What is Marathon? | Somewhere In The Heavens - ViDoc
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- Опубліковано 23 тра 2023
- The Bungie development team talks about the vision powering its new sci-fi extraction shooter: Marathon.
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.
A massive ghost ship hangs in low orbit over a lost colony. The 30,000 souls who called this world home have disappeared without a trace. Strange signals hint at rumors of mysterious artifacts, long-dormant AI, and troves of untold riches. You are a cybernetic mercenary - a Runner - and your destination is Tau Ceti IV. You are one of many, working solo or with a crew, venturing into the unknown and facing the unimaginable in a fight for survival, for riches, for fame... and for infamy. Who among you will write their names across the stars?
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Id love to see a really good reason to not just hunt other players. Extract shooter always devolve from being about looting the environment to just camping the extraction zones.
Thats why I liked the balloons in Plunder in MW1
seems boring AF
Play Hunt: Showdown then.
@@hyperbooper Its a fun game. I enjoy it.
@Robert Lawrence Go play CoD.
I love how they’re explaining the game to each other and nodding as if they didn’t work on it
Yeah, all I could think about the story of being attacked by another player whilst extracting and then downing them is they probably went over to their desk afterwards to rip on them for failing.
lol vids like this are always so fake even if the game is good
You don’t talk to co workers about work??
@@FilthyheartzI do, but it tends to be about, the antics of that dumb-blam Jerry and how he stole my sweetroll.
blam@@StrangeChickandPuppo
The original Marathon game was not one where you jumped around like crazy and there was health and ammo littered everywhere on the floor. The health and save panels were rare and you did everything to find them. It was INTENSE. It was dark sometimes, there were puzzles, you had to be careful when you moved around. I sincerely hope they retain this feeling.
You could jump around like crazy if you were a real vid master.
It'll be an extraction shooter, every item is sparce. Plus the video co firmed there will be dark and intense areas.
It will be bad
i have my doubts
Did you watch the video?
Man, I sure do love watching devs react to playing their own game rather than seeing actual gameplay. Very cool.
That’s because there is no gameplay
@oliverhenry4676 because the games in early alpha . Why would they leak an unfinished product 😂
This is a teaser coach, game company’s only show gameplay close to release
@@alpha-uk4mhexactly he tripping
@@alpha-uk4mh plenty of devs who have confidence with their product and are transparent with their communities, thus creating a healthy environment between the studio and players
I'm hoping that the classic Marathon weapons return (especially the shotguns). And I speculate the Compilers lurking are remnants of the Pfhor invasion, but have since become isolated and "feral". No Pfhor to control them, no way to return to Lh'won, just scavenging for Jjaro relics just as the runners are.
That is a very interesting theory. I, for one, hope the AI combatants we face in the world aren’t limited to S’pht Compilers. One of my fondest memories of Marathon was overcharging a Pfhor Hunter with my Fusion Pistol, and watching the explosion kill all the Pfhor Fighters that surrounded it.
I dearly hope that the game delves more into Bernard Strauss's MIDA connection, the Jjaro connection to it all.
Yes I know some of those words...
@@JacJGraham Oddly, this is familiar to you, as if it were from an old dream, but you can't exactly remember...
@@JacJGraham The Marathon series is primarily named after the UESC Marathon colony ship, which helped found a colony on Tau Ceti IV. The Marathon is actually the Martian moon of Deimos that had been hollowed out and turned into a spaceship. The first game begins with you, a nameless security officer, returning to the Marathon to fight back against an invasion of alien slavers known as the Pfhor. One of the alien species enslaved are the S'pht, part organic and part technologic. With direction from the rampant AI Durandal, you board the Pfhor's ship and break their control over the S'pht, allowing them to fight back against the Pfhor. While you've been fighting against the Pfhor in space, you learn that they had also completely wiped out the colony below.
This new Marathon game is set decades after, in which we as the runners are trying to salvage tech and gear from the remains of the colony. It seems that there are still S'pht Compilers roaming around, the Pfhor likely dead. The S'pht had been uplifted by another alien race called the Jjaro, who the S'pht worship. Perhaps the colony's real purpose was to find ancient Jjaro tech on Tau Ceti IV, which the roaming Compilers are looking for.
I have played the original Marathon games. I get the feeling this is gonna feel completely different. In a good way or a bad way, I guess we'll see.
100% since the originals were very single player focused and this clearly going to be a live service extraction shooter.
Kind of hoping for good. So many interesting story things can be done with the Extraction Shooter dynamic that aren't doable in a single player experience.
@@aeonicbutterfly9662yes especially when you factor in the aspect of discovering things first and that changing the whole game dynamic for everybody and essentially be immortalized for it. That’s much more appealing to me than simple level ups or camos
@@aeonicbutterfly9662 I'm fine with whatever they might want to do with multiplayer, but I don't understand why they would choose to make it multiplayer-only. I hope they will eventually reboot the campaign in a modern game as well, because that is the only modern Marathon game I would have any interest in playing. FFS, I don't even know what an extraction shooter is..
its going to be bad 100%
I played the original Marathon during my lunch breaks in high school. It was an intense experience that started conversations among my friends based on how far we had gotten in the game and what we had found.
I struggle to see how a PvP extraction shooter is going to capture that essence.
Marathon should have gone in the direction of the Halo series: cinematic storytelling in a single-player experience with online PvP modes.
