Talk:Marathon (video game)

message: In addition to the lack of citations, the entire article reads more like someone's nostalgic review or an advertisement of the game rather than a neutral article. Numerous passages throughout ("rich science-fiction plot," "intricate story line," "each level of Marathon is unique and dynamic," etc.) contribute to this problem.
Number3son (talk) 11:19, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Nah uh  Juvne (talk) 17:04, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article Tone 

message: The Marathon Trilogy page briefly mentions that Marathon had built-in voice chat in multiplayer in 1994-- I think that's much more significant, and deserves a longer mention. Should this article have a section on technical features that Marathon innovated (the mentioned mouselook, voice chat, (relatively) advanced physics modeling, etc)?
If a cite is needed, I have a copy of the Marathon manual in my basement, but I'm not sure if that's acceptable.
Blakeyrat (talk) 14:43, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Voice Chat 

message: Someone who feels up to it could possibly incorporate the following message into the article. Bombman (talk) 10:02, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Super Marathon 

message: It's definitely true, but all sources I find on Google wouldn't be appropriate for Wikipedia. (Forums, blog comments and such). It still needs to be kept as a fact, but unless Bungie officially says that yes, they were the 1st to do it, that cite tag will remain. What a predicament!--Planetary 00:57, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, exactly what does it was also the first game to use "mouselook" the way we do in today's first person shooters mean? Both Doom (released in 1993) and Wolfenstein 3D (1992) used an early form of mouselook, and they both predates Marathon. And if my memory serves, mouselook was available in Blake Stone (released in 1993) as well. IMHO, that line should be removed from this article, since it feels a bit POV:ed - Exactly what does it mean to use mouselook "the way we do in todays FPS"? I say that line leaves a lot open for interpretation. "True" mouselook didn't appear before the release of Quake, the first FPS to use a true 3D world. /M.O (u) (t) 00:54, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think by "mouselook", it means changing the perspective by using the mouse, including up and down. With Doom, it was only left and right. Perhaps changing it to "one of the first" would be more acceptable?--Planetary 01:19, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

text: I suppose Wolfenstein and Doom technically let you look left and right with the mouse, but before this thread I've only ever heard "mouselook" used to describe a feature letting you look in any direction. --DocumentN 16:53, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mouselook 

message: How come the articles for Marathon 2: Durandal and Marathon Infinity have pictures of the box that the game came in, but not just Marathon? could someone fix this?Xenongamer 22:07, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pictures??? 

message: Only deathmatch is mentioned in this article. I'm pretty sure there were other gametypes, such as "Kill the man with the ball", but I don't know them all. Shouldn't they also be mentioned? -68.144.228.198 00:17, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Those weren't added until Marathon 2. Ace of Sevens 03:17, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Multiplayer 

message: Should this article reference the fact that Halo and Marathon share the same universe? The ending to Halo 3 IS the beginning of Marathon.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.64.216.193 (talk) 19:28, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Um, no, it's not. --DocumentN 16:53, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

text: Specific issue and page reference or it didn't happen. And even if they did say it, my suspicion is that they were probably just parroting popular fan assumptions. --DocumentN (talk) 05:02, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, I do not remember anything in Game Informer saying that.  And if *something* forced this, it would have been Bungie's own mutually exclusive backstories for these series (see my post below.) - Fearless Son (talk) 18:36, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Halo 3 connection 

message: I remember looking up the Mac Action Sack on the ESRB website in 2000 and seeing it listed with an E rating, but I don't know how to prove that or whether it was later corrected to M. --DocumentN 16:53, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ESRB rating 

message: I'm unable to dig up citable, verified system requirements at the moment, but I'm positively certain Anvil and Forge both ran on Mac OS 7-9 platforms. If nothing else, I can prove it with Basilisk II at some point.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tohuw (talk • contribs) 16:49, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Evidently any mention of those two was removed from the page.  However, just for reference:  Anvil and Forge were released with M∞ and later with the MTBS, and only interpret the files of M2D and M∞; the original map editor used by Bungie, Vulcan, was never released but was the basis for Forge.  Fan-developed tools for M1 itself were plentiful, and AFAIK to date are the only tools available.  — JamesEG (talk) 23:26, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anvil & Forge 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Bungie Marathon Netplay Screenshot.jpg

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