Saying the half-life series suck or in this particular example half-life 2 only is saying you don't like to breath air.

 Yes, im dead serious.

Thank you, you understand opinion

Also i think in terms of hardcore gamers, and people who constantly get on forums etc orange box is majorily a good game and better then halo

In my town, my friends etc who are not hardcore gamers you can bet halo is alot better, and alot of people have not even heard of the orange box.

Overall you cannot say which game is better, its ALL opinion

Never did i say that, just i think halo is superior

and yes im still breathing air

 Well I disagree that the "story-telling" aspects are poor. How they tell the story is very well done and usually non-obtrusive for people not interested. I do agree the actual story being told is rubbish, which I don't hold against the game unless it insists on beating my over the head with it, something I felt they were getting close to with Episode 2.

I think the “physics” puzzles often get too much credit as well, when they’re almost all some variant of the same tired teeter-totter routine. Like someone else said, they’re not “puzzling” just a chore. When it’s not them it’s making stepping stones on something you can’t walk on, or just clearing junk out of your way. It felt like to me a generally uninspired execution to a genuinely inspired idea.

I think the original poster makes some decent points, which is odd when he goes on to claim the Halo series is flawless. A series I have a far longer list of issues with, the pacing being one of Halo 3’s biggest problems. By pacing I mean most everything, difficulty, story-telling, and general action and movement. It was like no one ever knew where the hell they were going with any of this.

And what is it with the charging flashlights? Three different series all embrace that idiotic concept. Why? Let’s a generally useful ability have to stop and pause for a few seconds every now and then. Such a novel idea, especially when real flashlights just running on ordinary batteries last for hours at a time. =P

I agree, its average at best. I have it for PC.

BrainBox, do you have any idea what pacing is? Did you play the game on easy? Did you bother to up the difficulty? Were you playing 4 player co-op?

Half-Life 2 is the best FPS ever made.

GTFO

Shouldn't you be playing Mario and Sonic?

 I did it on Heroic with a friend. Then later on Legendary. You'll be locked in a room with twelve brutes at one point, then slaughtering halls of wimps the next. You'll have to face a tank guarded by turrets and choppers in one chapter, and be nuking every moving thing with your own tank in another.

The difficulty spikes and slopes in Halo 3 are absurd and constant. Every instance is usually a different battle difficulty wise and they're not arranged in particular fashion to create any sort of build to anything else.

 Ahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahah *gigglesnort*