farmer goo 2005

I am just wondering what people are thinking about Halo 2 and Half Life 2 and why they are going to get these games. I personally being a PC/counter-strike fan am all for HL2 but thats just me. What do you guys think?

Rdr4evr

Considering Halo 1 was absolute garbage, and HL1 is possibly my favorite game of all time, I would have to go with Half Life 2.

theburner

Halo 2 all the way.

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Lasereth

Calling the Game of the Year from 67 different official publications garbage is ridiculous. Even if you don't like console FPS you have to admit Halo is a piece of art. It was and still is the definition of console FPS perfection.

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Paradise Lost

Actually, I too thought Halo wasn't all that great. Every gaming magazine on earth also
gave GTA 3 freakin high scores, but I've played it maybe for 15 minutes since my brother
bought it some year or so ago. It just depends on taste. For me, Goldeneye was a pretty
freakin awesome console FPS. People just get overly excited by over-hype, and give scores
out the wah-zoo.

Anyway, Half-Life 2, if I can get money, and my other graphics card back, and probably a new
Hard Drive.

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Rdr4evr

Actually I only played the PC version, which was pure garbage.

McG

I can't wait for Halo 2 and if Half-Life 2 is all its cracked up to be then i'll be playing that too.

Shirtninja

Half Life 2 all the way... I've been waiting to long for that game.

LeviticusMky

Well, if you only played the PC version, throwing in the console version in the same stew pot is just wrong. I've played both, you're right, the PC version is absolute crap, but the console version, the original version, is pure gold. Halo is the point from which all other console FPS games should be judged.

I mean c'mon, look at FF7, the PC version was like playing fecal matter. The storyline barely saved it from eternal damnation. The PS version has made it one of the best RPGs of all time, possibly the best.

Half Life 2 has had waaayyy too much shit surrounding its release. I was really excited initially, but after the letdowns and falsehoods, I won't be buying ti right off. I think a major aspect of buying a game is considering what your money is going to support. I'll buy it after awhile, but I'm getting Halo 2 as soon as I can.

Bratwurst

Never played Halo. HL2 all the way.

bltzkriegmcanon

You have a point, considering the fact that the PC version came out at least 2 years after the Xbox version, and our standards changed, and the experience of playing PC Halo felt like you were playing just another generic FPS. However, you shouldn't call the original Halo garbage if you just played it for PC, because that's an entirely different experience from Halo on Xbox. If you played it on Xbox, then it was an experience to remember, and something that has been the basis for many great FPS ever since.

Now, I agree with your point that Halo for PC sucked. I can't deny it. It controlled and played like EXACTLY every single PC FPS that I've ever played, except it was 2 years past due both graphically and gameplay-wise. It felt tired, old, and unpolished. Perhaps a better word would be "rushed". Because that's how it felt, it played like it was unfinished, and it became painfully clear in the later stages of the game.

I'd say that I have much faith in the series, and that this latest offering will be both enjoyable and critically exquisite.

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Rdr4evr

You are correct about it being outdated once it landed on the PC and therefore affecting our standards, but I believe even two years before it wouldn't have been very revolutionary. Unless the level design on the Xbox version differs from that of the PC version, please ignore this post. My main gripe with Halo was the repetitiveness, specifically that of the level design and gameplay. Not only did all the levels seem identical, (I believe some were except played backwards) but the swarms of enemies that came at you every five seconds proved to be a little tedious as well. Also keep in mind I have never played the MP, but as far as single player on the PC goes, I found it to be an extremely boring and heavily over-rated game.

MooseMan3000

I'd have to say I only thought Halo was alright. I agree - the PC version was horrendous. A complete let-down. I wanted it to play like the console version, only more precise. I was incredibly disappointed.

Even so, the console version of Halo was, at best, a mediocre game. The multiplayer is fun, but you can only play with 4 people. That kinda went out with, like, Super Nintendo. And it gets a little old. And the single player/coop? The most incredibly unimaginitive levels I've EVER seen in an FPS. Like, worse than Wolf3D or fucking DOOM. The story was great. I'll give it that. But the levels blew big fat chunks. They were repetitive and boring. Playing the levels felt like the worst case of treadmill RPGing times about 800 million bajillion.

I can play Halo on X-Box for about 30 minutes, then I feel like I never want to play again (or at least for a week or so).



So my vote was for Half-Life 2. Of course, I still want Halo 2 to be good. We'll see.

Mr.Deflok

I'm gonna get both because I'm not a fucktard fanboy who hates the "competition" just because he doesn't own the other console or have a good enough PC.

They're both going to fantastic games, I'm probably looking more forward to Halo 2 than HL2 because I liked the predecessor in the series a lot more. Either way, both games will own and I will own them both.

dbc

Ill be getting both but I will play half life 2 10x as much. I only like halo on lan.

NeverBorn

Both, I love release dates within (or on) my b-day.

Destrox

Hl2.. even if I allready bought it.

9 more days baby!

I dont have an xbox, and even if I did I still wouldnt get Halo2.

FPS's belong on computers, not consoles.

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Stiltzkin

HALO is not meant to be played by yourself. Halo is not DOOM or Quake or anything like that. That's why you have the option to play the campaign cooperatively. Whoever plays Halo alone is not going to experience what Halo is really all about. If Halo really sucked that much, why is it still the most popular basement-garage-livingroom-get-together-and-order-pizza-and-each-chips-social-event-LAN-FPS console game? Halo is all about multiplayer and socializing. I'm getting HL2 and Halo 2, but I'll probably play Halo 2 10x as much as Half-life 2. And as far as Dextrox's comment about FPS belonging on PC, I disagree. I can't play PC FPS games well at all due to carpal tunnel symdome and just plain having horrible wrist accuracy. FPS on console solves this problem for me

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Bionic Monkey

Yeah, I just have horrible accuracy on PC FPS games. That, and my system just isn't good enough to be a gaming rig. I'll be picking up my copy of Halo 2 Monday night at midnight. I'll probably give HL2 a try when they port it to Xbox though.

