Re:On physics (Score 1)

It's a challenge - but you know, it's a videogame, not a sight-seeing tour. Maybe some people like getting a guided tour of a museum, but there are those of us who like charting our own paths, and have only ourselves to blame if it's not Mathematically Interesting.

Actually, it is a sight-seeing tour. Even in open-ended games like Grand Theft Auto, the missions are still scripted. Everything you see in a game, some artist or programmer had to spend hours creating. So if they spend hundreds of hours and many thousands of dollars creating this world with mazes and keycards and interactive bits, you're damn well going to see it. Why even have keycards if it's possible to shoot your way out of the maze? If you do that, all the stuff they put into the level (along with all the time and money that went into producing it) is wasted.