Except less shitty.
ORLY?
i wish you knew how wrong you are.
Same here.
That’s actually a good (if immoral) analogy.
You love HL, but Her sister is so much like her, only hotter, and you hope someday to have both at the same time. :retard:
W7 is different, but it’s not like it breaks compatibility with goldsrc (as far as I know), much less a modern game engine like source. If source wasn’t 7 compatible, we’d all be fucked.
But, if you place this analogy on this reality, you are going to have both, but you are going to do manipulations (hehe) with the hotter sister 
BM is the loser. It has bad gameplay.
[COLOR=’#252525’]One of us HAS to be right
It won’t be able to replace HL1 as a game because half-life itself was a milestone. Also the fact that the GFX are different are important there.
But, I will most likely play BM more than I play any of the HL2 games now, because it’s more the old-fashioned “shoot those dang aliens!” games than the new HL games. Plus the co-op mode will add more to it 
I’m on the fence about it, because all opinions aside: Black Mesa has yet to be released. Plus I am never up to the “what if,” scenarios.
The only answer I can clearly give past that is a complicated one. How I view this mod now has is kind of been influenced by it growth of a small idea, that’s snowballed over the years to what it’s become (a monolith in its own right). Black Mesa in my opinion could actually incur more immersion then the original game could ever hope to achieve.
However the original Half Life is still king in its own right, and did set the standard for the inevitability of this modification to be created a few years latter. Yes, I am talking about the dreaded question: what came first, the Chicken or the Egg? In which Half Life is still an ingenious IP that has made a big impact over what it means to be a First Person Shooter.
It’s still a hard decision; to which I rather hold my breath, and see how Black Mesa fairs in reviews from different sources. Plus that is including me once I go through it a few times. Nonetheless there is no doubt in my mind this mod will have a big influence on what it mean to have a top of the line quality modification of a game.
I can say that because I’m psychic and I know it will be awesome. In all seriousness, I can just tell from the trailer and the screenshots that with your awesome level design, Raminator, it will be even better than Valve’s HL. Let’s admit it, Half Life 1 had a little bit of bad level design. Sure, it wasn’t epic fail level design like Halo but it had a little bit of bad level design in the HL1 game. You guys will make going to Black Mesa Research Facility even more awesome with the Source Engine and it will seem more lifelike because the facility’s square footage will be bigger like it would be in real life. I’ll go with the lifelike Source Engine over the fantasy GoldSrc Engine anyday. A game that is lifelike to me is more awesome because it immerses you into the situation. Remember you are Gordon Freeman. So BM will be my choice to play on my Windows 7 gaming desktop. Besides, I don’t feel like fooling with Windows 7 getting Half Life 1 or Half Life: Source to work. I’ll just play BM.
HL1 works just fine on W7…
I think he means Illogical Level Design, which is what I agree with (which is one of the many reasons why the BM team is going back to the game), though the levels themselves where atmospheric and each chapter had its own personality which is also the reason why I go back again and again.
Compare that with Quake and Quake 2
It was years ahead of it’s contemporaries. But that still puts it years behind modern standards of level design. Even just from HL2 to Ep2 Valve got better and better at awesome maps and environments, so I don’t see it as a sacrilege to say HL had some naff bits. It was still lightyears better than the ‘big’ games of that year, Quake II and Unreal.
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Exactly what Bean said. Half Life made all id Software games look inferior where Half Life came out superior. Half Life is better than Descent 2, Quake 2, Riven, and other games made around that time. I mean, come on, Half Life has gotten the Best PC Game Ever Award from PC Gamer Magazine in November 1999, October 2001, and April 2005. This information can be verified on the back of the Half Life 1 Anthology case if you have one.
As shown in Freeman’s Mind 17 (I think that is the last one), the fan bit is completely nonsensical level design. I didn’t figure it out for a half an hour or more, and only because I suicided right into the fan just because I was so frustrated.
Also, the fact that you have to go through the fan blades to turn the fan on or off is purely ridiculous.
I really hate that room.
I will still play the original Half-Life, but only for nostalgic reasons, BM will be the standard. Great graphics, great gameplay (assuminmg it’s like HL2) and it’s uncensored! 
Play the game as it should be played :freeman:
Black Mesa will replace everything!
“Black Mesa is NOT dead, Black Mesa is LIFE!”
“You put Black Mesa in a bowling ball?” “Of course not, the guy at the pro shop did it.”
It’s still a bit early since BMS isn’t out yet, but yes, if it’s as good as I think it will be then it will completely replace HL1 for me.
I’ve played through HL1/Op4/BS and HLS so I’ll always remember the originals, but I think that BMS stays close enough to HL1 that it can definitely replace the original.