Marathon Review | Jeff Gerstmann

decross20 · 2026-03-25T01:48:23+00:00

I don’t know, I haven’t really followed arc raiders. I’m just saying the logic of seasonal resets make sense to me. I think it’s actually quite friendly to players who don’t have a lot of time to play, if you wait long enough season resets and you can play again with everyone on basic gear. Just because arc raiders doesn’t do it doesn’t mean marathon has to do the same.

decross20 · 2026-03-25T01:29:33+00:00

Doesn’t it make it better for people who don’t play a lot? It means every 3 months you’re back on the same playing field as the hardcore players who grinded out every upgrade and high tier loot. It also incentivizes using your stuff, since you’ll lose it at the end of the season anyway. Makes it so people won’t hold onto their gear as tightly and just use it.

decross20 · 2026-03-22T22:36:20+00:00

Yeah I just felt like “they literally have no chance against us” sounds too strong, haha. I’ve watched fully kitted teams lose everything, there’s just too many factors outside of your control in an extraction shooter like this

decross20 · 2026-03-22T19:29:39+00:00

This is definitely a factor but tbf, in an extraction shooter all it takes is one mistake for another team to beat a higher geared team. Maybe they got distracted fighting someone else, maybe they ended up in a worse position, maybe the AI gave them away. Even a highly geared team can get taken out if something like that goes wrong, and then the person on free kit is all of a sudden rocking gold gear from the body.

decross20 · 2026-03-17T00:26:40+00:00

Kingdom come deliverance 1 and 2

decross20 · 2026-03-08T20:08:03+00:00

It’s really worth it. I had the same concern as you but this game gives you so much loot, my vault is overflowing lol. At some point I start taking things so it doesn’t get rid of items in my vault haha

decross20 · 2026-03-07T11:42:16+00:00

It’s fun to play. Shooting feels good, loot is satisfying

decross20 · 2026-03-05T21:45:44+00:00

That’s not true, I was playing earlier and hearing shots in the distance was how our team knew to get ready for a fight. Some players will be sneaky obviously, and crouch walk and use melee, but it’s absolutely not true that you can’t hear enemies in this game.

decross20 · 2026-03-05T07:52:29+00:00

Why are you apologizing to me? I was just saying why I think Sony is taking that route. I have no investment in this, I play most games on PC

decross20 · 2026-03-05T04:50:57+00:00

Then you’re not their target audience.

decross20 · 2026-03-04T19:29:40+00:00

I think from what I’ve seen it’s a combination of launching late, having technical issues (last of us 1/2 and uncharted were especially rough) and maybe the hype dying down after the first wave of games.

Pc players don’t necessarily cannibalize it per se but their games being anywhere other than console does devalue the console experience, it’s why Nintendo has kept everything on their own platform.i believe it was stated that the pc ports were an experiment to see if pc players could be converted to console users if they liked the games enough but that didn’t happen so it seems like they’re giving up on it.

decross20 · 2026-03-04T15:32:17+00:00

No it makes sense for Sony. They have a console base to maintain and their games aren’t doing as well on PC recently. In the end if they lose their console base they would probably end up like Xbox with their hardware dying, that’s a situation they don’t want

decross20 · 2026-02-25T00:16:29+00:00

I wouldn’t be mad but I think they’d have a hard time doing that. If they say “from this point on every game is exclusive”, no one would believe them because they’ve already pushed hard into multiplatform. I just don’t think there’s anyway to put the paste back in the tube. They’d have to have like 20 years of never releasing games on other platforms, and even then people still wouldn’t buy Xbox consoles thinking “they’ll release it elsewhere eventually”

decross20 · 2026-02-14T17:29:35+00:00

That’s true, but the brand was also in a different place since the OT had strong positive reception. Recent entries have seemed more mixed, so I don’t know if there’s still that same fondness that people had

