I'll say it like this.

Within the group of my oldest and best friends (all born around 73 -77), I was the first one to have a computer and for a long time, I actually was the only one. I also was the first one to have a Playstation and up today there is still only one other (!) who has a console (a Wii).

I share a lot with these guys and we like the same stuff. Music, Movies, Books even Graphic Novels are pretty popular us. And there have been quite a few evenings when we played Playstation together (mostly Twisted Metal 2, Rollcage and Soulcalibur).

But … if I would show them GTA, Half Live, Hard Rain or even Shadow of the colossus, I'm pretty sure they would never ever ever put these Games on the same Level as "Hana Bi", "The Godfather" or even the quite entertaining "Big Lebowski". If you just look at these games like someone how hasn't played Games for years and years and years they just look like shit … and I just talk about how they LOOK like. I would not dare to talk about the stories.

Games seem to them like the Crap from Michael Bay and James Cameron – brainless and artless Entertainment for the stupid masses … and compared to the movies, books, albums and graphic novels we usually consume, I can't help but say: They are.

Don't get me wrong. I love games. And I'd love to see them take up shakespearian spirit. But today I doubt they ever will. Of course, there may come the game, that will bee for Games, what Art Spiegelmans Mouse for Comics. But I doubt that it will reach more than a hand full of people. And I'm sure, it won't change the status of Games.