MaxTheLimit
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So who is excited?
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I was excited.... in 2005.
It's worth a playthrough but hard to say whether it's worth playing all of HL1 just for a look at xen. I replay HL1 every few years but usually stop around xen. If you got nothing better to do just replay the original I guess. Could be interesting to see the differences whenever they finish remaking the whole game.yeah I never finished Xen in the original game. still I would like to play the whole remake from beginning to end this time.
So they decided to remake HL on a new engine so it didn't look like ass anymore.
Then took 300 years so the new one looks like ass anyway.
http://forums.blackmesasource.com/showpost.php?p=480698&postcount=12Development on xen is already underway and we hope to have it finished up in a reasonable timeframe. Xen is going to basically be a complete game in its own right, it's not going to be just an epilogue to the game; more of a whole new chapter. It'll be pretty well expanded.
Cept it doesn't look at all like ass. http://imgur.com/a/ItaUQ#0
Cept it doesn't look at all like ass. http://imgur.com/a/ItaUQ#0
Anyway, they are releasing the game up to Xen because it needs quite a bit of work to make it a fun level... Xen was such a bitch in the original game.
http://forums.blackmesasource.com/showpost.php?p=480698&postcount=12
Are those final shots?!
That would have looked like ass in 2005... Now it looks like aged ass.
i don't know what exactly you were expecting, the mod is written in the source engine which is incredibly outdated to begin with.
i don't know what exactly you were expecting, the mod is written in the source engine which is incredibly outdated to begin with.
Although the source engine is pretty old, it has had some updating. Payday, Portal 2 and E.Y.E look better than this, and two of them were done by a small studios, in much much less time.
If theyd released it in 2007 it would have maybe looked decent. They let that slip and played around, and now they have a badly aged "graphical update" which makes the whole thing kind of pointless.
To be honest, it looks worse than the HL2 episodes...and those are dated looking.
Although the source engine is pretty old, it has had some updating. Payday, Portal 2 and E.Y.E look better than this, and two of them were done by a small studios, in much much less time.
If theyd released it in 2007 it would have maybe looked decent. They let that slip and played around, and now they have a badly aged "graphical update" which makes the whole thing kind of pointless.
To be honest, it looks worse than the HL2 episodes...and those are dated looking.
Considering the change in tone they are going for (cheesy action movie), I wouldn't consider it a replacement for the original game. HL is still worth a playthrough, especially given the price.It does look worse than EP2. I hope the overall graphic quality is up to EP2 standards. Regardless I will play the game as I never played HL1.
Who cares, the game isn't even done yet. They are releasing it incomplete.
A lot of people probably care. If they put out a poll that asked if people wanted the game minus Xen now, or wait another 6 months for the full game... I'd gladly chose to have it now. I've re-played HL1 several times now, and I usually quite at Xen anyways, that part of the game just isn't nearly as great. I can see why it would be a bother to anyone who hasn't played HL1, but for those of us just looking to revisit the game, this should still be a lot of fun.
Not to mention... they have probably lost a lot of interest over the years. This is a good chance to put out what they have and see what people think. If it's good, it will renew peoples interest in the mod, and they keep working on it. If it flops, well, at least they can put it to bed.
I put it to bed in 2007, not to mention 2009.
The game is now on Steam Greenlight. Steam integration would be awesome... go vote!
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=94128543
Considering you have to pay $100 to get listed on Greenlight now, it's saying a lot that they've put it up there.
Isn't it a free mod? Couldn't they have just thrown it on the workshop section, for free?
Are those final shots?!
That would have looked like ass in 2005... Now it looks like aged ass.