I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who watched any of my videos for this playthrough, and especially those who stuck with me for the entire ride. Your comments, feedback and encouragement were very much appreciated and definitely kept me going through this lengthy and at times frustrating journey (it's safe to say that any major battle with music took me close to 15-20 tries to record a perfectly synced run). My goal with this playthrough was to showcase all the hard work that went into the making of this game, and present it in a cinematic and engrossing way to viewers, as if I was Freeman himself. From the feedback, it seems as if I've accomplished that, and I'm very happy to hear that. Half-Life has always been my favorite series of games because, with the proper pacing and gameplay style, you really do feel as if you're part of a world that's bigger than you can ever understand, but at the same time participating in a big budget action movie where you are the badass hero. Thanks again. While I don't have any immediate plans for videos in the future, I do want to eventually do a Half-Life 2 playthrough, as well as the episodes. Of course I will also be playing Half-Life: Alyx when it comes out, although I probably won't do a playthrough for that anytime soon.
Watching your playthrough was a great pleasure! Really felt like going through a good action film - no unnecessary interruptions or going in circles, you truly did justice to this mod (game?)
Thanks! It was important for me before I started recording that I made sure what the video was going to show, and that I didn't look like I was lost. I'm glad you liked it.
I really appreciate all the hard work you put into making these lengthy playthroughs. You seem like you are really passionate about this artform and I like that. With whatever you pursue next, I will be watching :)
The moment I noticed the yellow crystals healing them, I simply placed a bomb on each, and then once he started healing again, blew them all up at once; got an achievement for it too.
@@Sexy_Nutella you''d get 2 achyievements.first is blowing all 3 together.2nd is killing nihilanth under 5 minutes.got it both in one time.this boss fight was much easier than gonarch but comparing this to the original HL,this was an extraordinary job
What I loved the most in this fight was the supply drops you were getting. I wonder just how tense were things back on Earth... or if the scientists had any idea what was happening in Xen.
Yeah, the inclusion of them sending you caches throughout the Xen chapters was a nice touch. They probably all perished when the nuke went off though :(
@@user-love50803 they probably couldn't physically see what was going on, they probably just had general coordinates of where Gordon was so they'd just teleport supplies around his coordinates
I just finished black mesa yesterday and now I'm watching other people's playthroughs because I can't comprehend the sheer assault on my senses that game was. Like, the first chapters were impressive, and the amount of detail was great...and then I jumped in to the Xen portal and the production value turned up to 9000. I felt emotional, man.
I really love how the Nihlanth's head is stapled shut, but when he's done for... his head just explodes open tearing them off and sending blood everywhere.
Can't wait until Operation: Black Mesa and Guard Duty come out in 2039! Jokes aside, this was a great playthrough! I love how you tried to pace your playthoughs to match Joel's music; it's a small but very much appreciated touch. For me, half of the enjoyment of playing this game for the first time was seeing what kind of music would come next. It might be my favorite video game soundtrack ever. This game was such a thrill ride from beginning to end.
Oh man, I'm super hyped for Tripmine and what they're going to do with the Gearbox expansions. I also love the soundtrack. I kid you not, it's the most listened to playlist of 2019 for me on Spotify haha. Thanks for the kind words! :)
@@Sexy_Nutella Same here, I know it probably won't be released for quite some time, if ever, but I'm so pumped for what Tripmine has in store. I love the video where they showcased how in Guard Duty, Barney will actually go through an animation where he picks up a flashlight, as opposed to just having the same kind of flashlight as Gordon. It's such a small, yet very important detail that I always thought was odd in Blue Shift.
Beating the game on hard difficulty was an absolute blast. Didn't even care if it was getting to the point of trial and error in the later phases at this difficulty playing blind, the challenge was just too much fun.
Great playthrough! Also during phase III Nihilanth can throw at you not even shipping containers but also TANKS and APCs! That's how he mad at Gordon. And in HL1, besides vortigaunts, alien controllers would spawn into the lair too by the same method.
