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Re: Sorta need help with some Marathon Background
Posted By: HamburgerBoyDate: 3/15/03 8:08 a.m.

In Response To: Re: Sorta need help with some Marathon Background (Scifiteki)

: Mmm... The first one might be interesting, but...

: Well, Hamburger, may I humbly suggest something? I always thought the thing
: that made a lot of FF cheap and, well, fan fiction, was using all the
: central characters with stuff like;
: "Well, what if Bobby *didn't* get attacked by the Giant Vicious
: Squirrels Of Terror and die horribly? What if he got with Betty-Sue
: instead of Fannie-Mae and they had passionate, fire-starting sex? What if
: the Evil Bloated Squirrel King Of Doom was not defeated and took both
: Fannie-Mae and Betty-Sue as his Love-Slaves?"

: (OK, maybe I'm going off at a little bit of a tangent here, but you see my
: point. :D)

: Stuff like this, playing with other people's characters and stories, rarely
: makes for memorable writing. I maintain that a serious story using the
: Marine as a main character, from his point of view, just wouldn't work.
: What I *like* about Marathon FF is that there really isn't any, excluding
: DM-A's very silly stories. On the other hand, what little I have seen of
: Halo FF seems to be a plethora of this sort of thing, (Hi! I'm the marine!
: Let's go kill some Covenant in a really awful Fan Sequel To Halo that
: doesn't even come close to matching the game! And that says something!!!)
: and it's frankly not very interesting.

: Once, long long ago, I contemplated the concept of having a sort of
: story-MMR, with levels of Marathon being turned into stories in a sort of
: wacky collaborative effort.

: But then I realised how *stupid* that would be. So I dumped it. : )

: Service With A Smile: ),
: Scifiteki

Well... I only even started the first one bacause I had to do some homework. Actually... the second one is more like a story-line... we're (me and my brother) planning on making it the plot or whatever you'd call it, for our mod.

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Sorta need help with some Marathon BackgroundVaxuum BOB 3/14/03 4:46 a.m.
     Re: Sorta need help with some Marathon BackgroundSteve Levinson 3/14/03 6:49 a.m.
           Re: Sorta need help with some Marathon BackgroundElliott 3/14/03 8:25 a.m.
           Re: Sorta need help with some Marathon BackgroundScifiteki 3/14/03 4:12 p.m.
     Re: Sorta need help with some Marathon BackgroundHamburgerBoy 3/14/03 8:11 p.m.
           Re: Sorta need help with some Marathon BackgroundScifiteki 3/15/03 1:53 a.m.
                 You're preachin' to the choir here Matt! *NM*Ernie 3/15/03 4:48 a.m.
                 Re: Sorta need help with some Marathon BackgroundHamburgerBoy 3/15/03 8:08 a.m.



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