Which one should I buy?

>Get Black Mesa if you can't stand the old visuals.

nothing to do with visuals. dont recommend black mesa to people. its not half-life. hes asking about half-life.

BM is completely ruined in so many ways from shit like the grunts not having any aim time...completely changes and ruins every part of the game they are in

Neither. HL is the most over rated series of all time. Pirate if you must play it for whatever reason

Are you using the HD textures with the ugly ass M4?

See if you can find the old half life collection on disc. The WON version is great

>never played half-life 1

shut the fuck up zoomer

Mate, I'd ask if you'd get some god damn faith behind you before spouting this absolute trollop.

No, I'm using software mode and some reduced resolutions to enhance and create a more accurate 1998 aesthetic.

>No, I'm using software mode and some reduced resolutions to enhance and create a more accurate 1998 aesthetic.

software mode isn't the accurate aesthetic for half-life. half-life players were expected to have a 3d accelerator and as such the game's visuals are designed for bilinear filtering. d3d mode is more "authentic"

sven coop is free and standalone now

This?

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yes

Don't. It's not Half Life. Don't ruin Half Life for yourself. Just play it.

>most over rated series of all time
maybe in 2010. i can name 5 series more jerked off than HL

Don't do Black Mesa first. Do the original Half-Life first.

Original. HLS is exactly the same, but with a less consistent artstyle and a lot more bugs.

If you find the game too dated Black Mesa is also good, though it's not done yet. The bulk of the game has been remade, but the final area hasn't been. It's supposed to finally launch sometime in the next few months.

The sound is not very important. I prefer the game experience

you are the only one user that tried to explain why not buy black mesa, every other one was just "PLEASE DONT PLAY THE ORIGINAL BECAUSE SOUL"

I decide to buy the Original Half Life.
Thanks :3

>BM is completely ruined in so many ways
no BM is an improvement in almost every way

>worthabuy
That old faggot doesn't post here, I know for a fucking fact considering I've interacted with the guy personally.

is he dying? What the fuck is going on with his channel?

This.

>liking the m4 over the based mp5

Half Life
That way you can play Half Lfe: Echoes as well

1. He's not fucking intelligent, I mean we aren't exactly geniuses, but we do know our hobby. But he talks from a position of ignorance and backs the wrong horse constantly, part of the reason why I know him.
2. Youtube drying up, you really can't make money on youtube unless you have a showmanship quality to you. People that will survive are the obvious ones like AVGN, but the reason why was because AVGN was trying to set up home base outside of youtube back in 2007. Mack has none of this, you might argue that DSP doesn't either, but DSP has something that Mack doesn't in which he's a train wreck and he himself is dying. A lot of people with better content and channels than mack are dying, mack has nothing to offer to survive. The other way is to bend over and be a childproof least offensive mush.
3. He bites the hand that feeds, which is a combination of 1 and 2, but a bit more involved. He fucks over his viewers, he shills and gives little to no shit for thinking people or viewers who will tell him he's wrong about something. I thought this was a recipe for disaster as far back as 2012 when he was removing certain conversations from his comment section. Mack is just a fag who got lucky a long time ago, I had to deal with him and his bullshit on a game a long time ago where he made an ass of himself. He pulled a 180 from making video after video how I was wrong, that I knew nothing about a developer, who they were, all with no facts while I did all the labor and he did none.

Mack is just a nobody that is no longer getting the scraps that youtube still had back in the early 2010's while slowly informing the people around him who he actually is. He's a rube, a well scrubbed hustling rube with little taste.

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i beg your fucking pardon

i would literally slap u in the face with a glove and challenge you to a swordfight duel to the death over the assertion that black mesa is an improvement in "almost every way"

reeeeeEEEEEEEEEE

I like them both about the same, depends what I'm in the mood for.

BM is modernized as fuck, there are aspects of HL1 that are just better and timeless. I agree on principle, but I also recognize things that are great in BM such as the gore.

>there are aspects of HL1 that are just better and timeless
that BM doesn't have? like what?

Just play the original first. It has so much soul that it would be insane to play any other version or remake first because the gameplay is essentially the same in all of them.

Get the original Half-Life along with Opposing Force. Then play the mod Half-Life: Echos afterwards. Don't bother with Blue Shift unless you just want more Half-Life.

>unironically believes half life: source is the same game as half life

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Increased magazine capacity, weapons function differently or have a greater capacity for carnage. Less post modern game design such as the flares in the beginning, in the original HL1 the beginning is more focused on scouting for ammo and scrounging instead of using source's tech demo material.

Xenians start deploying their versions of fixed guns, more combined arms and mechanized unit interactions that require the player to reserve heavy weapons or employ different strats to take out IFV's or 30mm positions. Good shit, good shit.

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doom

the source version is full of bugs

>a more accurate 1998 aesthetic.
most prople had 3d cards when HL came out you fucking zoomer