Boy has it been a very tough time for Bungie these previous couple of days. The layoffs, the handing over of workers and initiatives to mother or father firm Sony, and the query marks over Future 2’s future have all made for fairly depressing studying. Bungie’s upcoming extraction shooter, Marathon, isn’t immune both, and new feedback from journalist Jason Schreier counsel that it’s in a “not nice” spot and that it’s state of affairs “jogs my memory of Suicide Squad.”
For anybody actually trying ahead to Bungie’s subsequent FPS recreation, that’s in fact not what you wish to be listening to. There have been already some issues that Marathon’s growth was going by means of a shaky patch after it noticed a giant change in management. It was reported earlier this 12 months that former recreation director Chris Barrett had left with ex-Valorant recreation director Joe Ziegler now changing him.
Nevertheless, off the again of Schreier’s latest reporting on the Bungie layoffs, he says that his sources are feeling “pessimistic” in regards to the recreation and he wouldn’t be stunned to see the sport miss the present Marathon launch date window of 2025.
“[It’s] not nice from what I’ve heard,” he says on a brand new episode of the Pals Per Second podcast when requested for a temperature examine on Marathon. “There’s a purpose that it was deliberate for this 12 months and slipped a complete 12 months, and people who I’ve talked to are just a little pessimistic about it even hitting its present deliberate deadline.”
The dangerous information retains coming, sadly. Afterward in his discussions round Marathon, Schreier likens its journey to that of Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League, one of the infamous flops of the final 12 months. The comparability is just not essentially to do with the standard of the product, however within the similarities of when the 2 video games had been conceived, the tendencies they’re chasing, and the sources which have gone into them.
“[Suicide Squad] got here out and simply completely flopped and I’m anxious about Marathon being in an identical state of affairs the place it’s been in growth for some time. It entered growth when extraction shooters had been tremendous scorching, I don’t know if that’s the case anymore, and now as a result of they’ve dedicated a lot cash and since it was the venture that was furthest alongside versus all their different incubation bets, they’re actually placing loads into it and I’m simply undecided there’s a lot of an opportunity that it is going to be profitable. However then once more you by no means know you by no means know.”
As a giant Future and Halo fan, I’m past assured that, from a gameplay perspective, Marathon goes to be glorious. Nevertheless, for an extended whereas I’ve held the identical form of issues that Schreier and his Bungie sources at the moment are speaking about. Couple that with the truth that there are a number of different extraction shooters in growth proper now – ARC Raiders, Enviornment Breakout Infinite, and Exoborne are just some that spring to thoughts – and I really feel like I’m proper to be a bit anxious.
Whereas 2025 did additionally beforehand look like an achievable launch window, the Bungie layoffs and reshuffles will greater than possible affect Marathon’s schedule. In fact, proper now that is hypothesis on my finish and even Schreier couldn’t confidently say an additional delay will occur, however slippage into 2026 looks like an actual chance.
I’m actually hoping – each as an FPS fan, and for Bungie’s sake – that Marathon is successful. However whereas we look ahead to it to reach, try among the different upcoming PC video games which might be on the way in which, or check out the perfect multiplayer video games you’ll be able to play proper now.
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