Sarge
Register | User Profile | Member List | F.A.Q | Privacy Policy | New Blog | Search Forums | Forums Home
Doomworld Forums : Powered by vBulletin version 2.2.5 Doomworld Forums > Misc. > Everything Else > Black Mesa vs Half-Life 3: Which will be released first? (BM Discussion)(BM DurrHurr)
Well?
Black Mesa
Half-Life 3
Impse 3D
View Results [Edit Poll (moderators only)]
Pages (4): « 1 [2] 3 4 »  
Author
All times are GMT. The time now is 10:47. Post New Thread    Post A Reply
gnudist
Warming Up


Posts: 23
Registered: 04-12
LkMax said:

It was not out of place, it brought a fresh scenario and I love alien worlds (and I have no problem with platforms). Also I would wish the same for you, but hell was "invaded" so many times it would be a walk in the park donw there... bring marshmallows. =P


It just felt weird going from a connected research lab thin that sort of felt like it could be a real place as long as you did't examine things too closely(those weird offices that have no practical way for the scientists to enter or leave that you can see from the opening) to super freeman bros with dull artwork.

Thing about hell is, doomguy has some sort of super not dying from the heat from nearby lava pools powers. You on the other hand would quickly be Hell Fried Human. Finger lickin' good!
Old Post 09-04-12 15:38 #
gnudist is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Search || Add Buddy IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
Nomad
Forum Staple


Posts: 2264
Registered: 04-04
Yeah biggest problem with Xen was platforming in a game that wasn't really constructed for platforming. I'm pretty sure the Black Mesa Source crew realize this so they're putting extra effort into designing the Xen levels with this in mind.
Old Post 09-04-12 19:14 #
Nomad is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Homepage || Search || Add Buddy IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
Mogul
Senior Member


Posts: 1716
Registered: 01-01
You can Greenlight the game for Steam here:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfil...ls/?id=94128543
Old Post 09-05-12 07:10 #
Mogul is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Email || Search || Add Buddy IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
Jodwin
Forum Spammer


Posts: 3022
Registered: 02-05
Mogul said:
You can Greenlight the game for Steam here:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfil...ls/?id=94128543

Do people seriously think that Valve would put it on Steam? :/
Old Post 09-05-12 10:37 #
Jodwin is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Homepage || Search || Add Buddy IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
Super Jamie
Forum Staple


Posts: 2710
Registered: 03-08
Yeah, what are they thinking. Valve would never support a mod's development or facilitate it turning into a stand-alone product.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Fortress_Classic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Strike
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry%27s_Mod
Old Post 09-05-12 11:21 #
Super Jamie is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Search || Add Buddy IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
Jodwin
Forum Spammer


Posts: 3022
Registered: 02-05
With the exception that Black Mesa is based on Valve's IP.
Old Post 09-05-12 13:36 #
Jodwin is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Homepage || Search || Add Buddy IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
Mogul
Senior Member


Posts: 1716
Registered: 01-01
If they get the votes, I don't think there will be a problem. It's more or less publicity for Valve. HL2 went on sale yesterday, 75% off. Perhaps I'm naive (probably so), but my intuition is that the severe discount on that game, this week, is no accident and happened because Valve knows that the hype about Black Mesa will sell copies of HL2 and its two episodic entries, not to mention the original HL for comparison.

I can easily see Valve might feel weird about promoting something like Black Mesa, but at the end of the day, it's a win for everyone, I think.
Old Post 09-05-12 14:19 #
Mogul is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Email || Search || Add Buddy IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
LkMax
Junior Member


Posts: 139
Registered: 08-12
I think there's already some free Source mods on steam... why would they need greenlight? whatever...
Old Post 09-05-12 15:15 #
LkMax is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Search || Add Buddy IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
Aliotroph?
postCount++


Posts: 2192
Registered: 03-02
This process appears to be designed to largely replace whatever their old process was. A lot of worthy mods never did make it to Steam, though half of them were probably IP violations (Goldeneye: Source comes to mind).

If Valve saw anything wrong with Black Mesa they'd have said something negative about it, sent a C&D, etc. Mogul's hunch sounds about right: Valve is going to make a pile of money indirectly from Black Mesa and they know it. They also know the PR will be good, especially if the mod turns out to be good.
Old Post 09-05-12 16:11 #
Aliotroph? is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Search || Add Buddy IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
gnudist
Warming Up


Posts: 23
Registered: 04-12
Jodwin said:
With the exception that Black Mesa is based on Valve's IP.


Valve's Internet Penis.
Old Post 09-06-12 16:58 #
gnudist is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Search || Add Buddy IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
Imp
I'LL CUT YOU BITCH!


