Video games vs. Films

[CommonMan]

mirgro said:

Khuutra said:

mirgro said:

CommonMan said:
Hmmm. . . maybe the stories won't be as "good" or whatever, but if you allow them to, the stories can have just as great of an emotional impact on you. IMO of course.

Not even close, there hasn't been a single game where the emotion is somehow different than "oh cool" or "that sucks." There hasn't even been a fraction of emotion in games as there has been in movies liek Requiem for a Dream.

This seems needlessly reductive, especially when it's based on the necessarily narrow band of your own experience.

I have played far more games than I have seen movies, and even with said limited experience in movies it is painfully apparent that video games are completely outmatched.

 

@commonman

We're comparing the best here from each group. Because I can tell you even Scary Movie 4 was better than games like GoW when it came to story.

Actually no, the OP said "Can games have better stories than movies?", while I agree that the best movies will be better than the best games at this, I would say that there are plenty of good games that have better stories than bad or even middlingly okay movies. This fits the criteria of the OP. You have added another parameter, best vs. best.