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Re: What About the 3rdparty story Parallels?
Posted By: Steve LevinsonDate: 11/29/01 7:16 p.m.

In Response To: What About the 3rdparty story Parallels? (Ernie TMBM)

: Well I thankyou Steve in you post for your thoughts. I agreed with you
: regarding Marathon:Rubicon. I can understand though Mark how you dislike
: looping storylines. They can become tedious...

The loops are virtually secret, as you really need to do strange things to switch plot lines, let alone get caught in a loop. MI was crazy - you could loop back to Acme Station forever and ever if you so chose.

: I thought that Rubicon did imitate Minf very closely, but actually improved
: on the wackiness of Minf's timetraval/reality hopping storyline to a
: degree.

I agree. Rubicon may have imitated MI and its faults, but IMO it showed how MI *should* have been done.

: Out of the many 3rd party scenarios, I'd like to compile a LIST of the
: greater scenarios that deserve additions to a possible web page I can
: construct in all my 'free time™'. :-)
: My list [in no s p e c i f i c order] is: -Marathon:Rubicon
: -Marathon: Evil
: -Marathon: Trojan
: -Return to Marathon [although more than slightly confusing... Durandal.. not
: dead..or? And how does the marine how does the Marine get 'time off' to go
: visit the Marathon? Even if that Computer A.I Egon brought him there..]
: Tempest Irae
: Marathon: Red

: That's the extents of what I can think of now, (and the ones i can spell..
: others have 'inventive' spellings of the games names. :] ) but the list is
: not over.

I'll get back to you on this when I have the time. Off hand, I would add Origin of the Species and Marathon Fell. There's also M Traveler, but it takes off in a completely wierd direction - and it becomes incredibly difficult in the final levels. I would definitely include the Black Series - wierd, but fun to play. I also enjoyed An AI Called Wanda, the Chai'etra Saga, and even the short scenario, Gemini Station, but we probably should try to limit the list to only the best and most extensive ones. Do you want to look at MI engine non-Marathon scenarios, too. There's Dissent, Devil in a Blue Dress and Excaliber, to name a few, but none of them relates to the Marathon universe in any way.

: Please, post your additions to the list of great 3rd party scenarios AND any
: plot tie ins you can remember/determine. After that has been determined,
: possibly we can try to find if there is any way to construct SOME kind of
: time line for these scenarios.

: That very well may be impossible, due to some taking place in alternate
: universes...

: Other may actually tie into the the Original Marathon, (such as Marathon:Red
: with the 13th Mjolnir from Marathon;assumed stolen or dead...?)

: With Marathon: Trojan, --> (where every ones British [just had to add that
: in there.. all the BOB voices are British accents attached to them]).
: --> it has loose relations to M1, but even stronger ones to Marathon:
: Evil.
: For a speel about that: To the *b e s t* of my memory... at the end of
: Trojan, Cain the computer A.I has the Marine (just a normal marine with
: some neural implants) capture a ship... the ‘Hellraiser’ sounds
: familiar... and leads it into a spacial rift. It is being chased by
: another UESC ship. That's how Trojan ends. Sorry for a spoiler. :-p
: How Marathon: Evil BEGINS is your ship is on alert as it is being pulled into
: a spacial rift... tailing a ship i think called Hellraiser. :)
: The marine in Marathon: Evil isn't the one we know... I can only assume he
: was another of the Mjolnir marines.. and if that is true, it also means
: that Marathon: Evil takes place slightly after, or slightly before M1. But
: that still doesn't explain the weaponry....

You need to download and play the Siege of Nor'Korh, which is the prequil to Evil. Frigidman developed Siege after M2, before MI was even written (it can be played on either engine), and it takes place a few hundred years after then end of M2 (or MI, for that matter). You'll understand a lot more about Evil once you've played Siege.

: Well, post post post away people. :)

: Again, thanks for your input.
: Regards,
: Ernie TMBM

Thanks for taking this on, but you might want to have some volunteers help with your spelling ;-) .

-Steve

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                                   Re: Marathon InfinitySteve Levinson 11/29/01 2:16 p.m.
                                         Re: Marathon InfinityBen Potter 11/29/01 5:00 p.m.
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     Marathon: Lest we forget the unsung heroesErnie TMBM 11/28/01 12:36 p.m.
           Re: Marathon: Lest we forget the unsung heroes (spMark Levin 11/28/01 1:35 p.m.
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           Re: Marathon: Lest we forget the unsung heroesMazilurik 11/28/01 2:30 p.m.
                 Response to: 'Unung Heroes' posts -ErnieErnie TMBM 11/29/01 4:31 a.m.
                       Rubicon spoilers if anyone cares about that *NM*Andrew Nagy 11/29/01 8:03 a.m.
           Re: Marathon: Lest we forget the unsung heroesmrodar 11/29/01 2:34 p.m.
           Re: Marathon: Lest we forget the unsung heroesSteve Levinson 11/29/01 3:08 p.m.
                 Re: Marathon: Lest we forget the unsung heroesMark Levin 11/29/01 3:53 p.m.
                       What About the 3rdparty story Parallels?Ernie TMBM 11/29/01 6:20 p.m.
                             Re: What About the 3rdparty story Parallels?Steve Levinson 11/29/01 7:16 p.m.
                                   Re: What About the 3rdparty story Parallels?Ernie TMBM0 12/2/01 7:25 a.m.



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