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This chapter was absolute hell to play through on the 3DS. The vorts are so hard to react to when using C-Stick look when your thumb is slightly sweaty. Didn’t help that a majority of interloper was laggy as hell.

lol wtf I've played half life at least 5 times in my life and I NEVER knew that there were non-hostile vortigaunts in Xen. the start of those maps is always the most desparate "get in what i can before hiding behind cover", cannot believe the first room of the factory can be done without an infinite amount of controllers lol. Always end up wasting so much ammo and having sucha hard time shooting the super high controllers that it becomes a slow crawl of hivehand tracking shots up into the distance and ducking behind walls/curving shots along them.

Three years after uploading, I come across this video and even though it's been over a year (I think, could be more and closer to two years), you've properly worded how I felt about the maps when I first played it (good and bad). When I finished Black Mesa, I was genuinely glad it was over. And I don't think that's a good feeling to have! Thanks for the video and I subbed, will see what your other videos are about.

I got completely lost in the factory and after a while just went looking for the next loading trigger in noclip.

no

Once again to interoper you're going to be using the gluon gun a lot more than normal because you're out of ammo for everything else. Also, constantly using the glue gun does not feel like half-life it feels more Ghostbusters If there was a first person Ghostbusters game because the growing gun is essentially a proton pack.

I LIKED the long Black Mesa Interloper chapter. I played Black Mesa before finishing Half Life (long story) so I had no idea what to expect beyond that portal to Xen. I simply saw that level, and then it was a year before I finished that game. But once I got to the tower in Interloper in Black Mesa, I remember thinking, God. This tower goes on FOREVER. This really feels like I’m fighting insurmountable odds, and ascending to the “God chamber” of this world, to take on the world controller. I kept thinking it would be over, and then there was more, giant, mile-tall rooms full of machinery, full of hr geiger monstrosities, the walls looking like flesh, all to manufacture hundreds, if not thousands, of alien grunts, perfectly genetically created to serve their God. An evil God. That you had to kill to save the world. When I got to that elevator and the music played, I was pumped. Honestly, my only criticism is that the elevator battle isn’t epic _enough._ It’s like 90 seconds long and then it’s over. It’s not even really long enough for the epic music they composed for it. They could’ve gone way harder on it, gotten really creative with the level design, made one final floor that spanned almost the entire width of this giant cylinder, and involved some sort of fusion of multiple game mechanics to really make you feel like a proper god. And, I understand the feeling of being upset that Black Mess goes for a completely different feel than Half Life. I certainly feel that the community could benefit from a Source remake that tried harder to stay spiritually close to the source material. Black Mesa has a completely different feel to it, for better and for worse. Great video!

Ngl even though interloper is kinda bad in half life, i still prefer it over black mesa's absolute slog of a section

Sees that you think it’s canon, leaves a LIKE, refuses to elaborate, LEAVES

Interloper was my favorite part of the whole game imo

black mesa sucks. this video sucks. original xen was fucking brilliant.

I forget that I even played through the Xen levels in HL1, whereas I can remember Xen in Black Mesa so vividly

Guys. Half life x is gonna be half life race x, aka, we get a new adrian Sheppard story. >:)

Half Life Xen is like a 5/10 and BM Xen is like an 8/10

this was a bitch to get through and so difficult on Normal difficulty i had to use cheats the entire time

And i will say to you. Just because your video hasnt been seen by thousands, doesn't change the beiaty in your expression. Life is a beautiful and amazing thing

Quality video brom thank you

I hear two complaints about Black Mesa's Xen most frequently. One is the "gameyness" and the other is the environments. I understand and concede gameyness, but complaining about the environment??? It's seriously some of the most inspired and beautiful environments in video gaming history at best, and at worst is an amazing reimagining of Xen

If you say gamey one more time

3:00 had to idea about the cave

Was mostly agreeing with you until your comments on the elevator climb and the build up to it in Black Mesa, which is honestly one of the most fun experiences I've had in a game. It feels incredibly Half-Life. Next you'll be saying that the supercharged gravity gun sequences in Half Life 2 in the Citadel, or the Vault in Alyx don't feel like Half Life. Please, I beg you to reconsider.

