The old Marathon would've been a BREATH OF FUCKING FRESH AIR in this time of AI slop and the same-ification of everything.
It was dark, it was scary, everything felt empty and lonely. You were one fucking guy going against a horde of aliens that wasn't just "bad guys", but they were actually evil - operated using a caste system and all that too. Extremely foreign. They had their own history, its own culture, its own way of doing things. Every alien race you fought had a deep fucking backstory. Every unit was "explained" - fighters, hunters, enforcers, etc.
The problem is that Bungie does not exist - those people are scattered, they will never work together again.
OH, Marathon had a FUN fucking multiplayer mode - a lot of Halo's multiplayers were inspired off of it.
Durandal and Tycho as AIs were well written megalomaniacs too. They HATED each other, and they both thought they knew how the universe would collapse upon itself. They were immortal, and they really had this sense of being in the Marathon universe.
The old Marathon would've been a BREATH OF FUCKING FRESH AIR in this time of AI slop and the same-ification of everything.
It was dark, it was scary, everything felt empty and lonely. You were one fucking guy going against a horde of aliens that wasn't just "bad guys", but they were actually evil - operated using a caste system and all that too. Extremely foreign. They had their own history, its own culture, its own way of doing things. Every alien race you fought had a deep fucking backstory. Every unit was "explained" - fighters, hunters, enforcers, etc.
The problem is that Bungie does not exist - those people are scattered, they will never work together again.
OH, Marathon had a FUN fucking multiplayer mode - a lot of Halo's multiplayers were inspired off of it.
Durandal and Tycho as AIs were well written megalomaniacs too. They HATED each other, and they both thought they knew how the universe would collapse upon itself. They were immortal, and they really had this sense of being in the Marathon universe.