Dude, I wouldn't say that, the Thalmor check out these forums all the time...BehattedWanderer said:
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Poll: Alright guys, settle a bet for me. Half Life, Halo, or CoD?
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A) This was before I heard of Steam, Half-Life 2 would have more or less been entry into PC gaming, as up until than I was a console gamer. In fact, It wasnt until four years ago when I started college that I really started PC gaming.martyrdrebel27 said:
B) I dont use steam to buy games... I really dont use steam much at all, save for CODBO and Homefront, and I havent played either of those games for almost 6 months.
C) In case this wasnt made clear in B, I dont buy digital only, im a hard copy kind of guy.
Speaking as a person who didn't have multiplayer capability for at least a year. During that year I got halo, Cod, and the orange box. while I enjoyed all games, I still prefer half life to both cod and halo. The story and the gravity gun makes it the best game out of the three
Single player?
Put your money on the Valve title. Call of Duty was designed solely as a multiplayer game,with a "Sorta there" singleplayer. Halo was designed to have the best of both worlds,however the narrative in Half-Life is better in my opinion.
Quite frankly,I'm gobsmacked when people try to compare Call of Duty with Half-Life. They're fundamentaly different in focus.
Put your money on the Valve title. Call of Duty was designed solely as a multiplayer game,with a "Sorta there" singleplayer. Halo was designed to have the best of both worlds,however the narrative in Half-Life is better in my opinion.
Quite frankly,I'm gobsmacked when people try to compare Call of Duty with Half-Life. They're fundamentaly different in focus.
Well if you judge solely on Single Player, it gets a bit weird.Kieran Villoth said:
I think of CoD as a hallway simulator, where you're walking down this hallway with Michael Bay so he can get to the laundry machine to clean his stained sheets as he tells you the story behind the wet dream that caused said staining.
Halo had interesting characters but chose to dumb them down or kill them in favor of spending more and more time with Master Chief, who might be the least interesting character in any voice acted videogame.
Meanwhile, Half-life's plot centers around an inscrutable conspiracy, brief interactions with disposable characters, the chatter of your enemies just before you murder them, and the romance between a mute autistic killer (with a Ph.D) and a girl who builds giant robotic killing machines/pets.
If you look at the big picture, it gets even weirder.
Each game is a product of its times. Half-life showed you that you could sell a million copies with good single player story in an FPS, even if that story was minimalist and mostly only hinted at. Halo showed that you could sell a million copies with a mediocre single player story in an FPS, provided the multiplayer was unique to the system it was released to. CoD showed that you could sell a million copies with a really crappy story in an FPS with an over-the-top action extravaganza if the multiplayer was top-notch.
Half-Life for sure. Halo? Meh. CoD? Exact same thing each installment. Half-Life? Exciting and interesting
Half-Life 2 is my favourte game, so the choice is obvious, especially compared to the other two games.
The characters are well written and diverse, also the facial animation makes them look more alive than any other character in a video game, especially Alyx.
It's easy to shrug off the story as just another mediocre space invasion story but there is a lot more to it if you look more closely, Valve is often very subtle and has a love for details which can tell a great story.
There's a lot of variation in the levels and gameplay, it's not just shoot shoot shoot but they give you many options and we see many different places.
The atmosphere is really what gets me the most in the game, the first few times I played hl2 I was so immersed in the world, I didn't notice how the time went by. The music helps a lot, it always suits the situation very well and it just sounds great.
As for COD games, I nevery played 1-3 so I can only talk about the games from the mw era.
The story is often very confusing and doesn't make much sense, the characters seem mostly just bland, not interesting at all.
There is basically no variation at all in the gameplay, just shoot everything that's moving, the whole time. Just as much action as possible but that gets boring very quickly.
The multiplayer is fun at first but the games are really imbalanced, it's easy for one single person to take out a whole team. It's just run and shoot. It runs out of steam pretty quickly.
I'm not sure what to say about the Halo games, they're not bad and quite a lot of fun but the series just never really got me. The story and the characters just never got me hooked up, especially the Master Chief, who just seems so characterless. I've played through Halo 1 and 2 and it was a nice experience but nothing more for me.
I've never played the multiplayer though.
The characters are well written and diverse, also the facial animation makes them look more alive than any other character in a video game, especially Alyx.
It's easy to shrug off the story as just another mediocre space invasion story but there is a lot more to it if you look more closely, Valve is often very subtle and has a love for details which can tell a great story.
There's a lot of variation in the levels and gameplay, it's not just shoot shoot shoot but they give you many options and we see many different places.
The atmosphere is really what gets me the most in the game, the first few times I played hl2 I was so immersed in the world, I didn't notice how the time went by. The music helps a lot, it always suits the situation very well and it just sounds great.
As for COD games, I nevery played 1-3 so I can only talk about the games from the mw era.
