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bungie rebooting Marathon

Marathon just looks like typical AAA garbage. Those seeking Halo as it should be...
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Halo: Flawless Cowboy Edition mod

Halo: Flawless Cowboy Edition is an enhanced stand-alone portable re-release of the original epic guerilla warfare sandbox shooter that started the fight. Become the Master Chief, a Spartan II super soldier with Mark V power armor shielding humanity...
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Is on MODDB so is legit and likely better than what the clowns at Bungie/Microsoft dish up. Is an awesome play 😎 Is free, so nothing to lose. One caveat, if you like you're not going to be playing anything else for a good while as this is Halo 🙂

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Inhalant said:
Such a missed opportunity to NOT release a native Mac port of this game!!
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Likely saved you some coins as game doesn't look to be any good. Sony needs to shuffle the deck as what they have done of recent simplify isn't working. Listening to the customer's might be a start, equally roll out the next multi million dollar failure...

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Queen6 said:
Marathon just looks like typical AAA garbage. Those seeking Halo as it should be...
www.moddb.com

Halo: Flawless Cowboy Edition mod

Halo: Flawless Cowboy Edition is an enhanced stand-alone portable re-release of the original epic guerilla warfare sandbox shooter that started the fight. Become the Master Chief, a Spartan II super soldier with Mark V power armor shielding humanity...
www.moddb.com www.moddb.com
Is on MODDB so is legit and likely better than what the clowns at Bungie/Microsoft dish up. Is an awesome play 😎

Q-6
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Ha nice this looks great, haven't played modded halo since spv3 years ago
 
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Inhalant said:
Ha nice this looks great, haven't played modded halo since spv3 years ago
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Just try, this isn't a modders version of HALO, this is HALO as it should be on the PC with all the Xbox flavour. Takes you back if you were there. As a newcomer top tier FPS with a solid narrative, dial up the difficulty level be assured your hands will be full and then some...😎

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Inhalant said:
Sony owns bungie now so I don't see why Sony couldn't put a Mac port out of marathon.... They made one for death stranding, not like they're against Mac ports...
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That ship has likely sailed. Seems that Sony has second thoughts on bringing it's IP to platforms other then the playstation
 
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maflynn said:
That ship has likely sailed. Seems that Sony has second thoughts on bringing it's IP to platforms other then the playstation
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Fine by me as have no urge to purchase a PlayStation, more so with Sony's pitiful efforts... Can game on the PC forever regardless of OS and never get bored.

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Marathon just looks like typical AAA garbage. Those seeking Halo as it should be...
www.moddb.com

Halo: Flawless Cowboy Edition mod

Halo: Flawless Cowboy Edition is an enhanced stand-alone portable re-release of the original epic guerilla warfare sandbox shooter that started the fight. Become the Master Chief, a Spartan II super soldier with Mark V power armor shielding humanity...
www.moddb.com www.moddb.com
Is on MODDB so is legit and likely better than what the clowns at Bungie/Microsoft dish up. Is an awesome play 😎

Is free, so nothing to lose. One caveat, if you like you're not going to be playing anything else for a good while 🙂

Q-6
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If you are looking for a single player experience nothing Bungie is putting out will fit that requirement.
 
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Inhalant said:
Sony owns bungie now so I don't see why Sony couldn't put a Mac port out of marathon.... They made one for death stranding, not like they're against Mac ports...
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Kojima did the port for the first game, not sure who is doing the port for the sequel, but it definitely isn't Sony.
 
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diamond.g said:
If you are looking for a single player experience nothing Bungie is putting out will fit that requirement.
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Hence zero interest, The Bungie of Halo is very far from the joke of today. Very simple I will not throw money at AAA that keep churning out broken garbage. Choosing to vote with my wallet will in time make the change...

Right now deep into Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon 😎 Can pretty much gather ES6 is going to be **** as that's Bethesda's trademark...

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maflynn said:
Sony bought Bungie for their multi-player capability and then screwed the pooch with marathon.
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From what I've heard Marathon isn't a bad game. It currently has more players than Destiny (according to Steamdb.info). Which isn't saying much, lol. I would be curious to see how many PS players are active though.
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Hence zero interest, The Bungie of Halo is very far from the joke of today. Very simple I will not throw money at AAA that keep churning out broken garbage. Choosing to vote with my wallet will in time make the change...

Right now deep into Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon 😎 Can pretty much gather ES6 is going to be **** as that's Bethesda's trademark...

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For publicly traded developers/publishers live service money is like fentanyl.
 
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diamond.g said:
From what I've heard Marathon isn't a bad game.
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Agreed, I've said as much earlier in this thread when the game was released. I was rather surprised it was released, because I was expecting it to be quietly killed.

The Bungie studio has been gutted with layoffs, largely because they failed to fulfill what sony wanted them too
 
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salamanderjuice said:
Sony did the port for the sequel. The publisher is Sony/Kojima and the developer is Kojima/Nixxes and the latter is a Sony owned studio.
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Sorry I was referring to the macOS port. Yeah Nixxes is helping with the PC port (cause that is what they do), I don't think they have any macOS experience.
 
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Marathon’s player base is collapsing, and Bungie’s future looks increasingly bleak

Marathon's Steam player count has dropped sharply, raising fresh concerns about Bungie's future after layoffs, declining valuation, and a renewed focus away from Destiny.
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Here's Steam's counts:
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Googling, I see Bungie released Season 2: Nightfall launched on June 2, 2026 which caused the bump in player counts, but that bump was so short lived, it really didn't help, because the last 30 days is only showing an average of 5.5k
 
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