I downloaded and played BM, thought I would vent a little. I did nothing to create or help BM, FWIW:
BM doesn’t follow close enough to the original game. Rooms should be pretty much the same, just better resolution. The enemies you fight should also be pretty much exactly the same. Most areas have tones of elaborate additions and detail that just clutter up the look. I’m looking for nostalgia not a new game. It takes a long time to load each checkpoint, and its mostly this eyecandy BS. Most rooms in halflife I can remember where it is in the game with just a screenshot, but with BM, I’m constantly wondering where am I?
There is way too much dust, light effects and blur. It makes the game nearly unplayable on my machine. I’m building a new one, but it will not be a 3800$ moneypit so there should be a way to turn these “features” off. I mean just busting open a crate releases so much dust it bogs me down. Going through the game I just stopped doing it because it was such a hassle (and missed a lot of ammo, etc). If you can’t create such optional settings, then just build two versions of the game one without those effects and one with. I know some of you are performance mavens, but I’m not interested in spending thousands of dollars every year on hardware.
Why does everything require a crouch-jump? It is so hard to move around in general. when you walk sideways the screen lurches like you’ve turned your head. There is no point for junk like this in a game. If you enjoy finger gymnastics then play a game with Mario in the title. At least BM doesn’t have the up and down, simulated walking that just churns my stomach.
I do not care for hyper-realistic first person shooters. Now I want realistic guns and other weapons, realistic shooting. And I don’t like the cartoon characters in team fortress2, everything should look real. I’m talking about less realism in the consequences and gameplay. My number one complaint is when you get shot, your vision blurs and your body lurches around. It effects lower performance machines and it is just stupid. If I wanted such realism, I’d just go be the next adam lanza. At least BM maintains the suit and the health hitpoints of the original game. In some games with just 2 or 3 hits and you die. Ultimately in real life “just” a flesh wound is debilitating. A bullet passing though your arm, not hitting a bone or major artery would be insanely painfull, life threatening and physically debilitating. This realism in games is a pathetic joke. Such games should have it so once you get shot the first time, then game ends. Then you play a game called rehab for six months while you sit in a bed and heal. A game is for amusement, I want lots of hit points, the point is to go after virtual people and shoot them, not to really experience combat. If it is the point for you then the game makers are really letting you down. You get .001% of actual realism. So stop clogging up my gameplay will BS.
