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Marathon Durandal coming to a XBLA near you!
Dixon
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So...
I was visiting the Bungie website when I happened to come across a news article saying Marathon durandal would be coming out for XBLA, there's some vids and screen shots
Here's a link to Freeverse's website, the guys revamping it for Live.
There's also a video on there website of the game in action looks good too.
http://216.220.102.3/games/game/?id=7009 (Freeverse Website)
(Pictures of the Game)
...Looks like they updated the graphics, everything has a much cleaner look to it.
Also it says there's 8-player co-op with "King of the Hill", "Kill the Man with the Ball" (much like oddball from halo) and "Tag". These were in the original game but there's also a new survival mode which sounds like it would be fun, specially with friends to do it with.
I don't know if anyone else has played any of the orignals but they were amazing games for there time...I'm getting this off Live for sure when it comes out
Yeah I would of just posted and spoilierd the pics so you didn't have to go to there website or my links...but no idea how...I even made a photobucket account so I could host and then stick them in...so if someone knows how could they let me know...thanks
I was visiting the Bungie website when I happened to come across a news article saying Marathon durandal would be coming out for XBLA, there's some vids and screen shots
Here's a link to Freeverse's website, the guys revamping it for Live.
There's also a video on there website of the game in action looks good too.
http://216.220.102.3/games/game/?id=7009 (Freeverse Website)
(Pictures of the Game)
...Looks like they updated the graphics, everything has a much cleaner look to it.
Also it says there's 8-player co-op with "King of the Hill", "Kill the Man with the Ball" (much like oddball from halo) and "Tag". These were in the original game but there's also a new survival mode which sounds like it would be fun, specially with friends to do it with.
I don't know if anyone else has played any of the orignals but they were amazing games for there time...I'm getting this off Live for sure when it comes out
Yeah I would of just posted and spoilierd the pics so you didn't have to go to there website or my links...but no idea how...I even made a photobucket account so I could host and then stick them in...so if someone knows how could they let me know...thanks
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If you grab the high-res texture pack, you'll have even better looking graphics on your Mac or PC....and then get sick of playing it multiplayer after 30 minutes because it is a lot slower than anything you've experienced before.
The single player has a nice plot though, however on XBLA they are not releasing the first chapter. So...uh...yeah.
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This doesn't use the BUILD engine. So....er...
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It was something with the links.
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Also, it looks like it might not hurt my head anymore with the improved graphics. Those sprite FPS games always gave me headaches.
Though, yeah. You can play it on a PC right now. Although, with the quality graphics and all, your machine better be up to the task.
There is an improved texture pack for Aleph One that at least matches what we've seen. And the requirements to run it are very modest. I assume you're being sarcastic, then.
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Guy working on the team and another dude from Bungie said that it was due to the fact that the first Marathon's codebase is a fucking wreck and porting the second one meant it would actually be out in our lifetimes.
Damn, thats to bad. I loved the story behind these games. I wonder if they'll change it at all or add some stuff to better explain your circumstances in the game
Something I've said ever since the original XBox came out, is that if they went ahead and remade the entire trilogy in Halo's engine, I would buy an XBox (360 now).
On the one hand, I agree, but on the other I sort of hope they don't. One of the nicest parts about the Marathon story is that it's 90% cool-sounding insane stuff that college students cooked up to add a bit of flavor to shooting. It kind of annoys me that Halo's story keeps insisting on being a standard sci-fi action-fest. I liked speculating on whether or not I was a cyborg and such.
Mostly, I want to see people download this game over and over again, to convince MS that a new Marathon game would be viable and totally awesome. I want an awesome crazy computer, not a tiny blue shoulder-elf crazy computer.
edit: While you should play the games, if you cannot (god do they make my head pound now), try this. It gives you all the terminals from all the games, plus a bit of commentary, and even a few correspndences with the developers. It's actually surprisingly fun to read all the way through and try to piece together a coherent story.
http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=12664
Yeah I remember we wrote down all the level names of the levels at one point....my favorite one that acutally kinda creeped me out at the time, was when
As long as they have the double sawed of shotties in this though I'll be happy...god the sounds that they used for those weapons were glorious
The first level of that chapter is "Where the Twist Flops", and the chapter title is.. well it's right there on the image.
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Seriously this is great news. I personally feel the Marathon series had one of the best stories in the history of all videogames. Better than Halo's. Read through Marathon's Story if you don't believe me.
Judging by the Q&A, if this sells well, it sounds like Marathon 1, and Infinity will definately be brought to XBLA.
I'mma get this right when comes out. Anyone else gonna be rockin' the multiplayer?
I remember in marathon one though, if you played a multiplayer match some of the levels and such npc's would spawn I'm hoping thats what happens for the survival mode in the XBLA version of Durandal
http://resurrection.bungie.org/
Total conversion which contains all singleplayer levels and multiplayer as well. You guys might want to check it out, I'll probably do the same once I dig out my copy of UT.
I don't understand why they did it for UT instead of UT2k4, but oh well.
From the FAQ, on why they did M2 first...
Quoted for frickin' TRUTH. Those things were objects of beauty.
And, holy crap, Survival sounds awesome. The Vid-Master's Challenge returns! Hopefully we can see a port of "You Think You're Big Time? You're Gonna Die Big Time!" for it.
Seeing it with a cross-hair is kinda weird, though.
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1) Patience. It is extremely slow compared to anything modern, hell, anything else. This is actually kind of refreshing, kinda sorta.
2) Having shotguns or the rocket launcher and thus having instant kills, or not and dying a lot.
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Can you tell me why you want to pay for something that is already free and has been free for sometime?
I really don't get these people that will apparently buy anything Microsoft puts on Live Arcade.
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How about those reasons?
Well the last one is total BS. You unzip and run.
But the first two are valid if thats what your $10 is worth to you.
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I can't wait.
And yea, splitscreen and Xbox Live support makes this totally worth buying.