Posts: 923
Registered: 10-02
Black Mesa: http://www.blackmesasource.com/ 6 days 20 hours at the time of this post.
Old Post 09-07-12 18:53 #
Imp is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Email || Search || Add Buddy IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
Mogul
Senior Member


Posts: 1716
Registered: 01-01
It's been Greenlit.
Old Post 09-11-12 20:53 #
Mogul is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Email || Search || Add Buddy IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
DoomUK
Forum Spammer


Posts: 3651
Registered: 04-04
Welp, Black Mesa was released.

http://release.blackmesasource.com/

Downloading @ 168 KB/s.
Old Post 09-14-12 17:11 #
DoomUK is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Email || Search || Add Buddy IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
Dragonsbrethren
Senior Member


Posts: 1448
Registered: 03-09
The launch was hilariously inept; trying to make Valve proud, I guess. Not sure why they built so much hype if they knew they were only going to have one direct download and one torrent on some no-name tracker. Once more mirrors popped up it got better, but still.

I started both a direct download and a torrent, and it looks like they're both going to finish in about twenty minutes.
Old Post 09-14-12 17:44 #
Dragonsbrethren is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Email || Homepage || Search || Add Buddy IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
Krispy
Forum Regular


Posts: 814
Registered: 02-12
DoomUK said:


Downloading @ 168 KB/s.


Lucky. 75 here.
Old Post 09-14-12 19:42 #
Krispy is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Search || Add Buddy IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
chungy
Doomworld is so about bullshit excuses


Posts: 1691
Registered: 06-05
yeah even the torrent tracker they used was down so I grabbed it from a more stable host :P

(Seriously, why didn't they just post the magnet link or torrent hash? if blackmesasource.com stays up that's all you need....)
Old Post 09-14-12 19:49 #
chungy is online now Profile || Blog || PM || Email || Search || Add Buddy IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
Dragonsbrethren
Senior Member


Posts: 1448
Registered: 03-09
Played through the first two chapters so far, liking this a lot more than I thought I would. The level design changes and new enemy placements are keeping things fresh.

spoiler - highlight to read:

Not too thrilled with all the zombies added to the beginning. Having to kill them with physics props and flares makes it even worse, since the crowbar is found later than in the original.


Since Valve's given this their blessing and accepted it on Greenlight, I wonder if there's a possibility of them releasing the original/HL:Source for free.
Old Post 09-14-12 19:51 #
Dragonsbrethren is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Email || Homepage || Search || Add Buddy IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
Shaviro
Team Future Chief


Posts: 10750
Registered: 06-00
Just finished the "Office Complex" chapter.
So far it's very nice. Only complaints I have is that it's a little on the quiet side and then of course seeing (and especially hearing) the HL2 Disney version of the vorts in HL1 is a Jar Jar moment.
Old Post 09-15-12 00:03 #
Shaviro is online now Profile || Blog || PM || Search || Add Buddy IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
DoomUK
Forum Spammer


Posts: 3651
Registered: 04-04
Been playing it for a few hours. Just finished the Blast Pit chapter. For an "amateur" project it's really quite spectacular. Props to the team for finishing what they set out to accomplish all those years ago (lack of the Xen chapter notwithstanding).

But I have a couple of complaints. Having to crouch jump all the time to climb every object is irritating, and makes jumping puzzles a nightmare. And the marine combat chatter is abysmally bad; so bad that it breaks the immersion of the game for me. Considering that the rest of the NPC dialogue is professionally done, I honestly don't know what they were thinking.

Last edited by DoomUK on 09-15-12 at 16:57
Old Post 09-15-12 15:59 #
DoomUK is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Email || Search || Add Buddy IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
Aliotroph?
postCount++


Posts: 2192
Registered: 03-02
Yeah, the marines have awful dialogue. They sound like cheesy, dubbed anime villains.

I agree about the crouch jumping too. It's tedious. Why do these games have so many shitty jumping puzzles anyway? Whoever heard of an FPS player talking about how much they love jumping puzzles?
Old Post 09-15-12 16:17 #
Aliotroph? is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Search || Add Buddy IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
Mogul
Senior Member


Posts: 1716
Registered: 01-01
The crouch jumping is excessive. Why would you design your environments like that? Typically, there might be a small handful (say, three) required crouch jumps in a game. This game practically forces you to do it for every single jumping task.

Also, in my opinion, if you're going to spend all these years redesigning the levels, you should make them easier to navigate than a game from 1998. You will spend a great deal of time running back and forth through the same area looking for some hint you missed that will open up the next area. That might have been compelling gameplay (it wasn't) 15 years ago, but it just strikes me as a waste of my time today. It's not fun or challenging or interesting -- it's just boring and probably evidence of lack of talent for the level designers. That, or the game has a bit of an identity crisis, a la DNF, due to its excessively long development period.
Old Post 09-15-12 16:19 #
Mogul is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Email || Search || Add Buddy IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
Ralphis
IDL Founder


Posts: 8801
Registered: 09-02
I'm pretty sure that running back and forth in the same area is part of the puzzle solving element of HL. It forces you to observe the entire environment. I enjoyed it in the original and I enjoy it now. Also, for some reason, heights in Black Mesa have given me a sense of vertigo that I don't often get in other games.

