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CGI-Quality said:
Simple answer: your wildest imagination(s) can be explored with video games in a way not offered through, let's say, a movie or even a book. That's one of the fundamentals of Game Design, the world is at your fingertips. The two projects I'm currently working on would not have been possible without the use of serious brainstorming and ideas mainly executable in video game form.

Thing is that game design is a different beast than storytelling.  There is a big tradeoff between offering gameplay and driving a narrative.  I can see that someone may dabble in the area of storytelling via the videogame medium, but if they are that good, the financial opportunities seem much larger in the areas of film, television or writing.

So, pretty much why would anyone into videogames expect it to get the best forms of storytelling, if that is what they are into?