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What IP? Marathon that was only just announced? Destiny seems to be winding down.

wsc981 3y ago
The new Marathon game seems to be very loosely related to the originals and not even having a single player experience. Pretty much only Mac users played the original. I think it would have been better if they gave the game a different name. To me it feels a bit like a “betrayal” of the original game and with very little, if any, benefit.
- Moto7451 3y ago
  Halo is in many ways an extension of the Marathon lore but with a different plot. Since Halo is a Microsoft IP Sony probably saw this as a good way to have their own Halo.
  - safety1st 3y ago
    I think Bungie eventually confirmed that the two aren't in the same universe, but in the early days it seems like that was pretty up in the air. Prior to the announcement of Halo, a prominent Marathon fan site started receiving emails from cortana@bungie.org - https://marathon.bungie.org/story/cortana.html https://marathon.bungie.org/story/cortana.html . The sender appeared to be a rampant AI who was dropping all kinds of cryptic tidbits that linked her to Marathon. For example Cortana and the AI antagonist of Marathon are named after swords wielded by Charlemagne's paladins in the 12th century, and they appear to be aware of this and of each other... at one point in Marathon 2 Durandal asserts that he's got a history with Charlemagne and calls him a fruitcake..! Cortana later repeats some of the lines from those emails in Halo 3, and Marathon references are all over the place in the first few games. Bungie was in a league of their own back in the day with all the cryptic references and teasers and connections. At one point they released a timeline for the Marathon universe, and the point in time when Halo takes place is labeled with "Nothing important happened here."
- hooverd 3y ago
  You can play the original Marathon(s) on Mac, Windows, and Linux now thanks to Aleph One [0]. There's also new scenarios for the engine still being released, like Apotheosis X which came out last year [1]. [0] https://alephone.lhowon.org/ https://alephone.lhowon.org/ [1] https://www.moddb.com/mods/apotheosis-x https://www.moddb.com/mods/apotheosis-x

The new Marathon game seems to be very loosely related to the originals and not even having a single player experience. Pretty much only Mac users played the original. I think it would have been better if they gave the game a different name. To me it feels a bit like a “betrayal” of the original game and with very little, if any, benefit.

Moto7451 3y ago
Halo is in many ways an extension of the Marathon lore but with a different plot. Since Halo is a Microsoft IP Sony probably saw this as a good way to have their own Halo.
- safety1st 3y ago
  I think Bungie eventually confirmed that the two aren't in the same universe, but in the early days it seems like that was pretty up in the air. Prior to the announcement of Halo, a prominent Marathon fan site started receiving emails from cortana@bungie.org - https://marathon.bungie.org/story/cortana.html https://marathon.bungie.org/story/cortana.html . The sender appeared to be a rampant AI who was dropping all kinds of cryptic tidbits that linked her to Marathon. For example Cortana and the AI antagonist of Marathon are named after swords wielded by Charlemagne's paladins in the 12th century, and they appear to be aware of this and of each other... at one point in Marathon 2 Durandal asserts that he's got a history with Charlemagne and calls him a fruitcake..! Cortana later repeats some of the lines from those emails in Halo 3, and Marathon references are all over the place in the first few games. Bungie was in a league of their own back in the day with all the cryptic references and teasers and connections. At one point they released a timeline for the Marathon universe, and the point in time when Halo takes place is labeled with "Nothing important happened here."
hooverd 3y ago
You can play the original Marathon(s) on Mac, Windows, and Linux now thanks to Aleph One [0]. There's also new scenarios for the engine still being released, like Apotheosis X which came out last year [1]. [0] https://alephone.lhowon.org/ https://alephone.lhowon.org/ [1] https://www.moddb.com/mods/apotheosis-x https://www.moddb.com/mods/apotheosis-x