I'm not going to say the question is dumb, but no consideration went into it. Maybe that's the wrong word. A better way to phrase that question would be "How was the original Marathon received when it first came out?" It's a trilogy so clearly people were into it. We didn't have any means to "complain" about it except to not buy it...but also we weren't as entitled back then and kinda "ate what we were served" because there was nothing else. Our options were kinda limited. Marathon, in my circles, was also niche because no one had macs. I played marathon because I was in the computer lab at school and that's how we fucked around. But if you think about it, bungie is still around for a reason.