10 Artistic Things Video Games Can Do That Movies Can't

6. Minimal Casts Of Characters

By the complete opposite token, some of the most iconic and loved video games have only a single character. Many of the most beloved video games are centered on only a single character. Super Mario Bros., Metroid and Pac-Mac all have as bare-bones a story as possible in order to set the player right into the world of the game. That wouldn't fly in a movie, as the character would shave no one at all to talk to. Movies with a limited cast (such as Gravity, Buried, or All is Lost) don't tend to have a very long runtime, due to the tendency to rely on dialogue. A video game series like Metroid (excluding, of course, the abysmal Other M) can be defined by a palpable sense of loneliness and desolation, while still being engaging and thrilling to play.