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Yeah I feel like TV and movies depend far too much on tropes now. How often do we hear:
Bad guy: 'You and I are the same!'
Good guy: 'I'm nothing like you'
And all the other 50,000 tropes? Not a single episode of TV exists where you can't find a whole list playing out one after another, it's relentless. Some shows are so saturated with them, it's as if the writers had a trope dartboard and just threw darts until they made it to 45 minutes of tropes in random order.
Tropes are everywhere of course, including games, but I don't feel games are dependent on them to exist, and the fact that it's interactive means you get a break from it whenever and however you please, inserting your own style as you go along. It's refreshing!
RE: Are Games 'Art'?