Okay, really, stop arguing about crosshairs.

Ok, time to clear the air.

First, there are alot of mods and such for HL2, but that's because HL2 is on PC, and the implifications of the interwebz let's you download mods, so let's not use that as a complaint.

Second, honestly, why the ♥♥♥♥ do you care about crosshairs? Does it really matter?

Third, Halo 3 is better then HL2. HL2 has last gen graphics, i dont know what the guy who said HL2 has better graphics was smoking, but he better keep off it. Also, HL2 has not that complex or amazing story. It's more convulted and in Zero Punctuation's words "Schizophernic". It's more just a dystopian future where alien things are killing people, and of course let's not forget about HL2's parasitic lifeforms, and avarage, while still good, story.

Also, PC tards seem to like bragging about their "rigs". My PC is pretty crappy, like 900 mhz and 7 years old....and my laptop, while still good (typin from it now) isn't quite a "gaming rig". So stop bragging about your "Alienware with Xeno Chips that has like 16 ghz and has some sort of cooling thing to prevent the CPU thing from turning to plasma". That's also a reason consoles are better. You don't need to check specs or buy expensive Xeno chips, every game on the Xbox 360 (for example) is made too run on your X360 (assuming it's not tampered with or anything) so you don't have to check specs, you KNOW it's going to work.

Better wrap it up before im simply bashing PC's.

Of course half life two has last gen graphics, it was made in like, 2003.

I LOVE people who attempt to say that Halo has a better story than half life.

First off, the halo books could have been written by a dead baby with downs.

Second off, dystopian future where alien things are killing people, and there's generic parasitic life-forms?

Holy ♥♥♥♥, y'know what that kinda sounds like to me?

HALO THREE.

The Half Life 2 story has NUANCE.

Y'know, that thing developed literature has?

Versus SHOOT KILL ALIEN OH WAIT THEY'RE FRIENDLY NOW SHOOT KILL OTHER ALIEN.

No one has mentioned their computer's specs in this thread, in fact YOU brought the topic up.

The gameplay of Hl2 far outweighs Halo 3 anyways.

Physics. HL2 had them four years ago. Halo had to wait for the third installment to even start approaching realism with them.

In half life 2, you could stack crates on top of each other to balance a seesaw to drive a hovercraft over a ramp to get it over a gap.

In Halo 3 you just go over a ramp in your jeep that STEERS like a hovercraft while a marine with downs (redundancy) stands in the back and shoots wildly into the air.

Ok, firstly the Halo story is alot more complex, Half Life is basically "Kill aliens, don't talk, end in CLIFFHANGERS and of course, get watched by a creepy pedofile with an odd voice."

Also, I was talking about PC tards in general, not in this forum.

Foo!

Cliffhangers!

A la halo 2!

Don't talk!

As in Master Chief, except for like ten words!

The GMan is not a creepy pedophile. His voice is odd because it's meant to sound computer generated.

See: Nuances.

Halo Story:

You are resurrected from <whatever>. See: Messiah complex.

You go kill aliens.

THAT'S THE ENTIRE HALO 1 PLOT.

Or, to go into more depth:

You get resureccted. You are on a ship. Aliens come on ship.<long endless corridors> You kill aliens. Ship crashes. <cue long driving sequence in hovercraft with wheels> <also retarded AI> <also long endless menial corridors that look exactly the same> You have to kill aliens to get to ship.
Oh noez, this improbably large structure has ZOMBIES on it.
<repetitive walking through identical hallways goes here>
Oh noez, this improbably large structure is a giant weapon.
<even more repetitive walking through identical hallways>

No worries, you can just blow it up.
But oh wait, there's seven more!

That leaves a good amount of room for a sequel, eh, Microsoft, you f***ing consumer ladies?

Halo 2: One alien switches sides.
That alien kills other aliens.
MC also kills aliens.

BAMCLIFFHANGER

Messiah complex? Ressurection? WTF?!? Do you even KNOW the story of Halo?

HL: Do grunt work in Black Mesa even though your MIT prof
Big warp thingy happens
Kill Aliens
Kill Big Alien
Thats it.

I have unfortunately enough played Halo 1 in its entirety.

Obviously you're too retarded to know the meaning of resurrection or messiah complex.

Bungie is obviously making a (probably) unconscious reference to Jesus in the way the hero character is introduced.

Half-life 2, by what Grif says reference to Jesus is that, when a marine sees you in Halo they go like "OMG!!1 IT'S TEH CHIEF!" and the story is too common, your the hero, do hero stuff. Unlike in Half-life 2, you feel much more like with the people around you, rather than feeling your the Messiah.

Ahem. To Half-Life having no story...Allow me to introduce you to my friend BLUE-SHIFT and OPPOSING FORCE. Yes! Remember those expansions? You play as Barney and Alan Shepherd! The story develops, leads to a sequel. Although you have to remember the first Half-Life is quite old. Back in the day, they didn't have stories unless it was an RPG or text adventure game. But if it was a random shoot em up like that, all it had in it was badassery and explosions. Honestly, are you people so idiotic? Have any of you beaten Doom? "After kicking all of the demons asses on Mars you're home - or are you? You climb up on the hill and look out to see the seas of hell" or something along those lines. Anyway, there were only three story sequences that were paragraphs long and were really only there to make you feel like a badass.

Later game developers caught on and started instilling story lines in their games slowly! And more, and more, and then here we are. Don't believe me? Look at Metroid for the NES and look at the later ones today. More villains, background, and all that fluff. Halo was still a random shoot em up in the first one with some story development and then Bungie started to put in more of the story.

Yeah Doom is cool, i have it on my 360 and in my pc.

But in my opinion, Halo3´s story is kind of boring, but multiplayer is cool ( Not enough cool to make it excelent)

Id say they are equally good actually, if I want a "GO KILL ALIENZEZ" ill play halo but if I want a more refined "Go save mankind from evil Aliens from Xen" ill play Half Life. But in the long run I would go Half Life 1-2>Halo 1 (havent tried the others but from both what I have seen and heard they're basically halo 1 with a new coat of paint)

HL was in a time where story's weren't needed. With HL2, you can't say theres no story. It's very intricate.

Halo has a story too. But it deals more with run and gun tactics, instead of story depth and character development. It's not that HL2 hasn't got run-and-gun, but it usually has an element of creativity to it.

I don't really think that mentioning Mods and Expansions is fair.
This is about Halo 3 and Half Life two.

Thus Grif mentioning Halo (the first one) and Shade mentioning Opposing Force has nothing to do with the discussion.

Actually, it does. Considering Opposing Force is part of the Half-Life story and Halo 3 is built off the first game you douche, they are related.

You're too fu­cking stupid to even use proper grammar or spelling, it figures you'd be on halo's side. The halo series has ZERO CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. ZERO. All people play it for is the multiplayer, because you can ask anyone and they will admit the SP sucks cock. But then, there's a hundred million mods for Hl2. Garrys mod for example. Makes multiplayer ♥♥♥♥ awesome.

Halo 3 has no mods at all really, and the graphics BARELY improve every time they make a sequel. Halo 2 was made around HL2, and halo 2's graphics suck massive horse cock.

t;dr? Gtfo, diehard fanboy. Learn to admit your game sucks.