Black Mesa Is Genius, And Here's Why*
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 มิ.ย. 2024
- Some people said I needed to do more clickbait stuff. Others said I have big Hbomb energy. I combined them together, and created: plagarism*
Others say the intro is still going. They were right then, and they're right now.
This was fun to make. I can see why people do it. Please never ask me to make clickbait again. It makes me feel dirty. I was too far into the "joke" around doing a clickbaity title and ripping off hbomb that by the time I realised it was a mistake it was too late, and the infinitely better titles suggested by my Patreons couldn't be used because half the video wouldn't make sense. The joke has only become more of a mistake as time marched forwards
Also there's a lot of audio and footage chopping, which frustrates me. The HD file of this is 20GB. The UHD file was 80GB. Davinci Resolve was having NONE of it, and then the credits were screwy so I had to delete the old video. But despite it being unlisted and not sharing a link, 6 of yous saw it before I took it down to upload a corrected version! What's going on there, TH-cam?!
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TIMESTAMPS, BABY!
0:00 - Introduction
04:35 - Hey, look! The Intro's still going!
05:40 - I. A Brief History Of Half Life
10:39 - II. Pacing and Gameplay (Or, the ACTUAL start of the analysis)
17:37 - III. Combat and Tutorialising
33:29 - IV. Stameplay
46:53 - V. Sound Design
52:30 - VI. Xen
1:00:33 - VII. Gonarch's Lair
1:09:16 - VIII. Nihilanth and Endgame
1:14:54 - Credits and End Cards
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Borrowed Observations:
Half Life - Broken yet Perfect | Trav Guy Reviews - That Trav Guy (sorry again for lifting those HL1 observations I really didn't mean to):
• Half Life - Broken yet...
Half-Life 2's Invisible Tutorial - Game Makers Toolkit:
• Half-Life 2's Invisibl...
The AI of Half-Life - Simon Roth:
• The AI of Half-Life
Half-Life Fact Files - MarphitimusBlackimus:
• Half-Life Fact Files
CO-VIDs: what makes an fps arsenal good? - Innuendo Studios:
• CO-VIDs: what makes an...
What even happened in Half-Life 1? - Leadhead
• What even happened in ...
EDIT: The original title of this was "Black Mesa Is Ge̶n̸i̵u̶s̴,̴ Ä̸̱́n̴̜̈́d̶͚̽ H̵̞́̈́ë̸͖́r̵̙̹̂̎e̵͎̩̊́'̴̙͜͝s̸̖͚̅̕ ̶̧̃͠W̷̖̽h̵̠̀̾y̸̜̌". I removed the void text after a commenter pointed out that void text can make the title inaccessible to the blind/those who rely on visual readers to access TH-cam. I want the things I make to be as accessible as they can be. See, the title isn't *just plagiarism! - เกม
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Xen: The land of desktop wallpapers.
Xen gave me some serious metroid prime vibes when I saw it. And metroid prime happens to be one of my all time favorite game series :)
@@carljohan9265 gave me DOOM and DOOM eternal vibes
@@512TheWolf512 kinda makes me think ultra space
And sleep ambience.
This comment is perfection beyond perfection
The fact Valve not only allowed Black Mesa to be made, but allowed them to sell it for profit on their own host platform is one of the reasons Valve is one of the few remaining game devs who actually care about their community (like how they actually responded to save TF2)
The creation of Half Life : Alyx is amazing as well because it means that Valve are still interested in making games, they hust don't want to
TF2C and Open Fortress beg to differ
Yeah about that one chief...
@@hakiman7401what do you mean?
@@diehardsleeper2262 Valve acknowledge #SaveTF2 but did they do anything yet? Nope, while I like Valve and everything Source this has to be a lackluster effort
Okay but consider this… if Xen is technically “Act 3” of the original Half-Life’s story, suddenly it’s suckiness makes perfect sense, because everybody knows Valve Can’t Count To Three.
That would be possibly a job for the Black Mesa creators to finally deliver Half Life 3… 🤔
Looking back at Xen after the 25th anniversary documentary giving an actual reason also makes sense
Technically act 3 is forget about freeman and lambda core and xen is chapter four since forget about freeman starts in C3A1 and xen is C4A1
i always loved the geological arc of half life: starting out prett deep in the facility, thinking you know your stuff, then trying to escape to the surface only to be forced back even deeper than ever before to very slowly tram your way back to the surface..then struggle your way along the surface to such a degree that you start missing the calm depths of the facility, only to then descent back into it
And then Xen has you basically going into space, to symbolize that everything you've already fought through and experienced isn't even a fraction of what you thought it was.
Portal 2, you can't enter the surface in the first place (except for the cutscene at the end).
EDIT: Edit to make this comment make sense.
Valve’s Game Design philosophy:
- make game
- take 10+ years to make sequel
- spend the next millennium laughing on a pile of money
-profit
They can support such business model.
Valve is like the Heavy Gustav of gaming industry - shoots extremely slow, but makes 10x the boom.
I think the fact that they can even afford to do this at all is a testament to the quality of what they make (Artifact doesn't exist). Obviously they're not perfect, but looking at all they've done so far and other game developers, Valve looks more and more like a unique case where quality truly outshines quantity
Except they would make even more money by making hl3. But they aren’t smart enough to do that.
@@glathir3574 Because expectations have piled up too much and they would lose reputation if they did it half-assed. That's why Alyx spent so long in development, and that's why it's as good as it is. Valve has no shortage of money, but reputation is hard to get back.
I laughed at "A theoretical degree in physics". Gordon Freeman is truly Fantastic.
Nice one
They asked if I knew anything about solar power, I said as much as anyone I'd ever met!
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter
@@israelsalazar1808 when I got this assignment I hoped there would be more gambling
In the words of JoJo
*NIIIICCCEEE*
The problem with the original Xen isn't that "it sucks." It's that Valve over-committed to the "alien nature" of it. You end up with terrain which is virtually unrecognisable, meaning the player is no longer equipped to deduce how to proceed with the game. Thematically that makes sense, in that it's supposed to immerse the player in the surreal strangeness of the environment. In practice, however, it forces a severe disconnect as the player has to fall back on incredibly basic trial and error. Stick your head in all the holes, hit Use on everything, jump on all the things, hope to eventually stumble into the path forward by blind chance. When you do that, it ceases to matter what terrain looks like or how it feels. We're not using environmental cues to solve logical puzzles. We're disregarding the environment in favour of methodically (or chaotically) trying all possible combinations.
