Wow Half Life 2 is awful...

So I played Orange Box and Portals is by far the only thing actually worth playing. I was tired of how overrated Halo is and whenever I complain about it people agree with me and recommend Half Life 2... which I've learned is actually much worse. So I stuck it out and finished Half Life 2 and Episode 1 and got half way through Episode 2 when I was getting so incredbly bored with the dull physics puzzles, incredibly stupid enemy ai, the ridiculous story that even puts "Wally Bear and the NO! Gang" to shame that I dropped the controller and moved on.

Seriously, what in the world do people see in Half Life 2? It's not exciting, even remotely. The areas seem to linger on much longer than they should with no real "action" happening. I'm not a "PRO" fps player but I even found the difficulty laugably easy. I can easily just charge in and mow everything down then wait another 15 to 20 minutes for the story to happen a bit, go on a little jog, solve another stupidly done physics puzzle and mow down another set of enemies. At least Halo 3 kept me occupied with *shudder* ACTION. Won't find much of that in Half Life 2. I don't know if Half Life 1 is bad but I've had enough with these over rated FPS games. I could go on but Gamespot has a language filter....