I hope Marathon's first sale gets more players to try the game — it's the most I've been consumed by a competitive FPS in a long time

The discourse surrounding Marathon is an absolute nightmare. Obituaries were being written months before the game even launched, controversies kept surfacing throughout its development, and comparisons kept being made to how Destiny 2 has been treated since the launch of The Final Shape. Shut out the noise, though, and I think there’s something special in Bungie’s extraction shooter.

If Marathon dies, it will be a devastating loss in my eyes. I can’t think of a similar all-consuming gaming experience I’ve had in a long time. Perhaps it was Elden Ring when I last felt like taking up every spare moment I wasn’t playing by watching, reading, researching, and talking about the game. So, here I am, with the game now discounted by 20% on Steam, PlayStation 5, and Xbox, encouraging anyone with even a passing interest to give it a go ...