I still like Xen because it has some very neat ideas, but it lacks an overall ruleset for the player to follow. The game ceases to communicate. Black Mesa's Xen is... kind of a mess in its own right, being DRASTICALLY too long for what it is and padded with too many walking simulator segments. However, the Crowbar Collective folks did manage to impart the sort of "visual language" to the world that Valve never did. They left the player a ledge to grab onto, and a reason to pay attention.
I think you're actually describing why xen is a masterpiece. We clearly didn't need our hands holded.
So you say retards do not like xen?
@@holyphainesthai286 your line of thinking can apply to existing bad art to be considered a masterpiece. It's like saying Kristen Stewart did amazing in Twilight because she was such a blank canvas of an character with no emotional expression that she perfectly serves as a vessel for ALL viewers to relate to, rather than calling it out as "bad acting". Please.
@@mani-sp9dn that would be implying that xen is "bad art"
That would also be implying that twilight is bad art. I do not like twilight, but it is not "bad art".
My issue with Xen is that a lot of combat scenarios suffer from issues like how open they can be (like the factory section where you're being shot up by grunts while trying to avoid them, also going on spinny elevators while not knowing where an alien slave/Vort will blast you once you get to the top. Good luck if you have a glitch that makes the Alien grunts shoot you through the pods that you have to break before you can KILL them!) And exploration in Xen feels a lot less rewarding as you don't really come across anything interesting compared to previous chapters (I guess the weird stealth segment was kind of neat).
9:29 the dude had the balls to put himself in game explaining why he should make a remake. We’re just gonna gloss over the fact that the man fought doubters and haters throughout the entire development, and still even after publishing Black Mesa still included stuff like this to still continue his fight against non-believers.
I can still remember when Crowbar released Black Mesa there was still vocal backlash against it’s creation, let alone people trying to legally get it taken down simply out of merit of it existing.
Wait really? They tried to get it down just for it existing! Why? And if that doesn’t scream people can be petty assholes than I don’t know what will.
@@yapyapthedestroyer2562 because I like fan bases are toxic, especially for video games.
Crazy because Valve was the one who approached them about going retail with Black Mesa
That's so fucking petty, it's almost unbelievable.
I feel real dumb because I completely missed this
You honestly give the impression that you are a established TH-camr that just lost their channel and decided to just make a new one instead of recovering the old one
I was honestly surprised he only has 4 videos. I wanted more ._.
Guess only more reasons to support the channel by subscribing.
Bro im shocked this guy only has 4 videos out
I thought that also because he keeps apologizing about making videos about games. Chill dude, who'd have any expectations about this channel in it's second video?
tbh that's what I thought he was except for the lost of channel part
holy shit I legit thought he had like 500k subscribers instead of only 50k, gotta do my part now
My favorite part about Black Mesa's story is both the humanizing of the marines, and the public radio broadcasts. The broadcasts with their emergency signal make it all feel very real, and the radio and dialogue from the marines make them feel so human. These are U.S soldiers, most of them probably in their late teens or early 20's, who have been ordered to not only execute innocent people, but also end up pretty much all dying for it. It really makes Half-Life feel as tragic as it should.
This is great and all, but I believe you shouldn't really play Black Mesa without having played Half- Life 1 because you miss out on all the tiny bits of lore the Black Mesa team overlooked. Like the fact that the nihilanth's third arm has been grafted onto him artificially, but in Black Mesa the arm is natural. The lore of Half-Life is very vague in general and these tiny details can help you personally develop an opinion on it. Having a third party create a remake can destroy these details.
I guess HECU is a bit older than regular soldiers, more trained, and not like 18-19 yo boys.
I feel bad for the marines for the same exact reasons. Their displeasure at carrying out this task is mentioned in the "on a rail" chapter before firing the rocket.
@@TheMadJagger Adrian Shepard was 22 during the events of Half-Life
@@chasechiamulera7704 and he's fresh out of boot camp if I remember correctly.
the science team helping you, and the environmental storytelling in xen is unreal. i love that despite the vortigaunts not knowing earth languages yet, you understand their turmoil being used as slaves by nihilanth. its just so amazing
especially that one vort crying over another vort's corpse after the confrontation with the controllers in the village; even if you manage not to harm a single vortigaunt yourself, the damage is still done by the battle and that vort shows they have empathy and care about one another, that they're people
@@thewafflebun994 oh my god i forgot about that, seeing that was so heart wrenching. that was after that crazy ass run from all the gargantuas right?
DONT FUCK WITH THE SCIENCE TEAM
@@vicboss03before
the nihilanth is also a slave, in voice lines it refers to itself as one, and is highly implicative of being controlled by the Combine (obviously at the time the Combine didn’t technically exist in lore but is referring to a higher greater power)
Now, I generally fall on the side of Rule of Cool when it comes to weapon sounds in games, but it does make sense that the MP5 feels weaker in Black Mesa - in the real world it shoots 9mm, which doesn't really make a big boom.
I do prefer the meatier sound from HL Classic, but the BM sound is definitely more authentic.
Still inconsistent, imagine if it was as damaging as the handgun, which it should be more powerful than because of the barrel length
There's so many tiny little details and fan service for people like me which shows how much of a passion project Black Mesa is. Both it and the original Half-Life are both incredible in their own right
EDIT: Just finished the video, excellent stuff man. Definitely looking forward to whatever you make next!
Kiss me Laddo
Thus guy always in the comments, and I don't mind
The EAS messages throughout Gordon's journey, the characters we came to know in HL2 properly depicted in Black Mesa, that scene where you come out of a pipe to see U.S. fighter jets bombing the facility in the distance complete with the air shockwave, the radio chatter between the soldiers... I instantly fell in love, and that's what made Neinfeld's videos possible too.
You are fucking everywhere
Goodness gracious CoreyLaddo I love your SFM animations :D
I'm never going to forget that whenever I'm walking on a fleshy surface it's a wet ass being clapped
Bless that man's wife.
@qiroqato I'm pretty sure the man said so. Can't remember now, two years out. Either way, bless that GYAT-haver
I aspire to learn and apply sound design understanding like this
I love the Gonarch thematically. You've been fighting headcrabs all game long, probably having killed hundreds of them by the time you get to Xen. They've gone from a serious threat to a mild nuisance, even becoming cute by the endgame... then you discover where they've all been coming from. You meet the hulking beast of a mama, and it almost feels like she personally wants revenge against you for mass slaughtering her babies. It'd be like if before saving Peach from Bowser, you had to face of the great mother of all goombas, and answer for your crimes of stomping so many of them through your game. I love the Gonarch, and the fact that 20 years later there are still more headcrabs, leads me to believe that there are more Gonarchs out there.
