mef — 5/17/2025, 1:59:09 PM

holy shit, the Marathon situation is really fucking funny

> release ARG
moderate amounts of hype, people think it seems cool
> release cinematic trailer
a bit more hype, trailer is sick
> release tester footage
some hype, some criticism
> release closed alpha
more criticism than excitement
> ARC Raiders closed alpha releases
attention shifts to ARC Raiders, the game is way more fun
people start more heavily criticizing Marathon
at least Marathon still has a very cool art style
> it turns out that some of Marathon's art and much of its style was stolen from antireal.info
game is basically DoA at this point
Bungie is cooked
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theglasspenguin:

i didn’t even know they were making a new one, i thought you were talking about the original mac games

5/18/2025, 4:12:33 AM
mef:

yeah, the new one is basically nothing like the original Marathon games from the 90s, its an extraction shooter

5/18/2025, 1:28:53 PM
theglasspenguin:

T_T

at least alephone has lots of mods though

5/18/2025, 4:40:23 PM
mef:

alephone?

is that the name of one of the original games?

5/18/2025, 9:24:48 PM
theglasspenguin:

https://aleph-one-marathon.github.io/

port of the original engine for “modern” systems

5/18/2025, 10:04:59 PM
mef:

oh cool

5/18/2025, 10:08:23 PM