The Dink Network

I liked the first Half-Life. I played Halo: Combat Evolved (the PC version) before Half-Life, so I naturally compared the two games to each other. I thought the gameplay was a million times better in Halo, but Half-Life's storyline was a million times better than Halo's. It was very long, and did interesting and varied things. The part where the gravity completely changed blew me away at the time.

Half-Life 2 was suck. I played about halfway through and lost interest. It was too formulaic, shooting section -> driving section -> shooting section -> driving section, the story hadn't gotten interesting by the time I stopped playing, and the gameplay was too mediocre to make up for it.