The Boring Life At Black Mesa - Pre Disaster Half-Life

[@hmrdev-billnye8166]

It surprises me that there are other people who are fascinated by the concept of pre-disaster Black Mesa.

[@MrJustinUSCM]

Me too man lol

[@TristenTheArgonian]

Just look at BMRP on gmod

[@CourierSiix]

@@TristenTheArgonian those who play gmod rp arent considered people

[@mutably]

I played half-life at a very young age, and I always was fascinated by the Black Mesa facility before the incident. The begining of the game was my favorite part, along with someother maps where you could feel how it was to work at the Black Mesa. I'm glad some people finally made a map for it, I was trying to learn mapping with GoldSrc to make my dream come true:^)

[@hanazunicka3170]

Me is one of them.. I always want to explore and wonder around the black mesa and see how big it is without have to worried about getting attacked by the aliens and hecu or the black ops in every place and rooms i go..i wish that black mesa is real.. Sorry bad eng.

[@svijj_]

Working in Black Mesa sometimes makes you want to commit resonance cascade

[@tomipalasnenas9844]

DON'T COME TO BLACK MESA ON MAY 16, 199X. WORST MISTAKE OF MY LIFE.

[@atomictem5725]

It almost makes you wish of xen winter. :D

[@lubaurkina8656]

Sv_cheats 1 impulse 101

[@dawnstar4257]

@@atomictem5725 wrong game yo

[@jazdajazda2191]

@@goti4no820 it cant be possible!!! because seven hour war was in 2001!!! so it has to be after the incident!!!

[@TacBans]

"gordon freeman gets high on morphine and wanders through Black Mesa, single-handley stopping the Black Mesa Incident"

[@TheEngieTF2]

If it was a real place, I would drop my jaw the whole time Too boring? Just start a resonance cascade! It'll be a lot of fun!

[@hecubalaclavagrunt2335]

you can say that again

[@indridcold5700]

Dulce

[@TKsh1]

The fact that people want to explore more of a linear location shows how map and enviromental design is cool and important. I like to just walk around in games (especially open-world) and explore locations without worrying about enemies.

[@DerpyDooReviews]

It's something I don't appreciate enough as an adult but when I was younger I remember trying to get out of maps in a lot of games, wanting to explore, whether it's the rooftops in halo 2 or stacking cars in GTA3 to get out of bounds, I used to love it. I suppose because now I know there's nothing out there I don't try to break out of maps as much unless it's to speed run, (Halo Reach for instance)

[@TheFloodFourm]

This is why platformers need to come back. Not because platforming or collectibles are cool, but because we need genres based solely around exploring and traversing an environment.

[@derPetunientopf]

@@DerpyDooReviews Have you been to the city from the intro of GTA3? Cool and dissapointing at the same time.

[@DerpyDooReviews]

@@derPetunientopf I haven't done it in a long time but I think I succeeded as a kid, I explored a lot of out of bound areas in GTA 3 and san andreas, I remember breaking out of bounds when in liberty city during the mission in san andreas, hoping to find the entire GTA 3 but only finding a tiny section rendered lol

[@epsilonarcaneresearch1945]

An alternative timeline were Gordon was so late that the science team just decided to reschedule the experiment, before investigations reveal the potential risks and unforseen consequences that might occur, resulting in a switch from teleportation research to space travel.

[@EmilSinclairDM]

I'm still waiting for a mod in which Resonance Cascade doesn't happen, and the game is a just about interviews with people, in which you would play as Gordon, having to answer some questions about the test, and things like that. Would be interesting.

[@sipeb587]

Good idea

[@HazerV2]

Would be, if someone could make a good impersonation of the scientists.

[@eidoneverchoosen1171]

Agreed. And the paper work lots and lots of paper work and with the mod where gorden then gets invited by lamaba to go join the survey teams in xen. And then barney getting gorden the beer he owes him. And maybe joining eli and his wife and baby Alex for lunch.

[@ElephantsDoingCrack]

1:15 Yo I thought I was the only idiot who thought Black Mesa was the most interesting Half-life Character.

[@exec4899]

I just love how many mods this game gets i love it

[@TheEmeraldSword04]

I remeber when the workshop items weren't even close to 800 addons.

[@EugenijusKrenis]

I wish there was some base building management sim where you'd built Black Mesa - style science facilities.

[@ESCalation]

that could be a really fun thing!

[@EugenijusKrenis]

@@ESCalation I've been brainstorming on it for some time, it would be a pretty cool take on management builders where you have this whole risk reward system where different hazards pile on and can exacerbate each other but integrating different systems, research facilities and industries also offers a bigger payout. Would ultimately need a pretty robust system for managing disasters when shit hits the fan though, and that may be tricky.

