Just because those who came before were dead didn't mean they didn't have interesting things to say early on in Pathways you'd gain the ability to converse with the dead, and soon after a fascinating story emerged. Within the pyramid, you encountered both eldritch horrors spawned from the god's restless dreams as well as the deceitful corpses of previous adventurers, including a bunch of dead Nazis who had ventured here in the ‘40s in search of treasure, power, or both. The mission wasn't quite so simple as that, though. Since that wouldn't do at all, your mission was to journey down and detonate a nuclear warhead beneath the god's pillow to send it back to sleep for another millennium. Players took on the role of a soldier tasked with descending into the labyrinthine passages beneath a Meso-American pyramid where a sleeping god threatened to awaken, at which point it would annihilate all life on earth. A complex blend of Ultima Underworld and Sierra-style graphical adventures, this was the world's first glimpse of what Bungie was truly capable of.

Remember how Retro Studios made a big deal about how Metroid Prime wasn't a first person shooter but rather a first-person adventure? Yeah, whatever. And Marathon got its start with an obscure, Macintosh-only adventure called Pathways Into Darkness. Pathways Into Darkness (Bungie, 1993), Jeremy Parishĭestiny came from Halo. We've each picked a few titles - what would your choices be? You know, games that actually merit a facelift.

While we wait for those more current games to age a bit, we'd like to offer up some names we'd much rather see revisited modern-style. The games industry keeps churning out remakes, but do games as recent and contemporary-feeling as Halo 2 and Fable really need to be revisited yet?

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