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About this Game:
  • Compatible with Steam Deck.
  • Black Mesa is the fan-made reimagining of Valve Software's Half-Life.
  • Update 1.5 brings together all the improvements to graphics and gameplay across 15 years of development to create the final version of Black Mesa.
  • Single Player Campaign: You are Gordon Freeman, a theoretical physicist at the Black Mesa Research Facility. When a routine experiment goes horribly wrong, you must fight your way through an interdimensional alien invasion, and a bloodthirsty military clean-up crew in order to save the science team... and the world!

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    • Rated 95% (Overwhelmingly Positive) on Steam based on 95k+ user reviews.
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Great soundtrack, and my recommendation as the best way to experience Half Life 1
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Silverwavex
10-31-2023 at 06:13 AM.
10-31-2023 at 06:13 AM.
Bought this during the last sale and it brings back some good memories, but the game is not that great when compared to todays standards. Lots of level design choices that were "revolutionary for the time," but subpar by todays standards.

Plus lots of graphical issues on Steam Deck… don't even get me started on the flashlight issues…
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jswift
10-31-2023 at 01:22 PM.
10-31-2023 at 01:22 PM.
Great soundtrack, and my recommendation as the best way to experience Half Life 1
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doriginaldigitaltim
10-31-2023 at 01:45 PM.
10-31-2023 at 01:45 PM.
Quote from jswift :
Great soundtrack, and my recommendation as the best way to experience Half Life 1
Try it on Quest Vr through sidequest. It's neat
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Pipvault
10-31-2023 at 03:19 PM.
10-31-2023 at 03:19 PM.
Quote from Silverwavex :
Bought this during the last sale and it brings back some good memories, but the game is not that great when compared to todays standards. Lots of level design choices that were "revolutionary for the time," but subpar by todays standards.

Plus lots of graphical issues on Steam Deck… don't even get me started on the flashlight issues…

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FancyMint8485
10-31-2023 at 03:39 PM.
10-31-2023 at 03:39 PM.
Quote from Silverwavex :
Bought this during the last sale and it brings back some good memories, but the game is not that great when compared to todays standards. Lots of level design choices that were "revolutionary for the time," but subpar by todays standards.

Plus lots of graphical issues on Steam Deck… don't even get me started on the flashlight issues…
Does the flashlight still light up objects to the side, but what's right ahead of you remains dark? That drove me nuts when I played it years ago.
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Silverwavex
10-31-2023 at 03:42 PM.
10-31-2023 at 03:42 PM.
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Like what was subpar?
Character interactions are pretty much non-existent.

Dialogue will trigger when you walk by NPCs, but the AI is extremely rudimentary. Things shoot at you, npcs barely follow you and they kind of shoot at each other. Sometimes.

And the levels are basically "shooter on rails" where you take one windy path that seems like it's set in a rich world, but the chasms, bridges, and lab equipment you see in the distance are all just non-interactive backdrops for a shooter. On rails. With occasional funny dialogue.
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Silverwavex
10-31-2023 at 03:44 PM.
10-31-2023 at 03:44 PM.
Quote from FancyMint8485 :
Does the flashlight still light up objects to the side, but what's right ahead of you remains dark? That drove me nuts when I played it years ago.
Yep. I think you can play with the settings to make it sort of work but you have to turn off a bunch of stuff.
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mostholycerebus
10-31-2023 at 04:21 PM.
10-31-2023 at 04:21 PM.
They asked me how well I understood theoretical physics. I said I had a theoretical degree in physics. They said Welcome Aboard.
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twiggy_alien_man
10-31-2023 at 04:24 PM.
10-31-2023 at 04:24 PM.
Once I got to Xen I started hating the game.

Other than that the game itself definitely feels huge in scope, with a ton of different places to see.

It's no wonder it took so long for them to make.
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MxChris
10-31-2023 at 05:49 PM.
10-31-2023 at 05:49 PM.
Some things are just best left alone so you can enjoy your memories of how groundbreaking and amazing it was at the time. Remastering an old game like this just makes it show its age that much more. It's akin to a 4k version of an old movie like Laurence of Arabia, the makeup on some of the actors, Omar Sharif in particular looks horrible in the detail we can display today.

Portal remaster, I'm in. Half Life, not so much..too much progress has been made in the FPS genre since it came out.
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DoctorAwesome
10-31-2023 at 06:10 PM.
10-31-2023 at 06:10 PM.
This is a great game if you like the Half-life series. Also, through the Steam workshop you can add the Black Mesa Blue Shift: Chapters 1-4 to play the Blue shift expansion.
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CyanWren437
10-31-2023 at 06:13 PM.
10-31-2023 at 06:13 PM.
Playing this game ATM and really enjoying it. Half-life fan since HL2. This is a throwback, and even with the remastering, graphically it's not quite as good as HL2; but the remastering definitely added some high fidelity, as in you can read trivial stuff off the posters on the walls and what not. Everything is just more detailed.

Paid $5 last year, and barely getting around to it now. Playing with a 4060. Love it.
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boden399
10-31-2023 at 07:12 PM.
10-31-2023 at 07:12 PM.
Man this was simpler time. Just kid on his computer playing this game like reading a good book. Now it's all online crap that I don't even bother with.
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