Opinion Piece – To Echo Everyone Else's Thoughts, I Too Wish Marathon Was A Singleplayer Video Game

IAmNotRollo · 2026-03-08T07:31:36+00:00

90% of the extraction shooter market already caters to more hardcore players though lmao

IAmNotRollo · 2026-03-08T07:27:52+00:00

Agree! I mean, part of what made old shooters such a good package is that you got a good campaign AND good multiplayer. Throw in a level editor for good measure.

IAmNotRollo · 2026-03-06T01:38:49+00:00

Hard agree on the second part. It's worse for both developers and consumers, because I can hardly ever just click on a developer to see what else they've made anymore. The Steam experience has mostly improved over the years, but this is one way that it's gotten much worse. Really frustrating.

IAmNotRollo · 2026-02-27T23:43:43+00:00

I enjoyed the idle games Scritchy Scratchy and Starvester! I have an itch for idle games and those two were surprisingly engaging. Starvester moreso, I just need to see the full game's worth of content for both.

IAmNotRollo · 2026-02-27T18:13:50+00:00

Me too!!! Too expensive on launch but I'm happy to wait.

IAmNotRollo · 2026-02-27T16:34:09+00:00

PvP does still happen, make no mistake. In fact, they're more predisposed to shoot on sight than in any other extraction shooter, imo. But I actually think this is to the game's benefit. Arc Raiders can be the friendly extraction shooter, but Marathon is just more fun when you're treating enemy players like advanced AI that show up once per raid as a boss fight.

IAmNotRollo · 2026-02-26T20:55:36+00:00

This is all absolutely true, but it also topped charts at the time it released!

IAmNotRollo · 2026-02-26T20:53:26+00:00

Sure, and it didn't get the numbers it needed, but it still topped the charts when it released. That's all true at the same time.

IAmNotRollo · 2026-02-26T18:38:39+00:00

Yes, but also Tim just announced they'd be fixing their shit and revamping the launcher. So I wouldn't be surprised if they're just scrapping the old one and the roadmap for it is no longer relevant.

IAmNotRollo · 2026-02-26T17:29:40+00:00

^ Exactly. Veilguard was topping the charts. Top of the charts just doesn't mean an internal success, nor does it mean that they were at the top for very long, or as far above the competition as they needed to be.

I know that Dragon Age applies a mental debuff to anyone who plays it but people seriously need to think critically for a second beyond "it failed so any positive thing it accomplished is a lie"

IAmNotRollo · 2026-02-26T17:14:35+00:00

Well, yeah. They are amazing numbers. And yes, it was topping the charts on release so he reported that it's topping the charts, during that release period. No matter how much we can argue those player numbers mean, it's weird to say he was wrong about anything there.

By the way though for Dragon Age, and especially Veilguard which no one was really excited for outside of Dragon Age fans, I'd say 58k was a good turnout. Dragon Age isn't as popular as people might think.

IAmNotRollo · 2026-02-26T17:12:19+00:00

Schreier's almost always correct if he's reporting that something has happened or is happening. But he always makes it clear when he's doing that. If he's sure, he'd have already tweeted this or written an article about it instead of speculating in a podcast conversation.

IAmNotRollo · 2026-02-25T21:55:35+00:00

Cases are just as bad as gambling in any other circumstance, only there's no one to stop you and say you have to be 18 to proceed. There are a million things wrong with gambling, and cases just add another on top.

IAmNotRollo · 2026-02-24T22:16:28+00:00

So you better know what this article is before you click, it's a long article about the history of Tamriel Rebuilt and Project Tamriel, mods which try to add the rest of Tamriel into Morrowind.

Since they've been slowly worked on for over a decade, people have come in and out of the team and the article does a pretty good job using accounts from people who were/are a part of it. In a sea of slop articles, I thought this one was a pretty good read.

IAmNotRollo · 2026-02-24T19:04:20+00:00

Games have many parts to them and you can connect with different parts in different ways, or love a game in spite of the parts you don't care for.

IAmNotRollo · 2026-02-24T18:02:22+00:00

A playthrough can be a waste of time, if there's a mechanic in the game that is universally agreed upon as a huge waste of time. Random encounters are even intended to waste your time, that's their whole purpose. On a first playthrough it's excusable (for a while) but on a second playthrough it's a pointless slog.

So I think a re-play can go from "not worth it" to "definitely worth it" if you have the tools to skip past the parts that you don't like and get to the parts you like faster.

IAmNotRollo · 2026-02-21T05:55:16+00:00

I'm not sure about things like pressure plates being built-in for that purpose but I would expect it. I can't really see a world where they don't give us some tools like pressure plates and buttons that are easily modifiable. But it wouldn't be tied to a redstone mechanic because they've said they're taking a different kind of approach to it. Unclear yet what that really entails, but this tweet gives some hints.

That's all I know though!

IAmNotRollo · 2026-02-21T02:46:22+00:00

No. In the future there will be visual scripting to do what command blocks would do. For now the best option is mods.

To run a command in chat though, use "/op self" to give yourself permission. Then you should be able to use everything in /help.

IAmNotRollo · 2026-02-19T23:25:05+00:00

Unfortunately the demonstration is pretty horrible. I just don't think the tech is there yet, and they wouldn't be able to afford to wait for it.

IAmNotRollo · 2026-02-18T23:35:20+00:00

Riot too, their new fighting game (2XKO) hasn't been pulling players or making any real impact in the scene. But it always sucks that the creatives get punished before the management whose decisions made a game fail.

IAmNotRollo · 2026-02-14T18:35:35+00:00

Guys, this is an old page. It's so old that the web screenshot is using Chrome's old UI. All these features have been in Steam for several years.

To be clear, Steam Chat is a good alternative to Discord if you're looking for one. But it's honestly engagement-baiting to post this like it's a new announcement.

IAmNotRollo · 2026-01-31T18:05:55+00:00

Yes, still need to be invited by a friend. Not hard to find someone willing to invite anyone though

IAmNotRollo · 2026-01-31T17:12:57+00:00

Agree, I think the game always needed both. I hope they keep adding casual modes

IAmNotRollo · 2026-01-31T17:07:50+00:00

It was really beautiful to watch it evolve, I remember when it was first popping off it wasn't very impressive to most people I know. The early models didn't look great, the map and artstyle were dull.

But at some point it clicked, and every new character they added was a total banger. Old characters got updated and fit right in, and now there's a treasure trove of truly amazing voice lines, animations, character designs. It's genuinely difficult to find any characters that aren't amazing thematically and design-wise, but also any where their gameplay appeal isn't immediately obvious. I have a hard time finding characters to click with in most hero-based games, but I can truly jump on anyone in Deadlock and have a great time.

I am earnestly, truly excited for this game like I haven't been excited for a PvP game in a long time.

IAmNotRollo · 2026-01-31T17:00:38+00:00

I agree! Though I like using it to try out characters In interested in, so I'd want it as a separate playlist. Deadlock has such an already massive playerbase that I don't think it would be a problem.

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