I get excited when a heavy fog appears and just seeing it makes me want to run (...well maybe walk) through it.

Now if everything was suddenly abandoned for a short time while there was a heavy fog and I would be happy (as long as I don't have to fight off crazy monsters).

I like to see good (or interesting) storylines. 

>>Anime is millions of miles behind Hollywood

I agree.

I remember watching Cowboy Bebop thinking how Vicious who's fighting with a sword and a bird against Spike with a gun destroyed my suspension of disbelief, and how Japanese anime directors almost always had used a comicrelief-cute-kawaii character like Ed and had dressed female protagonists like uber-slut, in order to appease the great majority of immature anime audience, while completely eliminated its chance of being accepted as a mature artwork by the mainstream.

Part of the reasons why storytelling has been so undeveloped in both game and anime genres is that their target audience has been teenage male. It's a vicious cycle. Ridiculous in-game stories turn away adult, which in turn discourages developers from prioritizing story in their deign.

The only way to get out of this cycle I see is actually what Nintendo has been doing - make casual games without story and increase adult population. In the long term, the more adult gamers there are, the more incentive for developers to take story seriously. But it will take quite some time.

Correct Line of Thought: Books and Movies do not have better stories than Games nor vice-versa, they are simply different types of medium.

Of course that's not to say some games couldn't be adapted to literature or movies. Grim Fandango could very well do adapted to cinema, while Planescape: Torment, with a bit of work, could make a good book (it's script is already as big as one!)

@Raichu

That's irrelevant. Traditional games usually target those in somewhere between high teen and the mid-20s, give or take. If you're in your late 20s and still think most game stories are earth-shattering, you need to read more books. But that's not the point. The point is, compared to other genres such as movies, story has not been the primary strength in gaming partly due to its younger audience type.

Well, of course gameplay is more important, but it helps to have a great story. For some games, its indispensable. RPGs without stories are terrible. However, I can enjoy an FPS with no story. In the end, a story is a tool to make a great game, but usually not a necessity.