Are games the most advanced form of entertainment?

    I believe that videogames, especially console RPGs (which have long, deep stories), are the ultimate media type.

    Games combine the graphics, the music and the voices of movies with the length, depth and story of books, plus interactivity, which no other media has. They please your eyes, your ears, and your brain; they give you something to think on in the short and long term (gameplay and story); you can learn a lot of a lot of things from them; and have constant action and/or strategy challenges that might also affect the story. You have all of this at the same time in just one media product. This makes videogames the most advanced form of entertainment man ever created, in my opinion.

    It is true that books let your imagination picture everything, and this is good sometimes, but I do not think it is the best. With visual media, you receive the story, characters, places, and everything else just exactly as their creator(s) conceived them, and it has far more detail than any description and/or product of your imagination while reading a book could ever have. With audio, you get to hear the characters and the background music the creator chose for the story; and while you may imagine voices, you would have to be a musician to imagine music. Finally, keep in mind that you can still include narrative parts in games, as happens in Xenogears, in the second disc.

    Interactive audio-visual media includes everything a book, an audio product and a movie may have (text, static pictures, music, voices, sound effects and animation), so in games you can do anything you do in books, music or movies. Games could be seen as generalization of all media types; books, movies, and music being particular cases of games.
(For computer science scholars: this is like finite automatas being a particular case of stack automatas, being a particular case of linearly-bounded automatas, being a particular case of Turing machines.)