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Posted by: alphaXnemesis
Shishka I think marathon is a load of crap it is stuiped game compared to halo and
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AlphaXnemesis, welcome to my blacklist!

  • 06.07.2004 7:10 PM PDT
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My vote for best way of expressing the plot goes to myth. The journal entries, with the sketched drawings, deep powerful music, and perfect narraror, are nothing short of pure brilliance.

O, and alpha, not only did u spell stupid wrong, but you didn't back up your opinion.
in simpler words,

you are a DUMBASS

[Edited on 6/7/2004 7:34:32 PM]

  • 06.07.2004 7:32 PM PDT
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Just because you voted for Halo doesn't mean you're ignorant of all other Bungie games out there. Halo opened the doors to console gamers to what PC players experienced with the Marathon series. When I first played Halo in its entirety, it was both a visually grabbing AND heavily-plot based experience. I hadn't played a video game with this much story depth in my life, and I am a hardcore gamer of 16 years people. Halo also peaked my interest enough to learn much, much more about its backstory and led to to learn about a certain "spiritual precursor" to it, Marathon.

Thugh I haven't played Marathon, I can tell you that just by reading its story and plundering and reading all of the depths of the Marathon Story Page, I can see why Marathon vets say that it has the best story ever. Why? Plain and simple, BECAUSE IT DOES. That doesn't mean, however, that Halo doesn't have a deep storyline, becuase Halo's plot is deep enough to challenge Marathon's and Halo has just as much of a mysterious backstory as Marathon did.

One thing that makes Marathon's story much more appealing is that fact that you're always askign questions as to why certain things were as they were. At the end of Marathon 1/2 you always ended up with more questions to ask than you started with before playing the game. You always wanted to read up about how Bungie incorporated ancient history and literature into its game and I think this kind of speculation that the gamers experienced was what made the game unique.

In short, sure Marathon had the better storyline, but what Marathon was to Mac/PC gamers and how it impacted them is just the same with how Halo has impacted the console gamers. Halo has given console gamers the chance to experience what an excellent storyline is for a game and what it should be. Because graphics and gameplay can change over the years and become better, but the great story is just that: Great. It'll always be classic.

  • 06.07.2004 8:13 PM PDT
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I recently bought and played through Marathon 2 for windows. If anyone wants to buy it from me, msg me. Anyways I thought the story itself was great, just not the way it was relayed to you.

  • 06.07.2004 8:15 PM PDT
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Are you kidding? The way it was relayed ruled!

  • 06.07.2004 8:19 PM PDT
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@ claxton:
Well, I guess people nowadays are a little put off buy actually *reading* something in a game. But at least you liked the story (I mean hell, who wouldn’t)
Good to have new people still playing and enjoying marathon!

  • 06.07.2004 8:24 PM PDT
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Posted by: Recon Number 54
There's always M1A1. It's M1 using the M2/AlephOne engine. You should be able to find it on the Orbital Arm.


Thank you! (says the silly man 3 hours after playing M1, w/o background music or mouse control b/c the G4 just isn't up to the task. Instead, i've been blasting Power of Seven's Oni tracks for M1. hehe).

Oh, and sorry, i can't help myself. Skip the rest if you don't want a true-story of M1 gaming.

Marathon 1.

It was dark. Too dark. I cautiously edged forward, machine gun at the ready. I came across a huge, metal door. I pulled the switch and it groaned open. Blasted darkness. I carefully walked in, craning my neck to see. It was a huge room, but entirely empty. The metal door slammed shut behind me. “RADIATION” and the appropriate symbols adorned the door. I checked my map. “DEFEND THIS” it said. Strange. It was entirely empty, except for the single door I had come through. I turned back. There was no panel. I tried to open it, yet nothing happened. I scanned the room again. Nothing. I looked back at the door again, but this time, something was different. It was shorter. No. Wait. The ceiling was lower. The floor was rising! “DEFEND THIS.” My map was mocking me. Frantically, I searched for something, anything. It was a perfectly bare room. Defeated, I sat in a corner and waited for the inevitable. There was noone to hear me scream.

