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  • Half-Life was the same. The game doesn’t spoon feed you a narrative, the same way real life doesn’t have a narrator (at least one outside of your head).

    You need to pay attention to your surroundings, listen in to NPCs talking, read posters on the wall, etc to piece together the story.

    It was and is one of the cooler ways to do storytelling in my opinion. Cutscenes etc are fine but for a first person game, I love the immersion of the story happening around you rather then being loredumped on you while your agency is taken away from you.














  • If you have studied or work with numbers, components shift from system 2 to 1 depending on your experience.

    I, too, just had to glance at 550 to know it was 250+ since 500/2=250 and that fact is just baked in there somewhere without me needed to think about division. And since it’s the same thing again with the 50, it doesn’t take more than a fraction of a second to do 250+25…

    But my system 1 never thought 225.