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Subject: half-life 2 episdoe two vs halo2vista
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Steam is NOT A reason to buy half life two. does it have a friends list and stuff? yeah. but it sucks.
Xfire for the win guys- supports ALL games, has voice chat, integrated CROSS GAME clan system, chatroom capability, one-click joining (even in games that use steam lmao) and they're even rolling out a basic stats system. NOT for 60 bucks a month and NOT requiring you to login to play games you paid for.
nuff said.

  • 04.22.2007 12:19 AM PDT

Thinking of something witty to write here since 2004...

There's no fee for Steam....

Plus HL2 Ep2 will alos have Portal. Do I need to explain the pure awesomeness of the portal gun? I thought not.

  • 04.22.2007 4:59 AM PDT
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Half life 2 Episode 2 Owns Halo 2 in almost every aspect.

The story is so well developed, The weapons are balanced, graphics are unbelievable. H2V won't have HDR. I heard someone say Halo 2 Had better AI. And they must have just crawled from underneath a rock. Half-Life 2 has some of the best AI in game history. Halo 2 is epic fail.

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  • 04.22.2007 10:57 AM PDT
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Video is non-conclusive. It simply doesn't make any sense to compare these 2 games in aspects such as graphics and game play. Complete waste of time.

  • 04.22.2007 12:06 PM PDT

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There's no fee for Steam....

Plus HL2 Ep2 will alos have Portal. Do I need to explain the pure awesomeness of the portal gun? I thought not.


f.uck a portal gun!!!
nuff said!

  • 04.22.2007 12:20 PM PDT

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Posted by: The Crestomizer
Half life 2 Episode 2 Owns Halo 2 in almost every aspect.

The story is so well developed, The weapons are balanced, graphics are unbelievable. H2V won't have HDR. I heard someone say Halo 2 Had better AI. And they must have just crawled from underneath a rock. Half-Life 2 has some of the best AI in game history. Halo 2 is epic fail.


but i bet halo2 will have u comeing back for more.u know it

  • 04.22.2007 12:21 PM PDT
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Not too far. Halo2 kicks HL2's ass on the Xbox. On the PC, thats a new level. Halo is better, better story, cooler enemies, better charachters, weapons and vehicles, and a better Mutliplayer mode.

Plus, Graphics don't make a game, Gameplay does, Story too.

  • 04.22.2007 12:24 PM PDT
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C_Marvel and HalfJawArbiter, I think i can conclusivly draw that both of you have never played , or owned, Half Life 2. Graphics wise, Halo/Halo 2 isn't for realism, but a more bright cartoony look. Half Life 2 is strickingly realistic. The lighting affects in HL2 alone is pure awesomenes. Half Life 2 has a story that makes Halo/Halo 2's look plain, and unrealistic. does every single object in Halo 2 have an added weight, affect, and can be used as a weapon or defense? 'cooler enemies'? 'better Characters'? go play the game BEFORE making assumptions about a game. Half Life 2 has alot variety of spectacular enimies (both vissually and AI wise). Oh, and was the Halo 2 engine/mecanics used to make a bunch of other games, such as CSS, or Day of Defeat?
the weapons in Half Life 2 was great. I'd sometimes re-play a level just to see how to beat the level using one weapon. Gravity Gun, enough said.
please, actually PLAY the game before you start saying which is better.

  • 04.22.2007 12:52 PM PDT
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Guys, lets face it. Halo, and Half-life are two different games. Yes they are great. Yes they have their own HUGE fan bases. But in the end they are two different games geared to slightly different audiences. They are great in their own way, and bad also. Why doesn't Half-life have a forver recharging energy shield that lets you be almost invincible? WHy doesn't Halo have a gravity gun? BECAUSE THEY ARE DIFFERENT! You should stop complaining and just the games and enjoy it for what they are. One is a more intelligent game( you know the gravity gun. I love making barricades out of those), one is geared more for simple gameplay, sort of like CS. And i love them both.

Oh yeah if you are a Half-life fan, and had just bashed on H2V then what are you doing on bungie.com? GET OUTTA HERE! We don't need you here! but if your are a bungie fan, oh well.

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  • 04.22.2007 2:14 PM PDT
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Posted by: HalfJawArbiter
Not too far. Halo2 kicks HL2's ass on the Xbox. On the PC, thats a new level. Halo is better, better story, cooler enemies, better charachters, weapons and vehicles, and a better Mutliplayer mode.

Plus, Graphics don't make a game, Gameplay does, Story too.
Yeah, and Half-Life 2 beats Halo 2 there as well.
Posted by: c_marvel360
\f.uck a portal gun!!!
nuff said!
You obviously don't understand the significance of Portal and how it can revolutionize the way people see physics in-game.
Posted by: The Crestomizer
Half life 2 Episode 2 Owns Halo 2 in almost every aspect.

