But Super Metroid is more extreme than most in that it almost never takes control away from the player. Of course it’s hardly a surprise given the SNES’s capabilities – hardly any cartridge-based game had anything we would recognise as a cutscene today. The most obvious is the lack of cutscenes in both games. In particular what struck me was how you only have to go back a few short years to 1994’s Super Metroid to find many of those same elements that made Half-Life stand out in 1998. Part of the novelty with Half-Life is how a lack of cutscenes seems at once forward-looking and influential (particularly in the FPS genre – Portal, Bioshock, etc), and on the other hand backwards-looking and retro. There’s evidence too of how heartless the Black Mesa staff are – I’ve deliberately jumped to my death in the presence of guards and scientists and no one said anything, let alone tried to stop me. I like it plenty – no one even blinks twice at the most bizarre antics. Whenever there’s character interaction you still maintain control. Your on-rails vehicle, for instance, bursts through a wall and falls two floors into water, with you still in it. With setpieces, you have control of the character practically all of the time, but out of the ordinary things are frequently happening, be it to you or the environment. There’s also a bonus at the end…but you’ll have to see.Īs many will no doubt recall, one of the “innovations” in Half-Life was a complete lack of cutscenes at a time (1998) when cutscenes were quickly becoming ubiquitous. In place of cutscenes, the game relies heavily on setpieces to create drama. Obsessing over storytelling in games is nothing new for this blog and I’m afraid that’s where I want to go with this post too. Alongside the entertaining (if at times infuriating) gameplay, there’s the story. After several years absence from the Black Mesa facility it all feels very fresh. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Replaying the original Half-Life recently has been fun for all kinds of reasons. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.
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