Why does game storytelling have such low standards? [MGS4, HL2, etc.]

[Lafiel]

Xxain said:

Lafiel said:
@ Xxain)

everyone has their own way of gaming

I think it's shameful to try to put your own way over other people's, there is enough room for many different ways to coexist

Im not trying to... Im actually trying to understand it. Its backwards, its like to baseball game for the hotdogs... why?. A game is meant to be played 1st priority, why choose games to tell you stories over media that does it better? Video Games stories are Xxactly as the OP said just the icing.

no, to me stories are often the purpose

Of course I have no-story sports games and so on, but in an rpg like Oblivion to me the story is vital, but .. it wasn't there and that's why I quit playing it after 5 hours of excitement and 10 hours of pure boredom. You can "play" in it for hundreds of hours and if you set your own goals like "I want to be leader of that or that guild" and so on I can see people entertaining themselves with it, but I didn't feel any kind of attachment to the world/game after the first excitement over graphics and battle system was gone.