Marathon 2025 - Bungie's new AAAA Extraction shooter

[moocow]

they at it's core are still broken because of the inherent risk of the novelty wearing off and unlike a skinner box which dropped food, you know, shit needed for survival, this is some electronic shite that you don't need and might be drawn in by another that fixes the little pet peeves you had with the previous skinner box for that sweet dopamine hit, until sunken cost fallacy hits and them people go back to their favorite skinner box.

I dropped Deep Rock Galactic after a single round of utter bullshit where things went well right up until the time came to extract, and it felt like every fucking mechanic in the game conspired to impede my return to the pickup location, and despite it being a seemingly easy return, I didn't make it, and died on site after the escape vehicle left without me. It was a solo match (I didn't play DRG with others; I just played solo with that drone companion thing), and even that fucking drone thing choked up and failed to lead me back.

The very mild dopamine hit from finishing a few missions and getting an upgrade on some random thing didn't come anywhere near the feeling of "oh that's fucking bullshit" when the game pulled that shit, and I dropped it like a hot potato. I wonder if they see much of that, or if they even can, or whether they actually care. New player, plays a few rounds, fails one, then quits and never comes back.

lol if they do give a shit about such things, they never told me. Naturally I'd played too long to get a refund, too, but whatever. I don't exactly feel "ripped off," as the game wasn't "defective" in my view, just not for me, but yeah, that skinner box sure doesn't spring the trap quite like they want it to these days.

 

[Orkeosaurus]

My biggest problem with this fucking game is how the quests force you to run around loud as fuck to like 3 different POIs in a single match trying to do them while some asshole who most certainly has already finished all of the quests is inevitably crouched waiting for you. It's amazing that Bungie hitched its horse to such an unfun genre.

Also it's my first looter extraction shooter. Is it normal for gear to be so important in this genre? I feel like if you have a green shield you have almost no chance against a purple shield.