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It's fun I like it, needs a patch or two but every game does. Can't find my tent though to utilise my stash is a bit annoying, needs a few of the basic markers on the map. Having fun though and don't regret the purchase.

Haha oh wow people really do like bashing Marathon, what a joke 😃 just forget about the damn game and move on if you dont like it. Like wtf does this game have to do with Marathon rofl.

Seems alright but the first puzzle quest in the abyss seems a little obscure. Already feels like a YouTube game as in I will have to look up how to do the majority of the puzzles and I hate that in a single player game. I got through the floor and put the floaty square disc against the wall but nothing seems to happen and I hate having to look things up, especially in the first few hours. I'll give it more time later but cba'd right now. Gunna jump back on the excellent Marathon someone already mentioned xD (so salty) and try it again later. If it ends up being a YouTube game I'll be pretty disappointed. Removes any sense of achievement or fun for me when I have to watch other people solve in game stuff for me. Shame though, I was kinda really enjoying it.

@lazarus11 haha yeah, I actually like Tainted Grail and will give it a good go some time, but I just couldn't get along with KCD2, I like to play blind but I don't think that's that kind of game.

Don't really care, I bet I've bought worse games this year. KCD2 which ppl on here seem to love was for me awful, Dragons Dogma 2 also awful so I should like this game. Story driven cinematic campaigns aint for me and the graphics can't be as bad as Avalon which I also bought this year xD Going in Blind as per usual so not watched any vids, looking forward to tomorrow when I finish work. Only £55 lol.

Great review, there's no way it will get a bad review anywhere, it's that good and polished. I'm loving the game. Performance, graphics, gameplay, PvE, PvP, depth and quality in every department, lore, the lot. There's not a category it fails in. It really is that good. I didn't think anything could better Arc especially so soon but this game has. Both are great games in their own right but Marathon has blown me away. I hope for MP gaming sake that other MP fans give it a fair go and put aside their unwarranted (in my opinion) prejudice for this game. You're missing out on so much.

Well I'm loving it, its one of the most solid, polished and genuinely fun games I've played. Even more so than Arc tbh, actually prefer it, I struggle to stay engaged in Arc, it feels far to easy and casual now. Almost no interest in Arc ATM, I just play it to try and get ready for the next expedition as I don't want to fall behind. That's my only incentive when I play Arc. The numbers suggest to me at least that Marathon will go free to play if the numbers don't pick up. I've read many people say that they are waiting for reviews before they buy and I'm sure it will get positive reviews so maybe that will help.

Space Marine is pretty good and the LOTR title is excellent, well made with base building, resource gathering and decent CooP for CooP fans. Own them both on Xbox,.

@Northern_munkey nice, thnx for letting me know, it was bugging me. I could maybe of just googled it but it never occurred to me. Old man syndrome probably.

@Northern_munkey think I solved the late spawns thing. Was you using Rook? I recently used Rook a few times and spawned in late every time, never had it happen using other runners.

80k isn't terrible, it has plenty of variables as well. Marathons release time isn't ideal straight after Arc, extraction shooter are already a niche audience and Arc has done amazingly well, like I already said, not many people will have time or the appetite to start another extraction shooter this quickly after Arcs launch. 86k isn't great but it isn't terrible either, even compared to Highguard as that was F2p.

@Northern_munkey really? Fair enough, hasn't happened to me yet though. Only ever started at the beginning myself.

You get a game pretty much straight away, or at worst 30 seconds. No late starts either which is awesome, you only ever spawns in at the start of the round.

It'll be tough for the game as many people will be heavily invested into Arc and won't have time for another extraction shooter. Personally I think it's pretty damn good and will certainly get hundreds of hours out of me.

Because it sucked, live service is fine but the F2P market needs to die. Glad this failed. Marathon is going to be absolutely fine, all you need to do is look at the top 20 most played wherd live service dominates but hey, who cares about facts. Or look at the most played this year, or last year, or the year before that, or the year before that or.....the last ten years and beyond....

Yup can't wait, will be on both Arc and Marathon. Fully expected wipes as is the norm for this type of genre. CoD, Destiny etc are not this type of genre. If they didnt do wipes the game would get stale. Arc was advertised as a casual extraction shooter, Marathon was advertised as the opposite.

I think it's one of the best months for a while, Slime Rancher was on my list to buy, I loved the first but never played it on GP because it was early access and left when it was full release. MH Rise is good also, the other two I'm not interested in. The last game I played and enjoyed off of any of the subscriptions was V Rising, since then it's been crap for me personally. Doubt I'll play any if them though, I pre ordered Marathon and I'll be getting Crimson and there's another game on the 24th I'll be getting (forgot the name) an open world survival that looks good. Gonna be a busy boy. Also there's Arc, what a time to be alive.

Lol, it's only places like these that live service is hated, you only need to look at the most played on EVERY platform bar Nintendo to see that live service games are the most popular by a huge margin. Sony need to make live service games, they just need to make good ones. Shame for Bluepoint but whatever, life goes on and tbh I couldn't really care less. I didn't even know who Bluepoint was until this 'shocking' news and I'd bet at least 90% of gamers didn't either. No skin off my nose, I have plenty of good quality games to play and I'm looking forward to a good few that are coming out in the next couple of months.

Meh, it'll be fine. Gaming needed a reset anyway, it's getting ridiculous.

Sp games don't generate money, Arc has shown the AAA market how to do it. Hopefully Marathon will follow suit, make a decent game and don't try and overcharge for everything and people will play, and pay. Arc has embarrassed the AAA bigwigs saying that games will have to be priced at £100 just to make money. They have been proven wrong.