The story is so well developed, The weapons are balanced, graphics are unbelievable. H2V won't have HDR. I heard someone say Halo 2 Had better AI. And they must have just crawled from underneath a rock. Half-Life 2 has some of the best AI in game history.
Amen.

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Half life 2 on the Xbox sucks, so Halo wins. PC, (graphicly) at least...Half life by far.

  • 04.22.2007 4:30 PM PDT
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Posted by: HalfJawArbiter
Half life 2 on the Xbox sucks
Perhaps it looks uglier, and maybe some features have been removed, but many people still consider it the same stellar shooter that was originally on the PC. And I can't say this since Halo 2 or Episode 2 hasn't been released yet, but I'm willing to bet Half-Life 2 (Episode 2) is going to be the better game. Graphically, game play and storyline-wise.

  • 04.22.2007 4:57 PM PDT
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Posted by: The Crestomizer
Half-Life 2 has some of the best AI in game history.

Comparable only to the first. There is something about having a game made in 1998 with AI that actually works together and enemies that will try to flush you out with grenades that make you wonder why many games NOW don't do that.

Time for rambling.

1.) VALVe practically CREATED what is the modern FPS game with the original Half-Life, they took the idea behind Doom, and refined it to a point where it was something completely new. Instead of simply shooting and running, you were an actor, your presence really affecting everything around you. Nothing about that changed in HL2, in fact, it was improved.

2.) Innovation. The Zero-Point Energy Manipulator is one of the best weapons of all time, look how quickly it was duplicated for Doom3, there is your evidence. I don't think any other game EVER has managed to make physics puzzles fun.

3.) A story that is absolutely immense. Not only can you ignore it all together and the game still makes sense, but it is huge. Play Half-Life, then Half-Life 2 and then play Half-Life again. I compare it to reading Homer, you need to actually THINK.

4.) Technology. The Source engine is an achievement to be noted for years, it is impressive in so many ways, with lip syncing, panoramic animation blending, and it's heavily improved Havoc physics and scalability.

5.) Mods. VALVe heavily supports the modding community, and there is some seriously impressive stuff out there, like Garry's Mod and Dystopia, both of which can be sold as individual games, and Garry's Mod is actually being SOLD it is so popular.

Now let's throw Portal and TF2 into the mix, which comes FREE with Episode two.

Portal is a game who's team was a couple of students at Digipen Institute of Technology who came up with a game that grabbed VALVe's attention and the team was hired to make Portal, a first-person puzzle game centered around the Half-Life world. Watch the trailer, be blown away.

Team Fortress 2 needs no explanation, but for those who have lived under a rock the past nine years, go here and here.

  • 04.22.2007 5:09 PM PDT

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Half Life 2 > Halo 2

I have only played HL2 once, but I prfered it, so I am sure HL2: Episode 2 is going to be better than Halo 2. I dont relly like Halo 2, it has too many "newbie" features like dual wielding, mass aim assist, boosting, rocket tracking, slow strafing, weak guns, etc.

I find it sort of funny how the MJOLNIR Mk V looks identical (in shape) to the Mk V suit in Halflife, lol. Also, Halflife used "7s" first...and the

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  • 04.22.2007 5:35 PM PDT
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Posted by: MLG Cheehwawa
Half Life 2 > Halo 2

I have only played HL2 once, but I prfered it, so I am sure HL2: Episode 2 is going to be better than Halo 2. I dont relly like Halo 2, it has too many "newbie" features like dual wielding, mass aim assist, boosting, rocket tracking, slow strafing, weak guns, etc.

I find it sort of funny how the MJOLNIR Mk V looks identical (in shape) to the Mk V suit in Halflife, lol. Also, Halflife used "7s" first...and the
And the what?

Halo borrows many things from Half-Life. When I first playd Halo, I was like, "Hmm... xenomorphic arthropod-like creatures which latch onto your head to turn you into a zombie? Why does this seem so familiar?"

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Posted by: MLG Cheehwawa
Halflife used "7s" first


No, they used the Greek "lambda" symbol, which is used to represent the decay constant in the Half-Life equation.

BTW, a half-life is the time it takes for a nuclear substance to lose half of it's mass or energy due to radioactive decay. See? You learn things is physics, you learn it, you just don't understand much of it.

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Posted by: The Crestomizer
Half life 2 Episode 2 Owns Halo 2 in almost every aspect.

The story is so well developed, The weapons are balanced, graphics are unbelievable. H2V won't have HDR. I heard someone say Halo 2 Had better AI. And they must have just crawled from underneath a rock. Half-Life 2 has some of the best AI in game history. Halo 2 is epic fail.


1st of all... go back to 4chan you /b/tard.... ("epic fail" *rolls eyes*) Why the hell are you on a Halo forum if it's made of so much fail, huh? Is a little /b/tard trolling? You people are good for that....

