Comment on Marathon is delayed
crank0271@lemmy.world 1 day agoThat’s really cool. I had no idea that the original games were remade:
Classic Marathon: store.steampowered.com/app/…/Classic_Marathon/
Classic Marathon 2: store.steampowered.com/app/…/Classic_Marathon_2/
Classic Marathon Infinity: …steampowered.com/…/Classic_Marathon_Infinity/
addie@feddit.uk 4 hours ago
Not so much “remade” but the engine was open-sourced and it’s been kept up-to-date for modern computers. Exact same levels, graphics, sound effects as it ever was, but obviously the resolution now is much higher than it was in the early nineties. Think my graphics card can push it at 4K 144Hz while still being in power-saving mode; it does more work rendering desktop fonts nicely.
There’s also a port of Pathways Into Darkness onto the engine, if you want to play it? It’s a real bitch to emulate a classic Mac to get it running, but this is basically drag-and-drop. It was brutally unfair even at the time, and contains a lot of features which have not aged well and are distinctly un-fun - it is not a game that’s afraid to waste your time, put it like that. I do love the idea of it - the atmosphere of it is probably the best bit, and I’d love a modern remake of it.
lochnits.com/aopid/