It will be the game up to the Lambda Core.
http://www.moddb.com/mods/black-mesa
They are finishing Xen and Death Match.
http://www.moddb.com/mods/black-mesa
They are finishing Xen and Death Match.
Only people who are blinded by nostalgia think that.
Considering how long it took them to do this and it's STILL not finished, I'd say no.
Only people who are blinded by nostalgia think that.
And only people who weren't playing games at that time and have no idea what they're talking about would think that
For those of us who WERE, it was an astounding game. No nostalgia about it, chief. This is proven by how it won something like 50 Game of the Year awards alone, had some of the highest review scores of any game up to that point, let alone FPS.
Most importantly, it became the new Doom. It was the new standard that other FPS were judged against, and everything started borrowing and using its ideas, which is the truest sign of greatness.
Hearing about someone who's never played Half Life is always kind of like meeting someone whose never seen Star Wars; it's shocking.
Easily one of the most influential, and best, FPS of all-time, hands down.
Yeah I just checked my Steam Folder.
I got Half Like Source... So is this going to be better? I hope so because I was disappointed with the game, it was a dated shooter.
Your also forgetting the countless mods that came about through Half Life which spawned whole new sub-genres of multiplayer shooters itself:
Counter Strike
Firearms Mod
Natural Selection
Took online FPS away from the arena style shooters and into the realm of more tactical based affairs.
Only people who are blinded by nostalgia think that.
That's like saying Gone With The Wind is a bad movie...
I have enough love to go around.
I started FPS gaming when I was 12 in 1992, when I downloaded the demo for Wolfenstein 3D from a BBS. I loved it. Another FPS (kinda) I liked around that time was Stellar 7.
In the next couple of years I got my hands on Doom 1 and Doom 2. Those were defining moments for me. I was already pretty much leaving consoles in the rear view mirror, in 1993 on my birthday I had to choose between Genesis and SNES and I chose Genesis. A good system, but I didn't really like very many games on it. I think that choice helped me put my focus on PC gaming, right at the perfect time to do so.
In 1995 I was heavily immersed in Doom 2 still, playing it with my best friend all the time over the modem. I can't remember if we had 14.4 or 28.8 modems at that time. We'd co-op and death match all night. This was also the year I got MechWarrior 2, which I loved to death. Also what was really cool is that the game disc for MechWarrior 2 also had the soundtrack on it and you could play it in your CD player. Some of the tracks were really soothing, and my 15 year old self would fall asleep to them sometimes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C42xCauM9jU
1995 was also when I was loving Descent, which my brother couldn't play because it gave him bad vertigo.
1996 was a landmark year indeed, Quake 1. Holy crap. As much as I loved Doom, Quake 1 was a revelation. Online play on the internet servers night and day, I couldn't get enough. I hung out in #Quake on IRC's undernet all the time, and the day the game was released, my copy arrived from Texas quicker than anyone else who was in the channel, I had a bunch of Nine Inch Nails fans begging me for the soundtrack somehow. This was prior to mp3, I did try to DCC over IRC a couple of enormous .wavs of it, but I gave up after a bit because I wanted to go play!
Quake 1 was amazing. I joined the first clan for it in that same IRC channel, and this may have also been the first online FPS clan. There were only about 5 of us in it. It was called Unholy Alliance.
One of the moderators of #Quake undernet was Disruptor, who would later go on to be hired by id software. He is Christian Antkow and still works there I believe.
When the guy who programmed the famous grappling hook for Quake 1 finished it, or thought he finished it... he was programming on a computer which wasn't actually good enough to run Quake. We were talking in IRC at the time, and he asked me to test it so he could know how it was working before he got to his better PC. It was awesome. Because of this, I was the first person ever to use the famous Quake 1 grappling hook. I felt pretty cool. I used it even before it's programmer! For anyone whose memory of it is fuzzy, it was the one where you'd swing the axe, and then the spider woman monster's purple energy web ball would fly out and have a trail of crap behind it... and lock you onto whatever spot it hit, then drag you toward it. It was great.
1997 for me was most characterized by my love for Jedi Knight 1. It was the last game my older brother really got into much, he would go on to play CS1 a fair amount, and HL1 DM a fair amount, but JK1 was that last time when we were both equally into gaming. Here I am 32 years old and I still sort of am, he hasn't been in years. Guess he probably made the wiser choice, ha.
So 1998... wow, the apex of gaming.
Half-Life 1 was amazing. Unreal 1 was amazing. How did I find the time for all the stuff I played that year? I was playing Zelda: OOT on my N64, which was amazing. Unreal 1... Half-Life 1... tons of HL1 Deathmatch, TONS AND TONS of Ultima Online which was the best MMO experience ever in it's first couple of years... it had come out in 1997 I think.
So yea Half-Life 1 was fantastic. Running around on stockyards map in death match, popping people with the shotgun... pure bliss. That damned bee gun, snarks! fuckin' snarks!
I may have been more of a PC gamer for years at that point, but I wasn't too discriminatory. Sure, I was pissed when Halo 1 got diverted from PC/Mac and was going to be XBox exlusive, but I got a damned XBox and Halo 1 and you know what? It was fucking amazing too. I LOVE the Halo series, especially the first game. Absolutely fantastic.
So, like I said, I have enough love to spread around.
Cool, I've held off playing the original because the graphics and sound track are so dated. Black Mesa took so long to be finished I was losing hope of ever playing the game.
Even with the dated graphics, the story will pull you in. F'ing great game. Looking forward to the DL of the mod.