Ry's+Paper+3+Reflection

For our fourth paper we were instructed to kind of reflect on our class as a whole. We needed to use everything we discussed from violence, gender inequality, how stories are told, to comparing them to games that we discussed. And we needed to take a stand on the topic of whether videos games can be considered text. My view on this is that video games can definately be considered text. Video games are such a unique form of text that there is some argument over what they are considered. I think they are considered text because video games do tell a story, they tell it in an interactive way. For most video games if there was no story then there would be no reason to play them. Now an argument against that could be Multiplayer video games, like Call Of Duty, now there really is no story to this. But there are equivalents to this in every genre of storytelling, for instance in Television there is a show called Cops. There is no real story to Cops, it is just about police catching criminals over and over and over again. Just like Multiplayer Call Of Duty is the same thing over and over again. So why would Cops be considered text and Call of Duty not?