Black Mesa Source V5 - "They're still working on Xen?" - Games

But there are clear differences Obviously not clear enough,

[t]http://www.valvetime.net/attachments/hev-mark-iv-and-v-jpg.18744/[/t] I never really noticed it, but to be fair, it does look more like the Mark V. However, it's more clean and shiny and has the panel like you said.

[QUOTE=Hideyoshi;48144820][t]http://www.valvetime.net/attachments/hev-mark-iv-and-v-jpg.18744/[/t] I never really noticed it, but to be fair, it does look more like the Mark V. However, it's more clean and shiny and has the panel like you said.[/QUOTE] Looks like Gordon gained some weight in stasis.

Obviously they used the HL2 HEV suit as a reference because it's not a ridiculously low poly piece of shit like this: [img]http://media.svencoop.org/manual_sc4/images/other/hev_suit.png[/img]

You know, when I was thinking about how the Xen arcitecture (the outwardly artificial/ built stuff) could be modernized, I couldn't stop thinking about the Hive arcitecture from Destiny. [t]http://i0.wp.com/destinynews.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/1410216869-early-hive-catacombs.jpg[/t] [t]https://houseofgeekery.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/destiny-b-moon-9.jpg[/t] [t]http://static.gosunoob.com/img/1/2014/12/Destiny_Moon_The_Wakening_Dead_Ghost_3_1.jpg[/t] I just hope someone with some power's thinking that too :c

^That's exactly how I was envisioning Xen; bio-mechanical and ethereal at the same time. I hope it doesn't just end up being an HD clone of the current levels.

[QUOTE=Smug Bastard;48145183]^That's exactly how I was envisioning Xen; bio-mechanical and ethereal at the same time. I hope it doesn't just end up being an HD clone of the current levels.[/QUOTE] That's actually what I'm hoping for it. Xen's a special type of bizarre and I feel like Valve themselves couldn't even recapture that feeling if they wanted to. The Black Mesa team would do well to stay as loyal to that original, overly-alien vision they can.

I still think the EP3 concept art is the best way to go for some of the "outside" parts of Xen [t]http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/half-life/images/4/4a/Episode_Three_Concept_Art_Leaked_Mid_2008_EP3_Xen_1.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/800?cb=20120703095530&path-prefix=en[/t] [t]http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/half-life/images/2/21/Episode_Three_Concept_Art_Leaked_Mid_2008_EP3_Xen_6.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/800?cb=20120703100222&path-prefix=en[/t] [t]http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/half-life/images/a/aa/Episode_Three_Concept_Art_Leaked_Mid_2008_EP3_Xen_8.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/800?cb=20120703100223&path-prefix=en[/t] While not exactly final, it's still a good mix of etherealism and surrealism, and very otherworldly feeling while still remaining faithful. I think the microscopic looking parts should be mixed on the side as well. As for the Factories/Mines area, I think these would be good influences: [t]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3JmRgwl_tjg/T-n_4LAVpcI/AAAAAAAABeA/h1EphgXgfgc/s1600/chair_01-1.jpg[/t][t]http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/stargate/images/4/48/WraithDataCore.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/800?cb=20110921070224[/t] [t]http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/stargate/images/8/8d/WraithHiveInterior.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/640?cb=20080724161131[/t][t]http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/stargate/images/e/e2/Hive_interior.JPG[/t] [t]http://combineoverwiki.net/images/7/73/Xen_thumpers_stored.jpg[/t][t]http://combineoverwiki.net/images/f/ff/Xen_mines_teleporter.jpg[/t] [t]http://combineoverwiki.net/images/thumb/2/2f/Xen_mines_warehouse.jpg/800px-Xen_mines_warehouse.jpg[/t][t]http://combineoverwiki.net/images/9/93/Alien_grunt_factory_first.jpg[/t] A good contrast to the Citadel would be claustrophobic, hive-like structures and almost the entirety of the place is organic in some form.

[QUOTE=WillerinV1.02;48145346]That's actually what I'm hoping for it. Xen's a special type of bizarre and I feel like Valve themselves couldn't even recapture that feeling if they wanted to. The Black Mesa team would do well to stay as loyal to that original, overly-alien vision they can.[/QUOTE] If we were settling for a simple HD clone, Xen would have been finished a long time ago. We tried it, it sucked, so we went ambitious.

