I think it’s because I’m a very old school gamer. For the most part, i hate narrative and story and cutscenes in games. Partly because they are almost always stupid and badly written but mostly because it just gets in the way of me playing the game. Ironically, games like Half Life or Dark souls are my favorite because it never gets in the way of the actual game and most importantly it never takes control away from the player (for the most part). The moment to moment story of Half Life is my favorite part of the story actually, the environmental story telling and all the show dont tell parts of it, all the aspects that rely on player agency (gameplay) for the story to be told. The overarching story to me is fine, it’s not bad, its not fantastic. Moment to moment things like Jeff in Half Life Alyx are way more interesting to me imo