Was inspired by a recent episode of Errant Signal, and now I am replaying the original Marathon. Still fiddling with settings to get it running the way I like (the default mouse acceleration is just awful) Currently simultaneously playing through the starter levels on different difficulty modes to try and decide which difficulty I want to play on. Like with its spiritual successor, Halo; it is widely claimed that the highest difficulty setting is the definitive experience. However the opening level is just egregiously annoying on highest difficulty (so many enemies pin you down in crowded hallways and there isn't much ammo or weaponry available yet), so I'm trying to struggle through it and see if the game opens up later before I give up and revert to the 2nd-highest difficulty, which so far has felt pretty "right."
When I was a kid I was mesmerized by the Marathon story but it's all hazy now, and I don't think I ever followed it that well because many key concepts probably went over my head, so I'm excited to re-experience all of that, especially without having to wait years between games. So far I'm digging it.
Current plan is to play through Marathon 1 and then go straight to Marathon Infinity, because Infinity retcons Marathon 2 out of the storyline and picks up right at the end of Marathon 1.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3ZCuXJ7-8s
When I was a kid I was mesmerized by the Marathon story but it's all hazy now, and I don't think I ever followed it that well because many key concepts probably went over my head, so I'm excited to re-experience all of that, especially without having to wait years between games. So far I'm digging it.
Current plan is to play through Marathon 1 and then go straight to Marathon Infinity, because Infinity retcons Marathon 2 out of the storyline and picks up right at the end of Marathon 1.