I love this and the ghoul dude “Ben”.
That was pretty awesome I have to say. If only all fan films could follow the source material so well and still be so entertaining.
That is like TV show quality…they need to get this turned into a tv show…tbh it’s better than escape to city 17 and obviously better than beyond black mesa. Anything is ebtter than that pile of crap
Agreed. Beyond Black Mesa was an okay showpiece for post-production effects but not much else.
It was like a half arsed attempt…I mean to leave the headcrabs out completely is just lazy. How hard can it be to make a paper maché(spelling?) headcrab or out of fabric or just buy a headcrab hat?..That reminds me I need to buy a headcrab hat
Beyond Black Mesa was better, from a cinematic perspective.
Also paper mache headcrabs or headcrab hats would look terrible. I can see why they avoided them.
better than leaving headcrabs out all together thus making the film make no sense at all
Anyone who knows Half-Life knows what they were supposed to be. The very fact we’re discussing this proves that.
In my professional opinion, Nuka Break is miles above BBM. Beyond Black Mesa fell into the same trap that a lot of the special effects majors at my college fell into with their films: the cinematography was flashy, but it wasn’t actually motivated, and the story more or less existed to service the special effects.
Nuka Break focused on the story and characters, and even though the cinematography and editing were less flashy, they both serviced the storytelling in very specific ways, which is a much more difficult thing to achieve. It was actually very well directed, whereas BBM was really workmanlike.
Put another way, the people who directed and shot Nuka Break could easily be working on feature films or high-end television. The same can’t be said of the BBM people, aside from the visual effects people.
They just cover different ends of a spectrum. One is action oriented and one is character oriented. In their respective fields they work, but I just found BBM more enjoyable and thus a better product. It says nothing bad of the other.
As a fun side note, pulling out your “professional opinion” in matters of strict enjoy/did not enjoy is fairly meaningless.
You’d be correct! If your point weren’t a straw man, that is.
I was responding to this statement specifically:
In terms of which was more “cinematic” I think the fact that I work in this industry and have to edit things like this on a daily basis isn’t totally irrelevant. 
It’s still mostly subjective – that goes without saying – but I think there are objective points to be made on which is closer to something you’d see in a cinema, and there’s no doubt in my mind that it’s Nuka Break.
I’ve always considered good cinematics as relative as good writing or good art direction. Yes there are general rules for it and you can generally tell if its quality is good or bad, but at the end of the day, it all comes down to whether or not you like the style, and I happen to like the style of BBM.
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I think Red being painfully average looking with the irritating diva personality made her character. She’d have no purpose if she looked good.
It’s just that most of the humor was Fallout, and red being very irrelevant to it made her jokes didn’t fly as well due to not taking the wind of being video game related. Probably not explaining it well.
Nah, I get it.
Fix’d
I have to agree with pieface here.
I have the sudden urge to photoshoop my picture into a pie shaped face
Probably would be easier to look at.
On a side note, Beyond Black Mesa’s resources would have been better spent creating their own universe solely for the purpose of not having to meet the arbitrary standards of the butthole we call a gaming community to somehow equal or be a good enough replacement for quality. I’m an enormous twat though.