-Jäger

::goes to the guide to figure out what the hell i did wrong. btw, Defend this is the name of the level, but i didn't realize that as i frantically searched for a way out.::

  • 06.07.2004 8:29 PM PDT
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Hehe, I remember first going into that room.

  • 06.07.2004 9:15 PM PDT
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.....
i remember my first time going into that room too. and the 2nd. and the 3rd. and 4th.

I honestly forget how I figured out how to get out...I just got out eventually (dont want to tell anyone else how to get out, if I had to be crushed 20 times so do they! =-(

  • 06.07.2004 9:37 PM PDT
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If they want hints they can@~!# ********************
***TRANSFER INTERRUPTED***

You didn't think I would let you have it that easily, did you?

-Durandal

  • 06.08.2004 7:32 PM PDT
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"lol," says the Spazeroid. marthon is a hell of a lot harder than i remember it being . . . .

"The elaborate Pfhor bureaucracy has a
Ministry for the Eradication Through
Imitation of Hostile Species Unsuitable for
Enslavement, Phan Pfhar Sfaern-Wsawn Tshah,
which is responsible for the design and
construction of such machines.

They meticulously constructed seventeen
different human body types and mixed them
with sixty-one unique facial models. The
resulting walking bombs were in every way
indistinguishable from real humans.

Their one mistake, dressing every last one
of the six thousand simulacrums in the
plain green overalls of a Marathon airlock
technician, had the amusing side-effect of
making all the real airlock technicians
wander the ship naked during the invasion."

  • 06.08.2004 10:35 PM PDT
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Alright, don't shoot me, but I voted Halo, Yes, Marathon had an amazingly...amazing storyline, and I just recently got to play it on a friends Mac enough that I beat the first two, and he got so tired of seeing me, he let me borrow the old mac to beat the third, but I have my theory's about Halo's, and this war that happened ten thousand years ago by referance of the inside look at Halo 2 video, and the novels...So i'm going out on a limb and say Halo has the best storyline.

  • 06.08.2004 10:59 PM PDT
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I respect that you actually played Marathon and voted Halo, albeit I don't understand it...

  • 06.09.2004 3:17 PM PDT
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"Alright, don't shoot me, but I voted Halo"

_loads pistol_


  • 06.09.2004 4:43 PM PDT
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:O Unless you played Marathon, I will!

  • 06.09.2004 4:57 PM PDT

Ach! Was ist los?

I went with the Marathon Trilogy. PiD and Halo have nice storylines, but I feel that Marathon was the only one which really nailed that 'epic adventure' atmosphere.

From Thermopylae to Mars to Tau Ceti IV to Lh'owon, we will find the enemy and kick his ass every time.

  • 06.09.2004 5:47 PM PDT
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anyone know where i can get marathon??? i have windows

  • 06.09.2004 5:58 PM PDT
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Marathon(on Windows) for Dummies

also check out http://orbitalarm.bungie.org/downloads/alephone.html
and Aleph One

The only marathon that came out for windows is Marathon II. But dedicated fans have made runtimes that will allow you to have the macintosh version, but run it in linux or windows.

In short that means: I think you've gotta buy the Mac Action Sack. check b.net store, ebay, amazon(?), or your local game store (?). its old, and its cheap, and its macintosh, but you'll get to play some good ol' marathon. YOu can also find demo's at the above links. Have fun!

currently 16 of 88 solo levels finished in my marathon epic adventure. woot!

-Jäger

  • 06.09.2004 6:06 PM PDT
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I think Halo has the greatest storyline in a game EVER!!! After reading the books, im in awe

  • 06.09.2004 7:12 PM PDT
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I really have to say Marathon right now. While Halo does have a good story line(with plenty of potential for growth), and myth has a great fantasy setting, Marathon has that something extra. I don't know if its the small little quirks to Durandels insanity, or find hidden terminals throughout the games, even trying to figure out what the heck is goin on in Infinity the first time you play through it. Its got so much depth that playing through it the umpfhteenth you still catch new things and realize something you didn't know last time. And while it's all there for the hardcore player it still manages to be a great game that anyone can enjoy, just blasting aliens. My vote for Marathon!

  • 06.09.2004 10:34 PM PDT