[@raihan_r.j]

My dream 6 years ago become true😭

[@DarthMcDoomington]

I feel like these would really be good for Source Filmmaker or Garry's Mod machinima. I actually was going to port one of the maps to SFM but then... Well you know, life happened and I was just too busy.

[@plasmatic3223]

Something about the graphics and ambience of the classic H-L is oddly relaxing

[@CaptPatrick01]

It'd be interesting to see these types of mods strung together into a whole new campaign where Gordon just goes on his way to a test which later turns out to be the Hazard Course _way_ on the other end of the facility, doing mundane tasks and sidequests along the way, getting lost, and ending up in places he isn't supposed to be, getting stressed, being a jerk, and eventually getting drunk and passing out on the floor or a dining table somewhere, and it all happens _the day before the Resonance Cascade._ Which is why he's both late, throwing stuff at the staff, and screws everything up and causes the disaster. (One of the sidetasks involves secretly disabling the electrical safety protocols on the anti-mass spectrometer after discovering Magnusson took all the credit for his essay)

[@awesomesource12]

I also love this, it's nice to just have a peaceful look around, it's so relaxing after playing non stop action for years. Makes ever detail more interesting too I think.

[@dxfan18]

I too used to wonder and fantasize about the wonders of Black Mesa

[@MrJustinUSCM]

I love these little mods so much, especially the ones with the really in-depth lore you can read. Probably spent 100+ hours exploring them. It's very well done. I really can't wait until they're all finished, the dev(s) plans on fully interconnecting them, with some being connected by Tram system, or by a Security Jeep that will "drive" you from map to map with some being connected via paths already there. I also believe there are also plans later down the line to make a full PD Level 3 dormitories and a PD Dual Access map if there is one ever made. When these maps are all fully finished, it will be weirdly fascinating being able to go anywhere you want in Black Mesa, it will almost feel like a real facility, more than it already does. Also yeah the dialog gets old, I almost wish they would somehow get more unique dialog that's relevant to each map, but I honestly doubt we will ever get any such thing. I'm just happy these maps exist and people are actively working on them!

[@varahunter68]

office complex pre disaster has some dialog of its own

[@MrJustinUSCM]

@@varahunter68 Yeah at the time of writing that comment there was no added custom dialog. I just checked it out, I really like it, some of the lines are pretty funny. Hope he continues to add more details and update it, as it is always welcome.

[@gransoldador9803]

Now, I want yo see aperture science before Glados and without be a Rat labxd

[@gehteuchnixan8256]

I am sure there are many people who would love to live and work in such a place... at least until this one specific day. A good background story like this, where people can really imagine to be part of this fantasy world, more than "just" being the protagonist in a specific story, lets the spirit fly.

[@accountwontlastlong1]

I was thinking about something like this recently. Just living in Black Mesa, looking around, no alien invasions or soldiers scuttling about. Thanks for introducing me to this!

[@Razgriz_01]

Imagine a space-station 13-esque game set in a Black-Mesa facility. Lots of players, all with roles. An entire session could end in either an end of a work-day or a disaster. Someone could cause a resonance cascade or simply blow up the place for fun.

[@SavorySoySauce]

With so many doors without handles or knobs on one side makes you wonder if it’s standard procedure for Black Mesa personnel to solve environmental puzzles to get around.

[@steyraug772]

i love this community so much despite age of the series, they still keep making and working for mods

[@doommaker4000]

You are telling me I'm not a lone weirdo?

[@JWStreeter]

0:52 lmao that song

[@TheAltairAssassin]

Glad to see I'm not the only one who wanted to poke around and see what the rest of the staff was up too

[@RaExpIn]

I think the idea is kind of weird, even though I can understand so well, why these maps exist.

[@GageHeibeck]

Crazy how fast Portal got it's treatment of pre-disaster fanlore with Portal Prelude. I wish we got something like that for Black Mesa.

[@TauGeneration]

i'm glad that i'm not the only one who feels like I want to see black mesa before the disaster in half life. this is not what I wanted (pre-disaster black mesa in the game black mesa) but it's close enough

[@ivanilayakimova2526]

This is Surface Tension before the disaster.

[@luissantiago5163]

Oh nice. Good morning everyone

[@Hlsaw]

This is why we want to make a show about what it was like working at black mesa

[@JamesTobiasStewart]

This feels like such a boon to anyone wanting to make Machinima. Show how this place looked and functioned before everything went so tragically wrong.

[@MondySpartan]

Half-Life but nothing wrong happens and the game is just a roleplay based game set in Black Mesa.

[@zaicanna96]

A dream

[@narrowhead]

WOW.. I feel like this is going to be a good watch.

[@IndieLambda]

I've been following this project for a while, yeah, not much in the gameplay epartment, but I still find really cool, I like to now and then load in an wonder what it would be like if we had access to all the areas, including the ones in Blue Shift, Decay, Opposing Force, the hazard course and more multiplayer maps, how it would all connect together in a singular, hyper massive map.

