The seasonal wipes are the best thing about Marathon. It’s just like ARPG’s like Diablo in which people play seasonal characters and everyone starts from zero every time(except they have an option of letting people play on eternal servers, which I have zero interest in).

Wipes are quite common in extraction shooters to begin with, but Bungie are making it more formalised. They are creating a clear and definite structure.


Every season is effectively a chance to experience the game again, but with new changes and updates each time, and everyone will be experiencing at the same time.

Diablo has a proper game with a big campaign and replayability there on top of having seasons.

That's all you have in Marathon.

Sure, it can be normal, I'm not into those games, but Diablo is way more than that.

Which GOW did you play?
Frankly Kratos in the Greek trilogy is pretty different from the Norse.

Yeah, some people just play Diablo as a campaign game, and some people play it as a live service game focusing on the endgame stuff. Marathon is 100% focused on only one of those player bases. It sucks if you’re in the group that plays the campaigns and moves on, but the benefit is that if you are in the group that plays it as a live service then the game is 100% tailored to your experience—there’s no balancing of resources or development priority issues. Marathon is also a $40 game to reflect that, rather than $70 with $40 expansions. 

It’s only trying to do one thing, but it’s trying to do that one thing in the strongest way possible. No hedging or trying to appease to a wider audience by offering little bits of something they might want. 

 you lose your equipped loot just from dying, being disconnected (so you aren't cheating before dying) and from failing to extract from the map in time (20 mins I believe).

Like, you can go into a run with some of your best equipped weapons, only to die to another player. That's your stuff gone.

Wiping the loot from players each season is to prevent players from constantly getting stronger and stronger making the game impossible for new players. A wipe outs everyone on the same playing field except for your institutional knowledge.

This is a good thing... Loot is not that important in the game. It's one of the first things you'll learn when you begin playing. 

Well yeah, that’s pointing out the obvious lol. I’ve put nearly 100 hours into Arc Raiders, so I’m aware of how the basic extraction shooter gameplay works. The biggest issue pertains to the faction resets to where you’ll constantly be starting over in levels of gear. Loses a lot of the appeal to grind.

Looting is literally what drives extraction shooters. Why do you think you go into a match? To just chill? lol no, you go in to get valuable loot (the thing that causes the stakes to survive a match to be so high) so that you’re able to complete contracts and level up, and get stronger. No doubt for the endgame raid and ranked mode.

I’ll need to see how the endgame is handled to see if the grind every season is worth it. 

I love the artstyle of Marathon, a shame there's no single player content.

Itching for a modern fps but thinking that next purchase will ironically be Halo lol

Jason from Bloomberg published his article confirming Sony won't be doing PC ports for their single player games anymore, second party and live service games will still be ported tho.

Nixxes is mostly screwed and should join Bluepoint very soon, it seems.

The people cautioned that things could change in the future due to the unpredictable nature of the video-game industry and that Sony’s plans are constantly shifting.

Reads like he's given himself an out in case he's wrong. I'll wait and see what happens this year.

As for Nixxes, they're fine. No need to be worried about a studio that is actually releasing games.

I hope Nixxes gets put on remaster work or becomes a support studio for something like XDev, or both. They’ve shown to be immensely valuable.

Shame though. With how expensive gaming hardware, and to an extent software, is quickly becoming with no end in sight, this will probably be the last generation I’ll be able to buy a PlayStation. Would’ve loved to have continued supporting their PC efforts, but supporting multiple platforms is so much harder unless you got a bunch of money burning in your pocket lol.

Hopefully the rumors that Sony is planning on extending this generation are true!