The Energon Pub

[DUAL_BOOT]

A while back, i got into playing a few macintosh classics, the marathon trilogy. and the amount of people playing marathon infinity online is.... dwindling. I was wondering, if anyone here has ever played it before, and if you haven't would you be willing to try it? (by the way, the game is free now) if anyone wants to play it online, i'll post instructions on how to get started, and a few links to useful stuff and game improvements.

[Grahf]

The only one I've played is Marathon II on Xbox's Live Arcade. I've barely played it since the week I downloaded it though. I can see how back in the day this series could be awesome.

[Midnight_Fox]

I've played all three(I used to run exclusively on Macs before Bungie sold out). Great games, love them so much, very easy to see the influence it had on Halo later(both made by Bungie).

The amount of stuff they brought back in Halo that was originally in Marathon(bullet counts in the shape of bullets, dual wielding, AIs[crazy or not] leading you through the levels, unnamed cyborg/enhanced human protagonist, advanced alien antagonists, even more advanced predecessor race) and all the little "nods" in the Halo games(the symbol, the Marathon defends Reach, the hidden consoles in H3 have references to the Marathon games, though Marathon technically takes place in the future) all lead to several people believing that the games exist in the same universe(Marathon being the future of Halo and a mention of a "female" AI during the Marathon games is thought to refer to Cortana), and even to the speculation that John 117 IS the protagonist from Marathon(that the rift sent him forward in time or that that's when he was awakened).

If true, that means that Bungie may have had "Halo" planned during the development(or even before)Marathon(or, more likely, that they took the strings left floating in the Marathon games and retroactively tied the games together).