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
halo has one of the bigest disappointments, i absolutely loved the first one but the 2 and 3 one just made an epic game story into a mindless shooter , and btw why did the black sgt look completely different in each game
In mgs3 after you kill the boss and eva tells snake that the boss was actually a good girl who was fighting for the same cause snake was I think I shed a tear that game had the best story I have ever seen in a video game