i am pretty sure 80% of people here played Half Life, you shouldn't have to be such a dick. "mr PC supporior noble race"

Just.... stop.

Get out before you say something you will regret.

Wuthering Heights.... I mean really....

im pretty sure your off by a large percentage. And I am apart of the nobel PC professional gamer race, tvm.

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.

....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.

GameSpot: So Gordon, you won the Greatest Game Hero award, tell us...how does it feel?
Gordon: ".........."

And THAT is why Gordon is so awesome. (That...and he shares my last name...GO GORDON!)

I'm not. I voted for Freeman.

Half-Life is still my all time favorite game.

I don't want to make your day bad, but in East Europe where I live Mario is almost unknown.