{"id":93343,"date":"2025-04-13T02:09:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T02:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/13\/marathon-sounds-like-a-more-approachable-take-on-a-brutal-genre\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T02:09:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T02:09:28","slug":"marathon-sounds-like-a-more-approachable-take-on-a-brutal-genre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/13\/marathon-sounds-like-a-more-approachable-take-on-a-brutal-genre\/","title":{"rendered":"Marathon Sounds Like A More Approachable Take On A Brutal Genre"},"content":{"rendered":"


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As someone who has tried to convince friends to join me in extraction shooters, only to see too many folks fall away after their first or second loss, I\u2019m all too familiar with how off-putting the genre can be. Death can come fast in this kind of game, and since you lose all the stuff you\u2019re carrying if you can\u2019t make it out alive, loss feels particularly demoralizing.<\/p>\n

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This is especially true with something like Escape from Tarkov<\/em>, in which survival mechanics like thirst and specific health conditions like bone fractures are accounted for. But even in more casual takes on the genre like Call of Duty<\/em>\u2019s shortly lived \u201cDMZ\u201d mode from Modern Warfare 2<\/em> (2022), defeat often results in such an uphill battle in the next match that you\u2019re usually too underequipped to be able to withstand even encounters with all but the most trivial AI, let alone fully equipped players. Many folks like this kind of a challenge, but it\u2019s a niche crowd for sure. <\/p>\n

But today\u2019s gameplay reveal of Marathon<\/em><\/a><\/span> shows perhaps the most casual and approachable take on the genre yet. As someone who deeply loves the thrill that comes with this kind of game, I\u2019m hopeful Bungie\u2019s take on this hardcore genre opens the door for more folks to enjoy its highs without getting too mired in the lows. <\/p>\n

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As we learned from today\u2019s gameplay reveal, players will select from one of six Runners at launch to jump into a map with. These sound very similar to classes in Destiny<\/em> or even the abilities of characters in something like Apex Legends<\/em> or Rainbow Six Siege<\/em>. Today\u2019s event showed off the four that will be playable during the game\u2019s closed alpha period: <\/p>\n