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Ubel Feuer
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So I hear the 360 version wasn't too good. Here's the version for PC: http://www.calormen.com/mwd.htm
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Aleph One.
It rocks my socks.
In my opinion, the best-made sequel to Marathon Infinity is Marathon: Rubicon X. The Gray Incident is also extremely good, but isn't listed on the "get" page.
Same here, except I played the Marathon series back in the day, on my dad's Mac. I actually much prefer the 360 port, but mostly because I can sit on my ass and play it on a TV. I like playing it with a controller more than a mouse/keyboard, too.
I just hope they port Infinity and Marathon 1 now, too.
(Myth 1 and 2 would be nice too, but now I'm REALLY dreaming...)
Me, I like it because it has Survival, which is made of win and god.
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To cheap bastards such as myself, this is a (non?)selling point.
Also, Forge was the greatest map making tool ever (came with Marathon Infinity). I almost bought a Mac at one point in my life just so I could use that map maker. So stunningly simple, but with such dramatically positive results.
Ah, you have to learn the art of the dashing punch, young samurai.
Your punch will be about 4x more damaging (and you'll be better prepared to evade counterattacks) if you get some distance between the opponent you want to slam (backpedal a few steps), then run forward while swinging your fists. The first hit you connect with will be significantly more damaging. Then back up to avoid damage from the unit and continue.
Note that you should NOT do this with the bad guys that look like they're giant floating cloaks. I don't remember what their names are... but you'll want to punch them repeatedly so they stay stunned and cannot attack you. For pretty much all other units though, run forward with fists blazin', then on the first contact run backwords, evade their counterattack, and do it again.
With many units, you'll only need to connect once... at most twice... if you're doing the dashing punch correctly.
Also, I'm not positive this is the case in Durandal. I know the dashing punch works well in Infinity... but it's been a long time.
EDIT: Also, no matter WHAT anyone tells you, don't ever waste a single unit of ammo on those floating cloak units. There is no situation I can think of in any of the Marathon games where those units can't be defeated exceptionally easily by evading their initial attack, running up until you're face-to-face with them, and then punching with both fists until they die. They have absolutely no way of stopping you or counterattacking once you start punching these specific kinds of units. It's untrue with other unit types, but with the floating cloaks you can save a lot of ammo that way.
Heh
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He also made a fantastic map that consisted of all the players (usually there was a full game of 8 of us) in a small circular arena with no ceiling. Every two minutes or so, a Juggernaut that can die in one hit would descend from the ceiling and start shooting at everyone. If you didn't fire back, it'd blow you away with missiles. If you did... well, there were two side rooms on the map that were far enough away to let you survive the Juggernaut's death blast radius. You had to always know where the closest room to you was.
EDIT: Also...
If they ported Myth 1 (I never cared for Myth 2 personally... but it could be because I was so gung-ho Myth 1
What a great game. Damn... what fantastic and unique games Bungie made before they got bought out.
Not entirely true, there is cohesion between the games. I mean if anything, the three Halos are the extreme watered down plot of the Marathons. Bungie can say whatever it wants about them not being alike, but all you have to do is play the games to see that's not the case.
Marathon > Halo
I remember back when Bungie was still a Mac developer and they announced Halo. I wonder what that game would have been like? I wish I could stick my head in a paralell univerise (much like in infinity) and check it out.
So damn creepy, though... It reminds me a lot of System Shock.
Anyway, I'm now going through Infinity which apparently is the third in the series. Should I start with the first? Does it have mouselook? Because I can't really play FPS with just the keyboard. :P