Thank you! It was, as always, a pleasure to watch you play! Of course, I will wait for Opposition Force, but in the meantime it would be good, in addition to your regular content, see you play some FPS (especially old ones!) or strategy (RTS or turn-based). Homeworld / X-Com / or anything else :D
Good job! 🎉 Was fun watching you along the ride! Also, suggestion for next game(s): The Longest Journey and Dreamfall Chapters. Both are great adventure games that would be fun to see you play. 😁
Hey guys, here's the link to my original Nihilanth fight, technical issues and all - th-cam.com/video/zEWvG7De9VQ/w-d-xo.html It's actually way more watch-able than I expected, so do take a look! P.S. No excuses for forgetting the mic, just a really dumb mistake that's unfortunately unfixable, so this is the best solution I could come up with!
Could/Should published "fail" original with edited in narration about what's happened with recording, new play-by-play commentary and impression about game. Gameplay and in game audio OK, just commentary audio part failed. Would been better solution IMHO.
I feel like this is......kind of what this replay was? Not 100% what you're describing, but pretty close. I thought about doing a voice-over, but thought it might be confusing having my face and voice mismatch, and I really treasured some of those initial reactions.
@@psychemode Had in mind not full on narration/fake-out, just more substantial voiced commentary no far, akin to subtitles in failed recording. If confusing, always can put text on screen "future me after small technical issue talking over" or to make more confusing - put second face cam/audio recoding on opposite side :). There is plenty of times to talk over and not to ruin initial (face cam?) reactions. When only commentary lost, everything else great and better than second attempt/rerecording too, just edit in shot audio recoding/commentary instead of subtitles.
@@psychemode your feelings are understandable, but Mindaugas is right, AAR type commentary, not a lipdub or dubbing would have been perfectly fine :) you could have even edited close ups of your face and say with your voice "and thats when she knew. She effed up". That would have been great, seriously :)
Congrats Hannah 👍, looking forward for the Opposing Force but in the meantime maybe you're in the mood for some point-and-click adventures again? Still waiting patiently for Black Mirror (2003).
Regarding those "Past Developers" in the credits, I'm guessing they were referring to the original team, who made and initiated the original (and FREE) "Black Mesa Source" mod, which over the time evolved into separate, stand-alone game that was being sold on Steam. It's kinda difficult to find it nowadays, but I still have a copy of BMS, and it more or less resembles what we have today, except some of the levels had been redesigned over time. BMS also didn't have Xen levels, so the game would end once you entered the Lambda Core teleporter. Congrats on finishing the game! What's next in stock ... Black Mesa: Blue Shift? Check it out, it is actually on-going mod, which converts the original Blue Shift into Black Mesa, current-gen environment. But the project is still going, so even if you decide to play the game, you won't be able to finish it just yet. I also highly recommend Black Mesa Hazard Course mod, a highly accurate conversion of the Hazard Course made for Black Mesa game. Obviously, The Opposing Force is actually a great (and obvious) choice, considering that it has a whole new story to tell, which hasn't been featured in any other game that you've played so far. It also gives you the opportunity to see what will happen to Black Mesa complex, after the events of the original Half-Life & Black Mesa and how it all ended.
GG :) now unto half life mods! time to descend into madness! :D ah nah, wont torment you with more hl, you've earned your sleep in the gmans stasis cell ;) ehhh sounds like goodbye xD well, till HL3 i guess ;-;
Lol, we still have Opposing Force on deck, whenever the itch for more HL strikes! I was also looking at the HL2 VR mod the other day, with curiosity.....
Missed an opportunity to dub over the original recording with uncannily accurate predictions about what's coming next in the fight, and make us all think you're psychic. When you're on the top of the tower for the last dramatic teleport, you can see the first Xen levels with the science lab caves and the swamp, off in the distance if you turn around 180 degrees when you spawn in and look over the edge. It's just the maps though, they didn't have time to go fill in all the spaces around and underneath them to make it look like actual floating islands, so it looks a bit weird. The Nihilanth fight is definitely easier than it was in HL1. On Black Mesa hard difficulty lots of its attacks will one-hit kill you though, which brings the difficulty back up. There is a little 30 second cutscene that plays out if you refuse to get in the portal at the end, where you see what Gman means by "...a battle you have no chance of winning", (in HL1 too). The 'Past Developers' in the credits aren't Valve, they're people who did some work on Black Mesa at some point between 2004 when the project started and its final release, but aren't involved in the current Crowbar Collective, (which was founded some time between 2012 when the first Black Mesa HL2 mod was released and 2015 when it became a paid standalone game on Steam). And that's Black Mesa! It feels quite appropriate that one of the last games to be released in the Source engine, which started with Half Life 2, is the Half Life 1 remake. Now Half Life sleeps, possibly forever, but that's OK with me since I don't really think Valve have any idea what to do with it or how to take the plot forward in a satisfying way. In the meantime, I'll definitely pop in and check out whatever you end up playing next. (And looking forward to Opposing Force, to finish off the full Half Life collection, of course! If/when you play it, make sure to do the boot camp before you start the actual game.)
Congrats! 🎉👍On to new endeavours! 😄
"I did just record *inhale* the end of the game with no microphone."
*look into camera*
Perfect delivery. Guess I have to watch both versions.
That's some real, genuine terror behind those words, too!
Thank you! It was, as always, a pleasure to watch you play!
