I am no longer entertaining the idea that Marathon should have been a different experience or that Bungie is somehow wrong about the game they made.
I refuse to wait an arbitrary amount of time to appreciate the incredible experience in front of me all so I can fit in with a crowd that wasn't going to play it anyway.
Marathon is an incredible game.
Not in retrospect. Right now.
The twist that the moon was actually the space station had child me HOOKED. The way this was so seamlessly done with so many moving parts and details in 2002 was unfathomable to me