/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2135973
Marathon is awesome, but most of its problems lie with a problematic and wonky source port which can be closest described as not-DOSBOX. It does only the barest work possible to port it to windows and does absolutely nothing to make it more accessible for a modern audience.
While this is great for a retro experience, the amount of people who originally played it on a Mac and want the 100% retro experience are pretty much minimal. There's a whole lot of modern accommodations that could make things much easier, like better mouselook, netgames that don't kick you to the titlescreen, the ability to actually fucking get to the menu mid-game without quitting, but the developers simply don't do it.

The game itself is advanced as all goddamn hell, though. It was so far ahead of its time it wasn't even funny, and did a whole lot of things in 1994 that for most PC FPSes didn't even bother with until the early 00s. It's a technological and atmospheric masterpiece, and a great reminder of what games can be before corporations decide to rehash them without the soul and turn it into an AAA blockbuster franchise that's basically the same except shittier in every way except MUH GRAFIX.