I wonder if there's a complete list of objects he can throw at you, it does seem like a lot haha. Didn't remember the note about the controllers, thanks for the correction!
I KNEW it was crossfire!! The first time I played through the fight, I thought it was the scientists teleporting in Black Mesa chunks because of the supplies. After I saw Nihilanth throw cars, though, I figured Nihilanth was just trying to crush Gordon or something (and the rooms were coincidently filled with rockets lol!!!)
I might be mistaken, but I think the devs did say something about Nihilanth wanting to throw those chunks of Black Mesa at you but that they were too heavy so they just fell to the ground instead. That's why he decides to toss the cars and stuff at you instead hahaha
Many thanks for the detailed playthrough. Me personally - I've reached only the point at the end of the Lambda Core in which Gordon telerports to Xen. I've never played the Xen part neither in BM nor in HL1 and this surely feels and looks like a different game. It has always amazed me that the Nihilanth's race was subdued by the Combine. I could only imagine the war this happened in but since the Combine have Telepathy, Freezing Time capabilities and mind-control I wouldn't be surprised that the Nihilanth's race lost. After all however what adds more pecularity of the whole cataclysmic event is the fact that according to the lore, the last Nihilanth and all the Xen creatures are RUNNING AWAY from the Combine, not trying to conquer Earth. They were hoping to use Earth as a sanctuary, yet instead, drew the Combine to us. Something which Gordon and all others will have to cope up with in HL2 and the episodes. And now, after the retcon ending in HL: Alyx, the ending of HL2, ep.2 has been finally fixed and we may get a HL3! And above all else towers the question, who exactly is the G-man. Many thanks again!
anyone else hear dr.breen at 0:04 - 0:12, I think it's from the Dr.breen speech at the beginning of hl2 maybe? its to heavily distorted to make out. the other voices are clearly from the resonance cascade though.
Voilet Mcvinnie, i know him he is one of the best SFM YTs at my time, preety sad that his reputation was destroyed by a update he created in TF2 (End of the line in case you didn't know) still it creates a tear in my eye that he was starred in here
Mine is pretty beefy too and it still drops frames in the Xen chapters. I think it's just the nature of the Source Engine being pushed to its absolute limits :(
I really don't understand or like this boss fight. Feels like there's a 50/50 chance of me just dying at random because everything is so hectic and utterly incomprehensible, either due to the stupid fucking mess of clashing colors, or the hazards he throws at you which you don't have the time, or the mobility, or the reflexes to react to because you're constantly jumping around. I'd take vanilla HL bossfight over this one any day.
It definitely plays more like Doom 2016 than the original HL1, but I personally loved this re-imagining of the fight for the reasons you hate it haha - the necessity of constant dodging and having it be more reliant on reflexes and positioning. I do think the attacks are telegraphed enough to dodge them but I can understand your frustration. HL1 Nihilanth did have charm that Black Mesa doesn't replicate fully.
Yes. Stupid as hell. I would just stand in the healing pools, face those attacks straight on and spam my own attacks on Nihilanth. Stupid ways to work around stupid boss fights.
@@axtonganha oh, nihilant its just a 'puppet', he knows G man, and say that because gordon will kill nihilant and thats is what g man wants. Nihilant is a dimensional portal controller and his is the only thing who prevents to combine invade or dimension.
I feel bad for Nihilanth. He did everything he could to save his species, people and what was left of it. He didn't ask for this. Neither did Gordon though. Both were very desperate to kill each other but could have worked together to take down a common enemy.
Yeah, they really see no use as the player can simply go to the supply caches that are teleporting in. Though maybe they were included just as a throwback to the first game. There IS an easter egg tied to interacting with each of the pools though, so there's that.
This game was BEAUTIFUL 😍 I trying to play HL2 after Black mesa but 🥴 the crappy graphics just aren't appealing to the Eye and always feels like it's missing something.
