Marathon Is Both a Miracle and a Monster
3/27/202654 min
Frushtick and Griffin were Destiny dudes, and yet it's Plante who has fallen in love with Bungie's new extraction shooter. What's so appealing about Marathon? Is the extraction genre's difficulty a dealbreaker? Who is this game even for?
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First 90 secondsChris Plante· Host0:00
Coulda used a Dinklage. Coulda used a floating Dinklage that- You're right ... accompanied me all about Marathon, um- Um, yeah ... and would sort of t- you know, squip, drop cracks- Do you- ... bring him back to life if I died ...
Griffin McElroy· Host0:14
do you understand how deep into the Destiny hole you would need to be to know that Peter Dinklage, at one point but no longer, voiced the ghosts that follow you around in Destiny?
Chris Plante· Host0:24
I actually downloaded an update, um- To fix it ... where... I downloaded an update to fix it. 'Cause they did swap him out with Nolan North in 2015.
Griffin McElroy· Host0:35
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Chris Plante· Host0:36
But then I found a update online.
Griffin McElroy· Host0:39
Did you pay Peter Dinklage a Cameo?
Chris Plante· Host0:41
Yes.
Griffin McElroy· Host0:41
You've- So yes, it was a very, very complicated...
Chris Plante· Host0:44
So basically what I had to do, every time Bungie released a new expansion, I would transcribe all of the ghost dialogue.
Griffin McElroy· Host0:49
Mm-hmm.
Chris Plante· Host0:49
And then I would buy many Dinklage Cameos.
Griffin McElroy· Host0:53
Yeah, it's like 60 or 70 per expansion.
Chris Plante· Host0:56
Per expansion, yeah. Um, some of them he's a little bit less verbose than others. [laughs] Um, but yeah. I think it would be bet- I think it would be a better game if there was a... Uh, there's a class that summons little healing bots. All I'm saying is just have Dinklage say like, "No problem, I'll get in there and heal them up good, boss."
Griffin McElroy· Host1:13
Yeah.
Chris Plante· Host1:14
Stuff like that, like, I think would go down really smooth.
Griffin McElroy· Host1:16
And you could probably do like the Pokemon anime thing where they just keep reusing the same animation. You could probably slot in some of those lines.
Chris Plante· Host1:23
Oh, for, for, for sure.
Griffin McElroy· Host1:24
For sure.
Chris Plante· Host1:24
No problem. Yeah, I could probably take lines from his other movies that sound like... Like, maybe