NotAGolfer
Arcane
Or maybe they can but then gameplay suffers too much so they automatically become shit games.They can't be. Simple as that. THEY CAN'T BE.
And no, PS:T is not a counter example. The story there was pretty good for a game, not so much if it would have been a book.
Any game will suffer from the fact that it has to constantly keep pulling the player away from the narrative so he can focus on the thing that's actually important, the moment to moment gameplay.
Books don't have that, the good ones are called page turners for a reason. You don't want to be distracted from the narrative, you don't even want to eat or take a shit.
about 2 deep 4 u books and movies or biographies and non-belletristic literature:
Sure, games can be educational too, why not.
But they usually aren't. Cause writers in gaming are usually way too illiterate and stupid to be able to teach you anything meaningful.
And the ones that aren't are boring autists so you don't want them to add their ponderings about history to their games either.
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