Game Musings: You don't need to play a game to judge only its story.

[noname2200]

You raised, but did not defeat, the idea that interactivity can lead to greater investment in a story, thereby making the story "feel" better.  It does not matter that the story, objectively, remains the same, because all stories inherently resonate differently according to the audience; there is no such thing as the objective quality of any story.