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Former Marathon director hates calling them 'extraction shooters,' but Bungie's forging on with the "dumb" term
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Former Bungie director Chris Sides tried to rename the extraction shooter label for Marathon, as “the genre doesn’t even know what it is.”
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Words have meanings. That's a mantra that I repeat on an almost daily basis. Simplistic does not mean simple. Obtuse is only for people, for anything else you should say abstruse. Look the word pedant up in the dictionary and you'll see a picture of me. That sort of thing. I know this makes me sound very boring (spoiler: I am quite boring), but it's my job as a writer and editor to know these things. Marathon's former director of product management, Chris Sides, agrees with me, and he's taken aim at the 'extraction shooter' label, appearing on a podcast to say it's "dumb" and "bad" because it's named after a mechanic.
Read the full story on PCGamesN: Former Marathon director hates calling them 'extraction shooters,' but Bungie's forging on with the "dumb" term
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Words have meanings. That's a mantra that I repeat on an almost daily basis. Simplistic does not mean simple. Obtuse is only for people, for anything else you should say abstruse. Look the word pedant up in the dictionary and you'll see a picture of me. That sort of thing. I know this makes me sound very boring (spoiler: I am quite boring), but it's my job as a writer and editor to know these things. Marathon's former director of product management, Chris Sides, agrees with me, and he's taken aim at the 'extraction shooter' label, appearing on a podcast to say it's "dumb" and "bad" because it's named after a mechanic. Read the full story on PCGamesN: Former Marathon director hates calling them 'extraction shooters,' but Bungie's forging on with the "dumb" term
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11 November 2025, 11:18 am
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Ben Sledge
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title: Former Marathon director hates calling them 'extraction shooters,' but Bungie's forging on with the "dumb" term
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Former Bungie director Chris Sides tried to rename the extraction shooter label for Marathon, as “the genre doesn’t even know what it is.”
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Words have meanings. That's a mantra that I repeat on an almost daily basis. Simplistic does not mean simple. Obtuse is only for people, for anything else you should say abstruse. Look the word pedant up in the dictionary and you'll see a picture of me. That sort of thing. I know this makes me sound very boring (spoiler: I am quite boring), but it's my job as a writer and editor to know these things. Marathon's former director of product management, Chris Sides, agrees with me, and he's taken aim at the 'extraction shooter' label, appearing on a podcast to say it's "dumb" and "bad" because it's named after a mechanic.
Read the full story on PCGamesN: Former Marathon director hates calling them 'extraction shooters,' but Bungie's forging on with the "dumb" term
content_text: Words have meanings. That's a mantra that I repeat on an almost daily basis. Simplistic does not mean simple. Obtuse is only for people, for anything else you should say abstruse. Look the word pedant up in the dictionary and you'll see a picture of me. That sort of thing. I know this makes me sound very boring (spoiler: I am quite boring), but it's my job as a writer and editor to know these things. Marathon's former director of product management, Chris Sides, agrees with me, and he's taken aim at the 'extraction shooter' label, appearing on a podcast to say it's "dumb" and "bad" because it's named after a mechanic. Read the full story on PCGamesN: Former Marathon director hates calling them 'extraction shooters,' but Bungie's forging on with the "dumb" term
pub_date: 11 November 2025, 11:18 am
guid: https://www.pcgamesn.com/marathon/extraction-shooter
creator: Ben Sledge
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