This game is an absolute masterpiece. The cut scenes, level design, art style, character dialogue, all of it is absolute cinema. I love this game and I've 100% the achievements and done 3 play throughs. The new area dlc given as a thank you is probably my favorite in the game. I wont get into spoilers but its gorgeous! The combat feels like a real leap in the turn based genre and yet feels like it pays homage to the ones before it. Im very excited to see what the studio does next and will continue listening to THAT boss theme on Spotify. Iykyk. If your going to give this game a try, I recommend nice head phones because the sound design in the game is peak.
After around 600 hours in the game I believe I can confidently say this game is phenomenal! With the aggression based MM, they've managed to make an extraction shooter for everyone. I personally really enjoy the pvp side of things (when I dont get Lazer beamed by cheaters) but my biggest grievance is the large boss arc like the queen and matriarch. I do with there was a pve mode to fight big arc like those with some reduced rewards maybe, but idk if that would necessarily work and could hurt the game in the long run. But there is always the option to nuke your karma to friendly and fight the biggens that way lol. Arc raiders is my main game and im having alot of fun with it! Devs are very responsive to feedback and hopefully they get more innovative with future arc and map designs!
I personally did not like marathon. But I can appreciate what Bungie was going for and I think the people who enjoy a hard core extraction shooter are going to love this game! I lean more on the casual side so its not for me. Ill stick to arc raiders but Marathon is alot of fun to watch people play. There is alot of build creativity and I like the fact the weapon attachments determine rarity. That really opens things up for bungie to be creative with their weapon designs! I hope marathon succeeds and I hope we get a D3
