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ukimalefu wrote:

Bat wrote:

No prob. The M2: Durandal aspect hasn't been mentioned so far.

With some folks still swearing by the arrow keys, the controller shouldn't be far off the 'real' Marathon experience. Now I can retire my Win95/DX2 version and not have to worry if it'll still work under DX9.0c.

Kewl.

I never used the arrow keys. Originally used the numbers pad, and now I use WASD + mouse to play online. Guess I'm not a "purist". I love having a crosshair and hires textures. I suppose using a game pad controller is only a matter of getting used to it. I'm sure all you Halo kids won't have a problem.

Same here. Always used the numpad. Even took my numpad craziness into UT and did it successfully. New games tho require too much axis movement. Can't get away with the classic style marathon playing.

Okay. Nintendo's going full-on with the casual games thing.

Wii Fit. Balance board. Overweight Reggie.

ya.

msoell wrote:

cleekj wrote:

I know this is not totally game oriented but those HD game trailers in WMV format....

I believe HBO is offering them as QT MOVs for those who swing that way.

-Matt

Yup. Mentioned way back in post 7, a C&P from B.net's media coverage.

ukimalefu wrote:

Well I know, I know. You could see it as a Father/son = Marathon/Halo or Mjolnir Mark IV/Mark V. Or I could get Kirk to call you 'kid'.

Maybe I shouldn't mention, but Kirk and I aren't even far enough apart to be brothers, let 'lone father/son.

elpato84 wrote:

NightCougar_37 wrote:

ukimalefu wrote:

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Same here. Always used the numpad. Even took my numpad craziness into UT and did it successfully. New games tho require too much axis movement. Can't get away with the classic style marathon playing.

I was deprived. Up until ONI, I was using the arrow keys, thinking I was so cool.

You're still cool, 'Pato. Anyway my point was just on the lines of the controller being not m/kb, more an alternate pointing device, hence about as intuitive for my ilk as arrow keys or num pad.

Even mo mo better thingage...

Download the Music from the E3 Trailer
Posted by lukems at 7/11/2007 5:35 PM PDT
Got an email from Marty with an excellent attachment this afternoon. The contents speak for themselves, so I figured I'd share it with you:

"Hey we should put this up on Bnet and make it available.

Love,
Marty"

The attached file was the music from the Halo 3 E3 Trailer. Enjoy!

http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx … ;cid=12651

Halo: Arms Race, Now Available in Quicktime
Posted by lukems at 7/11/2007 10:51 AM PDT
Here's Halo: Arms Race in the Quicktime format. For more on Neill Blomkamp and Halo: Arms Race, check here.

Quicktime HD (Large)
Quicktime Medium
Quicktime Small

http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx … ;cid=12646

Edit: Arms Race as well as the main trailer QTs are also linked on the main Media page. And, Ear- they're in H.264!

Last edited by Bat (2007-07-11 10:34 pm)

 

Awesome? Universal forces align...

Awesome news - shorts coming all summer
That awfully cool short from Neil Blomkamp that was released yesterday? Looks like it's the first of a series. w00t! Thanks, Dry Ice. (Louis Wu 20:24:21 UTC)

http://nikon.bungie.org/news.html?item=19205

And the Halo trailer music DL was announced in the HBO Forumz personally by "Marty the Elder." Hmm, who could that be...

OK, one more followup to the above. The last link wasn't what I was expecting; it's all-new & exclusive.

Screenshots from Freeverse's Marathon: Durandal Port
On July 10, 2007, during the Microsoft Press Conference for E3 2007, it was announced that Freeverse was working on Marathon: Durandal for Xbox Live Arcade, fulfilling the dreams of countless Marathon-turned-Halo fans. Release is scheduled for later this summer, and you can read official information on Xbox.com, but we've got a little bit of exclusive info for you, and we've got 50 screenshots of the game to peruse. Marathon is absolutely the spiritual forbear to Halo - and so this absolutely belongs here on HBO. Here's a tidbit from the developers:

In Marathon: Durandal for Xbox Live Arcade, we added something we call "Survival mode", wherein we drop you into a level and assault you with wave after wave of really pissed-off Pfhor and S'pht. You know that dream, the one where you open your eyes and suddenly you realize that you're in a fire ant hive with a pair of shotguns and enough ammo to make John Rambo look like a gun control lobbyist? Wait, you don't have that dream? Anyway, that's what Survival is like. We even built four brand-new levels just for the mode, and we've tied it into the Xbox Live leaderboard system so you can show your friend Timmy just how much you rocked his best score.

All that - and it runs at 60 fps. w00t!

http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/xbla_marathon/

Yup, to the standard 360 framerate. It'll be such a strain, it'll melt the remaining 360s.

