Quote Originally Posted by NeoCracker View Post
It wasn't. At all. And I've never heard ANYONE praise the game for hiding this before. Now I've heard people say that it doesn't bother them, and that's fair enough. But in no way, shape, or form was the linearity well hidden.
Ok...

Anyway, you weren't in the thread so I can't call you a liar (per se ) but I don't think the idea is as unheard of or as unreasonable as you've insisted it to be. No one's saying it's not linear, just that X pulls off what it does so well that it never occurred to us to notice (or care).