By and large, people don’t play with game systems because of the stories. The stories that wrap the systems are usually side dishes for the brain. For one thing, it has been rare to see a game story written by an actual writer. As a result, they are usually around the high-school level of literary sophistication at best.
Quotes by Raph Koster
The fact that playing games—good ones, anyway—is fundamentally a creative act is something that speaks very well for the medium.
This is what games are for. They teach us things so that we can minimize risk and know what choices to make.
Once games are seen as a medium, we can start worrying about whether they are a medium that permits art. All other media do, after all.
Players tend to either skip the story or skip the game. Balancing the two so that they reinforce each other is hard, and often either the story or the game ends up too shallow for repeated play.
