How Video Games are as Good as or Even Better Forms of Literature than Books or Movies

Video games, in my opinion are one of the most amazing forms of literature even better than books and movies. Video games can tell you an amazing story by fully immersing you in the characters, the plot and how the world you play in works.  They can take you into worlds of fantasy, science fiction, war, drama, (ECT.) just like any movie or book could. But the difference is that videogame make you feel like you’re actually there watching it for yourself or in the main characters shoes. There is an infinite number of video games that I could choose from to prove my point but to keep this post short I’m am going to tell you about a few games that I know for a fact have amazing emersion and have great story telling.

The first game I am going to talk about is a game by the name of Bioshock Infinite. Bioshock Infinite was praised for its compelling gameplay, visuals and music to create in my opinion one of the best stories from a video game in 2013. The game is able to use all of its aspects to create so much emersion and allows the player to go at a challenge at anyway they can think of that follows the games rule. And that is another way I believe video games are a better form of literature than books or movies, because the player can choose how the story goes, and that leads into my next game the Mass Effect series.

Mass Effect is great because it shows that player’s actions can change the world around them. In Mass Effect every choice that you make effects everything else in the world. And those actions effect how good or bad of ending you get. See this is just a tool that helps you get so immersed in the game it is amazing. The player really feels like there are in the game and that their choices can have major consequences later down the road. This idea also leads to the possibility of going back and changing you actions so you can have an amazing amount of possibilities.

So I do truly believe that video games can tell amazing stories just as good as or even better than books and movies. Because in video games you have that extra emersion because you know that you can change the story if you mess up. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying every video game has an amazing story but that is the say with books and movies. There is going to flops in all three categories no matter what.