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Re: New To Marathon
Posted By: Adam AshwellDate: 9/20/04 4:00 p.m.

In Response To: New To Marathon (Zetor)

: Yes, it's true, stupid newbie here. :(

: I've just recently acquired the game Marathon about a week ago from a
: yardsale where I live in San Fransisco, California (don't think about
: tracking me down, I got a sniper rifle, a .45 pistol and a cell phone).
: When I asked the yard sale owner what the game was about, he said
: "Ah, it's just some game where you go around and blow up aliens.
: Kinda stupid." I looked up at the guy with a slightly arched brow.
: "You talking something like Wolfenstein or Quake II?"
: "Yep." So I decide to buy it. Pretty reasonable price and no
: apparent damage done.

: Anyway, I must say that it is quite an interesting game so far. I've barely
: had any time to play it, so unfortunately i've only made it to some point
: in level 2. So far I've picked up on what is going on. The gameplay so far
: is pretty fun and reminds me of lots of the other games that i've played.
: The plot so far seems decent and sort of flows throughout the game unlike
: in something such as Quake. The plot isn't just given to you before you
: play just so you can see justification as to why you suddenly decide to
: barge in with your pistol and then some tazer gun or melee weapon to go
: blow crap up. I don't exactly know yet of any cool details to the plot
: other than an alien invasion has occured and the AIs got screwed, but at
: least the plot still flows throughout the game and the idea of reading
: from terminals is pretty cool. But one of the strengths I have found so
: far to Marathon is that it has really got a great feel to it. The game's
: graphics are pretty good for its time (though I care about graphics the
: least). It may be a wee bit of pixel-clad, but what I like most about the
: looks is the fact that the environments and cool colors much more than
: compensate for it. It gives a really dark and scary feel mixed in with a
: sci-fi, starship environment, and I think that's much more scary than in
: some haunted house. Now if I could just get that background music to
: work... Maybe I should try more memory.

: So either way I would still like to play Marathon, but answer me this: IS
: Marathon just a game where you go around and turn monsters to goo? And how
: does this forum manage to stay alive? Basically every Unreal (not Unreal
: Tournament) forum i've been to is practically dead, as well as lots of
: other types of these sorts of games.

For some odd reason, I think that both Warlord Carnage and this guy are Neoptolemus...I dunno, it just seems like that. Its...suspicious....O_O Yes, I suppose I am a little trigger happy from having shot Neoptolemus.....Oop, sorry Zetor, uh, I didn't mean to shoot your ear ::mutters "I was aiming for your face:: Er, what? No, I didn't say anything. Definetly not anything about meaning to shoot you at all. I mean, it was a terrible accident. A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT!!!! I swear, it wasn't me, it was....FORREST! ::points at Forrest:: He's always shootin' people! Just last week he got my foot! Honest!

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New To MarathonZetor 9/20/04 3:38 p.m.
     Re: New To MarathonAnonymous 9/20/04 3:50 p.m.
           What sort of forum is this?Zetor 9/20/04 4:04 p.m.
                 Re: What sort of forum is this?Anonymous 9/20/04 4:15 p.m.
                 Re: What sort of forum is this?Anonymous 9/20/04 4:17 p.m.
                       *** Lag = Double Post *** *NM* *NM*Anonymous 9/20/04 4:18 p.m.
                 Re: What sort of forum is this?Andrew Nagy 9/20/04 7:59 p.m.
                 Re: What sort of forum is this?Vid Boi 9/21/04 11:05 a.m.
                 Re: What sort of forum is this?Speaker-To-Animals 9/21/04 12:42 p.m.
                       :( *NM*Document 10/2/06 8:57 p.m.
     Re: New To Marathonblake37 9/20/04 3:52 p.m.
           I'm santa clausZetor 9/20/04 4:08 p.m.
     Re: New To MarathonAdam Ashwell 9/20/04 4:00 p.m.
           Re: New To MarathonAndromeda_5[Kilo] 9/20/04 5:30 p.m.
           My thought exactly *NM*Steve Levinson 9/21/04 8:01 a.m.
     Re: New To MarathonAndrew Nagy 9/20/04 7:24 p.m.
           Re: New To MarathonRyokoTK 9/21/04 2:47 a.m.
                 Re: New To Marathongoran 9/21/04 3:33 a.m.
                       Re: New To MarathonRyokoTK 9/21/04 3:59 p.m.
                             Re: New To MarathonForrest of B.org 9/21/04 5:14 p.m.
                                   thank you very muchblake37 9/22/04 10:42 a.m.
     Go to marathon.bungie.org/story *NM*D-M.A. 9/20/04 10:09 p.m.
     Re: New To MarathonYossarian 9/21/04 5:59 a.m.
     Re: New To MarathonC Lund 9/21/04 8:11 a.m.
     Re: New To MarathonAndromeda_5[Kilo] 9/21/04 9:09 a.m.
           Re: New To Marathongoran 9/21/04 9:37 a.m.
                 Re: New To MarathonSteve Levinson 9/21/04 9:52 a.m.
                       Re: New To MarathonRyokoTK 9/21/04 4:03 p.m.
                             Re: New To MarathonAndrew Nagy 9/21/04 5:40 p.m.
                                   Re: New To MarathonRyokoTK 9/21/04 6:32 p.m.
                                         Re: New To MarathonAndrew Nagy 9/21/04 7:08 p.m.
                 Still not used to this forum *NM*. *NM*Andromeda_5[Kilo] 9/21/04 9:52 a.m.

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