It's not your fucking medium. You don't own it and, thankfully, you have no control over where it goes.

I despise that mentality. Absolutely and completely despise it. Trying to define a medium to tight restrictions is beyond stupid. It should be anything people want it to be, as long as there is an audience that enjoys it. People like him try to kill new experiences simply because they don't conform with what he likes.

I'll take any of those games over Epic Mickey any day of the week.

It's better than doing nothing but running around shooting things. Because shooting constantly makes use of the medium lol

wow. what a bunch of elitist, hypocritical nonsense from this guy. Irregardless of how many choices a player has during a game, the player is still moving down a predetermined path put in place by the developer.
Whether I choose to go left or go right, that's still nothing more than a momentary illusion of choice, as after I've made a decision, I am no more or no less 'locked in' to what the developer intended than if there were no choice at all.
Every story driven game has a beginning and an end, how a player gets between those points is of far less consequence and merit than the overall enjoyment of the journey. I had just as much fun playing the corridor driven Doom 3 as I did playing through the vast, open world of GTA V.
As far as making the most out of the medium, that's exactly what different play-styles afford us as supporters of that medium. I mean, what a stupid thing for him to say. Getting the most out of video games as an entertainment option relates directly to how many options, differently style games, we have to choose from.
If every title was developed according to his strict, completely subjective opinion on what makes a great game, than we would have far less 'choice' over what and how we want to play.
What a shortsighted, condescending goof.

Too bad for him I like uncharted and heavy rain but never cared to play Deus ex.

and worst yet is that epic mickey isn't that good or open. So he is pushing the médium a lot less than the games he criticicized.

I wouldn't place Uncharted in the same category as Heavy Rain and The Walking Dead. I do think David Cage wants to be a movie director and not a games developer.

''it's about how do you accomplish a predetermined path to get to the next plot point''

Isn't this true for every game? Only some games give you more options than others.

I somewhat agree with him in the sense that I often dislike games that are heavily centred around the story with little or mediocre gameplay. However, this is because I think many of them have a story which is not that good (there are exceptions of course), not because there is something intrinsically wrong being a linear story focussed game.

Boundaries between games and (animated) movies are fading. I don't think that's a problem. A story is as good as its script (well, that and production, acting, of course), the way in which this is told does not really matter that much. Is a game in which you only need to press 'A' to continue and little else still a game? or an animated movie? Irrelevant, if it is good it is good.

He needs to make that game, then. He needs to make that game changing game and set the world on fire. Meanwhile, I'm just going to buy what I think I'd worth buying. Hope that's okay with him.

Well obviously this is unacceptable....because he says so lol.

This article bothers me for some reason. But then that's why there are all types of games tos uit all types of people......silly Geus Ex guy....

Since when is Uncharted anything like Heavy Rain? Uncharted is a completely different genre and he sounds like someone I would punch in the face especially since he isn't making anything different.

Ick, what an asshole...

I can't stand anyone who wants to limit diversity in gaming.