Black Ops 2 or Halo 4?

[The White Hunter]

aside from MOH Warfighter that is

Definately interested in that, the original had an excellent story imo, with a lot of challenge from that T1 mode and really fun (if a touch brutal) multiplayer.

Personally it's MoH, Borderlands 2 and just about fuck all else shooter-wise for me this shooter fest. Other games I want include pokemon black or white 2. That is all.

 

[Wintermoot]

neither, I didn't like COD Black Ops and Halo 3 felt to short.
But if I where to be forced to choose, Halo4 at-least the co-op was fun to play through with a friend.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Neither. Only Dishonored and Bioshock Infinite are on my wishlist.

But if I have to choose: Halo. I think the series is ok, while I never enjoyed any of the CoD games.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

For me its neither, although I am interested in seeing how well they perform compared to their predecessors in terms of units sold.

Halo 4 due to 343 handling it instead of Bungie.

Black Ops 2 whether people are getting COD fatigue or not.

 

[jollybarracuda]

I'm interested in both, actually. I really have no idea which one i'd get first. On one hand, CoD has been re-releasing CoD4 (which was excellent) for years now, and here we finally have some innovation in it's formula that I would love to see be done, and supporting that innovation with my money sounds like a good deal to me.

On the other hand, I have every major release in the Halo franchise (Halo 1, 2, 3, and Reach) in my collection, and it'd be sad to leave out 4 for me. Plus, i actually really like what im seeing from it. It almost has a bit more of a Crysis look in my eyes, and that seems great to me. So i'm pretty interested to see what 343 Studios can do with the franchise.

So im not sure, i guess i'll just wait for the reviews to get out, and make up my decision when I know more about them on release.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

I don't follow the Halo plot, and I enjoy CoD as a guilty pleasure, so Blops 2.

 

[latenightapplepie]

Halo over CoD for plot.

I don't care for the Call of Duty formula, either singleplayer or multiplayer. While I'm not terribly enamoured with the Halo franchise anymore either, it has a story I wouldn't mind following. Hopefully the gameplay is up to par.

 

[Terminate421]

Almost every response in this thread is absolutely wrong and disappointing. The typical response is, "Neither, I played a call of duty game and didn't like it, and since I have never played a Halo game and it is a shooter it must be bad! Go buy X game!"

He asked one fucking question of which one to buy and you guys had to be the most immature I've ever seen since the Aurora Massacre thread.

Go buy Halo 4 first, it will have the most change amongst the two games and it'll still be relatively fun.

 

[NerfedFalcon]

Almost every response in this thread is absolutely wrong and disappointing.

Edit: Never mind. Your edit gave more clarity.

If I had to pick one of those two, I'd go with Black Ops 2 since it actually seems to be doing something different. That and I don't even own an Xbox 360.

 

[Dr. Crawver]

do I have to choose between these two? I'm going to vote for borderlands 2 instead.

 

[Swifty714]

If I had to choose, I would probably get Halo 4. Reach was an alright game, and i'm a long-time fan for the Halo series. However, BLOPS 2 Is looking very interesting. It's about damn time a CoD game skipped into the the future!

 

[DugMachine]

I'm curious to see how 343 handles Halo so Halo 4 for me. I enjoyed Black Ops, certainly the COD I played the most but I don't know.. CODs never feel different to me so i'll probably wait until it's cheaper (never) and give it a try.

Hopefully Halo brings back the spark this time cause if it's anything like Reach i'm done with that series.

 

[laggyteabag]

If you get Halo 4 you'll get cool points from me, besides if you want to play a a CoD game you may as well play one earlier in the series as they are all essentially the same

...And we already have our stupid comment relating to the CoD series. Well done.

How so? the campaigns are generally the same -
"Oh look Russia has invaded the US for some reason without any build up, we must defend from the inevitable nucular strike, and kill 1000's upon 1000's of generic soldiers to ultimately kill stereotypical Russian leader #34 to win" not to mention the scripting which makes the game little more than an interactive movie. As for multiplayer, its just the same run and gun mindless shooting that has been around in the last few games, only with a few more imaginative, broken and OP guns and killstreaks this time round to piss off the community

 

[Lunar Templar]

if i played FPS

Halo, gotta be Halo, i've looked into the lore enough to know I'd probably like it if they'd repackage it as something not an FPS.

