As an avid reader and casual gamer, I have yet to play a game as compelling narratively (gameplay excluded) as a good book. It's not that games can't tell stories well but that they seem limited in what they can (or can't) convey. There's hardly a game, for example, that I find comparable to, say, Don Quixote or even Candide, or the novels of Kafka, Coetzee, Hemingway, Atwood or Huxley (some of my admired authors)... and they are just some bright stars in the vast galaxy of brilliant writers.
As an avid reader and casual gamer, I have yet to play a game as compelling narratively (gameplay excluded) as a good book. It's not that games can't tell stories well but that they seem limited in what they can (or can't) convey. There's hardly a game, for example, that I find comparable to, say, Don Quixote or even Candide, or the novels of Kafka, Coetzee, Hemingway, Atwood or Huxley (some of my admired authors)... and they are just some bright stars in the vast galaxy of brilliant writers.