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What's up guys? 
Batman here and real quick, I 

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just wanted to let you know that
I got a chance to play Marathon 

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beta and I want to give you my 
quick thoughts on it because my 

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computer's not letting me record
a video right now for whatever 

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reason. 
So one thing I got to say is the

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gunplay felt really smooth. 
It felt great, which we all know

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Bungie's really good at ever 
since the original Halo. 

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As far as the extraction loop 
goes, it felt pretty good. 

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The thing is that a lot of 
things you're like, is this 

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worth it? 
Is this better than this item? 

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How do you use this item? 
So it was a little bit of 

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learning curve, especially for 
someone like me who hasn't 

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played an extraction shooter 
until now. 

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But I have played all the bunch 
of games starting from Halo 1 

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all the way to Destiny 2. 
And so I am very familiar with 

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their style and this game 
definitely has room for them to 

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grow and add and expand because 
right now it feels kind of bare 

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bones. 
And actually one thing that they

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overloaded on was the UI and all
these menus and everything like 

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that popping up at you. 
And it wasn't quite clear how to

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do certain things like for 
example, said cross play on, but

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I didn't see a way to turn it 
off. 

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And also it's some of the 
controls felt a little bit off. 

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And I was playing on the Xbox 
Series X with a controller and 

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it was like X pick up an item 
off the ground, I believe. 

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And then if you're in a bag or a
crate and you open it up and 

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then you go to grab it, if you 
hit X, it's just going to take 

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the item out of the crate and 
put it on the ground and you're 

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not picking it up at all. 
And so actually I had a buddy of

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mine I was playing with and he 
was like, hey, you did. 

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Why are you not picking up 
anything? 

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We keep dropping everything. 
I was like, what? 

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No wonder my backpack seems 
empty. 

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I will say there's some really 
good opportunities for some 

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really fun and memorable 
moments. 

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For example, I was fortunate 
enough to run with some of our 

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group members from TST. 
Link in the description below if

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you want to join our Discord. 
And I ran into a squad of three 

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by myself of runners players, 
and I wiped him actually all 

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out. 
And I was really like, hyped. 

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I was like, Oh yeah, that felt 
so good. 

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And then bot or robot dude came 
over, killed me because I was 

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already weak. 
And then more robots showed up 

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and my other teammate tried to 
save me and he got down and then

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killed. 
And the third player, she 

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actually was smart. 
She'd go out there. 

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So she kind of sculpt around the
edges to kind of sneak back up. 

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But she waited a moment because 
she knew that people are still 

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looting my body and, and my 
teammates. 

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By the time that she got to us, 
they'd already moved on. 

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It was safe and she resed both 
of us. 

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So it was really great and 
memorable. 

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And I was like, wow, I, I was 
not expecting that. 

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I thought this would be a end of
a run right then. 

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Unfortunately, we didn't make 
the run by the end, but it was a

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really cool moment to have of me
getting basically that triple 

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kill and then being the double 
res that she gave. 

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And so I will say that the art 
style really pops through here. 

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I thought it's going to be too 
vibrant, but it they actually 

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tone it back just enough where 
it's not too bright. 

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The game definitely has 
potential. 

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What would I read it right now? 
For me as someone who's not who 

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hasn't played a lot of or any 
extraction shooter for that 

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matter, but likes first person 
shooters, I'd probably say it's 

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between A6 and A7. 
I'm probably put it closer to a 

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six. 
It feels like this is kind of a 

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rushed product. 
One thing I thought was odd is 

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the fact that they wanted to 
release this like 4 to 6 months 

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after they showed off the first 
game plays like, whoa, you need 

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to have an alpha, you need to 
have a beta, and then you should

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say here's the window and then 
zoom in on that. 

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So I don't know if there's 
pressure from Sony to get this 

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game out or what, but it 
definitely felt like they could 

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have used more time in the 
kitchen. 

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Overall, fun experience. 
Is it worth your $40 or should 

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you wait? 
I would personally wait. 

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Not that the $40 is a really a 
heavy price point with this, 

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it's just there's not a lot it 
seems like to do. 

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And who knows, maybe when the 
game comes out we're going to be

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exploring this huge world with 
lots of other possibilities and 

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maps. 
But until I know more I'm out. 

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Even though I love Bungie, love 
Halo, Destiny, but that's all I 

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got for you. 
Let me know what you think of 

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the game. 
Are you getting it, did you like

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it, did you hate it, what did 
you like about it, what did you 

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hate? 
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