Well that can still happen especially with Sony possibly taking over
Yeah. I saw the teaser and got excited. "oh what's this??? A fast pace, intense shooter with Bungies level of polish and quality????"
I loved the intense techno, gothic music, I like the highly artificial poppy art style in the teaser. I like how the shot is a character running fast as possible.
I really got excited at the idea of a fast paced shooter with intense music. Haven't had a good game like that in a while I guess. Just a nice short single player experience with high polish and quality, something I can enjoy on the weekend which would be adrenaline filled, with awesome flowy gameplay, something I can just get into the zone with. Maybe some good story telling mixed in with some stuff that makes me do some deep thinking.
You know just a good old single player sci fi shooter....................
@@doomguy.23frommars60 that probably won't happen PRECICELY because Sony it's must likely taking over
Literally so hesitant to get excited about this after how hyped I got for Destiny being an "open world." I'll never forget landing on the moon for the first time and then immediately stepping "out of bounds"
Just look at these dork developers, I doubt this is gonna be a good game
@@starfox300 Just look at the first guy's painted black nails. I fear bungie has assimilated into the woke borg/flood churning out wokeness primarily instead of video games. The Bungie youtube channel is full of diversity and inclusion lectures.
@@judjudersawn2596hat guy has been the art design lead on every Bungie game since Halo CE.
Artistic techie types are usually kind of weird and dorky.
@@deriznohappehquite I shouldn’t have said first guy. The guy at 2:00. That guys been with them since ce?
@@judjudersawn2596 Yes. Christopher Barrett, the guy with the black nails, has been an employee at Bungie since CE, though he worked on Myth II before that, I guess as a contractor.
I love Marathon’s universe and while I’m concerned about the genre shift, I think they can still deliver that juicy lore that I love so much about the original Marathon trilogy.
I’m cautiously optimistic.
Same same, but I do want to give this a shot. I loved Marathon back in the day, and more of anything in its universe is exciting to me.
this is the correct response
Idk man how juicy is Tarkov's lore
@@JenkemSuperfan Apparently there’s some good stuff in there. Marathon’s story in the original trilogy was primarily told through the terminals, so honestly if they have those I’ll be satisified
@@dextergrif it'd be cooler to retrieve the lore from dead runners you find.
Seen so many dev logs like this and they almost always sound more interesting than they actually turn out to be lol. Not saying the game will be bad, but I doubt the experience will like how devs enthusiastically hype it. I've been so jaded by vids like this I've come to accept that ideas always sound cooler than execution.
Look at destiny. I'm not excited for this
Always nice to see some people who have broken out of the NPC mindset in this day and age.
Every assassin's creed and watchdog viadoc 😂
Because they throw all these PR buzzwords to make it sound so unique and interesting but if you actually think about what they said; they really didnt say anything of substance
Big publishers like EA and Ubisoft do this all the time and I see it a mile away now
This is just marketing. We should not be made fools
I’m coming back again because I want an update on Marathon SO bad. This game gives me so much hope, I haven’t been like this for a game in a long time. This art style and concept is EXACLTY what I’ve always wanted. Please give us another Vidoc
It gives you so much hope that Bungie will milk you harder than OverWatch 1.25 ever could?
Same. Havent anticipated a game this much since Reach.
its the cycle frontier formula - one of the best games ever existed but humanity wasnt ready
I think this will exceed your expectation - This game will be the best
try out the finals, that game is pretty good too
I’m still disappointed about the rumor about switching to hero’s rather your own character that you can customize with implants
Quite surreal seeing Bungie mention Halo again not gonna lie! As a HUGE Tarkov addict and lover of OG Bungie lore I'm really excited to see where they take Marathon, an Extraction Shooter could actually be the perfect style of game mirror OG Marathon's unique style of storytelling
You gonna be covering this when it comes out? 👀
Bungie makes good lore
go actually play the marathon games.
@ChuuniKaede this is in the marathon universe, it's not a continuation of the actual marathon gameplay
@@ChuuniKaede It's HiddenXperia. He's definitely played Marathon.
I love how hard they try and explain the basic concept of an extraction shooter thats been done to death like its some brand new concept.
For real tho, Bungie is one of the OG companies but I'm not gonna get my hopes up. This could end up being another Halo Infinite or Cyberpunk situation.
"done to death"? I can only think of Escape from Tarkov and Hunt: Showdown
@@carlosmspk cycle frontier as well. And there's one that has a world war 1 in space feel can't remember the name. There's more but those suck.
@@carlosmspk I can think of Vigor as well, but that only makes one more. Though with its radiation cloud it also kinda falls into the Battle Royale system of pushing people together to force conflict.
@@Cjoudan Still, it doesn't feel like a done genre, loads of room to come up with new stuff and innovate
I hope this game will fill the hole in my heart that the cycle frontier left there.
Trash game
For real dude, what a waste of potential that was.
heavy on this the cycle is my fav game of all time and i’m shattered it left, this game gives me hope even though everyone hates on it
Right there with you, I need my alien planet extraction game back
I played through the original Marathon trilogy in my teens. It changed the way I looked at FPS games as a whole with its gripping narrative, nail-biting tension around every corner, and variable level design that swtiched between simple objectives, saving BOBs, solving puzzles, murdering armies, or just trying to survive.
It's especially enlightening to see the context it provides for Halo, specifically how certain Marathon weapons evolved into Halo weapons, both series' protagonists being cyborgs with mysterious backgrounds, and the overall signature sci-fi gloom I have yet to see another game capture.
