 | Re: Marathon is so, SO misunderstood |
| Posted By: the Battle Cat | Date: 5/12/04 6:57 a.m. |
| In Response To: Re: Marathon is so, SO misunderstood (Cheerful)
: Good points. I'm not very familiar with UT, but Deus Ex has an extremely
: involved plot and well-developed characters. It also has a more
: "human" element, that Marathon is unfortunately lacking (though
: probably due to technology limitations of the time). I also remember
: hearing from a friend that a lot of the people who made DX were Marathon
: fans, though unfortunately I can't confirm this. Like you said, Marathon
: was ahead of its time; sometimes this hurts a product's popularity, but
: that doesn't make it any less important. I think its safe to say that a
: lot of the truly innovative games of later, such as Deus Ex or, I suppose,
: Half-Life, would not exist or be as good if it hadn't been for Marathon.
: And really, isn't it kind of fun to have a fanatical devotion to a game very
: few people have played or even heard of? I'd find this website much less
: interesting if there were a billion more just like it. It gives it a
: "cult movie" appeal.
I've been thinking lately about how much buzz is generated by the Marathon story. There is so much discussion of it but the actual text in the game wouldn't fill a brochure. YEARS of solid discussion in newsgroups, forums, websites, listserves, email and even [gag] person to person. Bungie must have just stood back and scratched their heads when the fans just started dissecting it down to the quarks of the atoms of it. Now, Deus Ex had an order of magnitude more story packed into it, much of it relating to current conspiracy theories. Does Deus Ex get this sort of meticulous inspection? Not a rhetorical question.
Gary Simmons
the Battle Cat
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| Marathon is so, SO misunderstood | Starship Security Officer | 5/10/04 4:56 p.m. |
| Re: Marathon is so, SO misunderstood | Yossarian | 5/10/04 5:19 p.m. |
| It helps me run. :) *NM* | Mista_B | 5/10/04 6:08 p.m. |
| Re: Marathon is so, SO misunderstood | Starship Security Officer | 5/11/04 3:54 a.m. |
| I still say it's a Mac v. PC thing *NM* | Steve Levinson | 5/10/04 6:14 p.m. |
| Re: Starship Security Officer is so misunderstood | •M | 5/10/04 10:28 p.m. |
| I was misunderstood, but... | Starship Security Officer | 5/11/04 4:01 a.m. |
| Re: I was misunderstood, but... | Yossarian | 5/11/04 4:17 a.m. |
| Re: I was misunderstood, but... | Bob-B-Q | 5/11/04 5:46 a.m. |
| Re: I was misunderstood, but... | Steve Levinson | 5/11/04 5:55 a.m. |
| Re: I was misunderstood, but... | Miguel | 5/11/04 7:17 a.m. |
| Download C64 emulators? *NM* | Callie21V | 5/11/04 10:08 a.m. |
| poop my pants? *NM* | the Battle Cat | 5/12/04 6:43 a.m. |
| Argh. Having to go and keep explaining. | Starship Security Officer | 5/12/04 6:16 p.m. |
| Re: I was misunderstood, but... | Andrew Nagy | 7/31/06 5:00 p.m. |
| It came from beyond the bitbucket... | Forrest of B.org | 8/1/06 7:53 a.m. |
| Re: It came from beyond the bitbucket... | Andrew Nagy | 8/1/06 10:51 a.m. |
| Re: It came from beyond the bitbucket... | Forrest of B.org | 8/1/06 8:40 p.m. |
| Re: It came from beyond the bitbucket... | Andrew Nagy | 8/3/06 7:59 p.m. |
| Re: I was misunderstood, but... | Vid Boi | 8/3/06 10:46 a.m. |
| Re: I was misunderstood, but... | Starship Security Officer | 5/12/04 6:12 p.m. |
| Re: I was misunderstood, but... | D-M.A. | 5/12/04 10:27 a.m. |
| Re: I was misunderstood, but... | Forrest of B.org | 5/12/04 11:29 a.m. |
| Re: I was misunderstood, but... | the Battle Cat | 5/13/04 6:33 a.m. |
| Re: I was misunderstood, but... | •M | 5/12/04 12:05 p.m. |
| Said "fuck kindness, someone hand me a spanker"guy *NM* | Starship Security Officer | 5/12/04 6:05 p.m. |
| What? What did I do now? | Starship Security Officer | 5/12/04 6:03 p.m. |
| DID YOU HEAR ME, YOSS? *NM* | Starship Security Officer | 5/13/04 6:38 p.m. |
| Re: Starship Security Officer is so misunderstood | Evil Otto | 5/17/04 9:28 a.m. |
| Petrich: Got bored, moved on. Sad, but happens. *NM* | Mista_B | 5/17/04 10:07 a.m. |
| Re: Starship Security Officer is so misunderstood | Speaker-To-Animals | 5/17/04 1:00 p.m. |
| Re: Starship Security Officer is so misunderstood | Bob-B-Q | 5/17/04 2:06 p.m. |
| Re: Marathon is so, SO misunderstood | Johannes Gunnar | 5/11/04 7:21 a.m. |
| Re: Marathon is so, SO misunderstood | Cheerful | 5/11/04 10:34 a.m. |
| Re: Marathon is so, SO misunderstood | Malakite | 5/11/04 12:58 p.m. |
| Re: Marathon is so, SO misunderstood | Cheerful | 5/11/04 1:41 p.m. |
| Re: Marathon is so, SO misunderstood | Bob-B-Q | 5/11/04 2:25 p.m. |
| Re: Marathon is so, SO misunderstood | Forrest of B.org | 5/11/04 3:51 p.m. |
| Re: Marathon is so, SO misunderstood | Starship Security Officer | 5/12/04 5:58 p.m. |
| Re: Marathon is so, SO misunderstood | the Battle Cat | 5/12/04 6:57 a.m. |
| Re: Marathon is so, SO misunderstood | mneub12 | 5/12/04 3:29 p.m. |
| Re: Marathon is so, SO misunderstood | Bob-B-Q | 5/12/04 3:49 p.m. |
| "...accidental because it was so slap-dash and..." *NM* | Andrew Nagy | 5/13/04 12:07 p.m. |
| Re: Marathon is so, SO misunderstood | Steve Levinson | 5/12/04 4:03 p.m. |
| Re: Marathon is so, SO misunderstood | mneub12 | 5/12/04 4:56 p.m. |
| A WITCH!! BURN HIM!! BURN HIM!! *NM* | the Battle Cat | 5/13/04 6:30 a.m. |
| Re: Marathon is so, SO misunderstood | Starship Security Officer | 5/12/04 5:45 p.m. |
