| Kenryoku_Maxis said: After you realize this, its just your personal opinion if you think one medium is better than another. Personally I have yet to find a game come close to the writing of many of the better movies or TV series I've seen. |
It's not the one medium is better than another but 95% of games cater to the absolute bottom-feeders of the intellectual scale, particularly when it comes to dialogue and story. I play games, listen to the dialogue, and spend most of my time cringing at it. Part of the problem is that too many games are written by geeks for geeks. These people also aren't proficient writers in any way, shape, or form. On the other hand, most traditional writers seem to have real difficulty grasping how to adapt to writing for a game versus a movie. It's obviously a difficult transition or we'd see more intelligent and well-done game writing.
Other than Tim Schafer, I can't list many "good" game writers. They're an incredibly rare breed.
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