So far this game is Marathon in name only, in logo only. I really don't think you should have bothered with that; just make it its own game, maybe?
If the pvp weaponry is balanced and the maps are consistently updated then bungie’s sense of physics and feel will make this game a hit
Someone hasn't played destiny
@@tabithadickerson2525 i did. I was a huge fan until they stopped updating the crucible maps, balance testing subclasses for release, and turned the weapon pool into a spreadsheet game where you had to roll the perfect hand cannon to have a shot at winning pvp. So yeah i hope marathon is better. Ya boi was like top 10 percent in the world in mayhem clash.
@@tabithadickerson2525 the reason Destiny pvp isn't balanced is because they need to consider how every single gun will work both in pve and also pvp, which no other game on the market has even attempted in the way Bungie has. So if they are building this game from the ground up with pvp in mind, I think they are going to do good.
@Jaro Ramirez nova bomb spam carried me
@@keelan3332 they did it in destiny 1 and half of destiny 2 quite well and i respected them for it. I understand your point though, its valid.
I really hope the gameplay has fun physics like the old Halo games. Fun, physics based sandbox gameplay is Bungie to me. Can’t wait to see more!
*like the old Marathon games
Hope not
its not going to feel like halo at all, and that should be your expectation because its a completely new game
@@Lutty - The fourth Bungie game to have the name "Marathon" is new ?
@@LuttyI never said I wanted it to feel like Halo, I said I hope it has a fun sandbox based around physics LIKE Halo. Fun physics sandbox does not mean do it exactly like Halo
Having watched MandaloreGaming's video on the original Marathon, I was really excited to hear they were making a new game! Until I heard it was another extraction shooter...
Ha yeah
10 months later im here still
Wish there was a single player game with this art style
Unfortunately game studios think nobody wants single player games anymore, they wanna make games they can monetize with a shop
@@big.gib.4L chill bro god of war and elden ring released just last year and Hogwarts and that Jedi game this year ….there’s definitely a change from that ideology
@@alexstewart4077 at least bring up good single player games... elden ring is goated but hogwarts legacy and fallen order? really? there are a dozen other games looking you dead in the eyes rn
@@kirtrex yeah like dead space or something like that
@@kirtrex Cyberpunk2077, Red Dead 2, Sniper Elite 5, AC:Valhalla, Spider-Man 1 and Miles Morales, Borderlands 3, Resident Evil 7 and 8, Hi-Fi Rush, Stray, DOOM, Hitman, High on Life.
Or do these also not count since you personally didn't enjoy them?
Those who havent played the original Marathon trilogy and enjoy scifi games with a very deep plot have a new series to enjoy. I would highly recommend delving into the original story. You wont be dissapointed.
bro they turned this into a pvp tarkov, what plot lmao?
@@vighneshkoalapunani8851 I am talking about the story in the original trilogy
@VIGHNESH KOALAPUNANI Dude doesn't know that you can story tell through seasonal live events and lore, when that's like 90% of the way the Destiny story is told.
@@charlessmith3834 that too
@@charlessmith3834 yeah and look how that turned out for destiny lmao, it was only until witch queen when we got a real story.
If Marathon was coming back, I’d want to see a linear singleplayer campaign. The fact this is a multiplayer pvp extraction shooter just flies in the face of the themes of classic Marathon, and the emphasis on player choice kind of feels in opposition to the concept of Quantum Destiny established in Marathon Infinity.
The more I see/hear about this, the more it feels like cashing in on name recognition, and I’m not sure I trust modern Bungie with this brand. 90's Bungie or 2000's Bungie, sure, but not post-Destiny Bungie. I don’t have time to explain why I don’t have time to explain why that is, but it’s where I’m at.
When I first heard news of Marathon making a comeback, I was excited for a faithful retelling of the classic story, maybe even a remake/reboot like Doom and System Shock have been getting, but it seems my hopes have been dashed unless the multiplayer pvp game mode ends up being just a part of the full release.
I feel the same way. A friend told me about it and I dropped what I was doing to hunt down the trailer. As it finished I felt confused and filled with a sense of dread, like I was about to watch an entire game I loved get retconned.
The kicker is that on it's face this doesn't look like a bad game. I enjoyed The Cycle: Frontier, Escape from Tarkov, and Hunt: Showdown for essentially same style of gameplay.
I think we (OG Marathon players) are getting out of touch with modern trends in first person shooters, kids nowadays like this "runner extraction bs" just like we liked the deep lore single player experience in the 90. I'm starting to believe we are just getting old.
@@canobenitez That may be a valid point, but to be fair, I wasn’t alive when Marathon came out XD
I’m just one of those younger players that still prefers a good story over an adrenaline high.
Marathon isn’t out yet
@@1stJBGaming What’s your point?
if you bank the attraction of your game on discovery and surprises then it'll die young. nothing stays a mystery forever
Miss the epic single player Bungie experiences and it's a shame we are not getting that along side this multiplayer route their taking. Live service- while Bungie doing it better than most, we lose alot of potential.
💯
The art style and aesthetics look incredible, but the PVP focus and the "I gotta be that dude! That #1 guy!" obsession really hampers my interest in the game.
Feels out of touch when you think that the original marathon games you aren't even the main protagonist. Durendal is.
You might be confused with the battle royale genre, in extraction shooters your objective is to stay alive while looting as much as you can, not necessarily killing everyone...
