for me, I will never play half-life one again… I never had touched a half-life game in ages. I mainly play COD4 and I’ve uninstalled Steam a long time ago before i reformatted my computer. but i’m willing to reinstall Steam once your mod is out… An 80GB Hard disk is quite small nowadays so I’m conserving as much space as I can.
I actually never completed Half-Life. I started PC gaming not too long ago, a few months, and I got Half-Life. I got through a few levels, but the game often froze at not-so-random times. This slowed my progress with the game tremendously.
A while later, I got an new PC. Mikey didn’t know to back up the game files, so I have to start the game all over. I have no desire to do this until the Black Mesa Mod comes out.
Why would he be in trouble? All the source-engine stuff is, what, some 10 GB? Even if BM will be about 10 GB that leaves more than enough space for an OS and numerous other games and programs…
Yes, most likely it will.
As long as the AI is as good or better, the story the same and/or expanded slightly, visuals updated, voice work differing with different scientists, um…
There isn’t much to look back on for HL1 that was special that hasn’t been done 100% better in games today. The Story/Presentation is the only really important factor that the game had that still stands high in the ranks of FPSer’s today. Everything else is outdated… but still has a strong nostalgic sentiment.
I think I’m only going to play this one because I never even played the original.
Especially since it’s free.
I’ll probably let it replace it for me.
I get headaches playing vanilla, which is too bad.
I doubt I’ll go back to HL1 again. Once I find something that improves and expands on an original version, I’ll latch onto it pretty quick. I’ve always loved and respected the Half-Life franchise and the storyline is enough to suck you in before you fire your first round, so I’ll fondly remember the original version. But c’mon. BM is just SO shiny and pretty.
I’ll see maybe - maybe not. 
I haven’t played HL1 in a while so I think I should go back and play through it one more time before BM is released. Considering the quality this mod seems to be holding, I doubt I will be going back.
Well since I’ve never played HL1 I can’t really say it will or not. But I know for some fans it will replace it.
You should really play the original before you play Black Mesa.
I consider BM more like a replacement to HL: Source than to HL1.
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Have I already replied to the question? Whatever.
BM will not replace Half Life for me. Sure, they’re remaking most scenes extremely accurately (I say ‘most’ because they edit some as well (On a Rail)), but some are very memorable in their graphical state. Half-Life is much scarier than Half-Life 2, and I think it has some thing to do with the graphics. Aren’t games scarier with bad graphics, or is it just me? It’s just me. :meh:
I’ll try to play it sometime before the release but I doubt that I can. On some games I think the bad graphics are scarier than the game/sequel with better graphics on some games. For example I think the flood scenes on Halo:CE (Combat Evolved) are much more scarier than the flood scenes on Halo 3.
I don’t think its completely a case of bad graphics. Being badly rendered just lends more of a helping hand in being obscure. Which would technically make you right… but I don’t think its a requirement for being scary. How encounters are presented will most likely determine if this game matches up to the terrifying moments you experienced in the original.
Well the encounters you ‘Don’t’ remember will anyway.
I would have to 2nd that, cause my disappointment with HL: Source is the whole reason I found Black Mesa: Source to begin with. I’m not sure if you can replace the original, since well… it just changed the industry so much. But like so many groundbreaking movies of the past the story can be retold anew and enjoyed again with improvements to gameplay, sound, story and graphics.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, but I’m still looking forward to BM: S.
I think you are more scared by the horrible graphics, than by the game itself.
Now seriously: I don’t think so.
It’s just the setting and HL2 isn’t supposed to be scary at all.
This also has to do with the environment: HL2 has its main focus on outdoor, while HL1 is indoor.
If you’ve watched the trailer, you will notice a scarier setting, especially the zombie scene.
HL2 isn’t supposed to be scary? Have you not got to Ravenholme then?
HL2 hasn’t its main focus on horror and fright.
Ravenholm was just one level.
And if this level isn’t built scary enough for you, than this has nothing to do with the graphics itself.
It depends on the factor how a level is set up (mapping, sounds, music, npcs), what kind of events you have and what you intend.
And as I sayed: Indoor is almost always scarier than outdoor.
Look at Doom 3 or Dead Space for example. Both have no bad/old graphics, but are scary.
Or play the mod Nightmare House Remake for example.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Doom 3 had graphics?
Woah! I must have been distracted by the shit game.