Gordon Freeman is All Time Greatest Game Hero.

[vlad321]

Khuutra said:

vlad321 said:

Khuutra said:

....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.

....That is not what show vs. tell is at all. Showing can be just as explicit as telling, in its purest form is as explicit, it's just more entertaining because it's more dynamic. You are describing something else.

You show a four-year-old something, he will understand what he has seen. You ask him to tell you about Wuthering Heights, he'll tell you it's boring.

Show a four year old a bloody item and I doubt he'd understand everything about it. I mean he'd understand the basic item, but he wouldnt understand what it was used for or how. Not that I'm promoting showing anything bloody to toddlers.

Also re-read it. I was force to read Wuthering for class, but then a few years later I re-read it and it was pretty interesting.