Good point, but still, I want to see an Alein Grunt in the source engine!
Fuck.
So from that incredibly vague quote, I gathered that they could have been stranded on Earth (Not their natural native environment), gained “access to a steady food supply” (again, left ambiguous), and as far as we know, could be thriving on Earth during HL2. It’s not like they’ll have to jump through hoops to explain that.
That quote is so full of if’s, probably’s, whatever’s, and may-well-have’s that it literally says nothing about what happened to the Controllers.
If you don’t like mods that reintroduce old content from the goldsource Half-Life games, why are you on the Black Mesa forum? 
Hmm… Xen isnt their homeworld. Its just a borderworld.
Well that’s just stupid… It’s not like this is some random mod, mashed together from old HL1 enemies, Combine and Alyx, that doesn’t really follow any story at all. This is an attempt to re-create HL1 with nice new graphics!
she may be too good for what they are trying to use
I know what Black Mesa is. It just seemed pretty ironic that he would complain about THAT in particular, since that’s exactly what Black Mesa is. Old content brought to new engine.
IMO he was complaining about old content brought to a new engine in some random game, that shouldn’t even have any of the old content in the first place…?
Many fans like to expand upon a story. Just look at all the fan fiction that’s been created for Star Trek, Star Wars, etc… They like to fill in areas of the story that aren’t covered in the main plot. It’s just a fan’s prerogative to do so if they want to. It doesn’t appeal to everyone, but it doesn’t have to.
Remember, these are “Sort Stories” the one about, " [Becoming] part of a small Civil Protection team that is pitted against the remains of the Xenian forces, who are making a last ditch effort to escape Earth. Utilize a variety of new tools such as controllable manhacks, as well as using new vehicles such as the APC."
If they want to fill in an unanswered question in Half-Life about what happen to the remnants of Nihilianth’s forces now trapped on Earth, then it would make sense to use creatures from Nihilanth’s forces.
Now they are creating Manta’s to fight ground forces, and Agrunts, alien controllers, and Vortigaunts recently freed from there collars and armor trying tp survive in a new environment and possibly find their way back home. That’s different.
If totally new creatures are required to be original, then OP4 should be completely original since he had different weapons, different HUD, raceX, and so on. While Black Mesa’s attempt at Nostalgia and realism is common, generic, and shameless. Metastasis would also be unoriginal since there is essentially nothing new.
I am not trying to flame you, or pick a fight, and I really hope that it doesn’t come across as such. But Fans wanting to experience nostalgia and continue to retell and expand on a story that they love is not shameless. It’s only shameless when someone is trying to make money off of it, and money is their only goal.
But why would they NOT want quality? I say take her best lines, and maybe use that as leverage to improve the other voice actors. It’s lot like people like listening to monotone, bland, poorly written lines, so why settle for it?
They should let her work to the top of her ability.
If it werent for you folks making a gal feel good about her voice acting work, idiots like badsmedon the steam forums would make me cry.
i already exampled paranoid park as a movie where they did not want exceptional interpretation because it was supposed to be a character who doesn’t really show emotion ,
like they say
"a voice acting is about as good as the place where it’s used "
maybe our catz is too expressive to intense for what they need , if they want to modified to a drone woman or a scared in shock woman a too expressive voice would be out of place no? , this assuming they are not idiots
it’s safe to assume that they make best use of what they chose , after all , they wouldn’t start a mod without knowing about what it will be about no?
He could have done the face animation for more than one to see what each looked and sounded like, but only showed the one as just a quick example. He said he just got them sound files the other day, he may not have made his final decision yet.
I just realized that iKy’s avi is a dude with pink hair.
LOL ditto! After seeing it Idk how many times I never noticed what it was, and then when I made my last post and returned to the page I glanced at the avi and realized what it was.
And this is on-topic how?
Anyway, I’ll be keeping an eye on the mod, just for the lulz of killing vorts again like I should.
You realized that a while ago.
Anyway, I thot iKy looked like a Grunt from Halo, with feathers.
And I do not see any tits.
I’d hit it.
The remake is something else entirely. The point of black mesa is to recreate Half-Life in it’s entirety, and that is a solid foundation for a mod. But when you have a mod with no idea what to expect in terms of gameplay, and rides on little more then pretty graphics, weapons and monsters, then the mod is guaranteed to either fail or be horribly bland.
Where did I ever say it was?
You’re not talking about the same mod as the rest of us.
@Sitten_duck: Thank’s for helping make some sense of it. I assumed the game was set much closer to the events of HL2.
I has been tracking that mod since last year. 