Quote Originally Posted by darkchrono View Post
You sure you know what you are talking about. Books come from professional writers and storytellers. Video games come from professionals at making graphics.

You think games are on an equal level as books. Think of a popular video game whose story is on the same level as a popular book (not including xenogears since I mentioned that that was the only one I could think of already).

And if you think about it if somebody was so good at creating stories why in the world would they stay in the video game medium where the vast majority of the audience is silly 16 year olds. When they could go into the adult writing business and reach a much wider and mature audience.
....The people who make the graphics AREN"T the same people who make the story. There ARE professional writers writing the story lines for video games.

And adult writing business? If you pay attention, a lot of these games have many deep and mature concepts. For example, even some of the older SNES games had amazingly developed stories. The Lufia Games, Breath of Fire II come to mind. Then theres Earthbound, and while the overall plot was somewhat basic, the individual stories that were found throughout may not have been that deep, but they were packed with humour and very well placed cultural references, not something some amateur writer came up with.

Then of course games like Xenosaga, which employed heavy christian Symbolism, unique characters and concepts. Lets not forget the political overtones that filled games like FF XII and Wild Arms 4.

There are a LOT of very well done stories in video games, they are simply forced to present them in a different fashion then in books. To say that video game writing is by default lower quality, with the exception of the story you so happen to like, is an insult to all those who put so much effort into their art.