The combine probably has tons of them put into horrifying breeding machines in headcrab factories
@@bigdaddydons6241 actually they did originally plan something called a "big mama pod" in hl2 that never made it in; a live gonarch in some sort of combine mechanical frame, presumably meant to be where the combine were breeding headcrabs (though the model only has the sack, not the rest of the gonarch) i like to headcanon that even though we don't see this in any of the games, they might still be a thing
52:20 “Well, I guess we can’t put off talking about Xen any longer, can we?-“ *Ad break starts*
peak comedy lol
Hey man, just wanted to say thank you for the shoutout and for the kind words in this video :) Had a couple of people send me your way and I am glad I found you - the effort you put into this video is evident right from the get go and I watched the entire thing in one go because I was so absorbed at what you were saying and your expert command at explaining what it is that makes Black Mesa such a good game. I knew right away the passion you had for it when you explained the three-pronged approach at how Valve designs games, and how Crowbar Collective reinforces this design in their gameplay. Great stuff!
P.S. you are absolutely right Interloper is killing me right now :(
Yooooo its you sup bro
Oh god
*_Interloper_*
FJEJEJENRJDJXJCJFJDJJSJENF I'M SO HAPPY WITH HOW YOU'RE GETTING SO MUCH RECOGNITION HERE!!!
Y'all better go sub to Nutella and watch his vids yearly because yes.
I was glad to hear you getting a shoutout! Well deserved.
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Fun fact, at 14:25 he mentions how you cant do anything about the first headcrabs but a while ago i found out (by accident) that you can actually kill headcrabs by throwing stuff at them, they usually die after 1-2 hits, of course this is way less effective than just avoiding them but its a really nice touch
*NOTE:* I only tried this with office chairs, barrels and boxes, i dont know if other objects can kill them
I shoved an office chair into a scientists face while he told me to stop, was pretty funee
yeah, and if you find a flare in the ground you can use to set the crabs on fire, it usually deals with them on the spot too
Realistically if a head crab spawned in front of me, I’d probably try beating it with a chair
You gotta juke the head crab so it ends up in the fire lol. Or just let it get behind you.
Reminds me of a scientist beating headcrab to the death with an old CRT monitor
I’ve been working on a small AI modification for Black Mess that adds a little bit more character to the marines. Early on in We’ve Got Hostiles, they are very aggressive. They push their advantage any chance they get. As you show yourself to be a threat, they start holding back more and more, until eventually in Forget About Freeman only the shotgunners are still rushing you, everyone else is mostly trying to stay back, especially the corpsmen. Basically, by FAF the military is not targeting you, they are AFRAID of you.
I like how Black Mesa added a sense of continuity to Half-life 2 in which Gordon is already a skilled fighter and knows how to protect himself with guns and such, because in it, once you acquire your first weapon, you don’t use it to protect yourself, you use it as a tool to escape EVERY CP OFFICER IN CITY 17.
BM: Pistol protects you
HL2: Pistol forces CP to (fruitlessly) protect themselves
Also, playing HL2 after HL1 makes you (or, at least, me) think "Hang on... _I'M_ the one all these rebellion people are rallying behind!? You got the wrong guy! I barely know what I'm doing here!" but playing HL2 after Black Mesa makes you think "Alright, yeah, that makes sense. I've beat tougher odds before. I'm a pretty skilled combatant-hell, I've defeated probably like 100 US Marines single-handedly and slaughtered hundreds more aliens! Follow me, I'll take point!"
Idk HL1 mostly felt like Gordon was constantly panicking the whole time, flailing his guns in random directions and happening to get lucky, while Black Mesa really makes it seem like Gordon knows what he's doing after a while.
@@ob2kenobi388Hello again.
Seems you have a good taste in content.
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Thank you!!
@@ob2kenobi388 You are most welcome.
Holy moly, time to make some popcorn O.O
hey bb ;-)
Oh the Hong Kong govt didn’t get you, thank gawd
Ok we pull up
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Okay, whomever you are! Lookit, we're gonna need proof of life on the real owner of this channel and we're gonna need it STAT! Just give us a list of demands so we can negotiate his release!
Well, unless everything is fine, in which case disregard. I'm just a thorough kinda guy, like to cover all possible bases regarding very specific circumstances.
48:32 In Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, while in testing the developers had to change the sound for the Thompson. This was because people believed that it fired slower but did more damage than the MP40, which people believed fired faster but was weaker, despite them having the same stats. This was due to the fact that the Thompson had more bass in its sound , which made people more confident with it, leading to more kills.
Et is another game that hit mystical levels of perfect(okay maybe it needed a few server mods to make it glimmer). Greater than the sum of it's parts. I honestly can't play fps for more than like 20-40min anymore without just getting bored and I largely blame having nolifed ET back when it was like the only fast fps with xp and objectives.
@@zechsblack5891 ET hit some teamwork notes I've only ever gotten from Tribes or Team Fortress games. Such an overlooked masterpiece.
@@lazerhosen ooo tbh I forgot about tribes. I played it and Legends(a Linux version iirc) a lot back then too
@@zechsblack5891 It's a shame how much Tribes is forgotten, or not even known about. It was the OG big outdoor team shooter with vehicles (I guess Warzone was too, but with RTS elements), a bit before the Battlefield games. I really want Tribes to make a comeback. It's too bad that the devs of Tribes: Ascend dropped support (ie: took down servers) of it for years to make Smite... so of course the game was dead in the water when they brought the servers back up (sour taste in mouths intensifies).
What the game really needed at the time, to become a successful shooter on the market, was to have been available on consoles as well. I see this as the only viable way to revive the franchise... with cross-play! Console players have never gotten a 'great' Tribes game, and the console FPS market is huge.
The original aesthetic, drawing heavily on "space feudal pseudo-medieval" themes and beautiful art in the same vane, is wonderful (and was diluted by modern military meets cyber anime themes in Ascend). Focus on those aesthetics, finely crafted, with a solid gameplay loop (already perfected in Tribes 2), and you have a great start. Couple it with content updates and cosmetics, and you have longevity in the market today. Maybe even have a battle royale mode and/or some TF2-Overwatch team battle arena modes, as well as classic Tribes gameplay modes and classic arena shooter modes. I think that would make everyone happy. Shoot... I would even go so far as to say it needs a campaign mode, single player, but with a focus on playing it co-op like looter-shooters/Borderlands etc.
Though I must say, Titanfall games scratched a lot of my Tribes itches, and even some of the older Starsiege (the universe Tribes is in) itches in the form of mech combat.