@@inakilukac Listen to what they say in the video "I got to be that guy who found the key that unlocked the next area! That was ME!" or whatever. That's what I'm talking about.
@@WiqidBritt Well, yeah. But that's not gonna be a gameplay priority for most players. Honestly it kind of sounds to me like a way to make a more cannon in-universe version of the world's first raid race teams from Destiny. Which, again, most people don't participate in that and it's fine the game gives you a full experience without that
Marathon has been my favorite video game series, since Windows '95. It's lore fascinated me. It's single player was fantastic. But I enjoyed PVE tournament parties all the way back in 1996 😅 What great memories and carnage.
If you were on Windows you only got one of the games
Anyone still at Bungie since original Trilogy? Give us part IV!!! 😂
Exactly!!!!
I want Part IV…I don’t want Marathon extraction…
I'm so conflicted on this.
I love Marathon and all its lore and i love what Bungie can create. I know the mechanics will be solid.
I'm not a huge fan of competitive multiplayer games but more than that i don't see any visuals here that remind me of Craig Mullin's original Marathon concept art - which as a kid, was exactly what i'd imagine the Marathon universe would like with todays graphical capabilities.
Yeah dude, this looks crap to me.
They hype it up so hard without showing a minute of gameplay. Also didn't see any of the devs from the Halo days which have all probably moved on. Genuinely confused as to why they named it Marathon.
@@lmd334 they should have named it "spastic neon sci fi gender identity shooter!"
@@lmd334 because it's their IP and they want to expand on it?
@@jaydavvg *cash in
Everyone uses the phrase "cautiously optimistic" about this like they haven't just spent a decade watching Bungie make the worst possible choices they could at any given time.
Facts
Yeah, I have 0, I mean ZERO faith in any of this. In no way whatsoever is this going to capture any of the essence of Marathon, so they are just reusing an old name and turning out another form of game that has zero value to me, requiring online play and incentivizing microtransactions. Not at all what I'm looking for.
I've taken to calling them Nu-Bungie. They're not the same Bungie that made Marathon, or Halo, or even the original Destiny for that matter.
Exactly. The entire video is just concept art sprinkled on a word salad. This entire game will be engineered like every other AAA title - to sell the ender user microtransactions for the rest of their life.
@@appidydafoo And unfortunately there's enough idiots out there who will lap it up like a pet puppy. Even worse, a lot of these people will be old enough to know better.
It's funny and understandable that the most replayed part of the video is when Emily Katske shows up.
Oh, so you also know about the easter eggs in this video?
i was wondering why that part had such a high spike 😂 been a bit since i looked at the arg stuff so i forgot that was there
the question is not "What is Marathon?"
but rather
WHERE is Marathon?
I need more things with the same artstyle.
It's like...everything Brink wanted to be. It's so vibrant and fascinating
it's just LGBTQ BS
Oh man, I'm glad I'm not the only one that had this thought. I miss BRINK and its art and story. Don't think we'll get to see a new take on parkour in games with Marathon, but nonetheless, I'm certainly looking forward to the art, and Bungie's unique storyline. Just hoping they don't go crazy with milking the cash cows, and can keep toxicity at bay.
Damn. Haven't thought about Brink since...since..I don't know when.
The style was made famous by the Designers Republic im pretty sure
Preach Brother
The fact that so much focus is going into security is so appreciated, also taking time away from public eye to just grind this out is super respectable, can't wait!
as someone who wants to enter the Cybersecurity field, I love it.
If they make aim assist OP for console players then it's game over for the PC platform
@@nox2889 I doubt it’ll be a fully new aim assist system. Should follow Destiny. So keyboard/mouse will also get aim assist. Not just controller. Weaker, of course, but enough to balance the two.
@@gcarsk yeah that sounds like the reasonable route, i remember they had to add aim assit to kbm in halo cuz of how strong it is on controller xD so i feel they'd def avoid that by having it be like how they do it with destiny
The mention of disconnect recovery this early in the dev process is also positive. One of my biggest frustrations with CoD DMZ is that there is no disconnect recovery.
It's crazy how since day one I can't stop thinking about the game. Look, I'm even here watching the same 2 videos of this channel over and over to this day! 😂😂
I really hope that we'll get some news from it really soon!!!!!!!! Love yall Bungie ❤
Same haha
You should check out some lore videos about the game. I can recommend some really palatable ones for ya too if you'd like
@@j_note Yeah absolutely tell me everything I need to see 😂🙏🏼
@@Mr_Isma
Marathon story 1-3 ↓
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Marathon ARG explainer for this game. It gives us more of an idea for the story of this game ↓
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@@Mr_Isma I hope you enjoy all of these videos as much as I do. They all are easy and fun to watch, explaining some of the lore and story of Marathon. We'll see more lore videos the closer we get to release. But maintain that enthusiasm for that game. Don't listen to all the doomsayers. Marathon will pull through Bungie always nails every game they release. Just hope for the best
I really hope that we as players will unwittingly put together AI core like a Durandal or something simular as one of these artifacts
I got super hyped that Bungie was doing another singleplayer scifi story shooter with multiplayer part for a while. All these loot shooters with 29 XP bars just make me feel like I'm doing 9 to 5 instead of having any fun. :/
this would've been a badass single player game with this art style
sure.. then put down on the shelf - perhaps hitting 300 hrs
@@heykrash Just add a multiplayer mode then like the Halo games did if you so concerned bruh. Singeplayer experiences are so special especially for Marathon though
@@MauricioJara they can always add a single player campaign lol
@@ekanastone never ever seen that happen before. Quite the opposite, only seen singleplayer games add multiplayer later on..
