All that said I'm excited about games getting more recognition as a form of culture and art that can convey interesting, beautiful, thoughtful and thought provoking stories. Still, they are an extremely unaccessible form of culture, seeing as they demand expensive equipment and a lot of time to consume. Interestingly making a series out of The Last of Us is a form of democratization of the story. And before I watched that I watched the game as a playtrough online.