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BQ1. What are you hoping to see in the future from the series you voted for? Feel free to get very detailed and long-winded!

BQ2. Name one thing you like better about the series you didn't pick.

BQ3. What was your favorite and least weapon in each series? Why?

BQ4. What was your favorite and least favorite enemy monster/alien in each series. Why?

BQ5. What was the moment(s) in each series that emotionally affected you the most?

BQ6. What is your favorite level or environment in each series? Why?

BQ7. Pretend you were the creator of each series. What are some things you would have done differently?

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Halo.

I find Halo to be more fun than Half-Life. I respect the series but it doesn't do it for me.

And Half-Life 1 sucked ass.

Half life
this is going to be a slaughter

Half Life 2 was easily my favorite game of all time before the current gen consoles. Now it's, uh, Mega Man 2. See what I did there?

Hmm, a series that pretty much was the pinnacle of single-player FPS last generation and has managed to continue doing the same into this one or a game that brought tired PC concepts to an audience that purchased its knockoffs so voraciously that the original platform is being hurt as a result?

Half-Life, no question.

Halo 2 has the best multiplayer period.

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BQ3. What was your favorite and least weapon in each series? Why?

Button Comboes in Halo 2 should be considered a weapon. That martial art would be my favorite weapon in Halo 2.
Least favorite weapon is the post patch nerfed pistol...

BQ4. What was your favorite and least favorite enemy monster/alien in each series. Why?
Elites. <- Fav
Brutes <- Least They are like Elites but they have more hp. Its kinda stupid.


BQ5. What was the moment(s) in each series that emotionally affected you the most?
Halo 1 seeing the crazy marine with just random shit everywhere was pant-shitting-ly awesome and confusing.

BQ6. What is your favorite level or environment in each series? Why?
Headlong in Halo2 because it is an amazing map.

BQ7. Pretend you were the creator of each series. What are some things you would have done differently?

I would not have added brutes. I would have also kept button glitches in Halo 3... >.>

HALO:
Pros:
- Holy triad of guns, grenades, and melee
- Co-op campaign play
- Huge multiplayer commmunity
Cons:
- Much of said multiplayer community is made up of 12 year old morons
- Short campaign, some backtracking, repetition
- Halo Wars

HALF-LIFE
Pros:
- Excellent story, pacing, and characters
- Nice variety of environments and enemies
- Gravity Gun, D0G
Cons:
- Xen Borderworld from HL1
- Mute protagonist
- Un-milking the franchise. Episode 3 better be really, really good.

I love both games. The story in Half-Life is far better than that of Halo, but I've probably played through the Halo campaigns more simply because of co-op.

Half Life

It will be sad if half life does not win.

Halo, it had a bigger and better community (not necessarily internet one), more

people know it and its more user friendly.

Also co-op.

Half Life, easily.

BQ1. A release. Remember Chapter 3 Valve?

BQ2. The online multiplayer and co-op; I don't think it would work in the Half Life series, but I do enjoy it.

BQ3. I love the Sniper Bow in HL and the Energy Sword in Halo; I hated the pistol in HL and I've never taken to the Needler in Halo.

BQ4. Alyx Vance was awesome, and the grunts in Halo were a pleasure. No one in Half Life particularly annoyed me; Halo, there's far too many uninteresting characters. Cortana's mental freakouts in 3 probably took the cake though.

BQ5. I haven't played all the HL2 Chapters yet, but I really enjoyed the ending to HL2. In Halo, moments in multiplayer really got me excited.

BQ6. Ravenholm was awesome. As was Blood Gulch.

BQ7. I probably would've tried to make Half Life 2 a little more focused; driving, squad combat, shooting, and puzzles are all well and good, but I found that (by chapter one, at least) Valve was just repainting the experience. Physics puzzles began to annoy me, but they were never outright unpleasent. As far as Halo, I hate how stiff the characters are (physically and emotionally). I'd love to see better animations and better characterization and, hell, while I'm at it, a better (or at least more involving) story.

