It’s one of the best shooters I’ve ever played, 10/10. Also I have not played Half-Life 1, partly bc I find its graphics hard to look at
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That game fucking slaps hard, that Xen was something else
It was visually impressive but it really outstayed its welcome for me, it just dragged on far too long. And some of the final boss changes were absurd, like having it throwing entire humvees and tanks at you that only hit for like 25 health.
When I replay Black Mesa, I just skip Xen, like I do for the original Half-Life, but for different reasons.
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What were your favorite parts of it?
Hard to say, I thought it was great from start to finish
But if I had to choose I’d probably say Xen and everything thereafter
What’s the difference between Half Life and Black Mesa?
Black Mesa, aside from just graphical and audio overhauls, also uses different (many would say tougher) enemy AIs, which significantly changes the sort of strategy which the player uses for encounters. Much of the game is also pretty significantly reworked, I believe On A Rail is much shorter and the Xen chapters are muuuuch longer and waaaay better. Black Mesa also adds more puzzles, making some use of the physics simulation of the Source game engine.
All in all, it’s the same story as Half Life, but a pretty significantly different experience.
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The AI for the HECU marines is still worse than the original Half-Life, in my opinion. It’s a huge improvement over what they had when the game launched though, which was just repurposed Combine AI.
It does okay in smaller and indoor type areas, but especially in the large, newly-expanded outdoor areas, you can really see it struggle.
Black Mesa is Half Life if they had better computers back then
Such a good soundtrack, and I love how much it does to characterize the Vortiguants, the absolute sweethearts of Half Life
I have it on Steam but my laptop is so ass that I can’t run it with decent graphics. Also, the og HL1 is very good for a '98 game, and it’s at most 5 hours, you should check it out
I installed HL1 today bc it’s free to
ownlicense on steam until the 20th of November 19:00 CET
Half Life is a GOAT game (2 is mid) and Black Mesa is a good remake. There’s also a mod that recreates the Blue Shift expansion, but I don’t know if it’s even close to being finished.
Half-Life rules!
Eventually Valve will learn how to count to 3, it took Rockstar 10 years to learn to count to 6.
