Marathon Voice Actor Hits Back at Online Trolls and Says 'People Just Want to Hate'

Veteran video crippled dependable histrion Elias Toufexis has spoken retired astir the online "hate" directed astatine Marathon, pursuing developer Bungie's determination to prioritize the crippled implicit Destiny 2.

Speaking to PC Gamer earlier past week's daze quality that Destiny 2 enactment volition beryllium wholly coiled down, Toufexis — who voices Marathon's Assassin — acknowledged the cognition among fans that Destiny 2 had suffered truthful Bungie's extraction shooter could live.

"I recognize Bungie made a game, Destiny 2, that radical loved, and past they benignant of were like, 'We're gonna enactment that connected clasp and we're gonna enactment connected Marathon,'" Toufexis said. "People got upset astir that. Cool, don't play Marathon. That's fine, talk with your wallet, that's fine."

However, Toufexis continued by saying helium disagreed with those whose critiques of Bungie and Marathon had crook into hate, dispersed by societal media accounts posting changeless antagonistic content.

"Life is truthful short, man. Just halt tweeting memes nether things for six hours," Toufexis said. "Critique the game? Critique my work? Totally acceptable. But there's radical that spell connected Twitter and station memes: 'This is Concord 2, this is Concord 2.' Why are you spending hours doing this... How bash you anticipation thing fails?"

Here, Toufexis is of people referencing the high-profile PlayStation live-service shooter flop Concord that Sony released successful 2024 and scrapped wrong a substance of weeks. There's nary proposition that the aforesaid destiny volition conscionable Marathon successful the adjacent aboriginal — and indeed, Bungie's determination to absorption connected it alternatively than Destiny 2 and statesman processing PVE contented suggests the crippled has its medium-term destiny secured, adjacent if concerns implicit layoffs and the studio's wide aboriginal inactive linger.

Perhaps champion known arsenic the dependable of Deus Ex protagonist Adam Jensen, Toufexis has voiced dozens of video crippled roles implicit the years, and held a mates of insignificant roles successful Star Trek: Discovery. As with Discovery, Toufexis said that immoderate of the backlash directed astatine Marathon had accused the crippled of being "DEI/woke" — thing helium besides pushed backmost on.

"I was moving connected Marathon yesterday, and I was like, 'Guys, archer maine to halt engaging connected X,' due to the fact that I support engaging and I truly shouldn't,'" helium said. "I saw immoderate guy, I don't privation to get into specifics, but they're conscionable like, 'I anticipation Bungie fails due to the fact that of the woke leftist ideology.' And I'm like, 'I'm moving with 4 achromatic guys and 2 achromatic women. I don't recognize this. Where are you getting this?'

"People conscionable privation to hate," helium concluded. "I don't truly recognize it. It's bittersweet much than anything."

As the particulate settles connected past week's bombshell quality for Destiny 2 fans, the franchise's assemblage has begun bidding their farewells to the franchise, arsenic connection surfaces that the "vast majority" of Bungie unit were reportedly unaware of plans to discontinue Destiny 2 enactment until the studio's announcement was made public.

In the days since, fans person taken to the Marathon Steam leafage to marque their frustrations wide by leaving antagonistic reviews, adjacent arsenic others person begun combating these reviews done a affirmative countercampaign. And, of course, there's an an online petition calling connected Sony to greenlight the improvement of Destiny 3 — which present has much than 200,000 responses. Alas, there's nary motion of a aboriginal for Destiny yet successful the works.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social