For some reason I could never get into Half-Life. I bought the Orange Box but that damn Team Fortress 2 kept begging me to play it. But $20 for TF2 alone is worth it. So yeah, I'm more of a multiplayer kind of person. Co-op & competitive multiplayer is what I live for.

My vote is for Halo. It may not be the best game in the world, or even the genre, but the entire series was built around fun.

Half-Life for the Win! No contest at all.

BQ1. I hope in the future of the series (Episode 3), we will see a whole new array of enemies, vehicles, weapons, and maps that will take it to a new level. Better friendly AI and the inclusion of the AI director from Left 4 Dead will keep the game fresh every time i play it (Not that it already doesn't rock every time).

BQ2. Half Life has a perfect blend of story and gameplay that always kept me playing. From the amazing escape from Black Mesa to fighting in the streets of City 17 I have always felt like I was Gordan, a badass with a PHD not taking anyones shit.

BQ3. By far the Gravity Gun is my ultimate favorite weapon of any game. Being able to pick up random objects and hurl them at your enemies has never gotten old even to this day. Be it a sawblade cutting a zombie in half to a urinal bashed into a combines face... perfect.
My least favorite weapon in the series would be the Antlion Pheropod's. I never liked having to using antlions to kill my combine prey when I had a arsenal of weapons at my disposal.

BQ4. My favorite enemy would be the zombie. Everyone loves zombies and cutting them in half, then having that top half chase you down is so awesome. Least favorite monster would have to be the hound-eye's from Half Life 1, they were such a bitch to deal with and that noise they made when charging was really annoying.

BQ5. End of Episode 2... nuff said

BQ6. Ravenholm still to this day scares the crap out of me. Hearing those fast zombies climbing up the pipes to have a swipe at me always gets my heart pumping.

BQ7. I would of had Gordon Freeman tell Alyx to shut the fuck up. Damn that bitch wouldn't stop whining about her Dad. lol

Half-Life!!!!

Half life

Half-Life for me. The Half-Life games have always done a good job of sucking me in. Any time I have tried playing a Halo game, they failed to get me to play all of the way through. Just not that interesting to me, though they were kind of fun, but I have much more fun playing Half-Life 2.

Is this some kind of joke? Half-Life 2 is still, so many years after release, the finest thing to come out of video gaming since...

Ever?

HL2 is the winner hands down. Amazing games, every one of em, and the kind of company behind them to back it up.

Final words: I don't even think we have a competition here.

Half-Life

Half-Life was always ground-breaking at the time of release, nothing could hold a candle to it. Halo does well on the xbox; but on the PC Halo was not nearly as good as Half-Life. Respect both series; but when it comes to pure FPS goodness, Half-Life wins it.

As awesome as the half life games are halo just is more fun to play and the enemies are smarter. I know people will bring up alyx as an ai example and yeah that one ai was made really well know look at all the halo enemies and tell me they don't act and react on a whole way better than half life 2 enemies. Also I don't like how just because halo is known in the mainstream people just blatantly disregard all value it has. It would be the same as saying dark knight sucks because everyones seen it but mystery team is less well known so it must be better. Even if we can't view all these games in a void we should think about what the actual game is not the stream it's in.

LOL Half Life 1 could rape Halo 3 anyday because halo is hore.

this isn't even a fair fight with halo, when you start to talk about HL1 mods and Source mods halo is defenatly not even in the same ball park mainly because it isn't.

I could name hundreds of games that took ideas from HL one of them is Halo.


I could name 20 games that Halo inspired and none of them are worth playing.

BQ1 more games faster than 1 game every 4 or 8 years.

BQ2 That would be hard to do cause there is almost nothing, however I do like it that they ripped the save your coustom multiplayer mode from Perfect dark; makes it easyer to launch fun games right off the bat instead of having to fumble around options for 15 min

BQ3. fav is the rocket luancher that followed the mouse, least fav is all the wepons from HL1 that will not kill enemys in 1 hit to the head.

BQ4. love the head crab zombies they scare me, hate head crab zombies they scare me.

