Well, I'm not that new. I started making stuff around a month or two ago. I'm mainly concerned with the preservation of Marathon as a video game. That's why I made xBR Monsters for M1, seeing as how it was the only game in the series to not have HD Monsters, aside pfhrom the third-party scenarios.
If I had to rank all of the Marathon games, it would go something like:
Marathon 1 > Marathon 2 > Tempus Irae > Pathways Into Darkness > Rubicon > Infinity > Phoenix > et cetera
Truth be told, I don't like Marathon: Infinity as much as the pfhirst two, for me, it was kinda lacking the humor that made the pfhirst two enjoyable. The level designs to me pfhelt over-designed, and based off of speedrun pfhootage (aperturegrillz), It looks like it's too damn long. I don't pfheel like getting past the pfhourth or pfhifth level, and that is with the Electric Sheep jumps. The drive to pfhinish some of the third party scenarios like Rubicon and Phoenix are shared as well. I think Phoenix is the best Marathon game in terms of gunplay, but other than that, it's Marathon schlock. Rubicon is the 3rd prettiest Marathon game, the 2nd being Eternal, and the 1st being... well, Marathon. That said, it isn't and never was and never will be Marathon IV. I could go on and on about how I pfheel about every Marathon game, but we would be here pfhorever.
Reading 'pfh' probably gets annoying. So, as someone who wants to preserve and "modernize" Marathon, what should I do next?
I could always make more xBR stuff. My algorithm and process still works. I was thinking about taking every texture in Tempus Irae and running it through. Then I would also have xBR Weapons for MInf AND xBR Monsters for MInf. The issue here is simply demand.
That, or I could do "xBR Sounds". It's always bothered me how the people who think sound design in a video game is sacrosanct are the same people who download and play with HD textures. I always wanted if I could to make an "HD Sounds.sndz" file for M1. I realize that nothing like that has ever been tried before, and when I'm gone, it probably will never be tried again. The issue isn't finding a good source of the sounds, it's making new sounds that are respectful towards the originals and follow the same vision as the original creators had in mind. And then putting them into a package that doesn't give you blue outlines.
I dunno. I'll probably be too lazy to do either. Anyways, do people here have a scheduled playdate every month? I used to be part of FCAW, but that is dead. It saddens me that netplay is probably gone forever because no one wants to get online and play, or rather, no one wants to get online and tell ME that they want to play. LOL. If I could just play netplay one more time, I'd be a happy man.