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Nowadays, you might want to play Black Mesa instead: http://www.blackmesasource.com http://www.blackmesasource.com It's officially just for Windows, but it run
by Camillo 14y ago
Nowadays, you might want to play Black Mesa instead: http://www.blackmesasource.com http://www.blackmesasource.com
It's officially just for Windows, but it runs fine in Wine.
- mrposty 14y agoBM:S is very, very nice looking and fun, but it's still not finished yet, anyone looking bear in mind multiplayer and the Xen levels are not implemented yet. It's passed steam greenlight, so once finished, should be available for a nice one click install. I look forward to this :) But if you're reading this thread and excited, you'll probably get a kick out of it.
- nitrogen 14y agoAll the pre-Xen levels are very well finished. If you just want the single player gameplay up to the point of the Lambda Complex, install Black Mesa now :-). You can get a preview of the gorgeous Xen graphics in one of the rooms of the Questionable Ethics chapter.
- Chattered 14y agoWhenever I used to replay the original Half-Life (I think I've completed it 5 or 6 times), I would get as far as Lambda Complex, pretend that was where the game finished, and promptly stop playing. I think plenty of us hated the Xen levels, and the BM:S team knows how challenging it will be to modernise. I'm looking forward to see what they do!
- nitrogen 14y agoI personally enjoyed the Xen levels (except the fact that Nihilanth brought my PC to a near standstill when the game came out), but to each their own. I'd be interested to hear your complaints about Xen.
- EliRivers 14y agoA common complaint involved the tiny little orbiting platforms that had to be jumped between. It turned an excellent FPS into a frustrating 3D platformer and interrupted the rhythm of the game.
- aw3c2 14y agoAt least gameplay-wise Black Mesa is very different from Half-Life. To me it is different in a bad, dumb, modern way. Please do not suggest that it is the same or even superior to the original game.
- yawgmoth 14y agoI found HL1 to be unplayable but loved Black Mesa. I didn't have any nostalgia factor for HL1 (I was ten and computerless in '98) but had always wanted to enjoy the game. Black Mesa made that mostly possible.
- aw3c2 14y agoYou enjoyed Black Mesa then, not Half-Life! Sorry for being so nit-picky, but I find the distinction important. You would not tell some Star Trek Deep Space Nine nerd that watching Star Trek Voyager is the same. The biggest similarity between BW and HL is the general story/setting and general level layout.
- smspence 14y agoWow, what website am I on right now? I can't believe these pedantic crap comments are on Hacker News.
- cobrausn 14y agoYou are on Hacker News and surprised to find pedantry?
- austinshea 14y agoYou are not being nit-picky; you are being ridiculous. You are replying to a comment which clearly states "I loved Black Mesa," and then go on to suggest that he enjoyed Black Mesa. The general story, setting, and level layout are a tremendous amount of what would be considered a single-player, narrative-driven, FPS experience. All that's left is the level of difficulty, and the feel of the code, as seen inside a particular engine. It's fine that you feel these are important aspects of Half-Life, but, when people wax nostalgic about this game, those who loved it remember their reactions to the setting they were in, the feelings they had inside the narrative, and the difficulties they had with particular aspects of the level design. These are the things that were translated well, in your depiction. I haven't played it, but I suppose we can take your word for it: the team that made Black Mesa did a good job of replicating the Half-Life experience.