The sweet thing is, even these screens show serious FSAA and texture fitering. Last time I fired it up, I was all 'OMG! The jaggiez, the texture shimmer!'

All gone. Freeverse make all betterz. Smoooooth.

You have that dream, right?

Bat wrote:

Edit: Arms Race as well as the main trailer QTs are also linked on the main Media page. And, Ear- they're in H.264!

Woohoo!
I love HD video.
Now I just need a big enough display to see it at full size.

A couple impressions from the Kotaku folks:

Project Gotham Racing 3 Impressions
http://kotaku.com/gaming/e307/project-g … 277837.php

Oh, and there isn't going to be a Geometry Wars Galaxies in this game, but there is going to be something along those lines.

Hmm...

Mass Effect Impressions
http://kotaku.com/gaming/e307/mass-effe … 277810.php

Could Mass Effect be the deepest role playing game for the Xbox 360 yet? Yes. Yes it could. The developers demoed a bunch of actual in-engine gameplay and in-game cutscenes for us earlier today, showing off just how far they've come since the last E3. We were impressed. And we can't wait for November.

So, uh. Guys. Any of you excited about Rock Band?

Last edited by ABigSmall (2007-07-12 2:01 pm)

OK, who put Skeletor on drums?

NightCougar_37 wrote:

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That would be me who mentioned the COOP 8 way.

I saw that note...hopefully it will remind developers of how real COOP was done and to stop giving gamers a pansy stripped down COOP experience.

What’s different about Marathon: Durandal on Xbox Live Arcade?

There are a number of new items.

New Engine.  Marathon: Durandal is running in a true 3D engine on the Xbox 360.

New Save System.  You still must find Pattern Buffers to save, but let's say you beat the first level and get to the 2nd level.  What used to happen is if you died, you’d load a save game back on the first level.  Now if you die, when you respawn you are brought back to the start of the new level (with all your weapons).  Also if you save then immediately die the game takes note of this.  If it happens really often (as in you saved in a really bad spot) it will respawn you back at a previous save point.  This is to remove frustration.

HD Graphics.  You can turn on HD graphics (they are on by default).  This is a total replacement—walls, guns, aliens, effects even the marine.

720p Widescreen.  The game is running in true widescreen at 720p.  This actually gives you a bit more visual room.

60 frames a second game play.  Marathon 2 was originally locked to 30 frames a second.  We increased it to 60 (and ensured the existing logic transferred over to 60 ticks a sec instead of 30).  This gives the game a much more fluid presentation than it’s computer counterpart.

Brand new networking layer.  Instead of using the old Marathon networking system, we implemented a new one with ReplicaNet.  This allows the game to play smooth and reliably over the Internet, something the original Marathon 2 could not do.  This also allow for online coop play with up to 8 players (the original supported 8 players, but getting the game to not fall apart was another story).

( - Bat)

A control scheme designed for the 360.  Bungie was very nice to us, and assisted us in setting up a control system very similar to Halo.  Using these acceleration curves we are able to give players a fluid control system.

Achievements, Rich Presence and Leaderboards.  Staples of the Xbox 360, but these give ultimate bragging rights.  Plus our Achievements were designed with hardcore Marathon fans in mind.

French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and Korean translations of the entire game.  This is the most accessible Marathon to date.  Every terminal (even the secret ones) were translated by Microsoft’s expert localization team.

Survival is a brand spanking new mode for Single Player Marathon, give us the scoop! What is it?

Survival is a giant truck that pulls up to your house one day, where a platoon of alien commandos jump out, kidnap you, and wail on you until you're dead. And then the truck explodes, just to make sure the job gets done. If you're lucky, you'll take out a few hundred of them before your final moments.

When you start a Survival game, you're dropped randomly into one of four brand-new deathtra--er, levels and given a metric -blam-ton of guns and ammunition. After you gather your bearings, we start teleporting groups of enemies, dozens at a time, into the level. It's literally wave after wave of Pfhor and S'pht against you, and we keep the action moving by changing things up every sixty seconds. The more enemies you sack--and the less damage you take--the higher your score will be at the end. (And we all want to be at the top of the Leaderboards, right?)

As you progress through each round, we rotate new threats in and out of the game, from lowly Pfhor Fighters to Hunters to Juggernauts. (Did I say Juggernauts, plural? Hmm.) [..]

Yep, just plain ol' Marathon... you, me, Levi and someone we rope in for 4-way M2 co-op when he gets his 'Box back if meat life ain't et me up yet?

Last edited by Bat (2007-07-18 3:36 am)

So you usually got bored before the game fell apart?