All things Half-Life

[Ghost World]

This version of BMS will allow us to play up until Xen but not actually Xen itself due to it not being finished yet.

I was going to play Half Life Source again but now you've told me xen has gone I'm all over Black Mesa

[dezm0nd]

Xen. Ugh.

[ratsoalbion]

Everybody loves a bit of Xen!

[dezm0nd]

I'm Xenophobic.

[NokkonWud]

Touché.

[Alex79]

I replayed Half Life quite recently. It hasn't aged that well.

[ratsoalbion]

It's been a while since I've played beyond the opening section and it'll be interesting to see what the panel make of it now. It's entirely possible for us to acknowledge an important game's legacy while still saying there's little entertainment to be had here now (as with me & the first Max Payne).

I'm looking forward to playing it again though, Xen notwithstanding.

[W1DGET]

Despite loving Half-Life I have never finished it! Way back when the game first game out I managed to get all the way to Xen to the point where you fall into the pit and then my game crashed. I remember reloading a few times which did no good and then I gave up but from what I have heard that was the final boss anyway so not to bothered. After that I was lured away by Counter-Strike which took over my life for a few years...

[dezm0nd]

Whilst BMS is free on release day providing you have the SDK Source 2007 installed, the guys behind the mod/remake have put the game on Greenlight for an official Steam release. It will still be free, so why not vote for it!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... d=94128543

[ryan_astley]

Excited to see this finally being available to the masses, have a look for Chris Narchi in the credits, a good mate of mine who put over four years of work on and off into the project. He was surprised that they've kept at it after all these years.

[dezm0nd]

Black Mesa Source just got greenlit!

[dezm0nd]

This game is out tomorrow at about 4pm. Expect servers to EXPLODDDEEE!

[ratsoalbion]

ASPLOOOODE!!!

[dezm0nd]

The internet will ERSPLSIONS and cause a resonance cascade. See what I did there?

[ratsoalbion]

Forgive my ignorance but how/where is it being released and for how many pounds? Or is it a mod?

Or what?

[dezm0nd]

It'll be released on their website www.blackmesasource.com for free via FTP and torrents. It'll be on Steam soon via Greenlight, not sure when. For free!

It's a standalone mod of the source SDK 2007 tool which is free in Steam, no need for HL2 etc.

[ratsoalbion]

Oh sweet. I'll play this and Half-Life Source for the show then.

Edit: assuming my PC can handle BMS that is.

[dezm0nd]

It's almost as if they KNEW that Half Life was the next series of games to be covered for the podcast!

[magicjoef]

Edit: assuming my PC can handle BMS that is.

Think you should be cool running Source, it's very versitile and I think this pretty much only uses the HL2 version.

[ratsoalbion]

L4D2 runs great so it should be fine.