What do you guys think of Bungie's old Marathon series, what was your experience, when did you first play them, on what and what did you like/dislike most about them?
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Epic. Would love to see a reboot of the series!
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I got Marathon for my 9th birthday gift. Because my dad was an old hippy, we had nothing but Macs in our house. So to have a FPS on the Mac was awesome! All my friends played Doom which released the previous year but no one was playing Marathon. We linked two of the computers together and played multiplayer against each other all the time. We ended up getting Durandal the following year and i really got into it. My dad took me to the Mac convention one year and the Bungie booth was getting no love for some reason so we walked right up. My dad told them how much we enjoyed the game and they told us about how they were in the middle of developing Marathon: Infinity. Turns out we were talking to Jason Jones.....too bad my nine year old brain didn't realize how awesome this actually was or else I'd have taken a picture with him. Marathon Infinity came out and totally blew me away. I slaved over Infinity because there were soooo many ways to fail lol. These games hold a very special place in my heart because they basically shaped me as a gamer (Well this series and the Dark Castle series, anyone remember those??). I still have my copy of Durandal, don't know what happened to the other games.......[spoiler]maybe this is how Durandal lives to see the end of the universe[/spoiler]
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They were amazing.
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For the longest time, it was the only thing worth playing on the Mac.
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The fact that all 3 are freeware on the aleph one site makes me happy.