Spazzy_D on 05 February 2013
Video games are simply another medium to tell stories, and all mediums have their advantages and disadvantages. Comic books and graphic novels are great visual mediums that allow you to play with pacing and give the audience a chance to really examine a world, movies are great for visual tricks and motion, serialized television is wonderful for character development and for creating tension.
Video games have their own strengths: one is immersion and another is connection to character.
Story tellers would want to create stories in video games to try and maximize the medium, and to tell stories in a different way. It's not better or worse, just different.
