Just finished EP2..

[Fishamit]

and I wanna play the whole thing all over again

My question is, is valve going to add EP2's HDR and awesome blood splatters when you shoot Combines, zombies and antlions to HL2 some day? If so it's better to just wait until they do

 

[G-Dub]

and I wanna play the whole thing all over again

My question is, is valve going to add EP2's HDR and awesome blood splatters when you shoot Combines, zombies and antlions to HL2 some day? If so it's better to just wait until they do

Do you mean into HL2?

 

[Fishamit]

Yes, EP2's nice effects in the original HL2

 

[Druckles]

Heh... the original HL2... that sounds so wrong. Half-Life 2 is hardly original :-p.

I believe that the answer will be yes. Currently the original, original Half-Life is being developed into a HL2 mod that runs on Source with awesome new textures etc. Which I'm sure you're all aware is called Black Mesa: Source. Seeing as it's not complete, they'll be adding the EP2 source code into it, which should include wonderful splatters etc.

This doesn't answer your question, but basically, if Valve don't do it, fans will. Period.

 

[Rapstah]

He's asking whether HL2 and Ep1 will be ported to the EP2 engine at some point, and they will, eventually, and they already have been for consoles.

 

[Druckles]

I answered that... at the bottom of my post...

My answer was yes. I just took a rather long winded detour in telling him.

 

[Fishamit]

Thanks!

Yeah, and i'm really looking forward to playing Black mesa - source. I do like Half life 1's graphics though, even though they're old, they're pretty unique

 

[Druckles]

Half-Life was just a classic. Even when we get 3d screens, it'll still be wonderfully playable.

And what makes them unique?

 

[Fishamit]

Well, even though the engine is really old, HL still has a pretty freaky atmosphere. I find it a lot more scary than the Ravenholm level from HL2, and no one agrees with me about this, but i find the graphics a bit "cartoony", especially the characters' anatomy.

 

[Cheomesh]

I found those new blood splatters MUCH less than 'awesome'. I'm glad they didn't keep the ones for Freeman like we saw in the demo video.

 

[Xeltsek]

wow i had thought that the black mesa source project went down the crapper. But then maybe that was something else. That will indeed, be awesome.

 

[Druckles]

Well, even though the engine is really old, HL still has a pretty freaky atmosphere. I find it a lot more scary than the Ravenholm level from HL2, and no one agrees with me about this, but i find the graphics a bit "cartoony", especially the characters' anatomy.

I don't suppose you thought the objects from doom were 2D?

And no, I don't believe so, although it's like a million years late.
Nightfall went "down the crapper" recently

 

[Cheomesh]

wow i had thought that the black mesa source project went down the crapper. But then maybe that was something else. That will indeed, be awesome.

I think the Blue Shift source project died, along with the Op For Source project.

 

[Druckles]

Didn't hear about those two

 

[Max_Fall]

I think they should focus on EP3

 

[Druckles]

Um... they are doing. That and probably even the next title after that.

The source mods are from different people entirely.