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Originally Posted by carpetmojo
But that's the point, they don't really want to compete with books, but create a sub-culture that incidentally destroys the reading habit, love of reading, whatever you want to call it .
Some come through OK , some combine the two, but a large number never "get" books, because they are "harder work", and require more imaginative powers within yourself.
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Sorry but I strongly disagree with this. The majority of young people never got books long before there where video games (or TV for that matter). Reading is only one form of entertainment and not one everyone enjoys.
As for the comment(s) about terrible storytelling and voice acting, I don't think games as a whole are necessarily a storytelling medium. Most are (and should be in my opinion) first and foremost about gameplay.
Me, I mostly play RPGs where story is (IMO) far more important than in every other genre and even there I'm far more forgiving for moderately bad writing and acting than I would be in books and films, simply because games provide more than just story.