Three Links worth reading

[yendi]

Motley Fool on the new payola scandal, and why it's hard to sympathize with record labels over file sharing.

Gamasutra on the importance of story in gaming (the element of story, incidentally, is why I've always considered the Marathon games to be superior to the Doom games. Well, story and gameplay).

PVP sums up Wizard's current Con schedule perfectly.

Comments

[drooling-ferret.livejournal.com]

Marathon! Such awesome games.

I only got a chance to play (and beat, and oh-so-happily-finally-beat) the first two (well, also a cracked pre-release alpha, my real first exposure to the games, but that doesn't really count), but they are the standard I still hold single-player FPS games to (possibly, I admit, because I've never played the Half-Life games).

[yendi]

Their gameplay still holds up wonderfully, even today. It's worth tracking down a copy of Infinity if you can find it, as well.

[drooling-ferret.livejournal.com]

Their gameplay still holds up wonderfully, even today. It's worth tracking down a copy of Infinity if you can find it, as well.

If I had a machine I thought it would run on... somewhere in the basement is a 7100/66 of dubious functionality, but that struggled at times with Marathon II.

I'm also reminded of the amusing weapon names (unless I'm misremembering or imagining things, those had to be intentional) - the TOZT flame thrower and such. Simple things, but they added to the enjoyment of the game. Oh, and the BoBs. Heh, poor bastards.

[ckd]

If you have a more modern box running Mac OS X, try Marathon: Aleph One.

[yendi]

Heh. Poor bastards until you get to the fake Bobs, at least.

At least the later Bobs learned how to shoot. :-)

[ckd]

They all appear to be available free on http://trilogyrelease.bungie.org/ now.