On 21/09/2012 05:00 PM, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> On 15/09/2012 09:57 PM, Warp wrote:
>> Black Mesa is a Source mod that's basically a remake / total conversion
>> of Half-Life (using the modern Source engine).
>
> I love how all the TVs are made by "Fony". ;-)

I found the gold gun. I'm loving how after it overcharges, you go in the 
room where it's kept, and there's just a pair of shoes in the middle of 
the room. Smoking. :-D

I'm not loving how the gold gun is now approximately as powerful as a 
water pistol. :-( That thing used to be the best gun in the game.

I also remember that in the original game, the SMG was a really powerful 
weapon - unlike in later games where they made it more "realistic" in 
that SMGs are really inaccurate. In Black Mesa, it seems they went with 
realism. If an enemy is more than about 20 yards away, you're wasting 
your time trying to use the SMG. You won't hit anything.

Which is a pity, because in HL1, when you picked up the SMG, suddenly 
you were like this unstoppable killing machine. The gun spits out 
bullets at an absurd rate, mowing down anything in your path. I suppose 
you could argue it made the game "too easy" - but generally you ran out 
of ammo so fast, it wasn't a big deal.

What I'm really liking is that a lot of the environments now look like 
real places that might actually exist, rather than a random collections 
of cubes with different texturing. The unethical labs actually have a 
different feel to the office complex, for example. Some really nice use 
of lighting. (Although it still bothers me how many corridors have 
random equipment with knobs and dials on it. Would you really put that 
in the middle of a corridor?)

The outdoor scenes feel more like somewhere out in the desert now. 
Storage areas /look like/ storage areas. Car parks have some cars in 
them. And so on. I'm really enjoying playing this game!

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