Name a more brutal mogging

>>714612995 (OP)
True, HALO 2 stood no chance.

>>714612995 (OP)
Halo 2 is a decent sequel to Halo 1.
Half-Life 2 doesn't even feel like it's connected to the original game 90% of the time.

>>714612995 (OP)
They are both good in their own ways and aim to do very different things. Why does either one need to be mogged by the other?

>>714612995 (OP)
>never played either
>hear about this “rivalry” for years
>decide to finally play through both series
Halo 2 was so much better it’s insane. The only things HL2 has over it are graphics (source engine has aged like fine wine) and the physics system.

>>714612995 (OP)
Halo vehicle sections >>>> Half-Life vehicle sections

>>714613328
>Half-Life 2 doesn't even feel like it's connected to the original game 90% of the time.


correct.
Half Life 2 is a soft reboot. Quake 2 is openly sequel in name only. Half Life 2 attempts to do some revision, by introduction characters who allegedly were in Half Life 1, however, fundamentally the Combine were not even hinted in Half Life 1, in fact at the end of that game it was implied that US army has conquered Zen as part of G-Mans 6d chess

>>714613880
I'd argue HL2 tells a more complete and satisfying story on its own.
Whereas Halo 2 got cut short and was released as only about two thirds of the story it was intended to be. (Halo 3 followed and completed it but with different writers and feels inconsistent with 2 in a lot of ways)

>>714613880
>>714613952
Agreed. Half-Life 2 had a very small spectacle, especially given that Call of Duty 2 and Rome: Total War had already come out. Additionally, Half-Life's insistence on not having cutscenes and its nonsensical dialogue lead to a much weaker storyline.

Halo 2 feels like space war. Half Life 2 does not feel like a rebellion against aliens, it's too Elder Scroll-ish (empty cities)

>>714614078
Not quite the same situation. Qauke 2 was going to be its own game called "Wor" but they were worried it wouldn't sell well so just slapped the "Quake 2" label on it. There have been subsequent attempts to connect them but at the end of the day it wasn't created with the intention of being a sequel, HL2 was.

>>714614332
I know, but Half Life 2 is also such a massive deviation that it feels like Half Life in name only.