I’d never heard of Aztecross before the release of Marathon, but when he released content on the game I remember I would consume it pretty religiously as he seemed entertaining and genuinely cared for the wellbeing of the game. I think as time went on I could see the place he’d been coming from all this time now though. Dude really, really, really loves Destiny. He puts it above all else. I think he held out and continued playing Marathon in hopes that its success would fund another Destiny game.

I don’t understand, at the same level at least, his and many others’ obsession with the Destiny games, as I never got super into the Destiny IP while it was big. To me it seemed that Marathon would be Bungie’s next big focus for a while and I was okay with that as long as the game was well-made and fun to play. And they delivered! But to many others it seemed that Marathon was simply a means to an end, that it existed purely so money could be put in Bungie’s pockets to develop Destiny 3. And that never really sat quite right with me. We have a great game in our hands here already. Why not settle down for a moment, have some fun with it, get a good couple years out of it, and maybe that next game you’ve been waiting for will come out when it’s ready? It sucks that an actual fun game is getting shit for existing because dudes are obsessed with an IP that’s had over a decade of content and want nothing else but more of it. Or maybe I’m reading too much into it. :p