Wellllllllllllllp. (Gaming)

by Vortech , A Fourth Wheel, Sunday, April 13, 2025, 09:32 (1 day, 17 hours, 21 min. ago) @ cheapLEY

I don't think it will be a grind any more than Halo Reach MP was "grinding" every day. There is gear, but you won't keep it for more than a couple of rounds. You can think of season progression/battle pass as grinding, I suppose, but I think it is meaningfully different.

I do think people should think of this as an MP game with some (literal) bots thrown in.

This will likely have a better story than Apex, and certainly the existing extraction shooters or most BR games, but not nearly as much narrative as Bungie games have before or especially as the expectation that people on THIS site have for the name Marathon.

I have several feelings. The first is that I am disappointed that this is not Marathon 4. Or, any story/narrative game with a campaign.
Also, though, I've seen Bungie struggle to bring a narrative to the seasonal live game model and the results were mixed at best. Even at a fundamental level, I do have room in my life for something that was faster to get in and out of than Destiny (the first 30-60 minutes of playing is just admin work, and I often don't even know what I should be doing with my time).

I worry that I won't like how HARDCORE MULTI Bungie is talking about the game. I don't know if I can really hang with that as a filthy casual. I worry that it's another game that really wants groups of 3 as I have found that an award number to try to hit a usually has too few or too many to form groups.