Black Mesa Mod Trailer Teases Prettier Half-Life

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• 2009. Watch the trailer. : Legolas5

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• Same here. Attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh for a while, and the guys who are behind this are so... : Legolas5

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• yeah right : Tha Kelp

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  This mod is bascially the reason HL: Source sucked though. Valve said in an interview that they expected ... : gohan2518
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    I'm looking forward to the remake of Opposing Force. And in the future I'll be looking forward to the rem... : Renalicious
    • I agree, I never finished Oppossing Force, so a remake would be awesome. : gohan2518
    • oh god a remake of Opposing Force YES PLS : xsii
    • Signed. : quadeh
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      http://www.obmsource.com/ : FatBaby
      • Woooot :D : Renalicious
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  Not old enough? Half-Life just turned ten. How much older do you want it to be? : David Craddock
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    Old enough to warrant an update? Remaking X-Wing vs. Tie-Fighter, the Hugo Series, etc. etc. feels like t... : eonix
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      You do realize that XvT is only 11 years old. : Whistler77
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        Thats fine. : eonix
        • The cutoff is 10.5 years : _jon
        • your reasoning is gone : Katarn3279
    • The thing is that none of those games have the same broad appeal or the fanbase behind them, unfortunatel... : Djsoulshot
    • You've got to be kidding me. Thats like asking for a Commander Keen remake, and we all know it would be r... : coolbreezr
    • But if games age like computers do (dog years) then a 10 year old game is really 70 years old. Seems old... : mrwolf710
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    It's a blatant troll attempt. Just ignore the troll and it'll get bored. : AlexW1203
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      lol, check out my posts. I fucking LOVE Valve and its franchises. I'd love to see this take off a... : eonix
      • Just because you like other games doesn't mean you're allowed to say that ten-year-old games mustn't be r... : AlexW1203

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• Your in luck. They are at least porting the HLDM levels so it's safe to say that they are. : thejay247
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  Oh hell yes. Snarks on Crossfire were awesome : melkore
  • How about drowning players in Undertow? : quanta88
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  If by garbage you mean an incredibly fun game that encourages creative and over-the-top kills to boring r... : Mr. Graham
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    you mean guns that aren't accurate adn never fire into the crosshair, complete bullshit game - NOT what ... : dignan
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      The guns are exactly the same as they are in HL2... : Wisp!
      • yea i know, the machine gun is a piece of shit, you can hit the same spot twice : dignan
  • you obviously work for valve. : bbmar23
  • hl2dm was pure novelty bs. : maulla
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  Here here! While HL2DM had a great core, the maps were terrible. This was the point where Valve droppe... : boulder94
  • Flip your homophone coin again : MamiyaOtaru
• Man I loved HL2DM nearly as much as I loved HLDM. : crummynz
• YES PLEASE : [7]kami
• HLDM had some of the best maps I have ever seen in any game. I loved the one with the nuclear missile str... : pharoah mike

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  It may seem like that. Until you realize they weren't the original developers or a professional developer... : X-Nice
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    I don't think he's whining about the length of dev time; he's impressed (perhaps negatively :P) at the am... : Damodred
    • I think it will be a good reason to revisit it, though. : Bingo
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      You are correct. If you were to allocate your spare time for the next three years I would hesitate to ... : ease one
      • It's an interesting and risky strategy to remake a terrifically popular, ten-year old title, hook the fan... : Wilhuf
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    The team is larger than id software. : eonix
    • Only if you count the past developers. 65 people work at id Software according to Wikipedia. Might not ev... : GreatGooglyMoogly

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• shhh... don't give them any ideas : ZedFromZardoz
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  I hope Valve picks this up and sells it for $10, they deserve some money for their effort. : Mystery0000
  • I agree 100% : pun][sher
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  How could they? Valve would shut them down immediately if they tried to. : ArB
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    Not if Valve is the one selling it... : gohan2518
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      Oh yes, let's just have Valve sell the work of other people. It's okay, because they can split up the mon... : AlexW1203
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        Valve already did this with Gary's Mod. Why wouldn't they do it again? : carbontree
        • and counterstrike and dod : dignan
        • For Garry's Mod, Newman himself was the majority of the dev team if I recall correctly, and part of the d... : AlexW1203
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        Actually it's real easy. Sign here and get 50% or don't and get nothing. It's not like a fair deal couldn... : S1ing B1ade
        • Plus Valve help with distribution, marketing, publishing, all the stuff little guys can't really do and w... : PlayfulPuppy
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          How do you decide on 50%? What criteria were used to find out how much Valve is entitled to from 100% oth... : AlexW1203
          • 50% : indosauros
• i think its the best mod trailer i've ever seen, if it plays as good as it looks then we have a true winn... : ballystix

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  Most mod teams releasing this level of work for free don't do it for fun. It's fun basking in all the dic... : mchart
  • id say they are most certainly getting their foot in the door with this one. HAts off to'em! : technotica
  • That's not true at all, getting your foot in the door is a bonus. If you don't enjoy the creation proc... : Mystery0000
• Hell yeah. This looks MUCH better than I initially expected. I'm excited to play thought Half-Life all ov... : Killrig

