Hope for Marathon
It’s hard for me to not be cynical about an upcoming title. Especially knowing the track record of a specific franchise or developer. I’m the guy that started at Combat Evolved. Loved everything about Halo enough to pick up Destiny at launch in 2014. And be monumentally disappointed with it. “No you have to get House of Wolves for the full experience” my friends would tell me. “No man, The Taken King will fix the game for you”. And thus began my disillusionment at the release of unfinished games. Destiny never grabbed me. Not creatively. Not mechanically. Especially not narratively. It felt painfully generic especially in the wake of the genre-defining space shooter that the developer had just left behind. And then for Bungie to say that Destiny would be their WoW. Their decade(s) long supported project. This was something of an unholy trinity. The weapons had no personality. The classes served minimal synergy to each other. Even playing with friends failed to ignite any sort of ...
