Games don't need stories.

[richardhutnik]

Riachu said:
Some of those things are true. But you also need to know that we want to prove Roger Ebert wrong about games not being art.

I would say games are a form of art in the sense they are a product of workmanship, that can be seen as having beauty.  Can the drive an individual to have certain emotional responses?  That is possible:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art

I am not sure it is though.  Again, we may be splitting hairs over terminology.