Gordon Freeman is All Time Greatest Game Hero.

[vlad321]

Khuutra said:

vlad321 said:

Hey now, no one went around telling you why Heathcliff wasacting the way he was, much less all the other characters in the game. You kinda had to deduce everyone's personality from the scraps you were shown. You didn't have someone go out and spell it out for you "due to being prphaned and the abuse he suffered from his foster-brother, Heathcliff developed a seething hatred towards..."

You get the point. It takes far more skill to show than to tell, and far more intellect to see what is shown than to listen to what is told, osme people lack that.

....What you were describing is not a case of showing vs. telling, it's a case of being explicit vs. not being explicit. That didn't make Wuthering Heights a good story or a good read.

Edit: And Hamlet was about as subtle as a jackhammer, didn't make it less great.

Fine, Chandler then. You get my point. Also that's what show vs tell is. One is being screamed at your face and thus requireing the intellect of a 4 year old to understand. While the non-explicit require far more understanding to grasp, certinly a 4 year old would not understand it.