There's no video game out there in which the story is of a comparable quality with a novel? A reply from a video game reviewer (me, for clarification): Okay,

There's no video game out there in which the story is of a comparable quality with a novel? A reply from a video game reviewer (me, for clarification): Okay, let's get started: The Halo series, anything by BioWare, The Elder Scrolls series (excluding Oblivion, story out and out sucked monkey nuts as it didn't have a single plot twist or revelation in it anywhere), Fallout 1 and especially 2, anything by Tim Schafer (hello Grim Fandango?), Broken Sword 1 & 2, Space Quest (especially #6), the legend of Kyrandia, Kings Quest, The Longest Journey . . . Here's the coupe de grace, The Dig. Spielberg gave the idea to Lucasarts because he knew it would take decades before the technology would be available to do the story justice. Written by Spielberg and Orson Scott Card. I'm sorry, but Ebert has no fucking clue. There was a game out in 1995 written by the Steven Spielberg and the Orson Scott Card, that game alone quantified the video game medium as having great potential for artistic works. There's a whole whack of games from the SCUMM era that have so much story it's still unbelievable by today's standards, even with BioWare. Sorry Mr. Ebert you're now entering your second decade of being out of touch with the world, obviously we left you behind in 1995 when Spielberg, one of the greatest film directors alive, saw greater potential in video games than in film. If you were aware of this fact, I wouldn't doubt you would still hold a grudge against video games like newspapers hold a grudge against the internet and blogs. I know it must hurt that video games are know a bigger global entertainment resource than film, but that is a fact you will just have to live with. Don't worry, just like the inevitable death of newspapers, you'll probably still be so outdated that you won't notice the death of film before the world has forgotten your once relevance.