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drivebymessiah
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I'm going to take this psuedo seriously for the fun of the thread.
I've only played through the original Halo (on pc), and enjoyed it quite a bit. But Half-life has a lot more compelling story, and characters, and environment. I'm talking though about half-life 2 and following episodes. I couldn't be fair saying Half-life in its entirety is superior in this way to the entire halo series since I have not played Halo 2 or 3. I don't own any kind of Xbox and the requirements for Halo 2 are pretty steep.
The training MC supposedly has may put the advantage in his court. But both MC and Gordon have really been doing nothing but fighting aliens and enemy soldiers in their most recent years and many would contend that combat experience outweighs training. Both have ample.
Considering the armor: MC's armor at a glance certainly seems more advanced. Being a prototype suit, hundreds of years into the future - with shields. But in gameplay, at 100 suit energy Gordon can pretty much hold on to a grenade while it explodes, not die, and still be able to reload a shotgun while climbing a latter (not to mention while carrying 9 other weapons: a technical feat I have yet to see MC achieve anything remotely close to). And further on that note let me end by responding to an earlier claim: Gordon has a helmet. A very easily removed helmet with a retractable visor End of story.
In terms of mental capabilities - Gordon would appear to have the obvious edge. He's a brilliant theoretical physicist. If I may take the liberty to segue a bit from the comparison at hand, Gordon is a prodigy. Reading in to the Black Mesa science staff photo, Gordon is a lone young man pictured amongst a much older group in lab coats. It leads me to believe he was probably the youngest member of the senior research staff (and probably a bit resented for it given how the scientists initially treat you in HL1 - relegating Gordon to dangerous grunt work like pushing hazardous materials into high energy beams). What a shame that he never got a chance to apply his extreme intellectual talents. But Gordon is no slouch physically, and probably a repeat winner of the Black Mesa Hazard Course decathlon. And following memorable catastrophes he's shown to be every bit the physical equal in combat to his mental prowess.
Master chief really doesn't have much of a biography to reference.
Those are the only points I care to bring up.
But finally. Who's to say Master Chief isn't Gordon Freeman. They both share the a very similar skill in putting the smack down on aliens. Ignoring, for the moment, the stupid voice/personality of MC: I'm thinking G-man eventually got done with Gordon - but instead of letting him live out his possibly happy ending with Alyx, just stuck him in the space tram-car for a few hundred years to eventually sell him to a military contractor and go buy a condo.
So imagine, "I have been through a never ending hell ever since I was volunteered to push that lawn mower into the spectrometer at black mesa. Whenever it looked like I may get a rest the creepy guy in the suit stuck me in a space coma. Now I wake up hundreds of years later. All of humanity is under an alien threat... again. There are hordes of space zombies... again. I've been altered with cybernetic implants that, among other things, accommodate a chatty computer AI that acts as a bland fusion of either my sister or my mother. Also, it gets to live in my brain.
God damnit"
I wouldn't even hold it against Gordon to act/sound (aloof, disinterested, and slightly angry) like Master chief at that point.
I've only played through the original Halo (on pc), and enjoyed it quite a bit. But Half-life has a lot more compelling story, and characters, and environment. I'm talking though about half-life 2 and following episodes. I couldn't be fair saying Half-life in its entirety is superior in this way to the entire halo series since I have not played Halo 2 or 3. I don't own any kind of Xbox and the requirements for Halo 2 are pretty steep.
The training MC supposedly has may put the advantage in his court. But both MC and Gordon have really been doing nothing but fighting aliens and enemy soldiers in their most recent years and many would contend that combat experience outweighs training. Both have ample.
Considering the armor: MC's armor at a glance certainly seems more advanced. Being a prototype suit, hundreds of years into the future - with shields. But in gameplay, at 100 suit energy Gordon can pretty much hold on to a grenade while it explodes, not die, and still be able to reload a shotgun while climbing a latter (not to mention while carrying 9 other weapons: a technical feat I have yet to see MC achieve anything remotely close to). And further on that note let me end by responding to an earlier claim: Gordon has a helmet. A very easily removed helmet with a retractable visor End of story.
In terms of mental capabilities - Gordon would appear to have the obvious edge. He's a brilliant theoretical physicist. If I may take the liberty to segue a bit from the comparison at hand, Gordon is a prodigy. Reading in to the Black Mesa science staff photo, Gordon is a lone young man pictured amongst a much older group in lab coats. It leads me to believe he was probably the youngest member of the senior research staff (and probably a bit resented for it given how the scientists initially treat you in HL1 - relegating Gordon to dangerous grunt work like pushing hazardous materials into high energy beams). What a shame that he never got a chance to apply his extreme intellectual talents. But Gordon is no slouch physically, and probably a repeat winner of the Black Mesa Hazard Course decathlon. And following memorable catastrophes he's shown to be every bit the physical equal in combat to his mental prowess.
Master chief really doesn't have much of a biography to reference.
Those are the only points I care to bring up.
But finally. Who's to say Master Chief isn't Gordon Freeman. They both share the a very similar skill in putting the smack down on aliens. Ignoring, for the moment, the stupid voice/personality of MC: I'm thinking G-man eventually got done with Gordon - but instead of letting him live out his possibly happy ending with Alyx, just stuck him in the space tram-car for a few hundred years to eventually sell him to a military contractor and go buy a condo.
So imagine, "I have been through a never ending hell ever since I was volunteered to push that lawn mower into the spectrometer at black mesa. Whenever it looked like I may get a rest the creepy guy in the suit stuck me in a space coma. Now I wake up hundreds of years later. All of humanity is under an alien threat... again. There are hordes of space zombies... again. I've been altered with cybernetic implants that, among other things, accommodate a chatty computer AI that acts as a bland fusion of either my sister or my mother. Also, it gets to live in my brain.
God damnit"
I wouldn't even hold it against Gordon to act/sound (aloof, disinterested, and slightly angry) like Master chief at that point.