I'm pretty sure the audio was made different cause they different guns. The stats are the exact same but layers thought Tommy was better cause of the sound
1:05:45
This moment will never not give me goosebumps every time I play Gonarch's Lair. The environmental presentation to the bass dropping and the vocal singing, two intelligent individuals fight for their own survival.
They knew what they were doing with Xen and absolutely killed it!!
Literally played this game 6 times in a year, it’s so well put together, very well detailed, and extremely fun. I cannot wait for blue shift and opposing force to help me further understand the lore of the game. Every time I play I notice and learn something new.
I really hope valve can sign on the crowbar team and we can move forward with the series.
I'm just convinced that every single resident of the commonwealth countries has a game review channel at this point.
Which commonwealth?
@@zombie2356 british commonwealth
@@zombie2356 The Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth, duh.
@@sulphurous2656 ahh yes, the based commonwealth
Probably
"Stameplay"
Shakespeare is quaking.
Quaking in his smoking boots.
@@germanulrich Smoking in his Quaker boots.
@@LordRambo *quake guy grunt*
Using the quake engine
A wonderful tribute to the absolute gold standard of ‘remastered’ video games. Due to the strength of the original material, a nip here, a tuck there and a huge amount of polish is enough for the terrestrial part. But Zen is a masterpiece - I’m so glad they got it ‘right’. The dedication of CC to pull this 15-year project off cannot be understated, and having the perspective of having played the original version just made this my ultimate rose-tinted nostalgia moment of my nearly 40 years of gaming.
I feel like the Gonarch's Lair is quite amazing, and the music.... and with the context of what happens later in the series, It makes it feel like as if you're watching two beloved and heroic characters are forced to fight each other to the death because of cruel fate pitting them against each other...It gives me goosebumps all the time. X.x
This video is outstanding and summarises my feelings about Black Mesa perfectly, except for one bit.
I really wish you focused more on the first science lab in Xen. When you enter, you see some HEV suit cassets in flickering light, some are empty, and you can hear a subtle sound which was accompanying you almost the whole game - a suit voice. Except it's... malfunctioning? As you step in, wondering if there are any fellow scientists survived in these harsh conditions, you realise the source of the sound. It's a headcrab, penetrated through one of the crew's helmet, and now you are being attacked by another variety of zombie.
it is heartbreaking. It is devastating. It is marvelous.
He's also blissfully unaware that the original MP5 felt, sounded, and was weak in the original Half-Life, and Black Mesa improved on that, and didn't know he was playing with the modified models/sounds of guns from Blue Streak (even went as far to say "MP5" while clearly holding an M16-like weapon). Oops!
@@lazerhosen The SMG, pistol, and crowbar are the reasons why I use the HD pack.
And when you kill the HEV zombies you hear their death beep that you only hear when you die, so you can basically see what you could have become if you were less fortunate.
@@wta1518 I definitely don't mind the better crowbar or an M9 replacing the glock, but when I'm holding an M16/AR-15 type of weapon in a game, and it feels like I'm shooting a 9mm because that was the original gun, it really throws me off a lot.
It was like mods for Q3A that replaced the machine gun with a Boltgun from 40k... not hitting with the same power the replacement model is supposed to have.
@@lazerhosen I just hate the sound of the original MP5, which is the only reason why I prefer the HD model for that.
I’d just like to say that the crowbar is not your very first weapon, the GIGA-CHAD FLARE is, the flare is the best weapon in the game it can burn people, I bet it could 1v1 the nihilinth and win
Yeah! And it's seconded by the UNDESTROYABLE PIPE. Eli was capable of resist against a Combine Councilor just because he had it. Imagine if he had the Flare instead!
@@uligallardo8110 lmao the advisors or as i call them the telepathic space maggots
@@uligallardo8110
this pipe was also wielded by manhack matt
@@username-yc3bd Yes, and he only died when he dropped it. That's another reason why the pipe is one of the best weapons in the universe!
Flare-only playthrough?
A thing stood out to me in the Stameplay section, and maybe someone's already said this but there's almost 2300 comments right and I'm not scrolling through all them.
The rocket launch doesn't fail, or at least not entirely. After you launch the rocket, certain types of enemies stop appearing on Earth, namely Headcrabs, Bullsquids, and Houndeyes. These are also the first enemies that appear in the game, and from start to finish, they appear to teleport in completely randomly. But the Vortigaunts, the alien grunts, the bigger and more intelligent enemies remain, and their teleportation has never seemed random: they love to ambush both the military and you, often teleporting in at the exact right moment to try and catch people off-guard.
So you can take from this that the initial aliens that show up after the Resonance Cascade are there by accident, but the Nihilanth is deliberately sending later enemies in at strategic points. Whatever was on the rocket was successful in stopping the accidental teleportation of the Resonance Cascade, but only going to Xen and stopping the Nihilanth will prevent its deliberate teleportations.
Leadhead goes into this more in her video, "What even happened in Half-Life 1?" which is a really good watch. Hell, all of her Half-Life content comes highly recommended.
honestly the pacing of the first chapter of xen is absolutely perfect along with the environments. It could very well be a masterpiece
23:40, this is something that always surprises me. Valve invented so many amazing techniques and technologies that some modern titles seem to completely ignore and are set back 20 years because of it. Another great example is facial animations in HL2.
Many modern games (that don't do motion capture) have absolutely terrible facial animation and lip syncing but HL2 not only has amazing facial animation but the lip syncing is determined programmatically based on the sounds being spoken and thus it basically automatically works when moved to a different language.
Huh never knew that, I mean sure we all felt like the characters were a lot more believable as people in animation, but I didnt realize thats part of the trick.
@@thomasallen9974 yeah there’s a G-Man E3 clip with the lip syncing and it looks pretty good
It's largely a matter of need and design. I love intrinsic AI, but players tend not to notice it anywhere near as much as you think. FEAR AI isn't actually incredibly deep for example, and most people think HL2 has terrible AI when it actually has insanely deep AI logic that goes well beyond what the AI in HL1 had. The difference is that the FEAR AI talked *a lot* and did a few other things to trick the player into thinking the AI was way smarter than it is, and in HL2's case while the AI was incredibly deep, it was really inaccurate at shooting to make things easier for the player and often fought in locations that didn't play to their strengths.
The reason I'm saying this is because most players think they want insanely good AI, but then hate the game when they feel like it's 'unfair' since most games need a massive crutch for the player to actually perform at a decent level. Most games don't bother with really deep AI because it goes unnoticed despite taking a lot of work and also opens up a massive grey area for balance since it's much harder to account for your AI the deeper it goes. For 90% of games, they don't need really deep AI as long as they throw in enough AI barks to give an appearance of intelligence.
