This is really the primary reason I’m looking forward to Black Mesa, just simply for the sheer length (while still maintaining the balance between solving puzzles and shooting shit)

Although that isn’t to say I don’t want to see Black Mesa pretty cool bitching stuff right there.

I would love more mods for hl1 made like paranoia mod.The mods that should be re-made for hl2 must be they hunger(all),heart of evil ,sweet hl,afraid of monsters,paranoiaand all other good hl1 sp mods

All of those sound like excellent choices. I particularly liked Heart of Evil and think it would be and interesting mod for HL2. As for me, I would go with more HL2 mods. just think of all of the physics-based puzzles you can include.
On a side note, I really cant wait for Black Mesa: Source to come out . It looks so freaking awsome!

I wonder what the percentages will be like in a few years for HL2 , EP1, EP, 2 and EP 3.

I had forgotten that some people’s PC might still have trouble running HL2 but nearly everybody’s PC will run HL1.

In Half Life we have much more enemies (one different than others), much more weapons, and that can really help for gameplay.

BTW, I still think the “Spirit of Half Life” tech can bring us very good moments, like in the mod “Portrait of Freeman”: It was really fun work aside with the marines ^^.

And the Half Life 2 mapping hasn’t a better quality than Half Life. I know this happened with Half Life in his golden era of mapping (I don’t think it ended anyway ) too, but it’s been three years since HL2 release, and we RARELY see mods with new enemies (real ones, not new skin models), or new weapons.

Can anyone tell me: it’s more difficult to do a SP mod for HL1 than for HL2?

And btw: What’s with all the complaining about the C17 setting. I liked the Eastern European style and urban combat.

Also remember that this isn’t about the quality of the mods currently out there. It’s about where you would like to see more.
Seeing as HL 2 has seen less mods than HL 1 and it has even less good mods, I would like to see more.

And i agree with srry.

Hl2 has not much to offer. Just stupid combines and a few zombies that’s it. I loved every single monster in hl1. I miss them all in hl2.

Alien grunts, human grunts, blackops etc.

The story in Hl2 is fine of course but not in many mods for hl2… Many are just boring… Shoot and – or infiltrate some combine facilities. Humans are stone age beeings in hl2 i don’t like that fact.

Many mods in hl2 are just canceled of what ever reason. The game engine may be fine but to hard why else would so many mods beeing canceled?

Btw: @Planet Phillip: Remember i gave you this lost sheep, opposing force mod. Please add it to your databank (Snowy Rock).

Personally, by the time Half-Life 2 was over, I was tired of shooting combine soldiers and running through destroyed cities. It just didn’t appeal to me anymore. Even if a Half-Life mod just sticks to the Black Mesa theme, that’s still far more interesting an environment for me, and most of the time you can be sure that the environments will have some degree of originality to them.

That isn’t the case with HL1, where even someone who wasn’t so hot at scripting could get some decently fun gameplay out of the many Xen aliens along with the Marines with some clever placement. But HL2 just doesn’t work like that.

I want interesting challenges. I don’t care if the player has a ‘back story.’ Gordon Freeman didn’t.

there just seems to be a real crop of really bad HL2 mods… HL2 was just much less fun than HL1.

I’d mostly want Portrait of Freeman, Hour Glass, Nuclear Winter, Life’s End plus the Todesangst and Timeline series.

Actually, add GMan Invasion to that list.

That’d be so awesome running through Half-Life 2 shooting at various Source rendered G-Men!

Both engines are flexible and quite easy to use, but if I wanted to make a mod, I’d choose Source, because of how much it offers compared to GoldSrc.

Nonetheless, GoldSrc is still a strong engine, and I can think of a few interesting mods being made for it right here and now. (And Paranoia came out only recently)

Perhaps there’s some sort of ‘rule of the thumb’ that can be devised when choosing an engine? GoldSrc is probably easier to use, easier to implement but probably better suited to the aforementioned “your a random person, now shoot anything that moves” motive.

Source offers outstanding and overly flexible facial animation, fluid body animation, a huge database of objects and textures from across Half-Life 2 and its Episodes (Think of all the varied environments in those games! Also, with Episode 2, think about how many great enemies are available now as well as some great new technologies for level design!)

To be blunt, it’s probably easier to tell a story in Source than GoldSrc. It’s also better for introducing memorable, believable characters, something that’s hard to do in Half-Life.

That’s just my two cents.

As for the Half-Life mods being remade for Source – I’d say: Absolute Redemption, Azure Sheep, Point of View, Mission Failed, Portrait of Freeman, Hour Glass, Nuclear Winter, Life’s End, Infinite Rift, Deliverance, Ispitatel 4, Peaces Like Us, Timeline 1, Timeline 2: Iced Earth, Timeline 3: Heart Of Darkness, Todesangst, Todesangst 2: der echte feind, DAV Sub (I think that’s getting a Source remake, though…), GMan Invasion, Gut Reaction

I’d mostly want Portrait of Freeman, Hour Glass, Nuclear Winter, Life’s End plus the Todesangst and Timeline series.

I thought of saying Poke 646 and Vendetta, but they feel very contemporary and I doubt they really need an upgrade.

As for a mod I would like remade into Source, probably a sequel to Poke646: Vendetta, based in the Source, even though that’s not really a remake.

I’m not saying that by being on Source automatically makes a mod better, but let’s say you had the same levels and enemies and whatnot for a HL1 mod and a HL2 mod. Well, I’d pick the HL2 mod any day of the week for obvious reasons. Physics, lighting, controls, graphics (yes, they ARE important in most cases), animation, etc.