EA Dev: 'Game STORIES Are CRAP'! - (So he NEVER played MGS)?

[Khuutra]

KylieDog said:

Khuutra said:

"Anyone who thinks video game stories are good need open their eyes and read a book, and not some crap like Twilight."

Hey, guess what! Books have shitty stories too! I've been reading books for about as logn as I've been able to talk and I lov books more than pretty much anyone I've ever met, I devour novels like I do hamburgers, but books and vinema are not intrinsically higher forms of art. Most books are shit! Most movies are shit! The stories therein are primarily derivative, the characters have all been seen literally a million timees, and no plot is even close to being original!

When people say this kind of thing, it just makes me thin they don't read enough books. It's not any healthier than video games, guys! There are just more books!

Why you would read the enlarged text and then immediatly reply with the fact some books are 'shitty' I do not know.   Go find the greatest, most well wrote and well told story in video games.  It will be equal with one of those shitty trash novels you buy for £1 at the airport that you are meant to read on the plane and never mention or discuss with anyone once you step off.

It isn't about reading enough books, is about not reading crap books.  Comparing one form of crap to another doesn't make whichever is better good.

Look I don't know what kind of impression you've gotten from Resident Evil, but the best stories in video games are comparable to the best stories in any other medium according to my experience. That's the other half of the parallel.

Hell, Sith Lords got me to talk about Nietszche more than the man himself did.

And yes, reducing gaming stories as far as you do is so absurd that it's almost painful to read.