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Marathon 2 Durandal Confirmed for XBox Live Arcade

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Posted 10 July 2007 - 10:30 PM

Watching the E3 coverage just now, a montage of upcoming Xbox Live Arcade downloadable games showed Marathon 2 Durandal as an upcoming game.

Honestly, it looked far, far better than even Aleph One with 1024 textures.

Can't wait for this one.
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Posted 11 July 2007 - 08:09 AM

Wow, I just watched the trailer, and MAN they killed the pfhor with new sprites! :(

Well at-least it looks VERY AWESOME still.
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Posted 11 July 2007 - 08:32 AM

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Posted 11 July 2007 - 08:37 AM

That fist animation is pretty gimpy, too.

Looks good though.
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Posted 11 July 2007 - 08:49 AM

Looks like they got some really kick ass cyborg kinda guy to play the demo for them in Easy. Yeah, we don't play Kindergarden Marathon HERE no sir.

It is extremely gratifying to me to see Marathon make it's way into something that can be considered more the mainstream. It is way overdue and the fact that it can be reintroduced 10 years down the line speaks to the solidness of the game.

PS: I recognize where each of the trailer segments were filmed. I guess that makes me a Marathon nerd.
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Posted 11 July 2007 - 08:55 AM

View Postthe Battle Cat, on July 11th 2007, 09:49 AM, said:

PS: I recognize where each of the trailer segments were filmed. I guess that makes me a Marathon nerd.


It sure does prove you have played M2 maybe too much. (Yeah, but instead of nerd how about expert?)

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Posted 11 July 2007 - 05:23 PM

Yeah ! But the fact remains, what good are all the old games if they are only ported for consoles and not the Mac PPC's that we own and use?

Another ploy to sell big bucks consoles! And Wide screen LCD and Plasma TV's ! (just for the kiddy's) the old 25" color TV set is not good enough any more.

You are seeing the sellout of Mac PPC users, even with the paultry offering of Doom 3, (Oh! Wait what other games play better on consoles than your Mac PPC, do tell ! )

Marathon 2 Durandal on X-Box, the ultimate deal, at $34.95 maybe.
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Posted 11 July 2007 - 06:31 PM

Errrr, yeah. ... Someone better take away his unhappy pills.
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Posted 11 July 2007 - 06:36 PM

View PostEdwar, on July 11th 2007, 11:23 PM, said:

Yeah ! But the fact remains, what good are all the old games if they are only ported for consoles and not the Mac PPC's that we own and use?

Mac gamers have had Marathon 2 for what - 11, 12 years now? This is one of the few instances where they were well ahead of the curve.

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Another ploy to sell big bucks consoles! And Wide screen LCD and Plasma TV's ! (just for the kiddy's) the old 25" color TV set is not good enough any more.
If you don't want a console or a big plasma screen TV, don't buy one. I doubt the port of a decade-old game will be the killer app that spurs widespread adoption of the HD standard.

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You are seeing the sellout of Mac PPC users

How are Mac users negatively affected at all?

More importantly: since you're so upset about it, what are you going to do to right the wrongs? Let's see your game.
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Posted 11 July 2007 - 08:14 PM

Yup, sure is a shame that it never got ported for the computers we own and use, while those lucky Xbox bastards get to play it on their fandangled 50-foot plasma tee-vees.
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Posted 11 July 2007 - 08:19 PM

View PostMagnum, on July 11th 2007, 10:09 AM, said:

Wow, I just watched the trailer, and MAN they killed the pfhor with new sprites! :(

Well at-least it looks VERY AWESOME still.


euch.. i agree, the new phor sprites are really ugly. Even the phor staff shot looks really lame. Also, you'd thank a decade later, they could at least add a couple more frames in between some of the animations to smooth it out just a little...? They've already bothered to redo (what looks like) just about every art asset in the game, why not add a few frames?
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Posted 12 July 2007 - 12:36 AM

Haha! This thread is delicious. The tears of Mac gaming crybabies make me stronger!

Anyways, that little clip shown at E3 blows. You guys should check out the trailer I did for Freeverse to see the really good stuff:

http://www.bestdamnpodcastever.com/

Or play it from Freeverse's mini-site here:

http://freeverse.com...s/game/?id=7009

Also, I think Mike deleted my first IMG account. Oh well...
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Posted 12 July 2007 - 12:53 AM

Lol, Flick'ta are hairy.
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Posted 12 July 2007 - 05:17 AM

View PostBLAKEBUCK2, on July 12th 2007, 04:36 PM, said:

Haha! This thread is delicious. The tears of Mac gaming crybabies make me stronger!

Hah! Fortunately, the gloating of gaming pragmatists makes me stronger! Also, there's only one post that you should be finding delicious, really.

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Also, I think Mike deleted my first IMG account. Oh well...

How could Mike do that?
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Posted 12 July 2007 - 05:28 AM

Tesseract, so that's the victim that tBC told you to use. It now all falls into place, though like I care...

It does look really crappy, stupid and overall worse than Durandual not re-done and whatnot.

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Posted 12 July 2007 - 06:15 AM

View PostBLAKEBUCK2, on July 12th 2007, 07:36 AM, said:

Haha! This thread is delicious. The tears of Mac gaming crybabies make me stronger!

Anyways, that little clip shown at E3 blows. You guys should check out the trailer I did for Freeverse to see the really good stuff:

http://www.bestdamnpodcastever.com/

Or play it from Freeverse's mini-site here:

http://freeverse.com...s/game/?id=7009

Also, I think Mike deleted my first IMG account. Oh well...


Surely Mike dosent have that kind of power!

And yeh the new sprites look fugly. It says in buck trailer that you can play it either in the classic style or with new HD graphics. I vote classic.
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Posted 12 July 2007 - 07:11 AM

View PostPeachey, on July 12th 2007, 02:15 PM, said:

I vote classic.

And you don't even need a Xbox for that!
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Posted 12 July 2007 - 08:23 AM

View PostBLAKEBUCK2, on July 11th 2007, 11:36 PM, said:

Also, I think Mike deleted my first IMG account. Oh well...

Impossible. Mike is just a regular forum member just like you. You are confusing Mike stealing your password with him deleting your account. Your old account is BBUCK and it is still alive and well, it doesn't appear that Mike hurt anything in it while he had it. I can give you a new password to it if you want. No sense throwing it away, besides, big mean me is not going to let you have two accounts!

It's using your foursouth email address, if you don't have access to that anymore to change your password on your own I can change it to the one you are using for your BLAKEBUCK2 account.
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Posted 12 July 2007 - 08:32 AM

View PostJanichsan, on July 12th 2007, 06:11 AM, said:

And you don't even need a Xbox for that!


Or spend any money. Man, those Xbox 360 owners will be suckers. :cool:
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Posted 12 July 2007 - 01:22 PM

View PostBLAKEBUCK2, on July 12th 2007, 02:36 AM, said:

Haha! This thread is delicious. The tears of Mac gaming crybabies make me stronger!

Anyways, that little clip shown at E3 blows. You guys should check out the trailer I did for Freeverse to see the really good stuff:

http://www.bestdamnpodcastever.com/

Or play it from Freeverse's mini-site here:

http://freeverse.com...s/game/?id=7009

Also, I think Mike deleted my first IMG account. Oh well...


Isn't this that really funny looking dude?

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