameleon]

I can't help but wonder if this will be F2P, considering they are charging $77 for shirts on the Bungie Store.

 

[afternoon delight]

Interested in that design if anything, stunning! First concept in a long time from them I'm even remotely curious about.

 

[ILikeFeet]

ViDoc is up!

hey, professional blender usage!

 

[Dardan Sandiego]

The aesthetics are chefkiss but I don’t think anyone who wanted a new Marathon was asking for an Extraction Shooter. Only hope is that there’s a narrative component to it.

 

[Samus95]

I wonder if this also an ammission by Bungie that the ending of the last Marathon is so good that is basically impossible to follow up

 

[kvetcha]

I wonder if this also an ammission by Bungie that the ending of the last Marathon is so good that is basically impossible to follow up

Bungie going 'Let's take the original narrative FPS and turn it into a multiplayer PvP shooter' is the sort of thing that makes me want to give up on gaming.

 

[shoptroll]

The aesthetics are chefkiss but I don’t think anyone who wanted a new Marathon was asking for an Extraction Shooter.

I've not played Marathon but if they did this with Doom I'm pretty sure the Internet would be livid. This is a very monkey paw situation.

 

[kvetcha]

I've not played Marathon but if they did this with Doom I'm pretty sure the Internet would be livid. This is a very monkey paw situation.

It would be more like if they did this with System Shock.

 

[ILikeFeet]

I recommend the Mandalore reviews for Marathon for those who want to learn more. be warned that this is 2 hours of reviews





and Pathways to Darkness which is also related

 

[paranoodle]

On that note, for anyone curious about the original games: they are available to play for free on PC/Mac/Linux, completely legally.

And if you don't have anything that can run them but are still curious to check out the story, there's an archive of all the story content of all three games available in text + screenshot form.

 

[boris_feinbrand]

hey, professional blender usage!

Haha yeah that immediately stood out for me as well.

 

[robertman2]

On that note, for anyone curious about the original games: they are available to play for free on PC/Mac/Linux, completely legally.

And if you don't have anything that can run them but are still curious to check out the story, there's an archive of all the story content of all three games available in text + screenshot form.

2 is also on Xbox via back compat, and I think there's iOS ports?

 

[EvilChameleon]

There's a nice little Q&A included in this article.

 

[Krvavi Abadas]

utterly surreal to live in a world where a proper System Shock remake exists and is releasing in a few days, while Marathon gets thrown into the multiplayer-only pit.

On that note, for anyone curious about the original games: they are available to play for free on PC/Mac/Linux, completely legally.

And if you don't have anything that can run them but are still curious to check out the story, there's an archive of all the story content of all three games available in text + screenshot form.

Pathways Into Darkness (the direct precursor to this series) was also released for free on the Mac app store at one point, though it's limited to that platform as Bungie never did a source code release for it like Marathon.
there's been attempts to port it to the Aleph One Marathon source ports, but it's not 100% accurate to the original.