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There's a lot of talk about and comparison to Tarkov but the reality is that Tarkov is unplayable for a lot of people since it isn't on console. Seems like Shroud had a lot of fun playing today, his chat was less enthused. Any time we've been able to compare metrics in Destiny, about two thirds of players were on Xbox or PS. Now that I think about it a Switch 2 release is probably feasible too.
 

gauze

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Yeah, I think a lot of the tarkov streamers have had pretty fair reception, and are critical on all the right parts. Right now, the game-play is okay to good but not impressive or outstanding.. but it's a bit shallow on the reason you're going in and actually doing stuff.. Landmark was just talking about attachments really not feeling that big of a difference maker in why you want to go collect these things or get to a point of a build. Being that it's alpha, there isn't really much to be said other than where does it go from here.

Sheef said there is a Destiny style raid boss that wasn't added to this playtest.. It's missing the reason you're doing any of this currently. It'll be on the dev's if they play the we know best, or are receptive to criticism.

Also aimassist on MnK being really weird feeling.
 

rhinohelix

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How??? your stupid enough to assume that is in bungie is in Southern California tho. And i agree because of the types of game that been releasing. Not to sound like a homer, It’s all coastal cities that have this these types of people, not the who state.
What the fuck does this have to do with where Bungie is? Trying to read this frothy BS, Is this a drunk post? The rest of your posts seem reasonably put together. You had the one seemingly negative reaction to Bald Brah's post. It has nothing to do with where Bungie is, moron; it had everything to do with from where you were posting. Not because of some flight-of-fanciful reason that I think you are posting from Bungie HQ but because there are a lot GD Lefty weirdos in Southern California. Period.

I've already said that if being negative wasn't your intent, I apologized. I won't do it again.
 

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Bungie is in Seattle or pretty much right by it. which is none the better than S Cali, it might be even worse.
 
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gauze

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I was right as fuck when I said that this looked exactly like the Love/Death/Robot short with the water dancer and deaf guy.

The L/D/R short is called Jibaro; it has almost no spoken words, which makes it infinitely better than the shitty Marathon trailer.
I mean Mielgo is rather profilic and influential over the last few years in the art space.. he also did the test screenings for into the spiderverse which essentially set the tone for how the movies would be, but I think was cut from the project due to wanting to be closer to realism(which most his work uses in regards to cinematography) versus more cartoon-y 4kids.. Wouldn't be surprised if Glitch's actual design is credited to him because her essential style is very akin to what he does stylistically.. the other LDR short, The Witness. He's also worked with the Gorillaz.

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Sounds like EQ1.
Darkness Falls dungeon in DAOC, too. That was actually a really fun experience. It was a goddamn challenge to get down to the bottom and then always having a keep an eye out for faggy Hibernians or Albion fucks.

Midgard baby!
 
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Dr.Retarded

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There is something off about the art style. and it is really hard to identify what it is exactly.

asmongold is all, "its ugly, an thats why everyone hates it" but, first, is it?, and second, there are games with ugly pcs, that are popular. Tarkov itself isn't exactly nier automatic waifus.

south african/chav fashion. I think this might be part of it.
nobody wants to play as Die Antwoord.

the cyber- synth punk aesthetic. I don't think that is inherently the problem. Not the most popular genre, but its not hated.
no one was complaining about it in Synthetik. or cyberpunk, or ghost in the shell, or a million other animes.
I think if the characters were giving off a solidly Japanese culture aesthetic, everyone would be on board.


Weird as fuck. some hideous. some, why boners.

Extraction shooter, with "heroes", yet the heroes presented are super forgettable. not easy to identify easily, or remember.

God damn that game looks like a modern version of an old browser based game I remember from college. I think it was called the Infantry, but it looks like it's basically the same damn system. It's smash TV but yes and killed people got credits to upgrade your kit. There were tanks and other vehicles that you could go pilot if they spawned and it was just as big war zone.

Had a buddy who is playing it, and it was fun for a little while, but that game is basically the same as it was. I think you even had classes that gave you a starter kit.
 
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Bald Brah

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Darkness Falls dungeon in DAOC, too. That was actually a really fun experience. It was a goddamn challenge to get down to the bottom and then always having a keep an eye out for faggy Hibernians or Albion fucks.

Midgard baby!

Lol I enjoyed that game. Until I hit end game pvp and found out about the stupid conga line bullshit. Uninstalled shortly after.
 
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Darkness Falls dungeon in DAOC, too. That was actually a really fun experience. It was a goddamn challenge to get down to the bottom and then always having a keep an eye out for faggy Hibernians or Albion fucks.

Midgard baby!

