Comments on: Black Mesa Trailer

By: Psychopomp

Psychopomp — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:54:16 +0000

Seeing all those old HL1 scenes with moder. technology sent shivers down my spine…

By: Arnulf

Arnulf — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:53:28 +0000

Just came around watching this. It’s really amazing! HL2 was the last FPS I bought (Portal is not really a FPS for me..). I was a bit disappointed with the HL:source port they included back then. But this mod sets everything right again. Incredible!

Also, thanks Tei, for that youtube link to the old HL trailer. I remember that I was anticipating HL for what I thought was a small eternity. Quake 2 was sooner released than HL. But, boy, was it worth the wait. I gobbled up every screenshot, every short trailer that was available. Downloading huge trailers was a luxury back then in the stone age of the Internet.

I especially remember that one-eyed panther… thing. So sad that Valve did not incorporate that into the final game. Or… I guess it later evolved into the three-armed slave aliens.

By: aldo_14

aldo_14 — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:43:58 +0000

One leeetle niggle; that freeze frame of Gordon talking to Barney… isn’t that a cutscene?
And aren’t cutscenes the antithesis of Half Life?

I think beardy-guy was just a random scientist #345 looking over Barneys shoulder.

By: thefanciestofpants

thefanciestofpants — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:41:56 +0000

I have a feeling the few cutscene-style things shown in the trailer were pure cinematic license.

I can’t imagine the BMS team would do away with the always in first-person-ness.

By: Mungrul

Mungrul — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:10:59 +0000

One leeetle niggle; that freeze frame of Gordon talking to Barney… isn’t that a cutscene?
And aren’t cutscenes the antithesis of Half Life?

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:18:06 +0000

You know, after looking at screenshots, I think the trailer just threw me off somehow. Maybe it’s Youtube’s compression at work.

By: Skittles the Bleepin' Pirate

Skittles the Bleepin' Pirate — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:21:25 +0000

HOOOOOOOOOOLY GOD
This looks good.

By: RichP

RichP — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:50:28 +0000

HOLY SHIT. Black Mesa is going down as one of the greatest mods of all time.

Of all the cool stuff in the vid, I’m still most impressed by the movement and pacing of the scientists and lab techs :)

By: Saflo

Saflo — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:45:44 +0000

@Malkav:

Huh?

By: Jochen Scheisse

Jochen Scheisse — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:35:45 +0000

Thanks for the link to Nielsen’s site, bob. I really like his stuff, although sadly he doesn’t have the track he used for this trailer online. Still, the other music for BM is also well done, but he mostly leaves out the flashiness of the trailer track, probably because creeping through dark corridors does not go well with fast, agressive music.

By: Pags

Pags — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:35:03 +0000

Malkav11: the memory can be a funny thing. It’s worth going to the Black Mesa website and looking at the comparisons in level design. I couldn’t remember the original Half-Life looking so empty but next to the redesign it’s really quite shocking seeing how much they’ve improved upon it.

By: Tei

Tei — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:22:54 +0000

@Jacques : hopes the mod (total conversion?) is released soon, looks like very interesting. Good luck!