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	Re: My Introduction
	Posted By: Dollar Store Kyle	Date: 12/22/04 8:46 p.m.
	In Response To: My Introduction (Michael M.) : For a while I have been lurking around the MSP and MBO, reading story tidbits : and dwelling on thoughts from threads. Now, however, I'm going to : contribute a little. : My first Bungie game? Halo. I picked it up in December of 2002 and from there : I was hooked. What grabbed me onto the community even more was : halo.bungie.org, the home of all Halo news. After learning how deep the : story goes from reading the Halo story page, I moved onto the HBO forum. : At first, my posts were a bit awkward. In fact, they were downright : stupid, and often annoyed a lot of people. I picked up my act soon enough, : though, and became an official contributing citizen of HBO. : By that stage, I had got on a lot better with the locals and I gained the : state of "HBO regular". However, I wanted to learn more about : those people who made the game, so I researched a bit on this : "Bungie" company. What I found was truly amazing. What I had : found was a game developing company like no other. It was almost like a : bunch of friends who make games as a hobby. : I started reading Top Stories a bit more and soon found out about some of : their older games, one of which was Marathon. From there, I read the story : synopsis on the MSP and learned the overall storyline. However, I wanted : more. By this stage, it was April 2004 and I had grown into loving the : Bungie community over the last year or so. : However, someone known as "the Rip-Saw" popped up on the Bungie.net : forums and introduced me to something special called "M1A1": : Marathon for Aleph One, an open source project. Finally, I could play : Marathon on my Windows machine. : I reached about halfway through the game when I got stuck, gave up for a few : months, then continued to finally satisfy myself with the end of the game : in November. : From there, I read every last page of the MSP and read a few more posts on : this very forum. Today, I replied to the Marathon 10th anniversary thread : and posted a new thread about Marathon 2 for Aleph One. Now, I hope to : contribute more and hopefully become known as an "Marathon.Bungie.org : regular". That would rock. : So where do I stand now with Bungie? Well, I'm pretty sure I understand : everything Bungie, except for the few inside jokes I often don't get the : point of. I'm soon to purchase Oni for PC and I will also get a mac so I : can finish the Marathon trilogy and play every Bungie game made. : I'm Michael M, and I'm a Bungieholic. : ~_^ -- Michael M, HBO resident My first Bungie game was Myth II. It was extremely fun and addicting, and I loved doing the level where you assault the Baron's Stronghold over and over. Following that was Gnop!, and now Marathon. So far, Marathon is the only FPS I truly enjoy aside from Wolfenstein 3D. I've played Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem, Quake III, Unreal Tournament, Deus Ex, Medal of Honor and so on, and they were fun for a while, but only these two FPS games have managed to appeal to me. On Marathon: Marathon maintains a healthy dose of suspense, tranquilizing feel, intriguing plot, unique expression of plot (computer terminals), puzzles and of course the action. So far I'm loving the intrigue and twists in the plot, along with the strange and confusing yet interesting terminal messages that I've never seen in any other game, and probably never will. I suspect that the storyline will grow deeper, and that there is an amazing 'big picture' behind the whole concept. I become ever more interested as I progress further in the game. The feel is also very tranquilizing: The background music, the high-tech look and feel mixed in with a sense of hopelessness in the situation. Puzzles are also fun.Action is okay, but it sort of adopts the same way of action as most other FPS games I've encountered. But it's still a little fun and adds some visual to paramount of this game's intrigue and bigger pleasure. On Wolfenstein: Though Wolfenstein was a simple FPS game where the game is simply about shooting, collecting and escaping, but it was still very compelling in my opinion. I actually liked how the environmental concept was consistent of walls, ceilings, floors, doors and the things to fill the rooms. Sometimes I think that concept works the best. The environment, in a way, was actually relaxing and appealing to me, and the music was excellent. The action and how you were to survive through the battles was not of how well you could dodge or of the usual tactics and techniques that are required in other games such as Duke Nukem, but the tactics and techniques required to get your way trhough battle in Wolfenstein 3D were unique from the rest: They were all about where you stood, whether or not your held weapon was adequate enough for the weight of resistance you encountered, and so on. The simple though fun, addicting and unique gaming concept of Wolfenstein 3D will probably never be seen again. I personally think it's the best work id software has ever done, and one of the best games ever. I love and enjoy both Wolfenstein and Marathon equally. Both are equally great in their own ways with their own attributes. After having played through the early part in the game and becoming very interested, I decided to search and see if there were any possible active Marathon forums. I found this. The forum seemed active, and from what I've heard the game is rather old and I've never heard of the game until sometime ago, so chances are it isn't popular, and when in the midst of both of those things and a Marathon forum is active, plus the forum's title "Marathon's Story", giving off that the game could possibly have an intriguing plot, it seemed surprising. So I joined. And lucky for me I don't have to register or any of such to post here.

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	New recruit to Marathon and its community	Dollar Store Kyle	12/22/04 10:28 a.m.
	Re: New recruit to Marathon and its community	Forrest of B.org	12/22/04 10:50 a.m.
	Re: New recruit to Marathon and its community	Yossarian	12/22/04 11:14 a.m.
	Re: New recruit to Marathon and its community	Black Eagle (Tim Vogel)	12/22/04 10:54 a.m.
	M1A1?	Dollar Store Kyle	12/22/04 11:13 a.m.
	Re: M1A1?	Forrest of B.org	12/22/04 11:21 a.m.
	Re: M1A1?	D-M.A.	12/22/04 11:25 a.m.
	Any links to download it? *NM*	Dollar Store Kyle	12/22/04 11:25 a.m.
	Re: Any links to download it?	Forrest of B.org	12/22/04 11:33 a.m.
	Re: Any links to download it?	Ori	12/22/04 5:07 p.m.
	Re: M1A1?	ukimalefu	12/23/04 12:33 a.m.
	Re: M1A1?	Thomas Hymon	12/23/04 3:49 a.m.
	Re: New recruit to Marathon and its community	Black Eagle (Tim Vogel)	12/22/04 11:12 a.m.
	My Introduction	Michael M.	12/22/04 5:32 p.m.
	Re: My Introduction	Forrest of B.org	12/22/04 7:37 p.m.
	Re: *cough* HBO *cough*	•M	12/22/04 8:03 p.m.
	Re: My Introduction	Dollar Store Kyle	12/22/04 8:46 p.m.
	Re: My Introduction	Forrest of B.org	12/22/04 9:24 p.m.
	Re: My Introduction	Michael M.	12/22/04 9:30 p.m.
	Re: My Introduction	Yossarian	12/23/04 5:35 a.m.
	Re: New recruit to Marathon and its community	Siphonopho	12/22/04 9:09 p.m.
	Done	Dollar Store Kyle	12/22/04 9:32 p.m.
	Re: Done	Siphonopho	12/22/04 10:05 p.m.
	Re: New recruit to Marathon and its community	thermoplyae	12/23/04 7:39 a.m.

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