ASE Ep. 33 Destiny Gameplay Reveal

Narcogen from Rampancy.net and Cody Miller from HaloReachIsNotCanon.net take a look at the premiere of gameplay in Bungie's upcoming shared world shooter, Destiny.

ASE Ep. 32 The Rose @ M1 lvl6 Pt. 1

The Marathon's crew are under vicious attack from the Pfhor and their massive allies, the gargantuan Hulks! We must save as many crewmembers as possible... or not. Armed only with sticks, stones, and harsh language (redacted) Blackstar and Narcogen muddle their way through this horticulturally themed Marathon level.

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

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Music used in this episode:

"What About Bob?" by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (intro music)
"Aliens Again" by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (gameplay background music)
"New Pacific (Reprise)" by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (outro music)

For more information on this level, visit the Marathon Spoiler Guide:

http://marathon.bungie.org/spoiler/m1/5.shtml

For complete Terminal texts, visit the excellent Marathon Story Page:

http://marathon.bungie.org/story/

There you can read faithful and complete reproductions of all of terminals in Marathon and its sequels, plus Facts and Puzzling Things About all sorts of characters, places, and concepts in the Marathon universe, as well as a forum where stalwart fans continue to argue the finer points of interpreting Marathon's story nearly twenty years after the game's release!

Destiny Gameplay Walkthrough

Adam Sessler of Rev3Games interviews Bungie's Joe Staten at E3 2013. Thanks to electricpirate who posted this in the Destiny.Bungie.Org forum.

Destiny Gameplay Demo @ E3 2013

Joe Staten and Jason Jones participate in a "public event" against Fallen enemies in the first public demonstration of Destiny gameplay. Destiny portion of the video begins at 2 hours and 3 minutes.

Official Destiny E3 Gameplay Traile

Bungie's official trailer showing the first look at actual gameplay in Destiny.

ASE Ep. 31: Couch Fishing M1 lvl 5

Durandal has gone Rampant, and is in contact with the Pfhor and S'pht aliens currently infesting the Marathon! Leela wants us to flip some switches that will apparently help with... something. Not really sure what. Of course, before the switch-flipping comes the Pfhor-killing, and there's plenty of that to do in this level, including the new variant mentioned last episode by Leela-- the Pfhor Trooper.

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

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Music used in this episode:

"What About Bob?" by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (intro music)
"Swirls" by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (gameplay background music)
"New Pacific (Reprise)" by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (outro music)

For more information on this level, visit the Marathon Spoiler Guide:

http://marathon.bungie.org/spoiler/m1/4.shtml

For complete Terminal texts, visit the excellent Marathon Story Page:

http://marathon.bungie.org/story/

There you can read faithful and complete reproductions of all of terminals in Marathon and its sequels, plus Facts and Puzzling Things About all sorts of characters, places, and concepts in the Marathon universe, as well as a forum where stalwart fans continue to argue the finer points of interpreting Marathon's story nearly twenty years after the game's release!

For more information on RAMPANCY and what it means for Mjolnir cyborgs attempting to stay alive, fight off the Pfhor invaders, and figure out what the heck is going on, see the Marathon Story Page's entry for Rampancy:

http://marathon.bungie.org/story/rampancy.html

Couch Fishing, of course, is the name of a Beavis and Butt-head episode from 1993, the year before Marathon was released.

Top 7 References In Destiny

Bungie fan Spurious Interrupt (MyChemicalBromance on YouTube) over in the Pfhorum posted a video of the top references to older Bungie games found so far in Destiny materials. Take a look!

ASE Ep. 30: Defend This! M1 lvl 4

Leela has produced three chips to replace the damaged ones and reactivate Marathon's automated defense system. On the way, Narcogen and Blackstar notice similarities in both enemy and level design between Marathon and Halo.

BONUS: Narc reattempts the failed grenade climb from the last level and talks about how the Marathon 1 scenario had to be altered to suit the changed physics model of the Marathon Infinity engine on which Aleph One is based. To see the climb performed in the original Marathon engine running on Mac OS 9, see this video from the Vidmaster's Challenge on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVt482t4514
At 01:52 you can see the player arrive at the room and start to clear it. The actual climb starts at 03:08.

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

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Music used in this episode:

"What About Bob?" by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (intro music)
"Flippant" by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (gameplay background music)
"New Pacific (Reprise)" by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (outro music)

For more information on this level, visit the Marathon Spoiler Guide:

http://marathon.bungie.org/spoiler/m1/3.shtml

Ian over at Mythgamer has a post that dissects Bungie's Law of the Jungle trailer for Destiny to see what it does well. Go take a look.

