 | Re: What I want in a rerelease |
| Posted By: PerseusSpartacus | Date: 5/24/15 7:07 p.m. |
| In Response To: What I want in a rerelease (VikingBoyBilly)
: 7. If Marathon 4 will actually be a thing, DO NOT MAKE MARATHON 4 MODERN AND
: 3D! PLEEEEEEEEEEEZ! Make it a classic 2.5D fps with more features and make
: it pretty much like Eternal and/or Rubicon, except canon. NO MODERN CRAP.
I disagree with this. I think there's a lot of ways that a Marathon 4 could take advantage of newer game abilities. For one thing, better monster AI. The AI in Marathon was dirt stupid, and games made just a few years later had vastly superior AI (Half-Life, Unreal Tournament, and Halo all come to mind). I think it would be neat to take the old enemies we know and love and change their behavior to make them more unique and more challenging (Fighters charging instead of just jogging, Hunters using their shields, etc.). And that's just a start.
Think about the limitations of a simple 2.5D world. Now think about all the added possibilities for Marathon-style puzzles in a fully 3D world. What would the new Colony Ship For Sale, Cheap be like?
If people want a 2.5D sequel to Marathon, there's plenty of games out there already: Rubicon, Eternal, Phoenix, Tempus Irae, Evil, etc, all of which can be gotten for free. For it to be worth while to spend money on a new Marathon game, it had better be a new Marathon game, that is something other than what we've already had and can make ourselves - preferably something that's worth spending thousands of dollars on making now and which would not have been possible to make in 1997.
Vale,
Perseus
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