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Marathon is delayed (www.bungie.net)

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No new release date yet. The next update from Bungie will be in the Fall. Quite frankly, I thought the game would just come out and die to cut their losses.

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[–] Mirror [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Marathon really was best in class when it came to first person thriller shooters.

Why would they use that brand, that hardly anyone knows today, to do something completely different?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It was a single word title that they own. It's probably how Prey 2017 used the same title as Prey 2006.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That one really baffles me. Prey 2017 would have been right up my alley, but I completely ignored it because I didn't like Prey 2006. By the time I discovered that it was a game I'd have been interested in, I picked it up on sale for $10 or so. I wonder how many other people had similar experiences.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Part of the confusion is that there was a different Prey game being worked on a couple years earlier that actually was connected to Prey 2006, but that project was canceled and the studio working on it closed.

Given the quick turnaround between Prey 2 being canceled and Prey 2017 launching, I have to assume that Bethesda just took a separate project that Arkane was working on and slapped the "Prey" name on it to try to save face and show that the IP was still alive and well after the sequel was canceled.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Honestly, much like with Marathon but on a shorter time scale, I think they just bet that there aren't enough fans of the old one to be precious about the name. The name had very little to do with why I (still) haven't played Prey 2017.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No idea. I never liked Doom or Wolfenstein because it was just mindless violence, which gets old quick.

But Marathon had a universe and a story and characters and puzzles AND mindless violence.

Maybe they just let the marketing folks determine what was popular and mimicked that.