Rasputin1 said:
I would argue that some stories though are actually told better in the format of a game. For instance, I've read quite a bit of H.P. Lovecraft in my days, and my view on Lovecraft in retrospect has been that he was a bad author with some really good ideas, and that more often than not the authors who were inspired by his works are far superior to Lovecraft himself. See, the problem is that in the stories that Lovecraft tells, often times the purpose of the story is to experience a bizarre world. I mean, does anyone really think that any of Lovecraft's characters were well written? The main character, more often than not, was the same guy in a different suit. And most of the other characters were poorly crafted. The stories often followed the same structures, and were hardly that unpredictible. But what the man had a real talent for was creating this insane twisted archaic world that you just wanted to see more of....