Won't say no to these games but after uploading for five games in a row I think I'm going to take a break first before committing to another full playthrough :)
Xen was incredible although I thought the final battle was a bit underwhelming compared to the original. The teleporter ball things in the original made it more interesting, and I recall there being some of those trampoline things too. It required a bit more thinking.
I can see where you're coming from. I myself am glad they got rid of the teleporting attack, it took away from the fight in my opinion and made players have to go through an awkward plaforming puzzle each time.
I don't like this fight at all. I like that it's more difficult, and the lighting effects are really well done, but everything else just seems like a step down. Nihilanth's voice is wrong, his design is wrong, the fact that you just stand there and shoot him feels all wrong! Where are the launch pads? Where's the thrilling sensation of zooming over him and unloading everything you've got into his gaping, open skull, while simultaneously getting a good close up look at his unsettling visage? Where is the creepy vestigial facial features and atrophied limbs? Where's the eerie voice that sounds like it's being whispered right into your brain? Seriously, his arms look downright buff by comparison, and the fact that he's got prominent facial features just looks all wrong. Then you've got that terrible voice. It doesn't sound like an alien telepathically slithering words into your mind. It sounds like you're being scolded at by a very bored but otherwise ordinary human man. None of this is a complaint against you Nut, you're great! Excellent gameplay as always. I'm just disappointed in how the dev team designed this final boss fight. Considering how much they improved the Gonarch encounter, it's almost hard to believe that the same team gave us this lackluster final boss.889
Thanks for the comment - I agree with you on the depiction of Nihilanth. I really didn't like how they made him more of a typical endgame villain - I mean he literally holds his belly and laughs during the fight. The HL1 Nihilanth LOOKED like a giant mutated and deformed fetus, with a disembodied and haunting voice to match. You didn't necessarily feel good defeating it because it came across as another desperate entity trying to survive after having escaped from the Combine. I do enjoy the revamped fight itself though. It would've been interesting to see how the jumppad could've been incorporated, but I liked how the fight stays in one room, and that the Nihilanth constantly assaults the player with attacks. Gives the fight a desperation that I didn't find was present in HL1.
It's definitely hard mode. If it makes any difference, this was recorded before the 1.0 full release and i haven't played the xen portion again to see if the difficulty has changed at all.
Nah it's not bad at all, it's honestly much better than the original Nihilanth boss fight. I think the issue is mostly with the music. The music of the elevator fight just before this fight, and the Gonarch boss fight is just far superior and presents those fights as actual climaxes whereas the music in this fight does not.
The healing crystals were just crystals in the original, but here it's some mechanical sci-fi bullshit? They've added too much flashy sci-fi nonsense to xen.
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I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who watched any of my videos for this playthrough, and especially those who stuck with me for the entire ride. Your comments, feedback and encouragement were very much appreciated and definitely kept me going through this lengthy and at times frustrating journey (it's safe to say that any major battle with music took me close to 15-20 tries to record a perfectly synced run).
My goal with this playthrough was to showcase all the hard work that went into the making of this game, and present it in a cinematic and engrossing way to viewers, as if I was Freeman himself. From the feedback, it seems as if I've accomplished that, and I'm very happy to hear that. Half-Life has always been my favorite series of games because, with the proper pacing and gameplay style, you really do feel as if you're part of a world that's bigger than you can ever understand, but at the same time participating in a big budget action movie where you are the badass hero.
Thanks again. While I don't have any immediate plans for videos in the future, I do want to eventually do a Half-Life 2 playthrough, as well as the episodes. Of course I will also be playing Half-Life: Alyx when it comes out, although I probably won't do a playthrough for that anytime soon.
Watching your playthrough was a great pleasure! Really felt like going through a good action film - no unnecessary interruptions or going in circles, you truly did justice to this mod (game?)
I understand you perfectly 👍👍👍.
Thanks! It was important for me before I started recording that I made sure what the video was going to show, and that I didn't look like I was lost. I'm glad you liked it.
What about doing a Livestream when playing Half life alyx?
