Black Mesa Released [Sep 14, 2012, 11:44 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
They're waiting for you Gordon, at the Black Mesa Website, where they now offer the long-awaited first release of the Black Mesa modification to bring the gameplay from Half-Life to the Source engine (thanks ochentay4). Here's word from the wiki:
Black Mesa (formerly Black Mesa: Source) is a Half-Life 2 total conversion remaking of Valve Software's award-winning PC game, Half-Life.
Utilizing the Source engine, Black Mesa will reintroduce the player as Doctor Gordon Freeman, along with the original cast of memorable characters and environments seen in Half-Life. Black Mesa was built and founded on the basis that Half-Life: Source didn't fully live up to the potential of a Source engine port of Half-Life. As such, Black Mesa was founded to fully reconstruct the Half-Life universe utilizing Source to its fullest potential in terms of art detail, level sizes and code features. It should be noted that the project is being built from the ground up and is not a simple port of Half Life maps and models into the Source Engine. The idea is to remake the storyline used in Half Life into a new polished Source Engine version with new models, maps, soundtrack, voice acting and textures.
This total conversion will not require Half-Life: Source to play - only a copy of any Source Engine game installed on Steam. For more details, check the System Requirements.
Ratty wrote on Sep 14, 2012, 14:52:
By basic science foundations do you mean like "if all electricity stopped working why don't they die on account of our nerves and brains use electricity?" which I don't care about - sufficiently advanced technology being indistinguishable and all that. Or something more egregious?
Some of the things that bugged me in the trailer:
- That everyone apparently stops using guns and turns back to using bows/arrows/swords. What? Did the Wild West need electricity to make guns and ammo? No, they did not. So why the fuck would people STOP using guns?
- That Wrigley field gets overgrown with shit in 15 years. It's a fun look, but it wouldn't go that fast, and why would people stop using Wrigley Field? If anything, that'd become a major community center for barter etc, if they wouldn't just keep playing baseball for the heck of it.
But I'll still watch the first few episodes. JJ Abrams knows how to tell a good story, so we'll see what happens.
Creston
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