The story is often very confusing and doesn't make much sense, the characters seem mostly just bland, not interesting at all.
There is basically no variation at all in the gameplay, just shoot everything that's moving, the whole time. Just as much action as possible but that gets boring very quickly.
The multiplayer is fun at first but the games are really imbalanced, it's easy for one single person to take out a whole team. It's just run and shoot. It runs out of steam pretty quickly.
I'm not sure what to say about the Halo games, they're not bad and quite a lot of fun but the series just never really got me. The story and the characters just never got me hooked up, especially the Master Chief, who just seems so characterless. I've played through Halo 1 and 2 and it was a nice experience but nothing more for me.
I've never played the multiplayer though.
I was payed about an hour ago. I figured I'd win the bet, I don't think my cousins know this forum as well as they think they do.Smeggs said:
Thanks to everyone who responded, and I liked to hear people's reasons for not voting for Half Life (even if I may not agree with them). You guys just made me 40 bucks!
I love Halo, because I just love the universe that Bungie has created (and now given over to 343) and the gameplay just works and it plays really well. Even after playing Anniversary the gameplay still felt fresh and could have easily been a game released this year.Kieran Villoth said:
Plus I am heavily invested in the Halo Expanded Universe.
I'm gonna have to say halo (assuming it's the original) simply because of that one level with the elevator and the flood. You know the one. Aswell as the last level on the pillar of autumn. And don't get me started on the music.
"Sigh" well I'm surprised it took this long. Allow me to elaborate, it feels like it's trying to be too many things at once, it feels like it's trying to be Call of Duty with the Combine soldiers armed with your standard FPS weapons (Pistols, SMGs shotguns an assault rifle disguised as a futuristic weapon) The monsters though, those drones, the headcrabs and the bugs and those things that dangle from the ceiling and those weird mine things...they just feel out of place, they never felt like a danger to me and they just felt too different to be part of the same faction as the guys with trench coats and gas masks, once they did that I didn't buy that it was an alien invasion, say what you will about Halo at least it could make up it's mind on either if it wanted to be an alien invasion or a standard war FPS. Also quick question I read somewhere that the Combine smashed Earth's combined military in seven hours...if that's the case, how come a MIT graduate is mowing down scores upon scores of their soldiers and even random civilians are putting up a good fight? Why did the Combine use soldiers and equipment that were so inferior to their own troopers to guard this planet? Why the Hell haven't they sent reinforcements? Also I get the feeling that Half Life secretly wants to be Portal, that's why it keeps throwing gimmicky puzzles at me. And as least in Halo you drive from a 3rd person persecutive so you can actually see what's going on around you.martintox said:
Honestly, I have to say Call of Duty. The story has more holes than Spongebob and the community is only slightly less annoying than Bieber fans, but you don't need story for multi-player and the mute button does wonders.
It has nice smooth controls that keeps the action fluid and constant, Halo just feels clunky and I've yet to actually try Half-life, but I won't change my answer based on the possibility that Half-life may be one of the best games of my life.
It has nice smooth controls that keeps the action fluid and constant, Halo just feels clunky and I've yet to actually try Half-life, but I won't change my answer based on the possibility that Half-life may be one of the best games of my life.
Oh look, the Valve game on the community that consists of a large percentage of PC players and Valve fans has a commanding lead, I'd better alert the media.
Your cousins must never read this forum. Personally I went with Halo mostly because I've never played Half-Life and so for me that left it up to a comparison between CoD and Halo and Halo definitely has a better story than CoD, I hear Half-Life is quite good though and I'd still like to play it sometime.
EDIT: I thought this was only based on the merits of the single-player campaigns, well I'm still going with Halo it isn't as easy to be a cheap bastard in the multiplayer and the vastly higher player health makes the MP more fun because its less about shooting people in the back and more about winning all out duels with people.
Your cousins must never read this forum. Personally I went with Halo mostly because I've never played Half-Life and so for me that left it up to a comparison between CoD and Halo and Halo definitely has a better story than CoD, I hear Half-Life is quite good though and I'd still like to play it sometime.
EDIT: I thought this was only based on the merits of the single-player campaigns, well I'm still going with Halo it isn't as easy to be a cheap bastard in the multiplayer and the vastly higher player health makes the MP more fun because its less about shooting people in the back and more about winning all out duels with people.
While straight up saying that the group of gamers CoD attracts are apparently "hyper-active sugar snorting teens".=Mr.K. said:
Among other things, but no. I was saying it has the best mechanics, and feels better (on console at least) than any other game out there right now. It's the best shooter out of all of these.
And (not directed at you) the reason it gets so much hate is because of Backlash. The community here doesn't give a shit if the latest CoD game was any good or not, it's going to get trashed.
Also, versus threads used to be frowned on here. Why did that stop?
I can tell you right now, my friend, you are about to come into some money. Half Life poops all over the heads of other FPS titles.