So I go back and play HALF LIFE 2

[vlad321]

ZenfoldorVGI said:

vlad321 said:

Best single-player FPS in existance still.

There is just so much you do in it, you can't really compare it. It's just the pacing. You use boats, buggies, gravity. You fight off hordes of zombies and you drag around baddies like a rag. You annihilate dozens of War of the World look alikes and more. It's the pacing that makes this the best, and it's hard to beat.


As for COD4's campaign. Weak, that's all I have to say.

You think CoD4's campaign was weak?

Wow....

Your credibility just took a huge nosedive in my eyes. The only real weakness in that campaign was its length. The difficulty was well balanced, the levels were inventive and varied, and the gameplay was fun and cinematic. If you think that game's campaign was weak, then I can only count on you for two things. Saying AAA PC related games are great, and rolling a lucky 8 ball for all other multiplatform reviews.

You understand what I'm telling you, I hope. If you can say the campaign in CoD4 sucked, then I can't really trust your opinions on any other game. Sure, most people have fluke/wrong opinions on a few games that they either never experienced correctly, or when something just stuck in their craw wrong. But something like this, is so opposite from my, and the accepted tastes of most gamers, that it calls in to question the basic credibility of your opinion.

Like the guy who told me that he didn't really like Zelda, the other day.

If that guy tells me that....Bayonetta sucks, or if that guy tells me that FFXIII was boring....can I ever really believe him? Or would it not be better for me to believe the opposite of him, since our tastes are so entirely different.

There is no 4 hours length of time in Half-Life 2, that's as good as the rather concentrated and well paced campaign in CoD4. That's my opinion, however I still think HL2 is probably the better game due to its runtime amongst other factors.

I certainly don't think EITHER of them suck. If I did, you shouldn't trust my opinion, because I would be either wrong, ignorant, or biased.

Might as well tell me Deus Ex sucked, while you're at it, and concrete discreditation.

For the record, the COD4 campaign doesn't suck. I'm just saying it fell weakish, maybe because of the low runtime, maybe for osmehting else. It just felt underwhelming. I mean, the nuke for instane was a pretty cool I thought as well, and in retrosepct I can't believe I say it's weak, but I am still left with a weak feeling. Meanwhile HL2 left me with a very epic sorta feeling. I guess, in level 1 you see the Citadel, and you KNOW you will end up there and tear shit up, but never do you expect what happens, you know? Also keep in mind CoD was a PC franchise. Though it's one of the franchises I'd say went downhill when it went to consoles (liek deus ex, thief, etc.).

Also I'm looking forward to bayonetta, that has some SERIOUS style.

P.S. CoD started going down since CoD 3.