No thank you. (Gaming)

by cheapLEY , Monday, April 14, 2025, 15:00 (14 days ago) @ Cody Miller

The more coverage I see of Marathon, the more it's bringing me around, though. It does look and sound fun. I like extraction shooters. Seasonal resets and losing everything upon death anyway solves my main problem with Destiny in regards to feeling the need to grind to play the actual stuff I want. This does seem like a game one could just jump in and play with friends whenever, without feeling the pressure to do the weekly checklists.

The bounties are literal timed checklists…

I'm basing this off of my experience with something like DMZ, as we don't know exactly how Marathon will work. The bounties are just bullshit things to do while you're in the map. They exist solely to give you something to focus on while you're in the game. Do something specific at one POI or another. Kill dudes with certain weapons. Whatever. You're not missing out on anything by skipping a day. You just pick a bounty to give you something to do and get a reward for completing it. It's not like Destiny where if I miss a week of activities, that's a week's worth of pinnacle drops, so now I'm behind and won't be up to the level requirement for the raid. That's what I mean by weekly checklist.