Don't get me wrong it's a shame I love my crazy AI but it's not as simple as "modern games dont know AI dumb" or anything.
@@LonelyKnightess There's also the cases where the AI in it's smartness requires more needs and requirements to function for things you never thought of either. Perfect example is why retail TES: Oblivion's AI is seemingly as dumb as the NPCs are potato. They actually had the schedule system working where NPCs would seek out needs and wants, but the problem came when they could no longer due this legaly, what with running out of gold to do so relatively quickly. This would lead to attempts to steal, and the AI was never given a way to interact with the guards to just be taken to jail or similar. A few dozen dead NPCs later and you'd basically be stuck with a ghost town. A few of these characters are still around with the advanced AI packages but most were cut back to very simplified schedules and the word-salad conversation system we all know and joke at today.
@@thomasallen9974 yah its even a tool in sfm
I have never ever heard of anybody having physical problems playing old 3d games. You learn something new every day!
It might have been the field of view. Half-Life uses Vert- FOV scaling instead of Hor+, which means that instead of expanding the horizontal FOV when switching from 4:3 aspect ratio to widescreen, the game shrinks the vertical FOV. You can fix this by using the *default_fov* console command, but from his gameplay footage, I could tell that he didn't do that. At 16:9 widescreen, his horizontal FOV should have been at least 106°, but he was still only playing at 90°.
@@theoneandonlysoupemporium I hope you're going to play HL1 now!
It's a real thing. I tried HL1 myself but I found it really unbearable. It gave me... I don't know, something. Some sort of vague feeling of eyesore or nausea. I couldn't get very far. Black Mesa was a saving grace for me, because I really wanted to play HL1
@@contramuffin5814 just change fov lmao
@@gyarik Black Mesa was a significantly better experience anyways. I honestly think it was better that I skipped HL1
My favourite thing in Black Mesa is the degree to which the CC devs made it feel real. Soundscapes match your location so you feel like you're in a small office, a long hallway or a cavernous chamber; labs have grippy rubber tile flooring; you're not *supposed* to have to go down into the guts of a reactor to get from place to place, but the normal way is smashed up and impassible. It all feels authentic.
The half life series is the best proof that games are art
Yep, just like Civilization, Command&Conquer, and even Starcraft proved
@@rvkice23 yep, just like call of duty, modern warfare, WoW, super Mario and ratchet and clank! Oh and Jak and dexter.
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One thing i notice about black mesa is how it humanizes the HECU in later parts of surface tension and forget about freeman, seeing them struggling against the aliens, hearing their desperate calls for help on the radio and seeing them massacred by the aliens. All of this was in half life but Black mesa only amplified the tension the HECU are feeling by adding more radio communications and connecting them to scenes of them and the aliens in combat.
Mhm
i didnt feel bad for them to be honest
I kinda do feel sorry for them. And when operation black mesa is released, we’ll get to see shepherd again, and more hecu soldiers.
I concur! btw, idk if it is in the original, or if it is due to the "chapter overhaul" workshop mods, but there are a few parts in surface tension (towards the end) and Forget freeman, where you see 1-2 soldiers who won't attack you that are sitting down with their head in their hands, crying, or limping away, etc, that truly added to the tone.
Or one of my favorites is if you listen to the radio broadcasts of them getting attacked, it gets darker and darker each time; first one saying they're pinned down with a response of "hang tight, help is 1 click out" to the ending of the guy dying on the radio. Masterfully done.
I think the fact Xen starts with a full on (albeit very short) cutscene of Gordon seeing visions of alien stuff and then his hands gives even more credence to the “this world follows different rules”. Half Life has always been build around an unbroken first person perspective. No third person cutscenes (barely any cutscenes), no loading screens (just loading zones). The fact that there is a cutscene there. *chef’s kiss* Perfect. So insanely subtle and maybe even unintentional, but damn, if that was on purpose this goes from an 11/10 to maybe a 12 or 13.
Half Life isnt about cutscenes its about letting the player feel like hes the main character. Thats why gordon doesnt talk
Man I think you're digging way too deep, lol. In HL there was at least one cutscene, where Gordon was being dragged to the press by those two HECU guys
@@dedark0il131 it was always from his perspective.
@@CombineWatermelon the Xen cutscene is from Gordon's perspective, too
@@dedark0il131 exactly
To me, Black Mesa's Xen gave me the same vibes I got when first exploring Tallon IV in Metroid Prime. A hostile world where your very existence clashes with the desires of the planet, and its constant desire to force you out. It's fantastic, even if some of the gameplay segments didn't do it for me.
Okay excellent video, but I just have to say your little doodle-guy avatar and his animations are so frickin adorable I can't even take it. I just want to hug him and squeeze him and fall asleep cuddling in a spoon position with my arm around his belly.
So I clicked on this video thinking "Oh an Hbomberguy inspired video essay, this could be good". And then I watched it all through and thought "Oh this is great, I wonder what else he's done" and then saw that you so far have 4 videos on your channel.
And this made me both sad since there wasn't much for me to binge, but also impressed with the quality of these videos despite how young your channel is. So you've earned yourself a patreon, both because of the great videos and because I'm excited for more to come.
ever watched a dude with 12 hours long on oblivion or the one with 4 hours on rdr?
good documentary videos requires a LOT of passion and patience. i kept trying to make videos like this but i keep failing because i rushed.
@@tsartomato i assume you’re talking about noah caldwell gervais for rdr, but idk who the oblivion guy is? can you remember the channel?
@@chiefofthesky
PatricianTV
not as good as noah
but then who is?
@@tsartomato too true, too true. thanks, i’ll check him out. i crave long form video game lore and reviews, so anything new to try is welcome.
Everytime I play half life I always end up getting the stomach flu in the first hour.
I'm just cursed
raise the fov to 115, the default fov is meant for 4:3 aspect ratio
@@Tmob not motion sick. I mean literally like a week long virus, it's spooky.
@@WooHooLadttv This game contains a virus... literally.
wth are you guys even saying
That’s how I am about the Lego Hobbit game
God, what a good essay; I feel so much more informed on this genius classic AND its beautiful remaster, brought to us by an entertaining fella!
I really loved the reimagining of Xen. It took something so rather lackluster, and turned it into one of my favorite moments in a game, from getting up from the teleporter all the way to the end, it was a rush of curiosity of the unknown. The music just brings it to life even more. The color palette is so vibrant compared to anything else from the game and it really felt like I was somewhere I shouldn't be, and the setpieces felt so grand.