I really appreciate all the hard work you put into making these lengthy playthroughs. You seem like you are really passionate about this artform and I like that. With whatever you pursue next, I will be watching :)
This boss perfectly exemplifies the original motto.
Run.
Think.
Shoot.
Live ;)
I read that in XBox Ahoy's voice bruh
The moment I noticed the yellow crystals healing them, I simply placed a bomb on each, and then once he started healing again, blew them all up at once; got an achievement for it too.
That's smart, I didn't pick up that you could do that!
Holy shit that's smart.
@@Sexy_Nutella you''d get 2 achyievements.first is blowing all 3 together.2nd is killing nihilanth under 5 minutes.got it both in one time.this boss fight was much easier than gonarch but comparing this to the original HL,this was an extraordinary job
"FREEEEEEEEEMAAAAAAN" has some real "GENERAL KENOBI" energy
Hello there
General Kenobi! You are a bold one.
What I loved the most in this fight was the supply drops you were getting. I wonder just how tense were things back on Earth... or if the scientists had any idea what was happening in Xen.
Yeah, the inclusion of them sending you caches throughout the Xen chapters was a nice touch. They probably all perished when the nuke went off though :(
The scientist always watching Freeman since he went to Xen, its like you cant get to a battlefield alone without any other external support
@@user-love50803 they probably couldn't physically see what was going on, they probably just had general coordinates of where Gordon was so they'd just teleport supplies around his coordinates
When you fight the nihilanth
HL 1 : Take cover behind spike
BM : RUN RUN RUN!!!
Well you also have to run around in hl:source, as the nihilanth shoots you through the spikes
I just finished black mesa yesterday and now I'm watching other people's playthroughs because I can't comprehend the sheer assault on my senses that game was. Like, the first chapters were impressive, and the amount of detail was great...and then I jumped in to the Xen portal and the production value turned up to 9000. I felt emotional, man.
I really love how the Nihlanth's head is stapled shut, but when he's done for... his head just explodes open tearing them off and sending blood everywhere.
Yeah, that sound effect is grossly fascinating haha
God only knows if the nihilanth had some issues or even accidents across time and he needed fixing.
Can't wait until Operation: Black Mesa and Guard Duty come out in 2039! Jokes aside, this was a great playthrough! I love how you tried to pace your playthoughs to match Joel's music; it's a small but very much appreciated touch. For me, half of the enjoyment of playing this game for the first time was seeing what kind of music would come next. It might be my favorite video game soundtrack ever. This game was such a thrill ride from beginning to end.
Oh man, I'm super hyped for Tripmine and what they're going to do with the Gearbox expansions.
I also love the soundtrack. I kid you not, it's the most listened to playlist of 2019 for me on Spotify haha. Thanks for the kind words! :)
@@Sexy_Nutella Same here, I know it probably won't be released for quite some time, if ever, but I'm so pumped for what Tripmine has in store. I love the video where they showcased how in Guard Duty, Barney will actually go through an animation where he picks up a flashlight, as opposed to just having the same kind of flashlight as Gordon. It's such a small, yet very important detail that I always thought was odd in Blue Shift.
Blue Shift is out now. Check on Steam.
When you fire the rocket launcher in unguided mode you can spam reload right after firing so gordon doesn't wait until the first missile explodes.
Thanks for the tip! Didn't know that
Beating the game on hard difficulty was an absolute blast. Didn't even care if it was getting to the point of trial and error in the later phases at this difficulty playing blind, the challenge was just too much fun.
Exactly, i cant remember the last time an fps game such trouble without making the enemies bullet sponges.. i enjoyed the challenge greatly.
Honestly, this fight felt so like I was in a Metroid game. It was great, epic, and flashy.
Yeah, they really went fullout for this boss fight
Great playthrough! Also during phase III Nihilanth can throw at you not even shipping containers but also TANKS and APCs! That's how he mad at Gordon. And in HL1, besides vortigaunts, alien controllers would spawn into the lair too by the same method.
