Recent reviews by Chief Diggery K.

Why is the mouse not captive in the window during FULLSCREEN gameplay.

Anyways, this game had me wanting to not play it with how spooky it is right off the bat. I like how my only form of defense WORKS, but is hard to use without feeling like a cop out. I love the visual design. I love that I hate the robots. I only made it to the reception desk before deciding to take a break. It took me an hour because I suck.

Tarkovslop
lacks polish
character keeps talking
Cool setting, ruined by really awful game stitched on top

Great game
awful controls

Too few controls, awful tutorial I couldn't finish since it wouldn't accept my camera movements as progressing the tutorial.

Dated, but absolutely great if you love a pulpy action adventure. Walkthroughs required. MG2 has a great soundtrack!

Fix the god awful on-foot movement. Reduce the auto exposure I can't see anything if there's a change in lighting.

Good, great even, but makes it harder to let my imagination fly. Combat is much harder than the original, and not for the better. Xen is cool. Also how is my 3060ti chugging on a source engine game in 2025.

It's actually quite a lot of what I personally want from an FPS: really believable design, a days long adventure, a good sense of quite a lot going on on and off camera, but, especially with the later levels, I wanted to be done, but there seemed to be a lot of filler in the wrong places. Interloper specifically could've had either the factory removed, or only be the factory, or cut quite a lot from the entire chapter. Valve went to great lengths in all their games to make what's unspoken tell so much, that it bothers me to literally watch vortigaunts get beat for no reason. This game would've been so much better if they would've told their own story, instead of trying to "fix" Half-Life in a number of ways that just weren't broken. I love the pacing of Black Mesa, really. It's often very slow and deliberate, but the HECU fights aren't fun at all, the payoff at the end of Interloper takes just too long to get to. Gonarch is great, if the "chase" was also a bit long winded.

There's so much to like, and I can say that they were faithful to the setting of Half-Life, if not quite the gameplay design. Also apparently they fixed mod support, but only in a beta?

Just buy Half-Life. Black Mesa is great, but they might as well have just made their own take on the whole thing, rather than try to retell Half-Life. Oh yeah, turn off the music volume. Kelly Bailey can't be beat, and BM didn't even try. It's still a good game, but more of a mixed bag kind of good, instead of a "short and sweet" kind of good. This makes me hopeful for a modernization of Half-Life 2, but not from Crowbar Collective, at least not like this.

Bro watch anyone's video on this it is a train wreck and has totalled FNAF

Does not feel like HL2
Sounds are all muted an inexpressive
performance issues but it ran FINE, I also have an aging system
can't adjust HUD settings, weapon quick switch didn't toggle
not the same kind of surreal experience offered by Valve, didn't enjoy.
mercifully short, will not be interested in a full release

Go play Mechcommander or MechAssault. This game is pretty low quality.

Actually beat the game. Really poor storywriting, somehow the prerendered cutscenes look like ass, literally every mission is just has different set dressing, and sometimes people say stuff. Mechlab is the most difficult to use as it has ever been, fewest options for customization ever. This is the furthest from a simulator ever, it's almost Mechassault levels of goofy combat.

Not a fan. PGI Shouldn't be allowed to make Mechwarrior games anymore.