My observation is that people seem to mean many different things by story in games and many of these threads are people talking across purposes. I would agree w

My observation is that people seem to mean many different things by story in games and many of these threads are people talking across purposes. I would agree with the author that game stories are generally pretty crude. I don't play much these days, but I've realised what I really want is not necessarily a AAA voice cast, gigabytes of lore, plot twists, or what hundreds of users might call a great story. I just want atmosphere: a coherent, impossible to explain sense of being. There are games with massive issues that have great atmosphere and vice versa. I'd argue that games are much better positioned to offer this than story. It's actually their main strength and what makes much more sense to evaluate.