I wonder if there's a complete list of objects he can throw at you, it does seem like a lot haha. Didn't remember the note about the controllers, thanks for the correction!
Imagine if he threw Ospreys at you haha
It seemed like a fucking tornado throwing random things!
A fantastic ending to a fantastic game. And a great end to a great playthrough. Thank you for the work you put into this.
Thanks! I am glad you really enjoyed it :)
I KNEW it was crossfire!! The first time I played through the fight, I thought it was the scientists teleporting in Black Mesa chunks because of the supplies. After I saw Nihilanth throw cars, though, I figured Nihilanth was just trying to crush Gordon or something (and the rooms were coincidently filled with rockets lol!!!)
I might be mistaken, but I think the devs did say something about Nihilanth wanting to throw those chunks of Black Mesa at you but that they were too heavy so they just fell to the ground instead. That's why he decides to toss the cars and stuff at you instead hahaha
@@Sexy_Nutella Thank you for such a great playthrough!!! Can't wait to see whatever you got in store for the future!
@@honest_cake No problem! Thanks for watching :)
@@Sexy_Nutella is there developer commentary somewhere??
@@finscontingencyplan7005 Not officially in the game, but I get snippets of trivia from the Discord and other articles.
That explosion was like the sickest explosion i have ever seen in a source game.
Black Mesa Nihilanth was the biggest glow up in video game history
0:35 damn I was only supposed to push a cart
From overly qualified research assistant to badass alien-slaying warrior. Freeman really is the right man in the wrong place.
Many thanks for the detailed playthrough. Me personally - I've reached only the point at the end of the Lambda Core in which Gordon telerports to Xen. I've never played the Xen part neither in BM nor in HL1 and this surely feels and looks like a different game. It has always amazed me that the Nihilanth's race was subdued by the Combine. I could only imagine the war this happened in but since the Combine have Telepathy, Freezing Time capabilities and mind-control I wouldn't be surprised that the Nihilanth's race lost. After all however what adds more pecularity of the whole cataclysmic event is the fact that according to the lore, the last Nihilanth and all the Xen creatures are RUNNING AWAY from the Combine, not trying to conquer Earth. They were hoping to use Earth as a sanctuary, yet instead, drew the Combine to us. Something which Gordon and all others will have to cope up with in HL2 and the episodes. And now, after the retcon ending in HL: Alyx, the ending of HL2, ep.2 has been finally fixed and we may get a HL3! And above all else towers the question, who exactly is the G-man. Many thanks again!
No problem. Yes, so many unanswered questions in the Half-Life universe, and the lore itself is so deep and expansive :)
The amount of bass in its voice is godly
Yeah, really gives the sense that this is a godly being that you're going after
Was he literally hurling cars at you like asteroids through portals?!
Yup. Pretty insane ngl
Way more intense and spectacular than the original
Agreed!
Defeating the Nihilanth in under 4 minutes with my 4 - 7 fps shitty laptop performance was my biggest reward. Damn I earn it.
Hell yeah you did!
Can't wait to fight the Gene Worm Final boss in Operation BM.
Same! The original battle was kind of dull in my opinion, I'm hoping they amp it up similar to how Crowbar Collective did Nihilanth here
Im glad he no longer teleports you to some janky platforming puzzles midfight
Same here. I don't miss those at all
amazing game. There was a bug in Interloper. I must start it a few save points before to play it to Nihilanth. Thank you for your video. Helps a lot.
No problem, glad I could help!
0:33 that was so fucking spine chilling
Definitely
Man this boss is easy af but damn the spectacle is fucking insane, I love it
anyone else hear dr.breen at 0:04 - 0:12, I think it's from the Dr.breen speech at the beginning of hl2 maybe? its to heavily distorted to make out. the other voices are clearly from the resonance cascade though.
I think its eli, i think i heard "listen"
@@bonbarmandrink yeah, that's Eli saying "Why didn't they listen?!"
