Why games fail at storytelling

[silverlunar777]

I remember a conversation I had that somewhat relate to this, it went something like this.

A guy in another site: "Hey they are making an anime of Tales of the Abyss, I can't wait to see it".

Me: "Really, great, people say it has an interesting story"

Guy: "you didn't play it before?"

Me: "Nope, I watched the anime version of most of this series"

Guy: "you should play it, the game is awesome"

Me: "I really don't want to"

Guy: "Why? I can't belive some one who valiue the games first and formost won't play the original, You would attack me if i told you to watch the Kirby anime first"

Me: "these two are completely different"

Guy: "why are they different? because you like Kirby more than the Tales series? >:/"

Me: "it has nothing to do with what i like and what not, it is just that Tales has a battle system that i hate, I can get the same experince by just watching the anime, so why bother and play through the game?"

Guy: "you can't be serious"

Me: "JRPGs are just anime in disguise, really"