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In short no.

There is and will continue to be games of all varieties in regards to storytelling. Whether that's ham-fisted, sense bending psuedo French/American Hard Rain like giant cutscenes, lore-gasms like Dark Souls or dynamically rich games like Braid/Passage. Additionally, Super Hexagon and games with minimal to no story will exist; besides the players input creating an experience or personal story.

I think the majority of games are rubbish, stupid, puerile tosh that only idiots or children without cultured sensibilities would endorse. See Ass Creed, Infamous, Killzone, Gears of War, God of War, FFXIII, Dishonoured, Fallout 3, Portal 2, Limbo, Bastion, Metroid, Smash Bros, Mario, Sonic, LA Noire, Borderlands, Diablo as a random cobbled together list of examples.

When the main character's motivation boils down to his lust or want for "things", then I'm out. The world & city they built was impressive, the story was a comical pastiche of other peoples ideas.

Holy Motors followed by The Master. Looper was a travesty.

You can't prove video games are art to someone.

None, we're all different and our differing experiences allow for pleasant discourse and jolly co-operation.

Also, MGS2 should be completed by anyone that decides to start playing it. It's also worth trying to digest the ending with a cup of tea for around 6 hours afterwards.

They always were violent. We just have an over-abundance of games focused around combat with melee weapons or guns. Also, many games fit a narrow range of interaction (shoot that guy, stab that guy et al) overall, given the plethora that could be created.

I don't want Dark Souls II. I'd rather they named it "INSERT WORD" Souls and have it unrelated (or only tangentially so).

If I do and feel it necessary to comment, it would be after reading what is written.

As for Patrick, he's an OK writer, but there is room for improvement in his prose, lexicon and grammar. His voice is the thing that gets to me (but that can be circumnavigated usually).

Monetary value based on tourism et al aside -- as ascribing (three words beginning with "as" in a row, what...) value to something purely based on this isn't what I'm in the business of doing -- the Monarchical structure can fuck off.

I love complexity and nuance in punctuation/grammar.