BQ5.probly when you go through the bad guys factory where he is harvesting people to make monsters and wepons of war

BQ6. most of HL1 cause it reminds me of halo but you con't blame them, you get lost easy, there is a huge clift of doom that you can fall off of, there are only one way to continue in a level and if you don't do it a bunch of marines will come down from a chopper/plane and kill you or bomb you *note your wepons are pea shooters*.

BQ7. I would have made the wepons of HL1 more like HL2 in the fact if you shoot some one in the head they die, you can site with the pistol, and the the machene gun actually kills the army people fast.

yeah if you ply HL1 it is very rougf around the edges, but you have to consider that fact that it was made before halo 1

I prefer Half-Life 2 much over Halo 2. The story of Half-Life 2 kinda just sucked me in and it had awesomely unique weapons to play with (looking at you gravity gun). I also just prefered the overall gameplay much more, Halo 2 was short and sweet though and I only really enjoyed a few levels out of Halo 2, mainly the earth levels.

BQ1: I'm hoping for an upgrade in graphics. I can do fine without the improvement however I would think it's about time for it since Half-Life 2 looks the same to me as HL2:Episode 2 does. I'd also like to see a little more guns rather than the same recycled ones, they're good and all, however I'd like to see some new ones. Oh, and I'd like to see a release date. =P

BQ2: Multiplayer was overall more fun on Halo 2 since HL2 had no multiplayer.

BQ3: Gravity Gun & Assasult Rifle or whatever the first machine gun is that launches esplosions, least favorite would probably be... Eh. I don't really dislike any weapons in HL2 however if I had to choose it would be the pistol because it's useless compared to the other weapons. "Why not the crowbar?" Well, cause it's a goddamn crowbar, that's why. As for Halo 2 it would be the plasma sword, you know you wanted to try that baby out since you saw it in Halo 1, and then we did get to, and it was awesome (and useful). Least favorite would be either be the plasma pistol or the needler. I loved the plasma pistol in the first Halo because I could charge it up and I would think it was cool, in Halo 2 it costs ammo to do so, weak. As for the needler, it looks awesome and all but it's I find it next to useless.

BQ4: Favorite in HL2 would probably be, well, the the normal zombies. Because they're so fun and easy to kill. Chop em in half, blow the headcrab off their heads, wrestle them with a crowbar, set them on fire and hear them wine about being alive. Least is the poison headcrabs and those guys who f^%#ing throw them. I HATE them with a passion. I'd hate Hunters too if it wasn't for them being so cool looking. Halo 2 I liked the elites flat out the most, hated the flood, like most people. Close behind the flood is brutes because they go berserker.

BQ5: Emotionally? Either the climax of HL2 or going into Ravenholm. "We don't go there anymore." "Don't go to Ravenholm!"...So you go to Ravenholm. Hey DOG your coming with me ri- Oh I see how it is. I'll just fend for myself then in this... Underpopulated town. Thanks lordy for Father Gregori, I'd feel lost without him. D: In Halo it was probably either the first time seeing the freaking flood via dead soldier headcam or the ending of Halo 2. Damn cliff hanger.

BQ6: In the entire series? Either Ravenholm or the ending of HL2 (people who have played you know exactly why), or using the antlion ball thing level. In Halo it would be the 2 city levels.

BQ7: Not much for HL2 besides the changes I brought up earlier. Graphics improvement and perhaps some new guns? In Halo I would have made a more proper introduction cinematic or level for Halo 3. Seriously, they explained nothing as to how the Chief ended up having to smash himself into earth. Maybe you could have started and learned the basics on the covenant ship he was on at the end of Halo 2 instead of in some forest after some cutscene.

Aaaand I can't think of any questions.

Half-Life 2 was one of the greatest games I ever played. I never felt any connection with the characters/world in Halo. Half-Life definitely gets my vote.

