Ed Oscuro wrote:ST Dragon wrote:No it does not look dated, but for how long?
All the original screenshots I'd seen made it look like the Holy Shit This is Half-Life 2 Style Glafix Versan and it turns out to just be a HD content remake.
The original hasn't aged that badly. Now, it's not bad-looking, like many of the HD content packs out there which are indeed atrocious (i.e. most "high res" tilesets or texture packs out there) but I'm not seeing stuff that, at a quick glance, makes it look much different from the original. There's a shot of what looks kinda like the laser mirror puzzle room from Opposing Force (which is of course a room in the original), with the machine partially suspended from the ceiling - I can tell it has more curves, and the monitor elements look more distinct, that's about it.
But all my bitching aside, I will
love them forever if they keep the silly '50s scifi feeling to most of the computers with reel-to-reel tape and the scientists who just about wear hornrimmed glasses. '60s computing was more colorful and sleek than even Half-Life's computers (even some IBM stuff) which mainly seem modeled off Korean War-ish military radio equipment.
Actually these leaked shots don't look half that bad and are vastly superior to the original HL (Especially the character models which looked lame even for 1999 standards). It certainly doesn’t look like a HD content remake and by the way, what HD content packs are you referring too?
However the official trailer did look better than these shots.
At another forum, a member mentioned some crazy stuff about the BM devs being furious with one of their community members releasing some older poorer shots and they supposedly stated that if any one releases any information about the game, videos, screenshots, etc... said they won't release it and close the project down.
Also, at this time, everyone who saw the screenshots commented they looked like total garbage to what they expect. The Team said these were out-dated, months old shots, but people continued to rail on them.
So, it was implied that they did not feel motivated to complete a free modification that takes as much, or even more, than most retail games when everybody was bitching about it.
But I say all that is a load of non-sense. No one would scrap so many years of work just because of some leaked photos. They might have scrapped it for many other reasons (lack of interest, motivation, time constrains, real life matters, etc...), but not this.
I still believe it’s not out because they're looking forward in making some deal with Valve and releasing it commercially through Steam, no matter their announced so called "ethics" and “principles".
Money is money!
And here are all the rest of the leaked shots:
http://imgur.com/a/HYO2b/black_mesa_sou ... ns_part_13
http://imgur.com/a/NMd1o/black_mesa_sou ... ns_part_23
