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

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C_Hollomon said:

BoneArk said:
That's the big difference between Japanese and American developers. Japanese devs are great story tellers and American devs are not.

I agree.  Japanese games do have better stories to me.  Japanese people put more heart and soul into they work.  Look at Japanese anime like Naruto, Bleach, DBZ, and others.  They have good story lines and great fighting scenes also.  I hate American cartoons. 

And all of those great stories are wasted on the medium of video games, and even their best is crap compared to stories in other media so they might as well start using the medium to its strengths, not imprinting strategies from other media into video games. Such a waste of manhours/writers what they are currently doing. I'd still much rather pick up a book than a JRPG, and that's what I usually do too.