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bouzane on 05 July 2012
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d21lewis said:
bouzane said:
A couple things OP. Halo was never king, Half-Life was always more popular. Also, even though CoD is getting milked to death it is still better than Halo.


Amongst PC gamers, maybe.  Half Life was released for the Dreamcast (not in the US) and the PS2 and nobody even raised an eyebrow.  The Orange Box was a great game but that didn't set the world on fire, either.  And Half-Life is a single player game.  Halo became a juggernaut due to its multi-player and eventually, its online. 

As for Call of Duty being better, it's a matter of opinion.  It's definitely more popular now, though.


There is no invisible wall between gaming platforms. Half-Life is the more popular franchise in terms of unit sales per title. Half-Life was never released for the Dreamcast. Nobody cared about the PS2 version of Half-Life largely due to the fact that the PC version was much better in almost every regard. If we are going to talk about multiplayer FPS then I can simply bring up the king of that genre, Counter-Strike. The original Counter-Strike has sold considerably more copies than even Halo 3, the most popular Halo game. CS 1.6 (excluding Source) sold more than 1 million copies through Steam (excluding retail) last year. The only FPS to ever exceed the sales and success of CS 1.6 are the latest Call of Duty games. Halo was never the most popular FPS series and it most certainly isn't even close now-a-days.