Half-Life.

My vote Half-Life. As for what I would like to see in the future from that series. I dunno how about a little something called Half- Life 2 Episode 3.

@ Covah, sooooo are you voting for either? I find vague comments overrated. Do you realize that they make it really hard on me when tallying votes . . .

Half Life

Half-Life for the love of God...No disrespect to Halo, but come on.

Half Life, Half Life, Half Life, a million times Half Life.

Half-Life has been consistently stronger. I love the original Halo, but the Half-Life series has been better all around.

Half Life gets my vote.

I feel sorry for Half Life 1 for saying this, but my vote goes to Halo.

I just couldn't get into Half Life 2. Partially because Barnacles scare the shit out of me.

I played Halo more, but I enjoyed Half-Life 2 way more in the time that I played it. So my vote goes to Half-Life 2.

BQ3: The gravity gun and dual wielding energy swords. Because they allowed a certain level of creativity killing enemies with.

Also, can I choose MGS ahead of time?

Half Life.

While I enjoy both, this is a no-brainer for me.

Half Life

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!

Half Life 2 Episode 3, hopefully Valve's next game after Left 4 Dead 2

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

Bigger battles in campaign mode.

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

Favorite: Gravity Gun for Half Life and Gravity Hammer for Halo (mm, gravity weapons)

Least favorite: Can't think of anything for Half Life, sub-machine guns for Halo

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

The Striders in Half Life 2 and the Scarabs in Halo are always fun to fight.

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

Half Life: The end of Episode 2. Halo: Not sure actually.

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

Half Life: The forest in Episode 2, just cause it's open and your driving around in a jeep the whole time. Halo: In Halo 3, the end of the Covenant level where you just obliterate the remaining Covenant forces.

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

Half Life: Try to release them sooner lol (but not to the extent of rushing them.) Halo: Give the Arbiter more attention in Halo 3's story. Seriously, he's a major character in Halo 2, yet they nearly dropped him completely in Halo 3.

I still play halo multiplayer constantly. I got ODST immediately. Will buy reach day 1. Haven't played half life since I got the orange box and played through it in a week. But half-life gets my vote. Better story, better immersion, more emotion, better weapons. Now back to team swat....

Easy, Half Life.

Half Life.

Half-Life.

This is going to be a freaking bloodbath.

I vote for Halo, since I personally prefer it more than the Half-Life series, as much as I respect it.

The Half Life series, while only composed of 2.66 or so games, and Blue Shift and Opposing Force, the Half Life series is a much better series in my opinion.

BONUS QUESTIONS:

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!

I just want to see more of the background. Maybe an episode or side story featuring the War where Humanity fell.

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

The halo series always had the most epic battles. Half Life has its fair share, but nothing quite comes close to the moments in halo when youre fighting alongside a large contingent of other soldiers.

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

Gravity Gun is the king of weapons, but the combine assault rife was innaccurate and underused (its alt fire was amazing). I've always loved the Magnum in Halo, but everything else feels so generic or underpowered.

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

I like the combine soldiers as theyre still a bit mysterious even after the games, but I dont like the Vortegaunts from HL1, because I know theyre actually good guys, and just enslaved.

Brutes are a pain in the ass, but jeez the damn grunts are just there to annoy you.

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

*Spoilers*Watching Alyx get stabbed and the moment at the end of HL2: Ep2 was tough to watch, as the HL series actually makes you care about those characters *End Ssoilers*

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

I love the entire Black Mesa facility. It took corridor shooter to a whole new level.
As for Halo, The Nature Preserve level in New Mumbasa in ODST was a lot of fun.

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

I would have actually had the HL episodes designed to come out episodically, instead of once every 3 years. Seriously.
As for Halo, well, I would have taken more time. Halo 2 felt rushed and 3 suffered for it. The Halo series became so generic and formulaic after the first game. Half Life completely reinvents itself for each expansion and episode (taking you out of the city, putting you in a soldiers shoes and changing the gameplay style a bit).

I'm probably in the minority by far, but Halo.

I have an excuse though! For some reason, playing Half-Life (1 and 2) makes me violently motion sick. It's the only game I've ever encountered that does it, not even other Source engine games do it, nor other intense motion games like Mirror's Edge or racing games.

Halo wins by default for me, since it doesn't make me throw up if I play for more than 20 minutes.

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!