Dan Morison

Thanks a lot!

Halo Theme Mjolnir Mix

It's friday, which means listening to the most perfect composition created by man

open.spotify.com/track/1SJ2nd...

Cheers, feel free to send a DM anyway, maybe could work out something very lo-fi!

Hey! I'm available for commissions and lo-fi projects - got a game, RPG or other that needs artwork that doesn't need that AAA shine? I can be that guy!

Hey! I'm available for commissions and lo-fi projects - got a game, RPG or other that needs artwork that doesn't need that AAA shine? I can be that guy!

Great fun to work on this - I’m now brazen claw fan!

*quite hard to play as a beginner, sorry

Yeah it basically makes you decide if you want to be in the online MP camp or not, when all the stuff is there for a great story and single player experience

I’ve been made aware! Would have made a difference, although I like the idea of rook- just quite to play when a beginner

It’s probably too big , and played too safe, to fail tbh

Just as an addendum - the stealing art story coloured my view of the game entire , but actually was a small incident that shouldn’t detract from the real work everyone put in- the game art and design is very much its own thing and is great!

Fair enough! Design and feel of the game looks fantastic I think!

I was really scrabbling around for weapons, and they really are far and few between- have to pick over old battles, but I never lasted that long really

Haha yeah I tried to do similar… but the bots turned on me first lol

Yeah that’s cool - don’t think the concept quite ports across to Marathon with other characters getting special abilities- you don’t last long if you bump into them (or I didn’t anyway!)

Glad to hear your getting work!

That’s interesting- but yeah rook is super weak, and you can’t even do missions! Some missions are like smashing glass! Let me do that alone!

Yeah sorry I meant alone as in no teammates - I have been killed many times by even looking at another human player, because the rook is so bad

Is it a bad game? no - I was kind of getting into it more - but it feels like it lacks a single player experience, even playing 'alone, together' despite having everything there for it.

it annoys me, as it could have been something great, fresh and new, story driven!-with this multiplayer part as an addition, like halos of old - and it would have rounded it out nicely I think. 

Maybe that will change on release of full game? I'm a noob so don't know much admittedly.

I didn't get that sense of wonder I got with the destiny demo, back a million years ago, nor felt that addictive pull to play, like Apex legends, BO Warzone, & other similar games. I didn't get the sense of something new and exciting - if anything, this is way too late to the party

Character types are quite cool - but again don't really push past the destiny archetypes enough - but there are interesting abilities in there. But when the shit hits the fan, they can kind of fall by the wayside a bit.

In terms of gear - again, it's not really pushing the boundaries past the old Halo pillars of weapon design, honed to a fine edge with Destiny. You get the usual unknowable pile of slop items, but there are the more interesting disks that effect your characters stats and abilities

I like the concept of doing little solo runs to get loot and stuff, but the Rook not having better health/damage means you last about 2 seconds once you run into a team. And the ability to mask yourself from robot mobs has never worked with me so far

The option to play solo is there in form of the Rook character - great! - but the world is an empty one, & not being able to load out your Rook, as well as not being able to revive yourself, puts you at a great disadvantage - there just aren't any weapons lying around to survive encounters

For me, it sacrifices a great style, and probably great story, to the altar of a 'forever game (until disconnected or cancelled)' - storyline is now relegated to menu screen text - at least Destiny wore the skin of its old story driven game over the bones of its multiplayer only gambling machine

Some missions require a bit of coordination with your randomly assigned teammates - unfortunate if, like me, you don't play with friends, or everyone online is a mewling teenager pumping unknowable noise garbage into their mic, so obviously muted that straight away

While the levels are really nice, really detailed, & again, great vibe - the gameplay missions where you have to find specific things in certain areas are actually quite hard - the level of detail is just too high to ascertain what's a mission specific thing to interact with(at least for a beginner)

For the game itself- I'm not well acquainted with ex-fil type games, but do have experience with battle royals.
It's hard to say if it really brings anything to the table - it felt quite empty. The robot mobs have pretty good intelligence - but as the only enemy I encountered, were few & far between

Navigating the menu's themselves? Probably a little too incomprehensible - felt quite linear, like you had to go in a straight line through a bunch of menus to get faction rewards, rather than it being one click away from main menu

Will Farrell shouting a computer game review at a burnong world

Marathon Overview - 
Loved the out-of-game design/vibe - weird close-ups of characters, design had a retro strangeness to it that's quite refreshing. Moths scary. Liked the nod to neon evangelion graphic design - but knowing what we know now - it's probably more stolen than used intentionally.