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Black Mesa Source Releases new screenshots
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StoppedInTracks
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Zomba13
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So because it's something they are doing in their spare time and for free means it is immune from criticism? It's taken them like, 8 years and we've barely had anything from them.
Para bailar La Bomba
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Its devs forgot that too, apparently.
Angry Fork
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If you guys spent the last 6 years of your life creating something, you want as many people to see it as possible. Doing the 20k advertising bs is a cost free, easy, reasonably effective way of getting forums and the internet talking. I don't understand, people always complain about entitlement but everyone who whined about the 20k shit seem to be the entitled ones. It's a free mod why are you guys complaining about screenshots.
There seems to be so much bitter resentment because it's taken so long and they haven't spoken much about it, with so many posts talking about 'fuck these guys nobody cares about this shit anymore' etc. and so on. I don't understand the hostility. It's a fucking remake of HL1 people have waited longer for much less and at least you're not being charged for it (and if they were charging it's not going to be 60 bucks). You know damn well everyone is going to try this out if it turns out to be polished and up to snuff.
There seems to be so much bitter resentment because it's taken so long and they haven't spoken much about it, with so many posts talking about 'fuck these guys nobody cares about this shit anymore' etc. and so on. I don't understand the hostility. It's a fucking remake of HL1 people have waited longer for much less and at least you're not being charged for it (and if they were charging it's not going to be 60 bucks). You know damn well everyone is going to try this out if it turns out to be polished and up to snuff.
What I have done during this time Mod has been announced:
Finished School
Finished college
Finished Uni
Got a job
Lost my job
got another job
Lost my job
going back to Uni
we had 8 call of duty title's during the ongoing mod project
in perspective Valve:
Half-Life 2: Episode One
Half-Life 2: Episode two
Portal
TF2
Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead 2
Alien Swarm
Portal 2
DOTA 2
CS:GO
Finished School
Finished college
Finished Uni
Got a job
Lost my job
got another job
Lost my job
going back to Uni
we had 8 call of duty title's during the ongoing mod project
in perspective Valve:
Half-Life 2: Episode One
Half-Life 2: Episode two
Portal
TF2
Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead 2
Alien Swarm
Portal 2
DOTA 2
CS:GO
If the only reason for criticism is that it takes them a very long time, then I think the hate is inappropriate, yes. If the mod turns out to be shit, that's another story.
That's probably what the developers have done, too.
BlazeHedgehog
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Glass Rebel
Member
Some people haven't paid for Portal either. /trollface
BlazeHedgehog
Member
Portal's also like 90 minutes long. Maybe 120 minutes if you get stuck.
So far, this is 0 minutes long
Backfoggen
Banned
Looks like Postal 3. I'd rather just play the old-ass HL1 again, I like the design of that game.
BlazeHedgehog
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Who the fuck cares? Every time there's a Black Mesa Source thread on NeoGAF, it's filled with a bunch of this:
What do they owe you? Nothing, technically. Nobody here has certainly given any of them money. At best, you could claim that they've "wasted your time", but let's be realistic here - how much time have they really wasted?
There's one thread every nine months where a bunch of people pile in and remind us that they don't care anymore (yet they still come in and have to broadcast to the world that they don't care anymore - funny, that) and then the subject goes silent again for 9 months.
So in all the years this has been developing, I'd wager I've wasted, what? A grand total of ten minutes thinking about it? Twenty, if we're being generous. That's fine. It's not exactly like the only thing I'm doing with my life is sitting around in total silence waiting for Black Mesa Source to release. I can wait. Patience is a virtue that I pride myself on.
Meanwhile, we've got another thread of
temper tantrums.
Glass Rebel
Member
If they released a demo that's as long as Portal I'd happily eat crow.
No seriously, they've handled this whole thing like the amateurs they are while pretending and deluding themselves that they're actually more. I've read the RPS interview with the lead but actions speak louder than words and their actions tell me that they only crave the attention they're getting by doing this.
Who the fuck cares? Every time there's a Black Mesa Source thread on NeoGAF, it's filled with a bunch of this:
What do they owe you? Nothing, technically. Nobody here has certainly given any of them money. At best, you could claim that they've "wasted your time", but let's be realistic here - how much time have they really wasted?
There's one thread every nine months where a bunch of people pile in and remind us that they don't care anymore (yet they still come in and have to broadcast to the world that they don't care anymore - funny, that) and then the subject goes silent again for 9 months.