[@AdamBorseti]

I thought I was the only one who was obsessed with the pre-disaster BMRF but now I know there's a whole community! 😎👍🏻

[@TheSodingen627]

man i loved this game so much. couldnt play the og game cause of age

[@hisdudeness6046]

If you look closely at the Black Mesa microwave, it has a headcrab button. You can press this button post-disaster to kill a headcrab that is eating the casserole.

[@peppermillers8361]

Something close to what ESC wants is Half Life: Induction, which is about how Gordon got hired and got in touch with Eli and raced against Barney to unlock Kleiner's office. There was suppose to be a Black Mesa remake of it, but alas, cancelled. :- (

[@hello-ri8rz]

The Real Black Mesa Incident: Gordon uses impluse 101 and kills most of the science team, and blamed the HECU for all of it.

[@newatlantisrepublic6844]

Wouldnt you love to work at a REAL Black Mesa Research Facility?

[@jaadytetty9377]

I would like to work at black Mesa (before disaster) because it seems like a nice place to work at.

[@firefly9838]

I wish for a version of Black Mesa that plays out like The Stanley parable. Multiple outcomes. You can play through the original game no problem. But you can choose to go other places in the facility and never have the residence Cascade happen. Or have it happen with various different ways to leave the facility and different endings.

[@circleinforthecube5170]

if you were in it in real life even with nothing going on it would not be boring, the immense dropoffs and tall celings would trigger senses in your brain, the architecture itself is amazing and intimidating

[@CinemaRescored]

This is why I dream about a movie trilogy based on Half-Life, Opposing Force, and Blue Shift.

[@brotalnia]

0:30 TIL the HEV suit is running windows

[@scriminamp]

In Minerva: Metastasis the HEV suit os is unix-like, you can see this after the suit reboots

[@wodekw6862]

Well... For me this is more interesting than original

[@silvialuzmia]

plot twist, freeman got into an accident in the test chamber and now he is at the hospital in a coma.. and the rest of half life just in his head

[@ESCalation]

Intro of HL3 you wake up it was all a dream. The game then revolves around figuring out what its going to be for lunch in the hospital.

[@silvialuzmia]

@@ESCalation would be nice, and also another plot twist... just to confused everyone lol

[@tomvorat4173]

I want to see a mod where you do the experiment, nothing happens and the game just ends

[@jazdajazda2191]

i wonder if there is anyway to make black mesa a simulator of being scientist where you do experiments and cascade doesnt happen and game doesnt end i mean sometimes cascade prob happened in black mesa but it didnt look like black mesa in unforeseen consequences

[@Alstanbery]

i was hitting my dab pen when 0:52 happened and it scared me

[@501stcloneboi2]

Interesting

[@SiebenZwanzig]

I know what I'd do if I got bored *impulse 101*

[@taboret3280]

It looks interestinf

[@Snaking_Gamer]

How did it take me this long to realize not all the guards wear helmets?

[@Snot_born_nice]

i didn't know colossal is crazy is an half life fan

[@kc-rv1ox]

Fecal matter hit the air circulation unit hahahahahahahah

[@ad7799]

If someone mades a Resident Evil 2/3 Pre Disaster mod

[@carpet163]

I'm not sure but does anyone know if you need some form of a degree to become a Security guard? Because I would actually like to work at Black Mesa (if it was real however).

[@TheFloodFourm]

I'd bet you'd need something to prove to them your more than just a guard. Judging from the blue shift intro levels it seems to guards get tasked with a variety of assignments from pest control to repairman to HR. Barneys bio also lists him as having an associate's degree.

[@kristoferkoessel4354]

What the hell did they do to the lighting???

[@Palendrome]

Hey ESCalation. Funny thing, I just watched your Black Mesa Definitive video about ten minutes ago, then I immediately searched up to see if the HLQuarantine twitter has had anything recently for Half-Life 2. Didn't see anything still since March. But I noticed your channel was the one they linked for their older videos. You heard anything on your end, if they're still working on that??

[@ESCalation]

im sorry, i don't know anything either.):

[@tampyrer2444]

Did you draw all the oc art? Just got curious over the years. If so then you have a fucking talent like holy shit _bin kein furry aber das is slick af_

[@BrandoDrum]

This reminds me, why isn't there an effort to get blue shift into black Mesa format?

[@Chapmike]

There is, and it has been going for quite some time. www.moddb.com/mods/guardduty

[@its_zamlol]

👀👀

[@redironproductions5579]

0:50 what's the name of the song?

[@KarmaFrenzoid]

Whats the music at the at 00:15 ?

[@ESCalation]

Half-Life Menu theme from the PS2

[@maxon3883]

0 dislikes, wow man

[@maxon3883]

Thanks)

[@rampantmold]

Mod Link?

[@Interloper314]

les goo 1000th like