![]() So said developer Crowbar Collective in a recent post, adding that another round of fixing and polishing is coming now, and that the non-Xen part of the game will also be getting graphical and gameplay improvements and further tweaks to make the whole experience feel more cohesive. However, Half-Life fans will be happy to know that Black Mesa is now complete, and the Xen portion of the game is now available, meaning Black Mesa can now be played from beginning to end more than seven years after its original release.īut although Black Mesa is complete level-wise, the game is not finished yet, as more work is left to be done on the remake, development on which started back in 2004. This is because Black Mesa ended just after protagonist Gordon Freeman made the jump to Xen, the alien world from which the invaders attacking Black Mesa (a research facility in the New Mexico desert) had come from. This fan-made remake is currently available on Steam Early Access, but until this point had been missing a portion of the game. Thankfully, though, fans of the 1998 classic have Black Mesa. Sadly, Half-Life looks a bit long in the tooth nowadays, and even Valve’s own remastered edition (named Half-Life 1: Source) leaves much to be desired too. The game also boasts characters like the enigmatic G-Man, who’s seen in the image which accompanies this article. Also, the game’s protagonist Gordon Freeman is regularly mentioned in any conversation about gaming’s top characters. March is a big month in Half-Life, with Valve launching Half-Life: Alyx on March 23rd.If one thing is clear, is that Half-Life is one of the top video games ever: its fantastic gameplay, superb atmosphere and realism made it an instant classic back in 1998. We are super excited to have Black Mesa be 'complete', but acknowledge it is not perfect and won't ever be perfect." Before Astroneer launched, they made a blog post about managing expectations for their game, and it really resonated with me, and inspired me to someday write a post like this one. "This is not to downplay, or make excuses, but as the person who drafts most of these media posts, I think it is important to break away from the marketing and the 'hype'. ![]() "As Leonardo da Vinci said, 'Art is never finished, only abandoned' and while we plan to fully support this game after 1.0 with bug fixes and more, it will never be a perfect game. "Black Mesa is a video game, it is our video game, and it has its strengths, and its flaws," Engels continued. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. I'll wait until March to see how it ends up. I like a lot of Black Mesa's Xen an awful lot, but some parts did wind on a bit too long when I played. It leads into Half-Life 2 a bit more by showing more of the Vortigaunts and their life. ![]() The publicly-accepted opinion is that Half-Life's Xen was bad (I disagree!) so they've really been trying to make it special. The devs have been publicly testing Xen as they added more and more to it, and the v1.0 beta is currently on they public beta branch.Ĭrowbar Collective have massively expanded Xen in their version, with whole new sections, puzzle types, story bits, and enemies that aren't even in the original. You can, if you want, play basically the finished version of Black Mesa right now. "14 years working on a single project, with a dedicated team, that had a vision, and saw it through." He has a lot to say about the commitment and effort to reach the end. "As I write this, I am realising that we plan to FINISH Black Mesa exactly 14 years to the month from when I first joined the team," he said. A few fixes will follow after that, granted, but the end is oh so close.Īdam Engels of Crowbar Collective announced the March 5th date in a blog post overnight. Since then, they've been working on remaking the much-maligned final chapter of Xen, overhauling and fixing bits, and generally tweaking. Started as a mod, the Valve-sanctioned remake of Half-Life eventually became its own commercial game and entered early access in May 2015. After fifteen years in development in various forms, Black Mesa will finally launch in full on March 5.
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