@ben: "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."

That's because games are not movies. Games should not be about visuality but about interactivity. Watching Plants vs. Zombies is totally boring and not entertaining and the story is told in one sentence. So why would anyone like to buy it ? Why would anyone who watched Scarface and all Miami Vice episodes buy GTA Vice city?

Because you play it and not watch it.

Half life 2 is such a great game because it puts interactivity above narrative. It never takes the control away from the player and therefore never loses the big advantage that games have in comparison to movies.

And in my opinion one of the reasons why Heavy Rain is so crapy is that it fails do deliver a gameplay experience that makes it worth playing even if the story is totally unreasonable. It was more like a movie with forced button smashing and not a interactive experience that I expect from a game. And there lies the problem : Most thrillers have a more reasonable storyline and are better in evoking emotions than Heavy Rain is but I can't think of movies that are able to deliver the same experience as playing GTA, Shadow of the Colossus, Half Life 2 or Plants vs Zombie does.