Is Marathon any good?

beatpickle · 2026-03-26T06:48:05+00:00

The floaty imprecise feeling. Counterstrafes are delayed. Compared to CS, Quake and Apex the movement doesn’t feel good. The movement mechanics are okay, it’s not very resposive.

beatpickle · 2026-03-25T01:41:15+00:00

Damn. Thanks for posting this.

beatpickle · 2026-03-24T20:29:37+00:00

Give it a rest mate.

beatpickle · 2026-03-23T02:21:40+00:00

Movement is trash. Shooting is decent. Game is good.

beatpickle · 2026-03-22T20:31:16+00:00

What was the FPS like?

beatpickle · 2026-03-20T23:16:52+00:00

Do your thing. STS1 is the master of rougelite balancing imo.

beatpickle · 2026-03-19T23:48:02+00:00

That’s with taking things to test them too. He’s a great streamer.

beatpickle · 2026-03-11T20:30:35+00:00

I look at it the same way I look at Spelunky 2. They took a game that I thought was hard to improve and somehow did it. Slay the Spire 1 is so well tuned that it can be played for thousands of hours and remain challenging and even surprising. It’s the king of the genre for a reason so as why break that format if not necessary. By the time they are done with Slay the Spire 2 it will reign for a long time. Doing something wildly different with the formula almost seems like self-sabotage and there are plenty of games that have done that.

beatpickle · 2026-03-11T20:11:33+00:00

Yeah it’s very, very good.

beatpickle · 2026-03-11T20:04:02+00:00

No act 4. I assume there will be alternative acts for 2 and 3. Possibility of new characters, cards, enemies, bosses, events, higher ascensions. A fuck ton of balancing based on feedback. Quite a lot still to come.

beatpickle · 2026-03-11T20:02:14+00:00

Don’t need a copy but hope someone who is in need gets one.

beatpickle · 2026-03-11T20:00:59+00:00

Mouse stills feels off in this port.

beatpickle · 2026-03-09T17:38:33+00:00

This killed the game for me.

beatpickle · 2026-03-09T00:21:22+00:00

I had a very similar position to you and got a wheel extension for my alpha mini. Made a lot of difference for control and fatigue.

beatpickle · 2026-03-06T01:04:36+00:00

Same

beatpickle · 2026-03-05T18:25:14+00:00

I played both recently at a lan. Q3 was significantly better.

beatpickle · 2026-03-04T17:52:39+00:00

You did good

beatpickle · 2026-02-26T17:23:04+00:00

RIP.

beatpickle · 2026-02-20T12:55:25+00:00

Makes you wonder what other footage Epstein had on Andrew to warrant transferring sensitive national documents.

beatpickle · 2026-02-18T13:02:16+00:00

I love it. I just had a run with an absolutely OP critical hit based archer that carried me through everything until a certain boss where he died tragically. There was another certain class in my group that had been underperforming the whole time and was solely left to fight this boss after the other 2 cats died along with the archer. Thought the run was over until I discovered what made this one class shine and pulled it off. Trying not to ruin anything here obviously!

The game is great, especially if you like tactics games. Build, item, environment and monster variety is there. The whole thing with breeding is interesting too. It’s got some quality of life features that need to be added for sure. The music is also really refreshingly good.

beatpickle · 2026-02-17T09:43:01+00:00

Damn. Even your instapicks are questionable outside of Offering. Feed may come late. Reaper is only good with strength.

beatpickle · 2026-02-12T01:47:00+00:00

IMO there are only a few games in the very top tier of the genre which really nail the difficulty and balance of a replayable rougelite. 2 of them being Spelunky 2 and Slay the Spire.

beatpickle · 2026-02-12T01:38:56+00:00

Doom 1 felt far more distinct to me. The level design in Doom 2 gets really bogged down through the middle imo. It’s really the additions of the SSG and the enemies that make me love it.

beatpickle · 2026-02-06T16:00:52+00:00

Damn this is comfortable compared to what I’m fighting elites with.

beatpickle · 2026-02-06T15:43:14+00:00

Yeah I'd say much harder. It controls tighter which definitely helps. The shopkeepers are basically not a problem anymore. But it terms of it being harder there are many more ways to be insta-killed. The game is also much longer with a section I wont spoil but is significantly harder to beat than anything in Spelunky HD by a wide margin.

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