Your whole argument boils down to expectations. That's fine if you can't get over any change at all and try something new with the IP. I'm not actually out to change your mind since you can play whatever you want. Everything stays the same. Marathon stays the same. Indy stays like the movies. Got it.
Having a negative opinion about one decision does not mean you "can't get over any change at all". It just means you disagree with that decision. I never even said it would be wrong for Marathon to go third person, the IP is ancient and if think they have more to gain from Zelda 2ing it than meeting the expectations of the 3 fans it has left, more power to them. But that's irrelevant because my point was that comparing Marathon to Indy is a total false equivalence. As is expecting a third person game from the trailer. The trailer for Halo Infinite did not have ANY first person footage. Just Master Chief, marines, warthog and graphics! Literally not a single soul thought it was a third person game, because we're not pretending people think like idiots to make a point on the Internet.
I try to rid myself of as many expectations as I possibly can and just play games for what they are and see if I enjoy it.
I don't know why you're going into gameplay implications in the last paragraph since you refuse to even entertain the possibility that 3rd person might be someone's preference for Marathon. Plenty of games can handle shooting in 3rd person. It's stuff like Indy where you're up close, interacting with objects and puzzle items that seems like it would benefit a bit more from 1st person.
I went into gameplay implications because they literally define my preference of camera perspective on a game-by-game basis. If the game is a hardcore shooter then I want first person. For me this role is filled by playing Doom and Halo on Legendary. If they changed those games to third person, I would no longer be getting what I want and expect out of those games. Maybe Halo could go third person and become a better Mario game than Mario. Great game! But then where's Halo? Yes, I had an expectation for Halo, but now I have two Mario games. YAY, SOMETHING DIFFERENT!!!
That's obviously an extreme example to get a point across. Maybe Marathon doesn't need to be Marathon anymore because that role is filled by other games anyway like Halo, and some changes are expected after so much time. But in
this case, they are (again, IMO) blowing their shot to fulfill expectations with the Indy IP and then it's gone. Marathon and Indy are in different universes here.
We just shouldn't even get into gameplay implications since it still doesn't make any sense why anyone would have a problem with my posts, and no one can explain it. Weird.
What was disturbingly weird was reading this.