it's half life with a fresh coat of paint. what half life does well this still does it well, but it also will not change your less favorite parts. i still hate on a rail and surface tension. the amount of fights still moderately annoys me. i still don't like xen but i admire the effort to remake it, so i can chalk that up to the feng shui being bad and xen being cursed no matter how it's remade. ultimately these aren't grievances with black mesa but moreso half life, they just carry over here. on the black mesa side of things, not a huge fan of how they remade the water (where it's basically impossible to see past the surface unless you're in it) but whatever.

it probably isn't going to convert you if you didn't like half life in the first place but if you want to replay half life but don't want to boot up the original this is a fine alternative.

it's half life with a fresh coat of paint. what half life does well this still does it well, but it also will not change your less favorite parts. i still hate on a rail and surface tension. the amount of fights still moderately annoys me. i still don't like xen but i admire the effort to remake it, so i can chalk that up to the feng shui being bad and xen being cursed no matter how it's remade. ultimately these aren't grievances with black mesa but moreso half life, they just carry over here. on the black mesa side of things, not a huge fan of how they remade the water (where it's basically impossible to see past the surface unless you're in it) but whatever. it probably isn't going to convert you if you didn't like half life in the first place but if you want to replay half life but don't want to boot up the original this is a fine alternative.