Thank you for all work 👍
Thank you for watching, and for your comment :)
Voilet Mcvinnie, i know him he is one of the best SFM YTs at my time, preety sad that his reputation was destroyed by a update he created in TF2 (End of the line in case you didn't know) still it creates a tear in my eye that he was starred in here
4:00 Damn, nice shot
If you turn off the laser tracking on the RPG the rocket just shoots in a straight line :)
BM Nihilanth - just bunny hop around and spam
hard Nihilanth - fucking Touhou
This is probably the main reason my potato computer can’t handle this game
Mine is pretty beefy too and it still drops frames in the Xen chapters. I think it's just the nature of the Source Engine being pushed to its absolute limits :(
I never had any issues in this chapter, oddly enough. Gonarch's Lair and Interloper are when the framerate fucking tanks
DOOM '16 vibes
I really don't understand or like this boss fight. Feels like there's a 50/50 chance of me just dying at random because everything is so hectic and utterly incomprehensible, either due to the stupid fucking mess of clashing colors, or the hazards he throws at you which you don't have the time, or the mobility, or the reflexes to react to because you're constantly jumping around. I'd take vanilla HL bossfight over this one any day.
It definitely plays more like Doom 2016 than the original HL1, but I personally loved this re-imagining of the fight for the reasons you hate it haha - the necessity of constant dodging and having it be more reliant on reflexes and positioning. I do think the attacks are telegraphed enough to dodge them but I can understand your frustration. HL1 Nihilanth did have charm that Black Mesa doesn't replicate fully.
Yes. Stupid as hell. I would just stand in the healing pools, face those attacks straight on and spam my own attacks on Nihilanth. Stupid ways to work around stupid boss fights.
0:10 nihilant's face
1:50 talks about g-man
@@rickitos94 I dont understand
@@axtonganha what?
@@rickitos94 The one talks about g-man
@@axtonganha oh, nihilant its just a 'puppet', he knows G man, and say that because gordon will kill nihilant and thats is what g man wants. Nihilant is a dimensional portal controller and his is the only thing who prevents to combine invade or dimension.
HL1 Nihilanth: Smol balls of energy
Black Mesa Nihilanth: "Yo, hold this tank for me real quick."
I feel bad for Nihilanth. He did everything he could to save his species, people and what was left of it. He didn't ask for this. Neither did Gordon though. Both were very desperate to kill each other but could have worked together to take down a common enemy.
The truth you can never know the truth.
You are man He is not man for you He waits for you
Done. What have you done
Die...you all die...
Damn! I loved it!
Glad to hear :)
Good play Sexy Nutella 👍👍👍, i hope it comes out soon *OPERATION: BLACK MESA* and too *GUARD DUTY*.
I hope so too! From what I've seen so far it looks very promising.
@@Sexy_Nutella i saw the two videos of *Operation: Black mesa and Guard duty* what they are preparing.
0:33 if valve wrote star wars
Haha. Epic!
Wonderful bossfight. I feel like the healing/battery pools are redundant, though. Otherwise this would be seamless
Yeah, they really see no use as the player can simply go to the supply caches that are teleporting in. Though maybe they were included just as a throwback to the first game. There IS an easter egg tied to interacting with each of the pools though, so there's that.
7:47 i laugh after he said it for some reason
excelente trabajo Freeman. saludos desde México
¡Gracias! Saludos desde Canadá :)
que HERMOSO!! final .estoy llorando de lo hermoso que hicieron este juego ;.)
ya lo jugaste perro?, o no encuentras el link de descarga?
También estaba muy emocionado cuando terminé el juego :)
Puedes comprar el juego aquí en Steam:
store.steampowered.com/app/362890/Black_Mesa/
¡Compruebe el precio regional sin embargo!
@@Sexy_Nutella de hecho .ya lo he comprado hace mucho,solo no cuento con una pc buena,si no ,no estaria viendo tus videos xd ;__;
@@anonimato8024 Espero que puedas actualizar tu PC pronto :)
my pc in this game will explode
It's very intensive for sure haha
This game was BEAUTIFUL 😍
I trying to play HL2 after Black mesa but 🥴 the crappy graphics just aren't appealing to the Eye and always feels like it's missing something.
