>>719147317
this
the game is a setting, the "story" is gameplay
the written and acted plot of a game is part of the gameplay but it is not the whole story, which is not complete until you play it.
games can never be literature because they have already surpassed literature at being, as you say "a metaphorical meditation of the human condition through the beholding lens of his creations." no author can possibly write what a game allows a player to do.
