Farsala said:
bouzane said:
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.
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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.
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I disagree with your popularity statement. Popularity does not mean sales. More people will know about Halo then Half life and counterstrike simply because of the media that Halo has spawned.
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Well, I most certainly disagree with your assertion that brand awareness is an important measure of popularity. Having millions more people playing CS 1.6, Half-Life and Half-Life 2 then even the best selling Halo is a clear indicator of which franchise is more popular. I may watch Red vs. Blue but I still play and enjoy Half-Life ten times as much as Halo. There are people who watch Red vs. Blue who never played a single match of Halo, how is that a good indicator of popularity? Additionally, consider the fact that we are discussing the period between the release of Half-Life and Modern Warfare (1998-2007). During this period Halo only achieved 6 million sales and Halo 2 8 million. If you combined these two titles you might have as many players as a single Valve game. Seriously, there is no comparison. Doom was king, then Half-Life and now Call of Duty.
