Although I hate to admit it, this is a very crushing loss for Marathon.
How many other scenario makers are out there making something anyway?
Making scenarios really does kinda suck in all reality.
Lets see. Seeing as I'm one of the hundreds of players out there that has failed in making a scenario or two, I think I can talk on the subject.
It starts out with a kickass scenario idea, with kickass images in your head about what this game will have and look like.
So then you start off. And you make
maps.
Maps are always fun. But then you gotta
light and
texture the thing. Not to mention
elevate everything.
Then, what I personally think is the
biggest killer to a Marathon Scenario is...
...You say something
really stupid in your head, like
"I need some new monsters" or
"I need some new weapons" and while that's all fine and good, you look and realize
you don't know how to make them. And worse
you don't want to learn.Then maybe you write
terminals. But then you realize that in your head, the terminal pics were really top notch and very well helped you tell the story.
Then you realize you need to make the pics yourself. But
you don't know how. And worse
you don't want to learn.
So then you go into a period of absolutely no progress whatsoever, making miscellaneous things such as your scenario's [spoiler]menu screen[/spoiler], but it doesn't work, its just a picture of what it would look like.
And what finally
kills you, is when you add
monsters to your
map. You play it, and you start feeling really good about what your doing. But then you realize all the physics work you need to do with all your monsters, and the new monsters, if you ever get to making them, are A LOT harder to create physics for, as your not just tweaking existing ones.
You have to insert
every single pose, then make it
move correctly, then make it have it's projectiles
come out of the correct place. Then you don't have any
sounds for your
monster.
And in the end, after months of just thinking about what your scenario would be, you come up with a new better scenario in your head, and your last scenario gets thrown in the
recycle bin or
trash, never to be seen again.
So in a nut shell, you try and make a scenario, then it gets really hard and time consuming, then it dies.
THE END