: No, in the sense that the game puts visible and soft barriers to you getting
: out of where you're supposed to be, instead of literal invisible walls and
: stuff like later games (Reach, etc.) which literally put soft kill
: boundaries where you die if you wander off to try and explore.

Oh right, I misunderstood.

: The only thing in CE I think would qualify is the fact that falls will kill
: you before impact depending on certain factors, but even that feels a
: little more graceful than just accepting "it's a game and we don't
: want you here, so invisible wall".

Yeah, dying in mid-air while falling never made physical sense of course. It would be interesting to know the full reasoning for settling on that policy.