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Black Mesa - legendary vaporware Half-Life remake finally out
- Thread starter racofer
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As far as I know, the title is "Black Mesa" and not "Black Mesa and Xen", so it's all right.
Come on, "Black Mesa" was (and still is) an hobby project, so bitching about long time of development is just unfair. Besides, making a mod of that giant size must be a lengthy thingie (most HL mods are just a few map glued together, especially the never ones, times of Azure Sheeps or They Hunger or Timeline or Eye of the Darkness are long gone...)
deus101
Never LET ME into a tattoo parlor!
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HAH! N00B!
In other news:
If the sven guys or anyone else for that matter creates a coop mode for multiplayer.
Then stuff like the manual loading the TOW launcher could come to good use.
Or similar, having more physical and mechanical interaction might give coop some interesting scenarios.
Instead of everyone shooting blindly and killing rescue objectives.
Gord
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Don't worry, I'm not complaining. At most I'm making a little fun at their expense.
I appreciate the work they did with it.
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For those wanting more laughs out of Black Mesa.
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DraQ
Arcane
LOL, my GF is playing BMS as I write.
She just said that its beginning is very much like the original - she's already bored with the tram ride.
She just said that its beginning is very much like the original - she's already bored with the tram ride.
Roderick
Savant
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Very well done remake, but Half Life just isn't that good. i'm playing this i'm on the surface tension chapter (just trying to finish it, for the sake of finishing it mostly) but i'm somewhat bored.
I Wish a remake like this was done for Bloodlines
I Wish a remake like this was done for Bloodlines
Zero Credibility
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A really good effort. I was pleasantly surprised with the difficulty of some parts of the game - those marines can kill you very quickly on hard difficulty. There are problems of course, but I look forward to what the team can do with Xen.
GeorgeWood
Educated
I still remember how better the Half Life 2 was than the original. Just you wait until you get on one of those airboat things. What a joy. Then you really feel like James Bond, and ready for action. Actually, the whole game feels like a futuristic version of James Bond movie. Man, that really made me feel as Sean Connery from ''You Only Live Twice.'' The game also has a survival horror elements a.k.a Resident Evil. Like when you meet one of those zombie things. Just you wait to see one of those things, and chills will go down your spine.
One thing is that there could have been more imaginative boss fights like from Super Mario World 2.
About the original, graphically it reminded me of Goldeneye for N64. Blocky human figures. What the heck. Why do they bothered to port the game to PS2, why did it felt like from 98? The original Half Life really is similar to Goldeneye, since the most of the time you are inside a huge base.
Also for the first 2 hours or so, everything you do is progress through these corridors while fighting against these crab things that look like facehuggers. Hello, Valve? Why do you continue to rip-off Alien?
And for the boring beginning, Valve get's some major points down for that one. At least they could've fixed the start of the game while porting, threw in some airboat action, imaginative boss fight's, but no, eveyrthing I felt was the sour taste in my mouth that the Goldeneye left.
Bottom line, Half Life 2 eats Half Life 1 for breakfast.
One thing is that there could have been more imaginative boss fights like from Super Mario World 2.
About the original, graphically it reminded me of Goldeneye for N64. Blocky human figures. What the heck. Why do they bothered to port the game to PS2, why did it felt like from 98? The original Half Life really is similar to Goldeneye, since the most of the time you are inside a huge base.
Also for the first 2 hours or so, everything you do is progress through these corridors while fighting against these crab things that look like facehuggers. Hello, Valve? Why do you continue to rip-off Alien?
And for the boring beginning, Valve get's some major points down for that one. At least they could've fixed the start of the game while porting, threw in some airboat action, imaginative boss fight's, but no, eveyrthing I felt was the sour taste in my mouth that the Goldeneye left.
Bottom line, Half Life 2 eats Half Life 1 for breakfast.
DraQ
Arcane
Utgard-Loki
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so george, can we expect a "gaming in the clinton years" half life 1 review?
DraQ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s0lzbCK9f8
DraQ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s0lzbCK9f8
GeorgeWood
Educated
I am too old, and I don't have enough enthusiasm for a new ''Fliights of Fantasy'' type of show.
DraQ
Arcane
I vote for changing GeorgeWood's username to "GeorgeLimpwood".
Dumbfuck tag would be appropriate.
DraQ
Arcane
GeorgeFlaccidwood?
That'd be too overt.
That'd be too overt.
Occasionally Fatal
Prophet
I totally agree with this for Half Life 2, but I like the way it's handled in Day of Defeat (recoil forces guns/view up) and Counter Strike (spread/spray/bursting is satisfying). I think the problem with HL2 is the automatic guns all use cones of fire that don't really change based on what you do, so there is neither a feeling of precision or of impact. One of the things that annoys me about Global Offensive is that the gunplay feels closer to the HL2 style.
... but one of the best point of HL1 was, you are not a Bond, Bourne or other BDSM master, but a humble ph. doctorate. Sort of reluctant hero, one grind of sand in the great, yet unknown scheme. HL2, imho, destroys that unique feeling, making Gordon almost messianic character. And that is always lame.
http://forums.blackmesasource.com/showthread.php?t=17088
Black Mesa will soon be re-released on Steam as a standalone SKU with a new engine, and it will cost a bit.
The alternative free version will still be available, but with the old engine.
Black Mesa will soon be re-released on Steam as a standalone SKU with a new engine, and it will cost a bit.
The alternative free version will still be available, but with the old engine.
AngryEddy
Self-Ejected
Still in development.
My take: Porting to the "new" engine (Source 2?) also suggests the possibility of a XB1/PS4 release.
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