Poll: Halo or Half-life?

[cyrad]

I admit I never played Halo's first player, so I have to rely on what others say. Judging from what they say, Halo's a flashy, overrated average FPS with decent multiplayer.

Valve, however, are very well known for their deep game design philosphy. They are so dedicated to it that they even give commentary to explain their game design choices.

HalfLife also has an interesting way of doing cutscenes and storytelling that completely immerses you into it.

I think it also helps Halflife's case is that Valve focused on making it an excellent single player experience whereas Halo is split between single and multiplayer. While it's possible to have both an excellent multiplayer and single player (as Goldeneye proved to us), I think the centralized focus on single player gives Halflife series an edge. Plus, I respect Valve's decision to do that, considering they then turned to focus on giving an excellent multiplayer experience, which resulted in Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead.

 

[Kstreitenfeld]

Half-Life.... Does this even need to be asked?

 

[Kstreitenfeld]

Control
Half-life: Standard controls
Halo: Standard controls, but on a console controller, so better.
Winner: Both

That is your personal opinion that console controls are better, I and many others prefer Mouse + Keyboard for FPS games.

I know I'm just nitpicking but I felt the need to point that out.

 

[Kstreitenfeld]

I wouldn't judges Half-Life's multiplayer from just it. The mods people have made from the Half-Life engines have wasted many hours of my life.

The original Counter Strike comes to mind, and a personal favorite, Natural Selection.

 

[IsoNeko]

deathmatch doesnt have many 9 Year old screaming at you as halo seeing as its on the PC and most Nine year olds have that kind of money to get a decent gaming rig XD.

Agree, except some mods. Often there is a "stupid evil" minge in Gmod. I was a good minge, I stayed offline until I actually knew what I was doing.

Comparing the series of Halo to Half-life:

Story
Halo: Aliens are evil. Kill them. You are a super badass. Big rings shoot lasers that blow up the universe. Parasitic alien zombies absorb everyone and robots want to kill everything. Kill they ass before they kill your ass (And everyone elses)
Half-life: You are a d00d trying to escape a portal experiment gone wrong and disappear. Years later, you suddenly reappear to fight in a rebellion.
Winner: Half-life(Even if I didn't give details for it, I know the Halo story!)

Control
Half-life: Standard controls
Halo: Standard controls, but on a console controller, so better.
Winner: Both

Linear
Halo: Shoot things, drive, get to the next level.
Half-life: Shoot things, drive, find out where to go, get to next area.
Winner: Not much to judge from

Mods isn't even a category because mods are modifications that don't actually involve in-game parametres.

Multiplayer -
Halo: Play with friends, Play Custom Games, Matchmaking, Forge. Have a pleasent experience with your best friends.
Half Life: (Ignoring lack of inbuilt multiplayer). Custom games with friends, modding with friends, or playing with randoms.
Winner: Neither

Overall Winner: Half-life.

Both are good, Half-life is better, this post is too long.

Fix'd

 

[Amaurus]

Half life 2, unbeatable physics engine for the freaking win!

 

[Quadtrix]

Half-Life by far.

 

[MrSnugglesworth]

On this forum, Halo would never EVER win.

 

[boomer___2312]

half-life no questions asked

 

[IamQ]

Neither. Never played any of them, and none of them seem appealing.

 

[dukethepcdr]

The two games aren't even in the same league as each other. Might as well ask "Pong or Mario Tennis?"

 

[Kellerb]

oh god, whoever chooses halo: battle of easy accessibility over half life must be removed.

 

[Skeleon]

Uhm, Half-Life of course.
It's immersive and full of interesting twists (like scientists being dragged into ventilation shafts or when the soldiers come in for the first time...).

Halo may be full of action but it is extremely repetitive, the graphics were severely overrated/-hyped and, well, it wasn't immersive at all.
I can understand people enjoying the game (I didn't) but if compared to Half-Life...
Well.

 

[TheRockNRolla]

If both were in mortal danger and I could only save one from certain doom, I'd save Half-Life every time.

 

[tsunamibomb]

i enjoyed both. but half life 2 is, for me, miles ahead on nearly every front (well, single player wise) i constantly go back and play through the whole of the half life games on quite a regular basis, where as i very rarely go back to the halo campaigns.

 

[irrelevantnugget]

Halo for me, but I honestly don't see why it must be such a civil war.
Can't we just like both?

Or neither.

 

[RAWKSTAR]

Hahahahahahahalflife.

 

[Overlord Moo]

I think the Half-Life series (especially Half-Life 2) is the most overated franchise in video games. I had very little fun with the both 1 and 2 games.

I enjoyed Halo for what it was, mindless fun. I also thought Halo had fun multiplayer where Half-Life's multiplayer sucked.


I'm not suprised by the results though, it is fashionable to hate Halo.

SILENCE, BLASPHEMER!!!!

 

[Scarecrow38]

Halo was a fun game, with a story (although it sucked at story-telling). Half Life was a brilliant game in terms of AI, plot and immersion (lack of cutscenes was good).

Halo wasn't a bad game it was actually pretty good, it just wasn't the perfect game it is lorded as. Half Life isn't perfect either, with the combat seeming a little... slow (for want of a better word, hopefully you kinda know what I mean).

That said, half life is still the best series of games I've ever played in the FPS genre.