You know the drill by now -- company files trademark, could mean nothing, but we all go crazy because IMAGINE IF IT MEANS SOMETHING ACTUALLY! So yes, Bungie has filed a new trademark for Marathon, its pre-Halo FPS that everybody has fond memories of, but if they played it now they'd probably have a terrible time.
Marathon was released in 1994 on the Apple Macintosh and Pippin and spawned two sequels. The first sequel, Marathon 2: Durandal, was released on Xbox Live Arcade back in 2007. Download that and you can get a good idea of how well it aged (spoiler: not well).
As we said, the new trademark could mean nothing, but it could represent what the chaps at Bungie are thinking of doing next. Would you like to play a brand new Marathon?
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2:30 PM on 03.12.2010
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It looks like DOOM with bugmen but it plays a lot differently. The levels are absolutely massive compared to DOOM and a lot more open ended. There's more exploration to be done.
I CAME
Another shooter from Zipper. BAH!
Another third-person action or stealth game from Kojima Productions. BAH!
Another WRPG from BioWare. BAH!
When you're good at what you do, it makes sense to continue doing it
You're right about BioWare. Hopefully Bungie will, too. We have no real info about this potential game other than the trademark filing, after all. Bungie is a nice developer, but they're nowhere near my favorite, so I'm really ambivalent about the whole issue. But if some defelopers are good at a general type of game, and that's what they want to primarily stick to making, I don't have a problem with it.
I sort of had a feeling this would happen, but god damn I'm happy.
Please oh please if this is real, just try to keep the charm of the 90's in it. I'm not exactly sure what that means but i'll figure it out.