- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Geronimo
There's just something about Marathon, the odd lighting, the music, the labrynthine levels, that makes it awesome. Every single level in Marathon (that I have played, at least) has the aura of mystery and impending doom that the Halo level 343 GS has.
I laughed through 343 GS. There was nothing behind it but walking around forever shooting hundreds of not even scary little balloon-monsters. Congrats, you've got a needless carnage fest... this is what seperates Marathon from the rest of the FPS genre. Marathon actually had a reason and a story around its carnage, and there was never just needless running around in circles just popping off enemies and then switch to a cutscene of Master Chief talking and cracking jokes and flipping switches. In Marathon, there were no cutscenes. You had to do that stuff yourself.
It's almost like comparing books to movie counterparts. Way back when Marathon was made they didn't have cutscenes and whatnot in the games, so you had to use your imagination, like reading a book. But now games are crap, they do everything for you, it's just point and shoot and watch a movie of your 'victory'.