Black Mesa's Xen Levels have been released - Half-Life has been revived

[WYP]

The next step is version 1.0.



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[Avet]

Nice. I haven't been looking at Black Mesa for a long time. Tried demo few years back and deleted it instantly. They have re-recorded voices. Just no... I don't know if original sounds from HL are in new version of the game.

 

[grec]

Usually fan remakes of anything, even with original developer support & backing, needs re-recorded VA, as it's the intellectual property of the voice actors, that is only licensed for the original game. This is partly why the remake of Fallout New Vegas will take so long too. (Still I'd assume with all these things, someone out there will have found a method to copy the original sound files in or convert them or something if its possible).

 

[Dark NighT]

Nice. I haven't been looking at Black Mesa for a long time. Tried demo few years back and deleted it instantly. They have re-recorded voices. Just no... I don't know if original sounds from HL are in new version of the game.

Same for me, i could not stand the replaced audio, visual and details, not to mention the way the game felt was very weird, at the time even jumping felt weird as hell and dev's were saying it was because they didn't feel like jumping was needed.


It was supposed to be a MOD, a free mod but they went all over board with this one and got it as a product that felt unfinished at the time, and probably still does.

 

[Avet]

Yea I have looked now. They are some mods for original sounds. I will explore more when the game is completed.