: Re: What are the things that only Stories can do? I've once heard in a youtube channel that only games could do things such as: getting the player into a flux state (something like getting into

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I want to take a more simplistic approach to this question.

Games - unlike movies or reading - allow the user to provide input on a dynamic level.
Movies provide a solid realisation of the story.

Reading allows the reader's mind to define the story.

The key thing that reading a story allows above the others, is imaginative freedom. A book cannot give you something to react to like a game can, nor can it show you so directly like videos can, but neither of those can allow you to imagine the scene or exercise your brain in such a way.

There is crossover between all forms of media. But reading is vastly different to games or movies or radio shows because it is conjured in the mind, suggested by what is written on the page.

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