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Subject: Marathon: Durandal XBLA Q&A
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Doom didn't have a story.

Frankly, I'm not only excited as a Marathon fan who gets to play this game in High Def on a widescreen television, but as a Marathon fan who as always felt the series never got enough attention or respect.

Seems to me that it's about to get all of that at long last.

The lack of a release date sucks, but at least we know it's coming soon. Summer 07' is almost at an end.

  • 07.18.2007 8:03 PM PDT
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Finally! I've been wanting to play some of Bungie's old games. Marathon, in particular! This will no doubt be a fun experience.

  • 07.19.2007 1:01 AM PDT

"Escape will make me God."
[Durandal -837.1010, U.E.S.C Marathon]
*Gamerscore*
Halo Reach - 1400 of 1400
Halo 3 - 1750 of 1750
Halo 3 ODST - 1000 of 1000
Halo Wars - 1200 of 1200

Theres alot of people who dont care.. i say You wankers, I was there when Marathon was released and i had to put the specs down on my Mac since it wasn't powerful enough to run it..lol.. Thank you Bungie to share off your great work.. marathon was always better then doom and is a classic for mac users and its great to see it once more.

Great job guys my hat goes off to you

  • 07.19.2007 6:00 AM PDT
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What is in like 5 years they release Halo 3 for the arcade. lol

  • 07.19.2007 6:06 AM PDT

"Escape will make me God."
[Durandal -837.1010, U.E.S.C Marathon]
*Gamerscore*
Halo Reach - 1400 of 1400
Halo 3 - 1750 of 1750
Halo 3 ODST - 1000 of 1000
Halo Wars - 1200 of 1200

Posted by: Gund by Plazma
What is in like 5 years they release Halo 3 for the arcade. lol


umm marathon is over 13 years old.. maybe when halo CE is 14 years old maybe :P

  • 07.19.2007 6:22 AM PDT
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HOW MUCH AND WHEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 07.19.2007 9:16 AM PDT
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Nice. But theres something bothering me Bungie. I heard you guys might not include online co-op. Dude if you want the best shooter of all time or be up in top 5 and #1 live multiplayer game you got to do it. Delay the launch date its ok. Yes most of the community will freak out. But it will be worth it. I am a hardcore gamer and I love halo series its up there on my list of top 10 games of all time. When left 4 dead comes out ahh it will take the #1 live game. If you add online co-op you can probably stop that. Come on now dont cut out online co-op please. We cant wait for it. Halo 3 needs online co-op.!!!

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Marathon, despite the aging graphics, is the one series I return to again and again. Not merely a shooting gallery or a tactical exercise, but a series of challenging mazes, puzzles and environments which make the game so much more than just a slaughter-fest. That and the menace of the deftly drawn characters of the rampant AI's, never seen, only experienced through their insane love-notes.

Brilliant.

I'd love to play this new incarnation, but if I've got to do it with an evil, evil console controller hell will freeze over first. I purchased an Xbox in December because a keyboard and mouse adaptor was supposed to be available in January but the device has gotten rotten reviews, only a handful of online retailers carry it and none of them will accept returns. After playing Halo on a Mac, Halo 2 was torture on the XBox with a controller designed to conflate axes of motion and impossible to use with both the speed AND accuracy afforded by a keyboard and mouse. So after playing all the Marathons dozens of times I'm not going to subject myself to an inferior gaming experience just to see the dazzling imagery.

fp

  • 07.19.2007 9:45 AM PDT
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Marathon XBLA and Halo 3 the same year!! *head explodes from awe*

I wonder, will they have a vidmaster award? like, an award for completeing all the vidmaster levels, or could it be doing all the levels without dying or saving (a TRUE vidmaster challenge, to be sure!) but, will there be a run button to hold down? lol. for that matter, will it have all 5 levels of difficulty? (yes, its true vidmasters, there is actually FIVE! total carnage isnt for everyone, apparently.)

oh, and what i've been screaming for weeks now: WHEN IS RELEASE DATE!!!!?!!?!!?! its cruel, keeping it from me....


