[.::Tin Can::.]

Have any of you ever played the original Marathon, or for that matter Marathon 2? Me and a friend played LAN Marathon on the hardest difficulty mode, and we had some fun.

I love their level names. "Smells like Napalm, tastes like Chicken!"

[Rictor]

I remember playing it when I was a little kid on my uncle's Mac. I also remember getting stuck about 20 minutes into the game, cause I didn't know where to go next so I just wondered around.

...thats about it.

[Ace]

Marathon 2 is fun, Durandal cracks me up:
"I'm introducing the Pfhor to the magic of orbital bombardment..."

[Cetanu]

yes, back when I still had a Mac...
my favs were the squeaking Pfhor

[Kamikaze]

I still have the mac CD around here, got it when I was a little kid. I barely played it though, I sucked at FPS games.

[Cetanu]

... I even made a gatling gun mod once and replaced some monsters: created Aliens and facehuggers ... had to much time back then...

[MatthewPapa]

YEa, i got that game. I lost the CD key, does anyone have one I could use? Old mac games....great stuff.

[Knight Templar]

Originally posted by .::Tin Can::.
Have any of you ever played the original Marathon, or for that matter Marathon 2?

No.

[DragonClaw]

Hahaha, Marathon games were classic. I loved them. I'm old enough to just remember playing it. Used to have 3 macs and me, my bro, and my dad would all play at once. Great times

I've played all 3 of the marathons. I heard that Halo is supposedly based upon the Marathon series but I hardly think so.

[.::Tin Can::.]

Yes, it is. In fact, the Halo Assault Rifle is the mimic of the Marathon 2 assault rifle. It runs about the same basis: Badass Space Marine, stupid and weak AI team mates, bad-mother aliens, hostile environtment, etc. They have similar weapons, IE, Pistol, Assault Rifle, Plasma Pistol, etc. I find Marathon games to be very fun, and actually thought about someone making a more recent version of it, IE, mod for Doom 3 or UT2K4, perhaps...

I usually just wait for these things to come out. They are making a Doom 3 System Shock 2 MOD, where the SS2 game gets put into the Doom 3 engine. Prepare to CRAP YOUR PANTS!

[Cetanu]

I even found said mod again - just took me some time to convert pictures from a Mac HFS cd ... btw, don't get shocked it's from 1995-96 and hand-drawn in photoshop (didn't have a 3d software), took some time to do animations that way...

anyone here made an EARLIER mod for a game?

[mrfun]

I remember a friend of mine from school telling how much this game roxxored (well, that's not exactly what he said but... ) and when he finally got around to showing it to me All I could think about was how much better Dark Forces or Descent was...

hmmm, well, I was never a Mac guy, can you tell?

[Cetanu]

Just don't forget that it came out on the Mac when there was only Doom 1-2 on the PC... no Duke Nukem 3D, no Quake, etc yet - so pretty good and high-res for its time

[HotSnoJ]

Originally posted by Cetanu

Looks kinda like Master Chief's Armor there.

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by HotSnoJ
Looks kinda like Master Chief's Armor there.

Mjoninir Mk4 power armor..

think marathon's setting a precursor to halo, it's all over the place in halo itself. (little things that tie it all in)

[.::Tin Can::.]

The one thing it had that Descent and Doom didnt have, was an actual story, and again, actual teammates. Teammates and story are what I enjoy.

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by Cetanu
I even found said mod again - just took me some time to convert pictures from a Mac HFS cd ... btw, don't get shocked it's from 1995-96 and hand-drawn in photoshop (didn't have a 3d software), took some time to do animations that way...

teach me the ways of the photoshop oh master.

[.::Tin Can::.]

God damnit. Do you realize how much time it will take to learn Photoshop.

[Stryke 9]

Mmm. Marathon. Not as pretty as HALO, but much less repetitive. And Durandal did indeed rock. I wanna be a psycho AI.

Not anywhere near so cool as Blood, though. "Sonofa***** must pay!"

[.::Tin Can::.]

I seriously thought that, although Marathon was low in graphics, it rocked a whole bunch. I had more thrills in that than doom. Honestly though, if someone was to port it over to another, more graphically pleasing game, then be my guest.