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Subject: Marathon: Durandal XBLA Q&A

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Posted by: Tater Salad jr
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60 frames per second takes a lot of processing power for one thing. Arcade games can go 60 frames due to how the games aren't straining the system at all, so the left over processing power is used increase from rate. Gears of War runs at 30 frames per second, but that game requires tons of processing, graphically and etc. Marathon 2 released ten years ago, so the game was make with ten year ago standards. The 360 is a powerful machine, so they upped the frame rate to 60. Halo 3 will take a lot of processing power, so Bungie decided that better game play is more important then the number of frames per second.
Ahhh, that makes sense. Thanks for explaining it.

I hope you understood that. I just re-read my post and I saw tons of grammar mistakes. But yeah, summery:
30 frames per second - more processing power for games
60 frames per second - less processing power for games.

  • 07.17.2007 8:44 PM PDT

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Posted by: Tater Salad jr
Posted by: SPARTACVS
Posted by: Tater Salad jr

I heard that Halo 3 will be running at 30 fps, yet Marathon: Durandal XBLA will be running at 60?!? How does that work, have I recieved false information? It just seems strange that a redone arcade game will have twice the frame rate as the long awaited console game, Halo 3.


No offence, but are you -blam!- retarded?
No I'm not. Thanks for showing off your reading comprehension skills though. Like I said, I heard Halo 3 will run at 30 fps ( I'm not saying that it does, I'm just saying that's what I heard ). Hell, Madden '08 runs at 30 fps on the PS3, so its not exactly a bad thing. I just thought it was strange how an arcade game will be running at twice that.


If they didn't purposefully lock it at 60/make higher resolution assets and kept it all the original game, I wouldn't be surprised if the 360 could go over 300-400 fps EASILY.

  • 07.17.2007 8:52 PM PDT

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  • 07.17.2007 9:15 PM PDT
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  • 07.17.2007 11:37 PM PDT
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^^^pointless post. i really dont care about marathon. its all about age of empires for a computer game

  • 07.17.2007 11:38 PM PDT
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EWWW WTF did they do to marathon!?! thats not the marathon: durandal i know......


i can't believe that people that have never played marathon before will start with this....this....UGH.

  • 07.18.2007 12:17 AM PDT
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Shameless Beta qualifying info!: I have owned and played (sometimes to death) every Bungie game since Marathon. (Did not finish Pathways, Forge (M2) called to me). Marathon 2 remains my all time favorite game. Have built tons of maps on every generation of Forge - used to tedious work. I take an organized and analytical approach to everything. I still own the Action Sack and rock a sunflare tattoo. Big on world domination.

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  • 07.18.2007 2:42 AM PDT

so anyone know how many people can play it on one xbox 360? Split screen would be very fun.

  • 07.18.2007 2:59 AM PDT

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*crickets*....Does anyone care?


I do >:I

  • 07.18.2007 3:58 AM PDT
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nice, and did I hear survival mode? If you cant put it in Halo this is the next best place. nice going Bungie.

  • 07.18.2007 5:20 AM PDT
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Posted by: II FOXHOUND II
This will be the first Marathon game I play. Cool!


Same here! I really want to play other bungie games other than halo!

Survival mode: well, atleast we know bungie knows what it is. Now to get it in halo 3...

  • 07.18.2007 7:19 AM PDT
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ha this was my first fps on my old mac! its great! and before anyone plays it on the xbox, download the original, old and yet incredibily fun!

  • 07.18.2007 8:33 AM PDT
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doom ripoff!

  • 07.18.2007 8:37 AM PDT
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I'm new to Marathon as well. I'm excited to play a game from the creators of greatest game series in existence. I'm really curious now as to what resolution Halo 3 will play at. They mentioned that Durandal would play at true 720p widescreen. Does anyone know if they ever said what Halo 3 will run at? I keep hearing different answers.

  • 07.18.2007 9:32 AM PDT
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I hate anything that does not have to do with "halo3" stuffs. who wants to play a "new" version of a old 2d game? you just kill ugly monsters and the grfx sux.

  • 07.18.2007 9:52 AM PDT
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Man, the last time I played a Marathon type game was some spin off mod based on Marathon for Unreal Tournament 1999 LOL.
Marathon Durandal would be a great addition to XL Arcade, it looks fantastic.

  • 07.18.2007 10:16 AM PDT

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Posted by: slipknotoo1
doom ripoff!


What would you rather have? A run through a couple of hallways blasting everything that moves, or an excursion through a geothermal plant where you have to shut down the pumps and run your ass off before you take a lava bath, and then help your allies take over the facility above? Doom is to Marathon as tic-tac-tow is to chess.

Better level design, infinitely better story that actually develops in the game, actual missions, actual environmental variation (though you won't see it as much in m2 as you would see it in M1 or MI), a much better physics engine, and deeper gameplay mechanics. Don't call it a doom ripoff.

  • 07.18.2007 10:24 AM PDT
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I think i wanna play this game.... although unsure cause it looks quite bad(graphics wise) saying that im a big fan of the retro games as they dont make um how they used too...(ive also just packed the N64 to take on holiday with me, insted of the black (x) box or 360). and if it resembles halo i def wanna play it.

xbox live means microsoft points though.... i currently dont have any (boo hoo) anyone no how many itll cost cus i cant be bothered scaning the entire thing for prices, what im lazy ok!

  • 07.18.2007 10:59 AM PDT
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This is gonna be great, I can't wait to finally play Marathon. But when does it come out, I NEED a release date!!!

[edit] To the guy above me, it'll be 800 points, it said in the text somewhere, and that's the standard for new XBLA games. 2100 points is about £18, I don't know what that is in dollars.

[Edited on 07.18.2007 1:26 PM PDT]

  • 07.18.2007 1:24 PM PDT
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OMG Awesome!
cant wait to play it

  • 07.18.2007 2:02 PM PDT

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I just played Marathon on PC last night for the first time and I played the first edition of Foundation. It looks some what similar, obviously. It was nice knowing that the Halo 2 version of Foundation looks 1,000x better.

  • 07.18.2007 3:25 PM PDT

"That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.

Now try how and why."

Posted by: Daiyus
This is gonna be great, I can't wait to finally play Marathon. But when does it come out, I NEED a release date!!!


I read somwhere that it is coming out Q3 07 so it will come out soon enough. Also, if you don't like the HD graphic, you can just use the classic ones which, in my opinion, look better, but I'm not going to complain.

[Edited on 07.18.2007 4:49 PM PDT]

  • 07.18.2007 4:42 PM PDT

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Who cares about this release? Well, this is apparently a great game from back in the early days of bungie, so that would be... loads of people from the original fan base, plus halo fans curious about the classics. Not to mention anyone in for a fun game.

I'm looking forward to this, but I want to know: When is it coming out again? It doesn't say.

As for bungie spending time on this mini game rather then halo 3? Read the article before you post; it CLEARLY says this is made by a different company. In fact, that's a large portion of this writeup is: a description of the company making this.

  • 07.18.2007 4:51 PM PDT