PlayStation Nation |OT| Playing Astro Bot on the Horizon Until Dawn

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BraLoD said:

Otter said:

I wouldn't make comparison to Concord which had a lot less going for it. The closed beta for this had 80k players, there's clearly an audience eager to try it and see what becomes of it, which is not the same for Concord. It helps that its not exclusive (less online negativity) and that there isn't much culture war debates making it a target of even more negativity. Ultimately though it's not really my genre so I won't speak much on its potential

I actually think the last Marathon video was good, the maps 4 and specially 2 with the open marsh and somber feel look good. The corpses decomposing and this being a hint of how long the player died there sound clever. Making floors levels have different materials so you can know which floor the enemy is into by listening to it is cool.

But I went to the recent posts in social media and... exactly like I expected, it was basically only people rooting for it to fail and bringing Concord up.

Concord is not their fault, but it's a reality they will have to deal with, so a $40 day one price... yeah, mostly only people already into Bungie and following it should be comfortable to spend this when "Sony multiplayer" pretty much brings at least some concern.

Concord's failure was very largely rooted in poor marketing.

The initial teaser gave very little hint into the games identity. Even though it was announced as an online game, Sony choosing to follow up the teaser with a cinematic that looked more akin to something like Uncharted very much blew up in their face, because most ppl forgot that Concord was going to be an online game.

Marathon is in a much healthier position.