I think it's more of a personal problem than anything for Mr. Blow, when you consider his clumsy and ham-fist attempt at story-telling in braid.

well i just disagree of Jonathan Blows existences on Video games Industry LOl

Looks like he has as much experience as a player as a dev.

Looks like someone forgot to play Katawa Shoujo.

Spoken obviously by someone who's never played Xenogears, Xenosaga, Xenoblade Chronicles, Final Fantasy 4, The Last of Us, Ni no Kuni,  etc.

Some games like Xenogears even transcend their physical media and hardware platform.

Pacing and no difficulty spikes ;p

translation: i dont know how to tell a story in video games, and the witness has zero story elements what so ever. so might as well say that video games are shit for story telling.

the exact same thing can be said about movies. 

A mediocre platformer in 2008. Braid.

I agree with him. You can't control the pace of the narration, the player does. And many other bigor small problems for great storytelling. That doesn't mean storytelling is impossible or anything, but it is far more difficult. And if you really think video games surpassed movies in storytelling, then you should put it to the test: make a playthrough video of your favorite video game and then get your friends together to "watch a cool movie" together. Get Popcorn and beer and then let all sit down in front of the TV and you put in the playthrough video. Enjoy!

I don't think games are terrible for telling stories, I just think storytelling in general sucks in games. Very few games actually have a well written story. Most AAA games today have the production values equivalent of a big budget film but still tell stories very much like a low budget b-movie. The industry needs to do a better job hiring actual writers. I don't mean occasionally commissioning a Hollywood writer to write for one or two games. Publishers need to hire full-time writers.