/vr/ - Retro Games

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>"The issue with Half-Life for me is that I was involved in a much higher percentage of the decisions about the games, so it's hard for me to look at them as anything other than a series of things I regret. One thing in particular is the decision to lean so heavily into our inspiration from Bungie's Marathon trilogy... maybe to the point of being derivative. We were all really big fans and it just had such a tremendous impact on us at the time."
-Gabe Newell

It ripped off Marathon, Gabe Newell admitted it himself:
>"The issue with Half-Life for me is that I was involved in a much higher percentage of the decisions about the games, so it's hard for me to look at them as anything other than a series of things I regret. One thing in particular is the decision to lean so heavily into our inspiration from Bungie's Marathon trilogy... maybe to the point of being derivative. We were all really big fans and it just had such a tremendous impact on us at the time."

Why did Valve get to rip off Marathon and get all the acclaim it should have?

>"The issue with Half-Life for me is that I was involved in a much higher percentage of the decisions about the games, so it's hard for me to look at them as anything other than a series of things I regret. One thing in particular is the decision to lean so heavily into our inspiration from Bungie's Marathon trilogy... maybe to the point of being derivative. We were all really big fans and it had a tremendous impact on us at the time"

>"The issue with Half-Life for me is that I was involved in a much higher percentage of the decisions about the games, so it's hard for me to look at them as anything other than a series of things I regret," Newell wrote."Particularly the decision to lean so heavily into our inspiration from Bungie's Marathon trilogy... maybe to the point of being derivative. We were all really big fans and it had a tremendous impact on us at the time"