Half-Life is my favorite FPS as of right now, so it definitely takes the cake in this face-off. As to why... well, though the gameplay is linear with little replay value, much like Halo though, it offers segments where gameplay changes in various ways. Examples would be the Zombie town Ravenholm which interrupted the combine chase levels, both vehicle parts, the levels where you had some control over NPC allies, and then the final 2 levels which were just simply fun yet still a bit challenging to go through. Halo, however, offers more or less the same gameplay throughout. Halo 3 offered a few areas of varied gameplay though, adding in Scarab battles (One of my favorites) and then the Hornet attacks on one of the last levels. Other than that, rather repetitive.

BQ1: In the Half-Life series, I hope for a Half-Life 3 after Episode 3's release. After all, I doubt they'll stop there.

BQ2: Multiplayer seems a lot more fun in Halo 1/2/3 then what I've played of Half-Life and the other Valve variety of Multiplayer. The Scarab battles, again, I loved very much too.

BQ3: In the Half-Life series, my favorites would have to be the Gravity Gun(Duh, the focus of most gameplay after all) and the Rocket Launcher. The Half-Life 2 rocket launcher was fun to use against the larger enemies, what with the holming ability. Least favorite would be the Combine Assault Rifle, actually. Way too little ammo for my taste.

For Halo, favorite would be the Spartan Laser, least favorite the Halo 3 Plasma Pistol. Sure, both are pretty useless, but lasering someone is just fun.

BQ4: In Half-Life 2, favorite enemy was the Strider. The scripted events and just normal enemy AI combined quite well to create some very fun fights. Not to mention how various the combat is with them. HL2, it was mostly rooftop fights with rockets. EP1, you were chased down by one and then could kill it. EP2, you had to do tower defense against them. Next to the Striders is definitely the Helicopter, simply for the varying combat with them too. Least favorite... probably the Antlion Workers or whatever. Evil spitters.

Halo, Most favorite is the Scarabs, as said many times already. I just -love- giant destructible battles. Grunts get points for being obnoxiously hilarious too. Least favorite is the Drones. Just...annoying. Especially in the ODST Firefight.

BQ5: Eli Vance's death was very emotional. Most of Halo 2's cutscenes I loved too, especially near the beginning and end of the game.

BQ6: Half-Life 2's Citadel was breathtaking to me mainly because of my weird architectural mindset that's developed over the past few years of pursuing an architecture degree. Least favorite? Nova Prospekt. Just... Hated it and it's repetitiveness and also just going through the levels alone.

Halo's Covenant areas and also Forerunner constructs were awesome visuals to me. Especially loved High Charity and it's grand design. Ironically, my most hated environment in the game was a Forerunner-based level. Sacred Icon, from Halo 2, takes points for being my most hated level in the series. Repetitive and annoying. Quarantine Zone right after, however, I found fun.

BQ7: For Halo, I'd create a LOT more variety in enemies. Including more Covenant-based levels would be great, such as boarding another one of their ships. Another thing I would change would be increasing the frequency of Covenant/Flood battles throughout the later part of the series. Halo 1, there were many moments where you could sit back and watch Covenant and Flood tear each other apart. Didn't happen much, if at all, in later games. Unless you count the times where you PLAYED Covenant or had Flood as allies.

Half-Life... I would add more arsenal variation. Most guns I find uninteresting and useless. I'd also add more Xen-based enemies from Half-Life 1 into Half-Life 2, such as Bullsquids and Houndeyes. I'd also include a LOT of the cut concepts from Raising the Bar too, such as the various Synths, the Cremator, the Air Exchange, Child Factories, etc. A lot of cool concepts cut for time. Sad.

That's my opinion though. Enjoy reading!

Half-life

Episode 3 would be what i want in the future for this series. Come on wasn't it suppose to be shorter dev time for Episodes...geezzz. Anyway, Grav gun was my favorite weapon. Those dang headcrabs were my least favorite in that series just because they were annoying. I wouldn't change a thing if i was the developers. This game is close to perfect in my book. Can't wait to see how it ends. As for Halo i only played the 2nd and 3rd games. I enjoyed them but i found them to be nothing special. One thing it has over Half-life is Co-op. Which is a plus. But for single player action and story Half-life2 was a better game.