Steam has
Black Mesa: Definitive Edition (PC Digital Download) on sale for
$4.99.
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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. There has never been a better time to pick up the crowbar and play!
- 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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HOWEVER, for this price, for this game, for this lore, for this lack of source material, in relation to the length of Xen vs how long/short the remake of the earth based sections are...when you take everything into account, I'm fine with their choices and had a good time despite the longer length. For 20 years we had like 5 rooms and then a boss, why not explore that a bit more?
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Make that game 346 or 621 in my Steam backlog. lol
HOWEVER, for this price, for this game, for this lore, for this lack of source material, in relation to the length of Xen vs how long/short the remake of the earth based sections are...when you take everything into account, I'm fine with their choices and had a good time despite the longer length. For 20 years we had like 5 rooms and then a boss, why not explore that a bit more?
HOWEVER, for this price, for this game, for this lore, for this lack of source material, in relation to the length of Xen vs how long/short the remake of the earth based sections are...when you take everything into account, I'm fine with their choices and had a good time despite the longer length. For 20 years we had like 5 rooms and then a boss, why not explore that a bit more?
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In the original Half Life, young me had NO IDEA what was supposed to be going on in Xen. 1998 textures, level design, creature animations, and cut-scene-free storytelling were simply not up to the challenge of the full scope of the story they were trying to tell; a wild and diverse, wholly alien ecosystem to explore, and the deeper you delve, the more it slowly reveals the creeping perversion of immensely powerful, intelligent antagonists. Antagonists whose ire the previous explorers had drawn and kept secret, which caused the whole mess in the first place. Half Life's version of Xen was just... like a Duke Nukem run and gun shooting gallery with bizarre puzzles and a new skybox.
Black Mesa does a much better job of that, even if its Xen section could have used a little editing down. And maybe more discipline on their release schedule.
I personally consider Black Mesa, in its entirety, to be the best way to experience Half Life in 2025. At $5 its a no-brainer.
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