Bungie Files New Marathon Trademark

[Sixties Spidey]

Oh. My. Freakin'. Jesus. Excuse me one minute.

*walks outside* YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH HAHAHAHA! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOO!

*walks inside*

I'm SO stoked now.

 

[Melancholy_Ocelot]

Do I lose my geek card if I played / fell in love with Marathon AFTER playing Halo?

Also, this topic excites me. A lot of older game have been rebooted / expanded (much to my liking) lately.

StarCraft
Fallout
System Shock
_>
Pokemon Gold (don't judge me)


This begs the question....

I can has Diablo III?




*EDIT*
And Serious Sam

 

[Scrythe]

Oh my fucking shit. If they are going back to Marathon, I will completely explode with joy.

 

[Space Jawa]

It's been over a decade and a half since the first Marathon was released in 1994 - will fans finally be getting a true sequel after all these years?

Isn't that what Marathon 2 was?

 

[dekkarax]

It's been over a decade and a half since the first Marathon was released in 1994 - will fans finally be getting a true sequel after all these years?

Isn't that what Marathon 2 was?

and Marathon Infinity?

 

[ExileNZ]

Halo basically WAS the remake of Marathon, or as close as they're likely to get. Consider it the same relation between System Shock 2 and Bioshock. They've already said numerous times they have no intention of flogging the dead horse that is Marathon.
(one of my favourite dead horses of all time, I might add, but a dead horse nonetheless)

There are some similarities here and there and the material is ripe for a tie-in. The Marathon launched about 50 years before the Spartan project, FYI, but it was a non-FTL vessel, so the story takes place a couple hundred years later with lower tech and a less advanced super-soldier. Also the Halo grunts look like smaller variants of the Pfhor, which can't be an accident.

Bring on the tie-in! But if they did do another Marathon I'd be first in line to buy it.

 

[jabrwock]

There are some similarities here and there and the material is ripe for a tie-in. The Marathon launched about 50 years before the Spartan project, FYI, but it was a non-FTL vessel, so the story takes place a couple hundred years later with lower tech and a less advanced super-soldier. Also the Halo grunts look like smaller variants of the Pfhor, which can't be an accident.

I'm pretty sure Bungie said they are not in the same timeline but rather set in similar universes. IE they both have humanity exploring the stars, and assaulted by an alien "hegemony".

Halo is a reboot of the Marathon Universe (with the Covenant instead of Pfhor and the Forerunners instead of the "Jjaro", and the flood instead of giant god-creatures trapped in suns), not a tie-in.

 

[axle 19]

Do what now?

OT: Marathon was what set bungie on its course. I played the first one and durandel and was amazed by the gameplay an fun. If bungie is returning to its routes by either remaking or continuing the story then I'm all for it.

 

[Jack and Calumon]

Ah... well Bungie... time to make yourself useful. Prove me wrong about you, and make this a good game.

Calumon: Marathons are work not Games!

 

[Asehujiko]

I'm seriously going to start banning people for this.

Forums =/= news posts.

Don't shoot the messenger when somebody points out that your news crew are posting things that aren't news anymore, get them to work faster instead.

 

[John Funk]

I'm seriously going to start banning people for this.

Forums =/= news posts.

Don't shoot the messenger when somebody points out that your news crew are posting things that aren't news anymore, get them to work faster instead.

I'm terribly sorry we have standards and can't just post a link and block-copy-and-paste. Or that the forum community is actually a minority of the people who visit this site, and that something on the front page is liable to get more conversation than something in the flow of topics on the forum.

This conversation is over. It is not up for debate.

 

[Sprogus]

Hey Bungie, how about some originality? Seriously think of something new.

 

[brewbeard]

Hey Bungie, how about some originality? Seriously think of something new.

Normally I'd agree, but this is MARATHON we're talking about here. Rampant AIs running amok in planet cracking space-ships named BOOMER!

 

[Teddy Roosevelt]

Wait, Marathon is for Mac? I've never played the games, yet I have a Mac. I need to get on that ASAP.

 

[JLrep]

As excited as I want to be about this?it's hard to say. Alex Seropian (half of the founding members of Bungie) left after Halo, which point I feel is, probably not coincidentally, where both the standards of innovation and storytelling started to fall. Not hugely?the other Halos are still good games?but out of real greatness.

Mmmm, mm. I still play through Marathon 2 and Myth every year or two.

 

[Kermi]

Does anyone else thing that plain black image with the silver Marathon logo would make a totally awesome box art?

 

[BloodRed Pixel]

Does anyone else thing that plain black image with the silver Marathon logo would make a totally awesome box art?

you mean like this?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28180536@N08/2738716908/

 

[WhiteTigerShiro]

oh... sorry. didnt know you would get mad it was just a joke. sorry.

It's just something we're seriously sick of.

Hear hear! I'm really getting sick of those junk posts too.

Troll: Lawl someone beat you to it. [insert link]
Staffer: We don't care about forum posts, shut-up.
Troll: I was just joking, bra! y u mad?

I for one wholly support that becoming a rule.

As for the topic on-hand: Bungie needs to re-acquire the rights to the Myth series. Those were some fantastic RTS games (and not your standard "Resource-gathering" RTS either), and it's a real shame that the the Myth Trilogy was capped-off with some other company completely butchering what was established in the first two games. At least gameplay-wise, story I can't comment on much because the game is literally unbeatable due to a crashing bug early in the game. I've heard there's a fan-made patch for it, but I never felt arsed enough to track it down...

 

[DirkGently]

There are some similarities here and there and the material is ripe for a tie-in. The Marathon launched about 50 years before the Spartan project, FYI, but it was a non-FTL vessel, so the story takes place a couple hundred years later with lower tech and a less advanced super-soldier. Also the Halo grunts look like smaller variants of the Pfhor, which can't be an accident.

I'm pretty sure Bungie said they are not in the same timeline but rather set in similar universes. IE they both have humanity exploring the stars, and assaulted by an alien "hegemony".

Halo is a reboot of the Marathon Universe (with the Covenant instead of Pfhor and the Forerunners instead of the "Jjaro", and the flood instead of giant god-creatures trapped in suns), not a tie-in.

Yes and no. There's lots of similarities, but lots of differences. Even if the Marathon had been launched in the Halo Universe, they would have had FTL drives in Halo before the Marathon reached Tau Ceti; and likely would have beat them there. It's far more likely that the Halo Universe existed after the collapse of the universe/galaxy in Marathon. This is all part of Durandal's imagination/shaping of the universe/whatever the hell actually happened in Infinity, the non-linear mindfuck that it is.

They're not the same universe, but they're similar. kind of. Bungie can't help but lace 7's and 3's and the marathon logo into everything.

I'm not sure of it, really, but I'm sure somebody at Bungie knows the tru7h.



By the way, for anyone interested: http://marathon.bungie.org
Right before they were bought up by MS, Bungie released the source for the trilogy. You can find it (and discussion of Marathon thereof and all kinds of things) there.

As for the topic on-hand: Bungie needs to re-acquire the rights to the Myth series. Those were some fantastic RTS games (and not your standard "Resource-gathering" RTS either), and it's a real shame that the the Myth Trilogy was capped-off with some other company completely butchering what was established in the first two games. At least gameplay-wise, story I can't comment on much because the game is literally unbeatable due to a crashing bug early in the game. I've heard there's a fan-made patch for it, but I never felt arsed enough to track it down...

There's a reason people call the Myth games "Real Time Tactical", since they're mostly about the tactics for a specific battle, not an overall strategy.