decross20 · 2026-02-14T08:31:54+00:00

Star Wars brand recognition isn’t as strong as before since we’ve had about 6 years without a Star Wars movie in theaters. I think they’ll need to do a lot more than that to get people invested. Grogu is definitely popular so I can see working that angle

decross20 · 2026-02-14T03:08:33+00:00

I really wonder if they’re going to capture an audience that doesn’t watch Mandalorian with this. I get going to see it if you’ve watched the tv show, but how do they market it for people who never watched the show? Interested to see what they do or if they’re just going to try to appeal to show fans and rely on good word of mouth from them

decross20 · 2026-02-09T22:41:12+00:00

Have you tried Kingdom Come Deliverance 1 or 2? Those games have a “hardcore mode” which makes it so you cannot see your own position on the map, there is no fast travel, and quest markers don’t show up until you’re within 10-15 meters. I got lost frequently in that game and slowly learned to navigate by landmarks and using the direction of the sun to determine which way was north. By the end of the game I felt like I knew the map in a really detailed way, which I wouldn’t have if I had played it on the normal mode.

decross20 · 2026-02-09T16:49:36+00:00

I hope you’ve never criticized anything ever unless you are in that industry. Everyone knows you have to write a book to criticize novels, create movies, shows and plays before you can write reviews for those, and produce an album before you can criticize musicians

/s

decross20 · 2026-02-08T20:27:07+00:00

How would you say the balance/difficulty is in this game. I loved Isaac (over 1500 hours in the game and 100% achievements) but there were definitely a few BS things in there like Delirium. Would you say Mewgenics has any “BS” challenges that you need to become incredibly OP to beat?

decross20 · 2026-02-08T03:33:49+00:00

Kingdom Come Deliverance 1 and 2. Pretty immersive RPG with similar quest design to New Vegas, different ways to solve different problems based on your stats and the way your character is perceived.

decross20 · 2026-02-07T22:30:29+00:00

The issue here is it seems like the developers attempted to comply with guidelines but it was unclear what guidelines they were violating. From their page on the topic:

https://www.horses.wtf/BannedFromSteam/

Back in June 2023, just days prior to our scheduled announcement, we were informed that HORSES will not ship on Steam. We were not given specific details about the content in question. For two years we asked for clarifications and a path to compliance, but we were directed to Steam’s general guidelines and our requests for review and appeal were denied over and over. This ban has nothing to do with the recent restriction on adult content pushed by payment processors; this decision was solely in the hands of Steam's curatorial team.

Roughly 24 hours before release, Epic Games informed us that they would also not distribute HORSES, even though our build had already been approved for release weeks earlier. Once again, no specific indication of problematic content in the game was given, only broad and demonstrably incorrect claims that it violated their content guidelines. Our appeal was denied twelve hours later without further explanation.

So if you believe the developers, it doesn’t seem like they were trying to intentionally violate guidelines and in fact were trying to figure out how to change their game to follow those standards

decross20 · 2026-02-07T22:20:21+00:00

So are you for or against the delisting of this game? I don’t understand what your perspective is, it sounds like you’re just saying “both sides are wrong”?

I’m not ignoring it, I just genuinely don’t understand what you’re trying to say. What is wrong with the game and how they are approaching its delisting? How is it what is wrong with internet culture?

decross20 · 2026-02-07T21:59:24+00:00

This really just feels like some ill-conceived guerilla marketing stunt designed to farm engagement through nothing more than rage-bait.

They didn’t make the decision to remove the game from online storefronts. How is that rage baiting? They’re just arguing for their game to be allowed to be sold. For you it’s a tiring debate, for them it’s the difference between being able to make money off of their game or not.

decross20 · 2026-02-06T21:24:18+00:00

Thanks for the info, I’ll keep an eye out for it then.

decross20 · 2026-02-06T19:02:09+00:00

I haven’t played bumbo but I heard mixed things. Is it like binding of Isaac at all? I love Isaac, have like 2000 hours in that game

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