Why lol solo isn’t there style anymore
As great as the game looks, it's a shame that the source material is only being name-checked and, based on what I've read, there appear to be no plans for a single-player campaign to build on/reimagine the original trilogy that many of us grew up with.
It's probably best to leave the original trilogy story alone. They need to come up with their own stories. I won't be surprised if they we're connected. We do know every one died on tau ceti and everything being abandoned makes me think it is.
I completely agree, but it would be a lost opportunity if the new Marathon just became a looter-shooter Destiny clone.
I really hope their will be a campaign or PVE game mode ! I don't really like being stuck in a PVP gamemode being able to switch from competitive to a more private experience is always good in my opinion.
Dude then go find single player games to play. nobody cares about them.
@@Thepvpguy128this used to be a single player game. The og marathon was great! Check it out if you have the chance
@Thepvpguy128 Are you a bit slow in the head? Good single-player games get hella players.
The easiest way to build a loyal fan base is by making a good single-player experience. Once that’s set, multiplayer should come naturally. It’s no accident that the old Halo movement & gunplay was amazing for multiplayer.
I don’t give a rat’s ass about some The Finals + Apex Legends sh*t thrown into a blender.
He who rises with the tides, master of all things small and insignificant.
He escaped into the waves.
The waves.
Been watching Bungie Vidocs since Halo Reach. It’s always great to see what’s going on behind the scenes. These have been an inspiration for my pursuit of game development as well.
Keep up the great work!
they barely tell you what's going on behind the scenes. they vaguely described things that could happen in the game which they havent shown. this was people talking to their coworkers about a game they already know about, pretending like they havent heard any of this before. it was mad cringe.
@@defunctchannel942 If Bungie could demonstrate the development of a map, show that they can create additional content at incredible speed and efficiency that would generate more hype than any gameplay trailer.
Bungie should just demonstrate that their developer tools are easy for developers to utilize and aren't full of vast amounts of technical debt that plagues all botched AAA releases.
I suppose it’s the nostalgia talking for the most part. It is vague, but seeing a vidoc for a new Bungie game does bring back good memories.
@@defunctchannel942 It really sounds like some Todd Howard empty hype. "See that mountain? You can unlock it FIRST!", like who tf cares? 🤣
Was just a fake generic marketing video. Has sadly nothing to do, with the original marathon.
I generally hope this turns out to be better then any of us think
Still have the CD of Marathon 2 Durandal.
This is going to be one of those "the game is broken but at least the shop still works" kinda games calling it now
The shop is always gonna be rock solid
Yep lmfao, gotta love when the legacies of old amazing games get desecrated by corporate greed
Sad to say I agree with you
Much harder to break a shop than it is to break actual gameplay
@@robertgaskill8632 We’re talking the basic stuff like UI bugs but the shop is perfect
Seeing the concept art in this made me much more sure in the art direction. I can’t wait to see what you guys are cooking! MARATHON BABY
Its a unique art style. it strikes the late 90s Y2K/Early 2000s art aesthetic.
Simplesmente a estética mais linda que eu já vi em um game da Bungie.
Glad to see bungie is striving to really capture the spirit of the original Marathon by making a game that is absolutely nothing like Marathon! 👍
To be real i don't mind
what i fear is the data miners
Who tf cares lol. The original is so old that its impossible to capture the original spirit. This is clearly a reboot. The original is like 25 years old
@@spacedout4061 To be honest, it seems like the people who are most upset never actually played Marathon. Single player games in 2023 don’t have maze-like levels with stories told mostly through text and picture terminals.
@@deriznohappehquite yep
How does it feel to live long enough to see all your favourite franchises go down in flames? It feels great!
Not my franchise, armored core is back baby, resident evil is still strong, dragon dogma 2 is confirmed.
But my brother in Christ, my condolences, stay strong ✊
This comment is borderline experimental
Never was really a huge Halo guy, but it _was_ a very fun experience the few times I got to play it and watching Bungie suplex its flaming corpse through the floor in recent years alongside Destiny has been very sad.
My condolences to you, sir.
@@OneBiasedOpinion You know Bungie has had nothing to do with Halo since Reach, right?
@@inakilukac ah, my bad. So they’ve only been responsible for Destiny for years now and still managed to pile-drive it into the ground. Thanks for clarifying that.
Gorgeous art style and while I couldn't be more disappointed that there won't be a campaign attached to this, I'm at least excited to see what this has to offer!
Maybe if this game is successful we might get a separate game that has a campaign in the same universe!
live story telling is always good too
@@Daan_Music_ I kept telling myself that for Destiny, and look how that turned out lol
They’ve written 80% of destiny’s lore outside the campaign and the lore is great, although I fully get why people want a full on story game
@@Daan_Music_ that makes no sense economically. Why not get it right the first time? It's not like they are building off a non-existent IP.
So disappointed that we arent seeing Bungue return to create single-player experiences with multiplayer as a side option. Could have been a return to form for them, instead its like they asked "Hey, what if we made Gambit an entire game? Ooo ooo and lets get in on that closing circle of death thing people like that!"
