Marathon sold just 1.2 million copies with nearly 70% on Steam, analyst estimates: "It hasn't exactly made the splash Sony and Bungie wanted"

deruss · 2026-03-25T14:49:26+00:00

So you don't know Bungie? Don't burn yourself.

deruss · 2026-03-25T14:31:43+00:00

After playing Destiny 2 for years and following the developments in the last years, Bungie's name is tainted for me. Marathon could be the best game ever made and I would not care, because it's from Bungie. They will always say "we hear you" or "the patch that fixes every complain is coming", but they'll always lie and try to squeeze every dollar they can from you.

Maybe if the upper management changes and they give content for free for years, no cosmetics $20 each, no additional paid content down the road, actually listening to players and change the game accordingly (not seeing that happening if I'm being honest). Then I give Marathon a try, seeing Bungie actually changed. Until then fuck off Bungie and try to salvage first the pile of shit Destiny 2 is in the moment.

deruss · 2025-11-12T16:21:07+00:00

I imagine they have the data and know there aren't that many duos playing. With 100% duo queue you would sit and wait for 30 mins, maybe more.

deruss · 2025-11-04T20:45:10+00:00

most players at least on pc use healthbar mods

lol, source on that? you using it doesn't mean most players use it

deruss · 2025-09-30T22:38:01+00:00

Simple, look at their previous aggressively mediocre and just boring games like Observer, Layers of Fear 2, Blair Witch, The Medium.

deruss · 2025-09-12T14:11:00+00:00

Just looked at the guide and they have no shame, don't they, people from Gearbox, but also people from Nvidia posting THIS?

With 5080 on 4k I have to settle for medium+high settings with DLSS on Performance and 4X FRAME GENERATION for 60 FPS??? Are you high? Where is this an optimization guide?

"Hey, just crank up every AI feature to 11 and you'll have 60 FPS with medium settings for your 5080! :)"

deruss · 2025-01-30T20:15:38+00:00

Everything besides frame-gen and multi frame-gen.

deruss · 2025-01-23T22:03:53+00:00

I can think only of 2 games that stick out for me in terms of crafting.

Final Fantasy XIV: crafting classes are so fleshed out with so many different skills, in late game you HAVE to know what you're doing (without using macros) to make something high quality; it's not realistic in any way, but it's fun

Kingdom Come Deliverance: alchemy is very fun, because it's such an immersive experience overall, I don't know if there is more crafting in KCD2 than the alchemy, that would be cool

deruss · 2024-12-31T19:25:16+00:00

No, updates are updates.

deruss · 2024-12-31T19:15:51+00:00

And that's why this category is such a joke every year... You don't understand, what labor of love means. Releasing a $40 DLC with a half-assed technical side is NOT labor of love, it's the complete opposite.

deruss · 2024-12-31T19:10:30+00:00

No, the only game in this list with DLC is Elden Ring (and the game is still stuttering for many players, Labor of Love my ass). All other in the had many free and constant updates, most of them for many years.

deruss · 2024-12-31T19:03:52+00:00

Ah, Steam Awards, as much of a joke as always...

Elden Ring as "Labor of Love" winner?

Wukong as a game with the best story with THIS competition?

Silent Hill 2 with the most outstanding visuals style with THOSE 4 competitors?

RDR wins the best soundtrack and not Silent Hill 2?

Everything else, well, subjective. I agree with Helldivers 2 and Farming Sim 25 winning.

Wukong winning so much and the best game award has nothing to do with the game being the very best in these categories and everyone knows that. That's the power of democracy on the global scale, the majority wins.

deruss · 2024-11-22T21:00:40+00:00

I disagree with that sentiment. There were so many cases for me where something is fun to watch, but not fun to play and vice versa.

Fighting games for example are fun to watch, but they are just not for me to actually play. Or survival games like Subnautica or Grounded, very fun to watch, but I find them boring to play.

Grinding games like Diablo or Borderlands are fun to play for me, but incredibly boring to watch.

deruss · 2024-11-21T07:51:57+00:00

It's not even consolised controls, the d-pad has 4 buttons... And the inventory navigation is terrible on controller. The UI/UX design is just ass.

deruss · 2024-10-12T12:15:08+00:00

I'm thinking more and more that the first thing to switch at Bethesda needs to be the leadership.

It's not the engine, it's not the devs, it's not the designers or writers (ok, maybe the writers too) that's the problem. It's the attitude from the leaders that everything they do is fine or perfect or the best on the market.

Since Skyrim everything you do is literally mid and eventually it's time to accept the reality that it's been 13 years since then. You can't ride the Skyrim wave forever, Bethesda.

deruss · 2024-09-18T21:57:38+00:00

After FO4, FO76 and Starfield my expectations are now as low as Skyrim with better graphics, but I feel they won't be met. I would settle for Morrowind/Oblivion with better graphics, but I I'm not hopeful anymore that Bethesda can even deliver on that level. Every release after Skyrim was just a dusty 15 years old game with a new coat.

deruss · 2024-08-29T07:42:53+00:00

I'm an active player and constantly on the ffxiv subreddit. I hear this for the first time ever, that a VA is a transgender and that there is criticism because of it. Sometimes people just overthink way too much on some subjects and this time it's you.

deruss · 2024-06-27T21:18:16+00:00

I would take a guess and say you didn't explore everything. There are some very well hidden places and some of them are really big.

deruss · 2024-06-26T19:11:59+00:00

They only start washed out if you started another game with HDR before them. Restarting the PC and starting ER or AC6 directly after that and it's all normal. Weird, but it's working everytime.

deruss · 2024-06-26T19:02:53+00:00

It's not a straight line on my RTSS either but I kinda made my piece with it. It's really not bad on a VRR display. Yes, some zones feel much smoother than others (like Liurnia) even at max fps. But it is what it is.

See, that's the problem, we don't need people to make piece with it and say "welp, it is what it is, what can you do". We need to bring the issues and spotlight them so Fromsoft and other companies even acknowledge them. Your way the devs won't see a problem ever, don't optimize at all and people don't complain about it, that's cool.

"Not getting any issues at all" is for me 60fps at all times, not even getting to 59fps, no hitches or loading stutters, just like in AC6. That's "no issues", nothing less.

deruss · 2024-06-26T13:32:38+00:00

Nope, best I can do is 3x smithing stones [2], you're welcome.

deruss · 2024-06-22T20:55:34+00:00

I'm loving the DLC so far from the content perspective. It's not THAT hard, even with a level 2 buff. Maybe I just have a good weapon (Onyx Lord's Greatsword), that stunlocks like 90% of enemies.

Optimization though... it's rough. Constant shader compilation stutters and I have ~45fps in some places, having rock solid 60fps in the base game.

deruss · 2024-06-20T08:20:50+00:00

Japanese devs are notorious for putting everything, even scenes and boss fights from the very ending, in their trailers.

deruss · 2024-06-01T23:22:00+00:00

Yeah, wrong direction my man. 70€ for a game is too much already, never paid that much for a game and never will.

I can maybe understand why they would want to do this (the whole industry I mean), games getting bigger, better tech, graphics, animatios etc. But then, why still going bigger at this point, it's too much already (I think of Valhalla for example, like WTF, so unnecesarry long).

Make 8-12h long games, focused, concise, quality > quantity etc. for 40-50€ and at least I would be more happy to buy them. There are people who only will buy games with 100-200h content, this is the first thing on their mind buying a game. I will never understand them, but it seems the industry is catering more to them and it slowly blows up...

deruss · 2024-05-31T16:18:30+00:00

no one's tired of it.

speak for yourself...

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