Gaming Black Mesa (Half-Life)

[Brogan]

The Orange Box was one of my favourite ever gaming experiences so this is excellent news.

Black Mesa is essentially a fan driven updated and expanded version of Half-Life and will apparently be available as a free download on 14 September.

http://www.blackmesasource.com/

 

[Brogan]

Obviously not much interest in this

It is available to download now though: http://release.blackmesasource.com/

 

[Mephistopheles]

I've never tried half life what type of game is it? Mass Effect type thing which I got bored with half way through the first game or a tactical type game such as ghost recon....

 

[sushifiesta]

Half-Life

free

Sold .

Mephistopheles The Half Life games are widely considered as amongst the best ever. Here's a trailer I found for Half Life 2 on YouTube. I haven't played the first one myself.

 

[Mephistopheles]

I might give it ago....

 

[AlexM]

It's finally released? I gave up hope years ago..

Now I just need some time to play it!

 

[Porceliamone]

I'm afraid nothing is going to part me and my Guild Wars 2 time at present!

 

[sushifiesta]

Well, I'm hooked.

 

[Brogan]

Do you need anything else to run the game?
I tried to download it when it came out but all I kept getting were parts 2 and 3 so gave up.

 

[Speshal]

Do you need anything else to run the game?
I tried to download it when it came out but all I kept getting were parts 2 and 3 so gave up.

Just any steam game installed on that machine.

 

[Brogan]

Ah bugger, I've never used Steam

 

[sushifiesta]

I'm not sure what you mean by only being able to get parts 2 and 3, but I believe that if you install Steam and create an account then you should be able to play Black Mesa without owning any games. What happens is when you install Black Mesa it appears in your Steam list of games and then when you try and run it for the first time (via Steam) it will download the Source engine, which is required to run the game.

You can set Steam not to start at login etc. so it doesn't get in the way, and every now and then they have sales where you can pick up some bargains. Here's the link to install Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/about/

By the time you've done all that you will be pushing 10GB of downloads (both Black Mesa and the Source engine are about 4.5GB), but it will be worth it!

 

[Brogan]

It might have been useful if the instructions had stated that Steam is required to play the game...

Not having ever done any gaming on the PC, it's all new to me.

 

[Speshal]

Hahahahahaha I'm loving it, I never played the original so it's an all new half life for me, where's me crowbar.........?

DIE DIE DIE.....

 

[Brogan]

I think the Orange Box is still my favourite gaming experience even now.

If you have an Xbox I'd definitely recommend picking that up - you can get it dirt cheap now and I think there are 3 or 4 different games.