Hello, today I am here to ask you a question and I will give you my answer. The question is: How far must remakes with the Source engine? I am personally talking about remakes of Half Life games here. Let me quickly tell you how it begins. In 1998, Valve released a groundbreaking PC game which we all know is Half Life. It became a huge success and the rest is a Cinderella story. When Valve later decided to remake Half Life with their new Source Engine fans where thrilled. What they got though was the original Half Life with a few extras. It was by far what most people did not expect. So here came a group of upset fans who thought up a plan to remake Half Life with Half Life 2's engine. That is now know widely as Black Mesa. Black Mesa was not the first remake, but is now the most famous. There are others such as Fortress Forever, Goldeneye: Source, and Perfect Dark: Source to name a few. So where does it end? Must we lose all retro aspects of old game for an updated version. I am speaking of when I first play Half Life it changed my thoughts of gaming. Now with Black Mesa I know I wont feel the same way. Does that mean I won't get it? Absoltuely not. I am totally getting it, anyway wouldn't it be nice to leave classics as what the are and not as the "original."It has became a trend lately, like the foil looking jackets of the 1980's, that we have to make something good and make it "shiny" because we want to fit in. With upcoming mods of Opposing Force and Blue Shit (known as Operation: Black Mesa and Codename: Guard Duty- either name is subject to change) it is becoming relevant that originality will become a uncommited suicidal standing on a bridge. Soon people will Source port even little known mods just to keep up. Some people the same with sequels though, but saying that would be different. For example, a game is like a plastic toy which comes out with new accesories every once in a while. A sequel is a toy made by the very same company but is mostly bigger and better. A remake is the same first toy with new paint (think Airsoft rifles). So must we lose all retro games to the future of gaming or do have some orginality anyway?
-deathcheckedin (Steam name)
Side Note: Half Life, Black Mesa, Half Life 2, Operation Black Mesa, and Guard Duty have or never had no more affiliation with myself. This doesn't reflect their views and by no means attacks them.