p.s. anyone interested at all, check out Aleph One! its multiplatform, they even got it for linux users! and with the high-res textures and openGL support, it actually looks pretty sharp for a game thats almost 13 years old

  • 07.19.2007 10:42 AM PDT
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Wasn't halo 2 vista suppose to be "more than just a port"

rofl

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Posted by Hawawaa
Nice. But theres something bothering me Bungie. I heard you guys might not include online co-op. Dude if you want the best shooter of all time or be up in top 5 and #1 live multiplayer game you got to do it. Delay the launch date its ok. Yes most of the community will freak out. But it will be worth it. I am a hardcore gamer and I love halo series its up there on my list of top 10 games of all time. When left 4 dead comes out ahh it will take the #1 live game. If you add online co-op you can probably stop that. Come on now dont cut out online co-op please. We cant wait for it. Halo 3 needs online co-op.!!!


I agree with Hawawaa, I'll be in college when this game comes out, my friends all miles away, so if I can't defend all mankind this fall with my highschool friends online, I'll be crushed. Not mad at you guys, but this would be a huge disappointment if you didn't have online co-op. And EGM says you guys are working on some MP "issues"? Hope this means tuning and refining, only a couple months to go, or are there more? I am a worried fangrunt-person-thing...

In an attempt to get back on topic, I am extremely excited about Marathon, I can't wait to try one of Bungie's earlier games, and it looks like a lot of fun. The survival mode looks insane!!

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  • 07.19.2007 4:51 PM PDT

feet first into hell

ODST's motto

i have a imac and i dont know how to get aleph one to work {sniff sniff}

  • 07.19.2007 10:34 PM PDT
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Suffice to say that sometime, a moderator is going to end this account permenantly.

Posted by: the_Joe
Marathon XBLA and Halo 3 the same year!! *head explodes from awe*

I wonder, will they have a vidmaster award? like, an award for completeing all the vidmaster levels, or could it be doing all the levels without dying or saving (a TRUE vidmaster challenge, to be sure!) but, will there be a run button to hold down? lol. for that matter, will it have all 5 levels of difficulty? (yes, its true vidmasters, there is actually FIVE! total carnage isnt for everyone, apparently.)

oh, and what i've been screaming for weeks now: WHEN IS RELEASE DATE!!!!?!!?!!?! its cruel, keeping it from me....


p.s. anyone interested at all, check out Aleph One! its multiplatform, they even got it for linux users! and with the high-res textures and openGL support, it actually looks pretty sharp for a game thats almost 13 years old
Here's some good instructions for downloading if you're not too sly with a computer. Created by QuickSilver:Posted by: Quicksilver4648
HERE
Go there to download the Aleph One game engine and the three games.

1. Download the Aleph One game engine. To do this click on your operating system, Mac, Windows, or Linux.

2. Download the three versions of Marathon.

3. Open the Aleph One folder and copy the AlephOne.exe file. Past the file in the folder of each game.

4. To play, go to the folder of the game you wish to play and click on the AlephOne.exe.

5. You will need to change the default controls, they suck.

*Tip*: To play multi player, open the Marathon: Infinity (3) game and use the multi player in this game. Nobody plays online with the other versions of the game (1 or 2).

When you play 8 player online, the game lags kind of bad. That is why I can't wait till it releases on Xbox Live Arcade where the online is secure and strong.

  • 07.20.2007 1:44 AM PDT
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The new screenshots blew my mind.

No, really! my brain is all over the walls now.

  • 07.20.2007 2:28 AM PDT
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Thank god for the crosshair-off toggle... :)

To anyone whining about the graphics or "this game sux cause it's old", just because something isn't the newest and latest doesn't mean its worth passing over. You can have all the flashy visuals and big guns you want, but there's no substitute for solid gameplay. Granted, there's a lot of nostalgia riding on this one, but DEFINITELY play it if you haven't already done so thousands of times :)

  • 07.20.2007 3:23 AM PDT

"Cotton thwaps him with the Gravity Hammer, Frankie flies through the air, blood splattering from his corpse, his head snapping back on the ceiling, leaving a bloody imprint on a light fixture and then his body skitters into a gravity lift and is boosted up into the Yellow room."
i love Bungie.