So in all the years this has been developing, I'd wager I've wasted, what? A grand total of ten minutes thinking about it? Twenty, if we're being generous. That's fine. It's not exactly like the only thing I'm doing with my life is sitting around in total silence waiting for Black Mesa Source to release. I can wait. Patience is a virtue that I pride myself on.
Meanwhile, we've got another thread of
temper tantrums.
It's because it takes about 5 seconds to think up something to complain about and a forever to type of a long-ass post defending them
I wager I've spent about as much time caring about Black Mesa Source as you, i.e. about the 10 minutes you talk about.
Anyway, nothing wrong with saying "I'll believe it when I play it". Because, at this stage, I'll believe it when I play it.
They might not have wasted my time, or my money, or any of my fucks that I give, but that doesn't mean I can't look over their past history, their past promises, and say "Well that looks shifty as fuck"
reptilescorpio
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Why would they release compressed screen shots of their own game?
shinobi602
Member
Looks bad.
MrCunningham
Member
Time to start up a new List of every event that has happened durring the development of this mod.
And while you're at it, make one for HL3 too.But really, as others said. This is a mod with zero funding and they won't get any money out of the final product. It's no surprise that it took this long. I mean most mods never make it past the their initial concept design or end up being abandoned after the first couple updates. I'm surprised this team has stayed so committed for this long. You have to give them some credit for that.
BlazeHedgehog
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If 11 minutes is "forever", maybe you should keep replaying Portal, because that game must last an eternity for you.
Excuuuuse me for taking the time to pick out just the right sobbing children pictures.
MrCunningham
Member
I just don't understand the need to use JPEG's at all anymore for game screenshots. :S
reptilescorpio
Member
Actually I thought Valve asked them to remove Source from the title since it wasn't an official release, or was that a different title change?
Lord Phol
Member
I don't think people are bitter they just don't care much anymore.
8 Years is forever in PC-years.
If we're all whiny babies, then 11 minutes is forever.
dragonfart28
Banned
At this point, the entire concept is already past it's prime.
PetriP-TNT
Member
Wtf with that fov?
brotkasten
Member
It took so long, because they're working on console ports too.
Glass Rebel
Member
Are you serious? What's the point of this mod then?
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Wtf with that fov?
Christ that explosion is awful.
Looks like a FMV explosion from the Jaguar.
Yes, it's sad that we can't look past the purpose of this mod.
reptilescorpio
Member
Improve the physics?
Is the purpose of this mod to make something look prettier? I'll admit I don't know anything about this mod. I thought this thread was ripping on a budget game for not looking like state of the art crytek tech.
It's a remake of the original Half-Life. I don't think they're aiming to change anything.
Oh ok thanks. Then I take my comment back. If it's just a remake then it's pretty pointless to not look as good as the top level games of today.
Why wouldn't you release gameplay video at the very least?
Has this group released any mods before?
Can not understand what the fuss is about.. Group haven't released a project they've talked about for 8 years and no gameplay video? Mere screenies?
Aren't they too old for Ritalin?
On the slight chance it exists I'm guessing they want $$$$$ for it.
EDIT: Like the unofficial translation of Ys oath in Felghana... The 'subber' ended up wanting people to buy the translation and turned out to be a total jerk-off.
Has this group released any mods before?
Can not understand what the fuss is about.. Group haven't released a project they've talked about for 8 years and no gameplay video? Mere screenies?
Aren't they too old for Ritalin?
On the slight chance it exists I'm guessing they want $$$$$ for it.
EDIT: Like the unofficial translation of Ys oath in Felghana... The 'subber' ended up wanting people to buy the translation and turned out to be a total jerk-off.
reptilescorpio
Member
Improve the voice acting?
Glass Rebel
Member
Now we're getting somewhere.
hardcastlemccormick
Banned
The "it's free" deflection doesn't hide the fact that this mod is basically vaporware at this point, and the mod developers have been doing their darnedest to cover up how they didn't expect to keep working on this mod, that they expected to get hired by Valve years ago and that the project was about ten times more ambitious than it should have been.
Okay, it's free and they haven't wasted my time, yet. So what? It doesn't make any difference. They release media, we're going to call them out for taking a long time on a poorly thought out project, especially one that appears to be as poorly managed as it was enormous. And we're also going to talk about the media and whether or not it stands up to they hyping they've been trying to do for the past three years. And it's fair to be critical when we would be investing time into a potential game, which is not a free resource.
Don't say that too loud in case they switch their efforts to Uplink Source.
that1dude24
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