3/16/2023 0 Comments Questionable ethics black mesa![]() ![]() Black Mesa’s soundtrack is oversaturated with this stuff, whereas HL1 only has those 4 tracks. But all the guitar driven tracks seem to be inspired by Diabolical Adrenaline Guitar, Nuclear Misson Jam, Drums & Riffs, and Hard Technology Rock. All of these songs are very good fits for their respective scenes, save for some of the Surface Tension bits, which is a bit underwhelming for me. Particular highlights for me include the Inbound music, Forget About Freeman, Lambda Core, On A Rail, Power Up, Questionable Ethics, Residue Processing, We’ve Got Hostiles, and kinda Surface Tension. Again, when Black Mesa does it right, they do it *right*. Most of the soundtrack consists of “songs that are meant to be heard” instead of “background ambience”. Instead of *Inception*, it feels a lot closer to *Alien* or *The Thing*.Īnother issue I find is the lack of ambient tracks in Black Mesa. Kelly, instead, uses a creeping and swelling synthesizer, usually with a lot of rez on it. Kelly Bailey’s soundtracks have a very similar technique, but Alyx and Black Mesa both mess it up by making it sound like a big orchestral brass impact. ![]() There’s a lot of **BWAAAMMMM** moments, yknow, like the inception meme from years ago. Something that both Alyx and Black Mesa seem to fumble is making the soundtrack too human, too real, and too “blockbuster”. Not to say there aren’t a lot of fantastic tracks there, I’d personally rank the earth game’s soundtrack above Alyx’s, but the Xen soundtrack is just not at all fitting. sub-par compared to a lot of Bailey’s work. As I’m sure many people have noticed, Black Mesa’s soundtrack is. ![]() One current project I have is making music that sounds like Kelly’s, and as such, I’ve been meticulously analyzing the soundtracks from all the HL games, Black Mesa, and Portal. Hiya! I’m an independent musician with an intense love for Half-Life, and Kelly Bailey is one of my biggest influences. ![]()
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