Jhoh Creexul wrote:

Lizard_King wrote:

Splinter Cell did keep me playing until I beat it, although revisiting it I am hard pressed to find what appealed to me so much.

Perhaps FABIO is right and stealth just isn't fun. In NOLF2 it was incredibly, incredibly badly implemented as well, the palace level being a case in point. I didn't really like Thief all that much either, and in MGS2 my favourite parts by far were those with unrestrained violence, like the prolonged, fast moving shootouts in the :Substance Snake Tales.

I liked the NOLF2 stealth because it was persistant stealth but it wasn't eternally punishing. You could lose your enemies and eventually they wouldn't be running all over searching for you. You also had hiding places, so "stealth" didn't actually mean "ducking and walking down the street."

I just wish there was some ragdoll stuff.