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  Same, now if Black Window can just release They Hunger: Source; I'd be set. : steauengeglase
  • what ever happened to Lost Souls? game just isn't even on the radar anymore : grabbie
  • Not holding my breath on that one. I doubt it'd look anywhere near as beautiful as this mod looks. : jtthe2nd

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  Target sighted. Target data acquired. Require confirmation to fire upon troll. Do you accept? : Skyburst101
  • Your targeting computer runs Vista? : NeoChaosX

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• How's that? This seems like pretty sweet FREE promotion for them. : GodZilly
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  Why did they make a mistake? Why would Valve want to devote time and resources to do something like ... : noleh8r
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    And you need a source based game to play it, so money will have to have gone to Valve at some point for e... : Djsoulshot
    • HL2 is basically free these days with all the people trying to gift it : dignan
• I and problably everyone else thought that Half-Life: Source, would be like that, remake of the game in s... : ClawHammR
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  Reasons I think it was a mistake: They already had all the assets and experience making the thing onc... : bolneze
  • Valve has to pick and choose it's projects. Sure, they could have been successful with a remake, but I'm ... : S1ing B1ade
  • Apparently you think Valve can crank out games relatively fast. You've heard of Valve time haven't you??... : Scoots06
  • LoL at Valve cranking out games fast. : Pettytheft
  • A lot of people wouldn't buy the same game they already played before. A lot of people would bitch Valve ... : zehh

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  1. You will never see Gordon's model in the game, its just for the trailer's purpose 2. He looks great, ... : manlyman
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    You might need to see Gordon. You can (and I say need) to render reflections in the glass with source no... : DANNERx0
    • No mirrors in BM. Specifically stated by the devs multiple times (because you would not believe how often... : AlexW1203
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  No. That's not Gordon's model. : Ghillie
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    you sure? i know it looks nothing like him, but that's obviously barney (and it looks nothing like barney... : Ios2
    • It's not Barney, because Barney is banging on the door in Inbound and is never seen again in the game. It... : AlexW1203
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    That's billy mayes selling oxy clean to barney : jonin
    • Hahaha, so true. Fight with the power of oxy clean! Or whatever he says in his voice. : shurcool
• It's obviously Beardtober. : pupismyname
• barney will look different. Half-Life takes place around 20 years before the events in Half-Life 2. G... : grabbie
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  If they are taking Blue Shift as canon then that isn't Barney : marmite
  • They are. You will see Barney banging on the door at the start, and every guard model after that will be ... : Scoots06
• they have a certain teddy bear quality to them : Dave-A

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  Um, no they won't. I imagine the primary reason studios get purchased is so someone can own their IPs. : Cihte
  • Actually most studios don't own any IPs. Publishers insist on getting IP ownership in their contracts wit... : Kristian Joensen
• The team is splitting up after BM is finished (I'm not sure about things like future updates and bug fixe... : AlexW1203
• Most of the team members already work within the games industry. : Scoots06

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• It will. See the About page on the BM website. : AlexW1203
• Yeah, it's been confirmed - see here: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=18589947#itemanchor_18589947... : shurcool

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• Yeah, there'll be two player co-op in this HL1 remake. One player controls Gordon Freeman and the othe... : shurcool

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• What? No! Hire them AFTER they release the mod :P : Renalicious
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  why don't you hire them : marmite
  • cuz then it'll never get done ... I'm sorry, i had to do it : Madwacker
  • They do make good trailers... : S1ing B1ade
• hire them after they release it plz :( : moe6
• Your posts always make me laugh :) : LoioshDwaggie
• actually i wanted to say that this reminds me of the DNF 2001 trailer! these guys are awesome! LOVE I... : fw_rams

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  lol, that demonstrates our power over the online world : dancingpolkabear
  • Or that of the entire damn Internet, seeing as how this trailer is EVERYWHERE. : AlexW1203

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• This also will have the multiplayer aspect from HL1. Which I don't think many people realize is super awe... : quadeh
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  There are single player mods. Check out Minerva. : Skewt
  • He means on steam. : coolbreezr

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  for the 2nd time : jackomack
  • or third : PapaBoo

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• right here : PapaBoo

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• The only thing that Valve asked them to do was take out the word "Source" from the mod's title as it migh... : noleh8r
• They only put the kabosh on these remakes if they are dicks. : thejay247

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• it sure does! my fear of heights almost made it impossible finish that section lol : xsii

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  I have just the opposite reaction. "On a Rail" nearly caused me to stop playing Half-Life because of how... : noleh8r
  • It was so awesome. So many marine ambushes to foil. I love every moment of it. : tomservo
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  god i hated that chapter... : DewFuel
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    Same, Surface Tension, now THAT'S a good chapter :). : JesperKarlsson
    • Werd. : etherealrhythm
    • Agreed! But at the same time I really enjoyed Forget About Freeman and Lambda Core, it was when the diffi... : Renalicious

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  It's going to SQUASH the competition! : FunkytownP
  • :D : bolneze
  • marry me : erikman619