Great article, I agree with this very much but I personally love cutscenes in games and the cinematice approach alot of games have, There has only been a couple of games that having a silent protantists work and halflife in my opinion isnt one of them, I hated how in halflife npcs would have full on conversations with freeman asking questions and so forth and he doesnt say a damn thing that pulled me out the game over and over again.
Zman I agree when comments say first its really annoying