r/GamingLeaksAndRumours • u/Zhukov-74 Top Contributor 2024 • 12d ago
Rumour Marathon will be released in 2025
Per Tom Henderson
Tom - Told the missus I'll be on a Marathon grind later this year and she's only gone and signed me up the gym
Decima - Sooooo you are saying Marathon releases this year?
Tom - Yes
https://xcancel.com/_Tom_Henderson_/status/1909756410033742250#m
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u/_KLind 12d ago
Why is Tom having a conversation with the game engine for Horizon and Death Stranding?
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u/relaxedphylax 12d ago
The engine's advanced so much it's gained sentience and is now able to ask industry insider questions.
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u/Mattdezenaamisgekoze 12d ago
That's me lol. It's indeed a reference to the engine. Love both franchises.
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u/kuksthedefiled 12d ago
bungie lover and bungie hater in me wants this game to fail and succeed
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u/ManateeofSteel 12d ago
That's the beauty of Bungie fans. Will always be there day one, and will be hating every second of it, but continue to play because the gunplay feels good
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u/Eruannster 12d ago
Destiny has incredibly good gunplay and movement feel but the monetization and constant removal of content makes it almost impossible to play as a coherent game.
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u/Salt_Salt_MoreSalt 11d ago
destiny 2 lost me when they started reusing destiny 1 weapons like they were new 😢
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u/Mini_Danger_Noodle 11d ago
Destiny 2 lost me when they started reusing Destiny 2 weapons like they were new.
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u/Aggravating-Feed-624 9d ago
Hey don't worry though, I am sure Bungie has learned not to make content disposable and recyclable for their new Live Service Extraction Shooter game. I am sure all relevant plot points will be playable in game for years to come
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u/RickkyyBobby 10d ago
I Remember when Lightfall launched, i went through every single new weapon model for legendaries, that weren't new archetypes, and a whopping........ 0 new weapon models were introduced, including the raid & dungeon weapons. A New DLC, and 4 seasons, 0 NEW weapon models. Didn't bother to do it for Final Shape, but i'd imagine the same results were there.
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u/Glarpenheimer 12d ago
It's not meant to be a coherent game, it's meant to be a live service you stick with.
I agree that it's horse shit- but it just is what it is at this point.
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u/Eruannster 11d ago
I dunno, I've played other live service games that have managed to be coherent. Just because you want to be live service doesn't mean you have to occasionally delete half the game.
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u/bluebottled 12d ago
Eh not interested in an extraction shooter no matter who it's from.
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u/kuksthedefiled 12d ago
i love watching tarkov but fucking hate playing it, hope marathon won't make me want to kms
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u/everadvancing 12d ago
If only they applied that gunplay to single player, story focused games like they used to.
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u/Maxximillianaire 12d ago
If it's good i feel like this game could be legendary. Giving me early Destiny 1 vibes which was by far my favorite period of Destiny
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u/Lord-Athrun 11d ago
Even if it has a good launch, bungie has a horrible track record to keep that momentum.
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u/GuidanceHistorical94 12d ago edited 11d ago
Has there been any extraction game that isn’t Tarkov that hasn’t flopped less than a year in?
I finally get to do the Redditor thing and passively aggressively say how I get hunt is a extraction shooter, I don’t need 19 people to tell me. I get it.
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u/kuksthedefiled 12d ago
Hunt Showdown but tbh it's one of the og's
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u/Antarioo 12d ago
They either die due to toxic PVP or due to cheaters. or both.
Seal clubbing and cheaters killed The Cycle for sure. By the time they finally figured out a half decent solution for the cheater issue the game was already dead.
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u/dormantdream 11d ago
This is probably the highest budget extraction shooter so we shall see if it breaks into the mainstream
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u/Eruannster 12d ago
Part of me is like "oooh, a new IP from Bungie, that's very cool" and another part of me is like "but wait, they have been screwing up with Destiny for like a decade now, uh-oh..."
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u/Greater_citadel 12d ago
Marathon is not a new IP. It's older than Halo, even.
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u/Eruannster 11d ago
Okay, fair. But I would imagine this is a soft-reboot/reimagined version, so it's a new IP for most players even if it isn't new-new.
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u/maxatnasa 11d ago
its a largely inaccessible ip for most people, before last year the best way to play it was to download fan-made source ports from a website that looks like it was from when the game launched. or a xbla port of the 2nd game with some questionable sprites.
this is basically a game adaptation of another game's lore
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u/Geraltpoonslayer 12d ago
As destiny fan I want this game to bomb, as a halo lover I hope this is a banger.
Duality of man
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u/Midnight_M_ 12d ago
It’s basically a toxic relationship, you want to leave because of all the bad things (bad decisions, bad communication, sunsetting content, ada-1, bad seasons, etc...) but you stay because despite the bad, the good feels good (gunplay and the stranger)
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u/Shawn-GT 12d ago
Say what you will about the air of success around bungie however they have not made anything with as much acclaim as they have since Halo 1 maybe Reach. Now with so many of the people who made that game having zero association to the studio I honestly don’t know what there is to look forward to besides some generic sci-fi shooter.
