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@HerlockSholmes you're surprised to see negativity on the internet? I think it's more surprising to see positivity now days.

I have no allegiance to Castlevania so I don't care what the art style is. But I will say my immediate reaction was this looks like more PoP Lost Crown. Not a bad thing necessarily. But it does look a tad generic. If they let you play on chud mode, I could see myself picking it up on sale.

@McDosy Marathon is a AAA game because it was developed by Bungie who is a AAA studio. It means they pay AAA salaries to all their employees. All 1,000+ of them. It doesn’t matter what the game loos like in the end, if it took them 5 years to make this, it’s 5 years of paying average 100k salaries and benefits to the most hundreds of people. You can’t just look at the end product and go this doesn’t look AAA. If Bungie made a 2d side scroller it would still be considered AAA because the cost to make anything at Bungie is extremely high. That’s why they need much higher sales to compensate.

The cheater problem this game has right now is on par with how bad the initial art scandal was. Any Destiny player could have told you cheating would ruin this game. They never fixed cheating in Destiny either. It’s just the stakes are way higher in Marathon for losing to cheaters. This game can’t be saved.

Looks like another flashy, generic hack n slash game honestly.

The average person will buy a good game with some AI over a bad game with none. So just focus on making a good game because virtual signaling doesn’t sell in 2026, lol.

@Matroska internet chuds simply don’t understand how using AI as a tool is not a bad thing. I can’t wait till someone finds something AI in this game day 1, lol.

@Hundred_Hand_Slap if the game launched in June none of the above features would be there still because it all came from player feedback.

@AnginaPectoris for a game like this you need player feedback. 2-3 more months delay would just mean ANOTHER 2-3 more months after that for these same changes. Enjoy waiting for another year for the sale you desire though.

June sounds like when I’ll be able to play this so looking forward to it when I finally do.

@4fold Brother it won't get the PlayStation in much less than 6 months, lol. And it won't be half price when it does. You'll be waiting at least a full year before you see that price on PS.

I could have told you the game would fail based on the name alone, lol. Yeah, I'm that good.

@CRASH64 You can only hide them for others and only delete them if you're at 0%. It's not the same thing as what people are talking about here.

If all they did was let us hide trophy lists for games we don't want to see that would be a huge win in my book. I don't care THAT much about it, but if the option existed I would definitely use it. There are games you play for an hour, unlock a few trophies, realize the game isn't worth it, and it would be nice to just hide it's existence, lol.

I wish this game didn't cost your life to get into.

@LordAinsley If it isn't significantly easier than Returnal, it won't find the success uppers are looking for. Returnal was highly praised by the games community. But we know that is not nearly enough in 2026. I think a lot of people will wait on the fence to see if the game is actually approachable for normies.

@Oram77 I mean this doesn't have anywhere near the name recognition that Yotei went in with — and all because of Tsushima. So it shouldn't surprised anyone the marketing budget is way smaller. Yotei was supposed to sell 5-10 million copies over a life span. I don't think this will even sell half that, even if I also don't think Yotei will ever hit it's desired number either.

This game and the new Silent Hill game coming out not offering third person is disgusting.

@IntrepidWombat it's the age old marketing trick even if you could. You would only ever be able to tell side by side. People's eyes adjust to what they are looking at. 4k, HDR, higher frame rates... it only impacts you if you look at specs, constantly bounce back and forth, or look at stuff side by side, all of which 99% of people don't do.

@Enuo Good luck waiting for that. They basically said it would take rebuilding the game.

While this doesn't interest me in the slightest, I applaud their continuation of different ideas and that they give them away for free each time.

Not full price, day 1.

1st person only killed this game for me. Otherwise it would have been a day 1 play.

@somnambulance You claim that Uncharted 5 would be a game "everyone loved" but wouldn't need the main character that made the game a game everyone loved? Just — lol.

@Dogbreath It seems more likely they just slaughter Uncharted than redeem themselves. If Naughty Dog had learned anything, Intergalactic wouldn't be what their next project looked like.

I don't really have any faith in Naughty Dog to tell good stories or develop good characters anymore. Uncharted ended well so I hope they just leave it unless the studio gets a major leadership shake up. When Intergalactic flops, this will be another powerhouse studio of the past.

@johncalmc I am holding out for Persona Minus 1.

Grabbed all 3 but they will be so far down on my list I wonder why I even have a list at this point.

@Max_the_German Definitely only buy on sale. The campaign is fun but the PvP is a literal waste land.

@Fishmasterflex96 This game will never win GotY. These kinds of games are not built to do so.

I would have hoped the city sections would be way bigger...

It doesn't seem like anything to me. I would rather them work on the PS storefront always loading, lol.

The company I almost founded was going to do the exact same game too.

@somnambulance Most of Ubi's "other" IPs died with the merger, lol.

I am curious what the price will be. If it's more than $50 it defiantly wont be a day 1 play. I have yet to see Ubisoft release anything worth more than $50 in the past 6 years.

@playstation1995 a 7 is basically the industry standard for average. It’s basically a 5, but since the industry standardized 7 as average, whenever you see a 7, it’s really a 5. And a 5 or maybe a 6 is right on for this game.

I’ll wait for a half off sale. Played the base game on the Box when it first came out. Wasn’t a terrible game by any means. But there’s way too many better games out there ahead of this for now.

@Northern_munkey I didn’t even realize that wasn’t Aloy until you pointed it out. I still don’t see much of a difference.

@SodaPop6548 influencers do actually sell products though. Fat ugly people don’t. When fat ugly people start moving product, you’ll see them more.

Wow. You mean you still have to look good in order to be in video games or on TV in 2026? Shocker. No one wants to watch ugly people. I can tell you as an ugly person I don’t even want to watch ugly people.

@StrifeInMidgar I wouldn’t. Starfield isn’t the at deep.

@themaladroit oh, the only people making the cringe comments and want the stuff taken out are lonely dudes, lol.

@Divergent95 yeah but the dev group is trying to sell the game to more than just die hard fans too…

@Oram77 The combat is extremely fluid and satisfying too. There are plenty of games that show you have to have more than just sex appeal to sell it.

@Haruki_NLI If this were true then The First Descendant wouldn't be a waste land.

@Ultrasmiles Honestly, aside from what we all know is part of the obvious, if Alloy just didn't have all that angry white woman energy, I think she would be more liked without an over sexualized appearance.

@MrSensical They are another studio in a long list of studios who thought "magic" could sustain them forever. They took for granted that actual people with actual skill and talent were needed to create that "magic". And now the kinds of hiring practices out there, studios wanting to prioritize profits over vision, and indie and AA studios raking in better talent to compete with AAA games, they are all going to be forced to realize their studios never had any "magic". Bungie is in the throws of this. Ubi has fallen. BioWare. All the studios that used the term "studio name + magic" have not done well post the initial covid surge. The best games coming out are not bloated, 500+ person teams anymore.

@Balaam_ I don't think anyone gave them a free pass on this. It didn't move any consoles, you never hear anyone talk about the "game of a geration" in a positive light, and the fact that almost all Xbox games are coming to PlayStation basically show Xbox isn't viable anymore. If MS didn't have more money than god, I don't think Xbox would even exist.

@Shaw_Brothers This is the ironic part because all the studios that get shut down, or games that get shut down, they all said that at one point too. So it doesn't really mean much outside of we intend to support it a long time, but we really have no say in the matter.

And we know that publishers, game directors, studios... they are always trustworthy when they come out and say they will support something for a long time, lol.