This thread is trying to be a simple comparison of complex scenarios.
First off, some even ground. We'll compare both games on their highest difficulties on SOLO.
Next, some understanding. Halo and CoD are very different. Shooting someone in Halo doesn't mean they'll fall over, while in CoD, it's pretty much a guarantee, only the guy's 12 friends are right behind him. Combat scenarios don't behave the same or are approached in the same way, so if you're better at one style of gameplay than another, then you have to move your own personal balancer in a certain direction as to which game is harder.
Now, when it comes to Halo, Legendary is pretty tough. The first 2 were monsters, but for the sake of making it "fair," Bungie decided that enemies that were psychic or had trigger-fingers equal to a massage tool was just too unforgiveable, so they dumbed Halo 3 down... a hell of a lot. The game is moderately difficult if your a steady shot, and is pretty rough in places, but what makes the difficulty stand out is that there is always a part in each mission that's dubbed the "problem point." The part of the mission that's just an a$$-pain to get through without dying untill you reach another checkpoint, which in some mission, can be really far apart. Notable encounters are the weapon storage room in Crow's Nest, filled to the brim with Brutes, which take quite a bit of punishment to take down, and the Phantom drop zone on Tsavo Highway, in which you're stranded with very few weapons and ammo, and are pittd against 60+ Brutes in waves of 8 to 12. Basically, you only walk away if you don't get Brute-Shotted, Fuel Rod Gunned, Spikered, or Beam Rifled... while fighting 5 Chieftains in total (highest ranking Brute).
CoD4 is pretty damn hard on Veteran, but that depends. There's no doubt that CoD 4 is longer than Halo 3, but there are at least 4 mission that come to mind that are simply walk-throughs. Not as in tutorial, but you simply walk through them and you're fine. The first mission, with the ship. The mission when you're the gunner on the plane. The mission on the back of the truck. Ect. Now that doesn't really take away the fact that on Veteran, a stray bullet to your toe will cause the screen to turn red with agony and put you near death, and that pretty much any 1 or 2 bullets you take to the body will kill you. The game is tough, but there's only a few parts throughout the whole game that really become problem points, rather than there being many throughout each of the missions. Such as when you're waiting for the helicoptor on the Sniper mission, or when you're fighting into the facility at the end of the game. There's only a few that come to mind as searious challenges, but of course nothing compares to The Epilogue. It's pretty rough, and there are still people who don't have the achievement. It took me more than 120 tries before I got a strategy down for conquering it. Like Halos 1 and 2, this area is almost purposefully glitched in order to make it incredibly hard. For example, no matter what, when you throw a flash grenade, and jump into the room to take out all the stunned enemies, there will always, always, always be 1 who was not stunned at all. The game forces 1 enemy to stay uneffected in order to give difficulty to this scenario, othewise a simple flash grenade and some shooting would get you through this in no time, so the trick is to locate the still normal guy, take him down, then finish the remainder.
Now that one mission pretty much turn the tide when it comes to which game is harder. If that mission were absent, I would more than happy to report that both games are about even in difficulty, but one or the other may be harder based on how you play. "Mile High Club" is the one reason that CoD 4 is the harder game on Veteran.
Now, if we were to, say, enhance this spectrum to something less equal, such as turning on skulls in Halo, or playing Halo on Co-op, then Halo could be harder, or easier, than CoD4. Halo 3, with certain skulls turned on while playing Legendary, make any encounter near-impossible, with enemies that can take a barrage of shotgun or sniper rounds and keep on walkin, while you take maybe 2 or 3 shots, without a regenerating shield, and your a gonner. It easily surpasses The Epilogue mission in CoD4... but it doesn't count, as it's a manipulated values version of the campaign, like turning on Cheats in CoD4.
Well, there you have it. I believe CoD4 is harder, but mostly because of The Epilogue. I hope you all understand where I'm coming from.
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