Something that would be interesting is a set of casual modes for Marathon, like TDM, Donination, etc that yo could bring your extracted weapons and gear into without being able to lose them. A way to hone your PvP skills without fear of losing items.
The hype I'm feeling watching this reminds me so much of how it felt to watch the Halo 3 ViDocs almost 20 years ago. This is feeling like it's going to be the next big game.
Maybe
Nah, it is made by woke feminists, just look at these people
SOMEWHERE IN THE HEAVENS... THEY ARE GOONING...
more like they are trooning
forget merc, return to security officer
the original marathon was one of (if not THE) first game(s) i ever played. (and by played, i mean i was 4 watching my dad play them) i really really really hope this gets more people interested in the original story/games. if good things are built on the backs of giants, you shouldn't forget what made those giants who they are in the first place!!
Love the art style cant wait to see more in the future so buzzed for this
Reminds me of mirrora edge
@@AncientTechnik5148 Bro! That's so true.
Ever since mirrors edge released I always hoped more games would use that art style in the future, finally that day has come
The only thing that concerns me is that I don't recognize any of the names in this video. Last two games I played where veteran studios put out games with names I didn't recognize were Mass Effect Andromeda and Back 4 Blood.
Shh just excited with the new product, im pretty sure they/them know what they're doin 😉
stop thinking and consoom the corporate slop
How dare you use your brain. That’s not how your programming is supposed to work.
Every time I go back and watch this again, I'm more and more convinced that someone snipped out the first 5 minutes of the video. Something that actually explained anything about the world and why we should want to exist in it. The first thirty seconds are _"In Marathon you're a Runner. You grind the game to make your character better."_
Watch some lore videos or mandalore gaming’s videos on marathon if you wanna know more about the world
And then he said the word “seasons”
I wish more studios weren't afraid to show prototype gameplay. The game sounds really cool, but I'd love to see some early gameplay in here as well.
Like Redfall?
@@twoquestionmarks sure?
@@Roont69 if this game looks like redfall just a year from release then there was never any hope
I didn't know concept art and a pre-rendered trailer was considered "gameplay" now.
@@SynthLizard8 welcome to 2023
4:14 Freeze the image here to see Bungie doing something very special with this shot, and true Marathon fans of the original trilogy will recognize it right away. It's an ode to one of the famous concept art images of the first Marathon (of the marine you play in the game)--look it up online. Amazing detail, fan approved.
It's from 2nd game
i disagree. they could've made the entire game to look like mullins art work. instead we get this shameless brink copy extraction shooter clone. to me it's just added evidence that bungie died when destiny was reworked shortly before it came out and that this new iteration of bungie hates their fans and just want to cater to anyone who's got the attentionspan of a toddler. shame on bungie for doing this to their fans.
Only the name is right, nothing else.
They're not describing what Marathon is, they're describing a genre, they're describing what an extraction shooter is. You could read a Wikipedia article about Tarkov and have more information about Marathon than after watching this video
we need to see gameplay.
This isn't a Marathon title, it's Tarkov with a recognizable brand
I just see them doing the exact same thing EA did when they murdered Titanfall 2, stripped the guts out of its corpse, and used them to make Apex Legends so they could corner their share of the popular BR format. Except they actually are the original owners of this particular IP, so it’s slightly less egregious.
I guarantee Bungie’s just hoping to yoink the Tarkov market before someone else does what Fortnite did to PUBG and they miss this golden goose.
@@OneBiasedOpinionhat a golden goose it would be if done right though, as in the profit they'd rake in. I feel like that's a pretty large market
Now, I'm going to admit that I'm a bit disappointed that the new Marathon is going to be an extraction shooter instead of a remake or reimagining of the original trilogy, but I'm also somewhat optimistic; the artstyle is genuinely cool and unique, and you guys have enough experience with multiplayer games to make this a really fun experience.
Still, hoping for a future new singleplayer entry in the Marathon saga.
Honestly, they probably were going to have an easier time getting funding for a game more like this than a remake of the original games. Perhaps if this does well, they’ll get the go ahead to at least rerelease them.
@@Masterchief1856 agreed
Honestly kind of disappointing that you act like you played marathon befits but just don’t understand this
I would temper those expectations. If you read what they said in their GDC conference, you’d know they aren’t a studio equipped to make single player only releases anymore, or even any games that aren’t live service.
They call them “boxed launches”, as in games that release to retail and that’s it, such as Halo. They talked at length at how they transformed themselves as a studio to support live games over boxed launches. I’m not saying they can never go back to that, but they are currently not equipped to do it.
@@terribletimes902 in what way are they not equipped?
it’s been 9 months and i’ve been waiting, where’s the gameplays
Christopher Barrett was not even game Director when this video was released 🤔
I wonder if/how big a part fighting against environment and mobs will be. Also their track record with Destiny makes me hopeful that it might slowly grow and expand into other types of gameplay maybe other modes etc.
Like Crucible, Iron Banner, and Trials of Osiris?
@@twoquestionmarks yup, they definitely have perfected those game modes and pvp in general, and inventory/QoL/UI/UX systems etc... 😬 my favorite part is where they pioneered matchmaking and killed off server browsers because who needs choice when bungie knows how to rank players and balance servers to make things "fair"...
Destiny makes you hopeful for this? God bless you
I’d like to see clear identity, not just something for everyone.
Halo and Destiny were the "30 years of experience and innovation to create Marathon".
Someone's put me on the heavy stuff, History is changing again!