Jakes

HL2 becaue the it just rocks and i started playing the original HL game in 99 when some friends of mine told me about it gave me a copy and i was hooked. It was the first and bestever. Look how long people played the orignal game and how long counter-strike has lasted with out being re-release as a new game. All the different spin off games that were created by people all over the net like blue shift where you were barney the security guard and team fortress another multiplayer game as well as all the ones created and not sold but shared for free on the net.

Google search results of "half life 2" vs. "halo 2"

Half life 2 2,810,000
Halo 2 2,270.000

Half Life is the clear winner

blar

HL2 and halo 2 but i will first get HL2 then halo 2 early jan or something

omega2K4

Both. And Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines. And Pirates!. And Ghost Recon 2.

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MooseMan3000

Two things. You know Blue Shift was a first party expansion, right?

And you know Team Fortress came out WAY before Half Life, as a mod for Quake (the original), right?

No, you didn't know that? Oops.



Not to mention that the number of times something comes up on webpages is by no means a representation of how good it is. Example? Google "Britney Spears."

nothingx

I played Halo for the first time on the PC two years after it came out and I still thought it was awesome. Sure, by then the graphics weren't that great and certain parts were less revolutionary, but the game play was still very good. It's a cool story just like the original Halflife was. I look forward to playing Halo2 also, but since I don't own an XBOX, I'll probably be waiting a couple more years before I get to play it.

I'm also eagerly awaiting HL2. Gimme both.

NavySEAL

Both. I've ordered Gold on steam four weeks ago and I'm going to get Halo 2 on tuesday.

Mr.Deflok

Since Half Life 2 has 'half life' in it's search term and the first game has been out since 99, I think Halo is the winner in that category since it's been out for a lesser amount of time and has nearly the same amount of sites.

Not picking sides or anything.

Bionic Monkey

Don't hold your breath. Halo was ported to PC solely as a courtesy to Bungie since it was the game's original destination. Everything I've heard points to Halo 2 remaining Xbox exclusive forever.

goppers

Half Life 2 already has my money. Probably the only of the two games in the poll I'll play. Someone did mention Pirates! though...

Marcus_Aurelius

Half Life 2 all the way. But the game Im really excited about is VTM: Bloodlines.

nothingx

Well then I guess I'll just have to wait for an XBOX emulator. Still, its probably going to be two years from now.

Dengar

definetly half life 2. never did get into the halo craz even though i do think it is a great game. half life 2 will be revolutionary and quite awesomely spectacular.

Dilbert1234567

finaly some one agrees

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guthmund

I'll get Halo 2 because it's coming out on Tuesday.

For the PC I only really like to play strategy games, so, I probably won't pick up HL 2 until it's out on X-Box. I'm not some fucktard fanboy (love that phrase ) as I feel the same way about Doom 3, which all my friends say is fantastic, but I've yet to pick up.

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FrostSabre

you can add me to the HL2 camp.

halo was really not all that revolutionary to me for a number of reasons. first of all, take a look at the weapons -- what FPS DOESN'T have the standard weapons you see in halo? you've got your rocket launcher, your full auto rifle, your shotty, your sniper rifle, your pistol...all of the alien weapons were worthless enough that nobody ever used em. they may as well have just been excluded.

as was already mentioned, the level design was pretty repetetive, probably due to the limitations of the x-box hardware. keeping along that line, the best visuals you can get out of your TV are considerably worse than a run of the mill CRT monitor.

16 players in one game was also a big thing if i remember correctly. this was around the same time PC gamers were enjoying 60+ person tribes 2 games, with a greater variety of vehicles to play with at that.

personally, i think Halo is one of the most overrated games of all time, stemming from the fact that it brings gameplay many people are familiar with to the masses that wouldn't touch PC gaming with a ten foot pole for fear of being labelled dorky

that being said, i think Halo 2 actually does have the potential to innovate and be a good game, but i /know/ that HL2 is doing so, just because i follow it a lot more. So we'll see.

blitz.fenix

I liked Goldeneye SP much better than Halo singleplayer. But Halo's MP is top notch IMO. I beat Halo in 2 days on Normal the first time I played it. My main gripe is that it is so damned repetitive(environments) as has been brought up before. I just loved Half-Life in every aspect and I still haven't beat it because I suck at the last boss. I have already pre-ordered Half-Life 2 and my computer is complete garbage. I'm just goig to store my copy until I get a new comp.

molloby

Well, I say half life 2 for 2 reasons:

1. The modding potential that this game has is just awesome. I can't wait to see what people create. Plus the single player looks like it should be quite good too.

2. I don't own and don't want any kind of console.

Viros

I'll be getting both, probably Halo 2 first then HL2 some time down the road though I wont touch either one of them ever again after WOW comes out.

Mr.Deflok

Been playing Halo 2 for a few hours now and shit-damn-motherfuckers-from-mars! It is an incredible game! Co-op has never been so fun, damn I'm pissed that I have to work tomorrow... at a freakin' gamestore!!! But I've got a long weekend this week anyway, gonna be h-o-t.

Eight

HL2.

Two reason's - I dont have a xbox so not waiting for the PC version of Halo2 and I thought Halo1 one rubbish (not my kind of FPS).

Plus I got HL2 free lol

Coppertop

Blue Shift being created by Valve and Team Fortress having its origin years before Half-Life have nothing to do with their quality. They're both great add-ons for a game that is masterful in its own right.

Nice ad hominem though. You know that makes you look like a fanboy, right? No, you didn't know that? Oops.