Which tells the better story for a game?

[Final-Fan]

twesterm said:
From a gaming perspective, which of these two tells a more interesting and better story?
A fully pre-rendered cut scene:
A simple image on a wall:

Taken as is -- the video, hands down. A gamer not having played Half-Life would walk up to that and say "hey, that symbol means I can get some stuff!"  Whereas a gamer having no background on FFXII would be introduced to that world.  (Of course, a gamer might prefer to get the stuff ;-P)

Now, I see what you're saying in later posts, but the thing is, I don't think that that image tells a story so much as it allows you to tell a story.  Unless you have all the context of that symbol, which is cheating considering your challenge.