[SpardaSon21]

[Polpolion]

My biggest gripe is the VA; Eli's voice is so off it's painful to listen to, every scientist still sounds like Kleiner despite differing faces and races, all of the security sound like Barney.

Agreed. The game is absolutely stunning, it's just unfortunate that the mediocre voice acting sticks out because of that. In the original it was somewhat forgivable because there were like four different people and that kind of thing was pretty new anyway.

[Hades]

Implying the original game was different in that regard? 

I do admit, Eli's voice was pretty off the mark, although I like to think of it as him just being ten years younger and that being the lone reason his voice sounds less... human?  I dunno, it's hard to explain.

I never implied such a thing, that's a bit of a strawman, don't you think?

And other than a vague, poorly mimicked scent of his accent present, it really didn't sound like Eli at all, more like some nerdy white boy who got the part

EDIT: And SpardaSon, some guns actually do have ironsights in BMA. 

[SpardaSon21]

Besides the revolver (which doesn't need them since it is deadly accurate without them) and the crossbow (which is the sniper weapon) which weapons use ironsights?

[deathfun]

I must have spent at least 45 minutes at the beginning of the game just running around and looking at stuff, listening to random conversations, messing with the scientists, reading the posters/whiteboards, etc. The attention to detail is astounding.

*Scientist sitting down*
"Don't bug me right now, I'm busy"
Gordon: "YOU'RE SITTING DOWN IN THE ****ING LOBBY"

[Ravenholme]

Eli's VA might've been off, but I can easily forgive that. I'm loving that the interactions with the NPCs have been expanded and improved, with tonnes of "flavour" dialogue added to the game.

Escorting the scientists in Questionable Ethics, and their little argument before sending me on ahead, was simply sublime. (And those of you who have played that far no doubt remember the set piece that came afterward)

[Crybertrance]

(And those of you who have played that far no doubt remember the set piece that came afterward)

And the awesome music that played during said set piece...made me feel like a gun-toting ninja...

[Ravenholme]

(And those of you who have played that far no doubt remember the set piece that came afterward)

And the awesome music that played during said set piece...made me feel like a gun-toting ninja...

Yeah

[Flaser]

Hmm... am I the only one stuck at the part where you have to get into a barred off area of a huge flooded room (6 levels deep) with two Ichthyosaurs in it?

One gap in the bars is too small to jump into, the other is electrified by hanging wires (instant kill)... you there are some barrels (3 of them) and a pallet floating in the water, but you can't stack 'em high enough to reach the exposed office above.

What am I missing?

[MatthTheGeek]

The electrified wired shouldn't instant-kill you unless you have a ridiculously low health... I jumped through there in Hard...

Otherwise, the other hole SHOULD be large enough for you to pass.

[Crybertrance]

One gap in the bars is too small to jump into,

Ive always gone through that hole!! You have to crouch-jump to make it through...

[An4ximandros]

I just got the Alien Fly gun...

Spoiler:

OH MY FRICKIN' EYES! That has to be the most disturbing weapon pick up animation I have ever seen! Shoving your hand down there...

[Hades]

Besides the revolver (which doesn't need them since it is deadly accurate without them) and the crossbow (which is the sniper weapon) which weapons use ironsights?

...Those are basically it. >_>

[deathfun]

One gap in the bars is too small to jump into,

Ive always gone through that hole!! You have to crouch-jump to make it through...

Crouch-Jump
Anyone else not a fan of it?

[Ravenholme]

One gap in the bars is too small to jump into,

Ive always gone through that hole!! You have to crouch-jump to make it through...

Crouch-Jump
Anyone else not a fan of it?

Of Black Mesa or Crouch-jump?

[jr2]

Crouch-jump took a bit to master, but is just a minor nuisance once you get it.

[BloodEagle]

Ahem.  It's called bunny-hopping, my good sir!

[jr2]

Actually, she prefers to be called Spacey, short for Space+C.

[haloboy100]

Couch jumping never worked well in any source games for me. Especially team fortress.

[General Battuta]

The crouch jumping thing is hilariously ****. Someone did some calculations and worked out that the normal jump is so ineffective that it can't accomplish anything ordinary walking won't. So in effect all they've done is rebind 'jump' to 'ctrl-space'.