Which tells the better story for a game?

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twesterm said:

hatmoza 2.0 said:
If a pictures worth a thousand words, a motion picture = n Frames * 1000

 

But you don't have time to take in an entire frame like you have the time to sit in a scene and take in the entire scene.  :-p

 

It's worth noting that this trade off is much older than gaming:

http://books.google.com/books?id=3FGZ_gOJIRwC&pg=PA87&lpg=PA87&dq=nebeneinander+versus+nacheinander&source=bl&ots=bbnH4uqeDu&sig=egBmkVlNB_-cvdw-pfw8QZKqwrQ&hl=en&ei=H6wJSqePOYustgeFzsTjCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8#PPA87,M1

Video is capable of both modes, but it's worth noting that you can't fully achieve both at the same time since the viewer's attention cannot be fully focused on both the development of the scene over time and the full visual detail of the scene.