HL2 is still incredible, even with the downgrade in graphical fidelity. I'd still give it a whirl!
Freeeeemaaaaaannn...
Chills!
Half-life?
Half-life: Opposing Force?
Half-life: Blue Shift?
half-life: Source?
Portal?
Portal 2?
Won't say no to these games but after uploading for five games in a row I think I'm going to take a break first before committing to another full playthrough :)
Oh
I big giant baby vs a guy with some suit and a beard plus glasses.
That's why we love Gordon :)
I wonder whats bigger the nihialth chamber or the citadel from half life 2
I think the nihilanths tower might be bigger than the citadel. It looks a lot wider at least
Xen was incredible although I thought the final battle was a bit underwhelming compared to the original. The teleporter ball things in the original made it more interesting, and I recall there being some of those trampoline things too. It required a bit more thinking.
I can see where you're coming from. I myself am glad they got rid of the teleporting attack, it took away from the fight in my opinion and made players have to go through an awkward plaforming puzzle each time.
da baby boss fight
I don't like this fight at all. I like that it's more difficult, and the lighting effects are really well done, but everything else just seems like a step down. Nihilanth's voice is wrong, his design is wrong, the fact that you just stand there and shoot him feels all wrong! Where are the launch pads? Where's the thrilling sensation of zooming over him and unloading everything you've got into his gaping, open skull, while simultaneously getting a good close up look at his unsettling visage? Where is the creepy vestigial facial features and atrophied limbs? Where's the eerie voice that sounds like it's being whispered right into your brain?
Seriously, his arms look downright buff by comparison, and the fact that he's got prominent facial features just looks all wrong. Then you've got that terrible voice. It doesn't sound like an alien telepathically slithering words into your mind. It sounds like you're being scolded at by a very bored but otherwise ordinary human man.
None of this is a complaint against you Nut, you're great! Excellent gameplay as always. I'm just disappointed in how the dev team designed this final boss fight. Considering how much they improved the Gonarch encounter, it's almost hard to believe that the same team gave us this lackluster final boss.889
Thanks for the comment - I agree with you on the depiction of Nihilanth. I really didn't like how they made him more of a typical endgame villain - I mean he literally holds his belly and laughs during the fight. The HL1 Nihilanth LOOKED like a giant mutated and deformed fetus, with a disembodied and haunting voice to match. You didn't necessarily feel good defeating it because it came across as another desperate entity trying to survive after having escaped from the Combine.
I do enjoy the revamped fight itself though. It would've been interesting to see how the jumppad could've been incorporated, but I liked how the fight stays in one room, and that the Nihilanth constantly assaults the player with attacks. Gives the fight a desperation that I didn't find was present in HL1.
Which one is harder
one nihilanth or 10 assassin
Black Mesa!Nihilanth >>>> Original Half-Life!Nihilanth
I do love this rendition of the boss fight much more than in HL1's
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🤙🤙🤙
quite easy boss fight just try to parry attack and kill nihilanth easily
that aint hardmode
It's definitely hard mode. If it makes any difference, this was recorded before the 1.0 full release and i haven't played the xen portion again to see if the difficulty has changed at all.
Sexy Nutella ah
I love Black Mesa but the gman voice sounds so bad
It's not bad in my opinion, it emulates HL1 G-man a lot more than HL2 G-man
What a fucking terrible boss fight
Nah it's not bad at all, it's honestly much better than the original Nihilanth boss fight.
I think the issue is mostly with the music. The music of the elevator fight just before this fight, and the Gonarch boss fight is just far superior and presents those fights as actual climaxes whereas the music in this fight does not.
The healing crystals were just crystals in the original, but here it's some mechanical sci-fi bullshit? They've added too much flashy sci-fi nonsense to xen.