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On 23/09/2012 10:28 AM, Warp wrote:
> Valve seems to be a really nice and non-evil game company.
...and by total coincidence, I just read this:
http://tinyurl.com/ct7ok27
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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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On 9/19/2012 0:27, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> It only took, like, a few minutes to actually /download/. What took me
> almost an hour was finding a download link that /works/.
You didn't try the torrent download link on the home page of the project?
> "I have /two/ PhDs. I cannot stand these menial tasks any longer. 'Stand
> here, push this button, go over there, pull that lever.'
I cracked up from that too.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"They're the 1-800-#-GORILA of the telecom business."
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On 23/09/2012 10:14 PM, Darren New wrote:
> On 9/19/2012 0:27, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>> It only took, like, a few minutes to actually /download/. What took me
>> almost an hour was finding a download link that /works/.
>
> You didn't try the torrent download link on the home page of the project?
I don't have a Bit Torrent client installed on this machine. And I
didn't want to go to all the bother of doing that just for this one
download. (Of course, if I'd have known how frigging long it was going
to take...)
>> "I have /two/ PhDs. I cannot stand these menial tasks any longer. 'Stand
>> here, push this button, go over there, pull that lever.'
>
> I cracked up from that too.
Yeah, you can tell who this game is aimed at. ;-)
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On 9/23/2012 14:42, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> I don't have a Bit Torrent client installed on this machine.
Generally speaking, it's probably a good investment, given it's free.
Or, to phrase it differently, you would have spent less time getting your
download than you spent looking where to get it without bittorrent. It's
generally the fastest way to get anything, when it's available. (Partly due
to piracy encouraging people to rent high-bandwidth servers for torrenting,
amusingly enough.)
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"They're the 1-800-#-GORILA of the telecom business."
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On 23/09/2012 10:56 PM, Darren New wrote:
> On 9/23/2012 14:42, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>> I don't have a Bit Torrent client installed on this machine.
>
> Generally speaking, it's probably a good investment, given it's free.
Oh sure, I know that. I mean I haven't set it up yet.
(Beyond merely installing it, I also need to reprogram our router to
open the necessary incoming ports, so it's not like it just involves
installing a program.)
Random fact: It amuses me how many bit torrent clients can be downloaded
/using bit torrent/!
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Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> On 23/09/2012 10:14 PM, Darren New wrote:
> > On 9/19/2012 0:27, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> >> "I have /two/ PhDs. I cannot stand these menial tasks any longer. 'Stand
> >> here, push this button, go over there, pull that lever.'
> >
> > I cracked up from that too.
>
> Yeah, you can tell who this game is aimed at. ;-)
I thought this monologue was also poking a bit of fun at the player through the
fourth wall, since it describes the solution to many of the puzzles in the game.
:)
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On 9/23/2012 15:11, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> (Beyond merely installing it, I also need to reprogram our router to open
> the necessary incoming ports, so it's not like it just involves installing a
> program.)
Reprogramming your router should be trivial, even if you don't have UPnP
turned on.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"They're the 1-800-#-GORILA of the telecom business."
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On 9/23/2012 16:11, waggy wrote:
> Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>> On 23/09/2012 10:14 PM, Darren New wrote:
>>> On 9/19/2012 0:27, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>>>> "I have /two/ PhDs. I cannot stand these menial tasks any longer. 'Stand
>>>> here, push this button, go over there, pull that lever.'
>>>
>>> I cracked up from that too.
>>
>> Yeah, you can tell who this game is aimed at. ;-)
>
> I thought this monologue was also poking a bit of fun at the player through the
> fourth wall, since it describes the solution to many of the puzzles in the game.
> :)
I figured it was breaking the fourth wall in that he doesn't realize he's an
extra in a video game. I'm not sure if you're laughing at something different?
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"They're the 1-800-#-GORILA of the telecom business."
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On 23/09/2012 12:06 PM, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> 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.
Holy hell, they made the gluon gun *way* more powerful though... heh.
It's actually worth a damn now.
Hey, and - woah! They haven't finished building Xen yet? Damnit! :-(
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