Surely this is satire.... The most memorable stories in my life come firstly from books (though movie adaptations in some cases have beaten the books for me pe

Surely this is satire.... The most memorable stories in my life come firstly from books (though movie adaptations in some cases have beaten the books for me personally), then a couple movies, a couple television shows, and a large percentage of the games I played. Final fantasy, Jak series, Ratchet & Clank, Zelda Ocarina of Time, resident evil, God of War, Uncharted, etc...there are so many franchises which are based around telling stories.....imo the entire history of gaming depends on compelling stories taking it from just run-based games and arcades to....characters and plot lines....it wasn't the graphics and power....graphics weren't very fancy when they started....text based games depended on stories and and experience partially under control of the player. who wrote this....it's poorly thought out imo and doesn't seem to be attributing the proper recognition for good stories that have stemmed from games....it seems like the author is secretly just trying to push inane VR sandboxes on the world......like we need more of those.... and if they are being reductionist, they seem to have failed to suggest the inevitability of stories to be fractal in nature and to mirror common threads eternally. finally, the author seems to completely miss the concept of emergent gameplay and how even though story may be scripted heavily or loosely - it is the variations in how the story plays out which emerge from the gameplay intermixed. while a walking simulator may not have much gameplay, it still mostly allows the user to control the experience and craft their own meaning behind it from between the lines of the delivered story such as trying to go back or reverse the flow events by resetting to a point in the past after failing a mission....not because the story needs it, but because you want to give the story its proper justice and fulfill on the motivations of the characters....