Obviously this On a rail is fucking banger so yeah it can’t be the worst

You know, alot of people tend to hate on: "On rail" chapter that its too long and repetitive, and stuff, and okay I can understand I was okay with it, even in Black Mesa I noticed they decided to cut it shorter then what it used to be, but for the life of me dont get it when did they make the goddam conveyor part in Interloper then?!

and then you play Black Mesa and it's the best level design u ever see in your life

12:43 they're useful for jumping if you glitched your health in surface tension ;)

starting the video and commenting now, I think Black Mesa's version is just as bad but in a different way, gameplay-wise anyway. what a slog, especially after how much I loved their version of Xen. but god, the fucking infinite gluon gun section, what a nightmare. for as much as I hate the HL1 version, at least I can finish it in like half an hour and move on.

I would like to hear your thoughts on Signalis if you ever get back to making videos. I've played it recently and have been obsessed.

No until he's tied into official lore but it's still a great game.

There was a cave?!?

3:20 "Going through the cave is the obvious solution" I didn't even know the cave existed until 25 years after first playing this game. I always jumped from the hill to the manta. BM's Xen chapters are well designed, but I played them for the first time after a full BM playthrough and they feel VERY padded by that point. Solve this puzzle, now solve it twice, now solve it three times, repeat with new puzzle. That said the garg chase, the ending of interloper with the elevator ride and the Nihlanth fight were INSANE and I loved them, absolue master class. It felt like they were throwing EVERYTHING at you in desperation.

Opposing force is my favorite game in all of half life because of all the new things they added

Cutting chapters to improve pacing... why? It is the game you play for fun. Even if maps are not the best but it is still half life

when i first played interloper, i remember killing all the vorts before realizing that they're not actually hostile

I loved this chapter in original half-life 🤷🏼‍♂️ actually loved more than black mesa’s interloper

Wait people didn't realize this stuff? I was pretty young when I first played half life and I got all of this just fine!

Interloper is my favourite part of HL1, and perhaps of any game. It not only looks alien but feels alien as well and really challenges you to explore and experiment. Later HL games do such an meticulous job at signposting that you can just turn your brain off for them.

Kind of wish that Half Life ended before you saw Xen. The chapter was obviously rushed. Plus, if you think about it, that will mean that it was your fault that humanity lost since you could have stopped this. Maybe the G-man would have intervened, and you would have reached the tram ride.

Interloper was hell to beat in black mesa

Great video i played half life 1 and black mesa definitive edition and i hated interlooper in half life even if the atmosphere was good but in black mesa the interlooper was much better and fun to play

Wait what? There's a cave there?! I have spent countless hours in this game and replayed it so many times, it feels like I've explored every nook and cranny yet I never knew there was a cave there. I've always jumped to the platforms from one of the pores.

Black Mesa elevator scene was 2nd most fun compared to fighting the Ghonark boss.

Yes and no.

Tbh, as a kid i reached the Xen levels only with cheats, and i shot everything that moved with the gluon gun on my way or spammed dozens of snarks. I also didn't like the setting of Xen that much, so rushed through the levels and never really payed enough attention to notice that the Alien Slaves became passive. Even when i later played HL² with friendly Vorts, i didn't realise that they already became friendly during HL1. I think it took me until 2012 or so, when i began playing Sven-Coop and everyone spammed "Don't shoot" in the chat when we reached Interloper, that the coin finally dropped😅

I can't help but Interloper always sounded like an european train line to me 😅

THATS HOW YOU DO THE FIRST SEGMENT???? Dude i never found that fucking cave!? what the fuck! Dude i just used the Pore things, And launched up enough to Not die from fall dammage.

23:54 this. By this point of interloper i was fighting both frames and controllers to the point that it was such a slog to get through the level

there should have been something like an "inspection corridor" with intense light (maybe x rays, triggering the suits radiation warning) shining through the barrels and you see the silhouettes of the grunts through the barrels

Im pretty sure i never noticed the vortigaunts beeing friendly when i played this when i was 12. lateron i might have noticed but im pretty sure i just thought the ai bugged out or something since it appears completely random if you dont know that it happens to these specific aliens in these specific places and can easily be interrupted by shooting things like always. heck, how is anyone supposed to know that overseers are of a higher rank or something. before finishing you dont know how their boss looks like afterall! its just "a floating alien variety" with no lore implications.

Having just finished black mesa to day, I do feel like interloper stretched on for way too long.

Am I the only person who enjoyed Interloper?