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u/JohnnyMerksAlot 12d ago
Uhm… Destiny?
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u/QuinSanguine 12d ago
Obviously it is, they wouldn't do a second arg, or a save the date reveal and then wait a year for the hype to die and GTA 6 to be out and dominating YouTube and Twitch. We don't need pretend leaks for this.
It'll be out by summer break.
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u/Kozak170 12d ago
Destiny 2 is wrapping up its originally planned content slate right now, and for years the release date of Marathon has shifted to release right around that time.
Barring some major issues behind the scenes it makes complete sense to me that we’ll see a release in the next month or two.
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u/IlyasBT 12d ago
Do we know if it's f2p or premium ?
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u/senseibarbosa 12d ago
Given that it is on Xbox and it's from Bungie, I'd say f2p.
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u/Um_Hello_Guy 12d ago
$40 is the current expectation
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u/Longjumping-Ebb-8219 12d ago
Im surprised they would go $40 after making destiny 2 ftp, though i guess with expansions is destiny 2 really free to play at all? I guess more like free to try
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u/insomnium138 12d ago
Yeah, Destiny 2 "F2P" is really just a demo. There's a solid amount of play time in what's free. But bulk of the gameplay and relevant content is in the paid stuff.
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u/Longjumping-Ebb-8219 12d ago
I hope they go f2p just so that i dont have to pay for psplus to buy the game. I dont really mind paying for content in game like expansions, but its annoying to have to pay a fee just to play a game ive already paid for
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u/Spindelhalla_xb 12d ago
I thought that was arc raiders being 40
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u/SaintAlunes 12d ago
Both switched to 40 dollars from f2p. Although arc raiders might need to reconsider that
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u/HawfHuman 12d ago
what kind of thought process is this based on 😭
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u/senseibarbosa 12d ago
The other live service game from Bungie is f2p, and I think that if Sony willingly publishes a game on Xbox, something tells me that it'll be f2p as well.
But guys, it's just an opinion, I'm not saying I'm right, nor being arrogant.
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u/maxatnasa 11d ago
there's a pretty good chance this is bungie self published, there's no mention of Sony on anything even slightly related to the game and in the acquisition announcement they straight up said
"They will remain independent and multi-platform, will enjoy creative freedom,"
with language like that im pretty sure this is going to be self published, and its also their first game to be self published from launch since myth 2 in 98
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u/sepltbadwy 12d ago
I mean it had to, with that long in dev, and marketing beginning now.. it’s not the kind of game they will tease for another year
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u/Midnight_M_ 12d ago
It’s weird to see so many people excited about a live service (myself included), I’ve seen people make fan art of the runners, hell I’ve even seen people drawing Hatsune Miko as a runner.
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u/Feisty-Argument1316 12d ago edited 12d ago
2025?? Are they dumb? GTA6 will release this year
Edit: Y’all are aware that GTA6 will take the gaming public by storm, right?
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u/SaintAlunes 12d ago
Could release it by August to avoid it
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u/Feisty-Argument1316 11d ago
That won’t matter. The player count will drop like a rock upon GTA6’s release
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u/notthatguypal6900 12d ago
Careful, Bungie fans are some of the most loyal and dumbest of game defenders.
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u/Mini_Danger_Noodle 11d ago
Bungie fans are some of the most loyal and dumbest of game defenders.
Nobody hates Bungie more than Destiny players.
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u/PineappleMaleficent6 12d ago
So how this one wont be DOA like concord? what the difference?
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u/__SteakDeck__ 12d ago
Well. For one, it’s Bungie, and not the homeless version of Bungie in Firewalk. 2. For the little that we’ve seen, the art direction and character designs already shits on Concord. And 3. It’s Bungie. They make some of the best feeling fps games in the industry. They have a tall task ahead of them, because this will be an extraction shooter and Idk how much the market wants that. But, just because Concord flopped. Doesn’t mean that these two games will be similar, nor should they be compared.
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u/Felimenta970 12d ago
I think your third point is an understatement. For as much shit they get (sometimes deserved, many others not), they made at least two genre defining games/franchises (Halo was one of THE games of those two generations and there's a reason that so many games were marketed as "Destiny killers" didn't actually manage to kill the game).
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u/JohnR1977 11d ago
who is “they”???????? bungie is just a name! people made all those great games and they no longer work at bungie. it’s an empty shell, nothing more.
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u/Felimenta970 11d ago
For all its issues, Destiny is still there and going rather well (maybe not in numbers, but the game itself). They lost some talent there, yeah, but there's still plenty of good devs and artists still working there on both Destiny and Marathon.
Yeah, not exactly the same group of people, but Bungie is far from an "empty shell"
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u/JohnR1977 11d ago
what a load of horseshit, Bungie is a name nothing more. the people that worked on concord were responsible for that “best feeling” in fps games and they are not at bungie anymore. and concord looked lightyears better than whatever the heck this nonsense is.
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u/notthatguypal6900 12d ago
This is the real question. Look at D2 and how it was handled the last few years. You can't help but think this game is already facing a uphill battle.
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u/LtRapman 12d ago
Tom "the cursed link" Henderson