CoD is just, as Yathzee put it 'a gun wank' game

 

[MiskWisk]

Halo over COD.

I have nothing against COD, but every time I have tried to play it I just don't enjoy it, whereas Halo's lore is quite interesting to me and the gameplay is functional (can't really say much else about fps gameplay).

 

[throwmeawaykid]

Getting something good. So neither.

 

[Patrick Buck]

Why "Or"? Personally, I'm not particually excited about either. I'm going to buy Black ops, purely for the zombies, and not halo 4, because I'm not that much of a fan, but I'm not really that excited for either.

Hitman however. Oooooph. That beautiful shiny bald head. Phaaaaw.

 

[Pfheonix]

I am not a fan of Black ops or Call of Duty, so that's out.

However Halo 4 has broken my heart in so many ways. Having seen some of the footage and heard details about it I can honestly say that it's very far away from the original formula. None of the old charm seems present, I really don't like that they seem to be turning Cortana into a psycho and I SERIOUSLY don't like how the Covenant have somehow returned despite the Elites allying with the humans and all the Prophets being dead. I also am annoyed that the Covenant now appear to just be generic cookie cutter evil alien monsters indistinguishable from the locust or the Ceph or any other evil aliens. In Halo 1, 2 and 3 the Covenant had actually personality and were even humanized to some degree, this is lazy.

But the final straw for me, the thing I can never forgive is 343 removing the Elites from multiplayer!!! Maybe the elites have only been removed from competative multiplayer (the article didn't specify) but so far we've seen no proof that you can play as Elites in custom games. Maybe we can but unless I have proof I'm not buying it. Yes, I am that petty. I'm sorry but being an Elite in mutliplayer was awesome. Not many games let me play as a reptilian alien as an option instead of boring old super human in a cyber suit, this was the reason why I preffered Halo to every other multiplayer game out there and now Halo 4 has decided to remove that.

So yes I am not a fan of Call of Duty but I cannot support Halo 4. Not if it really is just going to kill everything I loved about Halo in the process. Shitting on characters I loved, dubious retcons, multiplayer desperately trying to ape whatever is popular and sacrificing the things that made Halo genuienly unique to do it. Not happy about it.

Cortana is an AI. Rampancy has, and excuse this half-pun, run rampant through Bungie series since Marathon. She's reached her seventh year. This is where Bungie was leading to anyway. They've had it in all the fluff, so they're not shitting on her. They would be shitting on her if they didn't do it. And the Elite's I can understand you being pissed by. I am too... Hopefully they do something about that.

Halo wasn't unique in multiplayer though. It really was just Battlefield style vehicle combat, with a little less realism, slightly Quake-ish infantry combat, though it had the regenerating shields, and some awesome maps. It brought a new flavor, but nothing inherently unique. Especially by Halo 3. That said, I love the games. If I had an XBox, I would get it, but I play with a friend who has one. He might get it.

 

[Monshroud]

Halo 4 for me as I am really interested to see what 343 does with the franchise. I have played a couple of the CoD games and realized that they just aren't my thing. Not because I think they are bad, mainly due to the fact I realized that I am just not into modern style FPS war games.

Also, I am really curious to see what 343 does with the story arc. While someone on page 1 was saying how they don't like what 343 is doing with Cortana, I think it is a logical progression and it is something that Bungie established about AI constructs. I am pretty sure there will be some magical mcguffin that will save Cortana about 2/3 the way through. Although seeing if 343 has the balls to kill off one of the major and beloved characters in the Halo universe would be interesting.

Just do it well...

 

[Jhooud]

Oddly enough, I actually have a lot of fun blasting bots with my kids in the CoD games. We've put a lot of play time into MW3's "horde" mode and have had hours of enjoyment with the bots on Codblops' combat training. The stories are fun enough from a summer movie sort of perspective.

'Course, Halo was fun too, but at least for right now, we've had more fun with CoD.

Terribly sorry, I guess, judging from the conversation so far...