Veteran online game voice actor Elias Toufexis has spoken out in regards to the on-line “hate” directed at Marathon, following developer Bungie’s choice to prioritize the sport over Future 2.
Talking to PC Gamer earlier than closing week’s surprise information that Future 2 enhance can be utterly wound down, Toufexis — who voices Marathon’s Murderer — said the belief amongst fanatics that Future 2 had suffered so Bungie’s extraction shooter may just dwell.
“I perceive Bungie made a recreation, Future 2, that folks beloved, after which they roughly have been like, ‘We are gonna put that on grasp and we are gonna paintings on Marathon,'” Toufexis stated. “Other folks were given dissatisfied about that. Cool, do not play Marathon. That is high-quality, discuss together with your pockets, that is high-quality.”
On the other hand, Toufexis persisted by means of pronouncing he disagreed with the ones whose reviews of Bungie and Marathon had develop into hate, unfold by means of social media accounts posting consistent damaging content material.
“Existence is so brief, guy. Simply forestall tweeting memes beneath issues for 6 hours,” Toufexis stated. “Critique the sport? Critique my paintings? Completely appropriate. However there may be those who cross on Twitter and submit memes: ‘That is Cohesion 2, that is Cohesion 2.’ Why are you spending hours doing this… How do you hope one thing fails?”
Right here, Toufexis is in fact referencing the high-profile PlayStation live-service shooter flop Cohesion that Sony launched in 2024 and scrapped inside an issue of weeks. There is no recommendation that the similar destiny will meet Marathon within the close to long term — and certainly, Bungie’s choice to concentrate on it relatively than Future 2 and start growing PVE content material suggests the sport has its medium-term destiny secured, even supposing issues over layoffs and the studio’s general long term nonetheless linger.
Most likely very best referred to as the voice of Deus Ex protagonist Adam Jensen, Toufexis has voiced dozens of online game roles through the years, and held a few minor roles in Big name Trek: Discovery. As with Discovery, Toufexis stated that one of the backlash directed at Marathon had accused the sport of being “DEI/woke” — one thing he additionally driven again on.
“I used to be operating on Marathon the previous day, and I used to be like, ‘Guys, inform me to prevent attractive on X,’ as a result of I stay attractive and I actually should not,'” he stated. “I noticed some man, I do not wish to get into specifics, however they are identical to, ‘I’m hoping Bungie fails on account of the woke leftist ideology.’ And I am like, ‘I am operating with 4 white guys and two white girls. I do not perceive this. The place are you getting this?’
“Other folks simply wish to hate,” he concluded. “I do not actually are aware of it. It is unhappy greater than anything else.”
Because the mud settles on closing week’s bombshell information for Future 2 fanatics, the franchise’s neighborhood has begun bidding their farewells to the franchise, as phrase surfaces that the “overwhelming majority” of Bungie group of workers have been reportedly ignorant of plans to discontinue Future 2 enhance till the studio’s announcement used to be made public.
Within the days since, fanatics have taken to the Marathon Steam web page to make their frustrations transparent by means of leaving damaging evaluations, whilst others have begun preventing those evaluations thru a favorable countercampaign. And, in fact, there may be an an internet petition calling on Sony to greenlight the improvement of Future 3 — which now has greater than 200,000 responses. Alas, there is no signal of a long term for Future but within the works.
Tom Phillips is IGN’s Information Editor. You’ll achieve Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or in finding him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social