2nd: You have a point w/ weapon balance... Halo2 does have a pretty bad flaw in that respect. However, I really don't find the HL2 weapons all that fun to use. The HL2 weapons bore me. Both the pistol and the shotgun sound like they're made of plastic... And, am I the only one who gets bored w/ the gravity gun after a while? Yeah, it's neat for a few hours and then.... meh.

3rd: Well devloped story? My ass... The only story I can get out of the Half-Life series is that some alien things are attacking and they jump on your head. And some guy's w/ helmets are shooting you, and that the main character is a nerd. Honestly, I think Half-Life has a rather weak, and fleshless storyline. Either that, or I'm missing something... Halo on the other hand, has a wide open, simplistic, yet detailed story. Granted, it's not groundbreakingly profound, but at least you're not playing a game wondering what the hell is going on (like I did w/ Half-Life and Half-Life 2). That, and it has 4 novels and a Graphic Novel as canonized back story. Halo's story is simple enough, yet fleshed out really well. And, personally, I hate the "cut scenes" in Half-Life 2. I don't enjoy being stuck in a room while people talk for 5 minutes... On the other hand, you can skip a cutscene in Halo if you wanna move on...

4th: Some of the best AI in game history? That's funny... obviously you've never played F.E.A.R. if you think that's good AI. WooHoo! Half-Life2's AI can throw things, shot at you, take cover, and DIE! That's great AI there. I honestly think that both HL2 and Halo2 have fairly good AI, but neither are particularly amazing... And, now that I think of it, F.E.A.R. is better than Half-Life 2... I had more fun w/ it, at least...

5th: Go back to /b/...

  • 04.22.2007 7:27 PM PDT
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Ok, Dickman.

1.) Clam down, this is a discussion, not a flame war.

2.) I don't agree with your arguments.

3.) The way you worded that, you are making yourself seem more fit for 4chan then he is, try to cut down on looking at uncyclopedia too much.

  • 04.22.2007 8:15 PM PDT
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Another idiot...

This stuff really, really pisses me off. First off, actually look at how things look in Half Life 2. Have you ever noticed, even though that the lighting is more dynamic in Half Life 2, that Halo 2 has a much more well done look to it? It looks extremely good for the type of look it's going for. Half Life 2 is simple graphics are just so simple. Again, for realism, you're going to want to go with Halo Life 2, but for an overall good color scheme and stuff, I'd say Halo 2 does well.

A more appropriate game to compare Half Life 2 with is Call of Duty 2. They're both aimed for realism, and you can actually compare the games.

Also, any video that tries to reason by saying "AMAZING!" or "WOW," I totally ignore. This guy's -blam!-tarded.

  • 04.23.2007 4:43 AM PDT
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Posted by: MLG Cheehwawa
Halflife used "7s" first


No, they used the Greek "lambda" symbol, which is used to represent the decay constant in the Half-Life equation.

BTW, a half-life is the time it takes for a nuclear substance to lose half of it's mass or energy due to radioactive decay.
Doesn't everybody already know this?

  • 04.23.2007 11:49 AM PDT
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How i have to say you?
HALO RULEZ!!! theres no a game in the universe that can beat halo. Why nobody understand it?

  • 04.23.2007 12:03 PM PDT
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Posted by: Krokgard
How i have to say you?
HALO RULEZ!!! theres no a game in the universe that can beat halo. Why nobody understand it?
Okay, coming from someone who is having some trouble with grammar, that means nothing. Half-Life > Halo.

  • 04.23.2007 12:34 PM PDT
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Assuming that:
x = Halo 2 Vista,
y = Half-Life 2 Episode 2
p = the number of people who actually care which one is better

According to Minkowski's and Kolgomorov's inequalies,

if x,y,z > 0, and xp + yp > 1

then (x + y)z + (x + z)y + (y + z)x > 2 and (x + y)p < xp + yp.

The only logical conclusion: Crysis most likely comes out Q3 2007.

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  • 04.23.2007 1:03 PM PDT
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Posted by: Bungie Jumping
Assuming that: x = Halo 2 Vista,
y = Half-Life 2 Episode 2
p = the number of people who actually care which one is better

According to Minkowski's and Kolgomorov's inequalies,

if x,y,z > 0, and xp + yp > 1

then (x + y)z + (x + z)y + (y + z)x > 2 and (x + y)p < xp + yp.

The only logical conclusion: Crysis most likely comes out Q3 2007.
God that is too far away!

  • 04.23.2007 1:06 PM PDT
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Posted by: Master Kim
God that is too far away!


Ain't that the truth. I have a feeling Crysis will blow the socks off both Halo 2 Vista and Half-life 2 Episode 2. Though one obvious reason is that it does suppourt DX10...

  • 04.23.2007 1:11 PM PDT

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