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Marathon is delayed (www.bungie.net)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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No new release date yet. The next update from Bungie will be in the Fall. Quite frankly, I thought the game would just come out and die to cut their losses.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think the Mac thing was the biggest advantage. It meant that it was forbidden fruit that the vast majority of us could never play but MAYBE saw the box at a Circuit City. And then, fast forward a decade or so, and Halo comes out and suddenly EVERYONE is curious about the games that Bungie are totally referencing to a meaningful degree... and nobody played them or they MAYBE booted up Aleph One once and were scared off.

And I already ranted about how "FPS with story" is not some miraculous thing that didn't exist.. That is one of those things that really bother me because so many people just assume there was nothing but iD until Half-Life (or even Call of Duty).

But yeah. Mandalore Gaming did a few videos on Pathways->Marathon Trilogy that are REALLY good and convey the useful bits. And the reality is... they were good for their time but they weren't mind blowing. And the narrative, while fun to read lore on, is also the kind of thing that you can completely ignore... and probably won't even understand unless you find the hidden terminals and cross reference them with EVERYTHING else.

Which... kind of reminds me of Dark Souls come to think of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

The fact that it ran on a Macintosh meant I could play it on the school computers during study hall.