Black Mesa Source

northun_munky · 27 Jan 2009 at 15:49

Just found this, watched the trailer and got so excited a little bit of wee came out

http://www.moddb.com/mods/black-mesa

I never played through the first HL, god knows why but I reckon I'll enjoy playing it this time.

FrenchTart · 27 Jan 2009 at 15:50

There's been about a billion threads about this already.

northun_munky · 27 Jan 2009 at 15:52

Sorry, I didn't realise. Fair enough. Only just seen it and though I'd share in my excitment

Shamikebab · 27 Jan 2009 at 15:53

I will excuse the repost because it gave me the same excitement

FrenchTart · 27 Jan 2009 at 15:53

Fair enough. Apologies if my post was a little short.

It does look really cool. I never completed HL1 'back in the day' so I'd love to get my teeth into it via this.

Shamikebab · 27 Jan 2009 at 15:56

Aekeron said:
I never completed HL1 'back in the day'

Any reason?

northun_munky · 27 Jan 2009 at 15:56

looking at it there is definatley life in the source engine yet. Good to see

Goldfingers · 27 Jan 2009 at 15:56

wow I just realised they are "overhauling" half life deathmatch aswell. This could be really ace.

FrenchTart · 27 Jan 2009 at 16:06

Shamikebab said:
Any reason?

I used to have quite bad issues with motion sickness in FPS games and it wasn't really until just after the HL1 'craze' that I started to be able to play FPS games without vomiting.

Goldfingers · 27 Jan 2009 at 16:09

Play it now then?

FrenchTart · 27 Jan 2009 at 16:12

I don't have the time to play through a huge single player game right now. And even if I did, it's *very* hard to recapture the "magic" of old games if you didn't play it when it was new.

You don't have the rose-tinted glasses that let you ignore the graphics that look bad compared to modern games, the clunky interface and controls and the patience to get round the odd issues that the games have with modern PCs/OS's.

Example: I love System Shock 2 and happily re-play it to this day. I can appreciate that getting someone else to play it that 'missed out' would be rather hard though.

Shamikebab · 27 Jan 2009 at 16:13

I agree with you completely. Hope this mod will let you enjoy it then

Benny · 27 Jan 2009 at 17:37

Will definately be having a crack at this. I remember playing HL watching and rewatching the intro before I even got anywhere near the game. Be nice to take a trip down memory lane.......

Goldfingers · 27 Jan 2009 at 18:03

Fair point Aekeron. May have had a discussion with you about system shock 2 before? I played that recently but for the reasons you mentioned I just didn't enjoy it! Ah well.

medley · 27 Jan 2009 at 18:28

This along with Natural Selection 2 will come out in 2012. You heard it hear first.

Teki187 · 27 Jan 2009 at 18:33

This will never be released, but in the off chance it does, it'll be so far off peoples radar and the source engine will be so dated it'll fail.

Hudzy · 27 Jan 2009 at 18:42

Seems to me they've come too far not to release. I'm staying optimistic.

sh4dy1981 · 27 Jan 2009 at 19:07

il def be trying this out

magicoi · 27 Jan 2009 at 19:23

Been following this for a little while now. Im itching, badly to play it!

I absoltely adored the original when it came out, sitting in a dark room geting spooked at head crabs jumping at me from nowhere! Brilliant!

Tombo · 27 Jan 2009 at 19:25

Teki187 said:
This will never be released, but in the off chance it does, it'll be so far off peoples radar and the source engine will be so dated it'll fail.

Nothing wrong with the source engine, what I like about it is it actually looks real.