What, no airfield? What a gyp!

After having “saved” all of Blake’s BoBs from their assimilation, Blackstar and Narcogen turn their attention back to Thoth. However, it appears he’s not the only AI waiting in the wings to make a triumphant return…

Only seven levels left!

This podcast uses:

Aleph One, free and open source versions of Marathon for Windows, Mac and Linux at http://source.bungie.org

Remixes of the Marathon soundtrack by Craig Hardgrove at http://themarathonmusic.com

We use irons’ Co-Op script:

http://simplici7y.com/items/co-op

Thanks to the maintainer of the Marathon Story Page, the denizens of the Marathon Story Forum and the Marathon Spoiler Guide:

http://marathon.bungie.org/story

http://forums.bungie.org/story/

http://marathon.bungie.org/spoiler/m2/

Subscribe to the Narcogen’s YouTube channel for Anger, Sadness and Envy video podcasts:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIof4Cp3-cam7bAFzDEwK_wzSSEya050i

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https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/anger-sadness-and-envy/id266991411?mt=2

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Music used in this episode:

“What About Bob?” by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (intro music)

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We played through level 20 of Marathon 2 awhile ago, God Will Sort the Dead, but we partially missed one prominent feature (the crushers situated above the teleporters) and one that has apparently remained hidden and nearly secret since the game’s release. It’s been hinted at by the maintainer of the Marathon Story Page:

http://forums.bungie.org/story/?read=…

Now it’s been exhausively investigated by PerseusSpartacus:

http://forums.bungie.org/story/?read=…

He opened up the level in a map editor to reveal the location of a hidden invincibility powerup and its trigger– walking over a powerup some distance away in the level, seemingly unreachable.

This item was apparently not mentioned in the Marathon Spoiler Guide, which lists the switches that trigger the crushers as the only secrets:

http://marathon.bungie.org/spoiler/m2…

Here, playing on Kindergarten so the Pfhor don’t get in my way, I demonstrate how the crushers are supposed to work when you trigger them just as the Pfhor spawn in.

Then I use the teleport feature of irons’ Co-Op 2.2 script:

http://simplici7y.com/items/co-op

and jump myself across the level in time to get the invincibility pickup before the secret door closes.

Today on MyChemicalBromance’s YouTube channel there’s a new musical montage of multiplayer mayhem called Get W’rkt. It features footage from multiplayer games played by the Bungie.net group For Carnage Apply Within. Footage is included from this month’s games in Marathon Infinity multiplayer using Aleph One, Myth II, and Halo Custom Edition on PC. Some nice stuff there, take a look– and if you want to find some classic Bungie multiplayer games on the ‘net, For Carnage Apply Within. Of course.

…at least that’s what Bungie’s lead investment designer on Destiny, Tyson “Ferrex” Green, is counting on. Watch this GameInformer interview to see him talk about what Bungie has learned from other games and where they are striking out on their own.

Jason Jo… I mean, Robert Blake wants us to sidetrack from our mission of reactivating the dormant S’pht AI in order to take care of some assimilated BoBs that are harassing his men. We’re warned that “their minds don’t work like ours” but I think he’s failed to take into account how our minds work.

We’re not supposed to ever leave a BoB alive, but we do. Just one. We couldn’t find him to kill him.

We’re also now using the 1024×1024 textures originally created for the XBLA version of the game:

http://simplici7y.com/items/marathon-durandal-textures-1024×1024-3

We’re hoping this makes the beta 3’s MP4 output a little clearer, so we’re doing two more episodes using that instead of ScreenFlow and we’ll see how it goes.

This podcast uses:

Aleph One, free and open source versions of Marathon for Windows, Mac and Linux at http://source.bungie.org

Remixes of the Marathon soundtrack by Craig Hardgrove at http://themarathonmusic.com

We use irons’ Co-Op script:

http://simplici7y.com/items/co-op

Thanks to the maintainer of the Marathon Story Page, the denizens of the Marathon Story Forum and the Marathon Spoiler Guide:

http://marathon.bungie.org/story

http://forums.bungie.org/story/

http://marathon.bungie.org/spoiler/m2/

Subscribe to the Narcogen’s YouTube channel for Anger, Sadness and Envy video podcasts:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIof4Cp3-cam7bAFzDEwK_wzSSEya050i

Subscribe to the iTunes channel or RSS feed for shorts and audio podcasts:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/anger-sadness-and-envy/id266991411?mt=2

http://feeds.feedburner.com/AngerSadnessEnvy

Music used in this episode:

“What About Bob?” by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (intro music)

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Bungie has published a video with commentary showing how they made the E3 2013 Destiny demo.

For years now I’ve speculated that Bungie became independent from Microsoft in 2007 because the studio wanted to make games that weren’t Halo but Microsoft wanted no part of that. This conclusion seemed (to me, anyway) to be strongly supported by the spinoff deal that set Bungie free in exchange (at least in part) for Microsoft keeping the Halo franchise. Any lingering doubts I’d suggest were expunged by Jason Jones in his last interview with Game Informer:

GI: Before Destiny, your team had been working on Halo for a long time. What prompted the move?

JJ: You already answered your own question.

There you have it. Incidentally, the interview has some other good information about Destiny, the difference between story and world-building, and other stuff. I’m waiting to see if they ask him about whether Destiny will have a Body Count… I mean, Slayer mode.