@SuperSnekFriend I will give you a crumb that Valve's meta actions for video games were a double-edged sword as they completely redefined presenting narratives in video games at the cost of other developers trying to mimic and fail at what made this so impressive and enjoyable though there were still games that did it pretty well like Halo's campaign and FEAR (Halo was also a double edged sword since it lead to the trend of space marine cover shooter).

And this is only talking about HL1 and 2, are CS games, TF1 and 2 and Portal 1 and 2 a "net negative" towards gaming now?