edit: Interesting series of videos on marathon/early bungie shared by assassin47

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfZTtT3IEdDjQTHu3NqLjOUX65d4cDG54

Also pioneered:

Alt fire for weapons

Dual wielding

Environmental story telling (the terminal system, which has since evolved into text/audio logs and lore collectibles in many games)

Hell, story telling in general in video games (remember, at the time the bar for story telling basically was “you’re a marine killing demons on Mars”)

Online/network multiplayer

Edit: If you want to start an argument over my phrasing, just pretend I added the word “real-time” to every category that marathon pioneered. Obviously some text based / point and click adventure game which, devoid of its “storytelling” just about ceases to be a game at all, could be said to have “beaten” marathon to the punch, but I feel like you’re missing the point to argue that. It was pioneering because it had all these things and engaging gameplay (especially when considered for its time)

Also “pioneered” != “was the first”

Also pioneered:

Alt fire for weapons

Dual wielding

Environmental story telling (the terminal system, which has since evolved into text/audio logs and lore collectibles in many games)

Hell, story telling in general in video games (remember, at the time the bar for story telling basically was “you’re a marine killing demons on Mars”)

Online/network multiplayer

Edit: If you want to start an argument over my phrasing, just pretend I added the word “real-time” to every category that marathon pioneered. Obviously some text based / point and click adventure game which, devoid of its “storytelling” just about ceases to be a game at all, could be said to have “beaten” marathon to the punch, but I feel like you’re missing the point to argue that. It was pioneering because it had all these things and engaging gameplay (especially when considered for its time)

Also “pioneered” != “was the first”

Also pioneered:

Alt fire for weapons

Dual wielding

Environmental story telling (the terminal system, which has since evolved into text/audio logs and lore collectibles in many games)

Hell, story telling in general in video games (remember, at the time the bar for story telling basically was “you’re a marine killing demons on Mars”)

Online/network multiplayer

Edit: If you want to start an argument over my phrasing, just pretend I added the word “real-time” to every category that marathon pioneered. Obviously some text based / point and click adventure game which, devoid of its “storytelling” just about ceases to be a game at all, could be said to have “beaten” marathon to the punch, but I feel like you’re missing the point to argue that. It was pioneering because it had all these things and engaging gameplay (especially when considered for its time)

Also pioneered:

Alt fire for weapons

Dual wielding

Environmental story telling (the terminal system, which has since evolved into text/audio logs and lore collectibles in many games)

Hell, story telling in general in video games (remember, at the time the bar for story telling basically was “you’re a marine killing demons on Mars”)

Online/network multiplayer

Edit: If you want to start an argument over my phrasing, just pretend I added the word “real-time” to every category that marathon pioneered. Obviously some text based / point and click adventure game which, devoid of its “storytelling” just about ceases to be a game at all, could be said to have “beaten” marathon to the punch, but I feel like you’re missing the point to argue that. It was pioneering because it had all these things and engaging gameplay (especially when considered for its time)

Also pioneered:

Alt fire for weapons

Dual wielding

Environmental story telling (the terminal system, which has since evolved into text/audio logs and lore collectibles in many games)

Hell, story telling in general in video games (remember, at the time the bar for story telling basically was “you’re a marine killing demons on Mars”)

Online multiplayer