Which have better stories?

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#1 00-Riddick-00
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Video games or movies?

Because I cannot honestly remember the last time I watched a movie for the story.

Video games however I can remember the last one I played for story. And that would be Alan wake.

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#2 randomhero5677
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Lately? I'll have to go with games. Sorry, but movies just have no story anymore it seems. More bucks, more bangs is how it is. I like background and charater developement, not jsut explosions and mindless violence (I'm talking to you, Michael Bay).

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I personally think a great book is a better story, so I chose other. Out of video games and movies i would say video games. Speaking of alan wake, awesome game I never finished it because I had to return it to the video store, Im going to buy the game again and play it till the end this time.
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Movies for me

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I personally think a great book is a better story, so I chose other.dewman322
Me too. Good movies with decent story lines are really hard to come by these days though. You look at a film like '12 Angry Men' and you can see how you don't need more than good actors and a room to make an awesome film. Film makers don't seem to get that these days though, they've either got to be explosive, or grossly shocking.
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Movies by far
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Movies. It will be a while before a video game reaches a movie level. And even longer before they reach books.

So essentially, Books>>>>Movies>>>Video Games.

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Videogame stories for the most part are terrible. Books, movies have an easy victory here.
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It would depend though overall movies. Games have some catching up to do....
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Always movies, games=gameplay movie=story

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[QUOTE="dewman322"]I personally think a great book is a better story, so I chose other.MissLibrarian
Me too. Good movies with decent story lines are really hard to come by these days though. You look at a film like '12 Angry Men' and you can see how you don't need more than good actors and a room to make an awesome film. Film makers don't seem to get that these days though, they've either got to be explosive, or grossly shocking.

You know I think I changed my mind after I thought about it for a bit and seeing other responses to this. I still say books are the best. Second best would be movies. Third would be video games. I think I just got caught up in what he/she said about alan wake. I had a lot of fun playing that game. It actually had a great story in my opinion. It was also about an author whose characters in his books started coming to life similar to stephen kings the dark half. I also liked lost odyssey, a japanese author wrote certain dream sequences from that game which were extremely well done. Some people complained about that though and said if I wanted to read a book I would have bought one. But those kind of games are few and far between.
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People voted for video games? Movies these days don't have stories and are all explosions?

Is it opposite day?

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[QUOTE="dewman322"]I personally think a great book is a better story, so I chose other.MissLibrarian
Me too. Good movies with decent story lines are really hard to come by these days though. You look at a film like '12 Angry Men' and you can see how you don't need more than good actors and a room to make an awesome film. Film makers don't seem to get that these days though, they've either got to be explosive, or grossly shocking.

A little digging shows why that movie title is familair; I saw a 2007 Russian remake of it. =P

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You know I think I changed my mind after I thought about it for a bit and seeing other responses to this. I still say books are the best. Second best would be movies. Third would be video games. I think I just got caught up in what he/she said about alan wake. I had a lot of fun playing that game. It actually had a great story in my opinion. It was also about an author whose characters in his books started coming to life similar to stephen kings the dark half. I also liked lost odyssey, a japanese author wrote certain dream sequences from that game which were extremely well done. Some people complained about that though and said if I wanted to read a book I would have bought one. But those kind of games are few and far between. dewman322
I would never say that games are better than films, I just agree that books are better than either. Even games that have an interesting 'story' (the ones that stick out for me in particular are the Uncharted games and Hotel Dusk on the DS) are painfully lacking in terms of language and literary devices - meaning they are still very poorly written. My order would still be Books > Films > Games. But since it's been discussed I do think quality story lines in films are harder to come by these days.
A little digging shows why that movie title is familair; I saw a 2007 Russian remake of it. =PDigitalExile
That's another bugbear I have with films now-a-days - too many remakes. They even remake films that are only 2/3 years old now! As if all the stories in the world that can ever be have all been written and the only think left to do is re-make them all the time.
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Games The first final fantasy games had great stories but there are some movies that can have good stories too, yet they are less common.
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That's another bugbear I have with films now-a-days - too many remakes. They even remake films that are only 2/3 years old now! As if all the stories in the world that can ever be have all been written and the only think left to do is re-make them all the time. MissLibrarian
Well in my defense I only stumbled across the Russian version because it was on TV, though I've never seen the original. Things like Battlestar that get reimagined I'm sort of okay with, and remaking it in another language/country, okay... but just remaking something for the sake of it... bleh.

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games for me.
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Movies, there isn't any new games that have a decent story nowadays..
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Movies, although I was playing KOTOR II tonight and that has a fantastic story, better than a lot of movies I've seen out there.
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