So I go back and play HALF LIFE 2

[Mazty]

max power said:

Mazty said:

You act as if to say cutscenes make a game worse because you are no longer in control. This may be true for some games, but in the ones where the devs actually work on the characters, you end up bonding with a character, which is far better than being a floating gun.

It is not...

And I think you're missing the point.  You're not supposed to bond with Gordon Freeman, as if you're some 3rd party spectator, you're supposed to BE Gordon Freeman.  See the world through his eyes.

As I have said, you have no actual free will, so you aren't Gordon, you are just moving him around - which is no different from watching a character do something in a cutscene. I emptyied a clip into an NPC and they ignored it. You aren't Gordon, you are just his motor functions, 'he' is the one to make the realo descisions (where to go, who to kill), which makes the 'freedom' in cutscenes a moot point.