Sounds good. Hope comes out soon...

[Edited on 07.23.2007 11:05 AM PDT]

  • 07.20.2007 11:31 AM PDT

baka Baka BAKA BAKA!

Ah Halo 3 and I can play the series that started it all. I love that I'll be able to return to marathon on my 360 but till then I'm gonna go play the Aleph one version on my PC box. Can't wait for it though, It looks sweet! I don't care about the GFX I just love the MP on the thing, It's legend.

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Posted by: Gund by Plazma
What is in like 5 years they release Halo 3 for the arcade. lol


umm marathon is over 13 years old.. maybe when halo CE is 14 years old maybe :P
Dude... it'll be like what Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is to the Wii Shop Channel... Awesome.

  • 07.20.2007 12:12 PM PDT
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Just think.. maybe this is a hint for that untitled Bungie game they are making. Marathon the full fledged game for the 360 anyone?

  • 07.20.2007 1:54 PM PDT
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If you invite me to your group you will be blocked.

That surviver mode looks like it should be implemented into Halo 3.......

How awesome would that be?
You just keep fighting....

  • 07.20.2007 2:06 PM PDT

"Peace, gentlemen...
Peace is the ultimate goal of the Traxus Project.
Peace not in our time but in the future.
Future generations will benefit from the work begun here today.
Gentlemen, I give you the Traxus Project"

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*crickets*....Does anyone care?



Haha... excactly what i was thinking.


Same for me!

Heretics!!!!!!!!!!!



I second it.

Heretics!!!!

burn them.... >:O

  • 07.20.2007 11:53 PM PDT

"Peace, gentlemen...
Peace is the ultimate goal of the Traxus Project.
Peace not in our time but in the future.
Future generations will benefit from the work begun here today.
Gentlemen, I give you the Traxus Project"

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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.



Also well said. *salaam*
Spoken like a true patriot I might add.
Sry for double posting btw, but the first one was just anger at the many ignorant that I needed to to get off my chest. Better now.

As for my thoughts, I was personally expecting/hoping for an Aleph One port to the arcade. In my opinion it's the best representation of the series thus far...
But this new engine and stuff...
I dunno...I feel suspicious. It looks way different.
I'm crossing my fingers hoping I'm not seriously disappointed when they do make this available(date, n-e-1?)
Looking at some of the screens they showed, it is somewhat difficult for me, as a longtime Marathon fan, to identify what I'm seeing as Marathon 2.

Alright, a brief disclaimer before I rant.
I know all the good people at Freeverse are surely doing their best on this project and I heartily appreciate this effort at bringing back one of the greatest classics. Plz don't hate me for saying this, but I can't seem to get it out of my head any other way.

Aleph One: Art.
This: Dear god I hope this isn't as botched as the screens make it out to be...

The textures look like they're all over the place to me.
I mean, in the originals and Aleph one updates, it looked like they went over every last surface with a fine toothed comb. This however looks liked it's been hurriedly glued together out of whatever textures were most convenient at the time....
Kind of like looking at the Mona Lisa redone by a 1st year college art student with fingerpaint.
O.o

Maybe it's not a final version......?*fingers crossed*


Maybe I'm being too harsh. I dunno.


[Edited on 07.21.2007 12:30 AM PDT]

  • 07.21.2007 12:18 AM PDT
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Posted by: I WAN HALO 3
bungie r niec guy, he r dont do anything to u, he only gave away free beta codes is that so wrong? microsfot was all liek 'YO BUGNIE PUT UR COEDS INTO DIS BOX AND WE R PUT LOCK ON IT' and bungie was all like 'oooo okay :D' but little r bungie no, microsft r hav bad lock, and BADDD BADD people gots in and stole ALL beta codes D: now we dun has none left, if nething, blame microsoft 4 bad lockss and allow bad peoples to steel code

Finally, I can play Marathon again! I now do not need to make a time machine to go back to my childhood :-D

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