Wowww
Would you ever consider working on something with soup emporium?
This Comment Is Genius and Here's Why
dang its the guy!!!
that's right, hbomb, now i have a new favorite essayist about old games!
I was hoping you'd pop up.
I was completely blown away by Black Mesa. I was just in the mood to replay Half-Life in a more modern engine. I wasn't expecting a lovely crafted masterpiece.
Same.. I thought it would be Half Life: Source, just with more updated textures/models. Then I saw some reviews and started to realize it's way more than that. Still, I was completely unprepared for just how fucking epic the game will be. It's a wonder and a masterpiece. I can't express how glad I am to the Crowbar Collective. They're my favorite people currently.
Fantastic review and analysis. The only thing you'd really passed over that I wish had been discussed is the lengths Crowbar Collective went to to make everyone feel real during the invasion, and the ways they introduced little character arcs ("we can still climb" and "jackson, how many lives do you have?" come to mind) to all the security guards and scientists who were just uncanny clones in the original.
But ye, sub earned.
#EDIT: Okay so one more thing I do wish had been touched on was the distinct appearance of the Xenian technology between the Crystal Room™ and the Interloper chapter, being intended to bridge the gap between the original game and Half-Life 2 in much the same way as the musical score. But ye, great video nonetheless!
I definitely started this video with the intent of listening while I did chores and I ended up just sitting in bed and watching the entire vid in one go despite having never played any of the mentioned games. I'll 100% be checking out the series and the rest of your vids, this was nothing but enthralling the whole way through. Absolutely brilliant work Soup
26:30 'The source engine really shines at creating large, open spaces.'
This man has clearly never used the hammer editor.
so what im getting that its hell
@@themusicboy9766 nah its just that all the "large open spaces" are just a big room with ceiling that is designed to look large and open
In Short,
In hammer, there is no outside, it's ALL inside.
@@agentvenxxii sounds like a conspiracy
@@Mike-official Well, I mean, it's true, the 'Sky' in any hammer map is just a brush with a special texture that displays sky, plus a blown up projection if the map uses that for background elements.
I love how the tower of xen in black mesa mirrors the Citadel from HL2. It gives you a sense of how far you are actually traveling and a sense of progression and scale. Crowbar Collective nailed black mesa out of the park and deserve all praise. They did something valve failed at doing and damn did they did a great job at it.
Its more like they applied what Valve learned making Half Life 2.
i also love the section where you fix a reactor that looks suspiciously similar to the combine's reactor in hl2 episode 1, making some heavy implications for the lore!
I liked how they gave the implication of where the nihilanth was in the xen opening cutscene
I always thought it looked like Sauron from lord of the rings Tbh
A major problem I had with black mesa was the piss poor jump height, for some reason it was set up where you had to jumpcrouch for EVERY jump, like it was set to a 5th the height of half life's jumps.
Fortunately it was easily edited, meaning my one complaint was rendered moot but I'll be DAMNED before I stop whining about it!
I truly enjoy this and your narrative, you’re one of the extremely rare person on TH-cam whom made closed captioning so accessible that I was able to enjoy watching it without relying on the godawful auto captioning.
Half-Life was so legendary, so groundbreaking, that it had unforeseen consequences that still effect the entire games industry to this very day.
...almost like its effects cascaded resonantly throughout the industry from the underground.
You could say that the release of Half-Life was a red letter day...
Quite literally was just thinking "Wonder when Soup Emporium will make a new video?"
Incredible!!! Uncanny!!! *I* was *literally* just looking through the video emporium thinking "I wonder when I'll make some new soup?"
Now, guess what I've got in my pockets!!
Do it! *GUESS!!*
@@themykeshow9027 bathing salt?
2:20 Due to the wording of this gag;
I don't know what's funnier-
The idea multiple people are repeatedly asking what Tik Tok is like they have amnesia
Or that multiple people actively flip between asking about Tik Tok and discussing HL1 with the Tik Tok questions being even longer than the HL1 talk
That’s why the Crowbar Collective should be hired to make Half Life 3.
They understood what’s needed to create something unique.
I never expected a weaponless segment took me a while realizing you didn't just forget to find the crowbar.
Sexy Nutella's playthroughs are amazing. They were a big inspiration for me to start recording my no death runs. I'm actually working on my Black Mesa one now. Should be done pretty soon.
You should go tell Sexy Nutella about this directly.
My head cannon for the HEV suit was it was originally designed to protect people who worked in hazardous environments. From biological, radiation or physical trauma impact injuries. The military learns it exists and wants Black Mesa to turn it into an augmented combat suit hench the ammo loudout and weapons inventory systems.
The tau cannon at 47:53 really does sound grALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD
It's always amazed me how the half-life games convey the idea that Gordon is a scientist, not a soldier. Gordon's brain is stronger than any other weapon he has. This is particularly shown with enemies like the barnacles.
and then he kills 10 tanks 3 chopers and a squad of sexy time ninja girls
alone
arnold schwarzenegger in
HAMLET
"not to be"
There's a reason "think" comes before "shoot" in RUN, THINK, SHOOT, LIVE
@@tsartomato
-Stay thine hand, fair prince
+Who said I was fair?
*Violence escalates*
Honestly, while I agree with most of this video, I was actually quite disappointed that the teleportation attack was removed from the nihilanth fight when I played through it.
While I understand the point of it harming the flow of the fight, I really liked the teleportation attack in the sense that it sort of hints that the nihilanth is actually terrified of you. It's a desperate creature clinging onto any chance for survival, even trying to just teleport you away to delay the inevitable.
By the time you've reached the nihilanth, you have become an absolute MONSTER, capable of surviving all odds, and the nihilanth knows this.
I think the desperation is actually even more pronounced in Black Mesa.
The way he just grabs random things from Earth to throw at you feels just like how someone might flail around when attacked to just find an object to use as a weapon or push the attacker off.
Him using his portals to teleport you away feels like a genuine strategy that he's using to prolong the inevitable, but the way he just unleashes everything he can at you in one final attempt to just stop you ultimately feels more desperate to me.
@@tTaseric To me the the Nihilanth just yeeting stuff at us felt a little boss fighty for me, the teleportation felt like he wanted Gordon to get away and stop hurting him while the objects feels like someone throwing a shoe at a mouse to me. Its not on topic but also I feel their removal of stuff like his third arm being grafted on slightly diminished the design.
new nihilant is a garbage generic "blob in the room's centre" fight
i forgot more games i finished than i remember minutes of my first nihilant fight. that was one of the best bosses ever and i hoped the did improve it with crystals on the level before
but alas that fight is just like the rest of blach mesa
@@MrPikaGammer For sure. The grafted on hand seemed to hint at some kind of deeper story we weren't told, along with the hints that he and all the others on xen were simply slaves.
