So what to play while waiting a full year for Virtua Fighter Crossroads? (Its rumored to release October 2027). Marathon, damn it!! A lot of people hate Marathon. Right off the bat they committed the nerd sin of stealing art. Plagiarism is never cool, even in this Chat GPT era. Others hate it because it took resources away from Destiny 2. A game that has been dead for two years. I look as Marathon as the middle step between Destiny 2 and 3. It uses a whole new engine. That's something the Destiny franchise sorely needs. I can't stand to look at the stumpy, runty characters of D2/D1 anymore.
There are two camps of Destiny players that hate Marathon: One, the singleplayer cucks. marathon barely has any singleplayer content besides the Nightmarsh mission on Complex, and even that can be compromised by enemy players if they earn the access keys and credentials.
Two, the Control, Team DeathMatch, and Gambit players. These guys are used to running headlong into the middle of the map and dying repeatedly. If they don't have infinite respawns, they don't know what to do with themselves. I used to play Rainbow Six and Socom religiously. I'm used to playing single life strategic first person shooters. In Destiny only Trials Of OSIRIS and Trials Of The Nine were single life survival. If you're a scrub, you will stay the hell away from Trials and be perfectly happy playing the rest of the game. Imagine if you're a Destiny 2 player and wet yourself anytime a friend invited you to play Trials, then 9 years later Bungie releases a game where the whole game is basically Trials Of Osiris.
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| Triage the Medic, is surprisingly fun tom play. |
I was never the best Trials player, I've only gone flawless a couple times. However, I never shrank away from the challenge. We would go three wins or four wins, then get murdered by the laggy red-bar Eurotrash Hunters. Still, my best PVP gameplay experiences in Destiny were in Trials Od Osiris.
As for Marathon.........................
This is a hard game, but a fun one. What's great about the game are the classes are diverse, but Bungie managed to make *every* class fun to play. Even the medic. Why a lot of people hate is it is more of a successor to APEX LEGENDS than it is a successor to Destiny. The only thing I agree needs to be changed is the complete system wipe that occurs every season. Nobody has time for that besides little kids and the unemployed. If I level up to increase the size of my inventory and my backpack, and I earn the right to buy certain items from the store, I should keep it. I don't have time to re-earn the *basics* I should spend my time in subsequent seasons mastering the game and the meta instead. My favorite characters to play are Rook, Vandal, and Destroyer. In that order.
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| The spiritual successor to Destiny's TITAN |
People underestimate how fun it is to play as Rook. You have to go 1 vs 3 against whatever surviving players are still on the map when you spawn in. You may spawn in with 10 minutes to go or 15 minutes to go (out of a 25 minute game).
It was better back in season one when Rook used to spawn in with 3 land mines in his equipment. OHHhh the havoc you could wreak with those. If you are halfway decent playing PVP, you will have a blast playing Rook. He is high risk, high reward. sometimes you will take out an entire team, or sometimes you'll get worked. Either way its hilarious.
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| Rook is the Man! |
Vandal is the most agile and has a built in repulsor beam built into her wrist as a special move. Destroyer is the toughest, and has a riot shield for a special and an air dash as an innate move he can use aggressively. the beauty is when you use the riot shield and air dash in Combination. The game is really fun and has a lot of potential. I hear they are adding alien enemies from the original franchise entries either this December or next March. They are also adding more story elements. Hey, I like the game as is, but if they add more content, even better. I'm all for single player content, but I'm not some weak willed scrub whose ego is so fragile he can't handle a few deaths in PVP.
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| Scared to play Marathon? You need to be made of *sterner stuff*!!! |










