Video games vs. Films

[Khuutra]

Reasonable said:

Khuutra said:

That's still unnecessarily reductive in terms of what could have been meant: the OP may still be referring to any, any level of cinema, rather than its cream, and I stand by that.

If you want to get semantic about it, then the "Can video games" as opposed to "Do video games" doesn't actually imply that the video game we name has to actually exist - just that we have to be able to imagine that such a game could exist.

Sure, but is there any point asking if videogames can tell more compelling stories than really shit films?

Given the OP you have to make some level of assumption and it seems odd to imagine he meant crap vs cream.

Sure, maybe Uncharted 2 told a more compelling story than Plan 9 from Outer Space - but on the other hand a film of Uncharted 2 with real actors emoting would tell the same story in a more compelling way than Uncharted 2 the videogame.

Unless you want to spin it to a silly comparison the point is moot - or maybe the OP could post something like "do the best videogame narratives excell those of the worst movies?".

In the end the vast majority of films - even fairly poor ones - are more compelling than almost all videogame narratives so the majority comparison is clearly no.

All I'm saying is that the last time we had a comparison topic like this, a guy placed Scary Movie 4 above.... I can't remember, but it was Scary Movie 4.

There is precedent for that particular breed of discourse.