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I *just* now finished TFL for the 3rd time since I bought it way back when. Been playing during lunch for the past week. Now I'll start in on Soulblighter.

Problem is Bungie has nothing to do with Myth any more. They gave up the rights to it for the stock *WhoEver* (Take 2 maybe) had in Bungie. Now it's *WhoEver's* franchise and up to them to do with as they please, which seems to be nothing.

When ever someone posts "Hey I got *old hardware* what games can I play?" I always mention Myth as a possibility if it fits the specs (voodoo 2 card or better being key).

Good luck on your revival!

Last edited by LLEVIATHANN (2006-02-07 3:53 pm)

I love myth II!

Ah! So it is Take 2...I wasn't sure.

The problem deepens...why would Take 2 put resources on a mildly successful game like Myth when they have huge run away successes like GTA to invest in. It's all about the Benjamens.

GodzFire wrote:

For those who subscribed to MA mags from late 97 to 2000 or so, you know that Bungie was a big part of Mac gaming, and always held the back cover with a Myth ad. Some of you who played those games might remember me (Myth: The Fallen Lords, Myth 2: Soulblighter, and even Myth III: The Wolf Age). The mac community loved Bungie Studios because they always treated the platform with equal, if not greater TLC than the PC-equivalent.

Then there was the black day which scarred our gaming for years to come, the day M$ bought out Bungie, absorbing them into the gargantuan borg-like company it is. This essentially killed Bungie's involvement in Myth and all their other games which they previously held so dear, (I swear Bill Gates was sneering his ugly mug off too). It's now 2006. It seems as if everyone has forgotten about the great Myth series. I am here to change that! (insert patriotic music)

I hope that's at least a little tongue-in-cheek...

Just FYI, there's a Myth Easter egg in Halo; a couple of places you can go and hear "The Siege of Madrigal" play.

We can't let this great series simply vanish from our Mac history! I am campaigning the staff of MacAddict forums to create a new section for the Myth series as well as a Myth Clan MacAddict! I know that the members of Project Magma (whom with I talk to daily) would be glad to help sponsor the section as well. So what do ya say? There's nothing to lose!

An entire new forum section plus an [MA]Myth? Well, it's ambitious, anyway.

LLEVIATHANN wrote:

Ah! So it is Take 2...I wasn't sure.

What- you were missing the day we got The Word?

msoell wrote:

Bat wrote:

Myth was sold outright to get some operating capital- they no longer own that title.

You are mixing things up slightly.  Take 2 owned 19.9% of the company; when Microsoft bought Bungie, Take 2 got (among other things) the rights to Oni and Myth in exchange for their chunk of Bungie.

-Matt

http://www.macaddict.com/forums/post/895261#p895261

I really want a new Mechwarrior game more than anything else...it's been tempting me to get a pc

LLEVIATHANN wrote:

While we're at it let's do Mechwarrior 2 too!

One of the first things to go on my "Legacy" box, w/98SE, Voodoo 5 and all, when I finally finish it.

the worst part of micosuck buying bungie was that they had to cut short the development of Oni, no multi-player and such.  it was rushed through development and tossed out of the moving van on their way to the megacorps office. 

just a call to remember the abandoned oni, we hardly knew ye

Way back in high school, I did a lot of electronic music composing.   One day a friend approached me and said that some smallish software company was making a game and needed some "medieval sounding" music.   I didn't want to write any "medieval" music, so I passed on the offer.


Well... of course that game turned out to be Myth.   (D'OH!)   But several years later, when I finally played myth myself, I must admit that I liked the music very much.   (And it's probably better than what I would've written.)

I love Myth, although I've never gotten around to installing on my OXS box. I bought the Total Codex Myth I and II pack from Bungie's website back in the day. I've never beaten either game yet. Just as I've never beaten Starcraft, or Galactic Battlegrounds, or Warcraft I II and III, or any of my Gamecube games, etc...

Hm, sounds like a pattern...get a sweet game, play like mad for a week or two, realize I have a wife and two children that get crabby when I spend too much time at my mac, and taper off the playing. I tend to only play games now that I can pick up and play for 30 - 45 minutes at a time, and not have a storyline or a mission to try to remember in two weeks when I play again.

I think that's why Halo has such a hold on me now - the online part anyway. I can't play the missions because my Dual 533MH G4 can't even get through the first mission without crashing. I can play most of the maps online with a minimal amount of crashing, however, as long as the server has a nice low ping.

Anyway, back to the topic. Myth I and II are my all time favorite games, followed closely by Starcraft. I never picked up Myth III, didn't have a mac at the time that could run it.

Did anyone here ever make any mod maps for Myth? I played around with the terrain editor a little bit, but never did anything worthwhile with it. The ability to create mods always fascinated me a bit.

I heard that the mod software that came with Warcraft III was pretty much regarded as the best there was.