I’m a bit tired to read this type of comments throughout this thread. I can guess that this is written by people who never have enjoyed a good experience playing video game and then produce a theory that video game are just a bad medium. I’d say whoever is reading this: Play “the last of us” and understand how video games can be a much greater medium that movies and tv cannot emulate.
> I can guess that this is written by people who never have enjoyed a good experience playing video game
You'd be wrong - I grew up playing them, and specifically gravitated toward RPGs, the closest genre of video games to storytelling.
> and then produce a theory that video game are just a bad medium.
I didn't say they are a "bad medium". I said the medium has chosen a trade-off in it's interaction model that makes it more challenging to tell stories as coherent and powerful as found in traditional narrative media, and furthermore that there is limited demand for that sort of narrative in games in the first place.
