297 Preview: Marathon 2: Durandal

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4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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What was Bungie up to before they bounced back with Halo? Marathon, another sci-fi shooter that was a foundational game for Macintosh gamers. Its graphics were well ahead of the times, and the story is intricate even by today's standards... but we find it a little tough to swallow, given how the antiquated level and encounter design makes the game a bit of a struggle to play.

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0:00.0	Hello there. I would like to begin the episode by thanking James Sebel, Ides of April, Michael
0:06.7	Cretcher, Kadim Mbei, and Alexander McConnell. All of these are people who have gone to Patreon.com slash duckvie TV
0:16.8	and helped support this network and this show.
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0:30.0	about the Venture Brothers, a very good cartoon. Oh, Oh, My name is Gary Butterfield. My name is Cole Ross. And you're listening to
1:30.4	watch out for Fireballs and as a games club podcast.
1:33.0	And this week we are talking about Marathon 2 Durandal,
1:37.0	which is a first person shooter developed and published by Bungee for the Macintosh in 1995.
1:45.0	Yeah, big a big shout out to Max.
1:48.0	Yeah.
1:49.0	Who executive produced this episode?
1:51.0	Mm-hmm.
1:52.0	Yeah, thank you, Max.
1:54.0	Also a big shout out to all of our Patreon backers because this is a premium episode.
1:58.0	Everybody will get the generalities here, get the first, you know, portion of the episode and the backers get to hear the whole thing.
2:05.4	Yeah, yeah lucky.
2:07.2	Mm-hmm. Blessed are you?
2:12.3	Yeah, so this is
2:14.8	This is our second bungee game and I'm I want to float an idea by you. Let's do.
2:23.0	Yeah.
2:24.0	Is there a company that's maybe worse at naming aliens?
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