Five Reasons Why Games Are Better Than Movies

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Unshrewd

The main reason, in my opinion, that video games are better than movies. is because even though you may spend 50-60 bucks average on a game. It can last much longer than a movie, and you're more likely to play the game over again than you are rewatching a movie. Especially when you pay 10 bucks in the theaters and then you want to buy it on dvd (15 extra bucks) or blu-ray (30 extra bucks). So the cost may come out to a 10-20 buck difference, but you get more hours of entertainment out of a game.

John Gibson

What people should take notice of is how video games ARE movies, and how the movies look like video games.

Prime example: Clone Wars (looks like a damn PS2 game).

I laughed my ass off when Roeper and.....the other guy said to "skip it".

The truth is neither one is better than the other, because they're both trying to be like the other, and in my opinion, it's not meant to be.

Splodge

I don't think there's any point in comparing games and movies in terms of 'better'. They're completely different things - you get a different experience from each.

I do agree that games are too much like movies these days. I don't mind games being cinematic in terms of presentation, that's cool. It's the over-reliance on cutscenes to tell the story or give information, that I don't like.

In the 'Games as Art' argument, I hate it when people refer to GTA or Metal Gear Solid. I do like these games but the problem is that they imitate movies too much. What justifies an art-form is not how well it can imitate another art-form.

I prefer it when games do things movies can't. Take Super Metroid. Besides a brief cutscene at the start and end of the game, you're given nothing - no information, no direction, nothing. And as a game it works (because it plays to the strengths of what a video game is - as opposed to trying to be anything else).

That would be impossible as a film. Imagine, instead of showing you a film, someone just gave you all the locations and all the actors and told you to make sense out of it. It just wouldn't work.