The comparisons between the two must be stopped.
Even comparing music to novels, or paintings to poems makes more goddamn sense, at least these are all part of the passive media.
Video games = radically different from every other form of media.
Video games can only tell cinematic stories if they stop being video games, getting interrupted with traditional film scenes, but that's like carving The Raven on top of the canvas of Mona Lisa, and claiming that it is superior to both traditional paintings and poems.