Also ty Pushsquare for the positive reporting of the game, much appreciated 👏

Great game, still play it every night. Looking very forward to Marathon now as I've heard it has a solo queue which is my thing. Tbh I probably would have bought it at launch even without it but me and my mate prefer solos. There are others I can recruit but I just don't like their wingey attitude, it's always the blame game when we die instead of just accepting it's part of the game, to old for all that drama. Love AR though, it's a breath of fresh air the MP gaming community needed.

Arc, Absolum and BF6, nearly time for expedition 2 on Arc so I'm smashing the PvP. Have plenty of rank 4 everything to lose after being on friendly servers for about a week.

Arc still smashing it, it's sold more than any other game for the last 3 months on PS, Xbox and Steam. 15 million, yup 15 on Steam alone since launch.

Arc mostly, 401 hours topside but time played is something silly like 700 hours 😉 last I looked which was today, love it. On the last boss of Mandragora, need to grind some levels to beat that, very tough boss and just started Absolum, not a bad game. Dashings of Bf6 to mix things up but i really cant seem to click with it. All on PS.

Probably won't play any of them but if i was going to I'd play subnaughtica, that's my kind of genre. Have plenty to play with games I've recently bought. Meh to ok from me.

Bought this a few months back but really couldn't get into it. it feels like a game that is impossible to play without using a guide so not my cup of tea at all. Oops nvm, thought it was KCD2 which is what I bought, can KCD2 be played without a guide? I hate using guides.

Not to bad but I probably won'tr bother with them.

Pfft I couldn't care less how much time they have spent on the game, the F2P market needs to die, I hope it bombs hard.

F2P.....thanks but no thanks.

Bought this game yesterday but also bought Terminator enchanced (£10 bargain) and The Forest as I have a week off work. Will get round to it at some point but I still can't put Arc raiders down for long at all. 80% through Mandragora so I'm a busy gamer 😎 love it.

I was interested in this game until I found out it doesn't have dedicated solo servers. You will still come up against squads even when queing solo. They have a 'Rook', a solo class but that's very limiting if you prefer solo. I'll wait and see if they do anything about this but I think they are ignoring a huge chunk of a community, the most played on Arc is solos so they are kinda shooting themselves in the foot with this one. I'll keep an eye on it but will not be jumping in at launch.

I'm defo interested, hadn't heard much about it, i'll bang it on the wishlist and check it out in the near future. I don't really want to start another RPG until i'm done with Mandragora Whispers of the Witch Tree (great game) which i'm not sure I will actually complete yet tbh. Kinda hard and I don't use guides but this sounds like a great game.

Nothing for me, might try Darkest Dungeon, can't stand Yakuza games and went off Resi games a long time ago. Will probably browse, check out then not bother with the others, they don't sound like my cup of tea at all. Premium still just a joke, good job it's cheap, I don't play old games, nostalgia just doesn't appeal to me at all. Played it a long time ago, loved it, don't want to revisit and ruin my memory of the game.

Might try nfs, played core keeper on xbox not bad but Mocky isn't for me, they're ok.

Great game, it's smashing records on Steam, I think it's the only game that has retained its initial player base so long after release almost beating its peak amount of players online at the same time so long after release in the last few days. That's two months after release. It recently bested the amount of players logging on over a 24 hour period with an amazing 3.2 million players in 24 hours across all platforms, with PS making up a quarter of those numbers, slightly ahead of Xbox! Love it, things are indeed looking good for Embark and well deserved.

Right now on PS timetracker there are 2 SP games in the top 20 most played, Cyberpunk at 17 and Yotei at 19. They do play other games just not for as long.

Doesn't surprise me at all, MP games are infinite and SP games have a short life span. If it wasn't these titles it would be a different MP game. My youngest is always on Minecraft, pretty much every night but on PC. Pretty sure 6 to 10 are the same, probably more. I regularly keep an eye on PS gametracker and the most played games are always MP with dashings of SP as they come out then inevitably die off.

Can Ai really be as bad as a bunch of shareholders talking slop? Guess we will find out sooner or later, just more slop.

I dont really care who makes it, Ai or humans, couldn't care less, if it's a good game i'll play it but if it's slop I won't. I think he might be out of touch, the last thing you should do is ask the internet to stop doing something.

Arc ofc, the REAL GOTY Bought Dragons Dogma 2 in the sale to try and scratch my SP itch but I don't think it's going to drag me away from Arc tbh, can't stop playing that gem.

Should be top of the tree, best game and the most fun i've had for generations on console. Sets the bar higher than it's ever been before. Amazing, puts every other game to shame, especially other MP games.

It's obvious why, because of the reveals, not the awards.

Arc ofc and I took advantage of the award sales and snagged KCD2 at a very reasonable 50% discount, liked what i've played so far but Arc keeps me from really getting into it, enjoy your weekend

Meh they're ok from me, probably won't play any of them though tbh.

@BamBamBaklava89 Love it m8, absolutely love it, no need to feel bad for me though but thanks for the thought 170 hours topside! With stash combined i'm only about 300k short of 5 mill, should smash that easy today. Actually more like 200k!

Arc should win, it's the best game I've ever played. Not surprised it won't though. Also people should stop bitching 5 mill is easy, I have 3.7 mill in coin already, no problem 😊. Let's face it, these awards are a joke and always have been.

Gotta do something to try and boost the interest in these awards, sounds suss to me.

Only killing floor 3 for me, the rest are very meh, Neon White i've tried on GP and wasn't for me at all. Better than last months offering though so kinda happy.

Arc, E33 was good but Arc, not that it matters I hate these awards.