Poll: Half-Life 2 or FEAR?

[archcommus]

Half-Life 1 was my favorite game for pretty much forever, maybe still is. HL2 was also fantastic, but it disappointed me in a few ways in terms of lacking so many of the HL1 themes that I loved. Now I've completed FEAR twice and absolutely love it. Sometimes I think I like it better than HL2, especially since I'm replaying HL2 now and it just isn't giving me the same satisfaction that FEAR did.

So which did you prefer? Overall experience.

 

[dguy6789]

While Fear is good compared to the likes of Quake 4, it is nothing compared to Half Life 2. Fear had a creepyness to it that did make the game better, until you realized how predictable it was. You could always tell when something would happen in Fear. Also, you fight only a very small variety of enemies throughout the game, and can complete the game using the same tactic, over and over.

Hide behind corner, activate slowmo, snipe a few guys, go back behind corner, wait for slowmo to charge up, repeat.

Half Life 2, on the other hand, has comparable graphics to Fear, while at the same time running three to four times as well. Half Life 2 is also a much longer game than Fear, and offers a large variety of gameplay. You get your run and gun levels, your sneaky behind the corner combat, long driving sections, and all kinds of enemies ranging from little alien things to big alien things to enemy aircraft, to an entire assortment of enemy infantry. Half Life 2 had some memorable music in it, and the game just seemed to present a more believable world than Fear.

 

[Unkno]

HL2.

 

[JackBurton]

God damnit, I accidentally voted for HL2. I liked FEAR way better.

 

[BW86]

I'm going to have to go with HL2.

A way better story.

 

[Xyclone]

HL2

 

[Nyati13]

I voted HL2 for the story and length. But I have to say the AI in FEAR was great.

 

[Regs]

I equally loved them both.

I loved HL2's flow and atmosphere while I loved FEAR for making the enemy so fun to kill.

Same reason why I liked Resident Evil 4. They make killing the enemy fun, which all shooters should be! I'm not going to go in detail about HL2's weaponry and interactivity with the enemy, but they all died the same way. The guns in HL2 were simply...not unique enough. They all just varied in strength and hit points. How can a direct hit of a rocket launcher on a cyborg trooper have the same effect of hitting it at close range with the magnum? They all just make the same annoying radio sound while falling back into a wall. It's not even a question of AI, it's just how the weapons interacted with the environment and enemies. Fear surpassed HL2 by huge lengths in that department. HL2's interface seemed more artificial. I think FEAR set a new standard how all First Shooters should be in the future. If they made HL2 with FEARS phyics with interacting with the weapons and enemy, it would be without a doubt the best game ever made.

 

[Malak]

I will have to easily vote FEAR. While HL2 had better graphics, a better story, and a larger world to get involved in... it was boring. I didn't like the weapons at all. Overall it was not fun. FEAR, despite lacking in a few of the areas HL2 did well, is fun. I will trade a story and great graphics for fun anyday.

 

[LanceM]

I could barely finish FEAR... I just got sorta bored. HL2, on the other hand, is one of my favorite FPS titles ever.

 

[bamacre]

HL2 > Far Cry >>>> FEAR >>>>>>>>>>> Quake 4 >>>>>>>> Doom 3

 

[Powermoloch]

FEAR

 

[SpunkyJones]

I liked both very much, but would put HL2 above Fear.

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

easy question. HL2 hands down.

 

[archcommus]

Originally posted by: Malak
I will have to easily vote FEAR. While HL2 had better graphics, a better story, and a larger world to get involved in... it was boring. I didn't like the weapons at all. Overall it was not fun. FEAR, despite lacking in a few of the areas HL2 did well, is fun. I will trade a story and great graphics for fun anyday.

Exactly, FEAR was more just plain fun, and I'm surprised more people don't agree with that.

But how can you say the graphics in HL2 equal or are better than FEAR's? I think nothing out there looks better than FEAR right now, period. It looks amazing. HL2 definitely looks dated due to its lighting.

 

[TheVrolok]

FEAR has a very impressive AI, but I personally feel that HL2 dominates FEAR in every other category.

 

[archcommus]

I am surprised by these results.

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: archcommus
I am surprised by these results.

I'm not. HL2 was all-around, a better game. I liked FEAR, in fact I'm going back through it now.

But I imagine, some people did not like FEAR simply because it is so hardware demanding.

 

[JBT]

HL2 easily. I got FEAR Played it abit liked it then just havn't gotten into it again. I'm way to into multiplayer games so its difficult for single player games to really keep me attached.

 

[Malak]

Originally posted by: archcommus
how can you say the graphics in HL2 equal or are better than FEAR's? I think nothing out there looks better than FEAR right now, period. It looks amazing. HL2 definitely looks dated due to its lighting.

I have not seen anything in FEAR terribly impressive, compared to HL2.

 

[Busithoth]

FEAR was okay. HL2 was a lot of fun. There's criticisms for both, but I was smiling through most of HL2.
I thought FEAR was neat, but kind of boring. It ran like a benchmark more than anything else to me.

 

[archcommus]

Originally posted by: Malak

Originally posted by: archcommus
how can you say the graphics in HL2 equal or are better than FEAR's? I think nothing out there looks better than FEAR right now, period. It looks amazing. HL2 definitely looks dated due to its lighting.

I have not seen anything in FEAR terribly impressive, compared to HL2.

Pretty much every shadow, wall, texture, and model look significantly better to me in FEAR.

Let's put it this way - when I play FEAR in my dorm a crowd gathers around me. No such thing happens with HL2.

 

[Regs]

Originally posted by: archcommus
I am surprised by these results.

Half Life has a much bigger fan base with a predecessor or legacy behind it compared to FEAR which showed up out of no where. People were still talking about Chernobyl (vaporware) when this game was announced.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: Malak

Originally posted by: archcommus
how can you say the graphics in HL2 equal or are better than FEAR's? I think nothing out there looks better than FEAR right now, period. It looks amazing. HL2 definitely looks dated due to its lighting.

I have not seen anything in FEAR terribly impressive, compared to HL2.

what are you playing on?

HL2 looks really dated compared to FEAR . . . FEAR "effects" are 10 times better . . . as is the AI [100 times better]

that said, i liked HL2 better

 

[archcommus]

No one else notices the difference in pure fun factor with FEAR over HL2?