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Infuzan t1_j29y6qp wrote

Reply to comment by st3akkn1fe in Should video game directors be talked about in the same sphere as movie directors? by OfficalNotMySalad

I’m just gonna say here that you either aren’t playing enough games or you’re giving movies way too much credit. I think there are infinitely better stories in video games in the last 5 years than there have been in films and I’m huge buff of both.

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st3akkn1fe t1_j29yqs5 wrote

I play like 4 games a year. Even games which are well received are pretty poorly done compared to films. There is a reason games like god of war or the last of us stand out and it's because the vast majority of games are trash.

I know you can say the same about movies but there are many more movies released than games.

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Infuzan t1_j2a00th wrote

I don’t agree with your last statement because it is just factually incorrect. For example, in 2020 there were 9,512 video games released versus 403 movies. That’s a huge discrepancy.

Have you ever been on steam, the Nintendo store, the PlayStation store, or the Xbox store? There are literally thousands of shovelware games released every year that you never ever hear of because they’re absolutely garbage.

I play 15-20 games per year and watch at least an equal number of movies. In my honest but not critically relevant opinion, for the most part the good video games have more intriguing, better fleshed out stories than the good movies. This is the benefit of having 20-40 hours to tell your story versus 90-180 minutes.

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st3akkn1fe t1_j2a2edq wrote

Ok man but I mean you're counting like all games I presume and not counting all movies and things. If you count every game available on phones and things then you should count every movie and short film or series or whatever.

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