Do story tellers need to tell you everything?

[Dr. Pezus]

We're talking about a story that doesn't tell you things.  
Like you can get to the end of the book and not even realize that there was a story.  

Well if it doesn't tell you things how can you know anything? All it is is a different way to describe the story I guess

[the-pi-guy]

Well if it doesn't tell you things how can you know anything?

We were talking about Bloodborne.  You can easily finish that without realizing that there's a fairly convoluted history.
But you can collect all the notes, and the couple of vague cut scenes, etc; and you can put it all together.

[Legend]

Well if it doesn't tell you things how can you know anything? All it is is a different way to describe the story I guess

Exactly!

A book literally needs to tell you things for them to "exist." If for example the author is describing a room, they will describe the general feeling and maybe some details. A game however needs to show every little detail of that room no matter what since it's an interactive environment. Thus it's possible for the game to have a poster on the wall that might become important later without the player thinking "why is the author going into such detail explaining this poster? It must be important."

[Dr. Pezus]

Exactly!

A book literally needs to tell you things for them to "exist." If for example the author is describing a room, they will describe the general feeling and maybe some details. A game however needs to show every little detail of that room no matter what since it's an interactive environment. Thus it's possible for the game to have a poster on the wall that might become important later without the player thinking "why is the author going into such detail explaining this poster? It must be important."

True enough. I still think books can almost achieve the same by being narrated by a blinded protagonist