Quote Originally Posted by arcanedude34 View Post
Saying that the story is inherently worse than cinema or books because it's in a video game makes me want to smack you both.
Nobody said that. What was said is that games will never be able to match movies and that is for good reasons none of them "inherently". It is all to do with the fact that:

Games are developed with major time constraints and effort is plowed into graphics and gameplay as well as story. Movies and especially books, are designed for story. If you think any FF is going to beat the best movies or Lord of the Rings or The Green Mile or any number of classics as a book....think again.

Games are called games for a good reason, and if you start taking away the gameplay and dump in 10 hours of cutscenes (which is more than most movies), you end up with an interactive movie, and that is not what most gamers buy games for.

If I want a 60% story 40% action/graphics, I will go to the cinema. There I will be holding popcorn. When I play a game, I do not expect to be sat there like a crash dummy watching hours of cinematics and pressing X on its own.