Of course, I will wait for Opposition Force, but in the meantime it would be good, in addition to your regular content, see you play some FPS (especially old ones!) or strategy (RTS or turn-based). Homeworld / X-Com / or anything else :D
Good job! 🎉 Was fun watching you along the ride!
Also, suggestion for next game(s): The Longest Journey and Dreamfall Chapters. Both are great adventure games that would be fun to see you play. 😁
Thanks! And yup, still deciding, thanks for the suggestions!
Hey guys, here's the link to my original Nihilanth fight, technical issues and all - th-cam.com/video/zEWvG7De9VQ/w-d-xo.html
It's actually way more watch-able than I expected, so do take a look!
P.S. No excuses for forgetting the mic, just a really dumb mistake that's unfortunately unfixable, so this is the best solution I could come up with!
Could/Should published "fail" original with edited in narration about what's happened with recording, new play-by-play commentary and impression about game. Gameplay and in game audio OK, just commentary audio part failed. Would been better solution IMHO.
@@mindaugasstankus5943 agreed!
I feel like this is......kind of what this replay was? Not 100% what you're describing, but pretty close. I thought about doing a voice-over, but thought it might be confusing having my face and voice mismatch, and I really treasured some of those initial reactions.
@@psychemode Had in mind not full on narration/fake-out, just more substantial voiced commentary no far, akin to subtitles in failed recording.
If confusing, always can put text on screen "future me after small technical issue talking over" or to make more confusing - put second face cam/audio recoding on opposite side :). There is plenty of times to talk over and not to ruin initial (face cam?) reactions.
When only commentary lost, everything else great and better than second attempt/rerecording too, just edit in shot audio recoding/commentary instead of subtitles.
@@psychemode your feelings are understandable, but Mindaugas is right, AAR type commentary, not a lipdub or dubbing would have been perfectly fine :) you could have even edited close ups of your face and say with your voice "and thats when she knew. She effed up". That would have been great, seriously :)
Congrats Hannah 👍, looking forward for the Opposing Force but in the meantime maybe you're in the mood for some point-and-click adventures again? Still waiting patiently for Black Mirror (2003).
Too bad you didn't record the moment when the "forget about freeman" soundtrack plays. It was such an intense battle.
The original Half-Life also had the voices of the scientists before the portal to the nihilanth
Cool! I definitely didn't remember that...that section felt the most "old Xen" though, so I'm not surprised.
Regarding those "Past Developers" in the credits, I'm guessing they were referring to the original team, who made and initiated the original (and FREE) "Black Mesa Source" mod, which over the time evolved into separate, stand-alone game that was being sold on Steam.
It's kinda difficult to find it nowadays, but I still have a copy of BMS, and it more or less resembles what we have today, except some of the levels had been redesigned over time. BMS also didn't have Xen levels, so the game would end once you entered the Lambda Core teleporter.
Congrats on finishing the game! What's next in stock ... Black Mesa: Blue Shift? Check it out, it is actually on-going mod, which converts the original Blue Shift into Black Mesa, current-gen environment. But the project is still going, so even if you decide to play the game, you won't be able to finish it just yet.
I also highly recommend Black Mesa Hazard Course mod, a highly accurate conversion of the Hazard Course made for Black Mesa game. Obviously, The Opposing Force is actually a great (and obvious) choice, considering that it has a whole new story to tell, which hasn't been featured in any other game that you've played so far. It also gives you the opportunity to see what will happen to Black Mesa complex, after the events of the original Half-Life & Black Mesa and how it all ended.
GG :) now unto half life mods! time to descend into madness! :D ah nah, wont torment you with more hl, you've earned your sleep in the gmans stasis cell ;) ehhh sounds like goodbye xD well, till HL3 i guess ;-;
Lol, we still have Opposing Force on deck, whenever the itch for more HL strikes! I was also looking at the HL2 VR mod the other day, with curiosity.....
@@psychemode yaaay ! :D
Missed an opportunity to dub over the original recording with uncannily accurate predictions about what's coming next in the fight, and make us all think you're psychic.
When you're on the top of the tower for the last dramatic teleport, you can see the first Xen levels with the science lab caves and the swamp, off in the distance if you turn around 180 degrees when you spawn in and look over the edge. It's just the maps though, they didn't have time to go fill in all the spaces around and underneath them to make it look like actual floating islands, so it looks a bit weird.
The Nihilanth fight is definitely easier than it was in HL1. On Black Mesa hard difficulty lots of its attacks will one-hit kill you though, which brings the difficulty back up.
There is a little 30 second cutscene that plays out if you refuse to get in the portal at the end, where you see what Gman means by "...a battle you have no chance of winning", (in HL1 too).
The 'Past Developers' in the credits aren't Valve, they're people who did some work on Black Mesa at some point between 2004 when the project started and its final release, but aren't involved in the current Crowbar Collective, (which was founded some time between 2012 when the first Black Mesa HL2 mod was released and 2015 when it became a paid standalone game on Steam).
And that's Black Mesa! It feels quite appropriate that one of the last games to be released in the Source engine, which started with Half Life 2, is the Half Life 1 remake. Now Half Life sleeps, possibly forever, but that's OK with me since I don't really think Valve have any idea what to do with it or how to take the plot forward in a satisfying way.
In the meantime, I'll definitely pop in and check out whatever you end up playing next. (And looking forward to Opposing Force, to finish off the full Half Life collection, of course! If/when you play it, make sure to do the boot camp before you start the actual game.)