Author Topic: so my friend and i were arguing today... (Read 1692 times)

acepilot2 · « **on:** January 20, 2004, 06:27:19 PM »

about which game will be better

Half Life 2 or:

Halo 2.

I say half life 2. the game looks simply amazing. There is lots of new technology involved and it will have great action and a deep plot. I thought the original halo was overrated. What has seriously halo done that has not been done before? I am pretty young, so most of my friends said halo2. When i asked them if they knew what half life even was, they said they don't know:lol
most of the younger crowd hasn't played half life...so even if you are not young, don't say anything if you have not seen halo2 or half life 2 or have played the original games.

What do you think? you can just give a simple answer-halo2 or half life 2?

Chairboy · « **Reply #1 on:** January 20, 2004, 06:28:53 PM »

Half Life 2, just because of the new technology it introduces. I betcha it'll be a matter of months before other games start showing up built on the Half Life 2 engine, and THAT is why it will rock me like a hurricane.

I'm sure Halo 2 is going to be cool too, I just think that HL2 is going to have the most influence.

acepilot2 · « **Reply #2 on:** January 20, 2004, 06:36:10 PM »

here are some pics of HL2:

this pic shows a character from the original half life and his new look in half life 2:

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #3 on:** January 20, 2004, 06:49:39 PM »

Halo and HL were both outstanding games in their own right, but unless Halo is going to be developed with the PC in mind, as oppsed to an X-Box port, HL2 is winner by default.

acepilot2 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 20, 2004, 06:50:30 PM »

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Originally posted by Saurdaukar
Halo and HL were both outstanding games in their own right, but unless Halo is going to be developed with the PC in mind, as oppsed to an X-Box port, HL2 is winner by default.

No doubt that they will both rock. I just think half life will be better:D

The argument we were having eventually led to an argument about pcs and consoles. I took pcs side and he took console.
I said with the right hardware pcs have better graphics and are by default waaaaaaaayyyy more powerful than consoles.

He doesn't know alot about pcs-didn't know what I mean by "consoles have around 500 megahertz or so a pc has 2400."

I do love consoles...I just love pcs more cause I know what they are capable of..if all these console-defenders would just do research on why a pc is more powerful and more capable than a console they would change their mind

Chairboy · « **Reply #5 on:** January 20, 2004, 07:03:52 PM »

In todays age, consoles offer one thing: Consistency. You don't need to see if you have enough RAM or HD space, or if your video card is up to date, you just look and see 'Ah, this is an X-Box' and know that the game should play exactly as well on your machine as it does on any other.

When consoles come out, there's a brief window where they might have better graphics then a PC game, but that quickly expires. The X-Box comparison, for example, is easy to see. It's a 700mhz Celeron processor with a video card that might run Aces High II, or might not. It's borderline.

AKS\/\/ulfe · « **Reply #6 on:** January 20, 2004, 07:16:08 PM »

The thing Halo does that I don't think any other game has done to date (I think! I haven't played many FPS games) is that you can play the campaign with a friend in the same room on the same system.

Halo-2 will no doubt offer the same thing, but may otherwise be essentially the same thing as Halo.

Then again, the only thing Half-Life really had going for it was its well-developed story line. Can't say graphics, because at the time - UnReal had far better graphics than Half-Life, but Half-Life could be modded while UnReal couldn't.

Half-Life 2 will have to bring something more than just graphics to the table if its going to beat out its predecessor... like a longer and more involved story line with a plot thats atleast as good as the original. Yes, I know - it can be modded. But I don't buy games to wait a year or two until it finally has a worthwhile single player storyline... which will mean atleast a 150MB download (judging by Poke646, a mod for Half-Life).

Consoles I like for playing with friends in the same room (don't do LAN stuff).

PCs are good for games that don't allow that.
-SW

fd ski · « **Reply #7 on:** January 20, 2004, 07:16:57 PM »

I could never quite understand what the whole Helo deal was about. Played it a little, by the time it came out, graphics were no better then those of origian Unreal from 2-3 years earlier, game play nothing more then "you're in weird place with aliens shooting everything that moves" theme...

Mods is what made Half Life what it was and very original story line. HL2 looks quite fascinating, I hope they can reach same level of immersion.

Octavius · « **Reply #8 on:** January 20, 2004, 07:32:29 PM »

geez, just look at the water! I cant get over that quicktime movie of the different aspects of HL2... the stained glass, the water, the physics, ugh...

acepilot2 · « **Reply #9 on:** January 21, 2004, 04:24:46 PM »

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Originally posted by AKS\/\/ulfe
The thing Halo does that I don't think any other game has done to date (I think! I haven't played many FPS games) is that you can play the campaign with a friend in the same room on the same system.

That has been done before, many, many times...

Reschke · « **Reply #10 on:** January 21, 2004, 04:33:18 PM »

I won't play either of them as I now get seriously sick playing any FPS type games. Don't know what the deal is but this happened one other time when the very first Castle Wolfenstein game came out. Kind of relegates me to being a flight/driving/strategy type guy no matter what I want to do. Well other than playing Sports games on the Xbox.

Maniac · « **Reply #11 on:** January 21, 2004, 04:36:29 PM »

Halflife 2, hands down.

Cant wait for Day of Defeat for HL2...

And the original story will be fun to play too... Gonna buy it as soon as it hits the stores.

Chairboy · « **Reply #12 on:** January 21, 2004, 04:46:31 PM »

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Originally posted by Reschke
I won't play either of them as I now get seriously sick playing any FPS type games. Don't know what the deal is but this happened one other time when the very first Castle Wolfenstein game came out.

Since the first 3D Castle Wolfenstein (Wolfenstein 3D) game is considered the first real FPS, that means you haven't seen any FPSs since. Perhaps you might wish to investigate the current crop, you might be amazed. If you really haven't tried and FPS since 1991 or so, try the first Half Life. It's an older game, but the immersiveness in the single player game is amazing.

Maniac · « **Reply #13 on:** January 21, 2004, 05:41:54 PM »

That looks amazing Gscholz.

Bougth the ATI 9600 Pro 256 MB a month ago, will i have to upgrade again?

Maniac · « **Reply #14 on:** January 21, 2004, 05:43:29 PM »

Loved this one LoL! Hes getting OWNED