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Bungie appears to have extensively plagiarized an artist's work in their extraction shooter "Marathon" according to this Bluesky post (bsky.app)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml to c/games@lemmy.world

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Bungie has issued an official statement, they are throwing an artist under the bus and pledging to make it right with the original artist.

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[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 61 points 3 days ago

This new game has essentially no relation besides name and logo to the old Marathon games. Sadly, because the old ones were the shit.

[-] Geetnerd@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

How dare you.

I loved the Marathon games. They were better than Doom!

Edit; My bad, I thought you said they "Were shit," instead of "The shit."

My bad. Carry on.

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 18 points 3 days ago

It's okay, 'the shit' is a weird phrase anyway. And as a Marathon trilogy connoisseur, you're clearly alright.

[-] JordanZ@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

This just reminds me of this guy…who also has one about the word ‘ass’.

https://youtu.be/igh9iO5BxBo

[-] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago

I'm so glad you linked this because it was my first thought as well and I was like damn I am going to struggle to find that haha

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 1 points 3 days ago

This is brilliant, thanks for the link!

[-] Geetnerd@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Yeah, it's a weird phrase, today. It was popular 20 years ago.

It meant "The best" back then.

But thanks for the positive vibe, and comment.

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

No cap fr fr

[-] doxxx@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

I’m a little late to this party but this can be easily avoided by using the phrase “the shiz”. Just gotta train autocorrect to accept it.

[-] tuckerm@feddit.online 27 points 3 days ago

Calling this a Marathon game makes no sense, and I don't just mean aesthetically. The business case can't possibly be there, either.

Anyone who has a nostalgic attachment to Marathon (👋) won't be interested in this new game, and anyone interested in this new game probably doesn't care about the name "Marathon."

On top of that, there's the fact that Marathon kind of looked like Halo. When Bungie made Halo, they were clearly taking after their own art style from their previous games. Which means Bungie could have announced that they're making a singleplayer first person shooter that kind of looks like Halo. Everyone would have lost their minds. Instead, they announced yet another live service game, and no one is interested.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Well now I’m not buying it.

[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Its worse than that: this game is somehow CANON with the original Marathon

[-] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

My vent core feels retroactively unblasted by this revelation. You really can't expect anything good from any of the major studios anymore these days.