Poll: Halo or Half-life?
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Half Life. You don't get uneducated twats screaming in multiplayer.
It also seems to have a story, and a likeable main character.
It also seems to have a story, and a likeable main character.
Depends on which game you mean.
If it are the originals, then Halo.
Sequels, then Half Life.
The original Half Life had no story. Well, other than "shit went wrong, are you a bad enough dude to survive?" Which, IIRC was the plot of just about every FPS released at that time.
If it are the originals, then Halo.
Sequels, then Half Life.
The original Half Life had no story. Well, other than "shit went wrong, are you a bad enough dude to survive?" Which, IIRC was the plot of just about every FPS released at that time.
You are right. Half Life is a legend in gaming history and Halo just some overrated mediocrity. Half Life get's my vote.D_987 said:
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Flour: The story of HL1 was a bit of a mystery. You find clues for it all over the place and it was a bit social-critic because of the government intervention and the black operation forces. Also I really liked how you find out all the secrets when you proceed trough the game, like the research done on Xen.
They're so different there's not a lot of benefit in comparing them. IMO, Half Life easily wins on single player and Halo easily wins on multiplayer.
There seems to be a strong anti-Halo and pro-Half-Life biases at The Escapist compared to the general population (based on general impressions from other game sites and sales figures). Possibly Escapians tend to favour interesting stories and single-player campaigns more than engaging play-physics and multiplayer matches. (By play-physics I mean things like the way the guns respond, the way the vehicles drive, the way the dedicated beat down button changes the flow of a fight and so on, not like the physics system often used in puzzles in Half Life.)
The vehicles are a good indicator of the games' personalities. The vehicles in Half Life 2 put you in the driver's seat, drive realistically and are perfect for traversing long distances through a linear campaign "corridor". The vehicles in Halo give you an arbitrary third-person perspective (favouring ease of play over realism), drive in an unrealistic but fun way and are perfect for swinging around a contained space like a multiplayer map.
There seems to be a strong anti-Halo and pro-Half-Life biases at The Escapist compared to the general population (based on general impressions from other game sites and sales figures). Possibly Escapians tend to favour interesting stories and single-player campaigns more than engaging play-physics and multiplayer matches. (By play-physics I mean things like the way the guns respond, the way the vehicles drive, the way the dedicated beat down button changes the flow of a fight and so on, not like the physics system often used in puzzles in Half Life.)
The vehicles are a good indicator of the games' personalities. The vehicles in Half Life 2 put you in the driver's seat, drive realistically and are perfect for traversing long distances through a linear campaign "corridor". The vehicles in Halo give you an arbitrary third-person perspective (favouring ease of play over realism), drive in an unrealistic but fun way and are perfect for swinging around a contained space like a multiplayer map.
Notice how the Halo boys keep bringing up the sales figures. Sales figures do not mean anything, as Valve only publishes their retail sales, Steam sales are kept secret. But Valve always hints that retail sales of their games are in fact the minority now.
No, not really. Halo presents many of it's aspects, at least the core story aspects clearly without holding many secrets either through the instruction booklets or the cut scenes. Further information and the extra detail can be found in the extended universe books however this detail is not needed to understand the story of the games, just like Star Wars and it's extended universe. You don't need the books to know that Darth Vader is Luke's father.DragunovHUN said:
Half-Life 2 on the other hand (I'm using number two as an example but I could use the first, I just don't want to) doesn't explain much. It starts with you on a train in what you are told is called city 17. You don't know why it is City 17 though. First thing you notice when you got off the train is the Combine. You aren't told who the Combine are or what their doing on Earth but you gather that they are jerks. Walking around a bit I picked up that they conquered Earth in a war called the seven hour war, I guess it lasted for seven hours but not much more detail is given about what happened to Earth, it's a mystery. The Combine themselves are pretty mysterious through out the game as well. Slowly different aspects are revealed but nothing is really explained about them, heck I had no idea that Metrocops are humans and how would I, nobody ever says it and with their gas masks that makes them look just like the other Combine. How was I supposed to know what they are? I consider knowing thy enemy to be an important part of a game, it gives me reason to want to fight them (or to not want to fight maybe) and explains to me why fighting them achieves something, Half-life 2 does neither of these and suffers because of it.
And then you have the G-Man. Nobody knows what he is, and maybe thats the whole point but having the most important character to the story also being the most mysterious is just plain stupid. You have Eli say he knows about the G-Man as well but that just adds more mystery. I have a feeling this stuff will be cleared up in the next episodes but it still gets rather annoying.
Half-Life 2 just leaves so many things unexplained, things I consider important motivation for me to play. The game places you on a linear path and expects you to walk forward without any real motivation while the Halo games always have a clear motivation for walking down that linear path. I still love HL2 but the story is not it's strong point.
Although you seem to be the fanboy sort that thinks someone must be stupid for having gripes with the poorly executed story and motivation in one of your favourite (or so I assume) games so I feel like this post has been rather a waste of time.
I just don't think you can sensibly argue that the Halo series is better than the Half-life series. I only speak for single-player of course.
