With all the Marathon news that's been hitting lately, as well as an impending re-release of the first game on Steam, I thought I would go back and learn about the series that predated Halo. And oh boy.
View: https://youtu.be/f9H1fMIFGyc?feature=shared
This channel has 3 fantastic videos, each detailing the story of one entry of the trilogy. It starts out simple enough as a lone space marine battling aliens. But even by the end of the first game, the scale of the story reaches to the death of the universe. By the end of the second, you have Lovecraftian horrors trapped in a literal Sun that escapes after a galaxy destroying weapon is unleashed. If you love sci-fi then you owe it to yourself to watch these or play the games yourself! It's also cool to see Bungie's recurring themes of AI rampancy, weapons of galactic destruction, lone space marines, etc. start here. Granted, most of the story is told through textboxes on terminals in the middle of levels. But it's trying dammit, especially with the fidelity of a game from 1994 that's technically not even 3D.
The prospects of going back and playing can be rough, after all I bounced off of the first game last summer. But I want to try again now that I know how great the story is. And with a Steam release that hopefully doesn't need to be somewhat tinkered with like the Aleph 1 versions (which are free and still great!) I'm excited for Marathon all over again.
View: https://youtu.be/f9H1fMIFGyc?feature=shared
This channel has 3 fantastic videos, each detailing the story of one entry of the trilogy. It starts out simple enough as a lone space marine battling aliens. But even by the end of the first game, the scale of the story reaches to the death of the universe. By the end of the second, you have Lovecraftian horrors trapped in a literal Sun that escapes after a galaxy destroying weapon is unleashed. If you love sci-fi then you owe it to yourself to watch these or play the games yourself! It's also cool to see Bungie's recurring themes of AI rampancy, weapons of galactic destruction, lone space marines, etc. start here. Granted, most of the story is told through textboxes on terminals in the middle of levels. But it's trying dammit, especially with the fidelity of a game from 1994 that's technically not even 3D.
The prospects of going back and playing can be rough, after all I bounced off of the first game last summer. But I want to try again now that I know how great the story is. And with a Steam release that hopefully doesn't need to be somewhat tinkered with like the Aleph 1 versions (which are free and still great!) I'm excited for Marathon all over again.