Xen is an asteroid field with an atmosphere in the middle of a giant psychedelic nebula, I don't think you can get any more ethereal than that.

[QUOTE=TextFAMGUY1;48147297]If we were settling for a simple HD clone, Xen would have been finished a long time ago. We tried it, it sucked, so we went ambitious.[/QUOTE] Was there anything that was actually made for the old Xen? If there is anything surviving of that Xen you guys should post images of it once you release the real Xen.

[QUOTE=Tuskin;48149785]If there is anything surviving of that Xen you guys should post images of it once you release the real Xen.[/QUOTE] I'd actually like to see this, the version of Xen before CrowbarCollective decided to go a different direction.

I would love an RTB style "making of" blog/video series. for the entire game.

[QUOTE=Cows Rule;48151142]I would love an RTB style "making of" blog/video series. for the entire game.[/QUOTE] That would be interesting to see but I don't know how much of the beta and alpha stuff the Black mesa team still has. I believe most of it was deleted but there might be screenshots somewhere.

[IMG]http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/375/cpsprodpb/5056/production/_84166502_pluto_color_new.png[/IMG] Is it just me or does this image of Pluto look like the Black Mesa logo?

[QUOTE=Kaleidescoop;48161603][IMG]http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/375/cpsprodpb/5056/production/_84166502_pluto_color_new.png[/IMG] Is it just me or does this image of Pluto look like the Black Mesa logo?[/QUOTE][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/CNNBOrK.png[/IMG]

-snip- Nevermind.

Yeeeah, it should've stayed on r/HalfLife aswell.

Man, those guys are [I]really[/I] starved for content, aren't they?

[QUOTE=Minelayer;48190291]Man, those guys are [I]really[/I] starved for content, aren't they?[/QUOTE]the fucking doom franchise is livelier than half-life right now

[QUOTE=artDecor;48190580]the fucking doom franchise is livelier than half-life right now[/QUOTE] Maybe we can spend the next page listing games that we thought were dead but were at least announced before Half Life 3. Duke Nukem Forever, which was 4 years ago. Black Mesa even came out before hand. Twice.

[QUOTE=Cows Rule;48190685]Maybe we can spend the next page listing games that we thought were dead but were at least announced before Half Life 3. Duke Nukem Forever, which was 4 years ago. Black Mesa even came out before hand. Twice.[/QUOTE] Fallout 4's going to, unless another half life game comes out before november [sp]it won't[/sp]

[QUOTE=Cows Rule;48190685]Maybe we can spend the next page listing games that we thought were dead but were at least announced before Half Life 3. [/QUOTE] [B]Ten[/B] Call of Duties have been made since EP2 was released. Modern Warfare World At War Modern Warfare 2 Black Ops Modern Warfare 3 Black Ops II Black Ops Declassified Strike Team Ghosts Advanced Warfare and likely Black Ops III.

Likely, pfft, you mean definitely.

[QUOTE=glitchvid;48192713][B]Ten[/B] Call of Duties have been made since EP2 was released. Modern Warfare World At War Modern Warfare 2 Black Ops Modern Warfare 3 Black Ops II Black Ops Declassified Strike Team Ghosts Advanced Warfare and likely Black Ops III.[/QUOTE] then again most of CoD is copy-paste code with some updates to it

Shenmue 3 has been announced after almost 15 years and there's still no Half-Life 3.

The Last Guardian was cancelled and then reannounced wasn't it? We (will) have 3 Fallouts since Episode 2. [editline]13th July 2015[/editline] The entire Assassins Creed franchise has been done since the last Half Life.

we got Duke Nukem Forever and Prey before we got Half-Life 3/EP3 and those games were both started before Half-Life 1 was released, and we got both games after Half-Life 2 [editline]13th July 2015[/editline] We saw the Half-Life Alpha leak before Half-Life 3/EP3 was released

[QUOTE=Cows Rule;48194420]The Last Guardian was cancelled and then reannounced wasn't it? [/QUOTE] No, it was rumor then people started spreading as an actual news about the game. The devs said later it was fake, the game was still in production

Do people really even honestly expect HL3 anymore?