All in all, I've pretty much liked everything I've seen so far (up to where I have to kill the huge green bird arm things that attack sound). Crouch jumping doesn't bother me because I spent years playing HL1 engine games every single day. The team did a really, really good job and you can't beat the price (free) for the content you get.
Old Post 09-15-12 16:34 #
Ralphis is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Homepage || Search || Add Buddy IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
geekmarine
Senior Member


Posts: 1100
Registered: 05-00
As someone who regularly dusts off his old copy of Half-Life, I'd have to say if anything, I've been pleased that they've eliminated quite a few of the jumping puzzles from the original game. Yeah, there are still a few, but not nearly as many as in the original. It's nice to see them looking at those puzzles and recognizing that they don't add anything. This is especially obvious in sections where you're climbing ladders in elevator shafts... The original game would have you constantly trying to leap from ladders to narrow ledges, whereas in Black Mesa, they provide makeshift walkways.

My biggest gripe so far is simply that my computer is kind of old and they really pushed the Source engine to its limits. The first brief section topside with the military was practically unplayable on my machine, and I hate how many hits I'm taking due to my computer randomly stuttering in the middle of a fight. Other than that, though, I feel just as immersed in the game as I did the original when I played it all those years ago.
Old Post 09-15-12 16:56 #
geekmarine is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Email || Homepage || Search || Add Buddy IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
AirRaid
Graphics Zealot


Posts: 2703
Registered: 11-00
Mogul said:
The crouch jumping is excessive. Why would you design your environments like that? Typically, there might be a small handful (say, three) required crouch jumps in a game. This game practically forces you to do it for every single jumping task.


Not to go all "HURR REALISM" but when was the last time you vaulted straight onto a waist high wall/box without bending your legs/using your arms?
Old Post 09-15-12 17:51 #
AirRaid is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Email || Homepage || Search || Add Buddy IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
Mogul
Senior Member


Posts: 1716
Registered: 01-01
Right, I thought about that. But bent knees are pretty much always part of jumping animations. It's reasonable to assume that your character isn't straight-legged when he jumps. And besides, when pretty much the only times you have to jump, you actually have to jump+crouch, what's the point of jump+crouch? Inelegant design, imo.
Old Post 09-15-12 18:54 #
Mogul is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Email || Search || Add Buddy IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
Bucket
ROCK & LOAD
COCK BEEN BLOWED
IN YOUR MOUTH,
MANJUICE EXPLOAD


Posts: 4247
Registered: 01-04
I crouch-jump compulsively in every single game now, thanks to HL.
Old Post 09-15-12 19:10 #
Bucket is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Email || Search || Add Buddy IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
DoomUK
Forum Spammer


Posts: 3651
Registered: 04-04
Heh, I'd forgotten compulsory crouch jumping was in the original game.

I still don't care for it.
Old Post 09-15-12 20:00 #
DoomUK is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Email || Search || Add Buddy IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
Dragonsbrethren
Senior Member


Posts: 1448
Registered: 03-09
Crouch jumping has never bothered me, probably because of Half-Life, but the jumping in this feels really off for some reason. I actually fell a couple times during the hanging box section, something I haven't done in the original since I first got the game.

The only other thing that's really bothered me about this so far is purely engine related, and it's all of the loading screens. I had completely forgotten how annoying those are in the (Gold) Source games.
Old Post 09-15-12 20:08 #
Dragonsbrethren is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Email || Homepage || Search || Add Buddy IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
Krispy
Forum Regular


Posts: 814
Registered: 02-12
Damn, I'm stuck in part of the game.
SPOILERS!
spoiler - highlight to read:

It's the conveyor belt part. I've been there for like two hours now. There doesn't seem to be a way out. Any suggestions?
Old Post 09-15-12 21:35 #
Krispy is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Search || Add Buddy IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
Dragonsbrethren
Senior Member


Posts: 1448
Registered: 03-09
That section was pretty obnoxious. I can't remember how it was in the original, but I'm sure the solution didn't blend into the background as much as it does in this.

spoiler - highlight to read:

Did you find the area where you can use the joystick to move the little bridge thing on the crane? On the wall near where you enter that room there's a tiny button that opens one of the shutters. You just position the bridge in front of that open shutter and jump into it.

If you didn't get that far, you basically drop from each conveyor belt onto the one below it, you'll get to the area I'm describing eventually.


The same buttons are used solely for detail all over the place, so I walked right past it about four times before I finally took notice to it.

---
Old Post 09-16-12 00:53 #
Dragonsbrethren is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Email || Homepage || Search || Add Buddy IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
All times are GMT. The time now is 10:47. Post New Thread    Post A Reply
Pages (4): « 1 [2] 3 4 »  
Doomworld Forums : Powered by vBulletin version 2.2.5 Doomworld Forums > Misc. > Everything Else > Black Mesa vs Half-Life 3: Which will be released first? (BM Discussion)(BM DurrHurr)

Show Printable Version | Email this Page | Subscribe to this Thread

 

Forum Rules:
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts 		HTML code is OFF
vB code is ON
Smilies are OFF
[IMG] code is ON
 

< Contact Us - Doomworld >

Powered by: vBulletin Version 2.2.5
Copyright ©2000, 2001, Jelsoft Enterprises Limited.

Message Board Statistics