Yeah i thought Marathon was released before.. i played it in 1996 and i was 6 soooo... i don't get it 😅
Don’t worry, the player is just on a new timeline.
@@theantsaretakingover Oh okay then
We've clearly been on Thoth's timeline for a few years now.
@@deadwinglullaby you've been deceived by Savathun
I am hyped about this project. I would enjoy playing in such interesting world with so distinct, stylish visual style.
Lezzzz gooo. Can't wait for this. It already sounds awesome!
Why couldn't we just get a remaster of the old marathon, why this strange thing?
Lost me at 2:42 "unfolds over the course of a season"
Code word for “there will be battle passes!”
There are some incredible people on this team which does excite me. You think about people like Chris, Steve, and Scott and you see some of that "old Bungie" that people don't realize IS still there which is exciting. With them you see Destiny 1's original art design, or The Taken King's D1 revamp, or Forsaken's complete revamp of Destiny 2.
Players were ALWAYS a key point in Marathon's story. I just wish that there was a campaign in progress too that could directly go off of Durandal's story
I hope this game will also feature a singleplayer mode, I don't want my secret hunt to be cut short by sweaty tryhards
Nope, it’s not going to.
u could not play it
Its the curse of extraction shooters
Then the sweaty tryhards gonna go “git gud” as everyone expected
It's an Extraction Shooter, I'm afraid you'll be out of luck.
I'm a HUGE Marathon fan, but I'm not really into multiplayer games and kinda scared of them, especially the seasoned ones. What if I'm just being... late? Or getting started in the middle or even near the end of narration, do I miss everything that was before instantly? That doesn't sound good for such a story-driven franchise like Marathon... And what if I want to play it like 10, 20, 30 years later? Just "no"?
Am I getting it right? It's really sad if I do. Extremely hyped for the game, but at the same time very worried.
As a classic shooter fan, I am 100% certain it will flop. Marathon not rebooted as a singleplayer experience is a big mistake
WOW I'VE LEARNED SO MUCH ABOUT THIS GAME FROM NOT SEEING ANY OF THIS GAME AND INSTEAD WATCHING PEOPLE SAY NOTHING ABOUT THIS GAME
having the main focus on loot being artifacts is interesting but you need them to be valuable to the player themselves for quests or perks, im not gonna go on a duck hunt for these artifacts if its just for some money... ill just extract camp to get someone else's...
I am gonna stick to the Aleph One port
"It's about what it means to be Human ; It's about: you shoot people and take their stuff."
Perfect summary of Marathon's themes.
Sounds like something Durandal would say, tbh.
I heard something about being "Downed" which hopefully does not include a self revive, especially in a solo game experience. that feature slows down gameplay and i don't support it especially in a game where your one life matters. But So Far it sounds like this game will hit all the points that pvp gamers want right now, Speed, Movement, Looting, Competitiveness, Skill Gap. Looking Forward to hearing more and seeing some gameplay!
Very excited for this game. Can't wait to know more.
PVP, always online eh? Damn. I was excited for a bit there. See y'all in lore videos
Absolutely excited to see where this goes in the future. Great showcase, team!
Ain't no way people from the original Halo are still at Bungie lol
there might be AT MOST a single person left at bungie from the 1994 marathon - halo CE days.
A dozen people from the original Halo team are still there 😉
The primary factor that made Halo great was the story and the lore. Although the PVP and multiplayer in general were huge contributing factors to the games success, a LOT of people stayed around for the franchise due to how attached they were to the world elements like the halo rings and learning about where they came from or even the people, like Chief or Cortana and learning about their pasts. So when I saw bungie was making another game (with the first initial trailer on this channel) I was hoping there'd be some kind of single player/story driven element for those who wanted to immerse themselves with the character and the lore, but after watching this video it looks like it's probably going to be another battle royal.
Which is a real shame, considering the art and the aesthetic, it could've had a perfect atmosphere for a story mode or single player where you're exploring the futuristic/dystopian world, uncovering relics from the past to progress and learn more about how the in-game world had came into existence or came to become in the state its in.
With that said I think personally people are getting sick of battle royale's, I mean just look at "The Finals" for example. The hype surrounding that game was massive, people thinking it'd be new and fresh with unique elements, but now even before it's been released and only after playing the beta the interest for it is disappearing. Update videos surrounding it or content creators talking about it don't even gain any traction anymore, some barely reaching 10k views on huge channels.
So I really hope that this has something going for it, other than the importance of how many kills you get, wins you obtain or where you and your team is placed on the leader boards. Otherwise I can't really see this being huge, considering people want something more meaningful now days, something they can invest themself into and relate to.
(Edit: Ignore any grammatical errors or spelling mistakes, it's been a long day and I'm exhausted)
Marathon as a setting could certainly work for a tarkov-like extraction shooter, but Marathon as an IP turning into a PVP focused game is not what most fans would have wanted I believe. The Marathon games have one of the most interesting stories in gaming, especially for their time and I imagine most fans of it wanted more of that story. Or a remake of it at least. A remake with a pvp mode wouldn't be the worst idea, but going purely pvp makes me question why it's Marathon
Yes, they should at least release a classic Marathon game eventually.
They did remake a classic Marathon game with online PVP once, Marathon Durandal on XBLA. I think modern Bungie just prefers focusing on live service experiences, unfortunately, probably brings more money in.
Agreed. They could have called this game anything lol.
Most people today remember Marathon for its story.
