Well there are some games that certainly are as important/iconic as any movie you're likely to think of. Pac-Man, Super Mario Bros., Legend of Zelda. Even some more recent ones like Resident Evil and Metal Gear Solid. But they are pretty different beasts, and now that we get so many games and see the medium evolving at such a rapid pace that I wonder if any contemporary video game can really have the long-term impact on "audiences" that a great film can, when they seem to have a short shelf life. People were ranting and raving about The Last of Us about a year ago, but I wonder if it will be more than an afterthought 5 years down the road. Maybe when we get the first mind-blowing virtual reality game you can play at home?
Games deserved to hold the same value as movies.
Games getting older every three years because of new hardware.
So it's perfectly ok for a grown up to watch kids movies and superhero blockbusters but childish to play good video games...
I don't think a lot of modern superhero movies are going to have much of a shelf life either, but the nature of a movie lends itself to being more easily accessible by folks in the future, which contributes to their importance to the masses. Even if you could download a 10 or 20 year old game and play it easily, you would have to fall back into an antiquated playing system that gamers by and large don't care to do. Like those Youtube videos where teenagers today play and mock old video games.
Barbaric!
There's also an issue where playing a videogame all the way through requires a lot of time and energy. Most who play games don't finish them, and you don't get the full experience, which for good and bad affects perceptions. Movies are relatively short, and don't take a lot of energy to get into for the most part.
