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Marathon is delayed (www.bungie.net)
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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] 24 points 17 hours ago (15 children)

Original Marathon was really great. While you’re waiting for BUNGIE to drop this turd you should play the open source remake Aleph One.

It’s available on Steam for free as Classic Marathon.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 17 hours ago (7 children)

And whatever this new Marathon is it bears exactly zero relation to the original. Innovative, original, single player experience vs derivitave, cut and paste multiplayer "live service" grift.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago (6 children)

I am not optimistic in the slightest.

But the Marathon trilogy was really a bog standard FPS of the era that was mostly tied together with a completely out there story that was told almost exclusively via text logs.

So, a bog standard whatever buzz word genre it is at this point tied together with blog posts and youtube videos would actually be keeping with tradition.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I love the callout that the story was delivered via text logs, as if voice acting was typically present in anything except FMV-based games in that time period. "Bog standard FPS" is a really funky term for an era when there were only really a few well-known FPS games out there at all.

You've got to remember that Marathon 1 was released in 1994, the same year Doom II was released. What else was there at that point? You really had Doom, Marathon, Pathways Into Darkness (also a Bungie title and only sort of an FPS at all), Wolfenstein 3D, System Shock, Hexen / Heretic, and some really niche ones that most people had never even heard of at the time, never mind now.

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