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It's insane that such an innocuous statement like this is being so heavily downvoted. Wanting a medium to play to it's strengths isn't a radical opinion.
Being an immersive story-telling medium is a strength of video games. Yes they're also good at "guns go brrrrr" but being able to effectively do so many things is part of what makes games cool.
Yeah but immersive story telling usually isn't referencing having walls of text that happen to be inside of a game.
"Zork" remains one of the most important video games ever made. Walls of text built this culture.
It sounds like you might be taking the little vote numbers on the internet too seriously.
Commenting on something doesn't denote how seriously I take it. It's an insight into the aggregate opinion in this thread that was the actual point of my comment.