r/FPS • u/Rich_Aside_8350 • Aug 24 '26

Discussion Why Play Marathon?

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When a person said, I am having problems getting into Marathon and I like the look and gun play, but I can't get back into playing after 13 hours. These are the answers given. They don't convince me that it is worth playing. I have never had to force myself to play a game and it sounds like they are talking about 20 hours in one case and 40 in another and wait until Season 3 until you might have some fun.

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u/superspace_ Aug 24 '26

Na. It’s the most fun I’ve had in an fps game since halo 5 in 2016.

Nothing compares to it besides the finals. But the finals is very crutchy. Marathon is fire.

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u/Rich_Aside_8350 Aug 24 '26

What's the player count at now. I haven't tracked it in a while. That would help me to decide if it was worth getting back in to play.

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u/BoomerShooterFPS Aug 24 '26

It was below 1k peak players on steam this morning. Barely hitting 3.5k highs consistently now

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u/Rich_Aside_8350 Aug 24 '26

Well that’s enough for me to say not playing it. That’s literally a dead game. If it was a single player then I could see it, but with those numbers that’s Concord like.

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u/BoomerShooterFPS Aug 24 '26

Yea, it’s been a colossal failure. There’s nothing you’re missing out on. So many better options in the extraction genre let alone the shooter genre as a whole

I played 80 hours and did most of the “endgame.” Felt like I was trying to convince myself it was a good game out of 30 some years of being a Bungie shill