So, i recently was reminded about the ending of Marathon's link to Destiny. Or at least the ability to speculate that. While i don't think they were thinking of Destiny at the time of Marathon's creation. I think they have proven they always wanted to create THIS game. THIS world that they are about to unleash.
With Marathon, it was like doom, but IMO better, LOTS of lore. Very deep and immersive. Halo. Well I'd say almost all of you understand the glory of that. Another Space Shooter/great story. Each was a step further with technology, depth, and overall awesomeness. Now were here. With Destiny. Lets take a look in the past. To the End Of Marathon.
**** Really Old Game SPOILER*****
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f5vbzZyIjs ( If you wanna watch the end yourself )
or http://marathon.bungie.org/story/mifinalscreen.html ( Better view ) - Credit Jlat96
"We've watched while the stars burned out, and creation played in reverse.
The universe freezes in a half light. Once i Thought to escape.
To End the End of a Master, Step out of the path of collapse. Escape would make us god.
[b]Yet I cannot help remember One Enigma. A Hybrid. Elusive Destroyer. This is the only mystery i have not solved[/b]
The only element unaccounted for. Even S'shuth is no more.
He saved his entire race but in the end, frozen by despair, he chose the chads he sought to evade.
But [u]You Were Dead a thousand times[/u]. Hopeless encounters successfully won. A man Long Dead, Grafted to machines your builders did not understand. You Follow the Path, Fitting into an infinite pattern.
Your to manipulate, To destroy and rebuild.Now, in the quantum moment before the closer when all become one. one moment left. one point of space and time.
I know who you are.
You Are [u][b]Destiny[/b][/u]."
Is there any link here? i don't think so. I just think its cool Bungie is going to make another leap forward in their style of space heroes with guns. And in 15 years or so. We will be referring to Destiny for whatever they next have up their sleeves.
Curious For More Interesting Connections between Marathon and Halo?? read this. https://halo.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?cid=19
Discuss what [i]you [/i]think of this journey Bungie has had? The Evolution of this game concept is Astounding. How far can they take it?
[b]In Bungie We Trus7[/b]
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BUMP!!!!!!!!!
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First time I saw the traveler I thought of marathon. The lore in this game is going to be epic!
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Wow this is freaking cool.
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I vaguely remember seeing this as a child sometime, very odd dejavu .
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It's pretty neat. I never played Marathon, but it is cool to see something like this existed.
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I can't wait for marathon 4 on mac
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Still don't know if I buy this, but I will mention that in the leaked Bungie-Activision contract it was stated that Bungie was also going to work on another Marathon game too on the side. What if it wasn't on the side then? That Destiny is the spiritual successor?
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Interesting and appreciated indeed. In Bungie We Trus7!
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Bungie did make marathon
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Holy crap...this changes everything.
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I appreciate the history lesson. That's some good stuff.
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I think this could belong on any category except for Offtopic and Support
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Edited by OutHouse: 6/20/2014 3:33:37 PMBumps are REAL
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The moment the project name was made public, I remembered the closing screen to Marathon: Infinity.
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[quote]Marathon. . .like doom. . .but better[/quote] This is objectively correct.
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I love it when devs do this connections between their games.
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Sadly enough many people probably have no clue what you're talking about. A lot of people thing halo was bungie's first game
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Edited by Tibbaryllis2: 6/20/2014 3:50:35 PMBungie's style seems to be heavy relationships between their games. It's one of the few companies that could tell me all of their games exist in alternate timelines within the same universe and I wouldn't think its a cop out. The one thing you have to wonder is, if this is the game Bungie has been wanting to make since the beginning; their Avatar if you will, then what comes after Destiny?
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It's always lovely when a developer shoves obscure references or foreshadowing into a game.