Urk from Bungie tells IGN that everything Bungie does on the backend for Destiny is platform agnostic, but the company still has not definitively announced, nor definitively denied, versions of the game for other platforms like PC or Mac.

Never Stop Firing

YouTube user toolsmyth (Bo Lindbergh in the Marathon Story Page's forum) has posted some gameplay from the first level of Bungie's first shooter, Pathways Into Darkness, now available in the App Store for the Apple Macintosh.

Leyvin360 on YouTube also has a Let's Play series for the game that he started last year.

ASE Ep 29 Never Burn Money M1 lvl 3

Narcogen and Blackstar play Level 3 of Bungie's classic sci fi shooter, Marathon: Never Burn Money. Leela tasks us with recovering three chips to repair the Marathon's defensive system, and on our own we attempt to reach an isolated and cryptic terminal that may hold the secret to the identity either of the mysterious security officer who is the player's avatar, or the even more mysterious door-controlling Durandal we have yet to meet.

We've gotten some useful feedback on past episodes, and I'll just acknowledge it here:

Yes, we are rusty. I haven't done much mouse and keyboard FPS gaming since the Unreal Tournament days, and it shows. Hopefully we'l get into a groove and I hope to ratchet the difficulty up a bit as we play. Right now we're on normal, hopefully we can get up to Total Carnage before the game is over.

Yes, we missed some spots. We missed a garbled terminal and a hidden door in the first level; I've gone back to record that and it'll be in a future episode. In level two I made the easy grenade hop and put it after the credits, but didn't make the big one. In this level, we made a couple of attempts to do the grenade climb to reach the Gheritt White terminal, but failed. For that, I am bringing in a ringer. More on that later.

UPDATE: This video of Never Burn Money by Vidmasters Challenge shows the same level in the original Marathon engine, at Total Carnage difficulty. The player reaches the room where the grenade climb is at 01:30. The player actually does the climb twice-- once to reach the 3X shield recharge from the floor, and a second time to reach the ledge with the terminal.

For more information on this level, visit the Marathon Spoiler Guide:

http://marathon.bungie.org/spoiler/m1/2.shtml

For more information on the Gheritt White terminal, visit the Marathon Story
Page:

http://marathon.bungie.org/story/gheritt.html

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

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Music used in this episode:

"What About Bob?" by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (intro music)
"fatman" by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (gameplay background music)
"New Pacific (Reprise)" by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (outro music)

For original Marathon soundtracks as well as Craig Hardgrove's remixes, visit Craig's Marathon Music page:

http://themarathonmusic.com

The Law of the Jungle

This "live action" trailer for Destiny promotes the first gameplay reveal coming up at E3, as well as emphasizing how central cooperative play is to Bungie's new game... "the power of the pack is the wolf, and the power of the wolf is the pack."

Actor Giancarlo Esposito ("Gus" from Breaking Bad") here plays a character seemingly telling a bedtime story about the Guardians. Perhaps he'll have a voice role in the game itself?

ASE Ep. 28 M1 - Bigger Guns Nearby

Blackstar and Narcogen continue playing through the classic Bungie scifi shooter and precursor to Halo, Marathon.

Special thanks again to Craig Hardgrove for his excellent soundtrack remixes.

Wait after the credits for a short bonus of one (easy) grenade hop and the infrared goggles.

We're doing this playthrough with:

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

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Music used in this episode:

"What About Bob?" by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (intro music)
"Leela" by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (gameplay background music)
"New Pacific (Reprise)" by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (outro music)

In this episode of Anger, Sadness and Envy, Narcogen talks to Mars Science Laboratory planetary scientist Craig Hardgrove, fan of Bungie games and master remixer of the Marathon soundtrack about Marathon, Destiny, as well as Call of Duty and Bioshock Infinite. You can hear Hardgrove every week on the Guardian Radio podcast as well!

Show Notes:

• Mars Curiosity Cameras
• Remixing Marathon's Music
• Hardgrove Interviews Alex Seropian
• Music for Aleph One
• Recreating Vintage MIDI Sound
• Removing the Music: Marathon Sequels
• Total Audio: Myth and Halo
• Exploration vs Shooting
• Terminals in Marathon and Halo
• Exploration in Halo
• Offtopic: Bioshock Infinite
• Water on Mars

Music used in this episode:

Chomber by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove
Swirls by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove
Landing by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove
Siege of Madrigal by Marty O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori
Leela by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove
Flowers In Heaven by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove