BLACK MESA

Did we play the same game? Xen has some of the prettiest locations in the whole game.

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Why exactly is this shit taking so long? The game was out four fucking years ago.

pretty fucking exciting. still gonna wait though.

You can’t rush art. Video games are art

>It’s the first 3 maps of the Xen chapter (which has 6 maps total), continuing Gordon’s adventure from the cliffhanger ending of Lambda Core. With the full Xen campaign clocking in at 19 maps, the beta is only a taste of what’s to come.

Wait, so is Xen 19 maps, or the full campaign INCLUDING Xen is 19 maps? The former feels waaay too big, but the latter seems disproportionately Xen-heavy if Xen will be 6 as they initially state

It was actually released 2012, user

So when the fuck is this going to be finished?

I'm not buying that shit to have it sitting on my library for years.

I appreciate their effort but honestly what the fuck are they doing now

oh i thought it looked nice, it was just barren is all

They’ve stated their version of Xen is a full 1/3 of the game

>Valve releases Half Life 3
>Valve releases Half Life 4
>Valve releases Half Life 5 before the sun goes supernova and swallows Earth ending humanity for good.
>Black Mesa: W..we're almost done with the Xen pre-alpha!

>well, partially
This is always the story with these fags, isn't it? They obviously have the chops to make a proper game. Why don't they develop something they can sell at full price and live off of, instead of farting around for decades with a perpetually unfinished fan project?

>you can hear earth birds on xen
dropped

Wow look, a post unearthed from 2009.

Yes you can. Many great works of art have been made unter strict time constraints. Majora's Mask was made in a year and it's one of the most artistic games ever made.

they're metroids you donut

All of Xen is 19 maps. This is across four levels: Xen, Gonarch's Lair, Interloper and the final boss. That first level also called Xen is gonna have six maps. Right now they have the first three maps of that first level out.

That's how I understand it.

>putrid green
>atmosphere looks like hyper-polluted trash
>barren surfaces

Majora's Mask was mostly reusing assets you toadstool, they made everything in this shit from the ground up, even the sounds and music.

honestly you can count the number of games that benefitted from being rushed on one hand, meanwhile there's thousands of games that are fucked because of being incomplete with tons of cut content.

And there are just as many games that take forever to come out and still end up underwhelming. I'm not making a point in favour of rushing games but being able to work under reasonable budget and time constraints is something developers should be able to do.

>Black Mesa
>reasonable budget
wew

So, after all these years, they have only managed to "release" 3 maps out of 19. Why the hell would they do 19 maps if they can only manage to build a fraction of them in 5 years? Are they out of their minds?

It's probably the worst project/deadline management in the history of gaming behind Star Citizen. Shit on AAA studios all you like, but this is what happens when a bunch of "developers" are left to their own devices with poor or outright nonexistent supervision.

no budget, hombre

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it's been out for a while now, what are you talking about?

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>liking a great first person shooter makes you a redditor
Insecure much, zoomer?

they made xen look like a place where those creatures can thrive which is retarded because they are not native to fucking xen

for a year 98 it was brimming with life

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Food is food. Why would they not be able to exist there?

I'm guessing the rest is done and they're just bug testing/fixing. They say Xen is coming soon, normally they just say that they're still working on it.

>put this on shirt and wear it for client meetings
saves tons of time and work

Isn't Gaben literally hate how the xen level map layout turn out to be when hl1 finished?

Their Xen unironically looks amazing

Didn't they say that "Xen is coming soon" last fucking year? "Soon" relative to fucking what, the year 3000?

I'm not sure but I can't imagine they release this beta without the full release coming soon.

Yeah because it's basically a shadow of what they originally intended to make. It was meant to be the proper last quarter of the game on par with everything else but they only had time to put together a handful of lame levels and two half-assed bossfights.

So the Black Mesa folks are really restoring it to the original vision.

>still haven't touched Black Mesa because I told myself I wouldn't play it until it was fully released back in 2012

Only a few more years, lads

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Essentially, I hope it turns out well

In their update from one month ago they showed a concept art pic to represent an entire section of xen maps instead of the three second gifs showed for the other sections because that map was in such early stages still. Don't expect all of xen anytime soon.

>original xen
>1998 technology
>black mesa xen
>2019 technology
woa....

You underestimate the incompetence of the Black Mesa dev team

Same here.

Dont forget to use the classic weapon skin pack

Soulless, just take the original goldsrc half-life disc and install it. Alternatively get the Xash3d patch to play in widescreen.

But BM is already basing the weapons on the original release.

I don't regret playing the first part. I might be biased though, since I didn't know Xen wasn't in. The cliffhanger came to me as an actual cliffhanger, which was nice.

>Literally the universe's habitat reserve
>Apparently supposed to be barren and the dumpster of the universe
???

They did release a free version in 2012 that didn't have xen. Then in 2015 or something they announced a full remake.

>The cliffhanger came to me as an actual cliffhanger, which was nice.
get out

Why did they screw with the long jump? It was fine in original HL.

You mean the "cliffhanger" that you can't play the rest of the game?