I killed so many alb/hib newbies that were leveling there when I was playing my SB... was so fun
 
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Dr.Retarded

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I killed so many alb/hib newbies that were leveling there when I was playing my SB... was so fun
Skald my friend. Last time I played it was when a opened up the full PVP Mordred server. It was glorious. Midgard was always the underdog, but there was a fight to be had around any corner. We were Pirates Never Die, and I was Captain Stabbins, until somebody must have bitched, and was reduced to Aptain Stabbins by the mods.

Had another character, troll warrior on a different server when we originally started playing the game, and I got christened with the Eberwald last name after being Vilunn Von Vistvucker. If you know you know. I think it was the default name change they would give the people that were breaking the rules or whatever. Used to team up with everybody else who was an Eberwald, it was just a code of honor and you never attacked another Eberwald, even if they were on the opposing faction.

God damn that game was fun. Shit was over 25 years ago.
 
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TJT

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The aesthetic of this game looks like a clown puked. Then you put that in a blender and sprayed it all over the character models.

Who thinks this looks good? It's just straight weird looking and totally unappealing.

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The aesthetic of this game looks like a clown puked. Then you put that in a blender and sprayed it all over the character models.

Who thinks this looks good? It's just straight weird looking and totally unappealing.

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Agreed, and I don't even know how or why you'd want to play a remotely fast paced shooter with that fag flag on LSD aesthetic.

Why even bother making it a team-based, goal-oriented game?

"Go for the androgynous, clown fiesta robot to the right!"
"Which one? The peacock drag queen looking one, or the bowl of microwaved Lucky Charms looking one?
"No, the one that looks like a toaster and a mannequin got into a fight in a paint store!"

The whole thing is visual noise for the sake of being weird as hell and just looks like the next stage of full retard evolution in all of the stupid looking skins in shooters that used to be realistic.
 
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RobXIII

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Lol I enjoyed that game. Until I hit end game pvp and found out about the stupid conga line bullshit. Uninstalled shortly after.

What, you didn't like being mezzed for 1 minute 17 seconds in pvp? Usually followed by a 10 second AE stun! Then there was the caster interrupt mechanic, if someone even looked at you, good luck getting a cast off.

For Marathon, I'm going to get about 50 hours of entertainment from it. By that, I mean having youtube videos absolutely dumpstering this mess playing in the background while doing actual work.
 
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I can concede to majority of the points, and fully accept that this could very well be that this is slop to be consumed; esp the track record of bungie setting norms to mtx's and live service gaming that has been relatively toxic for consumers over the last 10 years. Even seeing that while DEI is more or less out the door due to copious amounts of failure, the ghosts of it will still be systematically present for the foreseeable future..

But the art style being dei? maybe the characters because of their androgyny and essential low-effort base design; personally I took that for MTX cashgrab. In route of The Finals, customize every fascet of your character from hat to shoes.

The art style is just a 2006's GTA:Vice City's take on 1980's Miami(tho not as good).. another nostalgia-grab for an era that existed ethereally in the realm of marketing, for Marathon; it was when the world moved into the internet and 3d graphics age, an imagined future if you will.. its information-driven vectors influenced by corpo sponsorship. Honestly wouldn't be surprised if Sony wasn't more or less headstrong in the art direction as they were one of the main pillars to the product design of this era.

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It's no Beskinski or Frazetta, and it's definitely some sort of amalgamation of acid techno mess.. but definitely sits up there around my personal favorite design era, next to brutalism; I was like 10-13yrold running to bookstores to copy down cheatcodes for video games.. before they were even on the web, or atleast I had web access.

Also, why is the "not for everyone" argument so damning? I definitely cannot recommend Tarkov to everyone, but I love it. As far as that video above, the Cycle was great.. the thing that shot themselves in the foot was balancing.. if you were high tier, low tier stood ZERO chance at winning.. I could do ketr runs in Tarkov, and win against Altyns but not because of headshots.. and then there were MMR "buckets" based off of currency gain rather than skill; so cheaters ultimately rose to the top, and any top player would face cheaters in 100% of their games. Which in turn bled their game of any creator advertisements via streamers, and content creators because they simply just left due to cheater problems.

After doing more research the style is call vectorheart, it's that late 90s y2k style but bungie missed the mark. It should be more wild and interesting, jet set radio, a game i played a lot as a kid super puzzle bobble, Wipeout, Ridge Racer Type 4. the character miss the mark

 
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If they get the combat right and it's an in and out gameplay loop it could be good. I think they're getting a ton of negative feedback about the aesthetic and afaik almost all textures are placeholders right now. So they'll probably focus on gunfights and tone down the eye-rape scheme and it may be decent for people not looking to crawl Tarkov or turn their brain off completely for CoD.
 

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You could just buy COD, get DMZ (this game), a single player story, a BR, and 30 mp maps modes for $10 more. Again, who in the fuck is this game FOR? The vision behind this game deserves to be shit canned for his awful, stale, uninteresting concept. Shame, I quite like the design of the characters and world…. But the type of game they’re making is retarded as fuck.
 
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