For School: What Games for a Games as Lit. Class?

[Thaius]

I think it is important to consider that video games are much more diverse than any other artistic medium.

Lol. Go to the theatre someday, or read more than 1 book sometime. Videogames are one of the narrowest media, because of the constraints of setting the story in a gameplay framework. That what makes them a fun challenge. That and writing non-linear narratives.

Despite your awesome avatar, I have to say that if you read the context of that claim you would understand that I am not talking about the diversity of storytelling in the medium (an area in which you are absolutely right), but the diversity of the medium itself. This is not about the variety of stories being told but the variety of things the medium can do. Games can tell stories like film and literature, but film and literature cannot be "games," especially competitive ones. Games could use a lot more diversity in terms of their stories, but the very nature of the medium allows for more applications, both story-based and not, than other mediums.