![]() What was the solution in Black Mesa? Remove the stupid boxes entirely. I tried doing this initially but because of the way ladders work in this game, it can be difficult to climb up there. This section of the game involves the player pushing boxes together so they can reach a ladder. As long as the gameplay holds up, who cares, right? Well, that’s the thing… I’ve been playing Half-Life 1 alongside Black Mesa, and there are a number of moments in the original that are flat out bad. ![]() If you’ve got to choose between the original and the remake, I can’t imagine too many people are going to pick Half-Life 1 over Black Mesa unless they are nostalgic for the original game. Every conversation sounds like it was recorded on a motorway using tin cans. Something that a lot of people fail to mention about Half-Life 1 is the quality of the dialogue. While the visuals don’t break the immersion for me, the audio certainly pulls me out of the experience. Visually, Half-Life 1 looks about as dated as every other game released back in 1998. Half-Life 1 was an excellent game back in 1998, but by today’s standards it really doesn’t hold up as well as some people seem to suggest. You don’t need to play through two whole games to know that the remake is unsurprisingly going to be a better experience overall The one glaring issue with this advice is that not everyone has twenty hours free to finish two games. The main argument I see online for playing Half-Life 1 over Black Mesa is that you will appreciate the remake much more. ![]() After playing the original game and Black Mesa, I feel like this needs to be stated once and for all: people need to stop recommending Half-Life 1 over Black Mesa. If you know about Half-Life, chances are you know about Black Mesa, the unofficial remake created by Crowbar Collective. There’s going to be quite a lot of people, myself included, who haven’t played the original Half-Life but still want to experience it before Alyx launches. Half-Life: Alyx is only one month away from releasing, marking the first game in the series in over twelve years. ![]()
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