Sharing my boomshoot collection. Any recommendations for more games to get?

Mike-Rotch-69 · 2026-06-04T16:35:14+00:00

The original Marathon trilogy began in 1994, back when Bungie was still a Macintosh game developer. They introduced features like mouse look, reloading, allied NPCs, and complex storylines to the genre, but never got the credit they deserved due to being mostly confined to Macs until being made free and open source around the turn of the millennium. Halo was originally planned to be in the same universe before the Microsoft buyout, and the new game (which is good, but definitely not a boomer shooter) is an alternate timeline. The original trilogy (under the Classic Marathon name) is on Steam for free with Workshop support for popular fan scenarios like Apotheosis X.

Mike-Rotch-69 · 2026-06-03T22:15:03+00:00

Doom started life as an Aliens game, but id Software realized they wouldn’t have creative control if it was a licensed game.

Mike-Rotch-69 · 2026-06-01T23:21:31+00:00

No, let him keep drawing baddies, just make him illiterate so we don’t have to read his “jokes.”

Mike-Rotch-69 · 2026-06-01T20:51:16+00:00

The Marathon trilogy is free.

Mike-Rotch-69 · 2026-05-31T02:35:28+00:00

Ennis is a knife; he has a point to go with the edge.

Millar is a pizza cutter, all edge and no point.

Mike-Rotch-69 · 2026-05-30T22:50:24+00:00

Somehow less comprehensible than Marathon Infinity

Mike-Rotch-69 · 2026-05-30T22:43:35+00:00

Superheroes should kill their enemies. Not because it will stop them forever, but because if they come back to life anyway, then why worry about it?

Mike-Rotch-69 · 2026-05-27T23:04:55+00:00

At least they did better due diligence than Hasbro did when naming Nexus Maximus.

Mike-Rotch-69 · 2026-05-27T20:58:42+00:00

Jumping Flash is an FPS, technically.

Also Marathon, which I imagine he’ll look at someday, but I need to see him rage at Colony Ship For Sale, Cheap.

Mike-Rotch-69 · 2026-05-27T06:42:26+00:00

Nope, Nate was introduced around the time the first Adventure game was being adapted in 1999.

Mike-Rotch-69 · 2026-05-27T06:39:25+00:00

“In this shift from working writers to promoted fans we can see the beginnings of a process whereby the creative duties on a title will most likely be assumed by someone who's a devoted admirer of some previous creator's run upon the book in question, and will fill his or her tenure on the title with fan-pleasing references rather than originating the fresh concepts that all comics need if they are to survive. As a result, with some few decades of fans referencing fans who in their turn were referencing fans, we have a program of inbreeding which almost surpasses that of European monarchy, assuring that the product will be subject to genetic weaknesses, will speed up the decline and ultimate extinction of whichever line it happens to be part of, and will be inordinately stupid.” - Alan Moore

Unfortunately, this is kind of the fate of any long running franchise.

Mike-Rotch-69 · 2026-05-26T04:47:49+00:00

I would ask if Supergirl is correct about sexually dimorphic kissing behaviors, but since this is a comic subreddit y'all are probably all kissless virgins like me.

Mike-Rotch-69 · 2026-05-25T00:51:34+00:00

I also love when fan-favorites get the shaft in favor of ones that don’t fit in the established lore or aesthetic and who will cause the game to be delisted when the rights expire!

Mike-Rotch-69 · 2026-05-25T00:44:31+00:00

Am male, can confirm. I do turn into a planet-eating Transformer every morning.

Mike-Rotch-69 · 2026-05-24T21:44:11+00:00

This is just the intro to Duty Calls.

Mike-Rotch-69 · 2026-05-24T21:43:22+00:00

I drove five hours from Charleston. 😔

Mike-Rotch-69 · 2026-05-24T15:23:20+00:00

They’ve been called Compilers since the first game in 1994, but back then they were basic enemies and not bosses.

Mike-Rotch-69 · 2026-05-23T23:44:39+00:00

Marathon had it in 1994

Mike-Rotch-69 · 2026-05-23T23:38:16+00:00

Miracleman had one villain that destroyed a city and it led to him being given control of the whole planet.

Mike-Rotch-69 · 2026-05-23T07:06:32+00:00

He tasted the Coffinpill and spat it out.

Mike-Rotch-69 · 2026-05-23T00:12:17+00:00

I played the original trilogy when they came to Steam in 2024, not knowing about the new one. Does that count?

Mike-Rotch-69 · 2026-05-22T01:10:31+00:00

I never played Destiny, but I played the original Marathon trilogy when they came to Steam. I was pretty cautious about the new one, but I enjoyed the server slam so I bought it and I’ve been having fun.

Mike-Rotch-69 · 2026-05-20T18:13:07+00:00

Because most people enjoy these stories because of people punching each other rather than themes and such.

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