Fumito Ueda (Shadow of the Colossus, Ico, The Last Guardian) has expressed his appreciation of Half-Life 2. Half-Life 2 was the game Ueda selected when asked what game brings up the most emotion in him (besides his own).
Ueda also continued on to state that yes "I have an interest in making first-person games." The creator of such visually moving games such as Shadow of the Colossus likes the way Half-Life 2 tells a story and is interested in doing a first-person title? Let's get the ball rolling on that ASAP!
"There was variation in terms locations," said Ueda, "and also the way of storytelling in the game. Usually, you have to incorporate storytelling with constraints, but the way they [Half-Life 2 developer Valve] implemented constraints was something different that I enjoyed, compared to other games."
"Usually, when it comes to the cut-scenes, you can't really play -- [that] operation isn't really allowed," he said. "That kind of game is something that I don't want to see. If you're constrained already even before cut-scene, then you're in cut-scene, then that's fine. But you're in the middle of play, in the middle of the game, then all of a sudden you're in a cut-scene [and] you're not supposed to operate at all -- that's not the kind of game I want to do. If there is some other techniques that will not give them that kind of feeling, that's something I want to implement."
"Usually, when it comes to the cut-scenes, you can't really play -- [that] operation isn't really allowed," he said. "That kind of game is something that I don't want to see. If you're constrained already even before cut-scene, then you're in cut-scene, then that's fine. But you're in the middle of play, in the middle of the game, then all of a sudden you're in a cut-scene [and] you're not supposed to operate at all -- that's not the kind of game I want to do. If there is some other techniques that will not give them that kind of feeling, that's something I want to implement."
Ueda also continued on to state that yes "I have an interest in making first-person games." The creator of such visually moving games such as Shadow of the Colossus likes the way Half-Life 2 tells a story and is interested in doing a first-person title? Let's get the ball rolling on that ASAP!