Weekly Update 89
Man. What a week. Nothing particular happened, but what a week we just had. I am still continuing to act normal after the events of the past month… we don’t get political here. I don’t have a great answer as to why, I just have a weakness when it comes to political issues. I am not informed. My opinions are based off sources I am biased towards, and I rarely do my own research. Despite this, I think we can agree the “hypothetics” surrounding our current president are scary.
And to make matters worse, there is still no agent. I am joking, my woes are not on the national scale. I am still searching and searching for that person who can give me a chance. I think we all need that person.
The past week has been spent catching up with Anime and my YouTube recommendations. I still consider myself an ardent Dead Space fan, but I am even more of a Bungie fan. I have dived deep into the lore surrounding Marathon. If you are a frequent reader with excellent memory, you will recall when I mentioned Bungie (the video game company) was rebooting their old intellectual property into a new shooter. The new Marathon will be an “extraction shooter,” a term that has very little weight in the current gaming sphere. It will be competitive, it will be online, and it will be nothing like the original Marathon.
That is what I have gathered from my hours spent on video essays. The O.G. Marathon was a first-person science fiction shooter, driven by story and combat. A lot like another Bungie title; Halo. In fact, Marathon is Halo. Or Halo is Marathon… I can’t tell. The point I am trying to make is there are a staggering number of similarities between the game Marathon and the game Halo. It is honestly crazy no one told me this in the years I have been playing as Master Chief and Noble 6. If you know how Halo works, I implore you to seek out Marathon. Not only was it a pioneer in first person shooter video games, but it is basically an older first draft of Halo.
For those who have no idea what I am talking about, here is an analogy I whole-heartedly believe: Marathon is to Halo as Star Wars is to Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It kind of does feel like a reboot, like someone said, “Let’s just do the story again.”
I am very excited to see what Bungie does with modern Marathon. I hope it is good. I hope it doesn’t get bogged down in modern gaming problems like monetization and power creep… you know, like Destiny.
Oh no.
Ok, time to get back to life. I must teach the future leaders of the world while the current ones try to make my job harder. Yippee.