However, Marathon had an absurdly ahead-of-its-time multiplayer component too. All of the core ingredients for what would become Halo multiplayer were there, intact, all the way back in 1994. To the few of us who had access to a room full of Macs during those times, Marathon multiplayer is unforgettable.
When you take the original Marathon multiplayer into consideration, a PVP-focused reboot makes a lot more sense. The extraction genre is still raw. I think there's a lot of opportunity to infuse this game style with the kind of atmosphere and moodiness that defined the original Marathon series. It's hard to see, but I believe Bungie can pull it off.
@@hamification Waldo World Arena😍 Come on, This was a LAN game when you had 14y. But this game really? With a toxic online playerbase? @Dogi This is the first comment which makes sense. How the hell "They/Them" came to that? They made a naked party on They/them couches and decided who lasted longer?
Where's the original Bungie team??? There are NO REASON to make it PVP only. You are Mjolnir Mark IV, and you save your colony against aliens!
When the rumours claimed that you were going to be playing as a "runner" in an upcoming Marathon-branded Escape from Tarkov knockoff, that was the part that convinced me the rumours were fake - I thought that was just too ridiculous to be true. They weren't _really_ going to think that the name "Marathon" referred to "running a marathon", were they?
Turns out they were.
That's what it meant when they made the original games, ironically- Bungie came up with a working title of "Marathon" because that's how it felt to play through the whole thing, and the name ended up sticking.
At the very least, the setting sounds like it's firmly anchored in the classic trilogy- judging by the website, we'll be looting the ruins of the USEC Marathon and its Tau Ceti colony after it was destroyed between M1 and M2. I'm still not too optimistic, but who knows?
@@LieutenantAlaki This sounds like something that could have been made as an interesting multiplayer option in a modern Marathon reboot or something. I hate that Bungie is so focused on multiplayer games now. Ever since Halo blew up and multiplayer games became so massively profitable, Bungie really seems to have lost its way.
Yeah. The Bungie that made the original Marathon is dead, just like the Bungie that made the original Halo trilogy. I doubt this game will be anything more than a cookie-cutter Tarkov copy, in which case the people who play Tarkov will continue to just play Tarkov.
@@ericwood3709 Ha. Funny you say that, considering one of the biggest complaints about Destiny right now is that its dev team has been leaving its PvP content to wither up and die from neglect.
And Bungie has _always_ been about multiplayer. Damn near every one of its games from its inception has been multiplayer; they were making exclusively multiplayer games long before online multiplayer even existed! Hell, part of the reason the original Marathon was hell to make was because the devs were having too much fun nuking each other in PvP matches to actually finish the damn game.
@@LieutenantAlaki All three Marathon games have long campaigns and an overarching story, plus good multiplayer as an important add-on feature. Before that, I don't know what they did for multiplayer. Pathways Into Darkness was single player only, that I know. It was kind of their answer to Wolfenstein 3D and Marathon their answer to Doom, as the features of each pair match up pretty well. So no, Bungie has not "always been about multiplayer." They started out making single-player and mixed games. Halo was the same way, of course. It was when Halo got very popular and Microsoft got involved that Bungie and their focus changed radically, and thus their games became much more multiplayer-focused, and now multiplayer-only. Even Destiny with its PvE content is still a multiplayer game, a type of MMO from what I understand about it. There is a difference between having PvE content and a game being single--player, and perhaps that nuance is lost on some people nowadays.
A small spark of hope that one of the greats wont die easy. RIP Blizzard, Make my dreams come true Bungie.
I hope someday I can work with you guys. Being the designer for this IP should have been awesome for a designer. Those graphical art style and direction seems really unique and refreshing.
Don’t know anything about marathon but can’t wait to see what bungie has in store!
you wont need to, this isnt a remake.
@@sovaeth It doesn't need to be a remake to be interesting lmao
It doesn't look as though this game has much to do with the original Marathon.
Like Prey (2017), they're just rehashing the name.
Which is a huge shame, because the original Marathon was far more interesting than what this is looking like so far.
this has nothing to do with the original Marathon
@@aeonicbutterfly9662 True. But it should probably have something to do with the original story...
Otherwise, why call it Marathon?
Just call it Hypercolor Extraction Shooter 2023 instead.
*IN THE HEAVENS THEY ARE WAITING*
Marathon had such a cool look to it, this just has the same aesthetic as a big Nike ad
Lol that’s why I love it. And the head art director posted ghost in the shell and Nike runners as inspiration 😂
Saw the Trailer and im so hyped, is there any infos from an release or open alphas?
I am definitely excited about this but I do hope that we will see other kind of genres for the Marathon universe as well.
I'm so excited to make AI open and close doors over and over
don't shake the lightbulb
Uh oh
Bernard is that you?
As someone with thousands of hours in Escape from Tarkov, Halo, and Destiny, this is like a dream come true for me. The most important thing to remember in extraction shooters is the playstyles of all players being available, and that the movement feels fantastically accented by gunplay. Those are really important. Some of people's favorite elements of Tarkov is literally just the immersive nature of moving affecting your gunplay and how every mechanic affects every other mechanic in a personal immersion context. So excited.
Are there game modes where your loot is safe, never played extraction shooters
Hmm, I am very interested to see how this will work with groups/ teams. Since I can imagine that you play with friends and you play either for Loot or for Story. And also what happens once all other players have been eliminated? can the last player just go exploring? Is there PVE? Will new players join?