One thing I am really grateful for is that they threw out that broken torch. You know the one that could only stay on for thirty seconds at a time? New one works when you want, for how long you want!

My only real gripe is that the soldiers are a little too godlike in some places…

The bad should only be the load times.

This game set out to accomplish a remake of HL and it has done that perfectly. There is no bad, as far as I’m concerned, except for the load times. Speaking of which, looking at memory usage for HL2.exe while its loading, it unloads all previous assets (or atleast seems to) and loads in everything from scratch again, so each loading screen seems to be dumping and then loading around 1gb or so of data. The source engine has always been pretty poor for load times and level sizes, it almost ruined the immersion of HL2 and it does the same for Black Mesa, especially when it loads back in and you’re met with a repeating sound loop, not cool.

slazza:
Retarded review.

Intelligent feedback.

vcatkiller:
Yeah but…no gravity gun?Crikey, what sort of “annoying” is that?Might as well start complaining because it doesn’t have a portal gun.Why can’t I use morph ball?Hey, I hear this mod doesn’t enable you to spirit walk, what sort of crud is this?

oh man, I wish I had the lol smiley

Yeah but I think the point of the “bad” section is to note things that are, well you know, bad. I fail to see how most of those points actually detract from the experience at all, except the slow loading times maybe?

As for the review, I think it’s a tad unfair to call the reviewer retarded just because he was scraping the bottom of the barrel for things to mark down on the “Bad” list.

Plus you forgot to mention – female scientists! Black Mesa facility has now become an equal-opportunity workplace! :D I don’t know, I kind of thought it was cool, looking out of the tram and spotting that the first time…

Holy fucking shit, you’re retarded.

The fuck?

And what’s wrong with crouch jumping? Also I don’t understand the comments about health stations and sprint. Health stations have always taken a few seconds to heal you up and HL1 had always run, so you were boosting around really fast all of the time.

You’re only missing out on the Xen levels which would be a good spot to pick back up on when they’re released.

You might be waiting a while…

:)…

Bad:
•No Gravity Gun

I don’t see why this is a bad thing… it’s a Half-Life remake; there was no gravity gun.

exe3,

It has nothing to do with encryption and in fact, there is no encryption in the Black Mesa files (which don’t even use GCF).

It probably has more to do with static lighting (Black Mesa has a LOT of high resolution lightmaps; the largest BSP is 114MB, which is huge) among other things.