@@tsartomato Idk man it has its differences for better and worse but saying Nihilanth was one of the best bosses ever is a massively uncommon opinion for a reason and stuff like the stitches missing on the arm I feel get way overblown. If you look at him and listen to him when you fight in Black Mesa there's actually tons of signs that he's increasingly panicked and horrified by you.
16:45 I need "I am a highly trained professional" as a gif, sound bite, and a standalone video
50:25 the fact that the first two shots are on beat is *chef's kiss"
“Rise and shine, Dr. Emporium…rise, and, shine…”
I played the original back in the day when I was a kid. The moment _Black Mesa_ said I could give them money to support them, I did, didn't even hesitate. Waited for years 'till it was completed. Couldn't be more satisfied, and can say that's the best money I've ever spent.
One of the only projects that have actually delivered what they set out to, unlike those colossal failures of space games where "you could technically meet up, but it's so low chance there's no point" only to find out it's literally single player 😂
@@viktorbirkeland6520 that sounds like no man's sky, or at least that exact thing happened around its release. it's had a resurgence and kinda redeemed itself, though the multiplayer seems to be either through co-op missions, expeditions or inviting/joining a friend's session
That fight you showed using sexy nutella's footage is my favorite moment of the game.
You got your doughy coworkers with you and then boom! you're locked into combat and when you finish redecorating the walls with america's finest your people finally get in and they're just in shock and horror at the carnage Gordon has just unleashed.
Like they never expected him to be capable of coldly and brutally slaughtering the soldiers even in self defense, but he did. Gordon is slowly becoming something of a beast in his fight to stay alive and that's the moment that we, the player, step back and really look at what it is we've been doing. Cutting down soldiers and alien wildlife with equal ferocity because we must. Never giving thought to the broader reach of our actions.
These men had families, they had lives and sure, they're a bunch of gung ho murder-happy guys who seem to enjoy killing scientists a bit too much but they were still fellow human beings and here you are butchering them wholesale.
And then with all this in mind you're confronted by more soldiers who stand in your way that you must cut down en masse to get to the Lambda team.
Or, you know, you can just disregard it in favor of "when I shoot the guns death comes out! Wheeeee!"
Like the monster you are.
[insert GLaDOS saying "you monster" here]
When I first reached Xen in Black Mesa and walked up the hill from the teleport pad, the combination of the scenery and the gorgeous music honestly brought me to tears. It was everything Xen was meant to be, fully realized.
I love both and NGL there was a point where younger me HATED Black Mesa, "because it wasn't faithful enough" then i waited until it released fully on steam, then i played it again and i absolutely loved it. Great video, man. Keep it up :D
i hated it on release i hate it more now
because it is just a worse copy where it doesn't matter
and just a terrible game in other places
@@tsartomato Elaborate.
No seriously, please do elaborate, because you have been in just about every comment around this video saying the same stuff over and over and over again without any rhyme or reason, like you just hate it for the sake of hating it, please, elaborate it on why it is a "worse copy where it doesn't matter" and "a terrible game in other places"
@@L1z43vrit's been a year, I don't think you're getting that explanation 😔
Fun fact: Dario Casali, one of Half Life and Half Life 2's level designers, started out making maps with his brother in doom 2 with the Plutonia experiment. You can find his locker in the original, as with all the devs whose names are dropped.
Edit: the atmosphere in Black Mesa's Power up wasn't there to begin with, the power being knocked out by the Garg was something they added around the time they released the Xen beta.
P.P.S.: I have been informed that it was added when definitive edition was released.
holy crap I watched all of this without ever once being bored or uninterested. Soup, I've never seen any of your content before this but I am genuinely impressed. Thank you for this. O_o
16:40 "I am literally up to my guts, in bloods and brains of literally everything else that breathes in Black Mesa. I'm a hiGHLY TRAINED PROFFESIONAL!"
I had the exact same problem with the original half life making me actually sick, it's not because of the graphics it's because the FOV is not at all intended for modern monitors. Change FOV to 90-110 and Half Life aged amazing all things considered
No, i hate half life dumbass.
@@Gonger02 You know about something really damn cool called OPINION? dumbass
 yes
@@menni08 haha cry about it! half life is really stupid and the hitscan enemies are dumb
@@Gonger02 Can you atleast tell me WHY do you think Half Life is stupid? and the enemies are dumb because this game was released in 1998, and for that year, the AI is REALLY impressive
50:20 damn... this whole section just felt like how in doom 2016 and eternal the soundtrack is made to like, sing with you and your actions and everything you do just fits. damn. sorry i dont have a better way to express myself im just amazed rn
I wish I was that good at Black Mesa.
BM makes you feel like you’re playing an action movie and it’s incredible
Gonarch's fight is a text book case of how to create a boss.
13:00 Gordon _seems_ to be a blank slate, a player standin.
Nope. *He's the new guy.* The most junior scientist at the high-energy physics lab, and that's why he has to do the physical work. He's also mute.
And indeed, the combination of fit, smart and brave, combined with power armor, can make all the difference in the world.
The Half-Life universe really has the most interesting aliens/alien technology/biology in any game I've seen. Xen and the combine obviously come to mind, but I'm playing Alyx right now and the overgrown apartments filled with alien flora and fauna is really something else. I really hope they keep making Half-Life games.
Really great video btw.
prey
velian
prey
will scorn exist?
prey
oddworld stranger
seriously prey is the king of alien stuff
Valve dosent care anymore
The best part of the Gluon guns sound design is when it connects to a target and there’s a static like sound. That’s where it sells the power I think
This was utterly fantastic. I really hope you do another one for half-life 2.
I love when the game gives you a good spot to take out marine from, only for the game the reveal the massive swarm of Xen creatures they were holding back.
Look man, it was such an incredible and detailed video, such a comprehensive analysis of both Black Mesa and Half-Life, an actual passionate video on a passion project, incredibly well paced and executed, but i'm gonna have to dislike the video because i'm literally at the end of it and liked that last title (BM is genius because HL is genius) more than one we got 😩
gaben: after 9 years in developement, hopefully it will have been worth the wait
crowbar studios: hold my beer
Yes. Hello. I am here to say this video made me play Black Mesa, and to thank you for putting together such a thoughtful video that I've watched more times than I care to admit. You're doing The Good Work.
