When I said "fun", I don't mean how long I can play a game and stil enjoy it.
I meant in the sense that, I've played Starcraft 3000+ times online, but I can't recall anything specifically about any of them. All were likely fun games, but none of them special enough to be remembered. Same holds for GoldenEye, Mario Kart 64, Twisted Metal 2, and Smash Bros. The "fun" was short term in the way it left an impresion. The expirence was not there.
But I sure as hell remember taking down my first walker-thingy in Half LIfe 2. I remember riding Epona across Hyrule field the first time. Fighting off zombies while stuck in a barn in RE4. You remember the expirence.
Because those things were just soooooo fun/badass/magical that they left a impression on me.
So I guess my point is that Halo 2 is a fun game that you can replay. Half Life 2 is a expirence.
Sure, but do HL2 and Halo 2 get similar scores because they both have outstanding MP? No, HL2 got it on SP and Halo 2 got it on MP.
man we like to debate minor stuff