Wow!
I thought I was being reasonably thorough about my playthrough of Black Mesa and I didnt even know about the optional paths with the Gonarch- I was WAY too invested in the chase!
Awesome to learn about.
I was high on edibles the first time I played through Black Mesa’s interloper. That experience really opened my eyes to so much. That giant tower is the Xen citadel, the Vortigaunts must see Gordon as some kind of divine Jesus-type savior that arrived, liberated them, and then disappeared, how the tower is a living being in itself, and how the Combine are present but its influence is incredibly subtle. It was some crazy shit.
Same bro
HL2 makes this pretty explicit, the vortigaunts absolutely treat you like a savior. When I played HL1 (long after I'd beaten 2 on the Orange Box), I was disappointed that it really didn't feel that way all that much. Black Mesa manages to be that, and it blew me away.
MP5 actually is more accurate than in HL1 and deals more damage, it's just that it being 9 MM round, they might have made it sound less powerful
This makes literally no sense
@@oh-not-the-bees7872?
The sound is more accurate. Don't know what's so hard to understand there...
@@oh-not-the-bees7872
9mm rounds aren't as loud as shotgun casings or even the Magnum's .357 caliber, if the MP5 shot .357 it would be way punchier
Fantastic video. Hope to see more from you! Absolutely phenomenal. The editing and everything is just of such a high quality! Wow! Thank you for this video!
I need more essays like this, pls, this was one of the best I saw from Black Mesa and also it was hilarious so, please do more!
I feel like Black Mesa is a more dramatic and immersive version of Half-Life. The music is more epic (especially in Xen) The scientists express more emotions when the catastrophe occurs, we can see in detail how they enslave the vortigaunts, Freeman begins to hear voices when he is about to enter the Nihilant portal (I guess he is remembering everything he went through) and the elevator part before the final fight gave me intense feelings.
In conclusion, in my opinion, Half-Life is like an action movie, while Black Mesa is like an emotional one.
Funnily enough you could hear voices from the nihilanth portal in HL1 too, Crowbar Collective just picked up on that detail too
I think the voices are actually the scientists back on Earth talking to you through a portal. You also hear them before the Gonarch fight, saying things like "Oh, no... he's approaching her lair! Freeman, get out of there!"
I have friends in their 30s who play games all the time, and have no interest or time for Half-life, I have no idea why they never got into it or how they missed the whole franchise. This video is such a great sales pitch for why not only the original, but Black Mesa is one of the best games ever made, and I will share it with everyone who says otherwise! Great video.
I think most of us grew up as either pc or console gamers, not both. While HL1 was also on console, PS1 really wasn't great for shooters and its controls felt unintuitive.
That is, if they even grew up as gamers. The '10s really were a revolution in bringing gaming to people who didn't consider themselves nerds.
@@NieroshaiTheSable This is a good point. I was lucky that my dad liked computers, so we had both PC's and games consoles when I was younger.
@@NieroshaiTheSable I grew up originally on PC games as a kid (mostly tycoon games and kids games), then only played consoles when I was a preteen to graduating high school. After my first semester in college is around the time I got into modern PC gaming because I had purchased a powerful gaming laptop. It felt great to finally play games like Half Life/Black Mesa. It’s truly one of those games everyone should not miss out on. Glad I did not!
when you use the longjump module and crouch while landing you axtually keep sliding with the same speed its great fun and very useful
I love videos like this where you can just FEEL how much the video creator loves the topic they're talking about. I need more of these.
As for Black Mesa, I doubt it'd happen but if the team would also recreate Opposing Force and Blue Shift, I would gladly eat that shit up.
THANK YOU. Thank you for shining a spotlight this masterpiece, with such a well edited and well thought-out analysis.
It's completely unbelievable that this was made by a bunch of fans. It's better than anything Valve or any other big developer has made in the last like 10 years. Valve should be on their knees, begging to hire and throw money at the Crowbar Collective.
Side note: Slightly sad you didn't include the Xen elevator part in the sound design chapter. It's arguably the best showcase of how the music compliments the gameplay. Also omitting my favourite track "Ascension", which is AAA summer blockbuster levels of incredible.
Valve made Half Life Alyx in the past 10 years, which is better than Black Mesa.
Black Mesa is really, really good too though.
Lets not downplay Valve too hard here, i mean they still have Alyx like the other commenter said but this isn't changing the fact that Black Mesa is an absolute MASTERPIECE.
I would say Half Life Alyx is a lot better than Black Mesa personally.
I first played a version of Black Mesa in 2014. I finally beat the Nihilanth yesterday. The whole thing was worth the wait. :)
I see this not even as a remake of Half-Life, but a retelling of the same story. This really is its own game. And I agree, it's one of the best I've played.
I can't believe that hbomberguy would plagarise your style like this. His mother must not be very proud.
how dare 'poodle peanut butter long video essay axe shapiro not-enough-creamitis aquaman home' do that
I'm listening to this while replaying some parts of the game (black mesa) and using the things i learned. Honestly, the first time i just kinda rushed throught without using much enviroments because the game and the music was too awesome and i just had to jump into action.
10:15 I don't really understand how people have trouble with ladders in Source, press e to get on, look where you want to get off at, and press e again
yeah but everyone knows that pressing a button is hard
I know exactly what you mean.
It's absolutely infuriating to watch people *_fail_* to get off a ladder.
Even more so when they fail to get *_on_* a ladder. How is this even possible?
oh so THAT'S how you do it! i have been pressing jump this whole time
@@zeynaviegas5043
I mean
realisticly speaking
I personally wouldn't want to literally jump off a ladder when I want to get off a ladder
so pressing *jump* has never occured to me
the thing whit the ladder was that there was boxes on the ladder where pressing E would put you on the floor.
problem is that the players perspective of where the box was vs where it actually was it made sense if you played in 3 person and could see the player model.
they did not match up.
so the player was ether further upp on the ladder or further down on the ladder and those not in the box that signaled the game to put the player on the floor but just drooped them straight down whit a small force push away from the ladder meaning you could not get back on the ladder.
you can easly notis this if you play some costum HL2 maps where the ladder don't have those floor level boxes.
This is officially one of the best, most well made analysis videos I’ve seen on TH-cam. It’s clear to see the amount of care and love that was put into all the explanations and comparisons. And taking the extra mile to fully understand all the little details in this beautiful game is something I wish all content creators would do. You’ve earned a new sub and I look forward to more content like this in the future.
You should also check SovietWombles video essays for DayZ etc
This is just a grand look at some good ole greatness. Thanks for the gutt-busting laughs as well!